Now Parnie Street is just at the back of the Tron Theatre. It is a street of classic Glasgow red sandstone tenement buildings with shops on the ground floor and flats above. I love streets like this with wee independent shops. For all the convenience and fun you can have shopping at the big centres or places like Buchanan Street it is still fanatastic to rummage around small shops like these. My favourites here are, of course, A1 comics and Kollectables because I am a bit of a comic book fan. Geek? :) Well call me what you want but these days with the success of films like Spiderman, Iron Man and Dark Knight superheroes have gone pretty main stream. Maybe it's in the my name Millar as well. Frank Miller is one of the all time great comic writers who brought us Dark Knight Returns and some of the best Daredevil stories. And now Mark Millar, a Glaswegian, is one of the best comic book writers in the world today.
Read below to see how us Millars and Millers have had such a huge impact on this art form.
A1 comics is a bit of on institution in Glasgow. It was originally AKA comics in the Virginia Galleries as mentioned in a previous post. It is said that Mark Millar was inspired to become a comic writer after meeting Alan Moore(author of Watchmen) at a signing session at AKA in the late 1980s. Their web site is : http://www.a1comics.com/
It is still a fun shop to visit and browse around. The staff are really helpful and friendly although one of them pictured above did seem to have some anger management issues :)
Kollectables is just along from A1. It not only has cool vintage comics but also other collectable items such as football flags and programmes.
The wonder wall of vintage comics in Kollectables.
Some Celtic match programmes dating from the late 60's and early 70's. Most of these older than some of the people reading this blog!! :)
My favourite comic book hero? Daredevil. The man without fear. :)
There are of course lots of other shops worth seeing in Parnie Street. An some nice galleries as well. One shop I did note was Tatty Bon. http://www.tattybon.co.uk/ which does cool retro and recycled clothing. Well worth a rummage in there.
But before we leave Parnie Street just a follow up from a comment that KJ left after one of the first tours. It was that the Angel on the Tron Theatre is part of a set called Skull / Angel. It reflects that the Tron has been both a church and a theatre. Well went looking for it and the Skull part is embedded in the building round in Parnie Street as pictured above.
Next place of note that I passed was the Scotia bar. Now this is the oldest bar in Glasgow as it was established in 1792. That's a correction on the other day cause think I said it was Sloan's in Argyle Street. But Sloan's is the oldest bar / restaurant and is 5 years younger being established in 1797.
Had to take a photo of this bit of urban politics still on the wall above King Street car park. A call to demonstrate against the poll tax. The poll tax was introduced in Scotand in 1989. The date that has been painted out can still be read as June 24th. Which probably makes the date of the protest Saturday June 24th 1989. That would make this 20 years old almost to the day.
I'm wondering if this should ever be painted over or should it be left as a part of Glasgow history?
And finally had to laugh when I saw this seagull expectantly sitting on the Bernard Corrigan fishmongers van in Howard Street. Obviously attracted by the smell of the fresh fish which are sold from the building in this street. In Glasgow, despite what Eric Cantona may say, the seagulls don't follow the trawlers. They are street wise, they follow the white vans :)
Next place of note that I passed was the Scotia bar. Now this is the oldest bar in Glasgow as it was established in 1792. That's a correction on the other day cause think I said it was Sloan's in Argyle Street. But Sloan's is the oldest bar / restaurant and is 5 years younger being established in 1797.
Had to take a photo of this bit of urban politics still on the wall above King Street car park. A call to demonstrate against the poll tax. The poll tax was introduced in Scotand in 1989. The date that has been painted out can still be read as June 24th. Which probably makes the date of the protest Saturday June 24th 1989. That would make this 20 years old almost to the day.
I'm wondering if this should ever be painted over or should it be left as a part of Glasgow history?
And finally had to laugh when I saw this seagull expectantly sitting on the Bernard Corrigan fishmongers van in Howard Street. Obviously attracted by the smell of the fresh fish which are sold from the building in this street. In Glasgow, despite what Eric Cantona may say, the seagulls don't follow the trawlers. They are street wise, they follow the white vans :)
Anyway, hope you liked that little random wander back into the city centre.
I hope we always have little streets like Parnie Street to rummage around in. They make a city unique rather than having another Next store beside a Starbucks. :)
Be well, be happy!!
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