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by **paladin** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:50 am

mrlipring wrote:Quite a claim...

Do they sell Lottery tickets :?:

by **duncan** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:52 am

YokerBloke wrote:I don't see it either? :?

his name is Japp. As an optician, what does he look after?

by **George** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:57 am

I was waiting to see who'd be first to explain it. I'm dissapointed it was you Duncan

by **mooshimooshisan** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:08 am

Class

by **YokerBloke** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:22 pm

Get it now

by **mrlipring** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:07 pm

:). I saw it as soon as i read the sign a week or 2 ago, but i didn't have my camera with me. Next time i was there, i got that, and then went round the corner and found the kinesiology one.

by **kelvin_hall** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:16 pm

A couple of old shop signs have been uncovered due to build work up at Maryhill Rd near the Bilsland Drive lights. I'll try to get a couple of pics up.

One of my favourite was the fruit shop in Saracen St called "Yer Ontae Plums". Victoria Rd also had a shop called "DISCOUNT SHOE" which relocated acros the Road and became "DISCOUNT SHOES" maybe because their initial idea of selling single shoes fell through.

The best part was though a couple of months later "DISCOUNT SHOE" became a pound shop and the new owners simply took his paint brush to the old sign and changed the E at the end and voila! "DISCOUNT SHOP" was born.

by **Cardno** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:28 pm

Modern Fossil wrote:Dees of Trongate. classic

This probably is very boring to everyone else. But my uncle used to work in here...i think he may have been the manager at one point.

by **kelvin_hall** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:18 pm

I saw Tiger Tim make a personal appearence, i got a prize for telling some jokes

by **lordsleek** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:22 pm

I always got my docs in Dees
also once a pair of patent leather winkle pickers :oops:

I should have taken them to Morecombe :twisted:

by **Vinny the Mackem** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:38 pm

Gazzathecoigne wrote:Took this yesterday. Although not a shop front as sutch, you can still clearly see the entrance and shop floor of what used to be a chip shop across the road from the Isly Inn, on Argyle Street, just before you get into the Yorkhill area. I can't remember the name of it, but did frequent it regularly around 10 years ago. Any info anyone?

I remember on the occasion of me turning 21, the pub across the road used to open until 1 on a Friday (my birthday was the Saturday so I turned 21 in that pub). We went across the road for some chips at that chippy and one of the guys I was with, who was a complete lunatic, decided he "liked" the plant in the window between the two doors. So he kept taking it and putting it outside, which pissed the owner off no end. Childish and, after a significant number of shandies, quite amusing. Maybe you had to be there .... !!!

by **Gazzathecoigne** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:14 pm

Vinny the Mackem wrote:I remember on the occasion of me turning 21, the pub across the road used to open until 1 on a Friday (my birthday was the Saturday so I turned 21 in that pub). We went across the road for some chips at that chippy and one of the guys I was with, who was a complete lunatic, decided he "liked" the plant in the window between the two doors. So he kept taking it and putting it outside, which pissed the owner off no end. Childish and, after a significant number of shandies, quite amusing. Maybe you had to be there .... !!!

Nice one. A story that can be appreciated, as I've been involved in many a drunken prank that the sober public don't find too funny.

by **Pgcc93** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:43 pm

St Andrews

by **Apollo** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:06 pm

Ah. Now I kow why the place is populated by drunken skinheads stealing wigs ::):

by **paladin** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:09 pm

Pgcc93 wrote:St Andrews

He only put's that sign in the window.....when he's closed.

:wink:

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