#2 ~ 1960s Authentic Hippie Folk Art Telephone from "the Village" (NY)

#2 ~ 1960s Authentic Hippie Folk Art Telephone from "the Village" (NY)

I love this piece. It captures the hippie spirit, the culture, the times all in one big & bold statement. Perfect hippie folk art. This was originally owned and created by a young couple living in a pad (aka apartment or flat) in the East Village back in the times of Dylan and Von Ronk, the birth of the new sound in rock, a growing political awareness by the youth, the coffee houses, and inescapably - the drugs. I acquired this from a folk art collector in Detroit who had visited the now older couple who needed some money and this was the only item he could wrestle from them. Apparently there was a radio and other objects similarly painted while living in the East Village that they would not part with... and to quote the Moody Blues "I know you're out there somewhere"...