angus mcdiarmid, byronv2, Picturerama007, Malky Malc, and 4 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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byronv2 64 months ago | reply
the left hand side of this is totally different now with the Approach Road as you say and the 'financial district' as the council grandly likes to call it. On the right the old gray building facade (which now faces the Approach Road) is still here though, was a cinema but is now a ned-packed nightclub. I worked briefly in the bar there in the 90s during college and above the main bar and dance floor the old cinema auditorium was still there like a ghost of a cinema, seats arranged, blank wall where the screen used to be...
allybeag 64 months ago | reply
Yes, that was the Caley Cinema (named after the railway station, I guess) and the last film I saw there was "Return of the Jedi". There seemed to be only one bloke working on front of house - he sold us our tickets, then took us up in the lift before dashing back down to sell more tickets. I think it finally closed down shortly after this. They were obviously operating at a loss at the time.
The nightclub section, though, stopped being part of the cinema a lot earlier: in the early '70s the infamous Bierkeller opened there, a place of great drunkenness and debauchery where we were introduced to the concept of drinking yellow German bier in litre tankards. Most Scots treated a litre of very strong beer as the equivalent of a pint of normal Scots heavy, with interesting consquences . . .
emoscopes [deleted] 57 months ago | reply
Immediately in the foreground on the left is Lothian Road Goods station under what is now called "Festival Square" and the Clydesdale Bank Building; Princes Street for passengers being the vaulted-roof structure behind where Standard Life now is. It's great you can see a pair of Scammell Scarab "mechanical horse" 3-wheeled goods tractors just to the left of the billboards. They would have been in British Railways "cream and custard" colours.
aineamhainn 45 months ago | reply
Caley Cinema is now the HMV PictureHouse - live music - you can get a look inside on the virtual tour on the website: www.mamagroup.co.uk/picturehouse/
Looks like they did a nice job on it.
But my main interest in this photo is the Lothian Road Goods station. I've not seen any photos of it before so I am delighted to see this photo. Thanks, Allybeag, for putting this and the other photos up.