Things you miss about Dublin the most

Spiritoftheseventies

1. The old granny buses
2. The Adelphi Cinema.

Keep going folks

gamgsam

Cars going fast

Spiritoftheseventies

4. The Diceman
5. Bad Bobs

LoanShark

Staff who speak english in pubs,shops,cafes,buses,hospitals...etc,etc,etc

John_Rambo

Supercans.

Bus conductors.

Dogs strolling around and knowing how to behave.

That's about it, the city is improving in my opinion, cheaper, easier to get around, more choice and it still has that atmosphere that people love and come back to all the time.

(good one on the diceman)

Spiritoftheseventies

Old Croke Park. In the old days It didnt take you three days to get to your seat if you were in the upper stand

stovelid

McGonagles

John_Rambo

stovelid wrote: »

McGonagles

A fook.. yeah. Good one.

Sides.

Spiritoftheseventies

Most definitely. So many brilliant memories of that place.

Dyr

McGonagles=good times/badtimes.

I miss Halloween being an event.

Actually does anyone remember they ran this samhainfest thing for a few years and one year they had giant straw animals like wickermen floating on the liffey which were set alight at night? I've never found any pictures of that online

cosmic

Street parties.

The estate I grew up in had one every Summer when I was a kid. Everyone had bunting up in their garden and there was music, and people brought out tables and food, and everyone had fun!

stimpson

The Grove/ The Olympic Ballroom/Bartley Dunnes

spurious

Downstairs in Roches Stores - all sorts of interesting things for sale.

WindSock

Moore St.

Bill2673

The Winding Stair

deelite

The army coming out when the buses were on strike.

Bill2673

Bewleys on Grafton St.

Late night coffees in Sufis.

John_Rambo

deelite wrote: »

The army coming out when the buses were on strike.

What's wrong with me, these are really good... OK, army picking up the bins when the bin men were on strike.

deelite

The old man who used to stand outside the Savoy cinema taking your photograph with his polaroid camera.

stimpson

Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you.

Bill2673

Parka jackets
Cureheads
Greasy spoons

stimpson

And a pint of Harp.

trad

The last bus at half eleven.

deelite

The "go ahead" on buses....

Bill2673

Dunkin donuts on O'Connell st.

Short lived but glorious while it lasted.

Spiritoftheseventies

Fairview Snooker hall.

Zascar

People who can write thread titles that make sense

Spiritoftheseventies

Zascar wrote: »

People who can write thread titles that make sense

Done sweetcheeks

Bill2673

the Dublin cynic......still with us thank God.

not to be confused with the Dublin wit....which is in danger of going the way of the dodo and the Adelphi.

Zascar

Lux23

Bus Conductors
The mad woman mute singing on O'Connell Street
The floozie in the jacuzzi
A restaurant that I think may have been called 'The River Bank' on the quays (My dad used to get a mixed grill there every time we went)
Those fellas that used to hang around Parnell Square, Molesworth Street who looked after the cars. I used to think they were employed by the corporation but they just hung around there of their own accord, some even had uniforms.

admiralofthefleet

the old man/regular type of pubs that are vanishing fast

lord lucan

A boozer that serves a proper pint of Guinness. It's the home of the black stuff FFS!!:mad:

Hank_Jones

I miss it having character.

It's basically just the same as any other metropolis now.
Still has that same Liffey smell though...

Gaspode

Murphs
Solomon Grundy's
The Grove
The Berni Inn
Pints for 2 quid

tricky D

Bus conductors.
Being able to hop off the 'banger'/routemaster buses when they turned the corner at the end of my road and near primary school.
The 'hard about fellas' with their newspapers (the ones Lux23 was talking about).
The Herald scooters dispersing from Abbey St.
When Grafton St was two-way with buses.
The 88 bus route.
The pond and waterfall in St Anne's.
Snooker in Johnnies (now 4 Dame Lane).
When the Stag's Head was a great pub.
Good pubs now gone. Especially the Phoenix on Dominick St (go on, live up to your name)
Many gig and nightclub venues and years of ligging into most of them. Sides and McGonagles as already mentioned.
A lot fewer traffic lights, one way streets and some more sensible speed limits.

I could go on....

tony 2 tone

spurious wrote: »

Downstairs in Roches Stores - all sorts of interesting things for sale.

Roches Stores being there at all!

tricky D wrote: »

The 'hard about fellas' with their newspapers (the ones Lux23 was talking about).
The Herald scooters dispersing from Abbey St.

Me Da used to call those lads "Lock Hards", as in lock her hard there missis!
And I remember the scooters coming down the lane on Abbey street, loaded up with papers.


To add my own, Hector Greys.

stroopy

The old Eamonn Doran's

Joey the lips

I live in the country now... I just miss the hustle and bustle of dublin. That and the fact that I could get a bus to town and fall asleep on it.

filthymcnasty

Lux23 wrote: »

Bus Conductors
The mad woman mute singing on O'Connell Street
The floozie in the jacuzzi

ah yes, the hoor in the sewer

When it was easy to get on street parking plus it was free.
Ricardos pool hall on wexford st, despite the smell of cat piss and
Dockers pub on sir john rogersons quay.. good times

stovelid

stimpson wrote: »

Bartley Dunnes

The loss is felt even more strongly given the aberration that now stands on the hallowed site..

the_syco

Ambassador, when it was a cinema.

lord lucan

the_syco wrote: »

Ambassador, when it was a cinema.

I seen "The Empire Strikes Back" there as a nipper,it was a cinema in the late 70's into the 80's and then it closed. It re-opened in the mid-90's iirc as a cinema for a while but closed again and was turned into a music venue.

Mute

Roller Skating at the Olympic

The free meal with your ticket in all nightclubs

Lamp-post swinging

Skipping in the streets

Spiritoftheseventies

The lighthouse on abbey street. Saw some terrific films there

bigbadbear

I miss the old banter with people behind the counter in the newsagent.

A conversation the other day.......

Foreign deli assistant: (I'm alone at the counter) "NEXT!"
ME: "Breakfast roll please"
Deli assistant: "sorry?"
ME: "a breakfast roll"
Deli assistant: "huh?"
Me: "Bre-ck-fa-st roll"

He looks at me funny. I then point at the breakfast roll on the wall and up at the sign on the wall and see they call it a breakfast baguette. He then says to me "you want breakfast baguette???":pac:

I was looking around expecting Jeremy Beadle and Mike Murphy to be standing behind me. I started laughing at the situation but when I looked up at yer man he had a face as long as a donkey's b**lix. You'd have more craic at a minutes silence than with some of these boys.

Why I always go to the local Mace to buy things because the aul-boy behind the counter always has somethin funny to say.


I miss the green buses too. I hope they bring them back in some form.

Masada

The Annalivia, (huu'or in de sew'or)
proper halloween bonfires, (without scaldies throwing bud bottles at people and scrapping with the cops.)
The old Point Depot,
broken gafs (eegaa's)
Sense of comminuty (when i was small, everyone within a 2 mile radius new who i was and had no probs squeeling on me for getting up to mischief, despite being "miles" away, as it felt. )
Macaroon Bars,
Fishing in the Canal (they actually used to have fish, believe it or not.)
Moore Street, ( there's no other street in the capital that says "Dublin" more than Moore street.)
People Shouting "Baacckkk'oooo" in North Earl street.
Trees and parking spaces in the middle of O'Connell street.
Dublin lingo, like when you were bonkin into croker as a young scaldie and your pal would be keepin ello and shout, "sketch, its the law, yill gettin lagged!"

OutlawPete

So much.

The Adelphi ..




The (old) Lighthouse Cinema.
Metro Burger.
The William Tell.
Being able to drive on the beaches.
Roads without Speed Bumps.
The Old Pitch and Putt at the Airport (was right beside the runway )
Crazy Religious O'Connell St Lady

gollem_1975

my granny

5 donut for a pound from KC

temple of sound

the riverbank..aka "the hot pot" on burgh quay and their ponderosa burgers.

chatting up women at Taxi queues

cosmic

Switzers window at Christmas

stovelid

The Well-Fed Cafe.

The Eager Beaver when it actually was a second-hand clothes shop.

The Abbey Mall when it was full of second clothes shops and record shops.

The Norseman and Foggy Dew before they were renovated.

Little shopping centres like the Tallaght Town Centre and Crumlin Shopping Centre bustling with shoppers

The Crane Bar

Academy(?) cinema on Pearse Street

Bootleg concert tape stalls on O'Connell Bridge