Playing on the "moving Stairs" as kids at the old Dublin Airport terminal building.

Run_to_da_hills

Dublin Airport was one of the first places in Ireland fitted with an oscillator. (Moving stairs to kids at the time.) We use to amuse ourselves on them as our parents would wait in the lounge. Did anyone else knock hours of fun out of them as kids? These were a novelty and at the time there was no major health & safety concerns as they would have had now. You would not last two minutes on them today as an unsupervised kid with all the CCTV and security staff.

mud

Not Dublin airport but Shannon,
My Uncle lived in the states for a good few years in the 70s and 80s, going to collect him from Shannon is one of my abiding memories, Space Invaders and Pacman arcade games, hours trying to go down the up escalator and vice versa and the plastic bag of peanuts that my Uncle saved for me from the plane.

Good Times!

WindSock

Yeah, I remember playing on them. Running up the down moving ones and vice-versa. That was back when Dublin Airport had carpet on the floors and a much warmer welcoming feel about the place. Now it's just a sterile cattle market, with no unique feel to it at all.

bullets

Shannon Airport used to have Operation Wolf and After burner arcade games
which at the time were fantastic. They also had change machines where you put
your paper money in and got change out.

Shannon Airport also had automatic doors.
From what I can remember as a child they opened via
a pressure pad on a mat on the ground. Later to be replaced with
the movement sensor ones. (Great fun jumping on thos mat's)

Escalators used to play on them in Roches Stores in Limerick.
One of the few places that had them growing up, and Later on in
Dunnes stores.

I got the leg of my pants caught in one as a kid,
and can still remember being dragged up the stairs by it with my
mother screaming and having someone press the emergency button.

I also remember messing about and pressing the Red Stop button
only to get real angry looks from half the store when everything ground to a stand still.

Early years nobody minded you playing on them, later years secruity would boot you off them.

~B

Bearhunter

I remember sitting at the top of the escalator at Dublin Airport and the security guy and my parents thought I was afraid. When I told them I was just waiting for the top step the b*stards fell about the place laughing.

Firetrap

First moving stairs I ever met was in a department store in Waterford. I was 8 at the time and the thing freaked me out! I seem to recall my parents attempting to explain that it was a benign thing :eek:

IvyTheTerrible

Ooh I remember these! We used to play on them. I do remember though the security guards telling us to stop so we must have been particularly rambunctious! (sorry just love that word!)

rubadub

bullets wrote: »

I also remember messing about and pressing the Red Stop button
only to get real angry looks from half the store when everything ground to a stand still.

I remember doing this in dun laoghaire shopping centre.

In dublin airport I remember the music well from rastan saga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvn2pPsaE4I

Also had an outrun machine, and later chase HQ.

Hours seemed like days waiting for planes as a kid.

dobsdave

Anyone remember the coin operated tv's they had over by the side?
Thought it was a great novelty at the time:o

petes

I used to love going to the airport as a kid. Loved the arcade games. Was useless at them at that stage but loved them never the less.

Run_to_da_hills

dobsdave wrote: »

Anyone remember the coin operated TV's they had over by the side?
Thought it was a great novelty at the time:o

I can remember them, Telifis Eireann :rolleyes:

They had similar ones at most of the main Greyhound bus stations in the States but you had a variety of channels.

steveone

yep, anyone remember the old airplane that hung in the terminal at dublin airport?? am I showing my age? I'm sure we went to the airport on a school trip and saw some moon rock, a meteorite sample and a bi plane suspended from the ceiling...

Run_to_da_hills

This would be cool to play on, even as adults.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1341719/Travel-Sushi-lator-new-escalator-spitting-image-conveyor-belts-Japanese-restaurants.html

opinion guy

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Dublin Airport was one of the first places in Ireland fitted with an oscillator. (Moving stairs to kids at the time.) We use to amuse ourselves on them as our parents would wait in the lounge. Did anyone else knock hours of fun out of them as kids? These were a novelty and at the time there was no major health & safety concerns as they would have had now. You would not last two minutes on them today as an unsupervised kid with all the CCTV and security staff.

Escalator perhaps ???

Run_to_da_hills

opinion guy wrote: »

Escalator perhaps ???

Escalator was too technical a term for kids back in the early 70's