Tuesday 29 July 2008

THE CAB INTERIOR - 1970's


A good example of the Hansom Cab (aka The Cab) being occupied by under-agers in the mid 70's was when one night a crowd drinking there set off bangers in the pub. The first one was just thrown into a corner area to give everyone a "wee fleg", but as the night wore on they ended up chucking the bangers from one end of the room to the other, like a snowball fight!
Needless to say, by the end of the 70's they clamped down on this sort of thing and made it compulsory to have your birth certificate with you for proof of age.
 
Photo by DC Thomson.
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5 comments:

  1. hutchy26 January 2009 at 03:57

    my auntie daisy sardella ran the cab for a while in the seventies , did you no have to be under eighteen to get in , lot of fintry folk went then

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    1. Big Abe16 August 2016 at 12:20

      Hutchy,

      Must have been after 1973 when you went there. I know the Kirkton High boys (and some girls) would hang out in the Cab on Fridays. Would have been from 1971 to 1973 (when we were aged 15 to 17). Don't think anyone from Fintry would have ventured in at that time.

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  2. Anonymous3 April 2009 at 00:50

    I remember Daisy well......she actually threw me and my pal out for being underage (totally unheard of) a week before my 18th birthday - we'd been drinking there for about a year!

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  3. Anonymous7 October 2017 at 07:22

    my mum used to work here, her name was Sylvia but was known as Kate

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  4. Unknown10 June 2020 at 01:44

    i remember being in there at some point in the late 70's when I was a bell st student, some chancer walked in off the street leant over the bar and helped themselves to a clutch of notes from the till which was an easy target causing a bit of a stushie

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