Artifax, one of the first two head shops to open in Phialdelphia during the 1970s, will be shutting down this week.
In 1976, Brent Brookstein was a 19-year-old working at a music store trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life.
That is, until one day, a colleague handed him a catalog of pipes and smoking paraphernalia, which eventually led to the start of his own business — Artifax — later that same year…