On the way to Woodstock, 1969 (Xpost from r/OldSchoolCool)

beckah69 · 4 months

For all you lazy coolsters /r/OldSchoolCool

Jay_Normous · 4 months

My dad and his friends got stuck in this traffic. When he got out to fill up a jug of water from a water truck on the side of the road, traffic started up again and his friends had no choice but to drive off with the traffic. Dad ended up trading the water for a lift in a dude's muscle car who needed the water for his radiator. The plan was to meet with his friends at the ticket booths, but there ended up not being any. He somehow connected with his friends again by leaving a note on a tree among hundreds of other notes. He's got tons of great stories about the experience

Indestructavincible · 4 months

Time issues aside, I bet he is badly playing Wonderwall.

LegoMyLegos · 4 months

Just did my thesis paper on Woodstock. One of the most interesting things I came across were the people who were stuck in this traffic. Hundreds of thousands of people crammed the highways, and many of the people consider themselves part of Woodstock. In a New York Times interview taken a few days after the event, one of the four interviewees never even saw the concert, yet considered herself a part of Woodstock Nation because she just sat in the traffic. For those 3 days, even the people who tried to get there, yet ultimately failed, consider themselves a part of this historic event. And rightfully so.

sjhill · 4 months

Going up the country...

publius4 · 4 months

These people are probably in their 60s now.

hazer75 · 4 months

These days we'd have some douchebag djing on his ipad via the car stereo.

OdinsBeard · 4 months

"Hey guys...guys, listen...how 'bout we start a bunch of unwinnable wars so we can always feel like our generation is the most important?"

Trenchbroom · 4 months

All I can think of when looking at that picture: lead poisoning. They probably got more high sitting on that trunk lid from the leaded gas fumes than they did at the concert...

ThePonyBlues · 4 months

That girl look about 30 seconds away from laying out some Belushi justice

corruptio · 4 months

Cool, which instagram filter is that?

PeacekeeperAl · 4 months

Joni Mitchell's Woodstock

0mega9401 · 4 months

when can we get back to this?

psychroclasm · 4 months

Silly hippies, get down from there. You can't drive on your trunk.

d_r_benway · 4 months

Now the police would stop and search all of them under terrorism legislation.

random_p3opl3 · 4 months

Did that this past summer at Bonnaroo! Some great things will never disappear.

finnmau5 · 4 months

I am now a proud subscriber to /r/oldschoolcool

ccal123 · 4 months

On a side note, they sure could make cars back then

Devanismyname · 4 months

Being a cop must have been fun back then. Spraying down all those hippies would have been a blast!

macrovore · 4 months

Is Lana Del Ray a time traveler?

Opsys · 4 months

thatwasntababyruth · 4 months

Identified that as a 1969 Impala. That car was a few months old at the time of this picture.

retrobuddha · 4 months

those kids are in there 60s now

Ford_Thunderbird · 4 months

Not a single Thunderbird in that photo a shame indeed.

danedeasy · 4 months

The guitarist looks like my brother! He's only like 23.

monteb · 4 months

He recently retired after 35 years in accountancy.

Palamede · 4 months

Two hours later :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQspxK1PWs

BadSysadmin · 4 months

I didn't realise they had jpeg compression artifacts back in 1969.

clintonaviche · 4 months

Is it just me, or does that guy look like moot?

pred · 4 months

Heh, reminds me of last time I went to Wacken Open Air. Traffic is always bad when the festival starts and a couple of laid back metalheads would just put a couch on the side of the highway and start downing beers to the tones of Raining Blood.

Azr79 · 4 months

Is that impalla '67?

Casual-Lurker · 4 months

Am I the only one that sees it...?

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1106555648/nm0251986

glossolalia2 · 4 months

My friend Dave and I hitchhiked from Brooklyn to Woodstock. One ride dropped us off near Monroe, NY and my buddy decided he needed to go into the woods to pee. While waiting for my buddy to finish a U-Haul van pulled up to me and asked if I needed a ride. I said yes, but that I was waiting for my friend to finish peeing. The driver kindly waited for my friend to return and we climbed in the back of the van. It was full of hippies smoking dope and we joined in.

Anyway this van kept getting stopped at each crossroad where lots of cars were already parked. I don't know what the driver told the police, but they let him go through about 4 or 5 roadblocks before we finally had to pull over and park.

We started walking towards the festival and Dave decided to light a joint. Next thing we know, we're smoking this joint in the middle of the road with a NY State Trooper!

Farther down the road there was someone with a quart Coke bottle. He told everyone going by to put their thumb on the top and turn it over. It was about 1/2 full of LSD! I refused the offer though.

Pretty amazing as we had not even gotten to Yasgur's farm yet, or heard any music.

The ride home was also interesting for me and Dave as we got to ride on the back of a flatbed semi that had a dismantled ferris wheel on it. Everyone of the seats was taken and everyone was totally stoned, but working on getting more stoned. It took us all the way down to the George Washington Bridge by NYC.

crapallthetime · 4 months

I wonder if the guitar survived the trip.

onipos · 4 months

I worked as an extra on the movie Taking Woodstock and played one of these people stuck in traffic. It was very, everything had been recreated perfectly for the period. Unfortunately, the roadway was lower than the sides of the road and all those old cars put out a lot of noxious fumes, still, it was an incredible time.

apextek · 4 months

who put the photoshop paint daubs filter on it?

DrinkinMcGee · 4 months

To me the funny part of any of these Woodstock photos is that my Dad and Mom, while still dating, were stuck in this traffic, much to my hyper-republican dad's annoyance, because he had a massive toothache and these "god damn doper hippies" kept him stuck in a car for 6 hours.

How my mom decided to marry him I'll never know.

L1on · 4 months

Good news everybody! i live in the area and can verify that the building in the picture is still there! i know you were all very concerned

mattchu4 · 4 months

Ah, just imagine. All those people to talk too, and not a single fuckin' cell phone to distract you.

dtriana · 4 months

Our parents were so much cooler than us.

grgathegoose · 4 months

Destroying the ozone and an old farmer's cow pasture to fuck strangers on drugs to shitty music. Groovy, man. We're gonna change the world- into a surface liberal money grubbing shit-hole. Way to go guys!

Raaaaaaaaaandy · 4 months

damn hippies.

which_comet_am_i · 4 months

Those hippies sure were into vintage cars back then.

Ahhartsock · 4 months

FUCKING HIPPIES CLOGGING UP OUR AIR WITH THEIR CARS! BOO! HISS!

Silvani · 4 months

I used to woodcarve with a bunch of old guys and one of them told me his story about Woodstock:

He and his friend had just gotten their drivers licenses, and decided to roadtrip to New York, from the Midwest, to visit his friend's aunt. On the way, the road they were taking was blocked off. There wasn't any way to get through, so they parked their car by the side of the road and started walking through corn fields to the nearest town.

At this town they asked around and discovered that there was a music festival nearby. Thinking this sounded cool, they walked a ways farther to get to this festival. There was a huge crowd near the gate, and they joined the fray to get a better look at what was going on.

Suddenly, the crowd started moving forward, knocking over fences. They were at Woodstock. He and his friend camped out there in other people's abandoned sleeping bags for a while, watched Jimi Hendrix play, etc.

TL;DR: My friend accidentally went to Woodstock, I summarized his account as I remember it.

john_nyc · 4 months

I bet every guy playing an acoustic guitar and singing poorly got laid that weekend...just like freshman year of college. Girls are so silly that way.

mtthpr · 4 months

if kids today threw their own woodstock these people would call them bums and tell them to go to work

jeeaudley · 4 months

if that happened today, would an Iphone replace the guitar?

grumpybadmanners · 4 months

those pricks went on to deregulate the banks in the 80s and destroy america for the our generation.

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