This was always one of my favourite cinemas in Glasgow when I was a teenager, and also one of my favourite music venues in the city as an adult.

This was also the first place a film was publicly shown in Glasgow in 1896 (when it was still an ice rink).

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The entrance to the O2 ABC Music Venue on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.

This building started life as an entertainment venue called the Diorama in 1875. It then became the Panorama (1878), Hubner's Ice Skating Palace (1885), Hengler's Circus (1904), the Waldorf Palace dance hall (1927) and a cinema in 1929. It became a music venue in the 2000s, but has been closed since 2018 when it was badly damaged in a fire.

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