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Shopping Centre Lifts.

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  • 02-04-2024 1:05pm
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    0ph0rce0
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    Does anyone remember any shopping centre (I'm thinking city centre) that had lifts that when they reached the bottom they were surrounded by water like small ponds were people threw money in, or they had something like water pouring down the sides of them.

    The lifts were like glass cylinders so you could see everything.

    I know Blackrock had a waterfall but pretty sure it wasn't that.

    Maybe I'm off my rocker or probably convinced myself they were real in a dream or something😂

    Anyone? Thinking the late 80's



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    GarlicBed
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭GarlicBed


    the square ?



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    GarlicBed
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭GarlicBed


    Also the ones in black rock clinic have a pond around them.



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    The Mulk
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    The Square had something similar alright. The ground floor had a pond where you threw money

    The Ilac Centre had glass lifts, but the pond where you threw money was a bit away, kind of the centre of the shopping centre



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    mikeybhoy
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    What happened to all the water features in shopping centres very popular in the 90s but nearly all disappeared by the late 2000s. Were they very expensive to maintain or something?



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    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980181#Comment_121980181

    Expensive to maintain, constantly having to fish kids out of them because they went in, risk of legionella.



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    mikeybhoy
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980229#Comment_121980229

    Does the Irish Life Centre still have one? Only place I could think of that still has one remember seeing a video a good few years back of two junkies in it collecting the coins. If it is must be the last remaining shopping centre with an indoor fountain.



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    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980310#Comment_121980310

    The Irish Life Centre was ripped out entirely and replaced with a Lidl filling all the floor area.



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    mikeybhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭mikeybhoy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980315#Comment_121980315

    My bad had forgotten that's gone now entirely



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    Yeah Right
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Yeah Right


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980181#Comment_121980181

    The one in Omni Centre in Santry, the money fished out of that pays for the owners' horses getting new shoes every couple of months.



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    0ph0rce0
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    It was the ilac, for some reason I had in my head there was only one floor. My family worked around the corner. They confirmed.

    Ahhh what a time to be alive.



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    Tails142
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    Those glass lifts in the Ilac both fascinated and terrified me as a kid. They made me think of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, sequel to the Chocolate Factory. It was a book we had in the house, don't think I ever read it but the cover had a great illustration.

    They just seemed so fantastic, but in reality I don't think they went anywhere at all, car park, staff offices? We always went into town in the bus so never had any cause to use the lift. At the time, late 80's for me, they were probably one of the few glass elevators around although they are quite common now. I also remember the vending machine at the bottom selling Dunnes cola for 20p or something.

    I think Blanchardstown SC has a pond in the centre still? It did when I was last the, although that was probably 8+ years ago at this point.



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    ted1
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058344634/shopping-centre-lifts

    lilac centre



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    gipi
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981407#Comment_121981407

    The pool in Blanch SC was removed during recent renovations



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    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981336#Comment_121981336

    There isn't a lot upstairs - Dunnes has/had an upstairs that was only accessible from inside Dunnes and the carpark lifts; TK Maxx has an upstairs (I cannot remember what was in that unit originally); and the library is upstairs using the lifts you remember

    There's also an upstairs the other side of the central section with nothing in it; store rooms for other shops and at least in the past, a random glass fronted bit that I once had to wire up a radio broadcast from. Stairs for this were accessed from outside.



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