Things you miss in Waterford

ArtVandelay76 · 14-02-2011 9:44pm

Funfair wrote: »

la tisseera Maria or something like that I think it was called

Patiserrie Marie I think it was called,
Lovely chesterbreads in there

dayshah · 14-02-2011 10:02pm

ArtVandelay76 wrote: »

Patiserrie Marie I think it was called,
Lovely chesterbreads in there

Yeah, Patiserrie sounds like French for pastry shop. (I don't speak French)

nkay1985 · 15-02-2011 1:24am

jmcc wrote: »

Voyager internet cafe when it was down on the Mall. (First internet cafe in Waterford, I think.)

Good old Voyager. We used to hang out in there for ages because a friend worked there. Kind of used to move from Café Luna to Voyager to pass the day!

One thing I miss is knowing the people who worked in loads of shops. You'd know so many lads and girls form school that you couldn't help but know someone in nearly every shop because of their part-time jobs. One particular success was the amount of free food we'd get in McDonald's. Pay for 6 nuggets and get food for two or three people! And McFlurrys with loads of Dairy Milk/Smarties in them when they first came out.

Joey leBlanc · 15-02-2011 5:29pm

chelloveks wrote: »

I miss the Urinals in Ballybricken and the pens for the fairs. Lovely aroma off of them both....

....... puts me in mind of Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" & probably had a similar effect!!!

Joey leBlanc · 15-02-2011 5:37pm

kfallon wrote: »

Also Doc's before it became the Post Office and The Butchers before that became Ladbrokes!

And of course when The Cleaboy pub had pool tables!

Correct me if Im wrong but is Ladbrokes now part of the Cleaboy pub (the area where the pool tables etc used to be). If so, why did they get rid of that part of the pub?? I remember when the pub did a fair bit of business. The auld fella behind the bar with the glasses would serve anyone irregardless of age!

trad · 15-02-2011 5:40pm

I wish I missed the concrete bollard in the car park on the Quay.

seanybiker · 15-02-2011 5:50pm

trad wrote: »

I wish I missed the concrete bollard in the car park on the Quay.

Haha hates that.

Ledger · 16-02-2011 10:44am

Joey leBlanc wrote: »

Correct me if Im wrong but is Ladbrokes now part of the Cleaboy pub (the area where the pool tables etc used to be). If so, why did they get rid of that part of the pub?? I remember when the pub did a fair bit of business. The auld fella behind the bar with the glasses would serve anyone irregardless of age!

the food wasn't selling like it used to and business was way down so they made the place smaller, better atmosphere and easier and cheaper to run.

Ladbrokes isn't afiliated with the pub at all.

ziedth · 16-02-2011 10:53am

Did they stop doing food there?

I used to meet Mrs Ziedth on there for lunch when I was in college and it was great value for money? Pity.

Ledger · 16-02-2011 10:55am

ziedth wrote: »

Did they stop doing food there?

I used to meet Mrs Ziedth on there for lunch when I was in college and it was great value for money? Pity.

yeah man, they stopped doing the food 1-2 years ago. which is a pity.

kfallon · 16-02-2011 5:35pm

Yeah Ladbrokes are now in the area of The Cleaboy where the pool tables used to be! It's probably a better pub now cos it seemed too empty when full size and not many in there. Miss the carvery up there tho!

That guy with the glasses was Pat Moran, he used to be a bookie out in Kilcohan Park too (he may still be I'm not sure) but he would drive you mental when serving up there. Stand staring at the aertel for about 20 minutes looking for Lotto numbers and blatantly ignoring you when you wanted a drink!

seanybiker · 16-02-2011 6:30pm

The pool tables are gone from there for years.

stickysten · 25-02-2011 9:27pm

Dan133269 wrote: »

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.

absolutely, i remember me & my mates used to walk into town every evening into sullys 12/13 yrs of age jesus i wouldnt let my kids do anything like that now

stickysten · 25-02-2011 9:30pm

hanging around up in the old chipboard factory with all the lads during the school holidays, then the neighbours calling the cops even thou we were doing nothing & getting a chase off the guards......jesus thinking of it now that place was a death trap no wonder they rang them

stickysten · 25-02-2011 9:32pm

seanybiker wrote: »

ah I forgot about crystalvision. The birmigham chap that worked there was sound.

hell of a nice fella...working down in boots last i heard

Guramoogah · 26-02-2011 6:08pm

I asked this question in another thread but I got no response:

Whatever happened to that cottage with the lovely murals in Rockenham, Ferrybank, across the road from the graveyard?

Nolanger · 26-02-2011 11:21pm

That upstairs video game arcade where Supermacs (?) is now.

BlaasForRafa · 27-02-2011 3:46am

Nolanger wrote: »

That upstairs video game arcade where Supermacs (?) is now.

Aye, we used to call it "The Gloss". There was a chap called Ray Halligan who ran the change cage in the middle of the floor.

Anyone remember a dingy little shop down John Street called RP Games? quite a bizarre bunch of people ran it.

seanybiker · 27-02-2011 5:48am

Video shop in sweabies(sp?)
Chatting to harry miller in ballybricken. He was sound.

nkay1985 · 27-02-2011 5:56am

Brendan Kenneally being a TD. No wait, I don't!!!!!

decies · 27-02-2011 10:21am

Fianna fail

tankbarry · 27-02-2011 12:28pm

was going to put that in

abouttobebanned · 27-02-2011 7:22pm

Does anybody remember the KK discount store? (not to be confused with the KKK discount store that did a great line in white sheets)

ziedth · 27-02-2011 7:31pm

nkay1985 wrote: »

Brendan Kenneally being a TD. No wait, I don't!!!!!

Ooooooh, too soon?

Professey Chin · 27-02-2011 10:17pm

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Anyone remember a dingy little shop down John Street called RP Games? quite a bizarre bunch of people ran it.

Yep.They used to have the coolest models & stuff in the window

laura360 · 28-02-2011 4:04am

reginalds tower pub
winstons
o briens sweetshop mayors walk
the veg shop opposite revelotions
the nature walk back in the early 90s opposite superquinn
the lawn and the valley(larchville)
the mental run
witches lane(hillview) and all the fields up there
the dip (hillview)
soccer leagues on the hillview green run by helen hennessy and a fella called ned
darrers
jurys hotel
the old fountain in the park and the old park in general(the roundabout was some laugh)

can any1 think of the paintball place at the end of summers hill.(began with w i think)

brendansmith · 28-02-2011 4:22am

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Anyone remember a dingy little shop down John Street called RP Games? quite a bizarre bunch of people ran it.

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Yep.They used to have the coolest models & stuff in the window

they did???? I remember the window being so filthy that you couldnt see in.
The had a pencil case for a cash register. I was a very strange place indeed.

ANyone remember the flat-bed lorry that used to deliver coal to viewmount? I remembered it the other day out of nowhere and it gave me a strange feeling.

THall04 · 28-02-2011 8:34am

laura360 wrote: »

can any1 think of the paintball place at the end of summers hill.(began with w i think)

It was called "Wacky Warriors"

ziedth · 28-02-2011 8:35am

brendansmith wrote: »

ANyone remember the flat-bed lorry that used to deliver coal to viewmount? I remembered it the other day out of nowhere and it gave me a strange feeling.

Sounds like you you have a repressed memory

ziedth · 28-02-2011 8:41am

Buying the latest issue of White Dwarf from the lovely lady in the hobbyshop. Anyone?

MitchKoobski · 28-02-2011 12:40pm

ziedth wrote: »

Buying the latest issue of White Dwarf from the lovely lady in the hobbyshop. Anyone?

I only thanked it because I had friends that used to drag me there during our hour lunch in DLS....and I felt pity on you...

ziedth · 28-02-2011 12:46pm

MitchKoobski wrote: »

I only thanked it because I had friends that used to drag me there during our hour lunch in DLS....and I felt pity on you...

Ah you haven't lived till you have had a squad of space marines pinned down by the eldar......

In reality I grew out of it before my early teens as I realised quickly how much of a bogey pasttime it was but I still buy the video games

Professey Chin · 28-02-2011 1:28pm

brendansmith wrote: »

they did???? I remember the window being so filthy that you couldnt see in.
The had a pencil case for a cash register. I was a very strange place indeed.

I can vividly remember walking past and looking at loads of games and figures and stuff in the window (and this was definitely before it became just a model shop)

nkay1985 · 28-02-2011 4:03pm

Is that shop you're talking about the place that used to be down the road from philly grimes'?

Professey Chin · 28-02-2011 4:11pm

Yep thats the 1.
That was Rp Games wasnt it. I can remember the sign outside

Crusty Blaa · 28-02-2011 4:30pm

The Reginald and Jurys for Sunday lunch

The old Ardkeen Stores - buying Shoot magazine and Premier League stickers off Ray Malone

Cyrstalvision @ Ardkeen

Strand Videos on Dunmore Road - great for video games

Mary's Fish shop at Ardkeen, used to get big tubs of cold shrimp for £1 - gobble them down in a hour.

Cove Stores

Roches Stores (Foodstore)

Crazy Prices

Playing ball on the back green in Viewmount during the scorching Summers

Double decker buses

Freefall in Funderland

An Siopa Beag

Sinnotts

BlaasForRafa · 28-02-2011 4:33pm

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Yep thats the 1.
That was Rp Games wasnt it. I can remember the sign outside

Aye, it was RP Games and was there around 1994 -1997 iirc. A scottish family ran it, the father looked a bit like a leprechaun and his kids seemed pretty mental. There was a sound bloke called Dave who worked behind the counter and wasn't a part of their family but came over with them from scotland as far as I recall who went on to work as a blocklayer after the shop closed.

Iirc their business model was to buy job lots of stuff from closed hobby/comic shops in scotland and bring it over to waterford and flog it in their shop, thats why there was such an eclectic array of stuff in there. I remember buying some old Titan 2000AD collected editions in there but they had all sorts of mad crap. I remember they always tried to flog me a bunch of imperial guard figures that even the Warhammer 40K players used to think were sh**e.

Crusty Blaa · 28-02-2011 4:37pm

brendansmith wrote: »

they did???? I remember the window being so filthy that you couldnt see in.
The had a pencil case for a cash register. I was a very strange place indeed.

ANyone remember the flat-bed lorry that used to deliver coal to viewmount? I remembered it the other day out of nowhere and it gave me a strange feeling.

Yeah, I remember that. I also remember the coal drivers making an extra effort to be seen around Christmas when there was usually an envelope with £10 in it waiting for them.

nkay1985 · 28-02-2011 7:25pm

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Aye, it was RP Games and was there around 1994 -1997 iirc. A scottish family ran it, the father looked a bit like a leprechaun and his kids seemed pretty mental. There was a sound bloke called Dave who worked behind the counter and wasn't a part of their family but came over with them from scotland as far as I recall who went on to work as a blocklayer after the shop closed.

Iirc their business model was to buy job lots of stuff from closed hobby/comic shops in scotland and bring it over to waterford and flog it in their shop, thats why there was such an eclectic array of stuff in there. I remember buying some old Titan 2000AD collected editions in there but they had all sorts of mad crap. I remember they always tried to flog me a bunch of imperial guard figures that even the Warhammer 40K players used to think were sh**e.

Yeah they were Swedish and had lived in Scotland and Portugal before that I think. The young fella was in my primary class. Sigfried Thorsson was the name. His older brother was Sarel. I think he's still in Waterford actually. The little brother got me brought into the principal's office because he said I was one of the people bullying him. I wasn't at all. I did end up giving him an awful kick one day the next year because he was an awful twart.

I think eccentric would be the kindest word for him.

seanybiker · 28-02-2011 7:27pm

nkay1985 wrote: »

Yeah they were Swedish and had lived in Scotland and Portugal before that I think. The young fella was in my primary class. Sigfried Thorsson was the name. His older brother was Sarel. The little fecker got me brought into the principal's office because he said I was one of the people bullying him. I wasn't at all. I did end up giving him an awful kick one day the next year because he was an awful twart.

I think eccentric would be the kindest word for them.

I was in secondary with sarel. Sound chap.

warder6161 · 28-02-2011 7:40pm

Cork

BlaasForRafa · 28-02-2011 10:03pm

nkay1985 wrote: »

Yeah they were Swedish and had lived in Scotland and Portugal before that I think. The young fella was in my primary class. Sigfried Thorsson was the name. His older brother was Sarel. I think he's still in Waterford actually. The little brother got me brought into the principal's office because he said I was one of the people bullying him. I wasn't at all. I did end up giving him an awful kick one day the next year because he was an awful twart.

I think eccentric would be the kindest word for him.

Thanks for that, you learn something new every day eh. Now that you mention it though, I wondered why people were calling the young fella "soil"

brendansmith · 01-03-2011 3:30am

Crusty Blaa wrote: »

The old Ardkeen Stores - buying Shoot magazine and Premier League stickers off Ray Malone

Ray Malone ay? Whats he at now does anyone know? Last I spoke to him he was going to do those Liverpool football tours full time. I real genuinely nice chap. One of the old crew from Ardkeen QFS, which included Martine and the really tall blond one.

Yeah RP games had Mortal Kombat 1 for Super nintendo on its window for ages and ages. Then I grapped it.

brendansmith · 01-03-2011 3:39am

Just thought of something there, dunno if its been mentioned previously.

There was a small jewelers beside where boots is now and oposite the cathedral called 'Heinies'.

Anyone remember it?

seanybiker · 01-03-2011 4:34am

brendansmith wrote: »

Just thought of something there, dunno if its been mentioned previously.

There was a small jewelers beside where boots is now and oposite the cathedral called 'Heinies'.

Anyone remember it?

That the place that looked like it was there for about 538 years?

The butcher beside bpm who had no meat. Best place ever. No idea why but its cool

brendansmith · 01-03-2011 4:56am

seanybiker wrote: »

The butcher beside bpm who had no meat. Best place ever. No idea why but its cool

Its cool because its shows that Waterford was a thriving business hub, some auld lad could have a butchers in the City centre and not even sell anything out of it.

On a different note, BPM used to be across the road from geoffs or there abouts.

seanybiker · 01-03-2011 5:25am

The shop in ashley court. That place was well handy. Also the laneway from hillview into ashleycourt was handy for said shop.

AdMMM · 01-03-2011 5:38am

I miss the lads selling the Sunday papers out of the back of a car outside the churches of a Sunday morning!

seanybiker · 01-03-2011 6:02am

Eileens shop up be mount sion pitch. Two different coloured eyes that you couldn't help but stare at.

nkay1985 · 01-03-2011 9:42am

seanybiker wrote: »

The shop in ashley court. That place was well handy. Also the laneway from hillview into ashleycourt was handy for said shop.

Yeah handiest thing ever. Hop on the bike and head down there to buy water balloons in the summer for an epic water balloon fight.

seanybiker wrote: »

Eileens shop up be mount sion pitch. Two different coloured eyes that you couldn't help but stare at.

Do you mean Kathleen's? Just across the road from the very top of Ozanam Street? When I used to stay in my aunt's at the top of Ozanam Street, I used to have to go and get four crusty blaas and ten Silk Cut purple in the morning. I think I was about 8!

Things you miss in Waterford

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