Forgotten Pubs & Clubs in Glasgow

[Dexter St. Clair]

by hazy on Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:39 pm
The Burns Howf . Some of the best gigs ever .Groups about at the time Heavy Pettin, Wildcat aka Glasgow.

by gallowgategal on Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:40 pm
I remember the Burn's Howf, for some reason I used to drink pints of cider and blackcurrant in there, but nowhere else

y Alex Glass on Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:45 pm
May have been something to do with the lager. I remember you couldn't buy a pint of heavy up the stairs at the weekend and they didn't like you taking drink up from the bar. So if you prefared heavy you had to buy bottles.

I thought the Amphora was a decent bar to see bands in, The Marrs Bar was a fun place to catch punk and post punk outfits,,

How about the Mars Bar, just off St Enoch Square? I once nearly saw Simple Minds there, long before they were famous.
Best, Ronnie

McChuills just looked like the Cavern and the perfect place to catch The Kaisers, Rip Tones, Cobramatics and the Five Aces. MCChuills is still there reprieved from closure last year, Anu other

[jaq]

Hi Everyone, this is my first post , I have been googling and came across the site, it is fanatstic, I was only meant to have been online for 10 mins and have spent the best part of today scrollling through the threads ! My husband and I were discussing Glasgow Nightclubs from 1980's to 1990's, and we ended up in a huge "discussion" so I am hoping someone here can help !!! I used to work in Stakis Princes's Casino in Sauchiehall Street for a few years from 1988 (the one nearest Speaker's Corner) I am sure the nightclub Joe Paparrazi's was almost next door to the casino going in the direction of Charing Cross (went on to becoome Velvet Rooms, then Blanket etc), hubby however, is adamant that Joe Paparazzi's was actually in the old Locarno /Tiffany's / Zanzibar now Casino premises, I have tried searching on the internet but can't find anything, can someone please put me out of my misery ?
Many thanks !

[Josef]

It was a converted cinema, so having googled the Velvet Rooms and found that it used to be the Vitograph Cinema then that's probably it.

It absolutely wasn't the old Tiffanys, so whatever the outcome hubby is wrong.

[Dexter St. Clair]

My good friends Marcello and Giancarlo assure me the Joe Paparazzi's was further up from Tiffany's in what is now the Class Rooms. The bar in tiffany's did have a name but it was a cheesy name

[jaq]

Thanks guys, there definetly was a nightclub in the old cinema when I worked in the Casino, I think it was Joe Paparazzi's but couldn't be sure, none the less I am delighted that you agree Joe Paparazzi's was not in the old Tiffany's - I am off to tell hubby !!!

[lord lucan]

reids, then called bar 82 near buchanan street bus station, was a total dive but cheap

[lord lucan]

Or for the man about town there was 'Midas' in St Vincent Street (down stairs)
also further up the 'Saint & Sinners' that is now King Tuts.
My usual Port of call was either 'The Warehouse' or it's neighbour 'Mardis Gras' Plenty of top house tunes way back in the early days. (listen up kids)

A resurrection from the past must be 'Osmosis' at the bottom of Jamaica St. I used to haunt this place first time round.circa 1986-7. I note that it has re-opened this year.

Q. What was The Devils Advocate like ? I might have been in there. But as they say "I was very, very drunk" . @ the time

what about tropics, under the heilanmans, la costiera, centre court, the norsk,french quarter, mistys,dial inn,muscular arms,and many many more

[Josef]

what about tropics, under the heilanmans, la costiera, centre court, the norsk,french quarter, mistys,dial inn,muscular arms,and many many more

At least we know where you went after 1974, then.

Where was Centre Court exactly? I vaguely remember it being somewhere in Sauchiehall Street, but the notion of a tennis-themed bar in Glasgow was just too bizzare for me to contemplate actually going in. Rumour had it that the staff all had to wear white shorts.

[Dexter St. Clair]

what about tropics, under the heilanmans, la costiera, centre court, the norsk,french quarter, mistys,dial inn,muscular arms,and many many more

At least we know where you went after 1974, then.

Where was Centre Court exactly? I vaguely remember it being somewhere in Sauchiehall Street, but the notion of a tennis-themed bar in Glasgow was just too bizzare for me to contemplate actually going in. Rumour had it that the staff all had to wear white shorts.

See previous posts but it was at the top end of Sauchiehall street. No idea what it is now, maybe The Box, maybe The Local, maybe Nice'n'Sleazies. Cumbo use to drink there and yes the staff did wear Tennis clothing. Perhaps it was an influence on the working class's love of sports clothing today.

[Josef]

Ah. That'll be where our Cumbo got his John-McEnroe-circa-1974-haircut inspiration from, then.

I remember it being in the block before Nicos coming from the City Centre rather than after. But, as ever, I may well be wrong.

I rather liked The Dome, personally, but it didn't last very long.

[lord lucan]

Just come across this thread - great memories!!
Is the Quarter Gill still there on the corner of Oswald Street and Midland Street? Used to see it from the bus on my way to school. Never went in but it used to fascinate me from outside for some reason.
There used to be a bar just off Blythswood Square on West Regent Street- you went up a few steps to get in. Wish I could remember the name. It was a real lunchtime businessman's pub.
I remember another pub on the corner of West Nile Street and the lane that the Horsheshoe is in. Can't remember the name but used to say to my parents that that was where I was going . Would stop for a pint and then go off to either the Vintners ( somebody has already mentioned it - anybody remember when the "new" upstairs bar was opened!! ) or the Duke of Wellington that used to be next door to the Waterloo. Later on there was another pub we used to go to just along the road on Argyle Street - the Chiltern Hundreds. Last time I was home it was a big new development.
No idea what is there now but remember the Beer bar in the Men's Union at the Uni?? Those long tables like a German beer hall!!!
Really got me thinking now!!

corner of w nile street was chance inn, also in that lane was drury Inn,same lane as horseshoe

[Dexter St. Clair]

Popped into The Imperial Bar tonight and was pleasantly surprised. it's had some work done to it but what Glasgow pub hasn't About half a dozen guys in keeping Shirley the bar maid busy. Coronation street on the two 14" CRT TVs, McEwan's Export and Younger' special on draft. It's a semi horse shoe bar with an old gantry and a pleasant atmosphere. Wooden floor and planty of tables and chairs to accommodate a paty of HGrs.

I also visited McSorleys. Quiz night with seven punters and a lap top DJ and little heating . A good selection of draft lager and an optimo soundtrack.

The Quarter gill had one punter and a barman of the old school.

Who's up for a beer at the Imperial in Howard street?

[MungoDundas]

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Harking back to normal rules from previous years,
does this bar still close at a civilised 10.30pm?


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[Fossil]

Popped into The Imperial Bar tonight and was pleasantly surprised. it's had some work done to it but what Glasgow pub hasn't About half a dozen guys in keeping Shirley the bar maid busy. Coronation street on the two 14" CRT TVs, McEwan's Export and Younger' special on draft. It's a semi horse shoe bar with an old gantry and a pleasant atmosphere. Wooden floor and planty of tables and chairs to accommodate a paty of HGrs.

I also visited McSorleys. Quiz night with seven punters and a lap top DJ and little heating . A good selection of draft lager and an optimo soundtrack.

The Quarter gill had one punter and a barman of the old school.

Who's up for a beer at the Imperial in Howard street?

aye!

[Dexter St. Clair]

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Harking back to normal rules from previous years,
does this bar still close at a civilised 10.30pm?


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i have this feeling it does which is why I scouted a couple of other bars for later on.