Tales of the Savoy: Memoirs of Glasgow Cafe Society |
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Joe Pieri
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Pages: 183 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1897784945
Pub: Neil Wilson Publishing
Pub date: 1999-10-19
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 275642
Reader Reviews:
Tales of the Savoy (0/1 people found this helpful)
Superb nostalgia, as a former customer of the Savoy..I knew Glaswegians of the colourful types so vividly captured by this fine author...reminds me of Jaconelli's Cafe at Queens Cross, too. Also of the old beat cops like Big John McLeod from the Island, who took no guff from drunks, punks or punters.
A good read...
Coocaddins (2/2 people found this helpful)
I've never lived in the area of Glasgow where most of the book is based. I wasn't born until after that era had ended, however, I found the book fascinating and thought it was a great, caricaturistic view of the people living and working in and around the Cowcaddens area at that time.
A by-gone day captured with imagination and reflects with amusement a more obscure side of Glasgow life.Well worth a read.
Initial Enthusiasm leading to disappointment (2/6 people found this helpful)
I began my reading with considerable interest as it related to an area in which I had lived albeit as a small child and in which my father continued to have a business for many years.I could not see the sense of the author having adopted the name Mario Pietri as he was quite clearly referring to his own experiences but I chose to dismiss this.I continued to enjoy the book until I came to the chapter on the safebreaker...The Freddie referred to here was quite clearly my own father but his wife was not called Teresa and she never had any secret formula for the ice cream which was considered to be the best.They never lived above the shop....never....Yes they had a safe in the house and were the victims of a robbery but not by anyone like the character described....I could go on....I did with increasing incredulity.
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