499 Great Western Road, Glasgow. G12 8HN. Tel: 0141 334 0884.
Chimmy Chungas. 1991.
This was once a well known Victorian Grocery business located in the Cooper’s Building. It has changed it’s name since this photograph was taken and is now called Bar Oz.
Update…2008
This old building is now called Cooper’s.
Cooper’s. 2014.
Cooper’s. 2018.
The interior of Cooper & Co’s grocery shop in Great Western Road, c 1890s.
Cooper & Co was founded by Thomas Bishop in 1871 and became one of Scotland’s leading grocery shop chains. The building at 499 Great Western Road, famous for its French Renaissance facade and clock tower, was erected in 1886 and contained beautiful fixtures and fittings. The pillars are decorated with garlands of fruit and female faces at the bottom, with intricate plasterwork leaves and swirls at the ceiling. The floor has the typical multi-coloured tiling of the period. There are a wide variety of goods on display including fresh fruit and vegetables, tinned and bottled foodstuffs, mops and brushes.
The shop closed in the early 1980s and the premises were converted for use as a pub.
Thanks to Peoples Palace the Glasgow Story.
Do you know anything about this pub? If so please leave a comment.
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I was drinking in the aforementioned Chimmy Chungas before it changed it’s name to Bar Oz and before the manager(dressed in trainers and a tee shirt) was born!
I was enjoying a pint,having a chat with one of the bar staff,who FORGOT to give me my change,ha ha.
I was chatting with one of the half a dozen patrons as that is all there was,I’m not surprised if that is how you treat your guests,when I was asked to leave for,wait for it, annoying the other customers,a gentleman the same age as me and retired like me,he the customer was quite happy to talk until the subject of the Police was raised!I had spotted the boys in blue entering another hostelry on the opposite side of the road and thus upset the manager NOT the other retired. gentleman!!
I look forward to a speedy response because if I don’t get it Bar Oz is going to get a lot quieter !
I have been thrown out of better places I.e.The Glasgow Hilton for,wait for it again,being too loud!I have a large diaphragm and can after ten brandy Alexanders seem loud when I only have a deep voice!
I can assure you I will be readmitted to the Hilton but will never return to Bar Oz where the manager who in Glasgow parlance is just a NED a non educated delinquent!?
Kind Regards
A.D.Campbell
P.s I can get Bar Oz a mention in Dispatches as a haven for drug deals,if you catch my drift!!
It was OK for the rugby towards end, and I didn’t even fckin like rugby but beer was cheap, after bar oz they lowered the main bar again (remember the steps up when you walked in)? Since then, nearly 20yrs now, it has stunk of pish. I kid you not, they messed plumbing up and still cannot afford to fix it.
Chimmy Chungas : best ever Sizzling Shrimp Fahitas. With a Furstenberg. 🤤 🤤 😋