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Picture
Halls...."kin a go tae the pictures
Mammy?"
| Premier Picture Hall, in Kirkpatrick Street was known locally as the
'Wee Geggie' |
2002 Click to see more
photographs of Kirkpatrick
Street
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The entrance to the ' Wee Geggie' was between the two rainwater pipes, below the
bay window.
The Premier Picture Hall was converted from an engine works in 1910
and seated 700 people.
It closed its doors in 1957 was a warehouse but is now closed and up for
let.
The Auditorium was flat floored.
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Extract from e-mail, Ronnie McPhee,
London, England, Aug.2002 (E-mail
Ronaldmac3@aol.com)
"Remember
Joe the doorman letting you in The Geggie via the back door for tuppence
when the main entrance price was sixpence, and as there was no drinkig
water (cos they wanted you to buy cold drinks) when it was sweltering (as
it often was) you took a handfull of water from the flushed toilet !"
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Extract from e-mail, May Ballantyne
(nee Cuthbertson), Ontario, Canada, Oct.2002
(E-mail
tba )
"
This website keeps getting better !.....
....does
anyone remember the wee Geggie in Kirkpatrick St. Where we saw Roy
Rogers and Gene Autry and the foally up wi'Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon,
All for threepence on a Saturday morning ?"
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Extract from e-mail, Junior Morrow,
Glasgow, Scotland, Oct.2002 (E-mail:
tba )
"Why was the Premier picture house
called the wee geggie? Was there a big geggie?
I remember my first horror movie at the geggie it was the"BEAST WITH
THE FIVE FINGERS" I had to run down the middle of Kirkpatrick St.across
the London Rd.down Marquis St.away from dark closes I was that scared! Ii
had to shout up to my ma to come to the stairhead and make sure I got
safely in the house before that hand grabbed me by the throat!!!!WOW!!
SCARY MOVIE!!......"
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Extract from e-mail, Ronnie McPhee,
London, England, Oct.2002 (E-mail
Ronaldmac3@aol.com)
".In
response to "Junior" Morrow's inquiry about The Geggie.
The fact is that there was throughout Glasgow in the 1920/30s "Penny
Geggies" which were travelling cinema shows, this being at the very
early stage of cinematography.
Why the Premier in Kirkpatrick street continued to be called the "Geggie"
is anyone's guess, however the fact that many of these cinemas were "flearidden"
might have some significance. Some will recall the expression "going
in wae a fur coat, coming oot wae a bag"?
Does anyone remember when there was a technical hitch in the film that all
of the audience would stamp their feet, and in unison and cry out
"why are we waiting", the effect of this was the "chuckeroot"
flashing his torch upon you and stating in no uncertain terms "anymer
o that and yer oot". Does anyone else
remember watching "The Incredible Shrinking Man" at the Geggie
and realising that this was a masterpiece of sci fi entertainment?.
And all at the Wee Geggie in Kirkpatrick Street."
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Extract from e-mail,
Dec.2002 (name withheld)
Ah remember
drinking frae the toilet pan in the Geggie, as they had sealed aff the
drinking tap and turned the heating up full blast, so that ye wid buy thur
'Keeora' orange drinks, and as I had nae money havin skipped in in the
furst place, I had tae resort tae the lavvy pan!. |
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