Slatterys... Irelands 'First' Photo Shop to cease trading

jaqian

I saw this on Photographers.ie and thought I'd share it. Sad to see them go.

Slatterys of O'Connell Street will cease trading to both the public and trade customers on 23rd June 2007 due to impending development of the "Carlton" site - where they have been located since 1946.

Full story: http://www.irishphotographers.ie/Slattery.pdf

rymus

if nothing else they could win an award for the most out of date website ever

PaulieC

wow, back then they were selling an Olympus digital camera with a massive 800k pixels for EUR 977. Now that's an out of date website

City-Exile

Found them very friendly and always got good advice.
Wonder will they have a closing down sale...

rymus

yeah.. that makes my 1.3mp Sony Mavica that stores photos on floppy disks seem like new technology

ronbyrne2005

One of the brothers a Dr Peader Slattery thought me History and Geography, he knew his camera allright! we would get tales of cameras etc thrown into our classes, legend!

Alun

cambo_gueno wrote:

wow, back then they were selling an Olympus digital camera with a massive 800k pixels for EUR 977. Now that's an out of date website

Make that ₤ 977 ... It's even more out of date than you think There's references to special offers available until December 1996!

City-Exile

"PC Card for DC25 / DC50 2mb IR£101"
We don't know how good we've got it, these days.

rymus

2mb? Shur that's more memory than anyone will ever need!

magicbastarder

the website is so old, they even spelled things funny in those days:

"Photgraphic Headquaters
52 Upper O'Connel St. "

311

I didn't realise the internet was around in 1936.
Fair play to them ,they must have been the only people in ireland with a computer back then.:)

dubtom

I was sauntering down O'connell one day and spied a big mother of a white lens in their window. I was broke but had to have a look anyway. It was a 500 4.5,used going for 1700 punts. I couldn't believe or afford it.I still kick myself when I think of it, should have begged,stole or borrowed the money,of course, the lens could have been a dud, as in, on it's last legs, who's to know.

Fionn

ah yes the mid ninties!!
those prices were the reason i didn't have much going on in photography.

I guess their web site might have been an indication of how good the business was eh?

Benster

Got my first SLR in there in 2000, with some of my Y2K money. Sorry to see them go, but probably they are too old-school for today's market. Bit like Frawley's really.

Good point about the clearance sale. They do mostly Nikon, don't they?

JMcL

Ah comet Hale Bopp, I remember it well!

rymus

Hale Bopp? Wasn't that a song by that Hanson crowd?

311

I have a german record by a band called Der dritte raum called hale bopp.
Played all over ibiza for ages:p