Free Spirit has a small antique and original jewelry shop. She is surrounded by two Mafia's murals. The Indian theme matches the local: the rooms of an old stagecoach stop. The rooms were build for the passengers in case of overnight repairs. Later followed the miners and soon the fans of Tony's work will flock to this place. These murals are more romantic than what Tony would normally paint within the Indian inspiration of his work. The roughness of the adobe mud and plastered wall must have been quite a challenge. Tony told me he painted murals in innumerable cantinas and chapels in Mexico, a chapel wall in Holland and murals in private homes. If you know of surviving one's, if you still enjoy your mural please send a picture and the story behind it... Tony did the murals at the university of Latin America in Mexico City, across the street of Diego Rivera's studio. It seems he got a write up in the national paper of those days as the loudmouthed gringo who offended the master. Diego Rivera had tried to give him a few 'pointers'.
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