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Leggy, breezy, bouncy and Smillie

Those were the days ...

- KEN SMITH

FISHNET tights and an American flag. Girls on the left raise your right leg, girls on the right raise your left one. You can imagine the photograph­er barking the orders. My jaw drops just a little as I read someone writing in the Glasgow Herald in 1981: “If you have ‘pzazz’ you have style, charm, charisma, sparkle and oomph. You are in fact just the sort of person who is likely to be going to a new and exclusive disco in the centre of Glasgow called Pzazz.” Admittedly it was an advertisem­ent feature. Pzazz was opened above Charlie Parker’s in Royal Exchange Square and rather then have folk with oomph and sparkle, it tended to have footballer­s, car dealers and, em, journalist­s.

Beneath a lot of hair in this picture is Carol Smillie, one of the Pzazz staff, who went on to have a successful career in television. At least she lasted longer in the public eye than Pzazz which is now the bar/diner One Up.

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Copies of our archive photograph­s can be ordered by emailing photoenqui­ries@ heraldandt­imes. co.uk or via our website www. thepicture­desk. co.uk

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