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Post by trotsky on Aug 11, 2007 13:59:45 GMT 1
This pub was on the corner of Salamanca Street and Duke street. When I started to drink in pubs this became my local along with the other guys from Salamanca Street, the screw tops were one and sevenpence. It was run by the brother of the guy who ran the "daft shop" (I think its real name was Wards) at the corner of Nisbet street and Westmuir Street. It was a boring pub when we started going in to it with the usual Thursday night Giro guys drinking the cheap wine and then the Friday night working guys from the Forge on the whiskeys. It was then taken over by a middle aged balding English guy called Frank who went on to own a pub down the Clydeside. He changed it around and encouraged the darts and domino teams, the key guys in the Parkhead Rangers Supporters Club would drink there before heading up to the cross for the bus over to Ibrox. The biggest attraction in the pub was this guy Frank's girlfriend who was half his age, was very attractive and wore short mini skirts. The younger guys would be mesmerised by this women, who was way out of our league, we would encourage her to play a game of darts in the hope she would either hit the top end of the board and have to stretch up to get the darts out, or drop a few. She knew what she was doing and so did Frank who managed to get all these daft wee boys from Salamanca Street, myself included, to come into his pub and spend all our money in the hope of a free floor show, but it was worth it ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2010 1:36:00 GMT 1
great pub had good times and lot of drink with my old man and uncles also the old priest who made me laugh with his tales. he used to park his bike outside
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2010 14:01:30 GMT 1
when big frank ran the pub he advertised a blue film to be shown he had a projector/ pub was full on comes the camlachie flute band walking down the road
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Post by patrick on May 28, 2010 9:09:31 GMT 1
I had my Wedding reception in there 1974.
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Post by trotsky on May 28, 2010 14:42:07 GMT 1
A wedding reception in the Palace Bar, a canny belive it, wis it in the good bit next tae the darts board or the not say good bit next tae the toilets, an where did all the guests sit fur the meal, canny remember much seating just a table near the door fur the dominoes, or wis it just a screw tap an wan of those wee bags with a cheese tiangle, two cream crackers and a pickled onion that the guests got patrick, an wur awe the wee men there as well ;D
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Post by patrick on May 30, 2010 16:16:11 GMT 1
Sorry Trotsky, we had the reception somewhere else but myself brother billy, uncle Ted wilson and some cousins had a drink in there to celebrate my wedding as my uncle lived within spitting distance of the pub,
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Post by trotsky on May 31, 2010 11:10:18 GMT 1
A thought that's whit you really meant Patrick Did you go inta the pub tae calm yur nerves before yur wedding ur tae get blootered after it ;D
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Post by Waverley on May 31, 2010 12:03:15 GMT 1
Does anyone have any idea what was carved on the tablet/plaque above the door as I cannot make it out on the photo I have of the pub.
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Post by trotsky on May 31, 2010 13:50:15 GMT 1
Charlie, there were two doors inta the Palace Bar, one in Duke St and one in Salamanca St, which one had the tablet/plaque and what did it look like?
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Post by Waverley on May 31, 2010 14:39:56 GMT 1
Charlie, there were two doors inta the Palace Bar, one in Duke St and one in Salamanca St, which one had the tablet/plaque and what did it look like? Not a great copy from the original photo but the best I can do at the moment ;D
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Post by trotsky on Jun 1, 2010 14:38:42 GMT 1
Tried tae enlarge the photo to see if a could make out whit it said but didn't make any difference, looks tae be too weather worn tae read, don't think it wid say anything of importance like; this is the spot where Mary Queen of Scot's dropped in fur a refreshment before the battle of Langside, or where Rabbie Burns stopped fur a half an screwtap and wis so impressed by the local lassies and the bar maid that he wrote "A fond kiss". Naw, probably just says this is the spot where Patrick got drunk the night before he lost his innocence ;D
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Post by patrick on Jun 1, 2010 19:32:28 GMT 1
I lost my innocence long before that ;D
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Post by trotsky on Jun 1, 2010 22:16:35 GMT 1
A knew you would say that. So if the thing above the Palace Bar door, and it looks like it's the Duke Street entrance, wasn't about you or Mary or Rabbie Burns my guess is that it was about when the building was put up, maybe it had nothing to do with the pub?
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Post by merlot on Jun 2, 2010 10:33:47 GMT 1
Good info and photo of the Palace Bar on this site www.oldglasgowpubs.co.ukNo explanation on the plaque, unfortunately. Merlot
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