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Remembering Old Bars and Clubs
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Thread bump :pac:
Wow some memories here.
Was in DIT Kevin St late 80s-early 90s - Junction Bar (although it was actualy called John McGraths) for pints. Used to have the most amazing bursted yet still comfortable sofas and a great jukebox. When I started lager was £1.30 a pint and Guinness £1.05 or so. This was the upstairs, the downstairs was strictly for grumpy old locals and would throw students out :pac: Then in the early 90s they 'renovated' the upstairs, stripped out the comfy seats and installed those fucking horrible standing-up type tables, and a few tall stools, the idea presumably that people on their feet will drink faster :rolleyes: at that point it was deserted for the many other options in the area.
Olympic Ballroom for events - it had a mezzanine or whatever you call it level which was the spot for surreptitious riding, and yes I did indulge
The Bleedin' Horse opened up a couple of years later, after having been derelict for about 20 years. Was always regarded as too poncy and expensive for students, maybe that was their plan, and it's not like Camden St area has a shortage of bars... Was in Charlies a couple of times but don't remember much as I was pretty drunk when we moved on in there. Ryan's opened up and it was the 'too posh for the Junction' place to go around there, until Devitts was renovated and it took over, then Whelan's came along...
Sides - once claimed to have been in there to appear cool. Was never actually in there :pac:
Club M was a dump even then. Was in there ten years later and it hadn't improved.
Zoo Bar - was in there once post-exams, don't remember anything apart from dodgy cocktails and pretentiousness. You're supposed to feel privileged to be let in but the place had practically nothing going for it. Not the first nor the last kip to trade on supposed exclusivity.
Top Hat - was in there only once but it was the Nirvana / Sonic Youth gig in 1991. Still got the stub, and yes I was there for every note from both bands. Kurt Cobain had to lug his own gear onto the stage. They were LOUD as in My Bloody Valentine loud. Visceral. Amazing.
Fibbers - would've been right up my alley at the time but never actually went there. One night I copped off and her friends were all going to Fibbers, I chose to go to her place...
Isolde's Tower - where middle aged civil servants from the numerous nearby Revenue offices ended up on a "work do" when the proper pubs closed
The Sub - I grew up in Crumlin and it had a dodgy rep even in the 70s. I remember ending up in there at the end of a Sunday drive close to 40 years ago (somehow my dad's Sunday family drives always ended up in a pub) and he led me by the hand into a jacks cubicle and there was just a raw hole in the floor where somebody had wrenched off an entire toilet and left nothing but this entry into the sewer... it's not the worst "pub jacks you ever experienced as a kid" though as that was some unremembered place outside the greater Dublin area where the entire gents (a step down from the door) was flooded with two inches of watery urine.
Banna Beach - was there in the early 00s at a biker rally, 200-ish bikers pitching tents in the green in the middle of the holiday homes. IIRC there were three interlinked rooms that night, one with Black Sabbath etc. for us lot, one small one with Brendan Shine type stuff for the local oul wans and a 'dance' room for the local lads off their face on whatever. Some conflicts when room C drifted into room A and kicked up. Mad contrast between the three all in one place and IIRC mostly being served at the same bar.
Went back there 2012 for a family holiday, I vaguely recognised the place but a totally different vibe :pac:
McGonagles - was only in there a couple of times but a great place and much missed. Wine bar and Champagne cider :pac:
There was a somewhat dodgy bar we used to go to sometimes on Upper O'Connell St too- had to look up the name - Madigans. Still there. Due to my lengthy fingers I once made nearly a tenner in profit stroking 50p pieces from the back of the wooden cigarette machine refund slot which were out of the reach of most people :pac: that was nearly as much fun as years later cleaning out the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" quiz machine in a place in Ranelagh on a weekly basis...Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.
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Pink Flamingo @Stillorgan Park Hotel.
...several in Leeson St too, but I can't for the life of me remember their names
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The Sportsman's Inn, Mt. Merrion. Live music nearly every night with great residencies. The Lookalikes, Bogey Boys, Fureys, Bagatelle, Full Circle. I nearly lived in the place & the bouncers were sound as long as you looked 18
As for Blinkers in Leopardstown Race Course, what a kip. In those days, they had to serve a 'substantial meal' to get the late licence. Halfway through the night, the houselights went on full, the bars stopped serving and patrons queued up for the almightiest paper plate of greasy slop they called chicken curry. Great nights altogether 0 -
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Always full of middle aged men leaning on the rails of 'the pit' leering at young wans0 -
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The Backwards Man wrote: »Do you know what's worse than people taking about pubs they drink in?
Talking about pubs that no longer exist they drank in.
Flanagan's in Sooey
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Pink Flamingo @Stillorgan Park Hotel.
...several in Leeson St too, but I can't for the life of me remember their names
Hmmm...
Blondes
Streets
Leggs
Buck whaleys
Cats
Suesey street
Can't remember the one on corner of Leeson and hatch.
Another old old favourite was Sloopys on Fleet street and Zhivago on Baggot street (where love stories begin)
And finally...
The best til last...
"The Big Apple" above the Baggot Inn. Parents used to drop their under age kids to the door knowing they wouldn't gey drunk cos the drink was watered down by a huge margin. :-)0 -
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