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Growing up in Drogheda
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23-06-2009 11:22pm#1
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Ah great thread
God i totally forgot about the fountain in the old town center full of money it was , used to hang out at the back on the steps or over on the wall next to the river at the boxing club there.
Gisties arcade on dominics st , think its a bookies now.
Remember sataurday afternoons in the queue for cinema.
Joe thompson's on shop st,
Used to love going to the sound shop and play with the guitars
wow sound shop 2 , id forgotten about that one.
Hot Pot was legendary .
What was the place called at the end of narrow west st. just on the corner before the abbey shoping center? It's some kind of take away now, used to go there all the time for a mug of tea and a sandwich and chip's. Annoying i cant remember that one :mad:
the 4 lanterns close by too
cruisos when it still had the records on the roof and the bar in the club was in the middle and was thatched, and i was way to young to be there and getting hit on by a girl who was way to old for me, it had the unique smell and sticky floors
Number 4 on a monday night after work , think it was good fella's before and storm now.
Is the Genoa still there on shop st?
the square at the bottom of stockwell street and the health food place that was on the corner, i used to love how it smelled on the way past.0 -
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Ah, pool playing in Gisties on a saturday afternoon. Coffee and cake in Hollywood cafe and the cafe in the town centre.
Does anyone remember the lovely area behind the lane between the old weavers and now mizzoni's pizza? Big fountains and a cafe, was brilliant
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garrincha62 wrote: »The Hollywood Café!
wasn't there an unofficial name for it aswell, your right it was hollywood café
maybe it was called another name after that? around 98/99???
I must say i was sad when it closed
I'm not sorry to see jumping jacks gone however 0 -
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Yeah I remember Gisty's, great spot for pool etc but from memory I dont think it was open that long?
Also - the garage where McDonalds now is, remember it was the "Ola" garage and the Take Away/Diner in it was called "Breaks" I think?? I remember at the time thinking it was cool that we had an American Style diner in the town 0 -
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Trafford Lad wrote: »The Old Library up in Fair St, split between kids and adults and wondering if you would get thrown out if you ventured into the adult library (no that type of adult library;))
Woolworths where Penneys is now.
The upstairs bit in Dunnes in West St, this is going back early in the 80's but I think I remember an upstairs with shoes, bags, toys etc.
The Raft Race on the Boyne, I have early memories of this, Dominics Park being packed, Boynside radio blasting out the tunes!
Good god i remeber all of this would have been at the oldest 5 or 6 when wollies went and the upstairs in dunnes , this this closed when the town center opened in 86/87? wollies a few years b4???
One of my earliest childhood memories is in wollies with my dad and me getting lost , and the staff giving me sweets till my dad came and got me i must have been all of 3 or 4 at the time
Boyneside radio lmao "it's 3 o clock on the radio and it's time for you and me to make a cup of tea, tea, tea, tea for you and me...." at least i think thats how the jingle went???? Please tell me some one else remembers that and in not inventing child hood memories
Oh and "boyneside radio....... NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWSSSSSSSSSS" they were one of many pirate outfits in them days b4 going legit as lmfm ? when did lmfm come early 90's? or maybe a little b4 ?
Lmao memories keep coming, early 90's when long wave radio atlantic 252 was THEE station to listen to for the cool kids in town
And Harpo's in the abbey center with the car and dj desk in it ? where we all at least once bought x-works or eclipse jeans before we grew our hair long and switched to mister ace on laurance st where they sold pantera tshirts and fishing gear lol, think mr ace is a phone shop now .
Dominics barber on peters st where all the cool kids went for hair cuts , and you could read Q magazine and smoke while waiting, hey didnt dome now sinn fein dom have a steak in harpos's or one of the barbers there did? and the basement cd shop down stairs with paddy who also ran buses to gigs, (is he still around?)0 -
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andrew1977 wrote: »What about Joe Thomas's store in Shop street
The man sold everything from digital watches to fake wigs:D
A treasure trove to spend your pocket money in
Ah yeah , they used rent movies upstairs aswell.
I remember my mum got me this cool blue watch in there, with a see through glass digital face, god i loved that watch 0 -
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I have a hazy memory of buying a brick of the Linen Hall and signing it one night i was there. They never sent it on to me when they bulldozed the place to make way for the Haymarket though.
Joe Thomas's shop was great.
Had my first pint in the White Horse.
Spent some quality time mitching around the glen, 101 steps and what we used to call sh1t alley. (the lane at the back of the CBS)
Remember 'Higans and O'Riordan' beating the crap out of us in St. Marys. Probably warranted
I remember hitching into Drogheda every weekend for years and always getting lifts. You wouldn't do it nowadays.
The takeaway in Narrow West Street? They had a great video game called Tempest.
Callan's, The Coffee Garden ........
O'Shea's back when it was an awl fellas pub, forget the name. Reds when it first opened. The Weavers.
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Laurence's Street I believe?
thats right , not sure what's there now though, used to be one of my favorite shops in town. closed between 96 and 98 am i right? could have been earlier.
Sorry to drag the thread down here and sound old (im 29 next week btw)
I live in dublin now and come back every other weekend still, so am still with it in terms of local stuff. It's terrible to see the state of 'down the town' these days isn't it :mad: there used to be a time it would take me 40 - 60 minutes to cross west st on a saturday for meeting folks i know. No there are so many closed shops. Now theres nothing to do on west st at all, used to me my saturday ritual to go hang out at back of town center , browse cd's in golden disc's , look at shoes in eagletons with girlfriend (bought shoes there last week glad they are still around!!!!! ) head over to paddy's (anotehr cd place below the barbers on peter's st (is he still there? i know it crossed the road over the years) over to mr ace's all the way back to look at more shoes and girls clothes in every shop on the way with my girl till we got to flip on narrow west st and ten into hollywood west for a mug of scaldey and a toasty and chips.
These days there fcuk all to do on west st , at least keirans is still there.
Just dont like scotch hall its too much like dundrum for me :mad:
Sad to see so many places go from the town like the sound shop in there land mark building hands up whos been to it since they moved? and its actually ony 5 minutes walk from my parents place now lol and i aint been there 0 -
i know this is slightly off topic but i think its relevant to here...
When i was growing up (im 21 now). I remember distinctly the shop at the bottom of laurences street (there is a kids uniform and school shop there now) and i was wondering does anyone else remember it?
It popped into my head when this week someone asked me "When was the first time i can remember MJ?
And i remembered seeing a life size cut out of his History statue.
Just wanna make sure im not going crazy
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CheckI know not everyone went to the Whitworth but I'd say the vast majority of us here did at some point, it was a place to go
Used to walk home from Dingo's by myself 3-4am :eek:You could walk throughout the town at most hours of the day years back, I wouldn't like to chance it this day in age regardless of how tough I am.
Agree 100%, amazing how age and distance makes you appreciate these thingsI suppose it has changed in a bad way, but I for one am glad of how things went while I grew up in the town, when I look back now at the freedom I had and the chit I got up to, I doubt I would have the same childhood if I was in my youth now. 0 -
well said lad's , from Finians Pk myself, used to play ball and get up to all sorts of divilmet there you're right though dont see any kids kicking ball there now remember durring summer we'd kick ball on the green against the kids from the other streets ,we had nothing but fields around us then pretty much , used to be on the outskirts there now the town had expanded well beyond us.
Some good changes like having a big tesco and lidl over the way is suely welcome though.
Just read the Drogheda Independent online and 1 article said that there where 40 empty units on west st :00 -
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