Concession stands were woefully inadequate. It was a peaceful, energetic, hot and loud festival with few (if any) problems other than heat related. With temperatures nearing a hundred degrees, local fire departments used fire hoses to create "sprinklers" for the crowd to play in and cool off. Crowd estimates ranged from the high tens of thousands to as high as 150,000. The first Atlanta International Pop Festival was a rock festival held at the Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia, twenty miles south of Atlanta, on the July Fourth (Friday) weekend, 1969, more than a month before Woodstock.
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