| Name: | Doug Machold |
| City/State: | Lakeland, FL |
| Date: | October 2, 2005 |
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Remembers...
When I tell people what it was like they just give me that yea right look! It's amazing to read this blog. My neigbor's parents were going on vacation up I-75 and dropped us off right on the side of the interstate. I was sixteen_ There was a long road in with people already camping,tripping and walking around nude freaking out. I remember some stands like at a school Halloween Carnival but instead of the banner saying face painting or something it said "Alkopolka Gold" It seems like the pecan grove was right before the main entrance. At the gate a large crowd had gathered and was trying to convince the guards to turn it into a free festival_the crowd got larger and the guards gave up. The gates and fences were just sort of pushed over_thats when you could say it began. There was a large area in front of the stage_I remember tripping over a couple making love on a blanket. I could hear Hendrix playing_I think there was a fireworks display and it seemed like he would play to particularly bright firework. The electric coolade might have had something to do with that? There was a lake with a sandy beach and a water slide. My friend and I sat on a bench between two pine trees with our feet in the sand watching hundreds of skinny dippers lining up girl boy girl boy_each couple would go down the slide together and the crowd in the water would critique there performance by cheering and pushing water up in the air. One particular good 69 got a thirty foot high waterwall ovation. It seems like Byron was bigger and better than Woodstock_but it is strange how little has been recorded. Ah Memories!P.S. The Alkopolka Gold was $12.00 an ounce LID |
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