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Setting Up Camp

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: Three people set up a tent and campfire in the camping area of the Sound Storm music festival while the stage and other amenities are still under construct...
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Setting Up the Generator

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: James Bowen, a York landowner in the foreground, and two other men set up a large Caterpillar generator to operate the sound system for Sound Storm. The ge...
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Festival Faucets

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A group using water faucets connected to a milk tanker associated with "Dobson Milk Transit" while the festival stage and other amenities are still under c...
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Rows of Portable Toilets

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: Two rows of portable toilets with automobiles and campers in the background during the construction of the festival stage.
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Group Standing Around Campers

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A group of audience members crowd around a camper, and two automobiles. Two men are leaning on a trailer carrying large tanks, perhaps generators.
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Sound Storm Camping Area

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: Camping site with Volkswagen vans and tents. People are milling around the camping area of the Sound Storm music festival. "Speed Kills" is painted on the ...
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Workers Constructing Plywood Stalls

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A group of three young workers amid construction of plywood stalls. There is a station wagon in the background. A few tents are set up on the hill in the b...
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Camping Area Pre-Festival

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: The camping site for the Sound Storm music festival a day or two before campers begin arriving. There is a lone car and tent visible.
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Helicopter Distributing Paper

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A helicopter drops papers onto the audience at the Sound Storm music festival. It was widely rumored that Ken Kesey was at the festival and that he dropped...
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Nude Man Dancing on U-Haul Truck

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A nude man with long hair dances on top of a U-Haul moving truck. Two people in the foreground are near a Sunn brand amplifier on the bottom right.
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The Bowery Boys Onstage

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Elevated view of The Bowery Boys performing onstage at the Sound Storm music festival. Band members are Ken Heim on organ, Richard Wiegel on guitar, Jeff A...
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Audience at Foot of Stage

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A crowd of people in a circle are dancing at the foot of the stage at the Sound Storm music festival. Other audience members are standing around them watc...
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Festival Crowd Under Tents

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Members of the Sound Storm music festival audience crowd under improvised tents partially supported by the handlebars of a motorcycle and tree limbs. There...
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Sound Storm Festival Crowd

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Elevated view of Sound Storm music festival audience as seen from the stage. Trucks, camper vans, and tents crowd the hill in the background.
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Sound Storm Festival Crowd

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Elevated view of Sound Storm music festival audience as seen from the stage. Trucks, camper vans, and tents crowd the hill in the background.
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Sound Storm Festival Crowd

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: View from stage of the Sound Storm music festival audience. Behind the audience is sound system scaffolding, trucks, camper vans crowding the hill in the f...
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Artist on Edge of Stage

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Unidentified African American male artist, wearing a beret with two illegible buttons on it, kneels on the edge of the stage talking or singing into a hand...
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Irene York Leaning on Car

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Irene "Granny" York, the owner of York Farm, the location of the Sound Storm music festival, leans on an automobile near two unidentified men, possibly fes...
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US Pure Tour Van

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: The touring van with trailer for US Pure parked near the backstage area of the Sound Storm music festival. Two people standing outside the van ere roadies ...

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