#altamonte

[olafsings]

History Today: December 6, 2024

December 6, 1969: Nearly 300,000 people attended the Altamont Speedway in California for a free day of music, headlined by The Rolling Stones. The event would soon be declared "rock and roll's all-time worst day."

Antagonistic crowds clashed with the Hell's Angels, who were hired as security for the day. One man, Meredith Hunter, was killed by the motorcycle gang. It was captured in the documentary Gimmie Shelter.

[covering-central-florida]

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[undergroundrockpress]

Carlos Santana backstage at The Altamont Speedway on December 6, 1969. Photo : Robert Altman.

[iheartarisa]

some of my aatober drawings

[yujinmikotoba]

I think my most obscure headcanon is that the character quinby altamont, one of the jurors in tgaa2-2 and the wife of the gas company’s president is a trans woman.

it kinda started off as a light hearted thing when I noticed a glitch that gave her the text sound effect that usually indicates a deeper voice (and I do believe it’s a glitch or an oversight not an intentional character choice bc it only happens when she’s in the juror’s seating and not on the witness stand) but the more I thought about it the more it kind of makes sense with what little we know about her as a character.

like her husband is the president of the altamont gas company but we never see or hear from him ever, everything’s through her and from what she tells us she seems quite involved in the day to day operations of it herself.

so basically my headcanon is that pre-transition she owned a gas company, she then transitions but because this is victorian england she can’t exactly reveal that publicly so she just comes into the gas company like “oh, I’m mr altamont’s wife and my husband has full authority to do what I see fit with the company. everything I decide is signed off by my husband :)”

it takes a surprisingly long time for anyone to be think “hey I haven’t seen mr. altamont in like… a year. only his wife ever comes in now.”

[enchantedbook]

'Fairy King' by Charles Altamont Doyle, (1832 - 1893)

[omg-hellgirl]

Keith Richards at the Altamont Free Concert on December 6, 1969.

[railwayhistorical]

Hustling Across Illinois This is a westbound Amtrak National Limited in Altamont, Illinois.

We on the Conrail line between Terre Haute, Indiana, and St. Louis (former Pennsy/Penn Central). That’s a relatively new EMD F40PH (built in December of 1977) on the point of the train, which means the legacy cars here have been retrofitted for head-end power (HEP). The red Ford pickup truck completes the snowy Midwestern scene.

The National Limited would be discontinued on October 1st later that same year. One image by Richard Koenig; taken in February of 1979.

[bayareabadboy]

The Rolling Stones

Free concert at Altamont speedway 1969

[shadowland]

The Flying Burrito Brothers Lazy Days, Close Up the Honky Tonks, Sweet Mental Revenge Altamont Speedway, 1969 with corrected audio Full live setlist / performance

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Charles Altamont Doyle - The Escape.

[contremineur]

17. So I guess it’s time to let go of my tears, to let you go on into the night, quietly, quietly, as you let the world go, voice cut from you by the surgeon’s knife, only your hands to say goodbye, touching the leaves of the lemon tree one last time, or Britta’s pale, shivering arm, or trying to hold forever in your eyes this olive-tree twisted in the valley winds, or this flash of sunlight off the high Sierra snows.

Burton Hatlen, from Crossing Altamont

[mannymuc]

55 Years Ago - The day the Swinging Sixties died!

The free Rolling Stones concert at Altamont ends in disaster. One fan is killed in front of the stage by Hell's Angels, hired as security.

[siryl]

A self portrait by Charles Doyle, scanned from Victorian Fairy Art by Jeremy Maas.

[rinibayphoto]

[yeahiwasintheshit]

How did they spell Keith Richards’ name wrong in The Rolling Stones movie, Gimme Shelter? Lol