Peace Love and Nostalgia - Introducing Volkswagen Light Bus
More than 50 years later, the iconic 'Light' bus, a Volkswagen Type 2 van, made the world famous after its appearance at the legendary 1969 Woodstock Arts and Music Fair and America's Volkswagen and the larger Volkswagen community.
The artist who painted the original Işık bus Bob Hieronimus will perform at the Orange Country Transporter Organization (OCTO) Winter Meeting in California Long Beach this weekend on a legendary bus. Volkswagen fans, car enthusiasts and art enthusiasts can see a hand-painted artwork at the Long Beach Veteran Memorial Stadium on 16 February Saturday. This is the premiere stop of the planned cross-country tour of the replica of the Woodstock icon and going up to 50 of the music festival will be the first public announcement of the th anniversary.
The glamorous van was the result of three years of effort with Hieronimus and Canadian documentary filmmaker John Wesley Chisholm to rescue and recreate the van ahead of Woodstock's landmark anniversary. . It's a time machine that takes people to the past, the present and the future, Ch says Chisholm.
Hieronimus painted the original 1963 Standard Microbus in 1968, taking the invitation of the owner of the minibus to use his group to attract the festival and asked for a 'magical bus'. It became a symbol of the Woodstock Arts and Music Fair, and after the Associated Press's snapshot of its van, the call for greater generations for peace, love and unity was widely distributed in newspapers and magazines across the country. Van even appeared on the picture of Woodstock.
While the VW bus has already become a favorite among young people looking for effective ways to travel the country, the Light van, covered by the phalanx of Hieronimus hand-painted symbols and psychedelic shapes, has caught the moment of a unique American culture.
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