I was 18, with a camera, on the beach at the Woodstock of Encinitas. I sat on these photographs for forty years. They are the only surviving record of that day — and every frame is available as an archival print.
The archive · Every frame available as a print
Fifty years later,
the frames survive
View the full archive → Shot on film at eighteen years old, scanned from the original negatives. Signed archival prints on watercolor paper, made to order.
Photos beyond the archive — from any story on this site — are also available as prints on request.
The crowd at Stonesteps
The chug — a resin bucket before every heat
Miss Stonesteps and the judging officials
Long live rock & roll
About to collapse — too much beer
Behind the stage view
The complete archive — with John Peugh's oral history of the contest.
From the guest book
"Those were the daze — life was all in technicolor back then."
Bob Hayward On the 1975 archive"Freedom, that's what this makes me thirsty for… They will never have this."
Randy Underwood On the 1975 archive"Been there, done that, can't remember. Thanks for the great pictures."
L. W. Bill Hughes On the 1975 archive