George's Folly

The patchouli oil must be getting to me.

This postcard - a huge 7" high one on heavy card stock - is from the famous and long gone George's Folly store. On the back it says Copyright 1966 Unicorn Designs, New York, Postage five cents. Perfect.

That store (there were at least two, one in Wellesley, the other in Brookline) was filled with granny glasses, rings and bracelets, stash boxes, psychedelic posters, incense burners, and more paraphernalia than Tommy Chong could have dreamed. It was a magic place filled with Nehru jackets and sideburned register clerks, miniskirted girls, and suburban "radicalistas".

This isn't marked Peter Max, but it has the style. Today Peter Max is on the Home Shopping Network, autographing his posters. I bought one.