Old Niteclubs

chopper6

Anybody remember the following dives..Abraxis(off O'Connel st),Sardis(St lawrence Hotel) and the Apartment club?

Abraxis turned into the Asylum,Sardis became Saints then Goodtime Charlies and i think the Apartment just closed

Tamangos in prtmarnock is apparantly still open but i havnt heard anybody talk about it in many years.

tricky D

Sardis was in the Portmarnock Country Club.

Saints was always Saints until it became Good Time Charlies.

There was also the Asgard Hotel niteclub in the 70's until it burned down spectacularly one night.

Also Zeniths, later K2 was a nightclub in the Summit Inn.

chopper6

tricky D wrote: »

Sardis was in the Portmarnock Country Club.

Saints was always Saints until it became Good Time Charlies.

Ah you might well be right..they were before my time.

Zeniths was good though(based on the twice i was there)

gugleguy

Nightowls in Ranelagh? In it's heyday the Southside niteclub place to be.
Club Sarah in Rathfarnham village itself was notable up to the early '90s

craigfoster

not very old but i member Bondi Beach and just closed. would be a great building for a bar are something instead it is just sitting there empty.

miamee

I used to frequent McGraths in O'Connell Street and the Back Gate on Cathal Brugha Street. Both long gone! (Well McGraths is now Fraziers I think). A pair of sweatboxes, both of them but great fun at the time!

gugleguy

miamee wrote: »

A pair of sweatboxes, both of them but great fun at the time!

Choosing between a sweatbox and a fire - deathtrap, like one notable venue I'd choose sweatbox myself. Sometimes ofcourse ther was'nt much of a difference between the two.

ongarboy

craigfoster wrote: »

not very old but i member Bondi Beach and just closed. would be a great building for a bar are something instead it is just sitting there empty.

It was Zanzibar prior to that - was the in spot for a while in town in the late 90s! It's so non descript and unassuming when you pass it now all roller shuttered that you don't even notice it. Definitely a wasted space.

I remember when Dragon was Sosume.

Who remembers Columbia Mills on the south docks when there were no office buildings around there? - used to be great for the house music!!

eisenberg1

Jets.....

gugleguy

The gigs place in Richmon Hill beside also long closed Caroline Records.

eisenberg1

Sloopy's, Fleet street
Celebrity club, Jervis St
Jets, was in Cloghran ( The Boot Inn, I think)
McGonagles, South Anne St

The term Niteclub would be pushing it for the above....................

Jude13

The Mean Fiddler

miamee

Jude13 wrote: »

The Mean Fiddler

Wasn't that called Tomato or something for a while as well? After TMF and before The Village?

wil

Aldi in Rathmines - different kind of meat market when it was Savannah.
Tramco - never recovered after a very expensive slow refit - could be NAMACo now

Sunnyisland

Sloopys Fleet Street.
Apartment Fleet Street
Celebrity club Mary st ?
TV club harcourt st ?
There was also one on Henry st can't remember the name


And when one could not get into above there was always the national,Tudor rooms and the nurses club at the top of Parnell st.

IRE60

and.....

chopper6

Wasnt the Iveagh Rooms where Fibbers is now?

eisenberg1

realies wrote: »

Sloopys Fleet Street.
Apartment Fleet Street
Celebrity club Mary st ?
TV club harcourt st ?
There was also one on Henry st can't remember the name


And when one could not get into above there was always the national,Tudor rooms and the nurses club at the top of Parnell st.

Aw Jaysus....The National...............no alcohol of any sort!!:D

anncoates

Spent a lot of time in McGonagles, Sides and the Olympic Ballroom.

Used to be 2 great nights in the late 80s in McGonagles called Voodoo and Soul on Ice. They got some great DJs over that went on to be very well known: Coldcut, Mike Pickering, Jay Strongman, Pete Tong, Dave Dorrell, Norman Jay etc.

Apartment. Jaysus. Blast fro he past.

Also a little later was the Rock Garden in Crown Alley. Used to be a good night there called UFO.

BowWow

"Ace of Clubs"

Rutland Place...........

eisenberg1

BowWow wrote: »

"Ace of Clubs"

Rutland Place...........

That rings a bell..............was it a disco or live music? year(s)?

krankykitty

Shaft in Ely Place (Now Ely Wine Bar, I think). Was so posh upstairs with the couches and roaring fire

Hootanany

The Afro I met Bono in there back in the early 80's Virgin Prunes were regulars

chopper6

The Pink Elephant off Dawson st...had two coctails for a fiver back in the 90's.

nudger

Hootanany wrote: »

The Afro I met Bono in there back in the early 80's Virgin Prunes were regulars

The Afro was on Friday nights as far as I remember, used to go when it was Bubbles.

The Wild Bunch

The Temple Theatre

GraphicGaming

Barcode what a place that was im not sure why it closed but weekends have not been the same since. Also Bondi beach and heaven / light night clubs I thibk it's down to late bar's why they closed but im not sure

The Wild Bunch

Is Club92 in Leopardstown still open?

eisenberg1

realies wrote: »

Sloopys Fleet Street.
Apartment Fleet Street
Celebrity club Mary st ?
TV club harcourt st ?
There was also one on Henry st can't remember the name


And when one could not get into above there was always the national,Tudor rooms and the nurses club at the top of Parnell st.

Henry St.........was that Tiffany's?

Lovely Bloke

Jets nightclub, somewhere in The Naul or similar, between Swords, Kinsealy and the Airport. What a place that was, a bit like a mix between Charlies and Tamangos.

Switch was a great place, and The Mezz is laid out almost exactly the same.

deelite

I think Jets was at the back of the Old Boot Inn...

What about Flamingos (Stillorgan), Heartbreakers (Phoenix Park Race Course), Bubbles (behind the Apartments) and the Tara Club.....