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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 black and white photograph of several young people sitting on benches in a park as well as on the ground, with a couple seated on the ground hugging in the centre of the image.
Two members of the musical group Sidetrack are seen in the centre of a screenshot from a video of their performance outdoors in a Montreal park.
A screenshot from a video chat showing a smiling Mike Bunting sitting in a chair in a room.
A screenshot from a video of the group Sidetrack performing outdoors in a gazebo in a Montreal park with trees visible behind them and a seated crowd of young people in front of them.
An article spread across one and a third pages of The Montrealer magazine, on the subject of the closing of The New Penelope and featuring a dark black and white image of a reflective-looking Gary Eisenkraft smoking a cigarette.
Black and white photograph of the performers Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee sitting on chairs in the centre of a stage, one playing guitar and singing, one with an harmonica, behind microphones. The space is dimly lit.
A black and white newspaper clipping of a photograph of Gary Eisenkraft wearing a suit and tie and facing the camera, standing in front of a door decorated with a sign that reads The New Penelope.
A vertical clipping from a newspaper with the title Pour sauver le New Penelope.
Typewritten letter signed by Gary Eisenkraft.
Black and white clipping from a newspaper showing an article with the title Complacency has killed The Pen.
A still image taken from the film High showing a young man wearing a hat in the foreground of a group of young people dancing.
A still image taken from the film High showing a bench and scaffolding in front of the empty stage at The New Penelope with a man wearing a hat speaking with a young woman wearing a short white dress in the centre of the image.
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