Posted on 08/08/2007 3:04:41 PM PDT by SmithL
Bethel, N.Y. (AP) -- The famous farm near the alfalfa field that drew 400,000 people to Woodstock for three days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is up for sale.
The asking price: $8 million.
Roy Howard, the current owner, is packing it in after years of tangling with local officials over permits for reunion gatherings to mark the 1969, three-day Woodstock music festival that helped ignite a generation.
Up for sale is the 2,000-square-foot house that belonged to dairy farmer Max Yasgur, along with a larger farmhouse, a barn and 103 bucolic acres about 80 miles north of New York City.
Included are a gourmet kitchen with stainless steel appliances, double convection ovens, Viking stove, antique soapstone sink, 22-foot vaulted ceilings and expansive views of the Pocono Mountains. There's also a double whirlpool tub, steam shower and bidet.
The nearby alfalfa field where the concert was held isn't included in the sale. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Aren’t there any wealthy hippies out there to buy this place for old time’s sake?
After the ‘60s and ‘70s hippie period, many hippies decided that they really didn’t want to reject material values, so they became lawyers and MBAs and joined the “establishment” and were happy to make some money doing it.
Where’s their sense of history and social responsibility? This place to them is like Mecca to Muslims.
Has anybody here ever been to Woodstock recently?
I have. I hated it. Old hippies with ponytails, “organic food and baked goods”, smug, self-righteous, condescending attitudes, candles and rainbows everywhere. Yeeeuck!
I’d rather get a root canal that go back there, but then, what the hey, I’m part of the vast right wing conspiracy. And glad to be in it.
The old saying is if you can remember the 60’s you were not a part of it.
I wish I could buy the land and build a memorial to the millions who were slaughtered in Cambodia and Vietnam after the U.S. pulled out. Maybe a Capitalist thinktank too.
BUMP
I can’t imagine how many people must have to be paid off in order to do something useful with land 80 miles away from the great trough of sucking bureaucrats in New York. Donald Trump should buy it and find an Indian connection somewhere.
three days of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll is up for sale.
nooooooooooo......it was fun and music and nuttin’ but fun and music......Max said so!
Woodstock hasn't changed much since those days! It was always like a small town Greenwich Village, I remember that from the time I attended National Review Founder Frank S. Meyer's funeral their in the early 1970's. Frank lived just outside the village.
The main problem with your post is that THE WOODSTOCK ROCK FESTIVAL WAS HELD NOWHERE NEAR WOODSTOCK!! It was originally scheduled for Woodstock, but the village government wouldn't grant a license, so it was held about 30 miles away in the town of Bethel. I particularly remember because I knew Yasgur's daughter, Lois. She and I acted in a college version of "All the King's Men", in which she played the lead as the Governor's mistress, I had the supporting part of the Lieutenant Governor (according to the stage directions I had to 'feel her up', at which point she slapped me. Some things you don't forget.)
I think you've forgotten about the many,*many* hippies of the 60's who knew that they'd be able live comfortably on mommy's and daddy's trust fund so it was safe for them to "reject capitalism".
Did you point out that wasn't in the script and that you'd need to start the scene all over?
Actually it WAS in the script. Worth it, though!
We’re not stardust, we’re not golden, but if Hillary or Obama wins, we’ll be pawns in the Devil’s bargain.
What about the monument they call “the Tomb of the Unknown Hippie?” Is that for sale, too?
The whole place seems like a great place to build a mink farm, medical research laboratory which uses animals for testing, and zoo.
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