This queue formed before opening time outside Lewis’s department store in Argyle Street in October 1953. These shoppers seem keen not to miss out – having read about what was on offer in the Evening Times.
These men about town could have been heading for the Halt, which in 1980 was hit by a local government pay strike that caused Glasgow’s licensing board chaos. The licence application by the bar’s new owner was held up.
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