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Date Posted: 01:03:50 03/14/11 Mon
Author: BB
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Bathgate shops
In reply to: B4 's message, "Re: Bunions - and something more startling" on 04:45:45 03/13/11 Sun

Hi B4. The shoe shop with the Fluoroscope was in Hopetoun Street, opposite Hay's supermarket where my mum worked on the checkouts. It may have been a Stead and Simpson shoe shop, but I'm not sure. I think that D.R. Gordon's hardware shop was next door, a shop that my dad visited regularly to buy stuff for his "projects".

I was there when Francie and Josie came to Bathgate! The shop they opened was opposite Woolworth's in George Street. They were wearing extremely brightly coloured suits and arrived in a big car that looked like a limousine of some sort. My dad lifted me onto his shoulders so I could see over the crowd. Mind you that only increased my viewing height by about three feet!

I like your story about The Alexander Brothers, although I missed their appearance. The Music Box brings back fond memories. I used to buy strings for my guitar there to replace the ones I broke trying to play like Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. That was before I arrived at the conclusion that I was a crap guitarist.

There was a shop in Jarvey Street, opposite the Palais, that did a roaring trade in Doc Marten boots, Levi's Sta-prest and parkas with fur-lined hoods when they were fashionable in the early seventies. Not far from Jock's Cafe, a Bathgate institution.

This nostalgia is getting to me. I'm going for a lie down.

BB

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Re: Bathgate shops -- B4, 01:31:01 03/14/11 Mon