Things you miss in Waterford

kfallon · 08-02-2011 11:08am #1

Jaysus I'm just sitting here at me desk craving an ould doughnut from Leahy's, nearly salivating all over the keyboard! And of course you couldn't get a doughnut there without getting one of their vanilla slices

I also miss Harney's blaas, they were the best in town!

So what does everyone else miss from times gone by?

deise blue · 08-02-2011 11:16am

The League winners pennant flying from the flagpole at Kilcohan.

Great days !

Ledger · 08-02-2011 11:23am

kfallon wrote: »

Jaysus I'm just sitting here at me desk craving an ould doughnut from Leahy's, nearly salivating all over the keyboard! And of course you couldn't get a doughnut there without getting one of their vanilla slices

I also miss Harney's blaas, they were the best in town!

So what does everyone else miss from times gone by?

They were definately the best!

Used to get them about 7.30 in the morning when they were only out of the oven! Loads a butter and you were laughing!

kfallon · 08-02-2011 11:25am

I'm only home a few times a year but I miss the odd bit of luncheon too, either with just a bit of red sauce or in a blaa!

Ledger · 08-02-2011 11:26am

ya cant bate the country style Red Lead!

Dan133269 · 08-02-2011 11:29am

Quarter of sweets in the shop. Like cough drops, pear drops etc.

That youthful innocence when children could spend all up to midnight day playing safely in the neighbourhood without their parents having to keep a close eye on them. Society has been thrown away.

kfallon · 08-02-2011 11:35am

Burgerland......and then was it changed to BurgerGarden.....or vice versa!

squeakyduck · 08-02-2011 11:49am

I miss a good blaa. I always try and see if my mum can get them for me to bring up home to Dublin, but she can never find them close to home.

She would always bring a few home after a shop in Waterford!

abouttobebanned · 08-02-2011 11:52am

Good thread. Deep breath....

The KK Discount store.
The pound shop that used to be down passed the book centre.
Leahy's eclairs with their own cream.
Egans & The Olde Stand
KG Discs in the Broad Street Centre.
Crusty blaas
Connolly's shop on barrack street
Mcgrath's shop on the cork road
Taking penalties on the pitch at Kilcohan during half time of Waterford matches and the crowd cheering when you scored.

kfallon · 08-02-2011 12:03pm

Chip Butty in Skippers at about 3am of a Friday night!
I miss The Roxy too!
The Comeragh Green League
Getting a pound for a 'Burger Special' lunch in the Beefy King of a Friday
Bren's Den

Joey leBlanc · 08-02-2011 12:05pm

Breens/The Bridge Hotel Disco: Just for the early-to-mid 90s
Flow Motion (Fri nite club above Egans)
Egans itself for that matter.
The Olde Rogue (Wacky Apple is the complete opposite)
The Pulpit/Preachers (always thought they both had a cool interior)
Skippers chipper in Patrick Street
Waterford in the 1990s!

Joey leBlanc · 08-02-2011 12:07pm

kfallon wrote: »

I miss The Roxy too!

Good call!! Completely forgot about it.

kfallon · 08-02-2011 12:13pm

Did I hear correctly that the Bok is still around and on the dry too?

anto2 · 08-02-2011 12:17pm

Nothing much to be honest ,although its not the worst place in Ireland .I lived there for 2.5 years up till March 2008 .

I did not like the very high cost of Internet Cafes .The general level of valdalism ( i lived off the Cork road about 2.5 klm from the natorious estate )
Lack of a proper Cinema ( i know its better now ) .

I did like the nearness to good beaches .( but the weather is too cold all year for me to swim ).
The people i met there were friendly enough ,but i never made good friends ( that could be my fault though ) .

old gregg · 08-02-2011 12:26pm

thinking of Leahy's doughnuts reminded me of waiting to be served while every wasp in Ireland swooped around your head but the doughnuts were worth it for sure.

kfallon · 08-02-2011 12:33pm

A bag of chips in The Cleaboy for 45p
Hitchiking to Tramore nearly every day in the summer
Pitch n' putt in Glass Centre

Joey leBlanc · 08-02-2011 12:33pm

kfallon wrote: »

Did I hear correctly that the Bok is still around and on the dry too?

There is the odd reported sighting of the one the call the Bok around town. Suppose its difficult to give the same rousing action packed performance when your sipping on a glass of flat Coke. I recall seeing him more than a few times in his heyday, always dressed up seductively in that vest number! Although he always had T+H's & upstairs in The Roxy rocking come the end of the night. Sadly, anyone under 30 probably dosent even know of the man's existence.

Then again Waterford from the mid 90s to early 00s was a good place to go out in. Good pubs. Good clubs. When the Celtic Tiger excesses started to kick in Waterford, indeed Ireland, lost everything it was renowned for.
It would be great to re-visit a Fri or Sat nite out back then. No mobiles. Jukeboxes in some pubs. Walk home if the weather was alright (& without the threat of violence!).

Chris P. Bacon · 08-02-2011 1:19pm

Hoffmans.

The Roxy was a good spot,but cheers was better,and the metroland in the early 90's when the Prodigy and Carl Cox used to play there.Club LA wasn't bad too.

The Green Bank for fresh cream cakes.

I miss Thomas St,Anne St,O'Connell St areas before they came an international hub for all kinds.

Burgerland and the Wimpy.

Halloween when we were allowed to have bonfires.

kfallon · 08-02-2011 1:25pm

Richie Cranium wrote: »

Hoffmans.
Halloween when we were allowed to have bonfires.

Especially in the fields next to the old Chipboard Factory!

ArtVandelay76 · 08-02-2011 1:47pm

kfallon wrote: »

Did I hear correctly that the Bok is still around and on the dry too?

The Bok plays in Bolgers fairly regularly of late.
He wasn,t on the dry the last time i seen him though.

karencuddo · 08-02-2011 1:49pm

metroland was best club ever...carl cox, gayle san...never had a club like it since... also miss the coffee shop on patrick street across from the old flicks....used to love coffee and slice of cake after doing the shopping in darrers with me ma.. oh and for a nice burger the chuckwagon......

kfallon · 08-02-2011 1:51pm

Remember when A-Wear was actually called Gay-Wear....what were they thinking :rolleyes:

karencuddo · 08-02-2011 1:54pm

Joey leBlanc wrote: »

There is the odd reported sighting of the one the call the Bok around town. Suppose its difficult to give the same rousing action packed performance when your sipping on a glass of flat Coke. I recall seeing him more than a few times in his heyday, always dressed up seductively in that vest number! Although he always had T+H's & upstairs in The Roxy rocking come the end of the night. Sadly, anyone under 30 probably dosent even know of the man's existence.

Then again Waterford from the mid 90s to early 00s was a good place to go out in. Good pubs. Good clubs. When the Celtic Tiger excesses started to kick in Waterford, indeed Ireland, lost everything it was renowned for.
It would be great to re-visit a Fri or Sat nite out back then. No mobiles. Jukeboxes in some pubs. Walk home if the weather was alright (& without the threat of violence!).

don't forget the legendary Bob Miller band the women went crazy for him

kfallon · 08-02-2011 1:58pm

karencuddo wrote: »

don't forget the legendary Bob Miller band the women I went crazy for him

Wasn't he the one with the kinda handlebar 'tache or am I getting mixed up

Btw, FYP :pac:

ziedth · 08-02-2011 1:59pm

Burgerland is a great one.

I really miss Temple Bar, in there after a few in bad bobs on a Monday was quality. I have never found a pub I liked as much.

kfallon · 08-02-2011 2:01pm

Remember the cafe upstairs in the Hypermarket, I remember when me Ma & Nanny were finished their shopping they'd bring me in there for a glass of orange and a yellow snack!

ArtVandelay76 · 08-02-2011 2:01pm

ziedth wrote: »

Burgerland is a great one.

I really miss Temple Bar, in there after a few in bad bobs on a Monday was quality. I have never found a pub I liked as much.

I miss bobby mcgees pub before it was templebar, infact i miss having a good choice of pubs in the city centre.
The arundel inn anyone?

Chris P. Bacon · 08-02-2011 2:04pm

kfallon wrote: »

Remember the cafe upstairs in the Hypermarket, I remember when me Ma & Nanny were finished their shopping they'd bring me in there for a glass of orange and a yellow snack!

I remember the cafe upstairs in Shaws,after a hard days shopping in town on a Saturday with me mammy we would always go there,id always get a coke or orange float and an auld club milk or something

kfallon · 08-02-2011 2:11pm

Richie Cranium wrote: »

I remember the cafe upstairs in Shaws,after a hard days shopping in town on a Saturday with me mammy we would always go there,id always get a coke or orange float and an auld club milk or something

Jaysus yeah I remember that!
We'd be in there on a Saturday morn but we'd (I mean I'd) have to be home for Saint & Greavesie

old gregg · 08-02-2011 2:32pm

remember when Sullivan's drink lorries would be parked on high street and you could sneak up during lunch time from school and liberate a few flaggons and hopefully not get caught by 'gimme gimme'

karencuddo · 08-02-2011 2:48pm

kfallon wrote: »

Wasn't he the one with the kinda handlebar 'tache or am I getting mixed up

Btw, FYP :pac:

yes that is him.. he did an elvis act too..

jimbojazz · 08-02-2011 3:01pm

The mince and onion pies and sausage rolls from the original Emerald Isle (Dunnes) on Patrick Street and the chips and burgers from the French Fryer on Parnell Street

Partizan · 08-02-2011 3:12pm

Joey leBlanc wrote: »

Breens/The Bridge Hotel Disco: Just for the early-to-mid 90s
Flow Motion (Fri nite club above Egans)
Egans itself for that matter.
The Olde Rogue (Wacky Apple is the complete opposite)
The Pulpit/Preachers (always thought they both had a cool interior)
Skippers chipper in Patrick Street
Waterford in the 1990s!

Let me add to that:

1. Hoffmans
2. Club LA
3. The Roxy
4. Harneys Blaas
5. ABC Radio for some 80s nostalgia.
6. Muldoons in its heyday

You are right there Joey, Waterford in the 90s was a hopping place.

Ledger · 08-02-2011 3:20pm

kfallon wrote: »

Wasn't he the one with the kinda handlebar 'tache or am I getting mixed up

Btw, FYP :pac:

He still has it too! Good auld Bob! I remember he used to play gigs in Ross and get the bus back to waterford on a sunday evening.

Professey Chin · 08-02-2011 3:20pm

Hungover breakfast in Sizzlers

kfallon · 08-02-2011 3:20pm

karencuddo wrote: »

yes that is him.. he did an elvis act too..

Big fan? Didn't he live up the road from The Mercy?
Were you one of the groupies always hanging around outside

Sosa · 08-02-2011 3:37pm

Fat Sams
Up in the attic in The Trap
Franks Arcade ( Kasbah now )
Davy Macs
Rib Burgers in Skippers
Mickey Wongs Chinese Chipper van ( parked at top of sunrise crescent,Lismore area )
drinking down in the reeds ( Tesco Poleberry site )
Rugby Club disco
Madigans off licence
Egans
The bull**** corner in the olde stand
Sullys, before city square was there
Can't Stop
Breens
The suppers in Snages
Long Vodkas in alfies on Lombard st (cannot remember what it used to be called )
Snooker Club where rubys is now
The video club over motor and sports (elverys shop now )
The old cinema
Patessirie Marie cake shop on barracks st
Greasy Neds on barrack st
The BBQ inn Barrack st ( dragon Inn chinese now )
Red Shop and Blue shop on barracks st ( fruit and veg and vets now )

kfallon · 08-02-2011 3:41pm

The Park Stores
Knacker drinking down in the 'small estate'

Chris P. Bacon · 08-02-2011 3:42pm

Sosa wrote: »

Fat Sams

Mickey Wongs Chinese Chipper van ( parked at top of sunrise cresent

I remember him well,i grew up in Larchville and he used to be in the middle green for a while but he got to much hassle so he moved to the top of Sunrise.That was many years ago and still to this day i remember the curry chips the nicest i ever tasted

scico rocks · 08-02-2011 4:22pm

I miss The Roxy, Skippers, Flowmotion and The Old Rogue. Like other posters, I miss the 90's. Great music and social scene.

jimbojazz · 08-02-2011 4:32pm

Bridgie Walshes and the smell of parafin (was too young to nip in for a fag)

The Pulpit

Getting refused from the Bridge by the McGees when I was 24 cos they said I was too young!!

The Turkish lad selling the kebabs in the Apple Market - at 3am they tasted good

Algy's - I remember the father convincing me his real name was Algy Baa Baa

Funfair · 08-02-2011 5:00pm

jimbojazz wrote: »

Getting refused from the Bridge by the McGees when I was 24 cos they said I was too young!!

And every weekend watching some local scumbag having ago off the McGees

jimbojazz · 08-02-2011 5:05pm

Funfair wrote: »

And every weekend watching some local scumbag having ago off the McGees

Or paying them and getting in for half price

Funfair · 08-02-2011 5:07pm

And getting that tripe they called chicken curry and thinking it was grand after you have 10 pints in ya

jimbojazz · 08-02-2011 5:11pm

Funfair wrote: »

And getting that tripe they called chicken curry and thinking it was grand after you have 10 pints in ya

Yeah was horsing into the chicken and chips one night - turned it over and it was blood raw on the other side

BlaasForRafa · 08-02-2011 5:21pm

Richie Cranium wrote: »

I remember the cafe upstairs in Shaws,after a hard days shopping in town on a Saturday with me mammy we would always go there,id always get a coke or orange float and an auld club milk or something

Ah yeah, the orange floats in Shaws were deadly!

Other things I miss - Not Greasy neds! Horrible chips, although you could get them for free if you were quick enough

Chapmans on the Quay - all kinds of weird and wonderful (for that time) stuff you couldn't get in bog standard places like the hyper or Darrers

Phelans Tobacconist - Never smoked much but you could get a parker pen, lindt chocolate, swiss army knives and all kinds of stuff in there.

jimbojazz · 08-02-2011 5:27pm

Getting a chase off Nancy and her sisters out of the Park stores

BlaasForRafa · 08-02-2011 5:37pm

Sosa wrote: »

Franks Arcade ( Kasbah now ) Didn't go in there much, used to be a bikers hangout didn't it. Spent many an afternoon ducking off school in "De Gloss" where Supermacs is now. Mad Ray Halligan in the change booth threatening to hit kids over the head with a club if they didn't shut up
Long Vodkas in alfies on Lombard st (cannot remember what it used to be called ) Was that called The Royal?
Snooker Club where rubys is now Pot Black, it used to be Winstons drapery shop before that
The old cinema The Regina? That big screen was HUUUUUGE!
Patessirie Marie cake shop on barracks st Aye they had nice stuff. It used to be Alfie Hales first sports shop before that
Greasy Neds on barrack st Greasy Indeed
The BBQ inn Barrack st ( dragon Inn chinese now ) Lovely chips!
Red Shop and Blue shop on barracks st ( fruit and veg and vets now )

The blue shop was Connollys sweetshop, can't remember what the red shop was called...that was about 3 doors up from it wasn't it? There was also hennebrys shop a bit up from that, then that was the Viking newsagents

kfallon · 08-02-2011 5:41pm

The ham blaas in Cullinanes on Mayor's Walk!

jimbojazz · 08-02-2011 5:49pm

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

The blue shop was Connollys sweetshop, can't remember what the red shop was called...that was about 3 doors up from it wasn't it? There was also hennebrys shop a bit up from that, then that was the Viking newsagents

The red shop was John O'Connells - my grandparents used live in between the Bookies (now a vets or was) and Connollys

inlikeflynn86 · 08-02-2011 6:19pm

kfallon wrote: »

The ham blaas in Cullinanes on Mayor's Walk!

They were the biz !!! and up to leahys for the vanilla Slices !!!

Also miss :

Chases off Shammy,
Going into shop with a pound, crisps, chocolate a drink, jellies and still having change,
The old swings in the park
Muldoons(looking back nw it wasnt the worst!!!)
Darrers!!!
Burgerland
The Drinking Fields!!!

Things you miss in Waterford

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