MUSEUM

A lively era!

Influenced by major social movements in Europe and the United States, Québec started its Quiet Revolution in the early 1960s: defending equality, emphasizing national pride, fighting for women’s rights…

This decade was also marked by the dream of conquering the Moon, translated by images of planets, stars and space. American marketing was at its height and some brands became iconic.

Our collection

Owner Isabelle Lavoie is passionate about bowling and about the 1960s, and she loves to collect vintage items that tell the rich past of Montréal in this era.

You’ll find them displayed all over the Darling for her clients’ enjoyment. Come in and have a look!

A number of big projects were born in the 1960s, like buses serving Montréal from one end to the other. The metro was inaugurated on

This shirt is now the uniform for the whole team, and bears the slogan “LE DARLING CRISSE”. This unusual slogan refers to the words of

In the 1950s and 1960s, there were no machines to reset the pins. This was done by real people, the “pinboys”. Later, automatic machines (robots)

This vest, which someone offers to buy every week, was knitted by the mother of owner Isabelle Lavoie for her father. Her mom was 19