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KELVINGROVE ART Gallery and Museum is typical of the treasures Glasgow will be showing off as Euro-

SCOTTISH CITY EXPERIENCING RENAISSANCE

Arts flourish in Glasgow

GLASGOW — This old city, wich according to the song
can be bought for 2 couple of drinks on a Saturday night, is
about to launch an $80 million, year-long party as it cele-
brates as European City of Culture for 1990.

Ten years ago the idea would
have been a poor joke, for the
common perception of Glasgow
was a run-down city of soot-stain-
ed buildings, derelict factories and
empty shipyards.

travel
talk

David Wishart

Now, here is Glasgow following
in the footsteps of Athens,
Florence and Paris, and is about to
embark on a year of ambitious
cultural events, from the Bolshoi
to Pavarotti to a remarkable Van
Gogh exhibition. What happened?

Glasgow, founded 816 years
ago, made its name internationally
from tobacco and shipbuilding.
Shepherds left the glens and
weavers abandoned their looms to
work in the city, and in the heart
of it a small boy called James Watt
became fascinated by his mother's
whistling kettle. In his prime he
would invent the steam engine
which powered the industrial revo-
lution.

Glasgow flourished and became
the second city in the erapire. The
Clyde was the birthplace of the
Queen Mary and the Q&2, and it
was from here that locomotives
from the Springburn works were
exported around the world.

The last war exhausted Glasgow,
and it was unable to compete with
the rice-bow! wages of Far Eastern
shipyards. Where there were once
40 shipyards there are just two to-
day; the decline spread to other
heavy industries and 170,000
manufacturing jobs were lost in a
decade.

Enter Eddie Friel in 1983 as

chief executive of the Greater
Glasgow Tourist Board. One day
he went into a Glasgow hotel and
asked the receptionist what there
was 10 do in Glasgow on a Sunday
afternoon. ‘‘Go to Edinburgh,”’
she said without looking up.

Today, Glasgow has displaced
Edinburgh, 40 tiles to the east, as
Scotland’s leading tourist destina-
tion.

Along the way Glasgow’s dreary
image has been transformed. Since
1985, more than $2 billion worth
of new construction has been built
or is planned, including a conven-
tion centre, a concert hall, three
hotels and some of the most imag-
inative new shopping centres in
Britain, such as Princes Square in
Buchanan Street.

The city has changed color.
Grime and soot has been sand-
blasted off buildings to reveal
streets of cream and pink sand-
stone. Merchant City, just behind
George Square, has been
transformed into an attractive ur-
ban melange of shops, offices and
restaurants.

Glasgow has become fashionable
as a desirable, inexpensive yet ac-
cessible place to live and work, as
well as a mecca for tourists since
the opening of the Burrell art col-
lection, now the top attraction in
Scotland with a million visitors

every year.
Friel is modest about the
achievement. ‘‘Even at its lowest

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ebb,”” he says, ‘‘Glasgow had a lot
going for it.””

It has 20 museums and galleries,
among them the ornate Kelv-
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the largest public reference library
in Europe, two universities and a
highly educated work force
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