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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.
Hand drawn poster with bold red and black letters filling most of the page.
Black and white advertisement for the Phantasmagoria record store, featuring an illustration of a mandala-inspired circular symbol.
Black and white photograph of a storefront with a handmade sign with store name in rounded letters spelling Live from Earth.
Hand-drawn map of the Village Carré Saint-Louis area. Hand-written text and small drawings illustrate key venues and places on the map.
Black and white hand-painted sign featuring an illustration of people walking toward a door under an arch in which the name New Penelope is spelled. At the bottom are the words in large rounded letters, We love to have a crowd.
Black and white photograph of young people seated on benches at The New Penelope with two women in silhouette sitting in the foreground with their feet up on a bench. Bright lights are seen hanging off of scaffolding in the top of image.
A black and white photograph of a dozen people dancing in a brightly-lit room with white bulbous moulded curved walls and curved ceiling. White tables are placed along the wall on the left side of the image.
A faded printed poster with large black text in the centre on a pale pink paper background, for François Dallegret’s Super Party. Repeating black and white images of a policeman with his hand out are over the centre Super Party bold text and images of a large hand pinning a man to the ground placed below. Bold text borders the entire poster.
A high-contrast black and white wide-angle photograph of the completely empty interior of The New Penelope, showing rows of benches and bright lighting fixtures hanging from scaffolding overhead.
A two-page typewritten document. A logo at the top of the first page shows a vintage car from the early 20th century, while a graphic featuring concentric circles is at the top of the second typewritten page.
A black and white photograph of a man with glasses lying on a molded curved white alcove with one arm hanging down. Molded white tables can be seen in the foreground. A white neon light coming from a tube-like form is hanging from the ceiling into the centre of the image.
On a stage silhouetted in red, a man in white shirt, dark pants and sunglasses plays harmonica into a microphone. Beside him in the background, a drum kit with the name of the band on the drum, “The Sidetrack.”
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