My dad is the big guy with the cowboy hat. This has to have been taken after his high school graduation in ‘76. This was taken at the snake pit/infield during Memorial Day weekend of the Indy 500. Dad and co. grew up in Crawfordsville, IN so Indy was its own holiday.
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Notice how nobody is fat?
What a time to be alive.
I miss tube tops
Can only imagine how wild that era must’ve been
Joe Montana was in his crew?
My older brother lived near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when I was in high school. The month of May at his place was a wild time. Good memories.
This is awesome
The cannons on the lady up top in the brown tank would be nice to see.
Some things change, some things stay the same.
It’s that time of year! Post it in the Indycar weekly chat and folks might have some memories
That looks like a fun orgy.
Tag yourselves lol
Is it common to call the infield the snakepit, or is that just you? I’m curious because I’ve only ever heard snakepit in the context of Metallica concerts.
They look like a fun bunch
Wish I grew up back then
And yet, none of the women are… not a very effective sign.
All the ladies with easy access tops…
Oh are they a birding club?
I’m going to guess this is early ’80’s from the outfits and koozies which I don’t remember being around before then.
My dad took me to the Indy 500 in the late 70’s. That was the first time I got to see bare breasts. I was shocked that women would do that just because someone held up a sign. I also saw a man filming a woman who was giving him head in the snake pit. Things were wild back then.
Alright, alright, alright
The feminists would have a heart attack if they saw this.
Lots of Busch and bush.
I feel like women were more attractive back then.
Show us the after when they all look like lobsters.
As a local to this area and event, I can promise you it’s a shadow of what it was. You used to be able to buy an infield parking pass without tickets to the race, so the infield would be absolute insanity. Mostly booze and boobs, but there was plenty of other things going on if you looked a little. My favorite guy had a couch across the cab of his pickup. He got drunk enough that he cut arm and head holes into one of the couch cushions, put it on like a shirt with the padding in front, and starting belly flopping from the top of his truck onto the car parked next to it. Eventually they started cleaning stuff up. If a lady popped her top, the cops would arrest her. They built a golf course in the infield and didn’t let people park there any more. There’s also a per-person limit to the amount of booze you can bring into the speedway. All of the really crazy things stopped being so common.
Guys the lady in the striped tube top – front row- looks just like brittney spears.
Odd ask since almost all of the drivers were male back then. But oh well, when in Indy…
The lady in the brown see-through tank top has the nicest set I’ve seen in a long time lol. Jeez I’m put to shame.
So I’m supposed to believe that’s NOT Harrison Ford in the upper left? OK, chief.
Wow, I had that red terrycloth strapless rainbow romper the woman in the center is wearing.
This is bringing back some amazing core memories! I went to the race every year from 1978 to 1997 (when I moved to SC).
My dad grew up in Mace, IN – the first zero stoplight town SE of Crawfordsville. Our entire extended family had a huge block of seats in turn four. And you’re not wrong, the month of may was for one thing only: The Race at The Track.
My uncle and his friends converted a large school bus into a camper with a huge deck on top just to go to the Indy 500 every year.
The good old days
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Back when you could break a $50 and get beer and cocaine and change back.
Mongo like candy
OMG I had that same terrycloth tube top shorts jumper thing – I LOVED it!
Man, even fat guys looked skinny back then