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The building on Chapel st beside the pawn brokers

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  • 20-10-2016 6:01pm
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    Hootanany
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    I have never seen this building ever occupied or open anyone know anything about it?


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    L1011
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    Do you mean Capel Street? There have been multiple pawnbrokers there so hard to get a reference. Or Cathedral Street? Which definitely used to have one. Or Church Street?


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    BeerNut
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    109 Capel Street? It's apartments above. I've never seen any business in the ground floor retail space.

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    JupiterKid
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    You must mean Capel St OP. As far as I know it's just apartments there. Capel St has gone through a lot of changes in the past 20 years. It used to be full of hardware stores and is now packed with ethnic eateries.


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    Hootanany
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    https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xat1/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/12331661_760236434081649_1423781805_n.jpg

    This is the one


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    jimmii
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    I used to have a shop across the road and was told it used to be a pub and closed around ~2000.


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    Hootanany
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    jimmii wrote: »
    I used to have a shop across the road and was told it used to be a pub and closed around ~2000.
    I have never seen a business operate out of that building since the mid 80,s


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    jimmii
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    Hootanany wrote: »
    I have never seen a business operate out of that building since the mid 80,s

    Does look like it's been closed a long time alright. It was an old dub type so when they said 15 years it could have been 50!


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    BeerNut
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    Hootanany wrote: »
    I have never seen a business operate out of that building since the mid 80,s
    That building's only been there since the mid-1990s. Company records show there was a Vinny's Cottage Restaurant registered at the location until the late '80s.

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    Hootanany
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    That building's only been there since the mid-1990s. Company records show there was a Vinny's Cottage Restaurant registered at the location until the late '80s.

    I think I broke google I tried this
    Vinny's Cottage Restaurant 109 Capel St and hot images of burgers a people on bikes WTF.


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    not yet
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    jimmii wrote: »
    I used to have a shop across the road and was told it used to be a pub and closed around ~2000.

    Don't think there was ever a pub there. I remember a cafe back in the late early 80s....many a greasy breakfast I had in it.


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    Hootanany
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    not yet wrote: »
    Don't think there was ever a pub there. I remember a cafe back in the late early 80s....many a greasy breakfast I had in it.

    So it was a cafe?


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    Hootanany wrote: »
    So it was a cafe?

    Yeah, A lifetime ago, real greasy spoon place.


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    Hootanany
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    not yet wrote: »
    Yeah, A lifetime ago, real greasy spoon place.

    It always seemed to be getting done up . Landlord must be crazy not renting out downstairs in a prime area.


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    Hootanany wrote: »
    It always seemed to be getting done up . Landlord must be crazy not renting out downstairs in a prime area.

    Yeah, I find that very strange..


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    spurious
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    Dolly's, a restaurant, was there in 1986 according to Thom's.


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    spurious wrote: »
    Dolly's, a restaurant, was there in 1986 according to Thom's.

    That's it, Dollys...ah the memories..


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    L1011
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    But but but, we just had a thread about there being no restaurants in Dublin in the 80s? :pac:


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    jimmii
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    L1011 wrote: »
    But but but, we just had a thread about there being no restaurants in Dublin in the 80s? :pac:

    Go over the river? Are you mad!


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