Woodstock 1969 - Leaving the Festival - Better Quality 

Woodstock 1969 was more than just a musical festival. It was a moment. It can never be recreated

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.

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, o v e r 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.

This footage is a real gem! Thanks for sharing! ✌

I love how the rural country people seemed so nice, love, the middle aged guy and his family giving the ☮️ sign! What a time!

If you weren't there, you will never understand...

I was there,never again have I seen so many people in 1 place

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.

I'm almost positive that I was born in the wrong generation.

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!!!

Some very sweet cars in that clip too.

Should of had some Woodstock music to go with this Video!!!

Shout out to the guy offering a hit of his joint at 3:04

Besides all the cool-ness, how about the locals pitchin in to help feed people? We can do great things IF we work together!

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!!!

Those poor people were exhausted but had the best time in anyone's life time. I watch it on Netflix everyday

back when you could sit on cars without them buckling.

GTO's, 442's, man what a great time!

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.

And they made it there and back without gps.

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.......

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?

It's like a classic car parade you would see today

That was awesome ,thanks.

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.

Awesome.

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?

Back when cars didn't all look the same.

Lots of Oldsmobiles. Excellent cars btw.

Wow,at 0.20 a brand new 69 GTO with a buncha hippies on it! Never seen one with hub caps before.

look at those cars!!

Groovy archive video dude. :)) \m/

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.

what a kewl concept for a film

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.

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.

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.

Everyone throwing peace signs. Today, they would be flipping birds. The times, they are a changin..

I eas minus thirty one when this happened, I was born in 2000. Looked like fun and I love the music

At 2:48 I see a Olds 442!

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.

The Griswolds in the Family Truckster @ 0:57! "Sorry, folks. Woodstock's closed. Hippie out front shoulda told you."

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZlkyPy-ljeU.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

Those cars ...

Cool classic car cruise . . .

ghost van @1:04 my old van 1 year before I bought it, has to be

Is that Max Yeager @2:00 ?

Trying to figure out of this is Sunday or Monday.

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.

Look all, to see if anybody in the crowd, are driving mommy or dad's brand new 69 model cars???????????

Looks like the Brady Bunch at :57...........great cars in this vid!

i wish there could be another woodsrock but first me need the population to listen to good music LOO

Lucky people in this video ! ;-)

@hofnerman1 Max Yasgur, not Yeager

The 1999 Woodstock concert was total chaos; fights, rapings and setting fires to trailers. No more future Woodstock festivals because of it.

I was looking for my brother's 1963 blue Ford Fairlane Ranch Wagon. I still have the license plates. NY 8w-1099.

Is there no sound?

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...............

Check out all old Cars Wish i could have one !!!!! They be worth some Money Now !!!!!

Is that Max Yasgur at 1:59? Kinda looks like him. Awesome human being.

Hungaria restaurant☺

Were these cars leaving early from the show? No signs of muddy shoes etc.

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!

The guy on the hood is not wearing a seatbelt... The only lawlessness that can be worst, is a guy in the hood.

@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

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 ...

Where was that intersection ?

Wow just look at that '69 Plymouth wagon @:59...compared to today's walrus turd bulbous "family" vehicles! :O

the hippies babck then look way effin coolerr than the so called "hippies" of todays era.

is that why the age on your RU-vid page says you are 26?

Ghost Bus @1:05 this is a special sighting

Damn! and at 0,38 a dirty '66 GTO

And. Nobody fell off the cars.

BEAUTIFULS CARS😂🎉😂❤🎉

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

notice that there is not one machine here that is from another country outside of THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!

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.

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

Why are some many people riding on top of cars? Seems kind of dangerous.

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?

Pour aller au moussem on fait tous pour y aller

@1:04 ghost bus

No gangsta rapper leaving the festival so nice.

seemed to be more guys than girls

Huh? WHAT? CAN'T HEAR YA!

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 :)

ah come on man... you gotta get a giant HOOP in your bottom earlobe

& no cell phones

@jrivera404 What is wrong with fat people spreading Love and Peace? Aren't we all just human beings?

The became their parents...it happens

how about vws,mgs and triumphs people

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.

off they go to grow up and vote for Ronald Reagan

I remember leaving Woodstock '99 and people weren't this happy. Plus the traffic was worse. Still a good time overall.