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Pictures and memories from old Galway
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26-09-2008 09:43PM#1
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Here is a mental picture of Galway in the mid 1980's:
There were aound 10 nightclubs in Salthill.
There were only about 100 taxis to serve the whole city
There were double decker buses everywhere.
Knocnacarra was a posh place.
Doughishka was a field.
Supermacs has a little shop beside O'Brien's Bridge.
Snakebite was a cool drink.
Fights were fought with fists, not knives nor guns.
Students wore frumpy jumpers.
Bands played in Leisureland (U2, Smiths, Pogues, Lizzy etc)
Rollerskating in the Savoy was all the rage.
NUIG was UCG & GMIT was RTC.
The road to Dublin was a boreen,
The journey to Dublin took less than 3 hours as there were less cars.
You could park anywhere at anytime, even Shop Street.
Terryland Park had no seats or floodlights.
Contraception was a criminal offence.
Galway Airport was a farmyard. Hang on, it still is.
Winters were cold and summers were warm.
Oranmore was a country village.
Aran Islanders were considered foreigners.
Public toilets were free.
There was a Garda station on Eglinton Street.
Everbody wore grey.
But we were happy
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Not really galway
Cuba nightclub was called The bentley
Elderly man used to feed the pigeons in eyre square (Galway character)
Elderly man who was able put his lip over half his face (another galway character)
Salthill was the center of all night life
car park behind corbett court before the expansion
Televisions were very expensive so it was best to rent them from o connors (I believe this practice still exists today
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I believe there was one of those laundry buildings for naughty girls who had sex before marraige, in foster court up until 1990? (obviously out of commission for many years previous)0 -
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Shows what Galway looked like during 1993. Shows Eyre Square Shopping Centre and the Park, Lynch's Castle, Shop Street and around the Bridge Mills area0 -
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Don't know when this was taken but it has Kenny's Bookshop and was before the pedestrainised city centre.
General Irish pride
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I was told if you combined Westport and Castlebar, you'd have a good approximation of what Galway was like 15-20 years ago.
I remember seeing a revival of Brecht's Happy End - which was written in 1929 - and there's an entire song where the main protagonists are basically complaining about how their favourite pub, which used to be a fun, raucous joint, is now a boring, gentrified, yuppie joint. That was when it really struck me (yeah, I know I can be a bit slow on the uptake), that this has been a common complaint for a while. God knows what it would've been like being an old pirate, and wandering back to your old pirate haven to find it's become all legit and filled with uppity assistant governors and plantation owner types
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Bass Cadet wrote: »Can't believe nobody has mentioned Lydon House restaurant on Shop St! Was my favourite place as a wee man growing up in the 80's in galway. Their kiddies menu was magic!
Forgot about that, great pastries!0 -
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Forgot about that, great pastries!
Princess fingers and the best jam donuts...remember Busy Bees the coffe shop down the back on the right, and what was the name of the restaurant upstairs? Lots of suits of armour and axes and swords on a big wooden staircase...
Speaking of which, do you remember Santa in Glynn's?
Popping through Naughton's as a short cut...
When Kirwan's lane was a no go area, and stank of fish - unless you were using it with you class from Pat's as a shortcut to the swamp?
Woolworths on the Square?
The old Roches with its pick n mix behind the checkouts...
Roald Dahl's visit to Galway...
The Old Mon...derelict, before being torn down and becoming a carpark?
When there was nothing on Middle Street except ruined buildings, some houses, the Augi and the Taibhearc....
The Woodquay Festival, the potato market there on Saturdays....and telethon in Eyre Square....
Cunningham's Shop on Abbeygate St, where a cat used to sit on the basket of apples and if you popped a few pennies into the money box the black St Martin would bob his head in thanks....
When Garavan's had a shop attached full of Homestead products....the Cola at 25p.....and where many auld shtock had accounts and could sign for their purchases....
and when a baby was born the first port of call was Lillis' for clothes - thank god that's still there....
and in August school uniform shopping in Ryan's....
All of that in the mid-80s....0 -
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carrs paint shop where supermacs is now?!
wasnt rafterys not the bike shop next/in simons toy shop
i know i mentioned this already but does anyone else remember the guy with the monkey in eyre square, what was the story there? it was a small monkey like the one ross had in friends!
"Popping through Naughton's as a short cut..." - thats really familiar but i cant place it, can ya elaborate!
YES YES *tears of joy* he had about 4 little monkeys pure crusty - cans of beer and all. He would let you hold them although I was always to shy and ascared! It may sound odd but watching a man in coloured hat with were they chickmonks? playing and lettin them crawl all over him was the coolist and most enthralling thing for a tot - kids today dont know what there missin - *sigh
And kno knos was so trying to think of that the other day!
Lovin this thread
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