The Grateful Dead at Watkins Glen

[nplenzick]

I think there might be a little confusion here. I attended just about all of the professional events at Watkins Glen in the 70's except the concert. I have three friends who did attend. There was no concert in the bog and no one could remember any bus burning in the bog during the concert.  The bog was located between the heel of the boot and the last corner before the front straight. It was on the outside of the track right where the present day Cayuga Rd. and Oneida Rd. intersect near the present day Gate 6. There was a bus burned there, a Greyhound Scenic Cruiser during I think 73 when Emerson Fittipaldi was World Champion during the GP in October. The story goes it was rented by a bunch of Brazilians, when it was empty it was stolen and driven to the bog. When I saw it on Saturday afternoon there were people jumping up and down yelling the bog got the bus, the bog got the bus. When I returned that night there were several thousand people chanting the same thing throwing M-80's and beer bottles filled with gas at it. Somehow they turned the bus upside down and squashed to about six feet high. I have a great photo of a guy with a Jack -O-Lantern on his head with the words F*** You carved in it looking over the mob so to speak. Oh those were the days! Unfortunately my photo's of that era are in a slide format one of these days I need to put them into something more modern and maybe then I should put them up for sale!