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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2008 19:14:01 GMT 1
Virtually opposite Newlands School
Who can remember this place ?
I got all my second hand super hero comics here, as well as the odd Airfix model plane.
Also enjoyed a Bridie fae Murphys the Bakers.
Liked the scotch pies fae Leitch's the Bakers, and enjoyed the strawberry tarts from Samsons all in Springfield Rd.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2008 19:22:25 GMT 1
Bought and exchanged lots of comics in cooks the book shop
When you bought a new comic it was stamped so when
You brought it back you got a discount on your next comic
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Post by adaline on Apr 29, 2008 20:23:53 GMT 1
I remember walking from Main St Brigton to Cooks shop with my sister to get my other sister who was pregnant at the time milkmaid bars as she took a notion for them and my mammy said she had to get them and sent me and my sister, we had tried a few shops on the way but couldn't get them and when we eventually got back home and she opened one of them mice had been at them and my mammy threw them in the bin.
Adaline
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Post by allyb on Apr 29, 2008 20:37:42 GMT 1
adaline when ah left school ah started work at a wonderful  place.. wholesale confectioners .. chocs ..sweets, biscuits galore...the place wiz hoochin wi mice..hooching! It wiz a mooses paradise. They wurr everywher.. and wan thing a wiz terrified o wiz mice! Anyhow some days when quiet we had tae get a'the boaxes fu' o choc bars where the mice hud gnawed right through.. break oaff the good bits and put them in jars....This wiz then sold tae a the wee shoaps all over brigton aye and further afield right oot tae the coast...aye as 'broken chocolate! 'Broken macaroon bars'..etc etc.. Tae this day ah never tuch anythin like that  sorry fur goin off the thread.. it wiz just wen you mentioned sweet things and mice.. |
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Post by pwm437 on Apr 29, 2008 20:46:31 GMT 1
Absolutely loved that shop, and spent a good deal of my pocket money and paper round money in there.
Superman, Batman, MAD and Commando comics were my favourites. I remember the stamp system Alex refers to in post#1, with second hand items sold at a wee discount, dependent on condition
I also bought my first 'proper' book at Cook's : The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
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Post by Waverley on Apr 29, 2008 20:51:04 GMT 1
I was never out of that shop when a kid especially on a Saturday night when I used to stay with my Maw and stepfaither in sunny Lilybank...I reckon I stole more than I bought or swapped.
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Post by adaline on Apr 29, 2008 21:55:31 GMT 1
Aye McGoo ye jist don't know wit yer eatin dae ye. My Maw (granny) wid say wit ye don't know will no herm you but there ye go ye learn something everyday.
Adaline
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2008 14:47:42 GMT 1
Ah don't remember the Cook's shop ye're talkin aboot, but ah remember the two ah used tae go tae. Wan at Duke Street, jist a few hundred yards away frae The Palais an wan jist affy Duke Street - jist in Cumbernauld Road an nae merr, opposite the Scotia. Doon oan the bus frae Cranhill, intae Cooks fur ma Superman, Green Lantern, Flash or Batman comics (sometimes Caspar The Friendly Ghost, Richie Rich, Little Lotta, etc), intae the nearest chippie furra puddin supper an a bottla Pinappleade, then back oan the bus hame, munchin, sluggin an readin away. Them wis the days! ;D
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Post by holywell37 on Sept 10, 2008 18:30:17 GMT 1
The last book i bought in cooks (springy rd )was peter manuels story, that would be in the seventies.
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Post by Beth on Jan 24, 2009 11:47:14 GMT 1
I went to Cooks in Duke St great shop, but one of my most embarrassing moments was in that shop. In 1975 when we were home on holiday from the then Rhodesia,and I was still quite young and naive, Allan sent me out hunting for a book for a friend. It was The Happy Hooker. Went to all the posh bookshops up town and nobody could help me, did get a few queer looks though. Finally in desperation I tried Cooks in Duke Street. The guy went in the back and came out with the book in a brown bag. I NEARLY DIED. I did not know a hooker is a prostitute. That is the gospel truth. We had a real rammy that night, what an idiot I felt.Cencorship was heavy in those days, Playboy was even banned, so that book was in great demend
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Post by holywell37 on Jan 24, 2009 13:14:29 GMT 1
and i always thought a hooker was a rugby player.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2009 0:23:21 GMT 1
Playboy might've been banned in Rhodesia, Beth, but it certainly wisnae in Cook's. Aw the ladmags o the day were oan display there, an ah'm talkin aboot the late sixties. Certainly, nothin as pornographic as the stuf oan sale the day, but still darin stuff fur the time.
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Post by Beth on Apr 5, 2009 15:48:27 GMT 1
Meant in the then Rhodesia
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