That was then, this is now, at Bethel.

Back then. Day One of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair
- The hordes arrive. Route 17B becomes the world's longest two-lane parking lot.
- We're not in Kansas, but it sure looks it.
- Richie Havens opens the show.
- Hot and sunny skies; weather looks perfect.
- First skinny-dipper sighted.
- One thousand photographers take note.
- Scalpers sell tickets to innocent high school kids.
- Kids save tickets, make collectible killing 29 years later.
- Richie Havens sings for three hours. Main stage construction nearly done.
- Showers at midnight.

Just now. Day One of the Day In The Garden.
- Route 17B never looked so empty.
- We're still not in Kansas. Maybe Disneyland?
- Afroblue opens at 9 a.m. on tiny second stage. Plays half an hour.
- Cloudy skies look ominously familiar. First sprinkles fall on press tent, 10 a.m.
- Skinny dipping prohibited without official skinny dipping pass.
- One thousand apply for skinny-dipping review board.
- Scalpers sell bogus parking passes to innocent 48-year-olds.
- Innocent 48-year-olds embarrass their children with their Pete Townshend windmill-rocker moves.
- Alvin Lee of Ten Years After invites crowd to boogie. Crowd obliges.
- Illicit bottled water confiscated.

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