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Come on, were you really at Woodstock?

You know what they say about death and taxes, and they’re right. But two other things are inevitable for we graybeards of today.

By Bob Levey July 5, 2026 3 min read
Come on, were you really at Woodstock?

You know what they say about death and taxes, and they’re right. But two other things are inevitable for we graybeards of today.

We will meet someone who claims to have been at Woodstock in 1969.

And we will meet someone who claims to have attended the perfect game that Don Larsen pitched in the 1956 World Series.

The other day, I notched a two-fer — a guy with a badly receding…

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