Sunday bars

[macdonald]

When I was 17/18 pubs closed on a sunday and you could only drink in hotels. We used to go to a bar in the Ingram Hotel. They would sell pints of what tasted like puddle water for some exorbitant price in conditions resembling the London Underground in the rush hour . And we thought that was cool? Madness. I also remeber a hotel on Argle Street. The Crest? Anyone else use the hotels?

[onyirtodd]

A memory of the Scottish Sabbath pre 1976(?)

Scottish Sabbath
(Jim McLean)

Imagine you're in Scotland on a Sunday afternoon
Toora loora loora loora lay
Your throat is dry and dusty as a summer's day in June
Toora loora loora loora lay
A whisky or a shandy would suit you fine and dandy
But not a drop will ever come your way
To whistle or be merry or travel on a ferry
Would get you hung on Scotland's sabbath day

Two thousand years ago there lived a man in Galilee
Toora loora loora loora lay
And he was persecuted by the local Pharisees
Toora loora loora loora lay
For on Sunday he was willing to cure the sick and ailing
Or take five thousand people out to dine
The sabbath day, said Jesus, was surely made to please us
And then he turned the water into wine

The ministers will curse and ban and threaten you with hell
Toora loora loora loora lay
Unless you can afford the price they charge in big hotels
Toora loora loora loora lay
In every land that's foreign, England or in Holland
The pubs are never shut on sabbath day
But here they take communion and join in holy union
The Lord be with you now, come let us pray

(as sung by Hamish Imlach)

[scottland]

Aye doon tae wemyss bay as a bonafide traveller.