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Willie wrote:Tomorrow (Wednesday 1st August) sees us back at the Panopticon for our regular Laurel and Hardy film show. We will recognise the fact that Oliver Hardy died fifty years ago in August, with a few films in which he gets the limelight one way or another. But there will also be some favourite shorts. Please come along.
Pickard was a man of diverse taste. Between 1906 and 1938 the building housed not just music hall and cinema entertainment, but also freak shows, waxworks, carnival and zoo.
Albert Ernest Pickard (1874-1964)
The last of Glasgow's great eccentrics was a Yorkshireman, Albert Ernest Pickard Unlimited, as he liked to call himself. Born in Bradford in 1874, he moved to Glasgow in 1904, buying Fell's Waxworks in the Trongate. He added his own American museum. introducing many weird freak shows to the stage and even had a small zoo on the premises.
it could be argued that the Panopticon's best years started in 1906, when the Yorkshireman A E Pickard became the proprietor. Mr Pickard was a well liked character in Glasgow, a showman through and through. With his guidance, the Panopticon became a music hall, an amusement arcade, a zoo, waxwork museum, and a freak show.
Miss Exotic World 2007
Miss Immodesty Blaize
Making Her Glasgow Debut
Once again, the Ministry Of Burlesque returns to Glasgow with an eclectic assortment of internationally renowned acts with which to tease, tantalise, titilate and torment.
Internationally recognised burlesque queen and current Miss Exotic World, Miss Immodesty Blaize will be headlining the strongest cast of burlesque performers ever to have appeared in Glasgow. Just check out the 'Line Up' page. Any one of these performers is a headliner in their own right and this is the first time that they've all been brought together under one roof!
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