Lost Glasgow: Here's one 'Super Ali' all Glasgow loves
Ali Ahmed Aslam, known to generations of Glasgow curry lovers as ‘Mr Ali’, opened the Shish-Mahal, in Gibson Street, in 1964. In those days, when the pubs shut at 10pm, going for a 'Ruby' was the only way to keep on drinking. In its early days, the Shish even allowed customers to bring in their own bevvy. Spicy food fans, much like the restaurant’s fancy wallpaper, flocked to the place.
Lost Glasgow: 1930s Glasgow was cinema city glamour
GLASGOW really was 'cinema city' when the Paramount in Renfield Street screened the Bing Crosby romantic comedy 'She Loves Me Not' in 1934.
Lost Glasgow: Glasgow's Clutha pub has been in the history books for almost two centuries
Nothing fishy about this pub
Lost Glasgow: Stories of the notoriously riotous crowds at the Empire Theatre
As a curtain riser to my Lost Glasgow wanderings, let’s start with a visit to Sauchiehall Street's legendary Empire Theatre, seen here, in the early 1920s, from the corner of West Nile Street.
