mr moto wrote:i remember years ago seeing a sign hanging there that had a picture of an arab complete with turban, and the sign said... sheik ma, tadgers sauna !
anyone else remember this sign or am i imagining things ?
Seemingly not.
The Sun, December 1998 -
Desperate Dick is always in trouble because of his barmy schemes.
He laughed: "One of my few successful ventures was when I opened up the Sheik-Ma-Tadger executive massage parlour over the road in the Schipka Pass.
"The deal was that any customer drinking 25 pints in the Calton was entitled to a free session.
"Of course hardly anyone could drink that much but after about 15 pints they were in the mood for some jiggery-pokery so they would pay the admission anyway.
"The girls weren't the best looking in the world but the punters all had their beer goggles on so they didn't care. I hired all the girls from a local sausage factory so they didn't need any training.
"I was making an absolute packet but it only lasted two weeks before I was grassed up and the cops raided the place."
The rest of Dick's business ventures have been disastrous.
"My worst scheme came after I spoke to Johnny Lorimar who had the idea to turn Bennetts nightclub into a gay club.
"He said that before then the place was empty and on the road out and now it's raking it in.
"I decided to turn the downstairs part of my place into a lesbian only zone and called it the Lesbian Lions.
"I really thought it would do well and that blokes would come along to watch. But not one lesbian came in - and the rest of my punters refused to come in because they didn't want to be seen in a gay joint."
Scar-faced Dick has even changed the pub's name several times in a bid to win a new clientele.
He said: "It's been called Barton's, Dirty Dick's, and The Hanging Ball Pool Club but no matter the name it's still the same idiots who come in.
mr moto wrote:also how soon will it be before it,s levelled, and yet another bland anonymous overpriced glass box building is spewed up in it,s place ?
Let's hope so. Really, if you blew up everything from Trongate to Melbourne Street, you would be doing Glasgow a favour, tbh.
Just realised that might include the HQ of Infinite Eye so, erm, maybe not them, then. But you get the meaning.