Limerick retro thread

The_Dave

bazz26 wrote: »

Don't know how he ever made money.

Probably a millionaire from selling single fags:D

bazz26

Don't think it is the same shop. The place that sold the single fags was a run down dump of a cottage. Karney's was further up the street close to where there is a newsagents now.

Mc Love

The way they used to sell the Leader outside the Leader office

overthebridge

Just had a flashback to the underage discos ran by the shannon rowing club out in the two mile inn. They used be jammers !
The old shannon arms and the old glenthworth used to run underage discos on a sunday afternoon from 2-6pm. Happy days they were !!
All we wanted was a cheeky smoke and a shift
A quick walk out of town into stix for a stix special and home in time for where in the world

Berty

overthebridge wrote: »

A quick walk out of town into stix for a stix special and home in time for where in the world

He is still doing those chips with the "all purpose" seasoning. I stole his recipe many years ago and have a jar of it myself tucked away.

overthebridge

Berty wrote: »

He is still doing those chips with the "all purpose" seasoning. I stole his recipe many years ago and have a jar of it myself tucked away.

I must call in next time I'm passing...

Stix was great until the smoking ban. That killed the snooker upstairs. I spent many a school day in there playing pool and snooker on the go.

The_Dave

overthebridge wrote: »

Just had a flashback to the underage discos ran by the shannon rowing club out in the two mile inn. They used be jammers !

Poldarks???

overthebridge

The_Dave wrote: »

Poldarks???

yea they were on in the poldarks venue...but were underage.
i was a few years too late to go to the 18's version

cliokat

God this thread is making me feel old!!!!! Bringing back memories of

The toy kiosk in the cresent with the helium balloons and stuffed teddy bears
Todd's Christmas display - with moving reindeers
Running riot through Roches stores toy shop
Feeling all grown-up as a teenager eating in Harry's cafe or coffee in javas
Cimena and bowling in the savoy - and having to go to the danky screens on the other side of bedford row

Berty

Ah well I remember the aul days of the Parkway shopping centre. Stealing pick n mix and skirting to the household section, under a display bed to gorge on a feast.

donutheadhomer

mitresize5 wrote: »

great thread .....

the guy who made all the wicker baskets and furniture on Lower Gearld Griffin St

going up the bank as far as Sandy on the long glorious summer days, leaving at 9am on the BMX and not coming back until 10pm that night and no one was too worried about you .......

Santa in Todds ....

swimming in Corbally Baths and Shannon Fields .....

crying my eyes out as my favourite uncle got the Slatterys bus to London from Spaights, who would have thought those days would ever come back

later on Flossy, Scuthy and Sammy Sayers in CBS

paid for my first pints in the james joyce on ellen st

I met sammy sayers a few months ago. He still tlooks the very same and even dresses the same. He was one lovely guy

BobMc

Holy Crap some flashbacks to my youth on here, those where the days of underage drinking when all we used to drink was pints of lager, no fancy alco pops in those days and tis no wonder the youth of today are so nuts with the kinda of booze they drink,

anyone remember the ESB strike back in the 90's was in Docs Bar that night with a young lady having a few drinks by candlelight, used to cycle in from corbally all the time, locked the bike on belltable fence met the young one and off we went, Desmond during the weeknites, Doc's, Tropics etc on the weekends, the weeknites where a sneaky out the bedroom window jobby which of course ended when I was eventually caught, was safe to walk home to late at night plus couldn't afford a cab home

OldGuysRule

The hitchers? Ah remember so many nights going anywhere in the city for a gig.

The great thing is they have kept reforming for a one off gig at Christmas, although no date set yet for this year. . . .

donutheadhomer

OldGuysRule wrote: »

The hitchers? Ah remember so many nights going anywhere in the city for a gig.

The great thing is they have kept reforming for a one off gig at Christmas, although no date set yet for this year. . . .

i remember so many good nights plastered dancing to them.

phill106

She broke my heart..so i ate her liver!

or


she's doing liberaci on the controls of the tv cause she knows noel edmunds on after the news


Loved the hitchers, think i must have some of the singles in the attic somewhere.

Mc Love

From looking through the Limerick photos on the link provided, i remember going into town with my parents and parking in the motor garage on Henry st.

AnCapaillMor

Mc Love wrote: »

From looking through the Limerick photos on the link provided, i remember going into town with my parents and parking in the motor garage on Henry st.

Heh i remember that one, bit of a kip, bumpiest car park ever and full of slippy oil stains. i remember missing the circus once because my nephew saw a puddle of oil in there and decented to jump in it and runied his white pants, by the time we got home for the pants to be changed and got back for the circus it was too late.

highlydebased

Mc Love wrote: »

From looking through the Limerick photos on the link provided, i remember going into town with my parents and parking in the motor garage on Henry st.

I remember that too!

bazz26

Some will probably remember this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXwumQxrRw

phill106

Was reminded of them in this thread earlier, some old bits of limerick in the vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k__IgXLmjIs

blackis200

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

Who remembers Spaights (where dunnes stores, Harveys Quay is) ?
It was a Hardware shop...nothing exciting about that, but when you paid for something the assistant would put the money and an invoice into a little metal jar which was then attached to a wire cable.
This cable (each department had one) was suspended above the shop and the jar was sent whizzing along it to the cash office.
The cashier would take out the cash and invoice, replace them with your change and a receipt and send the jar flying back over to the assistant.
When you're 7 years old you could spend hours watching this.

I also remember when Tayto's had the price printed on the bag. They stayed at the same price for ages so it was a big deal if there was an increase. I can remember the riots when they went from 2p to 3p.


Also the shops...Tots-To-Teens, Powers Small Profit Store (glorified pound shop ahead of it's time), Junior Explosion (in the Crescent).
Does anybody else remember the shop on Bedford row that sold toys and (i think) sweets. It was on the right as you go up and was owned by a total nutter who drove a green vw beetle.

The device in Speights was called a flying fox.

blackis200

The_Dave wrote: »

Poldarks???

The swimming pool under the floor of Poldarks.
It's still there apparently.

stefanovich

Kess73 wrote: »

The 50's style diner at Punches Cross where the Peony court is now.

The Hot Rock cafe. The name was quite funny, especially due to it's proximity to Weston.

blackis200

The day Newsoms was destroyed by fire.
It was burning for a week.

blackis200

When Frankie's became Ivan's.

Beeez

'Squire Mur' at the Glentworth Sunday afternoons , Frazers and Quiltys , Sat-Nite Shannon Rugby Club , Reddans , before they were busted for underage etc , Cycling out near Annacotty then carrying bikes across muddy fields , always worried about the dreaded Baliff , to some secret fishin spot on the Mulcair and cathchin fk all ! .....the Culvert out by Ardna , Parteen Pitch n' Putt ( still there ?...I dunno ) , Woodfield , Magnums..........etc and heaps of aforementioned spots.......excellent thread .


( been thinkin' about this thread a bit and a few more like Sullivans shop on opp side to Stix where we bought Cap guns Caps etc etc , McCauliffes shop Farronshone where we bought barley....for pea shooters , McMeels on Shelbourne Rd....10 Richmond for 20p or so...I think , oh ya and the LPYMA, before it burnt down and after )

Persiancowboy

Just found this old thread..some great stuff on it. Here's my tuppence ha'penny worth:

The tannery on Catherdral Place where they skinned the animals...stank to high heavens every day of the week;
Picking conkers in the grounds of St. Joseph's hospital (the Mental) on Mulgrave St (the Butlers used to live in the littel lodge near the Jail Boreen);
Bimbos (Mr. O'Brien) very small and very dark shop next to Sexton's....single major for a penny plus a bag of pineapple chunks for tuppence....he was a tiny man and he had the biggest alsation I've ever seen in my life;
Eating slabs of Cleeves Toffee from Enright's shop straight across from Sextons (and right next door to the old City Theatre)
Horse Fairs, Circuses and Bird's Carnival up at the Fairgreen;
Swimming at the Shannon Fields, Corbally baths and Sandy in Plassey (can't swim in any of these places now);
Markets Field jammed packed on a sunday afternoon for league of Ireland matches;
Climbing on to the wall of the Mental on way home from school tormenting the poor patients on other side;
Patrick Street being totally derelict;
The Dispensary at bottom of Lwr. Geraldgriffen St;
Willy Manifold's sweet and comic shop near the Cathedral
Clover Meats factory on mulgrave street....sheep and pigs being herded in there daily;
Playing rugby for Richmond where Childer's road is now;
Going to cinema at Savoy, Carlton, Lyric, Royal and Grand Central....all long gone from Limerick (like myself!!).

tishandy

Remember when you got the bus into town and people were allowed to smoke (seems so mad now)

Roches feeds on upper William st, where they made animal feed and you had to hold your breath while walking past it stank and was so dusty.

Before mobile phone when meeting a friend you'd meet at the Golden grill?

Outside Roches stores where all the mammies left their babies in buggy's outside while they went in for shopping.

When the circus came to the Fair Green field on Mulgrave st.

Does anyone remember the dark little shop on William st where a couple of old men and women would spin straw into baskets? I loved looking in , even then it looked to me like something from 100 years ago.

Packie's shop in Garryowen selling the liqurice pipes and all the best old sweets.

When a van drove into your area and stopped selling toffee apples, I actually hate toffee but still begged my mam for one cos all the other kids got one.

afro man

ham_n_mustard wrote: »

the bmx track over in pa healeys was savage

st marys old rugby clubhouse would be in the middle of a main road now

indoor soccer in the complex in corbally

when the sibin (downstairs in the royal george) used to be called "the glory hole", we used to show the bouncers our RSI cards to get in. most times we got into the george at about 7:55 because we knew the bouncers started at 8:00.

remember when you could head out for a night in town and actually walk home on your own without fear of getting mugged

playing pool in the vic

renting a megadrive from the video shop on johns st to play mortal combat

gigging in the royal george bar on friday nights

the good old glory hole was a mighty spot many a drunken night spend there

afro man

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

2FM Beat-on-the-street in Arthurs quay park (was a car park back then).

Close Encounters night club at the Parkway...you went into a special dinig area to have your meal (all the clubs had to provide a meal back then, it was a condition of the late licence). And there was a phone on every table that could be used to ring any other table...WOW.

The Pink Elephant (Savoy) with head doorman Gary Murphy tossing guys out through the window when the door was just too far to drag them:D

Big L, the pirate radio station with their name over the door and a reception where you could drop in requests (Ellen street).

Walking (well, staggering) home over Sarsfield bridge at 1am and seeing 40 or 50 guys sitting on the bridge parapet.....no they weren't part of some suicide cult, they were fishing at high tide (something tidal anyway)

Oh yeah, remember when O'connell st. traffic went from 2 way to 1 way
. Great craic flying up sarsfield st and taking a sharp right onto O'connell st with a passenger who expected cars to be coming down against us:)

some good memories close encounters with the phones we were spoilt back then and the pink elephant but I must have went on the quiet nights and missed the guys leaving by the windows... trying to remember a small pub up by station as you headed for prospect from station to traffic lights if you turned right it was on your left it has been knocked now and looks like empty offlce blocks our something was only in it once and an experience rough and ready barman was drinking as much as us it was after the lark in the park concert in the peoples park think the stunning were the headliners