re: Pictures from days gone by....

Something about Woodstock is interesting to me. There was another Woodstock in what? 92? Then the one in 99 that had a lot of good bands/performers, but it turned into a shite show. People were not allowed to bring items like water in there because they were selling it for like $8 a bottle. It was "corporate".

It was overcrowded and a lot of people were fricked up. Watching a documentary on it, it seems like a lot of people were on X (or Molly) and that's something you have to stay hydrated when on. The last night of the 99 Woodstock people set something on fire that was relatively far from the stage, but overall, even with all the very good bands and performers, it didn't seem like a great experience. This makes me wonder if Woodstock in 1969 has been glorified.

People didn't have portable cameras back then and the media only really covered it from the outside right? There were memorable performances and talked about as a historical event (which isn't the case for Woodstock 99), but I I am curious as to how glorified the original Woodstock is/was.

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A Lone Dog Sits In Snow Next To A Column Of Retreating Italian Soldiers Near Stalingrad, Soviet Union, December 1942, World War II

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1992 Olympic Dream Team, Barcelona.: Michael Jordan plays Charles Barkley in a high stakes ping pong game while an inebriated Larry Bird is passed out on the floor. The next night Bird scored 19 points in 21 minutes vs Germany.

Is that Stockton sitting on the floor behind Jordan?

The VAB?

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Two boys pose for a photo while drying Pasta in Italy, 1929

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Vab is different. Vertical assembly building. Never got a chance to work in there. After vab, it goes to final assembly in horizontal position.

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I would note that the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Bldg) at Kennedy is not the same as the VAB (Vertical Assembly Bldg) at Michoud. At Kennedy the entire space shuttle/tank/boosters are put together on top of the mobile launch platform. At Michoud, the tank is flipped up for some processing actions, and then laid back down horizontally for final shipping to Kennedy via the intracoastal waterway.

Here's the VAB at Kennedy - you can see the "roll up" doors on the left side of this shot where the shuttle assembly with boosters and main tank can exit or roll out on top of the mobile launch platform.



This building is much larger than it appears. The flag painted on the upper left is larger than a standard football field. Famously, the interior is so large and has so much volume that clouds and mist can form in the atmosphere inside. I can personally confirm this.

I tried my best to wrangle some photo passes to be on top of the VAB during a launch. Slots for the NASA photographers and visual inspectors are very limited for launches. I got to go a lot of places with my camera but I never had enough pull to make it happen from the VAB. I WAS able to get a slot to photograph the final shuttle landing arrival but didn't make the trip - the arrival schedule ended up being in the early morning but still in the dark, and ultimately it never would have resulted in the shots I wanted. So I passed on the trip which would have had to been at my expense. I would have gone if during the daylight hours. Unfortunately, projected shuttle launch and arrival times were highly unreliable.

Bonus launch shot from the causeway, a bit grainy but this was probably 10-12 miles distant at the time and I had better lenses later in life: