Tralee thread

cms88 · 21-05-2020 8:24am

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

That end of the town centre is starting to look pretty bleak. Its sad to see so many empty units. You are right in saying they are all pretty small units, apart from the Dunnes one. I don't know what is going to attract bigger named stores to the town centre. I would love to see some new stores open. Nothing more has been said since last year about all these big 'names' who were interested in opening according to Tralee chamber alliance!

I know the timing is not good at the moment, but considering this was over a year ago since this was said in the Kerry's eye, you would think something would have progressed by now! I think Golden Disks was the only name that did open, and even then its hard to know if they will last. Abbey court will be the next area to look pretty bleak if nothing new starts to open!

To be fair all the chamber alliance do is talk. Of all the big ideas they've had have any of them actually worked?

I know they were making noise about the Dunnes units in the Mall but when they tried to put pressure on Dunnes they were pretty much laughed at. When i say they i'm sure you know the single person in question.

kev_Makaveli · 21-05-2020 8:53am

Does anyone remember when dunnes in the Horan center was like a little shopping arcade . I remember going shopping there with my parents and there was a shop there with a Nintendo system on display . Loved playing that while they shipped .

On another note who remembers the garage video game arcade . Was there the health food shop and offie are now . Many a weekend and a few Bob lost in there

phater phagan · 21-05-2020 9:59am

For people with little babies: Johnson Baby Powder sales have discontinued in the USA and Canada, due to concerns over possible carcinogens in the talc.

They, however, are continuing to sell the product here in Ireland.

Sorry, I don't wish to be alarmist, but if the company thinks it's a problem in North America, should the same consideration not be applied here?

Sos88sos88 · 21-05-2020 10:02am

phater phagan wrote:

For people with little babies: Johnson Baby Powder sales have discontinued in the USA and Canada, due to concerns over possible carcinogens in the talc.

Their statement doesn't say that. They say it's due to declining demand and they actually go on to point out it is not a result of ongoing litigation

Ciarrai76 · 21-05-2020 10:24am

cms88 wrote: »

To be fair all the chamber alliance do is talk. Of all the big ideas they've had have any of them actually worked?

I know they were making noise about the Dunnes units in the Mall but when they tried to put pressure on Dunnes they were pretty much laughed at. When i say they i'm sure you know the single person in question.

Yes, a lot of talk and no action with them! :rolleyes:

ejmaztec · 21-05-2020 11:21am

kev_Makaveli wrote: »

Does anyone remember when dunnes in the Horan center was like a little shopping arcade . I remember going shopping there with my parents and there was a shop there with a Nintendo system on display . Loved playing that while they shipped .

On another note who remembers the garage video game arcade . Was there the health food shop and offie are now . Many a weekend and a few Bob lost in there

With a small H Williams supermarket taking up a large chunk of the property. I also seem to remember a Tesco in there at some stage, but it was years before Tesco bought out Quinnsworth.

Tesco had a few stores around Ireland, and it wasn't economically viable to service them all, so they gave it up as a bad job and pulled out of Ireland altogether.

bobdcow · 21-05-2020 11:38am

I think the garage moved across the road after a while next to the American Style chipper. It was lovely to have a place like the garage and the bowling alley in town with the arcade games, I miss places like that - great craic. The current bowling alley has a few games but nothing like the old bowling alley.

Does anyone know why that bowing alley closed down? (across from the Doms)

phater phagan · 21-05-2020 12:54pm

Sos88sos88 wrote: »

Their statement doesn't say that. They say it's due to declining demand and they actually go on to point out it is not a result of ongoing litigation

They would say that, wouldn't they?
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the company.
That's a lot of litigation.

newman10 · 21-05-2020 1:02pm

kev_Makaveli wrote: »

Does anyone remember when dunnes in the Horan center was like a little shopping arcade . I remember going shopping there with my parents and there was a shop there with a Nintendo system on display . Loved playing that while they shipped .

On another note who remembers the garage video game arcade . Was there the health food shop and offie are now . Many a weekend and a few Bob lost in there

There was a Man's Shop there

g1983d · 21-05-2020 2:53pm

phater phagan wrote: »

They would say that, wouldn't they?
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the company.
That's a lot of litigation.

The articles says the founght every case, any case the lost they appeal and won on appeal

phater phagan · 21-05-2020 3:16pm

g1983d wrote: »

The articles says the founght every case, any case the lost they appeal and won on appeal

They produce a cornstarch based baby powder that they're continuing to sell in the US and Canada - no problems with that one.
The company said that it is distributing the existing stock of the talc to other countries until it runs out...
Ireland is one of those other countries.

Ciarrai76 · 21-05-2020 4:59pm

Can we move the baby powder/talk discussion to a different forum please. Not relevant to Tralee. Thanks. MOD

phater phagan · 21-05-2020 5:01pm

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

Can we move the baby powder/talk discussion to a different forum please. Not relevant to Tralee. Thanks. MOD

Apologies. Got carried away.

Sully34 · 21-05-2020 5:01pm

phater phagan wrote: »

They produce a cornstarch based baby powder that they're continuing to sell in the US and Canada - no problems with that one.
The company said that it is distributing the existing stock of the talc to other countries until it runs out...
Ireland is one of those other countries.

There must be a baby powder thread you can take this to. Cant see what this has to do with the town of Tralee.

Sully34 · 21-05-2020 5:02pm

Anyone remember the Leisure way?

Good times!!

Ciarrai76 · 21-05-2020 5:04pm

Sully34 wrote: »

Anyone remember the Leisure way?

Good times!!

that rings a bell, can't place where though??

Sully34 · 21-05-2020 5:05pm

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

that rings a bell, can't place where though??

It's where the CH chemist is now

Ciarrai76 · 21-05-2020 5:13pm

Sully34 wrote: »

It's where the CH chemist is now

I have a vague recollection of it. I am 43 and can't seem to remember anywhere before the 90's!

bobdcow · 21-05-2020 5:13pm

I remember that place, a neighbor worked there - loved to call in a visit her as a child when she was working there. I'd forgotten about that place!

phormium · 21-05-2020 5:27pm

I remember all those places, feck I'm old, how did that happen!

The Leisure arcade, bright green front on it, newsagents in the front, there was a bookshop towards the back, Marion Hogan ran it I think, a hairdressers upstairs I'd say, got a very bad haircut there once! Was the closest thing to a bowl cut I had ever had!

Can't remember what else was in there.

Loved a corned beef roll from The Bakers Oven for lunch when I was at school.

Has anyone been watching Mike O'Donnells lockdown videos, his Castle St/The Mall one was very interesting all about what shops were there.

g1983d · 21-05-2020 5:28pm

Sully34 wrote: »

Anyone remember the Leisure way?

Good times!!

Is that the place that was on oembroke street, used call it the snooker hall but had loads of arcade games and slot machines
Used love going in there, closed some time in the 00s, had jungle Jim's there too

Sardonicat · 21-05-2020 5:28pm

Sully34 wrote: »

Anyone remember the Leisure way?

Good times!!

The Leeeeeshure Way as those with notions liked to pronounce it!

It was a bit of an Aladins cave that place .

Sully34 · 21-05-2020 5:41pm

g1983d wrote: »

Is that the place that was on oembroke street, used call it the snooker hall but had loads of arcade games and slot machines
Used love going in there, closed some time in the 00s, had jungle Jim's there too

That was the snooker hall

Sully34 · 21-05-2020 5:43pm

Leisure way had newsagents out the front. Bakery in the centre. That Dublin lad who owns Ikon had a shop in there. There was also a pet shop. Upstairs had a hairdressers and a vegetarian restaurant

bobdcow · 21-05-2020 5:49pm

Is the snooker hall still up and running?

Sos88sos88 · 21-05-2020 5:51pm

bobdcow wrote:

Is the snooker hall still up and running?

Haven't been there but pre covid they were open for snooker. No idea if they still have arcade games etc

kn · 21-05-2020 6:42pm

kev_Makaveli wrote: »

Does anyone remember when dunnes in the Horan center was like a little shopping arcade . I remember going shopping there with my parents and there was a shop there with a Nintendo system on display . Loved playing that while they shipped .

On another note who remembers the garage video game arcade . Was there the health food shop and offie are now . Many a weekend and a few Bob lost in there

I only remember when it was H Williams - not as an arcade.

kn · 21-05-2020 6:44pm

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

I have a vague recollection of it. I am 43 and can't seem to remember anywhere before the 90's!

That's just the dementia setting in early!

cms88 · 21-05-2020 7:09pm

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

Yes, a lot of talk and no action with them! :rolleyes:

I sometimes wonder why they're not called up on it. Anything that happens they take credit for it and if it doen't work it they just try to pretend like it never happened.

E mac · 21-05-2020 7:20pm

Saw pictures of Russell Arcade a while back on either Clerys or Kennelly's photo archive.

Ciarrai76 · 21-05-2020 8:19pm

cms88 wrote: »

I sometimes wonder why they're not called up on it. Anything that happens they take credit for it and if it doen't work it they just try to pretend like it never happened.

And you can't say anything against them! I know a few businesses who initially had joined as members, but didn't renew their membership as they felt they got nothing for it.

pawdee · 21-05-2020 8:34pm

kn wrote: »

I remember Carroll's was at the front and all the comics were there. The toy store was further down. Got an evil kenevil there one Christmas. It is the one Christmas present I always remember - loved it. And of course he did a show in the ASP back in the early 80's cowboy's and everything. It was really unique at the time I remember it really well. A Friday night I'm going to say circa 1983.

It wasn't Evel Knievel that did a show in ASP but Eddie Kidd. I was there but can't remember the year. Early 80s anyway.

Anyone remember The Burger Garden?

Panda Killa · 21-05-2020 8:44pm

pawdee wrote: »

It wasn't Evel Knievel that did a show in ASP but Eddie Kidd. I was there but can't remember the year. Early 80s anyway.

Anyone remember The Burger Garden?

He was here in 1980... paralysed and some brain damage nearly 25 years ago

manoverboards · 21-05-2020 10:34pm

Sully34 wrote: »

Anyone remember the Leisure way?

manoverboards · 21-05-2020 10:37pm

What was the vegetarian restaurant, don't remember that?

Sully34 wrote: »

Leisure way had newsagents out the front. Bakery in the centre. That Dublin lad who owns Ikon had a shop in there. There was also a pet shop. Upstairs had a hairdressers and a vegetarian restaurant

Sardonicat · 21-05-2020 10:44pm

manoverboards wrote: »

What was the vegetarian restaurant, don't remember that?

Bratts was up there for a while.

Quackster · 21-05-2020 11:05pm

kn wrote: »

I only remember when it was H Williams - not as an arcade.

It was a still a shopping centre while H Williams was there. H Williams just took over Tesco's former footprint.

Even when Dunnes first opened there, after they left the town centre and while they were building NCR, they restricted themselves to the Tesco/H Williams part and the rest of the (now vacent) shopping centre was boarded off. It was only when Dunnes reopened the Horan Centre in the late nineties that they occupied the whole of it.

acequion · 21-05-2020 11:31pm

manoverboards wrote: »

Was that 70's or 80's? Vaguely remember it. Does anyone remember "The Cordon Bleu" in the Square? Fine dining wasn't the in thing back in the days of bacon and cabbage but that place was quite posh I think.:)

ejmaztec · 21-05-2020 11:38pm

Quackster wrote: »

It was a still a shopping centre while H Williams was there. H Williams just took over Tesco's former footprint.

Even when Dunnes first opened there, after they left the town centre and while they were building NCR, they restricted themselves to the Tesco/H Williams part and the rest of the (now vacent) shopping centre was boarded off. It was only when Dunnes reopened the Horan Centre in the late nineties that they occupied the whole of it.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/localnotes/former-supermarket-staff-enjoy-reunion-29731267.html

Tesco must have tried Ireland for three years from 1983 to 1986, before selling off their stores to H Williams and clearing off. Wiki says that H Williams fell victim to a price war soon after and went bust.

phormium · 22-05-2020 6:21am

acequion wrote: »

Was that 70's or 80's? Vaguely remember it. Does anyone remember "The Cordon Bleu" in the Square? Fine dining wasn't the in thing back in the days of bacon and cabbage but that place was quite posh I think.:)

Leisure was definitely there until mid 80's, not sure from when, I started work in town centre in 1980.

I absolutely loved The Cordon Bleu

I'd say it was the best we had for a while, Chez Jean Marc if that's how it was spelt came later but that place was just fantastic, I still remember their Chocolate Marquise for dessert, omg! That was there in early 90s I would guess, somewhere up Castle Street upstairs on the side where Baileys is now, I feel a little further than that but before Gaywear at the time. He moved to Kinsale I think.

g1983d · 22-05-2020 7:45am

phormium wrote: »

Leisure was definitely there until mid 80's, not sure from when, I started work in town centre in 1980.

I absolutely loved The Cordon Bleu I'd say it was the best we had for a while, Chez Jean Marc if that's how it was spelt came later but that place was just fantastic, I still remember their Chocolate Marquise for dessert, omg! That was there in early 90s I would guess, somewhere up Castle Street upstairs on the side where Baileys is now, I feel a little further than that but before Gaywear at the time. He moved to Kinsale I think.

Anyone remember the american diner that was upstairs where Wild currently is?
I remember my mom taking me in there as a kid and it was like being transported to the USA, had never seen anything like it.
In reality it was probably just a chipper with some memorabilia on the wall.
A kind of eddie rockets before eddie rockets

cms88 · 22-05-2020 7:59am

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

And you can't say anything against them! I know a few businesses who initially had joined as members, but didn't renew their membership as they felt they got nothing for it.

Only a very small few do get anything out of it. I know of people who had started different things and once they looked like they were going well the chamber jumped on board and runed the whole thing.

Are they still doing them voucher things? They were supposed to be thir big game chamger for the town

Kerrydude1981 · 22-05-2020 8:03am

E mac wrote: »

Saw pictures of Russell Arcade a while back on either Clerys or Kennelly's photo archive.

Russell Arcade was home to the best toy shop of all time, Liam O Connors was a must visit anytime I was in town as a kid, over flowing it used to be with toys,

Sully34 · 22-05-2020 8:28am

g1983d wrote: »

Anyone remember the american diner that was upstairs where Wild currently is?
I remember my mom taking me in there as a kid and it was like being transported to the USA, had never seen anything like it.
In reality it was probably just a chipper with some memorabilia on the wall.
A kind of eddie rockets before eddie rockets

Tom's cabin

fuerte1976 · 22-05-2020 8:32am

Do I remember correctly 'Bilkos' in where abrakebabra is now?

Panda Killa · 22-05-2020 8:47am

Sully34 wrote: »

Tom's cabin

The O'Sheas took it over after that and it was some kind of American diner 1992-1994..can't remember the name

Ciarrai76 · 22-05-2020 9:25am

cms88 wrote: »

Only a very small few do get anything out of it. I know of people who had started different things and once they looked like they were going well the chamber jumped on board and runed the whole thing.

Are they still doing them voucher things? They were supposed to be thir big game chamger for the town

They seemed to still be around last Christmas, but I don't know how they are selling them. I think they wanted to compete with the one for all vouchers, but I don't think they really took off. We looked into getting them, but like the one for all voucher, they look for commission on them. Makes no sense for a small business when you can sell your own gift vouchers, and not have to pay any commission.
I don't think anyone has even come into us looking to buy anything with one.

Ciarrai76 · 22-05-2020 9:26am

fuerte1976 wrote: »

Do I remember correctly 'Bilkos' in where abrakebabra is now?

It was yes. They also owned Smythies Café in the middle of the centre.

Sardonicat · 22-05-2020 9:31am

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

It was yes. They also owned Smythies Café in the middle of the centre.

Had my first ever slice of cheese cake in there. Thought I was very sophisticated ! Imagine, a time when cheesecake was exotic!

Ciarrai76 · 22-05-2020 10:06am

Sardonicat wrote: »

Had my first ever slice of cheese cake in there. Thought I was very sophisticated ! Imagine, a time when cheesecake was exotic!

The owner was my late uncle, and as kids we used to get any left over buns in the evening!

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