It was this week 55 years ago – starting on August 15, 1969, to be exact – that organizers put on what they called an “Aquarian Exposition” in White Lake, New York. It came to be known simply as Woodstock.
Elliot Tiber and his family operated a small, rundown motel in Bethel, New York. And Elliot also owned a permit to hold a music festival.
In this 1994 interview Tiber explains how Woodstock may not have happened if not for hinm and that permit,
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