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smckenzie · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: Help - name of cafe

Hi all,

Can anybody help with the name of the old cafe that used to be on the corner of Pollokshaws Road at the end of Calder Street. It was quite big and had a huge special coke bottle machine that you could put the warm bottle in and out popped a lovely cold one at the other end. It is now Lets direct and shut down about fifteen years ago.

thanks Sharon

PS not sure if I have posted this in the right place.
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scallopboy · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject:

No ideas about that one, but I spotted this in Allison Street a while back.
Maybe it might prompt a memory.

Also, hello and

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Hugo Drax · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject:

i remember it well but I can't remember the name. I used to play in a band and during 1983/1984 we spent a lot of time rehearsing in a flat at 614 Pollokshaws Road which was just across the road from the cafe in question.

I will ask my old bandmates if they can remember.
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smckenzie · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that - I know the classic cafe is just round the corner from it, I used to go there a lot as well, for the life of me i just cant remember the name but that would be great if any of the bandmates know it.
Hopefully i will then be able to source some photos
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lucky521 · Buttered roll Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 2

Hi cupcake, MacDonald's is adjacent to Nursery St. Further past MacDonalds at Calder St, Pollokshaws Rd, was the ANGUS CAFE,. Hope that solves your query!
hi sharon
i got this answer for cafe somewhere else but for the life of me i dont rember it being called that. wish to god you never asked me, It is driving me crazy been all over the internet looking.
enjoy bonni`s satarday
aunt lilias

smckenzie · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject:

Wow where did you find it, i would never have thought that it was called the Angus cafe?

Why dont you come to boni's on saturday with me. Drop me a pm

Wee niece
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lucky521 · Buttered roll Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 2

Hi

I found it on yahoo answers, got wuestions about it all over internet,
it bugging me I cant remeber name.
I might just do that would I get the 66 bus it goes through clarkson
love aunt lilias

poodiecat · Tofu hot dog & mustard Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 436

That name rings a bell, used to live two blocks down at corner Torrisdale Street ten years ago when I moved to Glasgow, and my boyfriend's name back then was Angus. Is it possible that the sign was still up in 1998 ? It's close to Somerfields, opposite that car dealership, isn't it?
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smckenzie · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject:

yep thats exactly where it is, lucky521 is my aunt, and we used to go there loads when i was young. I reckon it would prob have at least still had the sign up in 88.

I am now trying to source some photographs of it. Add to the collection of classic cafes in glasgow.
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