Limerick City Footage from 1994 , 1998

Toxic7

Just a bus hobby video i found on Youtube.
Interesting to see how much the city has changed since then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w2uaklOePg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6XdJR3uFIU

Poxyshamrock

Some things I've noticed that take me back

The left turn lane from Sarsfield to O'Connell Street for buses.
Speights (all boarded up by 1998)
The amount of steps the old buses used to have.
The Henry Cecil, Savoy and Carlton.
Roches Stores toys and garden on Sarsfield street!

jordainius

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Some things I've noticed that take me back

The left turn lane from Sarsfield to O'Connell Street for buses.
Speights (all boarded up by 1998)
The amount of steps the old buses used to have.
The Henry Cecil, Savoy and Carlton.
Roches Stores toys and garden on Sarsfield street!

I didn't venture in to the city much pre 2000 so do you mind me asking what exactly Speights was? A shopping centre? Am I right in thinking it was where the new big Dunnes is now on Henry Street?

Mc Love

It really is interesting to see how much it has changed and even the changes to the buses themselves. How come they dont have that strip of rubber at the back anymore?

Mc Love

jordainius wrote: »

I didn't venture in to the city much pre 2000 so do you mind me asking what exactly Speights was? A shopping centre? Am I right in thinking it was where the new big Dunnes is now on Henry Street?

Yeah it was a shopping centre with a car park on the roof.

In the bottom video at 2.39 - really strange looking person on the bus

bazz26

Not a scumbag or begger to be seen in those clips either.

Somethings never change though, double parking outside HMV/McDonalds. :pac:

padma

Those videos brought me back, Gap shop across from the side entrance to Arthurs quay, The Carl scarpa shop where the meteor store is now beside Brown Thomas. The mini Roches across from the main Roches was that a Baby store? bugggies and the likes? Plus the double decker hand me downs we used to get from the jackeens.

Icky Thump

why are there no double deckers anymore?? surely raheen and the university routes would fill them??

1huge1

In the 1994 video at 1min44, whats with all the countries flags on brown thomas, was it a hotel back then (my memory is a bit patchy seeing as I was 4)

Cookiemunster

1huge1 wrote: »

In the 1994 video at 1min44, whats with all the countries flags on brown thomas, was it a hotel back then (my memory is a bit patchy seeing as I was 4)

Nope, always a department store. It was called Todds back then though.

Raiser

Anyone spot the 1994 jaywalker @ ~1.24?

- She can't have lived for much longer :eek:

Kev_2012

That's mental! The Savoy, Spaights, Todds, double decker buses, didnt watch it long enough but can you see Boyds in it? Limerick has changed A LOT in the past 10-12 years!

padma

I wouldn't mind but the savoy was a new building back then too