This Is My GlasgowMay 20

Love this ghost sign on Clarkston Road in Muirend. The MER refers to the nearby Merrylee Telephone Exchange, which was built in 1928. This means the sign can be dated from between that year and 1966 when All-Figure Dialling was introduced in the UK, and the MER prefix was replaced with the code 637. I've no idea which business this number once belonged to.

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Show threadBodhipaksaMay 20
@thisismyglasgow Here you go. This is from the "MASSEURS AND MASSEUSES" section of Macdonald's Scottish Directory and Gazetteer, the 1940 edition. I guess MICM stands for Member of the Institute for Something Something (possibly massage)?
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@bodhipaksa @thisismyglasgow
Probably not Member of the Institute of Credit Management, or (even less likely!) Mancipia Immaculati Cordis Mariae.
May 20 at 4:53pmWeb
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@decembr14 @bodhipaksa @thisismyglasgow

The abbreviation can occasionally appear in Scottish census or medical documents as Member of the Institute of Chiropodists (or Masseurs). An example, 1940s newspaper archives from Lanarkshire practicing in the Glasgow area. Puzzled if sufficient income to fund, indeed warrants a telephone... British Newspaper Archive https://share.google/GF327q5cbzzJAmBEK

3 or 4 rows up from the bottom of that page,