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caused police to close that road
to all except festival traffic. The
highway bridge over the creek
became a diving platform. Large
numbers of the members of both
sexes bathed nude. There wifcre
several swimmers whose relig
ion was obvious ... all they
wore were mezzuzot or Star of
David on chains around their
necks.
Heat prostration took its toll.
Ambulances rushed victims to
hospitals in the area. As one
screamed by with its siren blar
ing a youth turned to another
complaining “Man, those kids
will call anything music these
days.”
The big question of the day
was “Is it hotter, or are there
more people here?” The answer
“Sometimes both.”
Although it was the 4th of
July weekend, there was little
obvious patriotism. Nonethe
less, one of the entertainment
highlights of the festival was an
Independence Day fireworks dis
play accompanied by Jimmi
Hendrix’s own special version of
the “Star Spangled Banner.”
Transportation within the fes
tival area was on foot or by pil
ing on the hoods, trunks and
tops of slow moving vehicles. At
one point, a state patrolman was
stopping cars to let kids pile on.
Heliocopters flew in and out
with performers and emergency
medical cases including four at
tacks of acute labor pains. Small
private airplanes crowded the
in area.. For .$14 * head, people
passed ‘through „the gates. By
9:30 p.m., however, those thou
sands' who hhd not paid for tic
kets decided to come in too.
When they did, the producers of
the event stopped selling tickets
and started begging for money.
They asked pushers of drugs to
donate 10% of their profits to
the festival. But for thousands,
it was now a free show.
As crowds grew, water and
sanitary facilities were over
taxed.’ , Nearby communities
helped with water and sent fire
trucks to cope with the thirst of
thousands.
Adding to the thirst was the
heat. The only escape from
temperatures which officially hit
104 degrees was the shade of
the pecan grove or the water
flowing in Echeconnee Creek
which flows under U.S. highway
41. People and parked cars
space above the festival land that up /oy the .next week. Bu
looked down upon die multitude, the Festival lives as part of tin
Several of them flew low over rock music-long hair—drug cul
the concert area bugging the an- ture of the country. I*ast yeai
dience. A small L^er jet drew it w* “Werq yOU at* Wood-
an ovation for its performance. stock?*’ this year it will lx
Georgia may never see another “Were you at Byron? and for £
pop festival. Even if a promoter quarter million, the inquiry it-
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out, walked along the roads and
talked to others who were doing
tthe same thing. “Why don’t
you get a haircut and a shave?”
yelled a,young man who by tra
ditional standards needed one
quite badly himself. Conversa
tions more typically concerned
themselves with “Where you
from?” “How many do yoiu
think are here?” and “You want
some dope?”
Yes. Dope. Marijuana, hash
ish, LSD, STP, Cesoaline, MDA.—
almost anything used to turn on
was available to turn on with.
The fragrance of “grass” drifted
everywhere. Rolled in banana-
flavored papers, joints passed
from hand to hand and lip to
lip. The Georgia State Patrol
•fid GBl officials which Gover
nor Maddox had ordered into
the area busied themselves at
moving traffic. Buyers and
sellers openly sought and sold
their particular brands. There
were some bad trips on bad
drugs but “trip tents” had been
set up with medical facilities for
just that possibility.
Just after noon on Friday, the
music began. Crowds gathered
on the sunbaked field in front
of the stage and under pecan
trees within the 100 acre fenced
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