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I believe that the collect phone call to Mitchel's father took place sometime in 1985.By a person claiming to be Bonnie.
[h=2]Mitchel Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit have been missing for 41 years. Bonnie Bickwit was working as a mother’s helper at Camp Wel-Met in Narrowsburg, New York when she vanished on July 27, 1973 with her boyfriend, Mitchel Weiser. Mitchel was working as a photographer’s assistant in Brooklyn.[/h] Bickwit and Weiser planned to hitchhike to attend a concert festival, Summer Jam featuring The Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead in Watkins Glen, New York. The concert is believed to have been the largest in history, with over 800,000 people showing up. Weiser met Bickwit at Camp Wel-Met and they set off for the concert, which was 75 miles from Narrowsburg. Neither has been seen since. It is believed that Weiser and Bickwit had approximately $25 between them. They carried backpacks, sleeping bags, and a cardboard sign that read “Watkins Glen.” They were last seen hitchhiking along State Route 97.
Authorities initially believed that the couple simply ran off together. Bickwit and Weiser had secretly exchanged wedding rings earlier in the summer of 1973. Both were intelligent teenagers who attended John Dewey High School, a Brooklyn alternative school for gifted, high-achieving students. Bickwit lived in Borough Park with her family when she was not working at Camp Wel-Met; Weiser lived in Midwood. Both Bickwit and Weiser are from stable, middle-class Jewish families.
Both Weiser and Bickwit’s loved ones say the two seemed ill at ease before they left for the concert. Bickwit sneaked away from Camp Wel-Met and went home one day the week before she vanished, and took $80 which she had been saving for a bicycle. Her family was not home at the time, but neighbors saw her. She was also having difficulties with the family she was working for. Bickwit asked them for the night off when Weiser showed up on July 27, and quit in anger when they refused. She told her employers that she would come by after the concert to collect her clothes and paycheck. Weiser, meanwhile, was worried that he would not be able to attend the college of his choice.
Despite this, however, their loved ones believe Bickwit and Weiser were just having normal adolescent problems and would have never run away from home. Bickwit’s best friend was in Europe the summer she vanished, but she exchanged letters with Bickwit and says their communications were normal. Weiser was looking forward to taking his drivers’ test, which was scheduled for a few weeks after he disappeared.
The phone call.I believe that the collect phone call to Mitchel's father took place sometime in 1985.By a person claiming to be Bonnie.
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (18 NEWS) - In July 1973, hundreds of thousands of music fans flocked to the Southern Tier for Summer Jam at Watkins Glen.
The outdoor concert starred the Greatful Dead, The Allman Brothers and The Band.
Summer Jam is believed to have been the largest concert in history, with over 800,000 people showing up, surpassing Woodstock.
But a trip to the concert is also a decades long mystery for two fans from Brooklyn - 15-year-old Bonnie Bickwit and boyfriend 16-year-old Mitchel Weiser. The teens vanished when they took off for the concert with backpacks, sleeping bags and about $25 combined.
They were last seen hitchhiking along State Route 97 with a cardboard sign that read "Watkins Glen." It is uncertain if the teens ever made it to the concert.
"There's been no trace of them, there's been a lot of information that has come in, there's been a lot of leads that have pursued," said retired Schuyler County Sheriff Michael Maloney.
Today, Bonnie Bickwit would be 60-years-old, Mitchel Weiser would be 61-years-old.
July 2018 will mark the 45th year since the couple has gone missing.
If you have any information about Bonnie Bickwit and Mitchel Weiser, please call the Sullivan's County Sheriff's Department (845) 794-7100.
[h=1]Flashback: Summer Jam brings 600,000 music fans to Watkins Glen in 1973[/h] Posted July 28, 2017
By Johnathan Croyle
The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, N.Y., on July 28, 1973 was once hailed as having the largest audience ever for a pop music festival according to the Guinness Book of World Records. An estimated 600,000 people traveled by car, van or hitchhiked to what was then called Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway to see The Band, Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful Dead perform. Despite drawing more fans than Woodstock, the "one-day blowout at Watkins Glen," the Guardian wrote last year, "has virtually been forgotten."
Watkins Glen had a population of roughly 2,700 people after the 1970 Census and it was overwhelmed by people that July day. (One estimate said one out of every three people between the ages of 17-24 from New York to Boston was in Watkins Glen that day.)
The Syracuse Post-Standard said the village was "paralyzed by the onslaught of cars, trailers, campers, microbuses, trucks and motorcycles."
The Band played next, beginning with a Chuck Berry cover, "Back to Memphis." They played favorites like "The Weight" and "Dont Do It" before a huge thunderstorm forced them from the stage and turned the ground into a muddy bog. (You can hear the thunder in the video above.)
It was past 3 a.m. before the concert was over. Most of the 600,000 people had left well before then after not being able to hear the music or see the stage.
The biggest problem was drugs, and most medical effort was on treating drug overdoses.
There was one death at the Summer Jam concert. It occurred shortly before the thunderstorm, which interrupted The Bands performance.
Veteran skydiver Willard "Smitty" Smith Jr., 35, of Syracuse, died after parachuting from a plane near the concert.
He was found in the woods a half-mile from the concert grounds.
Published on May 15, 2014
Sections of this video were used in 'Long Strange Trip' by Director Amir Bar-Lev. With: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Tom Constanten, Donna Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, Ron McKernan, Brent Mydland.
She does look like Bonnie. But there were 600,000 people there, Many of them never even got in because it was full.Video, mostly of the crowd. Some slight nudity.
Wishful thinking, but @17:06 girl in middle of frame wearing hat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqlADKgCS_Y
Bob Student
The only way to find them is to go there. And walk the same route that they took. The first place i would look is Burdett NY. I read a thread from 9 years ago. from someone. That claimed that Bonnie and Mitch used to live in Burdett on a small farm. Near the Finger Lake National Forest. But that they wished to be left alone.
Or the forest. I honestly believe that they could have got lost in the woods while walking at night. and they never made it out. Therefor we would be searching for bones in the wilderness . And Mitchel's camera.. Don't forget that Mitchel loved photography . Even if we could just find his camera. That would be a huge lead. They are still up there in that area.. Either dead or alive. I guess i will have to go there. And look for them.
Bonnies Mom's 2 best friends both swore that they both seen Bonnie and Mitch boarding a train leaving Boston in 1974. That it had to be them. That was in the video also. And these ladies were her best friends. I looked up Greatful Dead tours . After leaving Watkins Glen. The Dead played in Boston in the fall if 1973 for 3 days. And then again they played in Boston for 2 days in the summer of 74.