Coombstock

Phone Number: 250.729.5542
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About Coombstock - Coombaya The Hippie Store First I’ll tell you that I`m an old hippie. I did all the clichés of the 60`s. I lived in Haight Ashbury in San Francisco and lived in Southern California in the coastal towns’ beach scenes, even in a `59 Cadillac Hearse for a bit! I travelled around North America, hitchhiked through Europe and even worked on Kibbutz’s in Israel. Throughout my life, I`ve always created art in different forms. But my favourite medium has always been T-Shirts, which I have been making for 40 years. Back then, you couldn’t get coloured T-Shirts, due to the Marlon Brando “white T-Shirt syndrome” craze. I was determined to change that and create my own coloured T-Shirt. So every week I would hop on a Greyhound bus from Ottawa to St. Lawrence Boulevard in Montreal just to pick up four dozen white Pakistani T-Shirts, at six dollars a dozen! That was a time when we all lived in co-ops. I had a big cauldron on the stove and every day I would mix a batch of different coloured Rit dye. Which meant that every day, my clothesline was an ever-changing rainbow in the backyard -much to the amusement of my immediate neighbours! And so began my evolving visual journey of T-Shirts. Over the years I experimented with many different styles of printed shirts

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