Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

A Disgrace

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Er,....it ain't Cork Street. It's the junction of Summerhill and Rutland Street ...but I agree with your sentiments.

Ah, my fault. Thought it was here

Faith+1

I wouldn't necessarily call this historic but the change in DCC in the last 18 years have been immense.

Lemo

That 2012 photo of the site where Gerry Nangle's pub was is a great testament to progress, eh? :-)

I was born in 1970 and we lived a few doors down from there. I don't remember those buildings being there, obviously. I always thought I had a vague memory of the Mountainview Court flats being built but when they were knocked down again just 30 years or so later I thought I must have imagined that since they would hardly knock down relatively new flats. Turns out I didn't imagine it. Thanks, Wishbone Ash.

CuppaCocoa

Big ask but would anyone have any pics of The Monument Creameries Cafe, particularly the one in Ranelagh? They were in operation from the 20s until 1966 when they went into voluntary liquidation. I lived over the cafe until 1970 but don't have a pic of the shopfront

Wishbone Ash

lilybarlean wrote: »

Big ask but would anyone have any pics of The Monument Creameries Cafe, particularly the one in Ranelagh? They were in operation from the 20s until 1966 when they went into voluntary liquidation. I lived over the cafe until 1970 but don't have a pic of the shopfront

Some information on the Architects Forum back in 2009 :http://www.archiseek.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7941 There's a few pics but they seem to have had several branches.

CuppaCocoa

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Some information on the Architects Forum back in 2009 :http://www.archiseek.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7941 There's a few pics but they seem to have had several branches.

I know, I posted there! It's the Ranelagh branch I'm interested.

ollaetta

lilybarlean wrote: »

Big ask but would anyone have any pics of The Monument Creameries Cafe, particularly the one in Ranelagh? They were in operation from the 20s until 1966 when they went into voluntary liquidation. I lived over the cafe until 1970 but don't have a pic of the shopfront

Doesn't help with your request but I see that the DCC Public Libraries Digital Archive has been updated to include "eatin' houses": http://dublincitypubliclibraries.com/image-galleries/digital-collections/get-stuffed-dublins-eatin-houses

CuppaCocoa

Thanks for that, some nice memories! Still looking though!

fatbhoy

lilybarlean wrote: »

Big ask but would anyone have any pics of The Monument Creameries Cafe, particularly the one in Ranelagh? They were in operation from the 20s until 1966 when they went into voluntary liquidation. I lived over the cafe until 1970 but don't have a pic of the shopfront

My parents bought that shop around that time, after the creamery closed, and opened up a clothes shop that lasted until about 1989. They converted the upstairs into bedsits. The shop is still in my family's possession.

I'd love to hear more from you about your memories of the place. Ranelagh was a very different place back then in the '70s.

ziggy23

Apologies if posted already just seen these on Facebook. Where the Church Bar is situated now on Jervis Street.

madnuts123

Thanks for uploading the postcards/vids and pix there great!!!!

madnuts123

I know im about 5 years late, but look at the bus stop, still the same route still the same street!!!!

ollaetta

ziggy23 wrote: »

Have to say the park looked way better then than the yoke that's there now.

Faith+1

ollaetta wrote: »

Have to say the park looked way better then than the yoke that's there now.

Agreed. I could only imagine how many toe rags would hang around the park if it was still like that.

Faith+1

Me thinks late 80's?? I still remember those awful tan buses when I was a kid, always got sick after riding on them




Date: 1991

Wishbone Ash

Faith+1 wrote: »

I'd forgotten that you used to be able to do a U-turn behind Daniel!

Wishbone Ash

KFC 1980's



2012



(Notice how much wider the footpaths are now. That traffic light control box was once on the edge of the junction. ...and SuperMacs retained the original KFC windows).

Faith+1

Wasn't there an elephant on a mantle above the entrance?

Wishbone Ash

Faith+1 wrote: »

Wasn't there an elephant on a mantle above the entrance?

Wasn't that Elvery Sports?

Faith+1

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Wasn't that Elvery Sports?

Don't think so, if I can vaguely remember before Supermacs and Kentucky Fried Chicken it used to be a department store. Perhaps some of the older boardsies will remember

TrueDub

Faith+1 wrote: »

Agreed. I could only imagine how many toe rags would hang around the park if it was still like that.

I think that was part of the problem. I remember working as a teenager on Abbey St, and the area had a serious issue with junkies hanging around, mainly because of the old Jervis St hospital. That park had to be closed because it was becoming a shooting gallery.

Wftablueboy

ollaetta wrote: »

Have to say the park looked way better then than the yoke that's there now.

Spent all my youth playing football in this park , and I'm 99% sure that myself , my sister and my father are all in this photo ..

Wftablueboy

Faith+1 wrote: »

Don't think so, if I can vaguely remember before Supermacs and Kentucky Fried Chicken it used to be a department store. Perhaps some of the older boardsies will remember

Super macs used to be the old Irish press offices , those large windows used to be full of Black and white photos and the results of the spot the ball comps . I used to spend hours looking at them

Wishbone Ash

Wftablueboy wrote: »

Super macs used to be the old Irish press offices

Here you go:

Wftablueboy

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Here you go:

Yea , that's the way I remember it .... Thanks for d photo Wishbone

Faith+1

Nice pic Wishbone! God I feel old!:o

Wishbone Ash

While we're in that area, where was British Home Stores? Was it where Penny's is now.

(I recall buying a jumper there in the 1980's and I had it for years. I seem to be wearing it in a awful lot of photos at the time but I suppose money was tight during the recession of the 1980's!)

admiralofthefleet

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

While we're in that area, where was British Home Stores? Was it where Penny's is now.

(I recall buying a jumper there in the 1980's and I had it for years. I seem to be wearing it in a awful lot of photos at the time but I suppose money was tight during the recession of the 1980's!)

yep, and it was the metropole ballroom before that. in the same area dunnes on henry street was woolworths

Faith+1

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

yep, and it was the metropole ballroom before that. in the same area dunnes on henry street was woolworths

I thought Woolworths was where HMV is now?

BowWow

Faith+1 wrote: »

I thought Woolworths was where HMV is now?

Correct.