Waterford in the 80's . What did you enjoy ?

Scaldy Ned

im in my 50's And it seems to me that my 3 kids have not experienced the same Waterford that I did as a "young adult"..... am I wrong when I say to them it was better then or maybe I'm just turning into me dad..... What are your memories of 80's Waterford ?

I'll start ..... burgerland , the Mods , The Freewheelers, The Showboat, The Coachmans,The Wimpy and Billy , Flanagens chipper,The Regina The Savoy ( in its dying days) The Regal . Breens (mAsh and hard peas) Catch 22 in the tower ,sticky carpets stone court ,jazzing the reg on Sunday with Bruno on the drums . Gino Hearne ..... Over to you

Harry Palmr

Music Moves.

deisemum

The Chuck Wagon

deisemum

The Peppermint Grove, was that the disco in the Bridge Hotel?

Yes Boss

Bonfires.

Walking home from Breen's because you had a choice - Taxi or Chipper!

thomasm

Smoking on my skateboard in the park while swearing at mates :pac:

fiachr_a

A kid from my estate drowned on vacation. Everyone thought it was me because we had similar surnames and our dads had the same kind of job. People were phoning my mother offering their condolences. Still get funny looks from some Waterford people when they see me out and about.

Wanderer78

thomasm wrote: »

Smoking on my skateboard in the park while swearing at mates :pac:

dust it off, im heading down soon with mine

Trick of the Tail

Egans.

ABC Radio.

shockwave

deisemum wrote: »

The Peppermint Grove, was that the disco in the Bridge Hotel?

It was the hotel bar, I remember the Bob Miller band playing in there a lot.

wellboytoo

Worrying about the light bulb missing on the back of the car when the Cops stop you on the way home from the pub after eight pints!

deise08

Thrill on the hill.
Lark in the park.
Being able to cross the red iron.
Raiding the coca cola factory.
Martin hunt.
Egans.
The city arms.
L&n colouring competitions.

giles lynchwood

orange juice in the back row of the regina

fricatus

The Broad Street Centre... when it opened, one of the comments in the paper was that it was "like something in London or Paris!"

At last we had a Bewley's... and I can still picture the crowds on the single escalator. It had an actual glass roof - and I used to fancy the blondy one in Leonidas. Ah, them were the days!

magick

I actually miss the cranes on the Quay, yes I know they were an eye sore but still tho I grew up seeing them, that and the old bridge.

fiachr_a

Shams wrote: »

I actually miss the cranes on the Quay, yes I know they were an eye sore but still tho I grew up seeing them, that and the old bridge.

Those cranes didn't get used in the 1980s because of the dockers' strike.

gollyn9

The Gloss-arcade
Breens night club
Strand video
Stripes takeaway
Kg discs
The Regina
Beefy king
Burgerland
Crosslane video
Sully's
Fat Sam's
Woolies
Fitzmaurices
The wimpy
Besco

fiachr_a

What was the name of that video library on Morrison's Road where the WSPCA shop is now?

deisemum

fricatus wrote: »

At last we had a Bewley's... and I can still picture the crowds on the single escalator. It had an actual glass roof - and I used to fancy the blondy one in Leonidas. Ah, them were the days!

Bewleys the place with very rude staff so no surprise the place was usually quiet any time I went in there.

deise08

fiachr_a wrote: »

What was the name of that video library on Morrison's Road where the WSPCA shop is now?

Ajs

littlecat

The red and blue swirly pattern on the swaying screen in the Regina, and what seemed like a massive drop down in front of it. Always full of crisp packets and drinks bottles.

A glass of coke and a yellow snack in the cafe in Shaws - big treat when that happened. Mam would have coffee with cream - had never seen the likes of it!

Chicken and chips in Egans.

The old Book Centre and getting the new books in Bevans.

Walking absolutely everywhere, no such thing as too far.

magick

littlecat wrote: »

The red and blue swirly pattern on the swaying screen in the Regina, and what seemed like a massive drop down in front of it. Always full of crisp packets and drinks bottles.
.

Ive always wondered about this, what was its use? I remember looking down into it and seeing lots of broken wooden tables and chairs.

littlecat

Shams wrote: »

Ive always wondered about this, what was its use? I remember looking down into it and seeing lots of broken wooden tables and chairs.

No idea, just remember that it was a terrifying chasm to me as a child - was probably no more than six feet!

wmpdd3

Seeing Santi in shaws, queuing for ages wearing an itchy cream wool coat that was a hand me down from my older cousin.

Buying food off a pallet in Crazy prices.

Being left in the car on the quay for ages with my younger sisters while mam went shopping, watching the cranes and cows.

Being stuck in the traffic lights at the bus /rail station for hours on a sunny day.

buying computers games in Finns camera shop.

holding my grans cig while she played bingo in the savoy and a chip in stripes after wards.

Getting money to play the slots upstairs.

The slice of ice cream at half time.

the ferrybank punks

fights outside pubs on a saturday evening walking back to the car with the shopping.

The bar tender telling the whole pub that the cops are on the bridge.

Giving lifts to hitch hikers ever time we went to town.

The queues outside the labour exchange in ballybricken.

TheQuietFella

Jim O'Briens - The Coffee Shop - Leahys - Walsh's Bread - The Emerald Isle on Patrick Street

- Packie McCabe & Tom O'Donohue (Barbers on Patrick Street)

tonc76

Tip top bread delivered to the door!

fiachr_a

The beat club, upstairs in the Bridge Hotel.

deise08

Big brother lemonade.
Bubble up.
10 penny mixtures.
Running over to peadars to get fags for the auld wan up the road.
Two channels and no house phone.
Hearing the boats sound off on new years eve .

Rubberlegs

Hanging out on the benches in Red Square.
Sitting up on the Knock in the sunshine.
The sweet counter in Fitzmaurices.
Beat on the street.
Kentucky chips and coleslaw, and fancying the fella that worked in there. Getting dirty looks off the cross aul wan in there.
Tormenting the life out of my parents to let me go to Breens at 15.
Fat Sams.
Karaoke in Ned Kelly's on Ballybricken.
We all went through a phase of wearing tweed jackets.
Skipping mass to smoke down the back of Ferrybank community centre.
Buying fags for 10p each.
There was a lovely little cafe in George's Court called Maireads. It was where the back of Boots is now. I'll never forget the vanilla slices in there, proper ones. Flaky pastry and seperate layers of cream and custard. Can't seem to get the like of them anywhere these days

obezyana

So now we know who all the old folks are

old gregg

The sale in Peter France










.... is that still on

wellboytoo

Durban poison

Max Powers

Scaldy Ned wrote: »

im in my 50's And it seems to me that my 3 kids have not experienced the same Waterford that I did as a "young adult"..... am I wrong when I say to them it was better then or maybe I'm just turning into me dad..... What are your memories of 80's Waterford ?

I'll start ..... burgerland , the Mods , The Freewheelers, The Showboat, The Coachmans,The Wimpy and Billy , Flanagens chipper,The Regina The Savoy ( in its dying days) The Regal . Breens (mAsh and hard peas) Catch 22 in the tower ,sticky carpets stone court ,jazzing the reg on Sunday with Bruno on the drums . Gino Hearne ..... Over to you

Im afraid you are wrong and you are turning into your dad, nothing in Waterford was better in the 80s than it is now, generally speaking. The city is a far nicer place, just look at the pictures, higher standard of living, we are living longer, more opportunities etc etc. Added to that, nostalgia for things from the past, for burgers from the wimpy doesnt compare with burgers from burzza, eddie rockets etc etc. If wimpy and the likes were any good, they would be still around
Yes im a kill joy/buzz kill on this topic

old gregg

^ I'd agree with you.

wellboytoo

^agree entirely I had a ball, but Waterford was a run down unloved looking place in the seventies and eighties no doubt.

fiachr_a

wellboytoo wrote: »

^agree entirely I had a ball, but Waterford was a run down unloved looking place in the seventies and eighties no doubt.

Some of those buildings in that ghost town video on YouTube were like that back in the '80s.

wellboytoo

fiachr_a wrote: »

Some of those buildings in that ghost town video on YouTube were like that back in the '80s.

Yes but the majority of them have improved, glass more than half full.

1967

The Norris Minor listening to The Village and Neuro to name but two

fiachr_a

1967 wrote: »

The Norris Minor listening to The Village and Neuro to name but two

Gerry Ryan claimed this Waterford band (Neuro) were from Dublin but they didn't object.

Poor Uncle Tom

wellboytoo wrote: »

Worrying about the light bulb missing on the back of the car when the Cops stop you on the way home from the pub after eight pints!

...or the dodgy wiring on the ignition, had to try to explain that one a night or two at approximately 3am......:p

Fat Sams for a dinner, couldn't beat a good stew for £2.20, a quick duck into Sinnotts, got all my good tapes there, ZZ Top, Edie Brickell, David Burns, ah, memories....

A few pints watching In Tua Nua at the Bridge, a few scoops in Bobby McGees and then across to The Stand and on down to Egans.

fiachr_a

That young guy Fitzgerald who'd shout at you in the street outside his clothes shop in Red Square. It was some kind of sales pitch. He died a few years back.

geoff35

Scaldy Ned wrote:

im in my 50's And it seems to me that my 3 kids have not experienced the same Waterford that I did as a "young adult"..... am I wrong when I say to them it was better then or maybe I'm just turning into me dad..... What are your memories of 80's Waterford ?

The Roxy...Egans nightclub..T & Hs...

fiachr_a

Mork from Ork jackets (jerkins).

kfallon

Vanilla slices and those big doughnuts in Leahys!

Teleport v Finns.....who was the best computer games seller!

Down to Darrers to get the bread!

Iveee

kfallon wrote: »

Vanilla slices and those big doughnuts in Leahys!

Teleport v Finns.....who was the best computer games seller!

Down to Darrers to get the bread!

oh those doughnuts ha!

In Leahys do you remember they had a cake with chocolate on the outside and coconut on the inside, what was it called ?

fiachr_a

What was the name of that tiny record shop beside T&Hs?

magick

Just on a side note, theirs a great facebook page called "things you miss about waterford"

Wanderer78

Shams wrote: »

Just on a side note, theirs a great facebook page called "things you miss about waterford"

linkage?

Rubberlegs

Shams wrote: »

Just on a side note, theirs a great facebook page called "things you miss about waterford"

Thanks! Just found it. It's a closed group, have requested membership

Finnbar01

Summer sesame.

shockwave

Flyers roller disco
Telephone boxes
The dingy arcade in the apple market where the kazbar is now.
Sinnotts record shop opposite the cathedral
Woolworths where pennys is now.