Tralee Thread (No chit-chat)

440Hz

I was in Club Head Bang Bang for the first time on Thursday night, I can tell Im going to be a regular there! Great stuff altogether

Patricide

Yea im always down there, its a great place to be on a thursday night, some great unique acts down there.

Stuff like rest, ten past seven, mary harney must die......o and Resurrect of course all great regular bands down there.

carchaeologist

440Hz wrote: »

I was in Club Head Bang Bang for the first time on Thursday night, I can tell Im going to be a regular there! Great stuff altogether

Yes, its a good spot for alternative music alright, the only thing is they dont advertise much,theres quite a good underground music scene in tralee though.
Havent heard of mary harney must die, have heard of resurect though...heavy stuff...:)

carchaeologist

dh0661 wrote: »

I was driving along Dan Spring Road today, when I noticed about three or four tennis courts, near the cinema.
Anybody know anything about these ?, is it a club, or will they be available to the general public ?.
A great idea, I hope they'll be coaching kids.

I would assume they will be run on a club basis, though i could be wrong.Seems strange to site them next to a main road though!

Ju noaaa sumtan, ye make me feel like an old crone. I hovnt a clue fare any of dem places are.:p Remember Latchfords anyone? McCanns? The Frascati? John Griffins? The Eskimo?

carchaeologist

OsciiBoscii wrote: »

Ju noaaa sumtan, ye make me feel like an old crone. I hovnt a clue fare any of dem places are.:p Remember Latchfords anyone? McCanns? The Frascati? John Griffins? The Eskimo?

er....iv heard of the eskimo,not sure what or where it was though, maybe a restaurant?Heard of latchfords too.Never heard of any of the others, and i have a few old books on tralee around the house aswell!The frascati sounds like an italian restaurant!
Educate us osciiboscii!!:D:D

Yes the Frascati was a restaurant but not Italian. John Griffins was in Rock Street where Rose Garden is now. It was a hardware place with a wooden floor and wooden doors with lift latches on them! Latchfords was similar, it was where Tralee Shopping Centre is now. McCanns was a shop up Castle Street and you could also enter off Ashe street if I remember correctly. It was a type of grocers. I can remember the stuff being loose/unpackaged. The Eskimo was a restaurant too, an upstairs place, I cant recall the exact location now but it was definitely The Mall. Maybe over Der Sullivans thereabouts.
Anybody else remember anything about Tralee in Ancient Times? Oh yeah, that bakers what was it called, it was at the corner of the mall as you turn into the Square near Dan Fitzgeralds? Havercrofts I think. The bottom of the cakes used always be burnt!!!

carchaeologist

OsciiBoscii wrote: »

The Eskimo was a restaurant too, an upstairs place, I cant recall the exact location now but it was definitely The Mall. Maybe over Der Sullivans thereabouts.

You are right,it was near there alright, i remember reading about it. I must quiz my old man about some of the other stuff!The tralees old stock reminisce books are a great read if you can find them.I think theres 3 of them, i have two of them,first one is out of print,grr... There was also a book by a local photographer(micheal diggin?)about tralee, it had a load of old pictures in it with captions explaining them, i also have that, not sure exactly where though!!
Maybe i should get out more!;)

aoifekavanagh

Tralee is a lovely place would agree with that.
i have relations living in tralee and other parts of kerry

agapanthus blue

I think the Eskimo was upstairs over what used to be Jerome Walshs shoe shop beside Ders.

aoifekavanagh

i never went out in any clubs or pubs in tralee so i can't say that i know any of the places you mentioned

440Hz

OsciiBoscii wrote: »

Ju noaaa sumtan, ye make me feel like an old crone. I hovnt a clue fare any of dem places are.:p Remember Latchfords anyone? McCanns? The Frascati? John Griffins? The Eskimo?

I remember Latchfords, McCanns and the Eskimo. Before my time but Ive heard enough about them to make me feel like I was around for them

carchaeologist

Rocking weather today eh!:D:D
Keeping with the ancient thread, who remembers to the old cinema, as in the old,old one, where mahonys is now,and what was the first film you saw there?? Think mine was jurassic park??though im not sure, could have been honey i shrunk the kids....ah to be young again....:p:)

dh0661

carchaeologist wrote: »

Keeping with the ancient thread,

In Horans Fruit & Veg Rock Street, there is a beautiful old black + white picture of Upper Rock Street, featuring the old CWS building and the old rail line to Feint, dating back to 1925 (I think). Would that be ancient enough for you ?.

tyther

carchaeologist wrote: »

Rocking weather today eh!:D:D
Keeping with the ancient thread, who remembers to the old cinema, as in the old,old one, where mahonys is now,and what was the first film you saw there?? Think mine was jurassic park??though im not sure, could have been honey i shrunk the kids....ah to be young again....:p:)

That was a cool cinema alright.But the only film i remember seeing there was babies day out,possibly was my first time to the cinema though.

440Hz

carchaeologist wrote: »

Rocking weather today eh!:D:D
Keeping with the ancient thread, who remembers to the old cinema, as in the old,old one, where mahonys is now,and what was the first film you saw there?? Think mine was jurassic park??though im not sure, could have been honey i shrunk the kids....ah to be young again....:p:)

LOL!! I could never decide which of those was the first movie I ever saw there either. That is kinda mad.

Remember how people used to sit up in the balcony and throw popcorn down at the poor eejits on the ground level! Tut tut

Tomthepost

carchaeologist wrote: »

Rocking weather today eh!:D:D
Keeping with the ancient thread, who remembers to the old cinema, as in the old,old one, where mahonys is now,and what was the first film you saw there?? Think mine was jurassic park??though im not sure, could have been honey i shrunk the kids....ah to be young again....:p:)

ET or Herbie goes banannas id say but also possibly The Jungle Book or Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs
I remember the Boherbee natives letting off stink bombs all the time.

Horror-Night of the Living Dead, I think it was.

delspeed78

The last unicorn for me....happy days:D

carchaeologist

440Hz wrote: »

Remember how people used to sit up in the balcony and throw popcorn down at the poor eejits on the ground level! Tut tut

Yep,the balcony was kinda cool! i always seem to remember it being bigger than it was though,as in the balcony being really high, though i was only small:) any one have any photos?

carchaeologist

dh0661 wrote: »

In Horans Fruit & Veg Rock Street, there is a beautiful old black + white picture of Upper Rock Street, featuring the old CWS building and the old rail line to Feint, dating back to 1925 (I think). Would that be ancient enough for you ?.

Ha, almost:p,Hard to believe that dunnes ncr was the old rail yard,im sure i have a pic of it somewhere...

440Hz

delspeed78 wrote: »

The last unicorn for me....happy days:D

OH you just reminded me! The Neverending Story!!!

OMG this is turning into Vintage and Retro now! We are the vintage ones by the sounds of things.

carchaeologist

440Hz wrote: »

OH you just reminded me! The Neverending Story!!!

OMG this is turning into Vintage and Retro now! We are the vintage ones by the sounds of things.

Im sure there is more vintage than us on here!!!Though some would say that i am already vintage and retro with my cars.....:D
Wasnt there a neverending story 2 aswell...?

carchaeologist

'spose you know you are getting on a bit when you can remember 3 cinemas in your town!!!:D

440Hz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khTntOxX-k

Nice hair!!!! :pac:

Patricide

Ah the auld cinima, the first film i can really really remember seeing there was jurassic park but i kinda have flashes of memory watching et when i was only a baby with my brothers. I miss that place it had a real charm about it, the new one although fancy an all feels too sterile like an office or somthing.

carchaeologist

Patricide wrote: »

Ah the auld cinima, the first film i can really really remember seeing there was jurassic park but i kinda have flashes of memory watching et when i was only a baby with my brothers. I miss that place it had a real charm about it, the new one although fancy an all feels too sterile like an office or somthing.

Thats the new carpet, give it 6 months and it will die down....:D

Patricide

MMMM new cinema smell , dont like the way theres no proper double seats either, i know you can put the armrest up but its just not the same you know, not one bit comfy.

carchaeologist

True, but its only a small thing really, unless you are entertaining a ladyfriend:D
incidentally,this is post no 300, the tralee thread is coming on!!!

440Hz

See! I feel old now. I can't remember the last time I made use of a double seat, and def can't remember the last time I would have in Tralee. Unless the movie was crap and I decided to go for a snooze or something :pac: