Lose the captions, an eyesore and youtube auto captions for anyone who needs it

Went into Glasgow city centre recently. What struck me was how  filthy the city was! Bin bags piled everywhere!!

How Glasgow has changed since then😟

Pity it's no longer like that 😞

Do we need your purple subtitles?

Peaked in 2001. Slow decline started in 2014 with funding dried up. 97 was a great time. I went to the Jazz fest with my dad! I was at Uni then, grew up in the East end (all semi-gentrified now). I miss those days. Packed with people and cafes, gigs, clubs, niche shops. Music scene for all genres was insane. Cinemas huge, and a massive variety of things that have since vanished. The whole place constantly buzzed with the sound of cars, taxis, people and life - day and night. All lit up with those old sodium vapour street lights - giving the city streets an iconic orange glow at night.  It's a ghost town now, compared to then.

Return Forbidden Planet to it’s original store 😅

Great video. Any chance of uploading in 4:3 without the burnt-in subtitles?

Sad to see how it's become. A sea of deliveroo riders, closed department stores, mobile phone repair shops, vape shops and Turkish barbers. Like every other major city/town in the UK.

John Street Jam!  Sank a few pints in there in the 90’s.  Man I’m getting old!🤣

Edit:  I watched them build Buchanan Galleries from my college classroom and now i believe it’s due to be demolished and replaced with residential buildings.

Most high streets have changed dramatically. The way we shop has affected footfall majorly...hence the reason why it's not that good anymore .😔

It isn’t Buchanan street bus station it’s Buchanan bus station and it’s on killarmont st

I think Buchanan Galleries is being pulled down now, 25 years later.

The captions really detract from the quality of this film. It completely spoils the footage and makes the film inaccessible for people with visual or perceptual impairments. Please consider re-uploading with the tiktok style captions.

Jesus, these subtitles are ruining every single video on this channel!

Talk of the Galleries being demolished, such a waste, such short sighted planning and lack of creative ways to develop a relatively new development.

25yrs on the want to pull down the Buchanan Galieries didn't even last three decades.

Enjoying the lack of graffiti that lights the city now.

City center is a mess thes days.

Glasgow seemed to peak around 1997-2004. Kinda got worse year on year since then, and it is back to the dump it was in the 70s and 80s. For that period between 1997-2004, it felt like a fashionable, metropolitan city, the cool alternative to the rather naff bland Edinburgh.

Back when people who had money went into the city centre to spend it. Now they all spend online, or out-of-town centres at the best. Leaving the city centre for beggars and refugees. Glasgow in 2024 reminds me of Johannesburg CBD when I visited in 1999 - an empty shell with economic activity displaced elsewhere.

Absolutely destroyed these days, so sad.