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Ronnie wrote:What about Gun? Or Easterhouse?
I think the only claim to fame of Gun was that they managed to find three Glasgow guys who were over six feet in height!

The Beat Poets?
Sneaky Pete?

Easterhouse were from Manchester. They just liked the name.

The Wetherspoons pubs mostly open at 9am on a Sunday so the licensing laws can't be strictly 12:30.

The original Virgin was in Argyle Street just west of Wellington Street. They had huge cushions/beanbags in the window and you could listen on headphones there. Hippy heaven. Opened in 1971. Hades basement was the first place I saw bootlegs openly on sale. I used to get cheap singles from the record...

The Manor in Bishopbriggs. It started as a Reo Stakis Steakhouse in the late 60s and over the years often changed from a restaurant with a bar to a pub that did food and back again. I can't remember when it stopped being Stakis. Before it closed it was very much a (crap) pub. About 6 years ago it ne...

Loads of pubs were razed in Springburn in the mid-70s. The Boundary Bar on the corner of Hawthorn St and Springburn Road, the original Shevlanes which has moved a few hundred yars up the road. Quin's by the bundy opposite the swing park at the (then) bottom of Balgrayhill Road junction with Springbu...

There was a pub called Stevedores and Tailors (Stevie Taylors) in Parliamentary Road just opposite the old Dundas Street Bus Station. It went in the mid-70s when the area was redeveloped. Rough & ready but a good pint.