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    Garnethill, Glasgow, Scotland

    Vladimir I U L, phostak, David Brian, europeanartphoto, and 64 other people added this photo to their favorites.

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    1. LiseMac 89 months ago | reply

      I could listen to your' stories all day ccgd, you really have an interesting way or speak and description. Maybe it's just that I find it interesting! Anyway, thanks again, I am growing more and more attached to this playpark/mural, with all it's history.

    2. phostak 89 months ago | reply

      Ditto re ccgd's stories. Here's another shot of the park and mural I found elsewhere on Flickr. Though it's not as nice a shot of the mural, I like the little ziggurat and other matter in the foreground. Have to try to dig out my old pic of the spot and scan it.

      Here's my own reminiscence, for the little it's worth.

      I feel oddly attached to this spot as well. I was a yank going to university at UCL. I had just arrived in Glasgow sometime in the late spring, '86 (just finished the last term before summer, I think). The sun was making its first faltering appearances of the year, which felt blinding nonetheless. I got off the tube at Cowcaddens and was wandering around to find where I was to stay. This was the first landmark I saw. I thought, "this is curious" and snapped a quick shot. It ended up being kind of emblematic of what makes Glasgow special to me. Here we have a crater (from the demolition of a tenement, perhaps, some of the not-so-creative architectural destruction that hit the town after the '60s?) juxtaposed against some marvelous public art that someone, for reasons of his or her own, took the trouble to put on the now-exposed side of the remaining row house. Nice. Beauty and the blight. It's the kind of thing that makes come back to visit whenever I can.

    3. Jim at Fotosyn 86 months ago | reply

      Spent many a lunch-hour round here too... and a few bevvy sessions when I studied in the Foulis building round at GSA.

      Ahhh the memories!

    4. jpordude 47 months ago | reply

      top photo, love it!

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