‘PARKING BAN REBELS’ yelled our heading on October 27, 1958, proving that Glasgow’s streets have always been a bit of a hot topic, from parking to potholes.
This view through the windscreen is of Bath Street, the day new regulations began in the city and ‘scores of motorists’ promptly paid no attention to them. A squad of ‘courtesy cops’ were travelling around politely reminding drivers that the ban on indiscriminate parking in the city centre would be enforced – next time.
Chief Superintendent Malcolm MacLeod, head of the Traffic Department, was pleased, however.
“Things are settling down now, we have had no trouble at all,” he said. “A lot of motorists have had to be warned out of ‘no waiting’ streets but they have been co-operative.”
The ban gave traffic in the town ‘a Sunday look’, we reported. “In streets formerly thronged with vehicles in a nose-to-tail line, traffic flowed smoothly.”
Fast forward a few years and this lovely shot of the same street sweeping round from North Street reveals little traffic – maybe everyone had got used to the regulations by then.
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Finally this week, some photo captions just deserve closer inspection, for no other reason than they are completely bizarre.
“Decorative cabbages on Buchanan Street 1975,” is what the photographer has written on the back of this cheerful shot. No mention of who the gentleman is, or why he should be so splendidly dressed and posing beside the cabbages, or indeed why there are cabbages on Buchanan Street.
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