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'Ghost signs'

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    #482
    L1011
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

    As far as I can see, the name has gone out of circulation altogether, in ireland.

    Frequently see these vans around

    https://enuzum.ie/

    May not be in the family anymore, though.

    Also, it was Great Brunswick Street, in case you're trying to look up other stuff. One of the easier renames as the numbering is still the same.


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    #483
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    L1011 wrote: »
    Frequently see these vans around

    https://enuzum.ie/

    May not be in the family anymore, though.

    Also, it was Great Brunswick Street, in case you're trying to look up other stuff. One of the easier renames as the numbering is still the same.


    Also this guy in Cork.... https://twitter.com/danielnuzum

    Seem to be a few about still.

    Edit: is it ok to post a Twitter account? Seems to be public enough.


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    #484
    L1011
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    Its searchable and public.


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    #485
    [Deleted User]
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    L1011 wrote: »
    Frequently see these vans around

    https://enuzum.ie/

    May not be in the family anymore, though.

    Also, it was Great Brunswick Street, in case you're trying to look up other stuff. One of the easier renames as the numbering is still the same.
    Isn't that interesting, 150 years later and the family business is still in hydrocarbons! Just tar instead of coal.

    I notice that in Speedsie's link, the guy is an Anglican theologian, so they've even kept faithful to the Hugenot link. Very good.


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    #486
    spurious
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    Out of the city centre, in Raheny. What used to be McGreevy's (sweet shop and newsagent) and MacMahon's (groceries).


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    #487
    GerardKeating
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    spurious wrote: »
    Out of the city centre, in Raheny. What used to be McGreevy's (sweet shop and newsagent) and MacMahon's (groceries).

    Where in Raheny ?


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    #488
    tricky D
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    St Assams Park. That's McHughs off licence to the right.


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    #489
    vektarman
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    Uncovered on Harold's Cross Road.

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    #490
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    Wow! The depth in that lettering is amazing.


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    #491
    tampopo
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    https://twitter.com/tampopo2236/status/1315701528922132480?s=20


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    #492
    crosstownk
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    Not sure if this was posted previously but it's on Eden House on Eden Quay.

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    More info.
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    #493
    Hotblack Desiato
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    tampopo wrote: »

    I remember O'Neills well, one of those old fashioned hardware shops with a funny smell that sold just about anything :)

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #494
    tampopo
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    I remember O'Neills well, one of those old fashioned hardware shops with a funny smell that sold just about anything :)

    Ah, I see.
    It's covered up again now.


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    #495
    Hotblack Desiato
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    :( covering over a lovely mosaic sign with plastic junk should be a crime.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #496
    Muahahaha
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    The Supervalue on Aston Quay has a family name inscripted in it above the front door, anyone know what it was back in the day (pre Branson of course;=)


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    #497
    miamee
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    The name McBirneys is still on the mosaic floor tiles at the door if you remember to look next time you are there.


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    #498
    Muahahaha
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    Can anyone remember what McBirneys was like, was it mainly a clothes store or a haberdashery also


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    #499
    L1011
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    Full department store. Clothes, drapery, homewares, furniture definitely. Not sure if they had the jewellery, makeup, electronics bits that Clerys had/Arnotts have though.

    Closed under the ownership of the cluster**** that was PMPA Insurance, meaning it may have been viable for a while longer with a sensible owner!


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    #500
    spurious
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    It had a big staircase. I'm sure someone must have either saved it or at the very least photographed it. Rummaging through old photo sites....


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    #501
    L1011
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    The staircase was ripped out under PMPA ownership rather than a later incarnation so it being saved is unlikely. There has to be pics somewhere though.


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    #502
    neris
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    This may have been posted before but I only noticed it this evening sitting in Captain Americas. Over the closed Dunnes Stores on Grafton Street


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    #503
    miamee
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    Great spot @neris I wonder has that always been exposed like that?



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    #504
    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523948#Comment_120523948

    Fairly sure it was visible in the early 80s. I think it was a boutique. Dunnes was on the corner then as well.



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    #505
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Annoying that I have to re-follow a thread that I'd posted in pre-Vanilla 🙄 Nice spot, neris.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #506
    Rechuchote
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/63174646#Comment_63174646

    It did; often bought fresh yeast there. I think it mostly supplied bakeries.

    OP, Finn's Hotel (in the unlikely event no one's mentioned it) is where Nora Barnacle worked, and where James Joyce used to stroll up to meet her before they eloped.

    https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3418444,-6.2531219,3a,60y,4.16h,101.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgQOjw-gYIyUDqVDY7TLYOw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu



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    #507
    L1011
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    They sold bakery and cake making supplies - cake boards, icing bags etc etc. Those silver trays in the quoted 2009 post would have been the cake boards.

    Odd memory I've just had - there used to be a newsagent next door, in what became the barbers, that would do the pre-Euro Roman thing of making up change in penny sweets if they were short on small coins (single use transport tickets were another common one in Rome actually). That tradition mostly died in Rome with the Euro and it'd sure as feck be dead now with everyone using cards!



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