Northeast Philly Head Shop, Artifax, To Close After 48 Years in Business

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…

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