After looking through these, you might be feeling thankful for internet shopping.
As people across Glasgow prepare for Christmas, they're most likely ordering gifts in the swipe of a finger - worlds away from the massively stressful days gone by.
Spending long days trudging around town with bags as far as the eye could see, high street Christmas shopping was quite the event. While it's definitely still done, it's nowhere near as chaotic as it used to be. Long queues at the Disney store for the latest toy, ripping off your jacket in a hot department store just to freeze the minute you walked outside, there's a lot that we don't miss about the experience.Then again, it wasn't all bad. There was something quite exhilarating about the Christmas shop, like a festive Olympic sport that no one really won.
If you're yearning for days gone by, check out our photo gallery below - stretching right back to '70s Christmas Eve shopping at the Barras.View gallery READ NEXT: Billy Connolly’s memorable Glasgow moments in pictures as The Big Yin turns 80 Glasgow's vanished city centre sights captured in incredible 1960s footage
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