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The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    Completely get your point, and there is no getting away from the fact that a lot of 1980s buildings were really crap.

    However
    - all the beautiful buildings in Dublin and elsewhere that are around now, were also around in the 1970s. Trinity college for example.

    Around the country, towns were proper towns then. A lot of Irish towns today, especially in the midlands - today the town centre is dead and full of charity stores and poundshops, because of the effect of the big out of town shopping centres.

    I do get a fairly strong sense that a lot of Irish towns have gone really down hill since around 2000 in particular.
    Pubs were a massive thing in midland towns.

    When I was born in 88 there were 32 pubs in my medium sized town. 30 yrs later 11 remain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,057 ✭✭✭.......


    I remember that stall as well. you must be as old as me :)

    There was a whole load of stalls there.

    As young as :D

    Yes, thats right, and at the top of Moore Street, on the side facing us in that photo was a hatch that you could go up to for off licence sales. They NEVER asked your age so at 16 I was buying bottles of some dodgy brand vodka from it and hiding them in my army surplus bag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    storker wrote: »
    Sort of paid. I can remember my dad driving into them and saying "We won't be long" to the guy in the booth at which point he would be waved on in with no ticket. On the way out the guy would be passed a punt or two. I doubt that Dublin Corporation ever saw a record of the transaction...

    Your da was robbed, the "lock hard dere, missus" lads used to only charge 50p!

    cml387 wrote: »
    I beg to differ. Even in the mid seventies, colour was the norm. You had get black and white ones specially made.

    This was clearly not taken with an Instamatic, though.

    B&W is sharper and could be developed and printed at home (if you're a pretty committed amateur) giving professional quality results, with a decent enlarger - often bought secondhand.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭storker


    Your da was robbed, the "lock hard dere, missus" lads used to only charge 50p!

    I can't remember how much he paid them to be honest, I just know it was a lot less than the corpo would have liked! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    I know a lot of the inner city was derelict and pretty dirty back then but I have good memories of hanging around the temple bar area around the mid 80s. Lots of big warehouse type buildings with interesting second hand shops and pubs with good music that didn’t charge you a small fortune for beer. I know it’s a horrible cliche but I thought the place had a bit of character back then. I rarely get the urge to spend any time in it these days.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭storker


    "Irish Wildlife" - a satirical book that looked at some archetypal Irish people and described them in a zoological style, published by the Phoenix, I think.

    Among the...er...species described...

    Busarus Rex
    Youngwan Urbana
    Politico Polysyllabus
    Nursus Clinicus
    Mater Melancholia
    Cretinus Pintorum
    Gayus Gaelicus
    Dub Ignoramus
    ...etc

    tumblr_m7fkhxYYKp1qcpw2u.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,264 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    I know a lot of the inner city was derelict and pretty dirty back then but I have good memories of hanging around the temple bar area around the mid 80s. Lots of big warehouse type buildings with interesting second hand shops and pubs with good music that didn’t charge you a small fortune for beer. I know it’s a horrible cliche but I thought the place had a bit of character back then. I rarely get the urge to spend any time in it these days.

    And The Apartment and Jaggers.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭BBFAN


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    And The Apartment and Jaggers.:D

    The Apartments!! I thought I was the only person that remembered that place.

    Everyone looked great in it because of the lighting and you'd get out side and find out that the fella you were snogging was a minger. :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,264 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    BBFAN wrote: »
    The Apartments!! I thought I was the only person that remembered that place.

    Everyone looked great in it because of the lighting and you'd get out side and find out that the fella you were snogging was a minger. :D:D

    Could be even worse. I often had the not so pretty girl I was snogging inside on the 51 bus home with me.:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Could be even worse. I often had the not so pretty girl I was snogging inside on the 51 bus home with me.:eek:

    I recall the apartment but not jaggers. Wasn’t a regular in either establishment sadly or no! Bubbles is another I remember fairly well. Regular haunt was Pat Egans - still there I think? - where the likes of Scullion and Stockton’s Wing played and with no cover charge.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭newspower


    Floppybits wrote: »
    Another of the Ilac Surface car parks.

    aba2ed6bb5cef1f1b52cc3a7374858a7.jpg

    In this picture on the left where the FORD sign is I can remember it was a garage that you could drive in to get petrol it was on the ground floor of the building and they were a Ford dealer.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,197 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    those hair styles in the 80s . . curls were all the go - the body wave was all the rage and then when it went out of fashion hair was worn short but spiky on top.

    and the mullet for the lads. other styles were short hair with thin plait down the back or a fringe plait.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,049 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    I remember that ad well. There was another one around the same time about bicycle safety that had a voiceover by Mike Murphy that began "so you're off to school on your bike".


    Here you go





    I wrote a bit more about it here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    newspower wrote: »
    In this picture on the left where the FORD sign is I can remember it was a garage that you could drive in to get petrol it was on the ground floor of the building and they were a Ford dealer.

    Waldens


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,049 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    ....... wrote: »
    Over on the right hand side, just out of sight in the pic is where we used to buy our Doc Martens off Peggy Keogh - the only place in Dublin (maybe in Ireland!) that you could get them.

    I remember leaving Peggys stall proud as punch with my big boot box under my arm. A couple of days later my bruised and bloody feet were cursing Peggy as I broke them in.

    Another time I bought an Oxblood pair - fancy schmancy, and then I felt like the were too "loud" (well it was grey times) and I used art paint to paint them in black - it worked too, the oxblood only showed through on scuff marks.


    My second pair of Docs were oxblood from Peggy's stall. I chose to break them in on the day of The Sugarcubes’ concert at the SFX, a most memorable gig with Life’s Too Good played in its entirety. It was October 1989 and people were still getting to grips with Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week. Funds were low so we had to walk back to Dartmouth Square (was crashing in a friend's flat). About 100 yards into the journey, the Docs started to cut me. By the time I got to Ranelagh there was real blood.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,264 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Talking about Peggys stall, I remember the area before the Ilac was built. Lots more Fish stalls. The little cabins were all over the place and some survived after the Ilac went up, but it was a great place for footwear. It didn't take long for them to be driven out for the Ilac centres new frontage. Parents bought me some cool George Webb shoes in that market area. After that it was self shopping in Simon Hartes - in the Ilac.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭tara73


    Floppybits wrote: »
    154_Ilac_Centre.jpg


    that leaves me baffled. is that the Ilac centre in Dublin?? And is that Henry Street then??:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    does anyone remember a shop on Liffey St/Henry St called HAIRY LEGS?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Floppybits wrote: »
    Another of the Ilac Surface car parks.

    aba2ed6bb5cef1f1b52cc3a7374858a7.jpg

    Remember Peats? They used to be in a really old building which would have been on the right of the road, it was demolished in the mid 80s. Then they moved to a new showroom on the left side, TV hifi etc downstairs, the interesting stuff as far as I was concerned - electronics components, books and computer stuff - was up some strangely steep stairs. Then that place went too and they moved to a modern building on the right hand side on the corner of Jervis St. which is where they were when they closed for good.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭newspower


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Waldens

    thats the one


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭jasonb


    tara73 wrote: »
    that leaves me baffled. is that the Ilac centre in Dublin?? And is that Henry Street then??:eek:

    Nope, that's Parnell Street, which is the other side of the Ilac Centre from Henry Street...

    And yep, I remember Hairy Legs too! The name at least...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭jasonb


    Remember Peats? They used to be in a really old building which would have been on the right of the road, it was demolished in the mid 80s. Then they moved to a new showroom on the left side, TV hifi etc downstairs, the interesting stuff as far as I was concerned - electronics components, books and computer stuff - was up some strangely steep stairs. Then that place went too and they moved to a modern building on the right hand side on the corner of Jervis St. which is where they were when they closed for good.

    I worked in Peats in 1990 when they were in the showroom on the left side, I worked upstairs in that Computer area... :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Remember hairy legs well enough, very trendy clobber for the 80s. If pushed I’d have guessed Talbot St but am more often than not mistaken on these things!


  • Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭newspower


    tara73 wrote: »
    that leaves me baffled. is that the Ilac centre in Dublin?? And is that Henry Street then??:eek:

    No that is parnell street. Buildings were built where these car parks used to be between the Ilac and Parnell Street


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,049 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    does anyone remember a shop on Liffey St/Henry St called HAIRY LEGS?


    Applied for a job there summer 1990. They never got back to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,264 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    tara73 wrote: »
    that leaves me baffled. is that the Ilac centre in Dublin?? And is that Henry Street then??:eek:

    Its the Ilac centre. The street is Parnell street, the opposite side of the Ilac to Henry Street. Henry street back then was famous for this import. Pick n Mix and a great restaurant upstairs.

    woolworth-henry-street-84.jpg?w=620


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,573 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Remember Peats? They used to be in a really old building which would have been on the right of the road, it was demolished in the mid 80s. Then they moved to a new showroom on the left side, TV hifi etc downstairs, the interesting stuff as far as I was concerned - electronics components, books and computer stuff - was up some strangely steep stairs. Then that place went too and they moved to a modern building on the right hand side on the corner of Jervis St. which is where they were when they closed for good.

    I think you have that backwards. The old peats was on the left handle when they sold components. They moved across the to the same side as the ilac is now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭jasonb


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Its the Ilac centre. The street is Parnell street, the opposite side of the Ilac to Henry Street. Henry street back then was famous for this import. Pick n Mix and a great restaurant upstairs.

    woolworth-henry-street-84.jpg?w=620

    I have very fond memories of that Pick n Mix! :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭BBFAN


    jasonb wrote: »
    I have very fond memories of that Pick n Mix! :)

    Robbing it you mean. :D:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    Was a horrible time.

    Liam Cosgrave, Charles Haughey & Garreth Fitzgerald. If you were lucky you could escape to North Korea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Brendan Grace's version of the Safe Cross Code


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    The amount of Dublin city centre that was just empty sites in the 70s/80s was incredible. Surrounded by red and white hoardings for years with nothing happening - presumably there were great plans before the 70s huge recession hit.

    No economic recession during the 70s.

    High inflation, yes, but no fall in real GDP.

    See here:

    https://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/nationalaccounts/nationalincomeandexpenditureannualresults/

    https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/economy/Historical_National_Income_and_Expenditure_Tables_1970-1995_excluding_FISIM.xls

    Recession in 1980-85.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    Remember hairy legs well enough, very trendy clobber for the 80s. If pushed I’d have guessed Talbot St but am more often than not mistaken on these things!

    God I loved that place, when i had a few schillings to spare.
    Just checked the map and im pretty sure it was Liffey St Uppr, on the left just before it intersected with Henry St.

    Aaah the memories ....:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Mine was yellow and covered in graffiti. Most bags were covered in graffiti in those days. Is that done anymore the school bags designer now?

    I left school in 2008 and our bags were covered in graffiti. Often written with tipex.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    Is the Bad Ass Cafe still open?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,009 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    Horseplay was popular.


    And Horslips.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 501 ✭✭✭squawker


    Is the Bad Ass Cafe still open?


    think it is

    I avoid Temple Bar like the plague though, fcuking knobjockery hellhole


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,290 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The DRC (Dublin Resource Centre) in old Temple Bar used to be great. Big bowls of soup with cut your own lumps of bread. Rocky tables and mis-matched chairs that looked like they came from five jumble sales and you were as likely to run into Bono as a homeless bloke in for the cheap soup.

    Art and poker classes in the women's centre over Nico's were fun too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,131 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Floppybits wrote: »
    Another of the Ilac Surface car parks.

    aba2ed6bb5cef1f1b52cc3a7374858a7.jpg

    Looked a lot better back then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    squawker wrote: »
    think it is

    I avoid Temple Bar like the plague though, fcuking knobjockery hellhole

    indeed, i have nt been to TB in decades. as a student The Bad Ass was considered so kool back in the 80s.

    and good value too!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 501 ✭✭✭squawker


    and good value too!

    grand in the 80ies

    but like anything bar Christy Moore the 80ies are well dead

    oh how I long for that time again that social media hasn't ruined

    fcuk you Facebook

    (I aint no luddite, just hate the way the ultimate information age brought us to a massive gossip rag)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    BBFAN wrote: »
    Robbing it you mean. :D:D

    Didn't everyone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Mugser


    I was the tv remote. The options were; "turn it over" (meant put on the other channel) or turn it up/down.

    RTE2 only came on air after the homework was finished. No foreign stations.
    Remember getting called in from outside with the shout; "Come in, there's cartoons on the tv!" They'd only be on if there was a gap in the schedule that needed filling.
    Saturday mornings were our time for TV; Anything Goes, followed by Sports Stadium (which was good except when they'd show stupid horse racing or boring soccer or golf!)

    Getting grounded for putting a black flag on the telephone pole outside our house!:eek:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    Going to the Underground bar junction Georges St Dame St now a lap dance club but saw some great bands there ( and some Shockers.)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 886 ✭✭✭NasserShammaz


    Mugser wrote: »
    I was the tv remote. The options were; "turn it over" (meant put on the other channel) or turn it up/down.

    RTE2 only came on air after the homework was finished. No foreign stations.
    Remember getting called in from outside with the shout; "Come in, there's cartoons on the tv!" They'd only be on if there was a gap in the schedule that needed filling.
    Saturday mornings were our time for TV; Anything Goes, followed by Sports Stadium (which was good except when they'd show stupid horse racing or boring soccer or golf!)

    Getting grounded for putting a black flag on the telephone pole outside our house!:eek:


    Singing "Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out":D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    God I loved that place, when i had a few schillings to spare.
    Just checked the map and im pretty sure it was Liffey St Uppr, on the left just before it intersected with Henry St.

    Aaah the memories ....:D

    I suspect neither of us is wrong. There was a hairy legs on the right of Talbot as you walked towards Connolly, just past the junction with earl st. Rarely failed to pay a visit anytime I was in town though hardly ever had funds to buy anything. I guess they had a couple of outlets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Stephen Gawking


    Oh dear God you're bringing back some memories there. That cider was dirt cheap & the emphasis is on the word dirt. Great craic though.
    ....... wrote: »
    As young as :D

    Yes, thats right, and at the top of Moore Street, on the side facing us in that photo was a hatch that you could go up to for off licence sales. They NEVER asked your age so at 16 I was buying bottles of some dodgy brand vodka from it and hiding them in my army surplus bag.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Mugser wrote: »
    I was the tv remote. The options were; "turn it over" (meant put on the other channel) or turn it up/down.

    RTE2 only came on air after the homework was finished. No foreign stations.
    Remember getting called in from outside with the shout; "Come in, there's cartoons on the tv!" They'd only be on if there was a gap in the schedule that needed filling.
    Saturday mornings were our time for TV; Anything Goes, followed by Sports Stadium (which was good except when they'd show stupid horse racing or boring soccer or golf!)

    Getting grounded for putting a black flag on the telephone pole outside our house!:eek:

    Sports Stadium, it went on half the day or at least felt like it did, came on after Anything Goes. Hated it, just seemed to be endless horse racing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I know how you feel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,049 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Sports Stadium, it went on half the day or at least felt like it did, came on after Anything Goes. Hated it, just seemed to be endless horse racing.


    Schedule usually went like this

    09:30 Anything Goes
    12:50 Daktari / The Wonderful World Of Disney / The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew Mysteries / The Invisible Man etc
    13:40 Sports Stadium

    Sports Stadium usually started with horse racing and then Gaelic Stadium section with Mick Dunne. For years, the horse racing results were written on stiff cardboard which filled the screen and were changed by hand.


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