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The Garage

January 17, 2017 by John Gorevan 4 Comments

490 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G2 3LW. Tel: 0141332 1120.

The Garage. 2005.

The Garage was formerly a night club called Shuffle’s. Does this place bring back memories, if so please contact us and we will review your comments.

In the 1980s many of the youngsters frequenting Shuffle’s came from Govan.

Shuffles advert 1974.

Email from Bob F… This was once the Electric Gardens night club and later became the Mayfair.

However this old place of entertainment was known as The Macushla.

The Macushla advert. 1972.

Shuffles Advert 1974.

Another 1974 advert.

Shuffles advert 1975.

Savoy advert 1978.

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In the NEWS 1979…

The best Disco in Town gang in action.

If I Could Call The Discotune…

I was a disco freak so long ago that Saturday Night Fever was only a Tuesday morning sniffle.

In the days of Frank Lynch’s first Glasgow disco in the Mayfair Club I leaped around to Proud Mary and Daughter of Darkness.

Although I now appear only at parties in various living-rooms, I still cavort like a windmill caught in a gale. And I adore the disco sounds of today. I’ve a great deal of sympathy for STV’s The Best Disco in Town, which has just finished its run. It was entertaining, danceable, eye-appealing stuff in a second-rate way.

GIMMICKS

I liked the camera flexibility and the easy ensemble atmosphere of the singers. Few technical gimmicks intruded into the natural flow of the songs and dances. Tiger Tim is a belated find for TV, As the host, his brash, common-touch uninhibited patter sparkled like a plink, plink, fizz commercial.

He’s a smasher and STV would be daft not to try to find a follow-up quiz or kids’ show for him. There should be another series of The Best Disco in Town. And there are a few changes I’d like.

ZIPPIER

If technical reasons allow, it should be recorded a couple of days before going out so more chart sounds can be included. They should try for zippier singers than the generally mediocre bunch they had.

With slicker thinking the Best Disco could make Top of the Pops look like The Good Old Days.

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The Penthouse advert 1979.

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The Garage. 2008.

The Garage. 2019.

The Gantry

January 17, 2017 by John Gorevan 1 Comment

929 Shettleston Road, Shettleston, Glasgow. G32 7NU.Tel: 01417784226.

The Gantry. 1991.

This old pub was known as Stevenson’s when it was built at the beginning of the 1900s, James Lee Stevenson was a well respected publican in the area, when he died his wife Elizabeth took over the licence in 1914 paying an annul rent of £90.00. Daughter Catherine then took control of the business until the out break of the First World War. The pub became known as the Waverley Bar.

Other licence holders were Robert Skelton 1960s and 70s then Charlie Hugh and Billy Mitchell became partners in the business.

The Gantry with a new paint job. 2009.

The Gantry, August 2005.

The Gallery

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140 Nelson Street, Glasgow. G5.

The Gallery. 1991.

This old southside howff dates back to 1873 when landlords Armstrong & Shaw traded from the premises as wholesale and retail wine & spirit merchants. Over the years a few of Glasgow’s prominent licensee’s owned this pub for a short while, Dennis McAuley, Michael Flynn and John Kennedy and John Harvey.

In the 1980s this old pub was called John Harvey’s Bar.

John Harvey’s Bar. 1980s.

Licence Holders.

1991 William McLaughlin.

1978-1964 Bernard Gallagher.

1960 D McRoberts.

1950 John Kennedy.

1937 Michael Flynn.

1920-1910 Thomas Moore.

1899-1893 Dennis McAuley.

1890 Charles Cameron.

1885 John Bain.

1880 David Barclay.

1875-1873 Armstrong & Shaw.

The Gairdener’s Airms

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232 Paisley Road, Glasgow. G5 8NG. Tel: 0141 420 1272.

Gairdener’s Airms. 1991.

The Gairdener’s Airms was built just before the opening of the famous Glasgow Garden Festival. The beer garden outside proved to be popular with the customers.

The pub has a new name under the title of Bar Bax.

Bar Bax. 2007.

There used to be a pub on this site called the Moy, which was demolished in the 1960s.

Do you have anything to say about this pub? If so please leave a comment.

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The Gaiety

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2379-81 Paisley Road West, Glasgow.

The Gaiety. 1960s.

The Gaiety was opened in 1962 by West of Scotland Taverns Ltd. Mr Joseph M Smillie was licensee. Mr Duthie, managing director of J & R Tennent Ltd, presided at the opening ceremony which was performed by Mrs J S Young, daughter of Mr J W MacFarlane, a past president of the Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Defence Association.

Mr Duthie remarked at the opening that the work began on the premises eight months ago and asked Mrs Young to perform the opening ceremony by cutting the ribbon.

Mrs Young cutting the tape at the opening ceremony watched by Mr Duthie. 1962.

The new premises were the most up-to-date in the area having a new lounge bar, main bar, off-sales and a large function suite upstairs for weddings, dinner dances, private functions and banquets.

Two years later the Gaiety was under threat of being closed down along with three other premises in the Craigton Area, by the licensing board, however the new Gaiety was saved, but the old Half Way House was not so lucky and was demolished.

Champion Darts Player, that’s H Duncan, left, who won the Tennent Caledonian Breweries West Region singles title from a big entry at the Gaiety. Mr Duncan, seen with his wife and Mr R J Kirkman, West area regional manager for Tennent Caledonian Breweries., plays at the Old Spot Bar, Rutherglen. The team championship was won by Bellfield Bar, Kilmarnock. Prizes were presented by W R C Elliot, managing director, Tennents Caledonian Breweries. 1967.

Interior view’s of the main bar area. 1962.

The large function suite upstairs.

A corner of the Lounge.

The Lounge Bar.

The Gaiety Advert 1970.

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Gaiety advert 1977.

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In the NEWS 1977…

A warm welcome at the Gaiety.

Things are hotting up at the old Gaiety Function Rooms at 2397 Paisley Road West in Glasgow, since Tuesday, that is, when the former brewery owned property re-opened as an Indian restaurant.

New occupants, Mr Sharma, has decided to retain the old Gaiety name, spicing up the eating habits of that particular neck of the woods, but retaining the upstairs function room for wedding receptions, dinner dances, and all other types of special occasions.

In fact, The Gaiety brings a welcome taste to the east as it is the first Indian restaurant in the area. It also has the only function rooms.

DISHES

Mr Sharma is pleased with the response to the function rooms, and reports that bookings are fairly full for the next year. With a capacity of 150 and attractive surroundings, the popularity is easy to comprehend.

The restaurant has a full range of Indian and European dishes. To some people food is all-important when enjoying a night out. To others the music may be the main consideration, and to many it is the ambience which really counts.

Places that excel in all three are rare, but the Gaiety is one. They serve cuisine to satisfy the most discerning of palates in a delightful setting. There are several outstanding dishes on the menu, but Mr Sharma does not like to class them as specialities.

“We do not like to call any dish specialities,” he said. “We like to think that all our dishes are a little bit special, and that our customers are a little bit special too,”

I settled on the Chicken Biryani, full of flavour with succulent pieces of chicken. Proceeded, of course, by the obligatory-for-me portion of hot and crispy Pakora.

BARGAIN

The restaurant has no drinks licence at the moment, but it’s a situation that Mr Sharma hopes to remedy in the near future.

If you’re caught up in the hustle and bustle of work, or perhaps can’t dine out until later in the afternoon, don’t worry if you think that you will miss out on the gaiety’s special economy lunch menu.

You won’t, because Mr Sharma has extended the hours for this tasty bargain from 12-5 p.m. A full carry-out service is available from the Gaiety, which is open six days a week, no Sunday, until 11.30 in the evening.

So if you are looking for a night-out, or perhaps are organising a special function, pop along to pay a visit to The Gaiety. Mr Sharma will have a warm welcome waiting for you.