The Yellow Door (Aylmer) 1967 – present

The Back Door (McTavish at Sherbrooke)   Apr1969 - 1981

The Karma (Crescent and De Maisonneuve)    ?

The Golem (3460 Stanley north of Sherbrooke) 1973 – 1991


I think the Yellow Door was started by John Foley and soon taken over by Chuck Baker who ran it until someime in the 1980s. Since then there have been a bunch of people who have come and gone. The woman now in charge is Holly Fleming.

Among the people running the Back Door were Rick Austin and Dennis Brown.

The Karma was open for about two three years in the early-1970s. I'm thinking 1972-1974. It was run by Arnie Naiditch who was murdered, some years later, in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Golem was started in 1973 by Saul Markowicz. Mike Regenstreif soon took it over and ran it through 1976. Mark Nerenberg took it over from Mike until the Hillel Society, which owned the building, closed it down less than a year later. Mike reopened the Golem and ran it through the end of 1987 when it was taken over by a commitee headed by Dave Clarke. The committee managed to keep it going until 1991.