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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.
Black and white photograph of people standing and sitting while talking in The New Penelope. The musician Frank Zappa is sitting on a bench next to a young seated woman on the left side of the image, while listening to a woman with arms outstretched seen standing in front of him.
Hand-drawn map of the Village Carré Saint-Louis district of Montreal in the early 1970s, feautring hand-drawn images and information illustrating notable venues and shops in the area.
Photomontage with a black and white image on the left side of a policeman holding a young man by the underarms and on the right side an older man with white hair holding out a magazine and talking towards the camera in a room full of shelves and books. The man in both images is Michael Nerenberg.
Black and white front cover page of the student newspaper The Georgian featuring three stylized film strips featuring images of the Vietnam war and a headline across the middle of the page.
Black and white newspaper advertisement.
Black and white photograph of three young men, two standing and one sitting, in The New Penelope, in the foreground one of them is sitting on a bench reading a newspaper, in the background the two others are standing while looking at him. The headline of the article being read reads Mothers Of Invention Now at New Penelope.
Black and white photograph of two members of the band Mothers of Invention in concert at The New Penelope, one plays a tambourine, the other man is Frank Zappa with a moustache and goatee and long black hair, playing electric guitar.
Black and white collage of varied newspaper clippings on yellowed paper with large titles and a photo of a man with long hair and sunglasses on the left half of the page.
Hand-drawn map of the Village Carré Saint-Louis district of Montreal in the early 1970s, feautring hand-drawn images and information illustrating notable venues and shops in the area.
Hand-drawn black and white advertisement with the face of a smirking child on the left side and hand-drawn bulky lettering on the right, with a drawing of a hookah in the centre.
Black and white photo of singer Jesse Winchester with medium length black hair, moustache and trimmed beard holding guitar at a café with patrons seated next to the stage.
Photo of an older couple wearing winter coats and looking at the camera while standing in front of. bookshelves in a library with three copies of the newspaper Logos laid out on a table in front of them.
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