#6 ~ 1960s Haight Ashbury Hippie / Jesus Freak OOAK Folk Art Commode

#6 ~ 1960s Haight Ashbury Hippie / Jesus Freak OOAK Folk Art Commode

Purchased this exceptional example of period Hippie / Jesus Freak OOAK Folk Art, from an antique shop outside of San Francisco. They had in turn purchased it from someone who had lived in the Haight during the Hippie Era. The only example I have found that mixes the peace movement with religion. Wikipedia describes "Jesus Freak" as follows: ..."Jesus freak is a term arising from the late 1960s and early 1970s counterculture and is used as a pejorative for those involved in the Jesus movement. As Tom Wolfe illustrates in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the term "freak" with a preceding qualifier was a strictly neutral term and described any counterculture member with a specific interest in a given subject; hence "acid freak" and "Jesus freak." The term "freak" was in common-enough currency that Hunter S. Thompson's failed bid for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado was as a member of the "Freak Power" party".

Important item to my collection and one that I have not found any singular piece similar.