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"City’s historic bars to be celebrated in postcard book"
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Many good pubs in this volume of postcards. Interesting that the heyday of city centre watering holes was 1880-1910.
When I was a student and took a stroll to Leslie's there was a large red brick building on my route and it had a very large graffiti which said The Velvet Undererground. I am not sure why it had the extra 'er' but I liked it
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4 Way down Causewayside, almost into J K Rowling-owned territory, on a red-brick wall near the Old Bell, someone had celebrated Reed, Cale, Tucker and Morrison in huge letters, probably while sulphed-up. It read 'VELVET UNDERERGROUND'. Was there for years and years until the late 90s."
http://vitaminq.blogspot.co.uk/2003_07_01_vitaminq_archive.html?m=1
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Those were the days my friend I thought they'd never end
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What about "Kenmore", now almost disappeared, written on the University building opposite what was Thins up the Bridges? We always thought that was a good play on words.
Postcards too late for the Golf alas, wrecked about ten years ago. It simply should not be allowed.
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Pam I Love You
I am sorry
Call me
was painted on blue football huts on way down to stenhouse from Calder Road. Seemed Pam had then gone out and interspersed her own comment
You loser
It's over
Sinky
but I always thought the handwriting was quite familiar a kind of Stenhouse version of Patti Smith and Sam Shepard writing Cowboy mouth by turning the typewriter round at alternate bits of dialogue. Except the Stenhouse Scribe was both people?
On pub front, funny how some boozers have to reinvent themselves and others abide.
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Anyone know how long "TORIES OUT" has been on the wall on the innocent?
Used to see "Back S.H.I.E.L.D" chalked all over the place. Started seeing similar stuff in a similar hand again recently (in Corstorphine of all places) but in marker pen on white stickers
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kaputnik: "Anyone know how long "TORIES OUT" has been on the wall on the innocent?"
No but there is a vaguely discernible "no means test" at the end of King's Stables Road which must date from the thirties.
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There used to be a "May 1 Tories Out" along the Innocent railway - obviously since 1997
I think it's still there. I'll go in to work that way tomorrow. I'm sure there are some other ones there since I've been using it.
I will report back
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Near the old Kryptonite NewYork lock which has been locked to some railings for over 13 years.
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This one is new but destined to become a classic, I think:
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no means test
Really?! This I Must find!
@Coxy - I think it's the same one that I'm talking about, the "May 1" bit might be less legible now though.
As for the spraypainting inside the tunnel itself, I don't know if the council scrub it off, or the damp rock surface with salts constantly leaching across it does the job, but they rarely last that long.
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I always liked the "LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH" on Lady Lawson Street just down from the Tap o'Lauriston.
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For years, the Judge Dredd-inspired graffiti "CHOPPER" was painted on the bypass bridge high above the Water of Leith, one giant letter to each metal section of the bridge.
I also remember 'No Popery' being written on the wall West Register House in Charlotte Square, along the vennel leading past the side of the building.
But back on topic, I didn't realise until recently that the Bow Bar was not at all historic but a well-crafted facsimile.
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As for the spraypainting inside the tunnel itself, I don't know if the council scrub it off, or the damp rock surface with salts constantly leaching across it does the job, but they rarely last that long.
The council scrub it off. The stuff they use smells the same as bike degreaser.
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Always amused me that the ubiquitous 'SINE' had spraypainted across two large wheelie bins, which were then emptied, and put back out of order, leaving 'NESI'.
On Duke Street there's a new 'Thanks for the 80s'.
Back OT, the Sheep Heid is a pub that was 'reinvented'. Okay, so the service used to be abysmally slow, and the 'character' verged on grimy.... But.... It's now an English Village Pub, which is frankly odd.
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I only visited the Sheep Heid once, at the low-point of it's previous "held together by dust" incarnation (see also the Drover's Inn at the head of Loch Lomond). I was so dissapointed by the beers on offer that I never made the effort to go back.
I always try take non-natives to Guildford, Café Royal and what is now the Voodoo Rooms to wow them with the interiors, usually seems to work. Never understood why Café Royal spoils its interior with the never-used fruit machine. I also like the rather more sober benches-and-lino interior of the Abbotsford, although there's some rather unfortunate modern signwriting on the walls inside and dreadful flatscreen displays in the windows.
Kay's Bar is a hidden little gem.
What used to be Jenny Ha's in the Canongait has a dreadful Brigadoon-kitsch 60s attempt at a ye olde pubbe interior that was commisioned by Scottish & Newcastle from Basil Spence and is I believe part of the overall listed building.
Ensign Ewart has an equally ghastly interior from this period.
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