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Click on the images, videos and audio clips to explore the history and fun anecdotes around The New Penelope, one of the most in vogue concert venues of Montreal in the 1960s.
A colourful poster advertising concerts at The New Penelope in a very psychedelic style, with a stylized image of a young woman with flowers in her very long blond hair and wearing sunglasses on wavy black and red background
A black and white legal-sized sheet with handwritten text promoting concerts at The New Penelope, along with images of Tim Rose and the James Cotton Blues Band
An image that shows both sides of a two-sided sheet with black and white advertisements for concerts by The Fugs and The Linn County Blues Band at The New Penelope on one side, and a blank sheet with a mailing label, return address and a postage marking in red ink on the other side
An image of a business-card sized membership card for The New Penelope that appears yellowed with age. The name Erik Slutsky is typed out by hand on the card
Front cover of issue no. 7 of the Take One film magazine featuring the magazine title and a black and white graphic of a film reel with a romantic couple in profile embedded within it, with bright pink and yellow backgrounds
Front page of Logos Magazine featuring a satire of The Gazette newspaper with a headline exclaiming in bold letters: Mayor Shot by Dope-Crazed Hippie
A black and white image of ten young people standing and sitting in a park around a statue in the centre of the image. The statue is of a stone winged angel atop a tall narrow stone pedestal.
A highly stylized psychedelic poster in black and white printed on pale yellow paper.
A black and white photograph of several young people sitting on benches in a park as well as on the ground, with a man standing and looking down at a couple seated on the ground hugging in the bottom centre of the image.
The front page of The Montreal Star newspaper featuring an image of a woman confronting police officers in a park and an image of mounted police charging a horse at people gathered in a park
An image of a portion of the front page of The Montreal Star newspaper featuring a seated man chanting at a Love-In in a park which is the subject of the article next to the image.
A small square black and white advertisement for concerts at The New Penelope.
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