Dundalk Nostalgia thread

Feelgood

Ahhh the days of buying 50 year old German army boots in Jocks and the fake hand grenades they used to sell.

Here were did Jocks disappear to anyway?. Flannery's snooker place is gone too..

Snoddy

:eek::eek::eek:

Must have been a ghost or I entered a time warp at the square, I could have sworn I saw him legging it across the road with his stripey bag.

Wonder if we'll ever have eccentrics like that again?

Wertz

Snoddy wrote: »

Wonder if we'll ever have eccentrics like that again?

A safe bet I'd say.

Ann22

Ah I'd say there'l always be local odd folk:). The singing chap that marches up and down the town dressed in mad stuff, he was interviewed in the Argus a while back and they called him Rambo, and there's that nice little smiley happy red faced man with the hat that's always in the Long Walk shopping centre talking gibberish to everyone? I saw him driving a car once, looked totally sensible behind the wheel.

gernon

Paddy McDowell aka John Rambo aka The King definitely one of the few genuine characters left around Dundalk . I seen him frighten the **** out of a lorry driver at the lights on Castletown Road one evening as he suddenly burst into song:D
The little guy who shakes everybodys hand in the Long Walk is Paddy Clarke from Kilkerley he had a mild stroke a few years ago and has a slight speech impediment but if you took him for an eejit you wouldn't be long leaving him back.

Ann22

Ah God bless him. Then there's your man on the bike with the long grey hair. Is it Buckie they call him? He rides for miles on that bike. Years ago there used to be a creepy auld fella with a mad red face who used to stand at the old bus office all the time, probably a nice man, just looked strange.

up the town

Funny you mention Rumble, I hear a reunion could be on the cards for jackie Murphys possibly round Christmas.



Bobo the forty year old man with the 4 inch ponytail, owner of that record store on Park St (Think it was next door to MJ's?) organiser in chief of these band nights. Wendimiller, Musclehead Vs Gravity Man, Fleur (A Suede covers band in Dundalk WTF!) After Purple and Rumble. Legends one and all, forget the bit where Pighead said the bands were crappy.

Ah the memories, Potters snooker hall and Mjs were great places for going on the mitch. The Muirheavna, now that was some spot, think I spent most of my 1st year at college there. Laps of the old shopping centre, hanging out, trying to be cool:D. The earl inn mad place especially on a college night, then up to the fairways, studio 8, it used to be the best about free drink from all the local barstaff, myself included.

kingshankly

what about that ejit in the vincents uniform whats his game

Ann22

I think I know his name but I won't say it here. God help him really:(. I believe he's a transexual. Think you have to live as a woman for about 2yrs before they'l operate. Saw him recently and he's dressing better than he was. Less flamboyantly.

FlipperThePriest

gernon wrote: »

Paddy McDowell aka John Rambo aka The King definitely one of the few genuine characters left around Dundalk ...

We were going around the town in the car with a squirt gun back in the college day and I nailed him right in the face at the top of the castletown rd, priceless. He took it in great faith waving and smiling after us - thank god, I'd say he'd kill ya! Heard some mad stories. Don't worry I got my comupins a few wks later when I got squirted by someone else. I know you might be thinking it's a cruel game but it's just summer fun! Strictly no women and children lol.:D

NightStrike

Feelgood wrote: »

Ahhh the days of buying 50 year old German army boots in Jocks and the fake hand grenades they used to sell.

Here were did Jocks disappear to anyway?. Flannery's snooker place is gone too..

Jock's is now outdoor exchange down there by the Long Walk. Jock himself still runs it. Just upgraded a hell of a lot!

Dan_B

What about Mongo, the guy who delivered papers on a bike.
Now he was one scary mofo!!

The VG in seatown that took butter vouchers for cigarettes.

Clarks forest, refuge of the mitchers

Crazy prices, man I worked there for £2.09 an hour.

Has anyone mentioned Tivoli's yet?

Ann22

Is that the same Mongo as the deaf fella who does tattoos?

trad

Anyone remember Mid-Summer Nite Maddness out in Ballymac?

peking97

Anyone remember McCann's Banana Walk?

10green bottles

trad wrote: »

Anyone remember Mid-Summer Nite Maddness out in Ballymac?

great nights at mid-summer maddness.
Great crowd and i learned very quickly to hold onto EMPTY glasses.
No glass no free re-fill.
I ended up one year drinking a (very large)pint from a hotel flower vase.The lads and lassies from the round table that were doing the bar piss*d their asses laughing when i presented that for a re-fill:)
Happy days indeed

trad

My best recollection of mid summer nite maddness is the Sachville String Band playing the Tenessee Waltz as an instrumental, one of the patrons waltzing by steps into the mic perfectly on cue and in key, sings a verse much to the amusement of the band and then steps back into his stride with his dancing partner.


What about the Roma? I friend of mine from Ravensdale who is 87 used to hang around there when he was up the town in the 30's.

DundalkDuffman

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Ann22

peking97 wrote: »

Anyone remember McCann's Banana Walk?

Where was that-the Ramparts? I remember McCann's fruit on the Ramparts and McCanns' bakery in Bridge St. Remember the van would go round. Our neighbours used to get a big tray of buns..bástards:D...we'd be looking out the window with our mouths watering:(. The heel of a McCanns loaf with butter and strawberry jam....mmm!

Ann22

trad wrote: »

What about the Roma? I friend of mine from Ravensdale who is 87 used to hang around there when he was up the town in the 30's.

I was wondering that lately, how long has the Roma been there? Mama Roma looks the same as she always did. My nan used to bring my sister up there to play Lulu's 'Boom bang a bang' on the jukebox around 1969. Amazing to hear it was there in the '30's. Must've been Mama or Papa Roma's parents or grandparents who had it then.

Bande_nere

Going back even further, does anyone remember

Ice-cream from Malocca's on Park St and Parkes on Clanbrassil St.
The old Adelphi when it was just one big cinema and all sorts got thrown off the balcony.
The trees along the entrance to the CBS secondary school.
Victor Witmarshes books and shop.
The Orange Pip facing Dunnes on Park St.
Kinney's bakery.
Taking a shortcut through the black pass and never knowing who you'd meet.
Bellingham Castle when it was THE place.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Bande_nere wrote: »

Going back even further, does anyone remember

Ice-cream from Malocca's on Park St and Parkes on Clanbrassil St.
The old Adelphi when it was just one big cinema and all sorts got thrown off the balcony.
The trees along the entrance to the CBS secondary school.
Victor Witmarshes books and shop.
The Orange Pip facing Dunnes on Park St.
Kinney's bakery.
Taking a shortcut through the black pass and never knowing who you'd meet.
Bellingham Castle when it was THE place.

Yes to all but what about pictures in St Nicholas' Hall, The little shops at the square (Mcardles, Donnellys etc). The Market House, and the Azzis in Park St and Bachelors Walk?

Princess Zelda

I'm sure some of you might not know about this Facebook group Old Dundalk Photos. It sure is a blast from the past going through the pictures there and reading the stories.

TopBombing

Princess Zelda wrote: »

I'm sure some of you might not know about this Facebook group Old Dundalk Photos. It sure is a blast from the past going through the pictures there and reading the stories.

Some great photo's in there.

peking97

Ann22 wrote: »

Where was that-the Ramparts?

No. McCann's fruiterers/nurseries in Haggardstown used to organise a *Banana Walk* every Summer along the Dublin Road and provide free bananas for those taking part...a real treat in the sixties!

DTMAC

Dont know if this thread is still alive but I was looking for the name of a chinese restaurant in Clanbrassil St. around late 80's. It was a bit up from Young's. (Opposite Kaytone - Cumiskey's). May have the wires crossed on this though- usually P****d when there:eek:

BordorFox

Speaking of the adelphi cinema been a single screen cinema, remember the cinema were PA's was?

Remember going to that with packed lunches

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

They were the Casino Maxi and Casino Mini - both tiny.:)

Ann22

Celine Few Eyebrow wrote: »

They were the Casino Maxi and Casino Mini - both tiny.:)

Remember there'd be big bubbles floating around on the screen before the film, there was a massive dead fly on one for ages. We went to see 'Grease' there. The first night I went the queue went for miles. They stopped us at the door 'cos it was full, devastated I was:(.

Ann22

Bande_nere wrote: »

The old Adelphi when it was just one big cinema and all sorts got thrown off the balcony.
Victor Witmarshes books and shop.
The Orange Pip facing Dunnes on Park St.
Kinney's bakery.
Taking a shortcut through the black pass and never knowing who you'd meet.
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My dad took us to bingo in the Adelphi a few times on a Sat night, that part was probably where the dances used to be held where my parents met and many others probably did too, where the women would line up on one side and the men on the other. Remember there used to be a little panel on the front wall with pictures of the film that'd be running in the cinema? There were some more of them in the foyer. It was a big novelty getting to the pictures back in those days.

I remember Whitmarshes book shop too, in Ann St.
Was the Orange Pip round the corner facing Oscars? Anyone else still call it Lucy Soraghan's corner?
Kinney's used to be in Bridge St wasn't it...though they owned The Emer too, there was a hairdresser upstairs.
Many's the short cut I took through the Black Pass, I used to walk uptown at night no bother back in the 80s.