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things that used to be in waterford ya can remember

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    #1082
    KK4SAM
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    fed up sick and tired wrote: »
    Was that in O'Connell St. ?

    Yes, I believe it was.


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    #1083
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 38,349 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Anyone remember mcgintys pub where lidl on the tramore road is now ??.


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    #1084
    JourneyMan8
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    dignity:D and I don't mean the bar;)


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    #1085
    MRnotlob606
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    Wilsons on barrack Street


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    #1086
    AMGer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭AMGer


    Fitzmaurice's in town, especially the toy section in the 80s.


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    #1087
    Nite Klub
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Nite Klub


    Billy Boyce's
    The Barracks in Newport Square
    Alice and her sister in The Park Shop
    The Infirmary A&E Dept.
    Delacatos Arcade next to the chip shop


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    #1088
    obezyana
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    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Anyone remember mcgintys pub where lidl on the tramore road is now ??.

    Was that not down a bit further where smyths and all those are now. I know it is basically the same area I'm just asking as I'm not too sure if I'm on about the same one.


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    #1089
    Wanderer78
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    obezyana wrote: »
    Was that not down a bit further where smyths and all those are now. I know it is basically the same area I'm just asking as I'm not too sure if I'm on about the same one.

    that would be correct


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    #1090
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    that would be correct

    Cheers I remember being in there when they were auctioning stuff belong to the bar. Wasnt it part of a hotel or something.


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    #1091
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 29,387 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    obezyana wrote: »
    Cheers I remember being in there when they were auctioning stuff belong to the bar. Wasnt it part of a hotel or something.

    hotel wasnt it?


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    #1092
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    hotel wasnt it?


    Yeah I seem to recall it being a small hotel. The day of the auction the place was swarmed with people looking to buy what they could for as cheap as possible, kind of sad in a way that a business cant survive and ends up being stripped.


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    #1093
    StringerBell
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    Was it a hotel of sorts? I don't remember that, one of my friends used to work there as a bar man so we would pop in to him for a pint now and then. Never copped the hotel part :)

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



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    #1094
    The Bowling Alley
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭The Bowling Alley


    The Ivory Lodge


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    #1095
    wmpdd3
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    Yeah, I remember going out to see the ivory lodge being 'built'. It came in kit from and my father was dying to see how it was put together. Thinking back it was really just timer framed.

    I did a few Guinness promotions out there, the staff were lovely, but if say it was only open led than 5 years in all.


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    #1096
    obezyana
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    The Bowling Alley wrote: »
    The Ivory Lodge

    Thats the one. :)


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    #1097
    fiachr_a
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    The post office at the corner of Alphonsus Road with the scary woman with grey hair.


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    #1098
    Guramoogah
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    Does anyone remember the garage that used to be on Parnell Street where the Bank of Ireland is now located, alongside St. Joseph's School? I can't remember the name of it.


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    #1099
    Tim the Enchanter
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    Does anyone remember a fella called Billy Womble selling fireworks down the apple market in the run up to Halloween? You'd go up to him, give him your money and he'd meet you down spring garden ally to give you the fireworks.


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    fed up sick and tired
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    Tim the Enchanter wrote: »
    Does anyone remember a fella called Billy Womble selling fireworks down the apple market in the run up to Halloween? You'd go up to him, give him your money and he'd meet you down spring garden ally to give you the fireworks.

    Is that Billy the Womble who ran the martial arts gym up in the old jute factory ?


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    #1101
    Tim the Enchanter
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    fed up sick and tired wrote: »
    Is that Billy the Womble who ran the martial arts gym up in the old jute factory ?

    Don't think so. This lad was from Dublin. Had an old brown leather jacket that he used to hide the fireworks in.


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    #1102
    Tim the Enchanter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Tim the Enchanter


    fed up sick and tired wrote: »
    Is that Billy the Womble who ran the martial arts gym up in the old jute factory ?

    Don't think so. This lad was from Dublin. Had an old brown leather jacket that he used to hide the fireworks in.


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    #1103
    fed up sick and tired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭fed up sick and tired


    Tim the Enchanter wrote: »
    Don't think so. This lad was from Dublin. Had an old brown leather jacket that he used to hide the fireworks in.

    Different lad by the sounds of it.


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    #1104
    Chip Whitley
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    I remember the great Christmas window displays in Kavanaghs Electrical on Parnell St!


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    #1105
    jelutong
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    Hearing The Royal Showband rehearsing in The Olympia through an open window in the Tech. Off topic I know but I wonder if anyone else remembers.


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    .Henry Sellers.
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    Anyone remember a trailer all done up for Christmas with a fella dressed up as Santa inside blaring Christmas music and giving out lollipops, he was towed around all the housing estates years ago. Used to be great craic as the whole street would be out on the road.


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    fiachr_a
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    Chip Whitley wrote: »
    I remember the great Christmas window displays in Kavanaghs Electrical on Parnell St!

    I remember teenage lads queuing up for an apprenticeship in there.


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    #1108
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 38,349 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    a bit of my childhood died last week when Xtra Vision ballybricken (and all the others) closed down. Used to love going in there and browsing through all the dvds/games etc.

    Its sad to say we only have 1 major DVD store in Waterford City (CEX and Rainbow records are 2nd hand stores and wud not sell the latest titles).

    was there ever a reason why HMV/Virgin Megastore never moved to Waterford City ??


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    #1109
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 29,387 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    was there ever a reason why HMV/Virgin Megastore never moved to Waterford City ??

    abviously not viable for them. id say it wont be too long and golden disks will be gone as well


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    #1110
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭jmcc


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    was there ever a reason why HMV/Virgin Megastore never moved to Waterford City ??
    By the time it got around to considering Waterford, the city had broadband? Most of those types of shops would only be viable in cities with larger populations than Waterford. Even stuff like Spotify is competing with the old retail model.

    Regards...jmcc


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    obezyana
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    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    abviously not viable for them. id say it wont be too long and golden disks will be gone as well

    I'm surprised there is any record stores open these days. I'm one of those who have stopped buying albums in a shop. It is something I used to do every week now I just download. For me it was a price issue, why buy an album in a shop for 17quid when it can be got online for half that or even free if you felt that mean not to buy :)


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