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Rock fans run into police roadblock
Rock fans run into police roadblock

Rock fans run into police roadblock

Date9/4/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Rock fans run into police roadblock. An Ontario Provincial Police constable searches under the hood of a car stopped at one of four police roadblocks set up at approaches to rock festival north of Orangeville; while a second constable talks with three youths; Promoter Elwood Hill charges police are trying to bust the weekend event.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0103105F
Rock riders hit police block. Ontario Provincial Police on one of four roadblocks set up around the site of the rock festival north of Orangeville, st(...)
Rock riders hit police block. Ontario Provincial Police on one of four roadblocks set up around the site of the rock festival north of Orangeville, st(...)
9/4/1970
Bracing themselves in defensive stance, police prepare to hold back any charge by scores of gate-crashes at the pop festival. Some of the rock fans sh(...)
Bracing themselves in defensive stance, police prepare to hold back any charge by scores of gate-crashes at the pop festival. Some of the rock fans sh(...)
6/27/1970
Some of the fans at the Heatwave rock festival at Mosport over the weekend look as if they weren't about to be diverted by the music
Some of the fans at the Heatwave rock festival at Mosport over the weekend look as if they weren't about to be diverted by the music
8/23/1980
Fans of the rock group of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were crowded into Varsity Stadium without a bearable spot to sit down in, reader complains in(...)
Fans of the rock group of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were crowded into Varsity Stadium without a bearable spot to sit down in, reader complains in(...)
9/2/1974
Flying high at Mosport, one of the fans at the rock music festival soars through the air, tossed from a blanket
Flying high at Mosport, one of the fans at the rock music festival soars through the air, tossed from a blanket
8/7/1970
Studiously ignored by other restaurant patrons, one of the fans at the Mosport rock festival waits, nude, in line to pick up a snack at one of the food concessions
Studiously ignored by other restaurant patrons, one of the fans at the Mosport rock festival waits, nude, in line to pick up a snack at one of the food concessions
8/9/1970
Promised a place for the night, these rock concert fans, most of them from the United States, camped last night in parking lot at Queen's Quay and Yon(...)
Promised a place for the night, these rock concert fans, most of them from the United States, camped last night in parking lot at Queen's Quay and Yon(...)
7/12/1974
Fans of the rock group of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were crowded into Varsity Stadium without a bearable spot to sit down in, reader complains in(...)
Fans of the rock group of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were crowded into Varsity Stadium without a bearable spot to sit down in, reader complains in(...)
9/2/1974
Perched atop a souvenir booth outside the Canadian National Exhibition stadium, this group of rocks fans got a free look at the weekend Festival Expre(...)
Perched atop a souvenir booth outside the Canadian National Exhibition stadium, this group of rocks fans got a free look at the weekend Festival Expre(...)
6/28/1970
Rowdy rockers. Police on horseback try to control fans lined up outside Exhibition Stadium for Canadian World Music Festival yesterday. Metro police a(...)
Rowdy rockers. Police on horseback try to control fans lined up outside Exhibition Stadium for Canadian World Music Festival yesterday. Metro police a(...)
7/2/1979
A Disenchanted rock fan, 11-month-old Chris Blakely obviously doesn't dig the sound at the Mosport rock festival as he rides in a papoose sling on the(...)
A Disenchanted rock fan, 11-month-old Chris Blakely obviously doesn't dig the sound at the Mosport rock festival as he rides in a papoose sling on the(...)
8/8/1970
On his way from Mosport after doing his thing, whatever that may have been, a rock festival fan leaves grounds, carrying a cross, to hitchhike home
On his way from Mosport after doing his thing, whatever that may have been, a rock festival fan leaves grounds, carrying a cross, to hitchhike home
8/10/1970