Bethel Woodstock Museum
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Some Woodstock Trivia

Did You Know....?

(?) - ...the 1960's Trivial Pursuit Game has a question about Mr. Vassmer?

(?) - ...Art Vassmer cashed all checks... never questioned one kid... and they all cleared?

(?) - ...The picture on the Woodstock Album is one of four or five pictures? The photographer, Burk Uzzle, took the pictures, snap...snap...snap...snap! If you have the album and the poster check it out!

(?) - ...That Max Yasgur gave the town the land which hosted the festival for $1.00!... and the fore fathers of '69 said NO!!!!!!

(?) - ...Daniel Amatucci, who was supervisor of Bethel during Woodstock... lost the next election by only 50 votes to George Neuhaus, which changed the whole course of events for the town?

(?) - ...Linda, Art's daughter, his nephew John and a friend, Lou Puggliani took a deposit to the bank via boat that Friday because Art needed to cover checks already in the bank, contrary to other statements that have been reported that he was fearful of being robbed?

(?) - ...That, after the festival, some neighbors who always patronized Vassmer's store... NEVER walked through the door again because Art stood behind the event! (He was quoted as saying "...we had a billion dollars worth of free advertising for the county...")

(?) - ...That, during the festival... our bakery, breadman and milkman (Nunnie Madnick, Dick O'Leary, and Oscar Elfenbaum) got through so we would have the essentials for everyone?

(?) - ...That Linda and Vicky, Art's daughters, Marion, his widow and his brother Fred.... still are minding the store?

(?) - ...That John Sebantian was never contracted to perform at Woodstock? He happened to be there and was wasted... but still said "Yeah, man." when asked to play.

(?) - ...That not for 11 years, the promoters never received ANY royalties for the GREATEST CONCERT IN HISTORY???

(?) - ...That in 1994, the impromptu concert of Sid Bernstein, a local man, Mike Celcone, played drums for the Rascals?

(?) - ...That Duke Devlin came for the concert in '69 and stayed? He's our local hippie who owns his own business in Jeffersonville, N.Y., Duke's Farm Market. He is quoted as saying about the Woodstock Festival of 1969... "Is it over yet?"

(?)  ...That the reason the tickets said "Woodstock" was because to the producers, they thought it had a good vibe and the town of Woodstock was where the producers hoped to build a recording studio for the big music stars that lived there.  The reason for Woodstock was to make money for the recording studio.  It never was to be held in Woodstock, NY! 

(?)..an owner of a ticket only held onto her ticket because it reminded her never to disobey her grandparents again, not because it was Woodstock!  She only wanted to see Janis Joplin, which she never did...but when the crowds came, her grandparents said No! to going up to the festival.   She lived 2 1/2 miles from the site.  By Sunday, she snuck out of the house with her 10 year old cousin and headed for the concert.   The never even got close to the stage.  By the time they got home they were covered with mud!  That's how she got busted by her grandparents; and for the first and last time ever, she was grounded!  Woodstock wasn't fun for her!

(?) - ...That Max Yasgur died at the age of 53 in 1974 of a heart attack... he received $75,000 for the lease of his land and neighbors shunned him after!! Sad ending for another angel of Woodstock

(?) - ...That the only price raised in Vassmer's was a six-pack of beer, from $1.95 (Yes!) to $2.00? Art didn't want to deal with the nickel change!

(?) ...The young man in the movie that comes out of the port-a-potty, sharing his pipe with the camera men, is Wayne Rogers...we met him this summer, he came to the museum.  The reason he and some friends were in the port-a-potty was because it was too windy to light his pipe, so they all went into the potty to smoke!

Designed by Debbie, creator of Bethel Woodstock Museum & Alexander Pereluka - "Orion Service"