Woodstock's 40th anniversary, with some of the same bands at the original New York location, has features the original lacked -- food stands -- organizers said. In 1969, an estimated 400,000 music lovers descended on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, N.Y., for three days of peace, love and music amid heavy rains, announcements of bad drugs floating around, overflowing portable toilets and food shortages. The 4,500 attendees of the 2009 Heroes of Woodstock version Friday through Sunday will sit in plush seats in a covered amphitheater with access to public toilets and concession stands hawking hamburgers and hot dogs, ABCNews.com reported Thursday. Drugs are prohibited at this weekend's show but spokeswoman Amy Jaick allowed that a few concert-goers may have their own little experience at the hillside monument built on the original site, ABCNews.com said. Some of the acts scheduled to perform at the Aug.

Country Joe McDonald at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969. The Aug. 15-17 gathering of about three dozen musical acts at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, N.Y., was attended by an audience estimated at 400,000. The festival is widely regarded as one of the legendary moments in pop music history.

By Stevenson Swanson, Chicago Tribune Jun. 2--BETHEL, N.Y. -- Amid the psychedelic artifacts and the interactive screens that evoke one of the most famous events of the 1960s, two photographs at a new museum devoted to the Woodstock music festival that was held here in 1969 are especially telling.

BETHEL, N.Y. _ Amid the psychedelic artifacts and the interactive screens that evoke one of the most famous events of the 1960s, two photographs at a new museum devoted to the Woodstock music festival that was held here in 1969 are especially telling.

The famous farm near the alfalfa field that drew 400,000 people to Woodstock for three days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is up for sale. The asking price: $8 million.