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    #4562
    BPKS
    Registered Users Posts: 17,001 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    Quackster wrote: »
    Work going on in the old Benetton unit so that's my bet. The Tralee store will be small IMO, only a fraction of the size of their flagship stores.

    It will more than likely be selling vinyl only, thats the model they have been growing the last year or two


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    #4563
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    BPKS wrote: »
    Quackster wrote: »
    Work going on in the old Benetton unit so that's my bet. The Tralee store will be small IMO, only a fraction of the size of their flagship stores.

    It will more than likely be selling vinyl only, thats the model they have been growing the last year or two

    If they want to go out of business in two hours yes! They'll certainly sell vinyl due to it's increasing popularity but they will obviously sell CDs, DVDs etc like all their other stores too. They'd be foolish not to!


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    #4564
    Jimmyireland
    Registered Users Posts: 325 ✭✭Jimmyireland


    Just walked through the town centre and noticed the lights out and shutters down in The Phone Depot.....


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    #4565
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    Lots of vacant buildings there in around Bridge Street. Sad. That's right in the heart of the town. What's that McQuinns there. Was that a bar or something one time? Looks like it'd be a lovely bar.


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    #4566
    deuces wild
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭deuces wild


    Jimmyireland wrote: »
    Just walked through the town centre and noticed the lights out and shutters down in The Phone Depot.....
    Closed until Monday.


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    #4567
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Ruraldweller56 wrote: »
    Lots of vacant buildings there in around Bridge Street. Sad. That's right in the heart of the town. What's that McQuinns there. Was that a bar or something one time? Looks like it'd be a lovely bar.

    Was there a butchers in there at one point?


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    #4568
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Was there a butchers in there at one point?

    I'm too young 😂

    Never remember anything there.

    Fancy going halves 😂


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    #4569
    adam88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭adam88


    Ruraldweller56 wrote: »
    I'm too young 😂

    Never remember anything there.

    Fancy going halves 😂

    I recall There was a gents clothes shop in there for a bit, something like Sean Husseys


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    #4570
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    adam88 wrote: »
    I recall There was a gents clothes shop in there for a bit, something like Sean Husseys


    I must be thinking of somewhere else so. Is mcquinns the building on corner next to cabals?


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    #4571
    adam88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭adam88


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    I must be thinking of somewhere else so. Is mcquinns the building on corner next to cabals?

    No your right, I thought you were asking about the phone depot place


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    #4572
    Pirates Ale
    Registered Users Posts: 428 ✭✭Pirates Ale


    There was a clothes shop around there at one time called 'New Gent', I think the owner was Nugent!
    On Phone Depot, rather unusual to close for a few days for 'Staff Training' I would have thought!


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    #4573
    phormium
    Registered Users Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭phormium


    And if you were even older, before New Gent it was Mr. Hipps :)


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    #4574
    Pirates Ale
    Registered Users Posts: 428 ✭✭Pirates Ale


    phormium wrote: »
    And if you were even older, before New Gent it was Mr. Hipps :)
    Luckily, that doesnt ring a bell!


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    #4575
    RevBlueJeans
    Registered Users Posts: 672 ✭✭✭RevBlueJeans


    phormium wrote: »
    And if you were even older, before New Gent it was Mr. Hipps :)
    New Gent was a great play on words but so also was Mr. Hipps. HP = Hire Purchase, their business model was to secure with a small deposit and pay back over several months.


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    #4576
    StrikingOut
    Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭StrikingOut


    RevBlueJeans wrote: »

    New Gent was a great play on words but so also was Mr. Hipps. HP = Hire Purchase, their business model was to secure with a small deposit and pay back over several months.

    I fondly remember buying my first pair of Levi 501’s on tick from HIPPS. I used to call down every week and pay a £1 off my account.


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    #4577
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Pirates Ale wrote: »
    Luckily, that doesnt ring a bell!


    Nope, not with me either! :D


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    #4578
    Adiboo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Where was MR Hipps?


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    #4579
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Adiboo wrote: »
    Where was MR Hipps?
    I'm thankfully too young to remember but it's the unit between Quinlans fish shop and Pandora.

    I do remember NewGent though, bought my first interview suit there.

    Gas how clothes have become so inexpensive and disposable now. Imagine paying off a pair of jeans via hire purchase nowadays!


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    #4580
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,387 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    ongarboy wrote: »
    I'm thankfully too young to remember but it's the unit between Quinlans fish shop and Pandora.

    I do remember NewGent though, bought my first interview suit there.

    Gas how clothes have become so inexpensive and disposable now. Imagine paying off a pair of jeans via hire purchase nowadays!

    I remember putting a deposit on a dress in (wait for it....) Gaywear!

    Actually, now I think of it, it was a white jumpsuit.


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    #4581
    phater phagan
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭phater phagan


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Nope, not with me either! :D

    I haven't a clue either.


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    #4582
    phormium
    Registered Users Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭phormium


    I don't know how long Mr Hipps was there but I would say it was definitely there around early 60s and I would guess changed to New Gent in maybe mid to late 80s. I really feel that shop was there when I was going to school :)


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    #4583
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Seems like a good time to re post this



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    #4584
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    I remember putting a deposit on a dress in (wait for it....) Gaywear!

    Actually, now I think of it, it was a white jumpsuit.

    I have a very vague recollection of Gaywear. Was it in Castle Street?

    My days of putting down deposits for clothes was in Shindig! The excite,ent when it was paid off. Shindig are celebrating 30 years in business now! Where have those years gone?? Scary! :eek:


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    #4585
    phater phagan
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭phater phagan


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    I have a very vague recollection of Gaywear. Was it in Castle Street?

    My days of putting down deposits for clothes was in Shindig! The excite,ent when it was paid off. Shindig are celebrating 30 years in business now! Where have those years gone?? Scary! :eek:

    I was so much older then - I'm younger than that now.


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    #4586
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Work going on in the old Jack & Jones unit. So possibly where Golden disks are going after all.


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    #4587
    Pirates Ale
    Registered Users Posts: 428 ✭✭Pirates Ale


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    Work going on in the old Jack & Jones unit. So possibly where Golden disks are going after all.

    That would be a good spot for it


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    #4588
    uchimata83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭uchimata83


    There was a climate protest in today circling the pedestrian crossings by the huddle. Ironically slowing traffic on an already tight roundabout. There were more gards there than protesters and not many of them looked like they took time off work to take part.


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    #4589
    theaceofspies
    Registered Users Posts: 577 ✭✭✭theaceofspies


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    uchimata83 wrote: »
    There was a climate protest in today circling the pedestrian crossings by the huddle. Ironically slowing traffic on an already tight roundabout. There were more gards there than protesters and not many of them looked like they took time off work to take part.




    Yes. Some of the same faces there today that were out for the same sex marriage/abortion protests. You just need to convince a few to help push through the agenda of the day.


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    #4590
    ComputerTech
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭ComputerTech


    Anyone know what the incident was in the new Corrib filling station was tonight ... I never seen so many Garda cars and vans in one spot in Tralee ... filling store closed as a result?


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    #4591
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    ComputerTech wrote: »
    Anyone know what the incident was in the new Corrib filling station was tonight ... I never seen so many Garda cars and vans in one spot in Tralee ... filling store closed as a result?

    Half price meal deal with a free Mars bar.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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