Bought this  guy in Juarez about 1969. We use to drive across from El Paso at least once a year. Buy a trinket or two , eat some food while there and maybe go to the the dog races, drive back to those long lines trying to enter back in to the states..and become an inch worm for about the next three hours...

   I never worried about being over there and did stop at the Sanborn insurance agency and get a three day insurance policy each time just in case someone wanted to run in to me and get some kind of a monetary reward because of me while there...That never happened though.  But we did get our windshield washed at each stop light..

Every time we were there they would have something different we just had to have and this guy is amazing and I had to have him for he was made using paper and glue..and maybe a small piece of wood for him to stand on...no stain or dyes were used. The colors came from colored paper.

And a piece of rope for his shoes..

  The best priced things were always things made with leather and also things using marble or granite...

We use to enjoy those trips but later on when the drug wars got out of hand it got to the point wifee and myself decided those trips could be a thing of the past... I always said if someone can do something then I can too..But just never got around to it, yet! He is still on my list of things to make.

Great story and figurine, liked it a lot.

Herb

Do you remember what it cost in 1969? I bet it wasn't much. I like stuff like that. I think they are interesting to look at.

 

Thanks for posting this Jesse.

Edited October 16, 20187 yr by hawkeye10

Amazing piece of folk art Jess.  Great story to go with it.

Don its been too long but knowing how I am it could not have cost much.

Looks like the same red as the "T"pot.

Herb

It looks like the same to me also but I can't take credit for building it... I have one of those books for dummies on drawing faces and wife and I swap it back and forth to see if either of us has learned anything. The book is only about 20 years old and I seem to be regressing more as I go...

2 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

It looks like the same to me also but I can't take credit for building it... I have one of those books for dummies on drawing faces and wife and I swap it back and forth to see if either of us has learned anything. The book is only about 20 years old and I seem to be regressing more as I go...

As long as you don't see yourself in the book.(book of dummies)

Just saying,

Herb