1. Advance tickets to Woodstock in 1969 . . . 54 years ago . . . were sold at record stores for $18. That’s the equivalent of about $150.00 in today’s money. And tickets were supposed to cost $24 at the door, which is $200 now.
Considering the whole experience, that would’ve been an incredible value . . . but MANY thousands of people ended up storming in . . . WITHOUT paying at all.
2. The Hoover Dam is made of 4.36 million cubic yards of concrete. That’s enough to make a highway from San Francisco to New York.
3. One witness of Lincoln’s assassination lived so long he was able to be interviewed about it on TV. Samuel Seymour was at Ford’s Theater . . . and was interviewed about it in 1956, at age 96, on a show called “I’ve Got a Secret”.
4. The first “Star Wars” product ever produced was an action figure of Luke Skywalker.
AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)
#4!
The first “Star Wars” product ever produced was the novelized version of the movie. That book came out in 1976, six months before the movie was in theaters.
SOURCES:
(BBC / USBR / History Collection / Fandom )
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