Forgotten Pubs & Clubs in Glasgow

[bobrobert]

Does anyone remember the name of the pub that was opposite the Griffen on the site of the restaurant just down from the Cafe? Two down from the Variety bar You had to go up a corridor to get into it A hard one to remember!

[dimairt]

I'm trying to find a 60s/70s pub in Sauchiehall St., the Chateaux Lait (?), which my current squeeze claims to have worked in before her dizzying rise through the ranks of pre-school education in darkest Lanarkshire. Near the Charing Cross end of Sauchiehall St. , the upstairs bit featured local bands - Dexter?
I've looked through HG's pubs threads and tried the Glasgow pubs site to no avail.
By the way,Karbon (sic), in Buchanan St. , is the club of choice for footballers at the moment.

Le durachd,

Eddy

[Dexter St. Clair]

It's a long street with many pubs that have featured bands and went through a number of name changes. But if was on the east side of Charing Cross i would say it is currently The Driftwood. Then again The Charing Cross Hotel (Stakis) also had a lounge that featured bands.

[Riotgrrl]

I'm trying to find a 60s/70s pub in Sauchiehall St., the Chateaux Lait (?), which my current squeeze claims to have worked in before her dizzying rise through the ranks of pre-school education in darkest Lanarkshire. Near the Charing Cross end of Sauchiehall St. , the upstairs bit featured local bands - Dexter?
I've looked through HG's pubs threads and tried the Glasgow pubs site to no avail.
By the way,Karbon (sic), in Buchanan St. , is the club of choice for footballers at the moment.

Le durachd,

Eddy

Eddy, are you sure she's not taking the mickey? Chateau Lait is the French for Castlemilk.

[viceroy]

During the early 1970's I misspent much of my spare time propping up bars in the Charing Cross area and I have to say that the name Chateau Lait rings no bells with me whatsoever. Of course in my case allowances have to be made for advancing age and the inevitable deterioration of memory cells. Nevertheless, as riotgrrl says, one wonders whether this is not a wind-up.

[dimairt]

I know that "Chateau Lait is the French for Castlemilk" and I'm sure that she's taking the mickey out of me - all my other squeezes did, why should she be different?
However, she did work in a few pubs during her student days and is fairly clear in other respects about this one, she just can't recall the name.

Le durachd,

Eddy

[dimairt]

Did I say 'Chateau Lait?' It should have been Chatelet. Does that help?

Le durachd,

Eddy

[onyirtodd]

It's a long street with many pubs that have featured bands and went through a number of name changes. But if was on the east side of Charing Cross i would say it is currently The Driftwood. Then again The Charing Cross Hotel (Stakis) also had a lounge that featured bands.

Carrs Keg in my day and an excellent place to stand a good chance of an underage pint.

http://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/speakerscorner.html

[viceroy]

It's a long street with many pubs that have featured bands and went through a number of name changes. But if was on the east side of Charing Cross i would say it is currently The Driftwood. Then again The Charing Cross Hotel (Stakis) also had a lounge that featured bands.

Carrs Keg in my day and an excellent place to stand a good chance of an underage pint.

Renamed The Pablo towards the end of the 1960's. It was a bit of a knocking shop quite frankly. A group of prostitutes used to frequent the downstairs lounge until they were eventually given their marching orders and shifted a short distance along Sauchiehall St. to the upstairs lounge at the Beresford Bar [which I think may have been called the Oceans Eleven around this time]. However I do have a feeling that later on the downstairs lounge was used as a live music venue - this may well have been when it was known as the Speakers Corner.

[Josef]

I used to occasionally frequent Speakers Corner in the mid-eighties when I worked on the Stakis casino next door and it was one of the staff pubs (along with the downstairs lounge in the Romana Indian restaurant across the road). I don't remember there being remotely enough room to put on any kind of live music short of a bloke with a guitar in the corner. Which didn't happen anyway, at that time at least. Intimate venue?

[Mori]

wherez this photay fae ?

[olrockchick]

Hi, anyone remember where the Three Pidgeons was.

Also anyone remember downstairs at The Blenhem I think it was called or The Maggie across the road on Sauchiehall street in the 70's.

[Fossil]

wherez this photay fae ?

i think that might be the Werehouse

[neilmc]

Hi, anyone remember where the Three Pidgeons was.

Also anyone remember downstairs at The Blenhem I think it was called or The Maggie across the road on Sauchiehall street in the 70's.

The Three Pigeons was just by Charing Cross, at the corner of Sauchiehall St./Granville St. It became an Indian Restaurant. It was one of those places with a function suite, like the nearby Gresham and Bon Accord.

I remember downstairs at the Blenhiem, which was a bit like a Stakis 'Bier Kellar' (sic), and the Maggie, which had bands playing downstairs. I used to pop into both of these places for some Dutch courage before hitting the Crazy Daisy just along from the Maggie.

[olrockchick]

thanks for that neilmc....i had a feeling the three pidgeons was there, but wasnt sure. Now you mention it, th Blenhiem was like that downstairs, its awful how I'm forgetting so much, and I had forgot the Maggie had bands playing downstairs ! I never went to the Crazy Daisy, dont think, went to Tiffany's once or twice, and did run from the Blenhiem to the Maggie and back in bare feet once. Oh the shame of it......