Our good friend Danny Morris left us something precious; his wonderful son and daughter-in-law who are both very kind souls. They have become the people in the neighborhood around us who are most excited about the Woodzie. They wanted to do something special for everybody to enjoy and asked if they could paint the old VW Hippie Bus that we have used in the past to mark the entrance to the festival. They have a couple more panels to paint but it's so damn cool that we've decided to drag it back to the middle of the Woodzie area and make it the centerpiece. See the long blue panel? We'll post more photos as that gets painted. They also have plans for the windows with paint that washes off so we can redo the windows with something new each year. This is the kind of "I have an idea let me run with it" thing that makes the Woodzie so great. Please take your photo next to it when you're here and send it to us, we're going to make an album out of photos of people with the van.
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that is KOOL
This whole thing keeps getting cooler and cooler
i wish I had neighbors like that!
OOPS... I've told several folks that the brightly painted hippie VW microbus will be the landmark for the entrance into the woodz.
Oh well, a sign is a sign is a sign.
Is that the Lucy van?
yeah, the county didn't take too well to us parking the beat up old van on the side of the road. What was a great idea to us was a road hazard to them. The neighbors who are painting the bus live at the corner house and they're putting up a nice, very colorful sign to mark the turn. A great landmark is that right across the street is the Lagerhaus Mini Storage. They have have a sign that's lighted at night. There is also a green street sign on the right side of the road pointing out that the next intersection is Hoffman - that sign points almost directly at the gate you turn into.
No Deirdre, that's not Lucy. I'm not sure where Lucy is. After our years of driving up and down and around together I think she boarded a ship with Frodo and sailed into the west. Have to ask Dad, that micro bus always belonged to him. He might still have her, I'd take a wild guess and say that he has more than 30 VW buses.
April 30, 2008 10:59 AM
I traded a pistol for this van about 10 years ago. About a year later the bull in our little herd of cattle bent it all to hell while attempting to have sex with it.
Shoulda kept the pistol.
It would probably be worth more now and we could hunt goats and pigs at the Woodzie with it!
And the bull never called the van back either!
Coulda' used the pistol to hijak some more vans! And then shoot that $%^Damn Bull!
This was a massive bull, he looked like the buffalo on the back of the old nickels. And he was insane.
I know you'll think I'm kidding but right after the van the bull jumped the fence and had sex with Clyde Shirley's bass boat next door.
I was upset, Clyde was mad and my guess is that the van was looking across the fence jealous. It's boring out on the farm, she's been ten years hoping that bull would come back.
But in the middle of all this chaos, with Jimmie and I running around in a panic risking getting squished trying to herd the bull back through the hole in the fence, four year old Evan is watching it all from the deck clapping his hands and yelling "It's a ROAD-EEE-O!"
We've had our funny cowboyin' moments but that day was a Fellini movie.
i see that when you ask john about vans named Lucy you're likely to get quite a reply :) I was going to be happy just knowing how a van came to be known as Lucy, sounds like a lot of history leading up to the woodzie
I've never known anyone who actually had an old VW Bus
Maybe the bull thought that was the Lucy van . . .
Actually, the Lucy van story is about vandalism, not anything particularly salacious. Certainly not as curious as a bull with a passion for large metallic objects.
I'm racking my brain trying to remember how that name came about. Seems like you and Casey gave it to her. Refresh my memory, how was the Lucy story related to vandalism?
Kate, at The Woodzie you'll come to know quite a few
can you drive the Woodzie Hippie Van around this year to other events?
The Woodzie van's driving days are over. She's in her final resting place. We need a name for her.
You should name that bus Gus, "Gus the dead bus" The bus song: "Here it sit on rotten tires, many years since I expired, paint the shell of my tattered bones, ill lead you in, and guide you home. grab a girl and climb inside, let me rock just one more time......."
good song! But she's not dead, she's just resting. She used to be a rock n' roll van but she lost her roll and now she's mostly a rock.
is she the car version of Shell Siverstein's The Giving Tree? I was just thinking it would be a mind blower if the hippy chick van drove around The Kerrville Folk Festival. Think about what that would do, can you imagine?
The vandalism story of the Lucy van:
I came out of the Stop-n-Go at Olmos & McCullough and someone said, "Hey, Lucy". I thought it was just some guy being obnoxious when I see that it's a police officer walking toward me and he says again, "Is your name Lucy?" When I said no and looked at him strangely, he pointed to the passenger side of the van and said "well, someone thinks you are". Someone had spray painted LUCY in huge red letters along the side of the van. I don't think we ever figured out whether it happened at MusicMakers, Hogwild or my apartment near Trinity. I tend to think it was at MusicMakers because the way I used to park on that slight incline across the street in order to be able to push start the van (did you ever get that starter fixed, by the way?) would probably have been the reason no one else had mentioned the graffiti.
Hmmm . . . this story actually got less and less interesting. Unless someone fesses up to the graffiti!
Not that there wasn't anybody at MusicMakers who would have done it it's just that they would have said something else. That was probably some kid who's girlfriend was "Lucy". It was a great name for the van. And no, never fixed the starter. We parked on a hill or pushed it to start it for two years. If a starter's working fine, if not.... just park on a hill. If Davy Crockett had a VW he wouldn't have used a starter.
Kate, if someone where to do that they would have to hear the question "What's The Woodzie" 10,000 times. That would be like work.
BUT... there'll be some proud Woodzie t-shirts walking around Kerrville.
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