By the time I got to Woodstock NY | 54 Years after the festival

If you're visiting the Hudson Valley, you should definitely see Woodstock. Step back in time and experience your hippie self. It's groovy man.

[@briansmithe3429]

Every time I hear someone tell of the "Woodstock" Concert, Bethel, NY gets closer and closer. People so desperately wish that it was actually held here instead of some place that's a good hour plus drive away off Route 17. Charm of tie-dye and hippies drinking warm goats' milk from recycled wine bottles passed quickly and now it's just another rural upstate burg with a well-known name.

[@artportraits]

Right! The town is near the Hudson and the festival was by the Delaware...Nowhere near...

[@sundaydriverinnewyork]

Came on here to say the same.

[@rebeccawicks7692]

Ever see the Jane Fonda movie, about the hippie grandma whose bitter citified daughter was lured to live there ? That's what happened in real life , now the town is nothing but money and culturless pretentious humans. 25 years ago it was magic, nothing to do with the concert . If you don't know you don't know. So heartbreaking.

[@in2itiveart]

Thank you so much for publishing this!!! I lived there from 1983-2005 when I moved to Colorado. I have missed it so much - but I am quite horrified that there's no live music venues!!! Wow. Tinker St Cafe is a coffee shop??? - the Cafe Espresso used to be a great bar where bands used to play - The Joyous Lake - where is the Joyous Lake??? And The Colony - another music venue next to Family of Woodstock - that was the whole reason to live there - was the live music every night of the week!! Now it's just another Tourist town - which it was then also but there was the music - local bands - The Bartones, Lunchmeat, and such great musicians like Ted Orr, Paul Butterfield, Tom Drake, on and on I even saw Phish at the Joyous Lake one time - and the Bearsville Theater of course, but never had to go fork over the big bucks because I could just go to Tinker Street... plus - the Visual Art - I used to go to Byrdcliffe in the summers and do Art Camp... not sure if all that is still happening - I saw the Woodstock Artist's Guild and Kleinert Art Center on your pass through town -

[@laptopseniors]

I know. Very different from the mid-60's to now. But then, isn't everything.

[@in2itiveart]

sadly, yes@@laptopseniors

[@markbrooks7157]

I live 15 minutes outside of Woodstock. I avoid it.

[@Iamtheoverlander]

Not to many people can say they saw phish at the joyous lake, I was at the show, it was a Wednesday night all you could drink with Pete the owner. I remember hundreds of people trying to get in while I got to sit the bar and watch phish. I worked at the Grand Union grocery store and was a cashier, actors and singers would go in all the time. I left Woodstock in 1997 for Colorado as well. :)

[@josephtreffiletti4198]

Great video! My favorite little town! I am from an hour north of Woodstock. I love the flea market and drum circle in the summer. Love the shops and Buddhist Temple. I will be down there in a few weeks to see the holiday decorations on the stores. Happy Holidays! Peace and Love always! 😃☮

[@laptopseniors]

Great area. Thanks. My cousin's family used to own Hunter Mtn Ski Resort. If you're close by there.

[@josephtreffiletti4198]

@@laptopseniors Awesome! Oh yes, I have been there! I live in Averill Park, NY. Rensselaer County. 😃

[@GeorgeStar]

Spent many happy summers in the Catskills further to the west. I remember the "flower power" hippiemobiles cruising up and down the Thruway and Rt 17. What a wonderful time it was.

[@user-dn5bi4si5w]

It was a different country, and in some ways, far better.

[@TroyProutyShow]

Woodstock golf club right there is historic in the field of golf, hosting one of the longest and most prestigious amateur tournaments in history. Some of the greatest golfers played there.

[@laptopseniors]

Yes...The Herdegen Tournament is there this year (or was?). I used to play and caddy at Wiltwyck so very familiar with that great little track.

[@matthewbrown8962]

I grew up in Saugerties and as a Musician then though an Artist now I spent a LOT of my time in wood$tock.I worked at Tinker St. Cafe and Dewey's Restaurant shortly before I went off to the Navy. We never then nor to this day call it a "crick". It is most definitely a "crEEk". Also, 26 miles to Bethel from wood$tock? Now you could certainly fly to Bethel in 26 minutes or less depending on the power plant in your bird but..., you're not going to be able to shave thhe extra 40 miles off that distance... All that aside, thank you for making this video! Great job. I haven't been back home since 2003 I think. And that was just long enough to get a NY pizza lol. Streets of New York in Phoenix, AZ came close because they fly in NY water to make their dough so it has a NY taste. Anyways, thanks again for making this video. God bless.

[@laptopseniors]

Perhaps the 'crick' thing was just my parents and friends. Although I never heard it spoken any differently growing up there.

[@michaelsix9684]

actress late Jan Hooks lived in Bearsville NY, close to Woodstock

[@laptopseniors]

My brother (who lives in Ulster Co) tells me there's lots of movie & music stars there now. I can remember as a kid, Lee Marvin had a home on the Kingston side right near where the entrance to the bridge is. Though I never saw him in town.

[@fredericksmith7169]

It's the 'Village Green'", .not called the town square.

[@lyndarutherford7270]

A few more mistakes on your part--WDST began late 70's early 80 and was never in town center, but in a building by the Tinker Street Cinema, later moving to the Bearsville complex and now on Rte 28 in West Hurley. Also, the place you referenced as where famous people would sing and is not an espresso and tie dye store was in fact The Espresso Cafe!

[@laptopseniors]

Thanks for watching. Those days were long ago. We all remember things differently. Maybe there was a big sign for the station on that corner? I did see the current studios on Rt 28 when we went back to Kingston.

[@DiscoverHudsonValley]

It's very groovy indeed haha! Excellent and informative tour. I've been to Woodstock several times (was there filming just a few weeks ago) but didn't know too much about it. It will be even more fun now the next time I go back, thank to you guys. I'm loving the looks of your channel by the way and you just got a new subscriber.👍🔥😎

[@laptopseniors]

Hey! Very cool! Glad to have you aboard. 😁

[@DiscoverHudsonValley]

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[@user-dn5bi4si5w]

I very much doubt that Niel Redding lived there. Hendrix rented a house in Boiceville right before the festival. He raced his Corvette up and down Tinker St

[@lyndarutherford7270]

On the first 13 minutes of your video you've made some major errors: The festival was 60 miles away, not 25 like you said. Happiglop was at #9 Tinker St, Golden Notebook is #29 tinker, some stores away. Also, Happiglop really didn't make leather items, that was Alfie and at the moment I forget where his store was. The main street did not have a 'ton of bars', only the Pub, Joyous Lake, and the Espresso, and Deanies if you had money and wanted a fine meal.

[@laptopseniors]

I was just talking generally about the distance Lynda, that the festival wasn't at the town. You seem to have some specifics and are likely correct on those addresses for Happiglop. I remembered it being where I said. I got a jacket and a custom pullover (with long shreds down the sleeves) like Country Joe & the Fish there. Both all leather. So they definitely did leather there, or at least took orders for leather things. My older brother who was with us also remembered the amount of bars etc pretty much the same. Our memories were mainly 1964-1971 when I moved away. Maybe things were a little different then? Or...our 60 year old memories are a bit off.

[@seanjoys7360]

@@laptopseniorsyou are WRONG. Spreading rumors. Delete video please

[@lyndarutherford7270]

Referring to restaurants 'oh there's another one (The Pub). Well, I know for a fact that was there in 1971! so it's not new.

[@laptopseniors]

Ok. We all remember things differently.

[@in2itiveart]

i worked there in the 90s but it was more of Pub not that thing that it is now with a long wood bar and chairs and tables - it had a patio.

[@sundaydriverinnewyork]

The Pub was The Landau Grille for years.

[@Just_forfun9140]

Buddhist monestary up on the mountain, the street in the center of the town brings you up there by car. Its kinda hidden, and up the mountain, its not known or advertised.

[@streetlevel4996]

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[@wignersfriend2766]

I avoid tourist traps like the black death. Nothing like capitalizing on the past, when there probably was much more personal freedom. Modern Americans like to be nostalgic about "hippies" but when it comes to the FREEDOM hippies enjoyed and wanted for society, modern Americans reject it--they would rather be in chains.

[@discotrek5040]

The town is "not exactly the same" as back in '69. How about it's not AT ALL the same?

[@markbrooks7157]

I’m sorry, but Woodstock, NY is not groovy. It’s mostly wealthy upper west siders with their 2nd or 3rd homes, long term snobbish locals, trust fund kids and way too many tourists. Lots of traffic usually. And expensive eateries.

[@laptopseniors]

Agreed. It's not the fun anything goes place that goes with it's reputation from the 60's when I was there. It's nice...but not groovy.

[@markbrooks7157]

@@laptopseniors How lucky to have been there back then. I first visited in 1971.

[@MrDuckmallard]

Woodstock was nowhere near Woodstock! WTF?

[@fredericksmith7169]

But Woodstock 1994 was only 9 miles away in Saugerties.