400,000 People Will Be Fed
It is not easy to feed 400,000 people for three days in a row. Supplies were always scarce, lines were always lengthy, and the audience was always ravenous. Anyone with a weak heart would find such strain excruciating. Hugh Romney addressed the crowds from the platform above that “there's a guy up there—some hamburger guy—who had his stand burn down last night.” He still had some money, and those who could helped him out by buying him a couple of hamburgers.
The Festival's Founders Faced Too Many Obstacles
The festival's organizers, according to the Washington Post, were merely businessmen who wanted to put on a concert to advertise their upcoming recording facility while simultaneously generating funding for it. They, on the other hand, committed some foolish mistakes, some of which were simply bad luck. At first, they didn't appear to be at the top of their powers. The festival's venue changed three times, and work on the festival's stage didn't even begin until a month before the performance was supposed to begin.