Photograph Notes: In the foyer of partick railway and underground station, by Sculptor Ranald Maccoll. The plaque in the background tells the story as follows... "Many will recall the G.I. Bride as one of the cast of Bud Neill's celebrated 1950's (sic) cowboy cartoon strip Lobey Dosser. She is immortalised here in bronze in her home town of 'Pertick'. She originally lived in Neill's mythical Calton Creek, a small town in the Arizona desert which was populated soley by Glasgow emigrants. However, like many real-life Scottish women she had married a G.I. and followed him to what she thought would be a better life in America only to return home disillusioned. In the cartoon strip, she is seen to be constantly trying to hitchhike home to Scotland. We will never know if she made it back but we can salute her guts and determination with this significant sculpture. The location is doubly appropriate since Bud Neill was born in Partick. The G.I. Bride is a companion piece to the Lobey Dosser/Rank Bajin equestrian statue on Woodlands Road in Glasgow and was commissioned by patron of the arts Colin Beattie in partnership with SPT and C. Spencer Ltd." See also [[677111]].
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