The vendor explains that he first met Hendrix when he was performing with Curtis Knight in a club near Times Square, and that they subsequently became good friends. Quashie elaborates that he worked with Bradley Pierce of the Salvation Disco, a venue Hendrix played many times, the last time being in Sept. 1969. He recalls Hendrix wearing the boots throughout this period, and that they were left behind in a trunk in the spare room of his [Quashie's] apartment; the room which Hendrix used when he came to stay.
Interestingly the designer Yohji Yamamoto paid tribute to Jimi Hendrix in his 2010 collection, by dressing his catwalk models in laced up, leather, calf high boots and kitschy pendants, in memory of the 40th Anniversary of Hendrix's death