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Purple Unknown, a hippie paradise

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.

Date: September 20, 1968
Credit: McGill Free Press newspaper, vol. 2, no 2

This advertisement for The Purple Unknown, shop that used to sell all kinds of products for the hippie community, mentions the neighbouring The New Penelope.

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10% off with this ad
Posters
Incence
Candles
Flowers
The Purple Unknown
2145 Bleury
Near The New Penelope