A pub in Dennistoun is well known for its ’Hollywood’ style mural. We uncovered the story behind it.
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00:00That was done by a good friend of ours, close to the business, a chap called Ciarán Globel.
00:04Him and his brother have got a street, well, sign painting business, but a big presence in the street art scene.
00:12And Ciarán's drank in the bar since day one, so Ciarán actually, he did the work on the front there,
00:20that sort of describes what the bar's about.
00:22And after lockdown, when we were reopening after lockdown,
00:25we took that opportunity to have a wee sort of re-jig and do ups and decor and stuff like that.
00:31And the idea came to just do something interesting on that wall, and then we just let Ciarán do the rest.
00:37So the logic of it, and I wouldn't want to take words out of Ciarán's mouth there, but
00:42it's obviously a riff on a wee bit of the Hollywood sign, but also those old-fashioned
00:49American postcards that say, greetings from Hoboken, New Jersey, or Laramie, Wyoming,
00:58and it's always got that sort of romanticised postcard font fading into the distance.
01:02So it's a combination of those two elements.
01:05And I think that was just, Ciarán was sort of surfing the zeitgeist of lots of
01:10neighbourhoods were doing interesting street art that acknowledged their environment a wee bit.
01:13So Ciarán did that, tapped into those sources, and then had a wee bit of fun with it.
01:18So we acknowledged that there's a bit of spirit about Deniston,
01:21which is why there's the Liddell sign and there's the tyre burning.
01:25And as it was getting painted, another publication
01:30decreed Deniston to be the eighth coolest neighbourhood in the Western world.
01:34So that's why there's the Daft Wee flag with number eight on it as well.
01:36So it's just a nice combination of being proud that we're looking forward,
01:40but also not forgetting, you know, where we've come from.