Who remembers Jellybaby Thursday?
From a Victorian picture house to one of the city centre’s busiest nightlife spots, this Sauchiehall Street venue entertained the people of Glasgow for well over a century.
Long before it began life as one of the best clubs in Glasgow, the building served several purposes over the years. Just ten years later it was transformed into an indoor skating rink and then went on to become home to Hengler’s Circus. When circus events were not on show, the building served as aThe name ABC came along in 1929 when the dance hall was transformed into a proper cinema seating 2359 people, while still maintaining its original features from over 50 years previously. The dance floor was used for the stalls, and guests would enter using the twin staircase that always remained.
It reopened in 2005 after a multi-million-pound investment and the Academy Music Group took over as the majority stakeholder in 2009, thus rebranding it the 02 ABC.
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