American singing star Eartha Kitt, then aged 33, was photographed cosying up to the George Square Christmas tree 64 years ago this very day, ahead of her three-week run at the Glasgow Empire.

Perhaps she was looking for her very own Santa Baby?

Pic: Newsquest

Christmas wishes don't always come true...

A stroke of genius from the pen of the late, great, Bud Neill.

This week finds Frank fuming and fundless as he clamours to get his cash back following the dramatic crash of the City of Glasgow Bank.

Pic/text: Frank Worsdall's 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' (1981)

Mikel Utsi, a Swedish Sami, arrives at Glasgow's Rothesay Dock, in May 1952, with 'Sarek', as part of he and wife Dr Ethel Lindgren's successful plan to reintroduce reindeer to Scotland.

Careful Sarek - you'll have someone's eye oot!

Pic: cairngormreindeer.co.uk

Fogs, smogs, and moonlight...

On the Clyde, Glasgow, 1879, by John Atkinson Grimshaw.

You all so enjoyed yesterday's visit to Copland & Lye, that we're off shopping again - this time at Lewis's, in Argyle Street, in 1956, when the Liverpool-based department store chain was celebrating its centenary.

I'll sing of a river I'm happy beside
The song that I sing is a song of the Clyde...

A very warm welcome to my first 1,000 followers on here.

Pic: A 1950s MacMillan educational poster of Glasgow's docks.

The trouble with having a photographic memory is that, I have a photographic memory...

Zooming in on today's Copland & Lye pic, I spied a flower-seller, as on their hatboxes.

Meet Bessie Swan, who sold her blooms outside the shop for decades.

Here she is, in 1956.

A fabulous photo submission from Adam Byrne, of his grand-aunt, Annie Byrne, outside her shop in 1921.

Adam had been led to believe that the shop was in Sauchiehall Street, but a bit of detective work by LG fans revealed the correct address - 40 Abercromby Street, in the Calton.

Ground floor perfumery,
stationery and leather goods,
wigs and haberdashery
kitchenware and food... going up

Copland & Lye's 'Caledonia House' department store on the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Wellington Street.

Artist: Thomas Gilfillan

A fabulous new single from Bobby and the boys - and I can name almost every photographer whose work is in the video. It could have been made for Lost Glasgow.

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Josie and Frankie

Dennistoun boy Rikki Fulton, in rehearsal with Frank Sinatra, in 1953, when Rikki was the host of BBC radio's Showband Show. Rikki even duetted with Frank.

The guy on the right is producer Johnnie Stewart, the man behind Juke Box Jury, and Top of the Pops

📍 Carlton Place - Glasgow.
The site of the city’s Sheriff Court.
(Tilt-shift)
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#OTD, 17 November 1915, thousands of Glasgow housewives and workers - Mrs Barbour's Army - marched on the city's Sheriff Court in support of 20,000 rent strikers, leading to the introduction of rent controls throughout the UK.

Come with me on a walking tour of St Enoch Square in 1853, courtesy of George McCulloch's View of Glasgow.

(Returning customers may recognise this as an old thread, but I've learned a wee bit more since then.)

📍 The Duke of Wellington statue.
Sculpted by Italian artist Carlo Marochetti, erected in 1844 to honor Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington.
Since the 1980s, the statue has become famous for a traffic cone on his head. This has turned into a symbol of Glasgow's sense of humor.
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Old images around the City