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Driving in Dublin in 1974

  • 20-12-2011 12:41AM
    #1
    garfieldsghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭


    Found this YouTube video via a Facebook link just now:

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




    It's a bit before my time, so it's a novelty to see traffic going down Grafton Street!


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  • #2
    bitemybanger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭bitemybanger


    Apart from Grafton street being pedestrianised not alot has changed.
    And what was your man driving?? An army jeep or somthing?


  • #3
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    He came a bit close for comfort to yer man opening his car door near the start,nearly had it off.


  • #4
    garfieldsghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭garfieldsghost


    bitemybanger wrote: »
    Apart from Grafton street being pedestrianised not alot has changed.
    And what was your man driving?? An army jeep or somthing?

    That and the fact that he only had to stop once on the journey between Stephen's Green and O'Connell Street! :D

    The car was a Mini Moke, according to his comments on YouTube.


  • #5
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    That is brilliant! Kinda nauseating to watch though, I think I've motion sickness now.

    The filth of Trinity, and it looks like they are only building the Central Bank on Dame St.

    Cool video.


  • #6
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Jaysis, he took no prisoners at junctions, did he? I suppose driving an armoured car helped with that :)


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  • #7
    Noopti
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    Nice find! I love looking at videos/pictures like this. He came across as a bit of a nutcase driver! :D


  • #8
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Love the way there's cars casually parked in the middle of O'Connell St!


  • #9
    Bigcheeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Bigcheeze


    37 years on and pedestrians are still ignoring the lights on O'Connell St.


  • #10
    romoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭romoo


    Here's a link for a video about Dublin for the 1988 Dublin millennium celebrations. More detail in the video description on YouTube. The old footage might be of some interest to people here.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hya7...e_gdata_player


  • #11
    Niles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Niles


    At 0:28 there's a girl holding her hand to her ear as though she has a mobile phone... in 1974. Even if she was a timetraveller there'd be no reception...

    Maybe she just had an ear ache or something. Yeah that's more plausible.


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  • #12
    stabeek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭stabeek


    Even if she was a timetraveller there'd be no reception..
    Lol! Excellent Sir!


  • #13
    Degsy
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hya7OiFmHs


  • #14
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,810 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Remembering Ireland in the mid 1970s I recall that nearly every second car was a Volkswagen Beetle, in the rural areas anyway.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #15
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    Jaysis, he took no prisoners at junctions, did he? I suppose driving an armoured car helped with that :)
    Do you see the cyclist watching him nervously as he takes the turn at 1:25!


  • #16
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Remembering Ireland in the mid 1970s I recall that nearly every second car was a Volkswagen Beetle, in the rural areas anyway.

    Fiats everywhere with the occasional Capri,Ford Zephr,Jaguar or Mini!


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