Ron Tamburrini
A Fixture
Mine too Brian. Do you remember the actual model dockyard on display...spectacular....it was never the same after it moved out of the arcade.
I can just remember after visiting the Dockyard, being taken to Wilson's Zoo situated up a tenement stair at the corner of Oswald Street.
There you could see a lion, panther, baboon, monkeys etc, all in cages about the size of shoeboxes and probably never saw daylight for decades. An old guy used to get in the lions cage with a whip and try to get it to do tricks. I believe its only trick was to pee on the audience. What I remember most was the smell....and that was from the drunks who wandered in to torment the animals.
In retrospect a deathtrap.....a thing of nightmares......a Glasgow version of the Island of Doctor Moreau
I remember that Lion I dont think it had any teeth,did Wallaces sausages not move into that building and there was a bonded warehouse at the back those were the days of those quint three wheel articulated Fodens that BR used to have.
You Are dead on Del it died the day it moved out of the Arcade