Apollo on O'Connell street???

Joshua5

I seen a picture of what looks to be an old nightclub on O'Connell street.
The bar looks like it was in a basement, the name is the Apollo. Anyone know where this is? Any history behind it? Googled to no success. Just wondering where is it? When it closed? Was is popular. Anyone with fond memories of it on boards?

sabat

Apollo 1 bargain store? I think there was one on O'Connell St too.

https://twitter.com/olddublintown/status/412743284155371520

skimpydoo

sabat wrote: »

Apollo 1 bargain store? I think there was one on O'Connell St too.

https://twitter.com/olddublintown/status/412743284155371520

Great store I remember buying my Atari ST there in 1986.

anncoates

The pic is of the one that was on Moore Street. Jaysus, some of the old places there. Dolphin Discs, Banana Republic(?), that mad kip of a pub down the Parnell Street end.

arybvtcw0eolkf

anncoates wrote: »

The pic is of the one that was on Moore Street. Jaysus, some of the old places there. Dolphin Discs, Banana Republic(?), that mad kip of a pub down the Parnell Street end.

O'Neills?.. I used to drink there with my nanny (lord rest her) and a few of the other dealers from Moore St.. I was only about 16, and by Christ she'd get me locked lol

anncoates

Willow Straight Scoreboard wrote: »

O'Neills?.. I used to drink there with my nanny (lord rest her) and a few of the other dealers from Moore St.. I was only about 16, and by Christ she'd get me locked lol

Didn't even know it had a name. Near the lane that ran down to Conways from Moore street. Was the other pub Trader Johns up at the Henry street end,

Also Peggy's shoe stall at the back of the Ilac Centre facing Parnell Street where all the shops are now.

A Disgrace

The OP is talking about the Apollo club, which was beneath 42 O'Connell St (the last remaining original building on the street) - The old neon Apollo sign is still hanging on in there too. No idea what the place was though

Joshua5

A Disgrace wrote: »

The OP is talking about the Apollo club, which was beneath 42 O'Connell St (the last remaining original building on the street) - The old neon Apollo sign is still hanging on in there too. No idea what the place was though

That's right. I just seen a picture and it immediately intrigued me. It's a shame places like this fade away into the history books or not as the case may be. I'm sure many a good session, happy memory happened in this place and I'd love to know more about it but it seems nobody really knows.

spurious

What sort of timeframe are you talking?

wyndham

anncoates wrote: »

Didn't even know it had a name. Near the lane that ran down to Conways from Moore street. Was the other pub Trader Johns up at the Henry street end,

Also Peggy's shoe stall at the back of the Ilac Centre facing Parnell Street where all the shops are now.

Peggy must have been a millionaire when she passed (assuming she has). She sold doc martens to half the kids in Dublin.

Greenmachine

wyndham wrote: »

Peggy must have been a millionaire when she passed (assuming she has). She sold doc martens to half the kids in Dublin.

Sure wasn't there a heap of stall there at the back of ilac back then. Weren't the take away places in the ilac on the moore street end years ago, a place called "King Burger" an obvious rip on "Burger King" and another place too.

Joshua5

spurious wrote: »

What sort of timeframe are you talking?

I have no idea, judging by the sign maybe the 50's but that's just a guess.

Dyr

anncoates wrote: »

Didn't even know it had a name. Near the lane that ran down to Conways from Moore street. Was the other pub Trader Johns up at the Henry street end,

Also Peggy's shoe stall at the back of the Ilac Centre facing Parnell Street where all the shops are now.

Is that the place that looked like it was made of plywood and had an offy counter on the way in? I was in there with me oul lad and a pal of his once or twice.

anncoates

wyndham wrote: »

Peggy must have been a millionaire when she passed (assuming she has). She sold doc martens to half the kids in Dublin.

She passed away a few years ago. Not just docs, crepe soles, the lot!

anncoates

Bambi wrote: »

Is that the place that looked like it was made of plywood and had an offy counter on the way in? I was in there with me oul lad and a pal of his once or twice.

Yeah didn't the off licence counter face out on the street or am I remembering wrong

harry Bailey esq

anncoates wrote: »

The pic is of the one that was on Moore Street. Jaysus, some of the old places there. Dolphin Discs, Banana Republic(?), that mad kip of a pub down the Parnell Street end.

The pub with no name, i used to buy flagons of cider in there as a child,not really a mad kip, most of the clientele were elderly women

vektarman

Here's how it looks today.