Days of yore

gbee

Dudess wrote: »

It's really interesting to hear about the Munster Arcade, Egans, the Savoy being a cinema etc though - anyone remember back that far?

Worked as a lift boy in the Munster Arcade when I was 10, circa 1962. There was a specific weigh to carry and I was constantly getting into trouble in the posh section, the St Patrick's Street entrance for overloading it with rich women.

Under threat of the sack if I did it again, having filled the lift a nun approached, of all people a nun in those days, those days one would kneel down at Angelus time and say the prayer, so the fact that I had to ask the nun to wait for the next lift threw a fox fur collared woman into a rage and I protested back which startled everyone.

There I was in the poshest store in town having given back talk and everyone was looking at me, even the fox's head was looking at me. I was taken by the hand by the lady floor walker and brought to the office straight away, there I was deported to the working class lift, the Oliver Plunkett Street entrance.

I did get to see and assist Santa, that was a treat and they had the best film in town too and the sound would boom out over the city, that sound would drive me crazy in previous Christmas's as we lived on a top floor adjacent to the Munster Arcade.

We could not afford to visit Santa so this job made up for it big time, I was sneaked into the cinema by my boss, a tall thin gentleman wearing spectacles and those brown store coats.

gbee

fitzdragon wrote: »

I remember the Savoy being a cinema and going there every Saturday in the late 60's and early 70's , it used to be full of kids .

I'd have been one o dem kids too.

Babette

Does anyone remember a cafe, more like an old-fashioned tea-room, which was on Prince's St I think. You went up a narrow stairs and it was on two levels. I think it became the Step-In eventually but can't remember what the earlier incarnation was called.

Thompsons on MacCurtain St was the king of the Cork cafes. It's now a modern wasteland (call centre) - if I ever win the lotto I'll buy the building and stuff it with cream cakes and odd paintings again.

Halpins was the only restaurant in town I can ever remember being taken to on rare occasions of eating out. And Mandy's was considered the sophisticated choice for kids' birthday parties circa 1980.

babo9

razorblunt wrote: »

The Savoy when it was games arcade with a huge slide.

I loved that place, the owner was a really nice man too. When I went down the slide the first time I stupidly didn't keep my hands away from the edges, I ending up burning them and crying, my Dad half knew the owner and he came down and gave me free stuff and I think some coin chips so I could play loads of arcade games, it took away the tears Bomberman, what an arcade game!

Another time I got my finger wacked while plaing air hockey, owner did the same again

Later when it started to loose business and it was only one floor, I was in there with my Dad and the owner guy was working the tills, there was practically nobody around and I saw a Migthy Max Snake toy in a claw machine, I thought it was cool. (don't ask me how you were suppose to pick that up!)
Just googled it, here's the toy, brings back memories


But anyway the guy opened up the machine and just gave me the toy, I was delighted