“It was the Evening Times,” smiles Hugh, who is 84 and now lives in Maryhill. “He always enjoyed the Lobey Dosser cartoon…” For the uninitiated, Lobey Dosser was the creation of Ayrshire-born cartoonist Bud Neill, who began writing for the Evening Times in January 1944. Ten years and 3000 cartoons later, he was interviewed for the newspaper and admitted he had been astonished when his first cartoon had appeared, and again when another one was published a couple of days later. “Come to think of it,” he wrote, “I have been living in an almost perpetual state of astonishment since then….” His most famous character was Lobey Dosser, the sheriff of Calton Creek, in the wild west of Arizona. He debuted in 1949 and Glaswegians took him – and his two-legged horse, El Fideldo, and his arch-enemy, Rank Bajin – to their hearts.
Earliest memory of Glasgow? I am 84 now but I still remember the sound of the bombs dropping on the night of the Clydebank Blitz, March 13, 1941. My sister Alice was born that night. The ambulance came to take my mother to Rottenrow Maternity Hospital. Favourite cinema? The first picture house I went to was the St James Paramount on Stirling Road, in Townhead. The locals called it ‘the buggy’…. My favourite was the Carlton. One or two of us would pay to get in, whilst the rest would skip in through the back door. We often got caught and received a clip on the ear before being ejected.
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