SUITS you sir! A retail assistant measures up this customer in Glasgow’s most famous store of the 1950s ... Lewis’s in Argyle Street.
The shop was known for selling all manner of items under the one roof, from clothes to cheese and pans to toys.
Indeed, its toy displays, particularly at Christmas time, were a star attraction. Staff would spend ages decorating the windows on the ground floor that looked out on to Argyle Street and parents would bring their children just to see all the goodies Santa would have to offer.
In the 1950s Lewis’s also had another star attraction for youngsters –  it  had a 
“menagerie” on the top floor, with parrots, and many other small animals that children could feed and hold. Parents would leave their offspring there while they looked around the rest of the store.
Times change, of course, and by the end of the 1980s and early 1990s the department store chain had fallen on difficult times.
It went into administration in 1991 and most of the building is now occupied by Debenhams.

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Our recent pictures of Clatty Pat’s and Cardinal Follies generated a big response from readers, so here’s another Glasgow club from the 1980s. This is the staff of Mardi Gras dressed for its opening in 1985. The Dunlop Street venue, which had a capacity of about 650, was the first UK night club to have a elevated dance floor but it closed in the 1990s.

On this day...

AUGUST 6, 2014
GLASGOW police were the subject of Scotland’s highest number of complaints about oppressive conduct. Complaints rose 10% to 1847 in the past year.
1945: The first atomicbomb was dropped by America on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing 70,000 people.
2005: Scots MP RobinCook, 59, died of a heart attack on a walk  in the Highlands.
1971: Yachtsman Chay Blyth completed the first solo round-the-world sail against prevailing winds.

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2006: Jenson Button, above, celebrated his first F1 victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

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1973: Blind singer Stevie Wonder, above, lost his sense of smell after a car crash in North Carolina.
1983: Rock band Thin Lizzy split up.
1989: U2 bassist Adam Clayton was arrested in Dublin for marijuana possession.

Birthdays
Chris Bonington, climber, 81.
Geri Halliwell,Spice Girl, 43.
Barbara Windsor, actress, 78.