cycling to dance halls in the 60's

dancemaire

Help!

I'm finishing a higher diploma course and am making a programme for its completion and I'm looking for any photos of large groups of people on bicycles in the 60's going to/outside dancehalls.


Thank you

CheGuedara

If you do a search of the Kennelly Archives you should be able to find a few has a pile of old photos in it

dancemaire

Thanks CheGuedara really appreciate the help.

dancemaire

No luck in the Kennelly archive for groups of people going to the dancehalls in the 1960's so would anyone have any photos of a group/groups of people on bicycles in the 1960's. (Must be with overcoats or dressed up a bit - ie that we could imagine they are going to a dance hall)

Thanks !

CheGuedara

So very specific

Must be 1960s, on a bicycle, going to a dance, dressed up or wearing an overcoat- what kind of higher diploma is this?! H.Dip in obscure vintage photography?!:D

In anycase these look like they would do the job







...could totally be going to a dance

(thats CheGuedara, not Che Guedara when doing the acknowledgements )

Beasty

Don't think the Morecambe and Wise one works - the shadows suggest it was taken around lunchtime:D

ED E

Beasty wrote: »

Don't think the Morecambe and Wise one works - the shadows suggest it was taken around lunchtime:D

Easily changed...

petethedrummer

I also doubt there were Lingerie shops in Ireland in the 60s.

CheGuedara

Beasty wrote: »

Don't think the Morecambe and Wise one works - the shadows suggest it was taken around lunchtime:D

Could be heading to the gig early!

petethedrummer wrote: »

I also doubt there were Lingerie shops in Ireland in the 60s.

But there is photoshop in Ireland in 2010!

Asked around actually and the consensus is that you might be looking for something that might not exist: fewer would have probably cycled to a dance after the mid-50s as cars became more popular and affordable.

dancemaire

Thanks all !

The overcoats - not necessary !

Just a group of people (girls and guys) cycling that could look like they're going to a dance in the 60's.

CramCycle

dancemaire wrote: »

Thanks all !

The overcoats - not necessary !

Just a group of people (girls and guys) cycling that could look like they're going to a dance in the 60's.

Just talking to my Dad and he tells me that it was incredibly rare to cycle to a dance in the 60s, Everyone in the midlands had access to cars back then. A few lads did but not many.

dancemaire

Thanks all again.

Either the 1950's or 1960's - the dancing went on for a while !

dancemaire

Hi,can anyone help with photos in the 1950's of a few people or groups who look like they're going out dancing to a dancehall.

Thanks

SerialComplaint

Try http://www.nli.ie/digital-photographs.aspx

Doctor Bob

Are ya dancin'?
Are ya askin'?
I'm askin'...
Away so! Hup ya boy ya!

Doctor Bob

I should probably add a few explanatory lines.

I'm almost certain that the photo is American, or possibly Canadian. It's from a Canadian friend of mine, Ashley, who doesn't know the people in the picture. Her grandmother thinks the girl is one of "Buster's sluts"- Buster being Ashley's grandad, a man with quite the eye for the ladies, according to grandma. That's not Buster in the photo, though.

I do think that if you put him in a tweed jacket and changed the background architecture from the Mitteleuropean derivative pictured to something more thatchy, the scene could be straight out of the Emerald Isle, to be sure.

At a guess, I'd say it's early 1950s?

(I don't know what you need them for, dancemaire, but I'm guessing that I'd need to check with Ashley before it could be used. Let me know if you think it might suit your needs.)