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Piles of garbage clutter up Mosport's 30 acres after the Strawberry Fields rock festival ended yesterday
Piles of garbage clutter up Mosport's 30 acres after the Strawberry Fields rock festival ended yesterday

Piles of garbage clutter up Mosport's 30 acres after the Strawberry Fields rock festival ended yesterday

Date8/10/1970
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  • Piles of garbage clutter up Mosport's 30 acres after the Strawberry Fields rock festival ended yesterday
  • Piles of garbage clutter up Mosport's 30 acres after the Strawberry Fields rock festival ended yesterday. But almost 1;000 young people were still camped at the racetrack site early today; some of them rummaging through the trash picking out blankets and shoes. One of the remaining youths blamed the mess on the promoters. He said they should have provided plastic garbage bags.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Piles of garbage clutter up Mosport's 30 acres after the Strawberry Fields rock festival ended yesterday. But almost 1;000 young people were still camped at the racetrack site early today; some of them rummaging through the trash picking out blankets and shoes. One of the remaining youths blamed the mess on the promoters. He said they should have provided plastic garbage bags.
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Enjoying the sun fully, young people attending the Mosport Strawberry Fields rock festival bask in one of the wooded glens on the 500-acre property. E(...)
Enjoying the sun fully, young people attending the Mosport Strawberry Fields rock festival bask in one of the wooded glens on the 500-acre property. E(...)
Bezant, Graham
8/9/1970
Festivals - Music - Rock - Mosport - Strawberry Fields
Festivals - Music - Rock - Mosport - Strawberry Fields
Lennon, Frank
8/10/1970
Festivals - Music - Rock - Mosport - Strawberry Fields
Festivals - Music - Rock - Mosport - Strawberry Fields
Lennon, Frank
8/10/1970
Moving out of mosport at the end of the Strawberry Fields rock festival, young hitchhikers stand beside the highway holding up signs indicating where (...)
Moving out of mosport at the end of the Strawberry Fields rock festival, young hitchhikers stand beside the highway holding up signs indicating where (...)
Lennon, Frank
8/10/1970
Through the mists of mosport a young couple walk past cars and trailers as the sun rises today over the site of the Strawberry Fields festival. Behind(...)
Through the mists of mosport a young couple walk past cars and trailers as the sun rises today over the site of the Strawberry Fields festival. Behind(...)
Ross, Fred
8/7/1970
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Hash for $7 A Gram is advertised on a box carried by youthful entrepreneur as he makes his way through the crowd at the Strawberry Fields festival at (...)
Bezant, Graham
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A Disenchanted rock fan, 11-month-old Chris Blakely obviously doesn't dig the sound at the Mosport rock festival as he rides in a papoose sling on the(...)
A Disenchanted rock fan, 11-month-old Chris Blakely obviously doesn't dig the sound at the Mosport rock festival as he rides in a papoose sling on the(...)
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
8/8/1970
Some of the fans at the Heatwave rock festival at Mosport over the weekend look as if they weren't about to be diverted by the music
Some of the fans at the Heatwave rock festival at Mosport over the weekend look as if they weren't about to be diverted by the music
Bull, Ron
8/23/1980
On his way from Mosport after doing his thing, whatever that may have been, a rock festival fan leaves grounds, carrying a cross, to hitchhike home
On his way from Mosport after doing his thing, whatever that may have been, a rock festival fan leaves grounds, carrying a cross, to hitchhike home
Lennon, Frank
8/10/1970
Studiously ignored by other restaurant patrons, one of the fans at the Mosport rock festival waits, nude, in line to pick up a snack at one of the food concessions
Studiously ignored by other restaurant patrons, one of the fans at the Mosport rock festival waits, nude, in line to pick up a snack at one of the food concessions
Bezant, Graham
8/9/1970
Flying high at Mosport, one of the fans at the rock music festival soars through the air, tossed from a blanket
Flying high at Mosport, one of the fans at the rock music festival soars through the air, tossed from a blanket
Ross, Fred
8/7/1970
Waiting for a festival at Mosport, which may or may not get started, a group of young people stand beside their tent near a U.S. flag that is flown up(...)
Waiting for a festival at Mosport, which may or may not get started, a group of young people stand beside their tent near a U.S. flag that is flown up(...)
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
8/5/1970