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Pictures and memories from old Galway

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  • #542
    monkeysuncle
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭monkeysuncle


    Does anyone remember krystals nite club below the great southern in Eyre square


  • #543
    Galway K9
    Registered Users Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Galway K9


    Not a memory obviously but a good picture of old galway

    Yes....we had trams :D Horse power :)

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  • #544
    nick forde
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭nick forde


    JamesStephens wrote: »
    I nearly cryed when I read that lads. Twas better back then , wasnt it. d: what is it now just a halfarsed city with no personallity.

    Ya galway in the 80s was the place to be now as you say is a halfarsed city.


  • #545
    nick forde
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭nick forde


    JamesStephens wrote: »
    I nearly cryed when I read that lads. Twas better back then , wasnt it. d: what is it now just a halfarsed city with no personallity.

    Ya galway in the 80s was the place to be now as you say is a halfarsed city.


  • #546
    nuac
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,769 Mod ✭✭✭✭nuac


    ?Cee?view wrote: »
    Anyone remember Hills (I think that was the name). It was a real old style newsagent where Lazlo is now. I still remember the lovely displays of fruit they used to have.

    Yes, Charlie Hill?

    recall him in the fifties and sixties


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  • #547
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Pictures from last night at Salmon Weir Bridge, Arts Festival Big Top and fishing for Salmon

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  • #548
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    There is another thread for current pics of Galway. This thread is for old images and memories.


  • #549
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    I remember going into some kind of a stationery shop in Dominic Street late 60s perhaps. It was on Joyces' Bookstore side about half way down. It was a place I did not usually go into as I think it was a school supplies place and maybe expensive too. Strangely, I think it sold comics too. Porters?

    I remember going into a boring department/clothes store on Shop Street and not getting a chance to go on their rocking horse as other kids were on it. Ryans?

    I remember having nice orange drink and chocolate bun upstairs in Lydons in Shop street with my mother

    I remember standing with my father watching the opening of the cathedral in 196??? . Was there some kind of bicycle shop opposite the door near the canal? That is where we were. Palmers?

    Certainly watching Rovers in a miserable Terryland Park. Saw us play Shamrock Rovers and I think both Giles and Dunphy were playing that day. Maybe Treacy too.

    Yes, that fellow with guitar outside Claddagh Palace. Were there some kind of demonstrations about a film called, something like, Mongo? (film about American slave)

    Leaving my bike in red bricked Garda station in Eglinton Street chained beside sign saying no bicycles allowed.

    Pool upstairs in Savoy Cinema upstairs. Snooker in Men's Club across from cathedral.

    Moth eaten Town Hall cinema.


  • #550
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    bobbyss wrote: »
    I remember going into some kind of a stationery shop in Dominic Street late 60s perhaps. It was on Joyces' Bookstore side about half way down. It was a place I did not usually go into as I think it was a school supplies place and maybe expensive too. Strangely, I think it sold comics too. Porters?

    Yes it would have been porters
    bobbyss wrote: »
    I remember going into a boring department/clothes store on Shop Street and not getting a chance to go on their rocking horse as other kids were on it. Ryans?

    That would have been The Blackrock

    bobbyss wrote: »
    I remember standing with my father watching the opening of the cathedral in 196??? . Was there some kind of bicycle shop opposite the door near the canal? That is where we were. Palmers?

    Hunters had a place there that used to sell children's prams and bikes too I think.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #551
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    The Philosophers (Showband)
    The MNC in Snipe Avenue where there is a school now.
    The Library in the Courthouse-up those stairs.
    Summers when Galway smashed Mayo in the Connacht Final. Those were the days indeed.
    Eyre Square with those beautiful, elegant black railings around.
    Corrib Shamrocks were the (then) Liverpool of the under age scene.
    The Bish had a great team. Mono-the West & Bish?
    Stauntans sports shop-opposite St Pats Primary School.
    Buying Dinky cars in Raffertys shop on Mainguard street. I think where the Euro shop is now.


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  • #552
    Missyelliot2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Missyelliot2


    I grew up in Galway and have always regarded Galway as 'home'. It is the best place ever to live!

    Now that I have children of my own.....I feel they are missing out of lots of Galway:
    Jumping off Blackrock - only done when we're home, during the hols

    Just hanging out in Salthill, by the wimpy (now Supermacs)

    Hanging out also in the 'Savoy' - which was across the road from the post office on Eglington Street- we were at roller disco!
    Discos in the Bish/Tennis Clubs:rolleyes:
    NoNos/GPO/Oasis


    Great place to be......


  • #553
    Long Gone
    Registered Users Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Long Gone


    Missyelliot2 wrote: »
    I grew up in Galway and have always regarded Galway as 'home'. It is the best place ever to live!

    Now that I have children of my own.....I feel they are missing out of lots of Galway:
    Jumping off Blackrock - only done when we're home, during the hols

    Just hanging out in Salthill, by the wimpy (now Supermacs)

    Hanging out also in the 'Savoy' - which was across the road from the post office on Eglington Street- we were at roller disco!
    Discos in the Bish/Tennis Clubs:rolleyes:
    NoNos/GPO/Oasis


    Great place to be......

    You forgot the fact that in rains all day at least every second day during the winter months....;)


  • #554
    Missyelliot2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Missyelliot2


    It does......it's always raining -or 'misty!'

    Still.....when you get beyond the rain......there is the prom! :D


  • #555
    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,165 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Galway is basically the same place I grew up in, landscape wise at least but the vibe and crowd in the city is not. Meh


  • #556
    Paddyfield
    Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Paddyfield


    I absolutely love this place too. There's always something going on and I appreciate it more when I return from being away. Galway has become a brand name. There are so many other cities and towns who would love to get a sniff of the ambiance and lifestyle that we have. Waterford is a is a similar sized city (well, it used to be) and it's a gloomy place. My Waterford friends would love to live here only that they are tied down with mortgages etc.


  • #557
    JillyQ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    Op you post was like a trip down memory lane. I am lucky I still live in Salthill. The names might have changed but the place hasn't really changed that much.


  • #558
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I've merged this with a very long thread in which you'll find lots of photos, vids and memories from those times.


  • #559
    Missyelliot2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Missyelliot2


    JillyQ wrote: »
    Op you post was like a trip down memory lane. I am lucky I still live in Salthill. The names might have changed but the place hasn't really changed that much.

    You lucky soul! Enjoy!


  • #560
    dizzymiss
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭dizzymiss


    I just spent some time reading through this thread and LOVE it. I was born in 1981 so while I can only relate to some of the things mentioned, I still love reading/hearing about everything. My mum is from middle St and we lived on St Augustine St for a while and I've grown up listening to tails of old. Galway has an amazingly colourful history.


  • #561
    monkeysuncle
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭monkeysuncle


    Des Hynes wrote: »
    Underage heaven with the video jukebox which was ground breaking at the time.

    T'pau, Belinda Carlise & AC/DC

    Wish it was still there , twas a fab spot , although arguably I was much younger then


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  • #562
    monkeysuncle
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭monkeysuncle


    Anyone remember krystals nite club under the great southern , Eyre square


  • #563
    JillyQ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    monkeysuncle wrote: »
    Anyone remember krystals nite club under the great southern , Eyre square

    Remember it alright but was never init.


  • #564
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,892 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    monkeysuncle wrote: »
    Anyone remember krystals nite club under the great southern , Eyre square

    Oh yeah! We used to sit and laugh at the type of patron going in there while we were waiting for the busses to the real capital of fun: Salthill!!!
    Think it was only the second official nightclub in the city centre.


  • #565
    Andrea B.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Andrea B.


    ......the bike repair guy between Jes and Ernie's. Was always on my to-do list to wait and watch him close up at end of day. Could never figure out how he got the 20 bikes outside into the shop which was already jammed full of a mesh of wheels and frames .


  • #566
    traceys
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭traceys


    If anybody knows of Johnny Trayers he was known for having monkeys from Galway I could well be his daughter. Please message me if you have any info. Thank you.


  • #567
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users Posts: 7,955 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Gadgetman496 wrote: »
    If I remember correctly the man with the monkey's was called Johnny Trayers from Tuam. He eventually moved to live in Galway City in Ardilaun Road Newcastle and at the time got hassled by the local residents when he move in there. Some claimed he was operating a brothel.
    monkeysuncle wrote: »
    the man with the monkeys was called johnny trayers. he is dead about 20 yrs now. he moved to limerick late 80s early 90s. he had squirrel monkeys and used to charge for pics with them. he also used to sell rabbit shaped balloons . he never drank so the comment about the cans of beer is inaccurate
    traceys wrote: »
    Hi I could be related to Johnny Trayers if anyone has any information as regards to any of his relatives friends PLEASE MESSAGE ME.MANY THANKS.Tracey.

    You could try directly messaging those people yourself, you might need to post more posts in other threads to be allowed use that function but it might be a good bet!


  • #568
    nuac
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,769 Mod ✭✭✭✭nuac


    Robbo wrote: »
    Murray's.
    Bottom of Taylor's Hill
    Great sweet and icecream shop way back


  • #569
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    ...also the Philosophers who used to play in the International Hotel just across the road and then there was Del Rios chipper and most of the nightclubs were in Salthill in the 80's and 90's


    City centre memories include Rafterys for music items, Glynns toy shop and O'Gormans bookstore where Easons is now and Naughtons hardware used to be where MacDonalds is now.

    I went to school in St Patricks National BS and then across the River to St Josephs Secondary both run by the Patrician Brothers who were strict but fair in the main part and no cruelty or sadism like you hear from other "religious"orders. They were more realistic and good leaders for their place and time.


  • #570
    BeardySi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭BeardySi


    doolox wrote: »
    City centre memories include Rafterys for music items, Glynns toy shop and O'Gormans bookstore where Easons is now and Naughtons hardware used to be where MacDonalds is now.

    Wasn't Naughtons where Boots is now?


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  • #571
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,892 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    I have the distinction of being the first kid to walk through the glass doors of Naughtons while they were still closed (about 45 years ago). I can still remember the look on (I think Tom's) face while he was carefully removing glass from my knee up at the television corner in the left.
    No compo culture that time but I don't think it would have been availed of if there was. They did have plastic strips across the door a couple of days later though.
    It's one of the few things I remember from my childhood.


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