Woodstock 1969 - Leaving the Festival - Better Quality
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- People leaving Woodstock - 1969 - via Mongaup Rd near Sackett Lake (Monticello, NY) - as local summer people look on with amusement and a helping hand. Filmmaker: Barbara Bedick. This is a better version of a video that was previously posted.
See film maker, Barbara Bedick's blog at www.cookingthekitchen.com, for a memoir-ish food blog with musings on life, this and that, and including recipes. Link to Cooking the Kitchen on my profile.
Woodstock 1969 was more than just a musical festival. It was a moment. It can never be recreated
an epic event never to be repeated
Love this video. Miss the old days a lot. I just can't imagine any of this happening in today's climate.
Here's a thought...all the kids in this video are at least 65 years old now.
I was 22 when this happened and I'm really digging the old long cars and VWs. I loved this time. I was in Calif, wow, what a trip.
I KNEW A WOMAN I WORKED FOR HERE IN UNIV OF CT BACK IN 1994 I WAS 20
SHE WAS A HELLS ANGELS MEMBER GANG
SHE TOLD ME ALL ABOUT THIS AND THE NEEDLES THEY USED THE STORM TOO -WHAT A MESS OF A DISASTER IT WAS
NO FOOD HOT TOO
I love how the rural country people seemed so nice, love, the middle aged guy and his family giving the ☮️ sign! What a time!
I was there,never again have I seen so many people in 1 place
Since yesterday, August 18th was an anniversary of the end date of the Woodstock festival, I thought I would add something, having found an old poem, written during that summer. Here follows some background, and then a poem by my then, 20 year old self.
July 1969, the summer of love, and when the US astronauts walked on the moon for the first time on July 20th, and it was telecast on tv. I watched in a bar that was full of people drinking beer, and celebrating the moment. I lived in a rented room in a house of a family. The father was an artist, mom worked in Kingston, and two children, a boy and a girl. I was treated like a member of their family. But I also had privacy and my own entrance/exit out of the house, as my room was sort of an addition to the house. Every morning I bicycled to The Art Student’s League, and studied painting/drawing with Arnold Blanche. Later that summer, Aug. 16-18 was the Woodstock Festival at Max Yasgur’s farm, close to our summer bungalow in the Catskills, outside of Monticello, New York. I returned to our house in the Catskills, from Woodstock, just in time to go to the festival. I returned wearing a headband around my head and down my back, and a bracelet of bells around my feet. The world was changing.
The poem below are impressions of my month in Woodstock, where I studied painting.
Tales of Woodstock
A rainy misty day.
The song of Groovy,
and how we skipped through the streets.
The space around us was filmed in a fine mist.
The air was warm, and we were like children.
Piling into a car,
watching the countryside rush past.
Girl in white dress,
patchouli wafting in the air.
Harmonicas were played,
and the harmonies existed.
Bluesy songs, sung from the heart and soul.
The flower children sat atop the car.
Not only on top, but all over it.
There was food, and everyone shared.
Besides that, there was love between them,
and the feeling of being one.
The flower children thrived on life,
and yes, “wore flowers in their hair.”
People slept in cars at night,
but lived at Becky’s during the day.
For there was music at Becky’s.
Music is emotion,
something to groove on.
Climb into the sound,
and the music will speak to you.
Song of how we tromped through the streets together,
arm on shoulder,
arm on waist.
How we would pool our money together,
36 cents rich, with a penny to spare.
Sometimes hustling money.
Other times playacting for food.
Laughing through the hallowed alley,
then the lot for cars which was painted with white lines,
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the log,
careful not to step in mud or glass,
down the street and past the dogs to the cafe,
where friends would gather.
Weighing the importance of Indian Pudding.
To leave we would walk up the hill,
and it did not “bring us down.”
It was a song of how we played like children,
walking arm on shoulder,
arm on waist,
through the streets of town,
like the sun with laughter.
Mountains surrounded the town,
like a strong, strange army,
forming a complete circle in the distance.
The gentle guru, old, white haired man,
would tell the tale that once under the shadows and spells they cast,
the mountains would bring you back.
You would have to return someday.
Glimpsed while speeding down the hill on your bicycle,
in the cold morning,
the mountains seemed blue, and a rich green.
Colors to be used in your watercolors, later that morning.
At times the mountains would be covered in mist,
or buried under billowy clouds.
Other times the view of their majesty was completely clear.
Barbara Bedick that's beautiful..a gentler time (in some ways). So much hate and violence now..Lord save us from ourselves!
Barbara Bedick ms bedick did you take the super 8 ? Where was this intersection?
God bless you for sharing this and for giving us all a glimpse of your soul. You said, "Music is emotion,
something to groove on. Climb into the sound, and the music will speak to you." Climb into the sound/music? WOW.... what'a line!!!! Like you all climbed into those cars.... ha ha!!!
If you weren't there, you will never understand...
I wasn't there, but i was @ the 2nd biggest love fest, in the summer of 1969, in Southern Illinois...
This footage is a real gem!
Thanks for sharing! ✌
I'm almost positive that I was born in the wrong generation.
I know I was
What great, vintage cars! No electronic ignitions at all, (all carburetor driven), nobody using seat belts...yet most of them fucked their brains out, never got AIDS, grew up to sell their houses at 20 times their original value--sort of a blessed generation.
powergirl901 The generation that caught the Vietnam War? Blessed? No thanks!
I'm 17.... And thumbs up if you were a peace lover in the 1960s!
Good Point...Yes...we didn't Care about food and feeding our insecurities ... Agree with the 60 part...I'm over 60 & glad to be also! Different times for sure! and I WAS AT WOODSTOCK in 1969!!!! YES!!! WONDERFUL MEMORIES!!!
Shout out to the guy offering a hit of his joint at 3:04
Should of had some Woodstock music to go with this Video!!!
Some very sweet cars in that clip too.
Those poor people were exhausted but had the best time in anyone's life time. I watch it on Netflix everyday
Look at the cars. I noticed the GTO the cars were great then too Great music great people and great cars!! What a time Peace and love
This was MY generation , the best ever!!!
Besides all the cool-ness, how about the locals pitchin in to help feed people? We can do great things IF we work together!
right on to that man!
GTO's, 442's, man what a great time!
back when you could sit on cars without them buckling.
Or getting a ticket for an unsafe movement or child welfare visiting you for letting your kids ride that way.
This always makes me cry when I watch it and play ALO's "Simple Pleasures" along with it. If I'd been there I'd have waved and yelled, "Be sure to come back for the fifty-year anniversary reunion!" Peace.
As I was watching this, I realized that no one had flipped a bird or any other jesture you'd be apt to see today. What does that tell you?
THEY TICKET YOU HERE IN CT FOR RIDING ON HOOD-
100 DOLLARS
NY ITS MORE--YEA FLIP EVERYTHING THESE DAYS ALL BOILS DOWN TO GOVT ASSHOLES
It's like a classic car parade you would see today
And they made it there and back without gps.
The good ol' days, and i don't even use my GPS, i go by land marks, my heart is still back in the good ol' 50's and 60's OH, WHAT A TIME, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN!!!
and stuck in traffic on the thru way for the Bethel exit.YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@paulablissett9396 I'm with you. I never use GPS.
That was awesome ,thanks.
These simple kids were smarter than the president ,..........congress....and most of the public..................I wish I could have been there.............instead........I was in Nam.......
Well I was there - and I wish you had been there, too. Although 'thank you' doesn't say it even the smallest bit, but just because we protested against the war, I for one, was never against my peers, and the generation before me who were fighting there- instead of being able to experience the wonder that was Woodstock..
Me too , read about it in stars and stripes
Thank you for your service.
And you're a heroic man for being in Nam! Every year in November I wear a poppy for all who served in any war especially those who served in Vietnam because I heard somewhere that you guys didn't even receive a heros welcome when you came back. That's Goddamned rotten shame on your government if that's true!
Although nothing beats the original Woodstock. It makes me proud my generation got its own in 1994. All those assholes at the 1999 festival didn’t know anything about peace and love.
Wow,at 0.20 a brand new 69 GTO with a buncha hippies on it! Never seen one with hub caps before.
Lots of Oldsmobiles. Excellent cars btw.
Awesome.
Back when cars didn't all look the same.
Groovy archive video dude. :)) \m/
what a kewl concept for a film
I eas minus thirty one when this happened, I was born in 2000. Looked like fun and I love the music
look at those cars!!
btw, those of you who wish you were around back then. Notice ALL of the cars had their windows down. Not because everyone wanted to wave to the camera. It's because A/C in cars (and even in a lot of homes) was not a God given right back then. You got in the car and opened the windows.
How many of you 18 year olds would put up with that today?
Steve Benson Eh, big deal. We're too poor to use the AC at home anyway & we usually have the windows down. It's not a bad tradeoff to get to live in a better time lol. I can personally say, yeah, no big deal.
The proliferation of junk food was on the Horizon at this time. In fact in a recent magazine, they stated eat like it's 1970.... people consumed about 431 grams of carbs per day now it's like 641 grams per day. .....henceforth why the country as a whole has gotten heavier.
No GMO's then either!
Thanks, that was fun to watch. Those carefree days of youth-I miss them. I was a bit too young for Woodstock. Love those cars! Housedress club @ 2:20-cute. Did you think about adding some music Robert? Though maybe it's better silent.
The Griswolds in the Family Truckster @ 0:57!
"Sorry, folks. Woodstock's closed. Hippie out front shoulda told you."
No gangsta rapper leaving the festival so nice.
Cool classic car cruise . . .
Of all the cars shown... If available in the shape they were in that day, the most valuable would be the VW 23 Window Micro Bus at 1:04. Next, would be the Type II Double Cab at 0:54. These things sell for some crazy money currently. There's also a Type II Panel Van at 2:59. Not a VW..but there's a 60's Jaguar Mark 9 at 3:58.
+Joe Herald What is the red car that's shown for a split second at like 1:32. Sorta looks like a Chevrolet Cheetah.
Good eye. That's a Saab Sonett II They were made between '67 and '69. Rare, only about 1800 made. An interesting car. FWD V-4 Taunus, fiberglas body, freewheeling flywheel coaster drive, 4 speed column shift. There was a Sonnet III '70-'74 about 8000 produced.
Joe Herald Thank you! Cool-looking car.
Those cars ...
Everyone throwing peace signs. Today, they would be flipping birds. The times, they are a changin..
At 2:48 I see a Olds 442!
Bob Silver Yeah, that's really some car.
They are probably hitching rides miles ahead to where their own cars are parked, and with no room left in the cars, they just rode the cars like trollies.
I love all the old cars we were driving back then; they were all made out of metal
toby blake This is carporn it its finest!
toby blake Yeah. Try doing that on today's vehicles and you'll most likely put a dent in the hood or trunk.
toby blake And they all had their own style even though one company, GM, made most of them. They made eight different types of Chevy's every year for decades--this just a small part of the 9 other divisions also making eight different types of cars and trucks.
Agree
i wish there could be another woodsrock but first me need the population to listen to good music LOO
ghost van @1:04
my old van 1 year before I bought it, has to be
The hippies were right about a lot of things. One of many things they were wrong about was their lack of respect for our soldiers! Many of those Vietnam vets were drafted! They had no choice. Even if they volunteered what difference would that make?That said the Vietnam war or should I say conflict and the reason its called a conflict is because we never declared war on Vietnam which would make it Unconstitutional so instead they call it a conflict. American lives lost US Military Casualties from the Vietnam War err conflict (Sic)1964-73:
Total Deaths: 58,151
Combat deaths: 47,355
Other deaths: 10,796
Total Wounded: 153,303
Total Missing: 2,489
Thats a hell of a conflict dont ya think? Its a fine example of our Government running a muck throughout the world creating chaos with total disregard for our Constitution while Americans die in the process. And for what? OUR FREEDOM?Sound familiar? Times change but our Government is still the same in fact they are even worse now and the news media lies for them more so than ever.
also, the golf of tonkin incident was made up. we went there over a false flag.
same shit's happening today. we are at war over false flags and hoaxes. chicken hawks in the media like bill o'reilly push this agenda.
***** You always had a choice, even then. My parents told me that I was going to Canada once I turned draftable age. Vietnam "Conflict" went until early 1973.
So like people like LBJ said we had to stop the spread of communism. Communist Red China was supporting North Viet Nam. 58,000 Americans killed in that war. And today, not that long ago tho, today most of our manufacturing is in C.R.China and most everything is Made in China offered for sale here. China is a much greater threat than the Russians. China has recruited 18,000 new spies in the U.S. and increased their spying on America budget to $4 billion! I wonder where they got the $?, not.
we are living in upside down world
Boy did u ever hit the nail on the head, Mike Hf, just on the street where i used to live, the boys were all killed there accept for one, he got a dishonorable discharge because he couldn't take it anymore! he started throwing children off ther mountains, that's how much he hated the enemy.. A hell of a conflict, no a hellof a WAR, I SAW NO CONFLICT THERE...SO SAD..., When they had the replica of the wall in a town close to mine, i went there, cried my eyes out for the boys i knew, and the boys i didn't know, all for what? A senseless massacour, and your #'s here are right on, sir the Fucking government is worse now then ever, God help and Bless us all, thank you for your service, everyone, past present and future..
Trying to figure out of this is Sunday or Monday.
interesante video
Look at the freedom these kids back then had. Thousands of cars leaving down the road and not a cop in sight! No seat-belt laws to tie you down! They even rode on the front and backs of cars and no one thought anything bad about it!!! Few if any.... tattoo's, and the young women then, would never had thought to have one. No hand held smart phones taking up our time. Many men went shirtless and walked into stores wearing no shoes! People didn't sue over every little thing back then, so shoes were an option! Joy filled the air.... because the hippie movement also had the "Jesus Movement" and the love of Jesus filled the hearts of many. It was bliss!!! Now.... America has lost it's innocents and turned it's back on God. Even the flag has no respect anymore in our schools!!! We have raised a new generation that will never know this freedom, or.... this love!!! "Do we need revival or what?" I was only 9 years old that summer in 69. We had a hippie family that lived next door to us. The teenage girls there use to listen to "Canned Heat" almost non-stop....lol. I never heard them on the radio in those days. I think they were black listed. But that group..... more than any other....speaks to me of Woodstock. Here is some lines to one of their famous songs. "I'm going up the country
Baby, don't you wanna go?
I'm going up the country
Baby, don't you wanna go?
I'm going to some place
Where I've never been before."
And.... isn't that just what these Woodstock kids did? They had the freedom to go where ever they wanted.... while cruising on the top of an old 59 Impala. Yeah.... those days won't ever be seen again this side of heaven. If your interested. Here is a song I wrote in the States but produced in South Africa....where I'm currently living. Yeah.... I've got a taste of Woodstock in my soul. Going places I've never been before....lol. Peace people....and cheers!!! Link to my song Stranded: th-cam.com/video/ZlkyPy-ljeU/w-d-xo.html
Thank you im curious about the past always was im 55 yrs old and im always upstate . I like to go where things were filmed , thanks again , if you dont mind where was that hungaria hotel located ? Thanks
Corner of Mongaup Rd and Sackett Lake Rd. outside of Monticello, NY
I was looking for my brother's 1963 blue Ford Fairlane Ranch Wagon. I still have the license plates. NY 8w-1099.
Looks like the Brady Bunch at :57...........great cars in this vid!
Is that Max Yasgur at 1:59? Kinda looks like him. Awesome human being.
Lucky people in this video ! ;-)
Hungaria restaurant☺
Is that Max Yeager @2:00 ?
@hofnerman1 Max Yasgur, not Yeager
we were there...................................at last stuck in traffic on the NY THRUWAY for 8 hrs, to go 20 miles in the pouring rain in a leaky 1968 corvette with T TOPS...............
The 1999 Woodstock concert was total chaos; fights, rapings and setting fires to trailers. No more future Woodstock festivals because of it.
ScorpioBornIn69 I was barely alive - I was 1, but geesh, this is why we don't have nice things anymore. It sucks to suck.
what's the chances the government inserted a bunch of moles to instigate mayhem and disorder? they've done it with many other things of otherwise good nature.
They should have never even attempted a Woodstock 2. Woodstock was a moment that can never be duplicated, no matter how many times greedy promoters try.
Yeah, '65 rambler rogue at 1;25...had one in the 70's...very rare, very kool, had a three- on the - tree, gears so worn, you didn't even need the clutch!!!! it shifted like an automatic!!! Fast as a hippie bein' chased by a chicago pig!!
50's and 60's was good living. that must be crushed. it surely has. the biggest mistake was i never brought a young child into this world of heaven to enjoy... not!
Damn! and at 0,38 a dirty '66 GTO
Look all, to see if anybody in the crowd, are driving mommy or dad's brand new 69 model cars???????????
Check out all old Cars Wish i could have one !!!!! They be worth some Money Now !!!!!
I'm glad that I kept my old chevelle.
Ghost Bus @1:05 this is a special sighting
Where was that intersection ?
Mongaup Rd and Sackett Lake Rd
BEAUTIFULS CARS😂🎉😂❤🎉
Is there no sound?
The film has sound. However, people were completely silent back in the 1960s, and so were cars, so it creates and illusion of there being no audio track.
@@justforever96 lol
The guy on the hood is not wearing a seatbelt... The only lawlessness that can be worst, is a guy in the hood.
Were these cars leaving early from the show? No signs of muddy shoes etc.
Woodstock?..I thought it was a rough video of a recent lion's club car show....those are some nice old rigs, esp the 57 chevy at about 3:30
That 68 ford on the opening shot is pretty sweet too.
is that why the age on your TH-cam page says you are 26?
These people are so so so much more carefree than Americans today. OK you risk being in an accident more, but for most people it is so much more fun.
@jrivera404 you know i really envy you man your so lucky you were apart of the movemebt and even though im 18 years old i definitely feel for what you giys were doing in those times i can hobestly say hey even though i cant live in the 60s i can still have the mentality and thats what its about atleast having the mentality to come together and love and not fight i just dont understand why all these brain washed kids are still foghting in a war that they dont even know why
Wow just look at that '69 Plymouth wagon @:59...compared to today's walrus turd bulbous "family" vehicles! :O
Agree with the sentiment. I think that is actually a Dodge Monaco. Same body shell as the Plymouth Fury though
damn right, the world desperately needs a hippie mentality, this era is disgusting and unless we go back to the love and peace ethics, we are so screwing this planet ...
man thank you so much... these asshols that did Woodstock of the 90s have forbidden us from having another peaceful festival like Woodstock 1969 i am 16 and feeling like shit my dream is another Woodstock with peace and love and good music and fuck MTV and all that shit nowadays ... one day my friend a hippie nation will rise again
It was the "Jesus Movement" that gave the hippie movement it's love aspect. Find Jesus.....and you'll find the love they all found! Peace.....
@1:04 ghost bus
the hippies babck then look way effin coolerr than the so called "hippies" of todays era.
And. Nobody fell off the cars.
Pour aller au moussem on fait tous pour y aller
& no cell phones
They need to do another "Woodstock '69" in 2069 lol. I mean obviously it wouldn't be the same artists, but what if they used the same concept of finding not so famous (not necessarily) artists that do this type of music for a 100th anniversary festival. Y'know?
Nintendoman851 I would be 71 years old. :'( (I'd still go lol!)
Hope they do something cool for the 50th anniversary in a couple years. No popular artists >:( - they need people who do the proper kind of music not some crappy mainstream artist who can't sing and complains about everything.
2069 ? No one will be alive from the original show’s era,and no one who is around in 2069 will even care about Woodstock.
The era represented love and peace. Today's kid are about competition. We had no problem sharing in those days. Today you need a password.
This world will be a huge ball of radiation by then!!!
The became their parents...it happens
Yep, you get older and grow the fuck up and realize how stupid you had been acting, trying to impress your friends and talking about "revolution" and other idiotic things like that. Thank good; there is nothing more embarrassing as a hippie that failed to grow out of it. Kids are idiots who think they know everything. I know I sure was!
See film maker, Barbara Bedick's blog at www.cookingthekitchen.com, for a memoir-ish food blog with musings on life, this and that, and including recipes. Link to Cooking the Kitchen on my profile.
Why are some many people riding on top of cars? Seems kind of dangerous.
Because it's fun. Try it. When I was young my dad used to drive me in a open trailer. Great times :)
our generation grew up without childproof lids, wall socket protectors, cabinet locks, bicycle helmets, and child car seats, so of course we rode on the outside, on the roof or hood, or just hanging out the windows. why not?
There were no seat belts, abs brakes or air bags back then either. It was a generation of carefree living & less restrictions. Everybody looks happy.
Oh, shut the hell up. There is nothing 'dangerous" about riding on top of a car at low speeds. Christ. In any case, it's better than walking the entire 10 miles back to where you parked your car, isn't' it?
My dad once loaded his old 1971-ish Chevy? pickup with a whole load of couches and chairs, etc, and tied them all down with clothesline. There was one chair on the very top of the pile, up over the cab, facing forward. There was no room in the cab, so I rode 6 miles home sitting on that chair. 16 years old. Thing was wobbling all over the place on the pile, and the wind was blowing right in my face. It was awesome. And of course we used to ride around in the back of trucks standing looking over the cab. That was cool. Once I was driving, had just got my license. The boys were in the back (not standing, luckily) and I forgot our turn was coming up, so I slammed on the brakes and cranked the wheel over. I almost rolled it, and came about three feet from going right over the bank. The guys all flew over to one side of the bed. But I learned a lesson, and we all were okay. People live through more shit than they don't (as can be seen in numerous TH-cam videos of people doing stupid things). I tried riding on the bumper of an '83 Ford Escort (US) once when I was 13. WE were just going down the road, but the older boys driving thought it'd be funny to speed up to about 35mph and then start swerving back and forth. I had about 3 inches of sloping chrome bumper to stand on, and a single 1/2in rain gutter to cling to with my right hand over the back window. Needless to say, I didn't manage to hold on long, and my feet slipped off. I remember seeing the back wheel right beside my face, and my head hit hte ground and everything went dark. I woke up to see them running back down the road towards me. I seem to have come through okay. Adolescence is an important phase in education and evolution. Those who survive it come out wiser. And more inclined to keep THEIR kids under supervision; but that's a bad idea. That's what happened to the last generation of Americans, and look where that got us!
Huh? WHAT? CAN'T HEAR YA!
ah come on man... you gotta get a giant HOOP in your bottom earlobe
seemed to be more guys than girls
notice that there is not one machine here that is from another country outside of THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!
I saw VWs.
Saw Volvo , MGB , Triumph , ALOT of VW's ,Saab , and probably missed a few others. So who cares , anyway ?
Michael Rice datsuns and a couple of toyotas
+Bishop Boyd - Yeah that´s a clear sign that Americans don´t wanna buy American crap cars nowadays - they prefer European, South Korean and Japanese quality :-)
I think you better look again. all my friends drove Saabs Volvos Volkswagens big time including buses Camper vans beetles bugs Karmann ghias and that little station wagon model, mg's Morris minors Triumph Datsuns Toyotas Fiats Renaults Range Rovers I myself had a Ford consul which was made in England. my boyfriend and high school drove a 15 year old Renault
@jrivera404 What is wrong with fat people spreading Love and Peace? Aren't we all just human beings?
Nope.
how about vws,mgs and triumphs people
charles ventura True man , that's what I keep trying to tell them? Tf?
Volvos, saabs, toyotas and datsuns too
Yeah, yeah, yeah!! Oh my goodness this is what I saw that summer. Hippie's saying goodbye and hello. But their was hippie's who peed on things and other hippies that would pee on soldiers. They were fighting to not fight which I have never understood it clearly. But my next neighbor was a hippie and in 1978 he explained a couple things to me it made me cry.
Do the kids and young adults in this video seem friendly and mild-mannered or what!? If the original Woodstock had taken place 20-25 years later, wanna bet that there would be, instead of all the friendly waving and bidding farewell, a barrage of middle fingers and obscenities and even a few makeshift projectiles thrown at the camera operator? Yet, I am noticing that many of today's Millennial Generation kids are starting to seem rather nice again - so how 'bout a Woodstock for them, too :)