Boom & Bust

[Mori]

I fell asleep on the couch and have woke up to the telly news in this early moning hour that the reccesion looms upon us all.

I remember my dad mentioning a reccesion during the 70s , shrugged my shoulders and said whisssat ?...
then we had another recession in the early 90s where i lost £100k's while trying to retain the family buisness which my father had built up over the years... Lost my parents house they left me and lots of debt, would the government listen would the banks help? noooooo efn waaaaayy.

They are only concerned about themselves, after all the interest you pay them they want their money, they are not concerend whether you live in a tent or a cardboard box, my nieghbour lost their house the other day through a repossesion after 18 years, a hard working couple, really disheartining for me to see in front of my eyes, they are moving in with freinds and family untill they can reset their lives.

British and scottish Governments Wake up and smell the shite you are shoveling good hard workinf families are being affected by the hundreds every day.

goin back to bed now that i have vented.

Regards to you all

Mori.

[Reenie Bujman]

The only things that you really need in this life are those that you can carry on your back.

[Doorstop]

A dialysis machine would be pretty hard to carry.

[Dave]

A dialysis machine would be pretty hard to carry.

Survival of the fittest.

[Doorstop]

The NHS's motto in twenty years time.

[Mori]

Looks like the end of Woolworths used to be quite a few in the city but lately only 5,

Any i've missed ? used to be one on Paisley rd toll & Shawlands Arcade when i was younger any one any memories/pics of Woolies



Glasgow
Unit 91 99-201 Argyle Street
Glasgow, Strathclyde, G2 8BU
0141 248 8210

Glasgow - Byres Road
300-304 Byres Road
G12 8AW
0141 339 1501

Glasgow
The Forge Retail Park 33 Beardmore Way
G31 4BG
0141 5547329

Glasgow -Dunbarton Road
412-418 Dumbarton Road
G11 6SD
0141 339 4623

Rutherglen
214-218 Main Street, Rutherglen
G73 2HS
0141 647 1481

[Whangie]

Of course this one isnt within Glasgow but theres been a Woolies in nearby Coatbridge Main Street since time out of mind. I think its been their, in the same location since the 30's.

[scottland]

Of course this one isnt within Glasgow but theres been a Woolies in nearby Coatbridge Main Street since time out of mind. I think its been their, in the same location since the 30's.

I used to visit someone who lived up the lane beside woolies in coatbridge. I saw a woolies on the news with a restaraunt,dont remember any in Glasgow with restaraunt.

There is still woollies in shawlands,was there ever one in Govan

[Dave]

MFI is in the same boat. Who's next?

[Dexter St. Clair]

I think the original Woolworth in Argyle Street had one upstairs.

[Fossil]

I think the original Woolworth in Argyle Street had one upstairs.

aye your right Dex

[BTJustice]

Theres still a woolies in Shawlands.

[Lucky Poet]

It'd be sad to see Woolies go. Even though I never shop there

Crap Woolies family anectode of the week: when they first opened in Dundee (1920 or so?) my Grandad apparently went in to check out this new shopping phenomenon. At the time, they made much of the fact that nothing in their stores cost more than 6d - this was part of their advertising, I seem to remember. Anyway, in pops my Pop, who soon spots a big magnifying glass he'd really like to have. Price 1 shilling. Of course he queried this with one of the staff, who told him with a straight face that it was sixpence for the handle and sixpence for the lens.* Boom-boom.

* I can't vouch for the actual truth of this, not having been there, but so went the story... The magnifying glass did exist at least, I used to play with it as a kid at my Gran's.

[MacotheIsles]

I'll be very sad to see it go too, although there is talk of the brand name being retained over the entrance to 200 stores UK-wide. I'd hope the Argyle Street one would be one of those, even if it was Woolies in name only with a new owner.

I remember the days when the shops had wooden slatted floors and sold things like balloons on sticks for sixpence and pop-gun air rifles that fired a cork on a piece of string. Happy days and simple pleasures for we urchins of the time even if it was hot gravel for breakfast and 16 of us to a shoe box.

[Mori]

some links to groups history.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company

http://museum.woolworths.co.uk/intro.htm