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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

Flying high at Mosport, one of the fans at the rock music festival soars through the air, tossed from a blanket

Date8/7/1970
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  • 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. Many of the 50;000 young people who streamed into the area for the three-day gathering were flying high on drugs.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Flying high at Mosport; one of the fans at the rock music festival soars through the air; tossed from a blanket. Many of the 50;000 young people who streamed into the area for the three-day gathering were flying high on drugs.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0103084F
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
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
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
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
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
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
Perched atop a souvenir booth outside the Canadian National Exhibition stadium, this group of rocks fans got a free look at the weekend Festival Expre(...)
Perched atop a souvenir booth outside the Canadian National Exhibition stadium, this group of rocks fans got a free look at the weekend Festival Expre(...)
Ross, Fred
6/28/1970
Bracing themselves in defensive stance, police prepare to hold back any charge by scores of gate-crashes at the pop festival. Some of the rock fans sh(...)
Bracing themselves in defensive stance, police prepare to hold back any charge by scores of gate-crashes at the pop festival. Some of the rock fans sh(...)
Ross, Fred
6/27/1970
Rowdy rockers. Police on horseback try to control fans lined up outside Exhibition Stadium for Canadian World Music Festival yesterday. Metro police a(...)
Rowdy rockers. Police on horseback try to control fans lined up outside Exhibition Stadium for Canadian World Music Festival yesterday. Metro police a(...)
Toronto Star (Firm)
7/2/1979
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
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
Dutton, Don
8/10/1970