Stand History Continued
At a cost of £60,000 Thistle had a stand built to last. There were six thousand seats including a modern innovation, 1,150 with tip-up chairs in the centre and there were seventy-five seats especially reserved for directors and their friends (this showed confidence, for directors only have friends when the team is winning). There were also seventy-five seats for reporters since Glasgow had a proper number of newspapers in those days.
The club was proud enough to put out a brochure for the technically minded: "The stand is built with steel framing, the front column next to Firhill Street is encased in brickwork, the ground floor is faced with red pressed facing brick and the upper part coated in roughcast cement. The flooring for seating is 2 in. thick, supported on reinforced concrete slabs fixed to steel raking beams every six feet.
The contour of the seating is such that every spectator has an uninterrupted view of every part of the playing pitch. The team rooms are commodious and have everything necessary for an up-to-date club. The office suite consists of directors' room, secretary's office and waiting room with tea and billiards room as adjuncts. A main corridor runs along the first floor where there are five ladies' rooms."
It has hardly changed to this day, apart from some cosmetic improvements and the introduction of a sauna, for freshening players and soothing directors. It was-and still is-simply the best place in Glasgow, Scotland or, some would say, the world to watch football.
(Ian Archer – The Centenary History of Partick Thistle Football Club: Molindinar Press 1976)