When Janet Sanders, a Springfield High senior, announced she was going to Woodstock, her brother and late sister-in-law  didn’t want her to go because they had seen photos of nude festival attendees at the Atlantic City raceway concert, writes Peg DeGrass for the Delaware County News Network.

“I lied and went anyway, telling my brother that my friends and I were going to Wildwood,” smiled Saunders.

She discovered new artists like Joe Cocker and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Chip Roberts of Upper Providence was 16.

He and four or five acquaintances he didn’t know well arrived two days early.

“As soon as I stepped into the farm field — again with no shoes – I immediately went ankle deep into cow (dung).

Bob Bramble, of Ridley Township, was working a summer job in Chester.

The 19-year-old and his best pal Bruno Bitin were “into the whole thing – new kinds of music, the new alternative hippie lifestyle and the anti-Vietnam War movement.

Bramble’s remembers getting up close to the stage, pretending to be press photographers.

Shortly afterwards, Bramble was drafted into the Army, arriving in Vietnam Dec. 31, 1970, serving as combat infantry through 1971.

Read more about the Delco Woodstock experience here.

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