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Time Traveling
Posted By: King In Response To: Re: The worst toilet of the year award. (Olen)
Date: Wednesday, 6-12-13, at 1:59 a.m.
That actually sounds familiar, I think I've heard people asking about them. I didn't follow the tours I usually just went to the ones in Virginia, DC, Maryland and North Carolina.
When I went to those shows I always had to find the guy in the parking lot that was selling the "kind veggie burritoes" out of the VW bus, he was at almost every show in this area. It hit the spot when you were hungry from roaming around for awhile. Basically was a big cheap burrito filled with white rice mixed with a little chili powder and a few beans, served from the door wrapped in foil.
I was always on the look out for the smiling girl walking around the parking lot with the fruit cup tray. She had different kinds of fresh fruit sliced up and grapes mixed together in plastic drinking cups for a dollar a cup, easy to walk around with and munch on.
If I remember DC had the best set up for venders at the front and I liked the shows in Richmond, DC and Maryland the best. I also liked Norfolk but sometimes they wouldn't let people in the parking lot without a ticket. The state police in Virginia did target the crowd wearing tie-dyes right before a show that were traveling further north out of state at the toll booth on interstate 95 near Richmond. They had a cop standing outside in front of each booth telling people to pull over and searching their cars, looked like a US / Mexico border crossing. I think I didn't get stopped because they already had too many on the side of the road.
Raleigh was the worst, they had young Amish dressed people protesting at it like holding up a huge wood cross and signs saying everybody there was going to burn in hell. The nitrous oxide balloons (whippets) were illegal in NC and nobody wanted to sell them, they would open the car trunk and do a few then stop. No tanks out in the open with a line of people buying those big $5 balloons like other places. The police were checking a lot of backpacks, when somebody ran from the police everybody in the parking lot started running. It looked just like a giant school of fish taking off.
I'd always tried to get a tie-dye for a souvenir at each show, seemed like my best tie-dye patterns came from the car trunks with a mob of people after them. One of my favorite Dead shirts came from the haight it had the Haight / Ashbury streets sign post with "Land of the Free, Home of the Dead" written under the picture. I still have that and some more in a box somewhere and a professional frisbee with a gold Aztec design that I got at a show. I guess it's become more of a collection now than used.
I wouldn't mind going out there and checking this out.
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