Erste Worte #1: Woodstock

Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music” [USA 1970, Michael Wadleigh]

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  • Interviewer: Okay, go ahead!
  • Sidney Westerfeld: My Name is Sidney Westerfeld. I’m the owner of this antique tavern in Mongaup Valley, New York State. I was here when this crowd really came. We expected 50,000 a day, and there must have been a million. I, myself, was hungry for two days because I couldn’t get any food in. I couldn’t get out to buy any food. I was eating Corn Flakes for two days.
    And the kids were wonderful. I have no kick. It was “sir” this and “sir” that and “thank you” this and “thank you” that. Nobody can complain about the kids. This thing was too big. It was too big for the world. Nobody has ever seen a thing like this, and when they see this picture in the news… Well, over the moving pictures, they’ll really see something.

Schreib doch was!