GLASGOW and New York are linked in many ways, through commerce, culture and even layout, being grid-like cities that grew up around their rivers.
Writing in the Evening Times, Dollan composed a series of articles on the visit, noting that he worked for 15 hours each day and visited every municipal department available to him, travelling more than 2400 miles around the city and beyond.
Comparing the spectacle with the 1938 Empire Exhibition held in Glasgow, he called the New York extravaganza “a marvellous enterprise but not so pleasing artistically as Bellahouston.”Dollan found more comparisons between the Big Apple and his homeland. Broadway was New York’s version of Argyle Street and Fifth Avenue was simply the American answer to Great Western Road, whilst “Coney Island is a popular adaptation of Dunoon and Rothesay at the Glasgow Fair.
Much hinged on the personalities of Dollan and La Guardia, his counterpart in New York and in some respect the second most powerful man in the country.La Guardia and Dollan were in many ways kindred spirits. The children of immigrants, they were both hardened political campaigners with a gift for rhetoric and ran their respective complex municipal machines through the power of personality.“Pat Dollan is a swell guy,” remarked La Guardia after their first meeting. “He is just like me.
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