The New Penelope: virtual museum pays tribute to 1960s Montreal nightclub [Video]

If you were a hip teen or young adult in 1960s Montreal, you might have stepped into several dimly lit downtown spots like the Pot-Pourri on Stanley Street, the nearby Café Andre, or the Finjan Club on Victoria in Côte-des-Neiges with the likes of blues-gospel legend Reverend Gary Davis or a very young Bob Dylan playing in front of young music connoisseurs

Montreal archivist Louis Rastelli dug into this overlooked era of Montreal for the creation of a virtual museum.

“Even in our local history, we have a very baby boomer centric version of the 60s with all the big chapters, the subway, the Expo,” said Rastelli, who wasn’t yet born at the time.

“Below the surface, it’s just another thing we discovered about the Stanley Street scene. There’s all these articles about the Stanley street scene, and nobody thinks of Stanley Street today, but I mean, it was hopping.”

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