50 years since the summer of love we'll look into its enduring fascination and also coming up. our series on european landmarks takes us to barcelona in northeastern spain where this to gratify me is still under construction. and we'll meet dimitriy polly chong who takes the art of pole dancing to an entirely new life. it was 50 years ago that some 400000 people descended on the farm near woodstock new york for what amounted to a hippies utopian dream namely 4 days of sex drugs and rock n roll as far as the eye could see janis joplin the who and crosby stills and nash all joined hendrix and many others for what became a legendary lineup and even though heavy rains in the unexpected numbers turned it into something of a mud fest the euphoria of freedom prevailed. woodstock

festival one of the most famous festivals of all time half a century ago. and the town of woodstock today their own mind just everywhere from peace signs to tired eyes sixty's hippie culture is still ever present but has woodstock become somewhat of a. mock hedrick has rose souvenir shop on the town's main street for over 20 years he says woodstock merchandise didn't play a role 50 years ago to the best my knowledge there was never assured. that no other marketing stuff came after the for. but here in the town still like to take advantage of that. the local economy has benefited greatly since the festival but why do people come here when many of them weren't even born when the festival took place back in 1969. i think it's obvious. perkier.

viewing of woodstock the special place for people like the people that believe in peace and peace the place. back at mach souvenir store business is steady he says tourist numbers are up despite this year's festival being canceled the allure of woodstock remains unfitted. we do get visitors. many people claim to have been what star. maybe they were. i think there was an article a number of years ago about the number of people who claim to have been at woodstock is probably closer to like 5000000 500000. the number who attended doesn't matter it's the legacy the festival holds. its 50th anniversary. it is always welcome while my colleague melissa holroyd has joined me in the studio

welcome melissa that seeing that there is what's up really still have anything to do with the actual festival it seems to have become everything that the hippies were rebelling against yeah well the symbol of woodstock seems to have become a lot more important than woodstock actually was this idea of woodstock in some ways has become a shorthand for something and people in gauging this idea when they buy trinkets at shops but it has nothing to do with woodstock itself. tell us a little bit more about the festival what was the significance of it at the time. at the time i don't i don't know if people really realized how significant it was at the time but it will be remembered because of peace and love but also remember because of what it stood in contrast to what led up to it and what followed a lot of people forget i think just how violent this time was in the united states with the manson murders just a little bit over a week before woodstock there was the. islands at the altamont festival featuring

the rolling stones where a young person was stabbed and beaten to death after words i mean that i had lived in this is an aberration that is now that there was also a vietnam war there was also there were also a lot of violent riots taking place at the time so then the movement itself that the counterculture movement had also taken a lot of hits president nixon was in power but then there was woodstock and despite all of these things despite all of these facts despite far too many people showing up despite there being no sanitation despite them running out of food which was kind of a blessing in disguise because they had no sanitation beside the fact that it rained and rained and boss numbers of people were on drugs the festival for the most part went off without a hitch they were 2 dicks but in terms of violence things were quite good and people also say that people helped each other that they shared the food they had that they shared the pot they had and they had a wonderful time and that

a lot of became a very very important symbol of communal loving and living not to what do we have the woodstock festival today what kind of cultural spin well i think the woodstock festival will be remembered because of the because of the documentary that happened in 1970. and that was edited by a young mom and scorsese so so so for music films at the time to mr bull that's right that that documentary really put woods gave woodstock its place in history. because the festival itself is seen as a zenith of the counterculture of 969 it's in some ways become into changeable with that and some people say that this counterculture failed because people went back to the status quo they went back to work you know but culturally this counterculture is still one in many ways because there is a stream that's right we see it everywhere was seated music. just very quickly

what's happening for the 50th anniversary for the 50th anniversary there was a festival that has been cancelled which was the woodstock festival. and yes that was canceled just a couple of weeks ago but there are still 2 other events one is at the original wood center for the aughts which is where the original woodstock took place but people are going to need tickets and they're going to need also travel pastas to can last through the area i'm going to have to stop you there melissa holroyd thanks so much for bringing that we can get our guitar strums and josiah. thanks for bringing us background details along now to our series on european landmarks and the cattle an architect who would have made a fantastic hippie himself because his main work the cigarette out of fun in barcelona is a flagship of his dairy one of a kind style influenced by nature and it's still unfinished today but nevertheless worth a visit to. the basilica of the holy family. has

been under construction since the year 1882 but it wasn't until this past june 137 years into the project that the city of barcelona granted an official building permits. architect antoni gaudi is credited as saying that his client wasn't in a hurry when it's finished county's masterpiece will look like this with 18 spires and 3 facades since died in 19067 different architects have overseen the project number 7 your day for you took over in 2012. how do you ever saw his life's work for more than 4 decades until he was struck by a tram and killed since then architects from around the globe have continued the project. the work is financed exclusively through donations and entrance fees neither the spanish government nor the catholic church provides money for the project. nonetheless each year around $25000000.00 euros are raised to finish

counties creation. but the other guy would you start at the site completely unconventionally. he built the church and parts. list yet part of this. deal was an intuitive architect his ideas often developed and changed as he worked and he didn't leave behind blueprints for his successors which means a lot of the construction is essentially a guessing game. most will if you will. our goal is to finish the project according to go d's ideas as much as possible if you will and i thought that's why we've got to study the few documents that he left behind in great detail to make his vision into reality a little. local residents have mixed feelings about it the crowds of tourists who

come to see the church have changed the neighborhood souvenir shops and kiosks have forced out businesses that serve locals. and there's another thing that worries residents back when the building started the construction site was in the middle of a field now the surrounding area is completely built up and some of the buildings will have to be torn down to implement gattis original plans for a promise not in front of the main facade. the target date for finishing the project is 2026 just in time for the 100th anniversary of county's death but even in its unfinished states the church is already one of the best known buildings in europe. well it's usually associated with strip clubs or exotic dancing or cals but pole dancing has meanwhile become not only a popular fitness then competition activity for women but it's also rapidly gaining popularity with. and so we met up with dimitri polish champions the sport that he

also frequently takes out of doors. dimitri polito of russia is one of the world's best competitive pole dancers. this is not just fooling around. him nothing but i started out with breakdowns but i wasn't very good at it and we remember i think i was even one of the worst on the team. here but nobody really believed that anything special would become of me one day. that's not. the big turnaround came 6 years ago when dimitri pulled the top discovered acrobatic pole dancing and found in it a masculine sport that demands strength and durrance and a dose of courage. in coming up with the right after you so i don't need to

apologize for it if people associate my work with striptease women are maybe a bit more uncomfortable with the topic i don't like it but i just say do i really look like a stripper if you go to. dimitri polito it was born in russia and now lives with his wife and young son in neighboring ukraine. like 5 year old sarah fim is proud of his papa's job and enjoys practicing together with them. to be true polito of uses every free minute he can to train in his own gym. his calendar is booked up these days he's in demand not just as a performer but as a coach as well. travels all over the world competing for and winning international awards. i. only want to. aims for the top has to know how to fall that's what dimitri tells

aspiring pole dancers if you'd like to see pole dancing become an olympic sport someday and he intends to work hard to help make it was. not does look like fun and it does bring us to the end of the show so until next time for myself and the crew all the best from the land and off the.

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