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 U.S. had a lesbian First Lady. Grover Cleveland’s sister Rose was the First Lady for the first 14 months of his first term, before he got married. Rose went on to be with a woman named Evangeline Simpson and they’re now buried next to each other.
3. An art historian spotted a rare, long-lost painting in the background of the movie “Stuart Little”. It turns out the set designer bought it cheap at an antique store . . . and no one knew it was worth over $250,000.
4. 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”.
5. “Dallas Buyers Club” had such a low budget that the makeup artist, Robin Mathews, only had $250 to spend for the entire movie. And . . . she still won the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
