Apocalypse Now, the acclaimed Vietnam War film directed
by Francis Ford Coppola, opened in theaters around the
United States on August 15, 1979.

The film was inspired in part by Joseph Conrad’s 1899
novella Heart of Darkness, among other sources.

The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards,
including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and
Best Supporting Actor (Duvall); it went on to win Best
Cinematography and Best Sound.

Apocalypse Now is today considered one of the greatest
films ever made.

Francis Ford Coppola

‘I love the smell Of Napalm in The Morning’… Robert
Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore.

Harrison Ford

Dennis Hopper

Laurence Fishburne

On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opened
on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate
New York town of Bethel.

Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and
Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to
raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll
retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York.

   1912

Indianapolis businessman Carl G. Fisher first
envisioned building the speedway in 1905 and
construction began in March of 1909.

At one time the whole track used to be paved
with bricks. The bricks were replaced with
asphalt in the 1930’s.

In addition to the Indianapolis 500, the speedway
also hosts NASCAR‘s Verizon 200 and Pennzoil
150.

The  Speedway is currently owned by Roger
Penske‘s company Penske Corporation.

Carl Graham Fisher (1874–1938)

    
    
    
   
Roger Penske

The speedway is located in Speedway, Indiana.

One yard, of original bricks remain today 
exposed at the start-finish line.  

Stephen Glenn Martin is a comedian, actor, writer, producer,
and musician.

He has won five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award,
and was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2013.

1979

1987