Old dublin bus pictures and street scenes,1987 to 1993

carchaeologist

http://www.dublinbuses.com/wity.html
Lots of nice shots here!!
Seems like aeons ago doesnt it!!!
Enjoy!!

If anyone has any similar pictures of irish street scenes from the same era themselves post them up here too.

carchaeologist

And better again....
http://www.freewebs.com/eirebus2006/alloverads.htm

:)

lord lucan

the buses bring back a lot of memories but just look at the streetscapes. i got goosebumps just looking at some of the pics of the city as i remember it as a kid/teenager. great stuff.:D

Chong

Great Post !

Archeron

Excellent. I particularly love the buses sponsored by Radion

Max_Damage

As I said in the classic car forum, that website will put up a year each month (they'll go up to 2008). Next month they'll put up pictures from 1994.

Bring back the green Dublin Bus livery!

Max_Damage

Carchaeologist: A Cherry in the background there! Probably went to the great M50 in the sky years ago (same with the Kadett and the Fiesta!)

vektarman

Thanks for the pic Max, my late dad worked on that ship.

On the 1989 page, the three Coke buses, the centre one is preserved at the National Transport Museum in Howth, albeit in Dublin Bus green. I went there last summer, loved it!

stovelid

lord lucan wrote: »

the buses bring back a lot of memories but just look at the streetscapes. i got goosebumps just looking at some of the pics of the city as i remember it as a kid/teenager. great stuff.:D

Yeah I love that too. The 1987 are unreal, looks so old. It's like old school or wedding photos, many years on - the people and places frozen in the background are just as interesting as the subject of the photo.

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

Carchaeologist: A Cherry in the background there! Probably went to the great M50 in the sky years ago (same with the Kadett and the Fiesta!)

Yep,saw that yesterday when i was looking throgh the pics,id say the kadett is nearly new in that picture!iv already run the reg of the cherry through cartell,both 446UZH(above) and 447UZH were august 1979 dublin registrations and were both FII 100As,so they were on the system up untill 1993 at the least,i wouldnt hold my breath that they are around now though,i still reckon my one is the only original irish registered cherry FII left on irish roads,and theres just 9 left on the DVLA records in england.(if anyone can prove me wrong about my one id love to hear from you!:D!)

carchaeologist

stovelid wrote: »

Yeah I love that too. The 1987 are unreal, looks so old. It's like old school or wedding photos, many years on - the people and places frozen in the background are just as interesting as the subject of the photo.

Yes,it does seem like another planet,i was in dublin in 88 for the millenium celebrations,wish i had a camera now!!Though being 8 years old i didnt care much!Will looking back on todays dublin/ireland in 20 years time look as alien as those pics do now?
Does anyone else have photos they an scan of ye olde ireland in the 70s and 80s?

carchaeologist

vektarman wrote: »

Thanks for the pic Max, my late dad worked on that ship.

This is why i like boards,stuff like this happens.:)

carchaeologist

Another vintage oconnell st shot..

carchaeologist

And more..




Thres some more on.. http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?cat=16

boneless

My brother was a mechanic in CIE many years ago. I used to visit him in the garage during school holidays. These are bringing back memories.

Thank You!!

carchaeologist

If only i had a time machine.....

Love old street pics like that...:)

mad m

Ha, the IMP bus 83...This used to go past my mam's house...It was a hale and ride service...Stick out the auld hand anywhere and it stopped....

Max_Damage

carchaeologist wrote: »

If only i had a time machine.....

A DeLorean and a flux capacitor is needed!

What I'm thinking of doing one of these weekends is driving all over Dublin with a camera and taking pictures of everything I see. It will be good to look back on them in 15 or so years time.

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

A DeLorean and a flux capacitor is needed!

What I'm thinking of doing one of these weekends is driving all over Dublin with a camera and taking pictures of everything I see. It will be good to look back on them in 15 or so years time.

Good idea,but what you should do is check the bus website at the top of the page,and take pics today of the same streets and angles as some of the 87/88/89 pics,i think they would make a good comparison,i would do it myself if i was nearer dublin,some of the oconnell street shots would be easy to replicate,then post up the new and old comparisons here.

carchaeologist

In this sort of style,but more similar,(this is the closest i could do with web shots!)

stovelid

carchaeologist wrote: »

Loving that mod-about-town on the scooter...

Lizzykins

I just love all these old pictures. I feel like I'm 110 when I look at the pics of 60s Dublin. I remember all of it!

carchaeologist

Lizzykins wrote: »

the 60s Dublin. I remember all of it!

Count youself lucky!!Alot of people cant remember the 60s!!:PGlad you enjoyed them,looks like they are slides,now that is old school!!

Max_Damage

Lizzykins wrote: »

I just love all these old pictures. I feel like I'm 110 when I look at the pics of 60s Dublin. I remember all of it!

Someone missed out on the acid trip! :pac:

MBC

carchaeologist wrote: »

And more..

Is it me or does anyone else feel when they see old pictures or films of people from years........that people look so innocent? was watching reeling in the years there the other night and couldn't help but feel that people in the 60s/70s looked so pure and innocent back then.

120_Minutes

maybe its just me, and those slides were scanned with a bright light shining through them, but didnt dublin look cleaner and more european back then than it does now?

carchaeologist

120_Minutes wrote: »

maybe its just me, and those slides were scanned with a bright light shining through them, but didnt dublin look cleaner and more european back then than it does now?

I thought the same,it seems very different doesnt it,any later photos look much darker.
And the skies are always really blue!!!

Lizzykins

Max_Damage wrote: »

Someone missed out on the acid trip! :pac:

Definitely did since I was only born in '62!

KC168

This might also get the memories flooding back, this is the website for the Transport Enthusiasts Club of Ireland who preserve former CIE buses.

Click Here

KC168.

Rigsby

120_Minutes wrote: »

maybe its just me, and those slides were scanned with a bright light shining through them, but didnt dublin look cleaner and more european back then than it does now?

Yes. Because it probably was cleaner. When you think of it there was less to throw away. There were no fast food outlets with disposable wrapping. Biscuits were sold loose from a tin ( same with sweets ), milk came in bottles which were returnable, and babies were clothed in cloth nappies, which you washed and reused :eek: We were probably as careless about litter as now but had less to throw away.