Glasgow memories: When city revisited its rock'n'roll heyday in style

So many readers have got in touch to share their memories of the beloved Eglinton Toll dance hall that we thought it was worth another delve into the archives to see what we had.

Our photographers were on the scene to capture young rock and roll dancers in action at the Plaza’s regular competition.

Rockin’ the night away at The Plaza in April, 1976 Some of the young people involved in the ballroom’s dance competition go for it. Pic: Herald and Times

Smooth moves in the dance competition, April 1976. Pic: Herald and Times

Were you there?

Over at Tiffany’s on Sauchiehall Street, the rock and roll era was alive and kicking too.

“It’s the age of the dandy again for the 1976 rock ‘n’ rollers in their elegant suits at Tiffany’s,” we reported.

The article took a nostalgic look back at 50s Glasgow, when the city was ‘a whirlpool of rock ‘n’ roll sound’.

Tiffany's nightclub. Pic: Herald and Times

It continued: “The rock capital of Europe, they called it. Bill Haley and his Comets played here and saw a team of Glasgow jivers and wanted to take them to the States but their mammies wouldn’t let them go.”

In the end, laments our reporter, “rock ‘n’ roll gave way to the Beatles and the Beatles broke up and ‘Puppet on a String’ was born.

“But in small groups, hidden away like guerrilla fighters in urban jungles, the Teds carried on.

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“And now they’ve begun to re-emerge, complete with all the gear, at Tiffany’s in Sauchiehall Street every Monday night and twice a month at the Watermill in Paisley.

“Some roll up on motorbikes reminiscent of Hell’s Angels, more zoom in rding a green Cadillac, vintage late Fifties, with tailfins from here to Nashville.”

Tiffany's on Sauchiehall Street. Pic: Herald and Times

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