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TIL that California’s 1967 Magic Mountain Music Festival was favourably reviewed for safety in press accounts, as fight or disturbances were not an issue, and at the end of the day, trash was placed in or next to the garbage cans provided. The immense crowd left Mount Tamalpais as they had found it.

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