Chicken and Transistors
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Chicken and Transistors

Chicken and Transistors

1965, Greenwich Village Period.

I always carried a portable radio in my back pocket.  This particular one was with me during the great blackout of 1965.  I was in a movie theatre on east twenty-third street watching a film called "The Ship of Fools" when it happened.  I tuned in to the emergency broadcast station and held the radio to my ear and shouted out verbatim what was being said so that the entire audience of a couple of hundred could hear.  It was instant popularity.  One lady asked me to escort her to her work place.  It turned out to be the Chase Manhattan Bank on 23rd and 5th.  So there we were in the Chase vault on emergency lighting drinking hot coffee and eating cake.  So that's the radio in the drawing.  By then it was a little beaten up and the front plate was bending loose.

compressed charcoal on newsprint

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