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Christmas Retro

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  • #122
    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,000 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Posy wrote: »
    I still miss Roches Stores. :(
    (and I miss A Wear too!)

    I never even heard of the 'Little Musuem'. Must check it out. :)

    The restaurant there, Hatch and Sons, is fab!


  • #123
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Oh that's definitely sold it to me now! :D


    Christmas shopping on Henry Street, 1970:

    B4LWJ0yIEAA6pEU.jpg:large


  • #124
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Posy wrote: »
    Oh that's definitely sold it to me now! :D


    Christmas shopping on Henry Street, 1970:


    Lovely photo, thank you !

    Different times indeed, as I can spot cars !

    And it would be unthinkable now, with the trend for pedestrianised shopping areas.


  • #125
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,110 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just go away will ya! :(


    Now now, less of that in the crimbo forum, we're all nice & friendly in here :D
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #126
    CheerLouth
    Registered Users Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    Posy wrote: »
    (and I miss A Wear too!)

    Me too - always found something to wear in it!

    I don't remember Switzers though at all - I feel like I've missed out!


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  • #127
    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,000 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    CheerLouth wrote: »
    Me too - always found something to wear in it!

    I don't remember Switzers though at all - I feel like I've missed out!

    Switzers, Cashs, Moons and Todds... Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick (or Limerick and Galway?)


  • #128
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    otnomart wrote: »
    Lovely photo, thank you !

    Different times indeed, as I can spot cars !

    And it would be unthinkable now, with the trend for pedestrianised shopping areas.

    Before you had huge shopping centres in the suburbs, you had to go to town do any serious shopping.


  • #129
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    So true.


    Speaking of shopping centres, I just remembered: someone told me that at some point Blanchardstown Shopping Centre was (one of) the largest in Europe.


  • #130
    Kenzie Round Headhunter
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ Kenzie Round Headhunter


    Posy wrote: »
    Oh that's definitely sold it to me now! :D


    Christmas shopping on Henry Street, 1970:

    B4LWJ0yIEAA6pEU.jpg:large

    I miss Woolworths- they closed in the early 80's - their picknmix sweets were super, and great selection of toys upstairs- there was no "Smyths" back then.


  • #131
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I remember working in Northern Ireland for a few months, and I LOVED Woolworths!!


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  • #132
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Trust me it is well worth a look. ALL of the memories.

    :drool:

    https://twitter.com/oldukcatalogues/status/1163104507481530369?s=21


  • #133
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Oh, I love it! There was a link somewhere (I forget was it here, or the Retro forum) to an Argos cataloge from the 1980's and it was class. :D


  • #134
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I vividly remember the real ghostbusters sock selection box. The slimer jellies. They would literally stick to the wall :D


  • #135
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    1980s Christmas Advert Compilations
    The Cadbury Daily Milk is so cute !
    https://themincepie.co.uk/2019/09/06/1980s-christmas-adverts-compilations/


  • #136
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,110 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    otnomart wrote: »
    1980s Christmas Advert Compilations
    The Cadbury Daily Milk is so cute !
    https://themincepie.co.uk/2019/09/06/1980s-christmas-adverts-compilations/

    Omg, thank you so much, I get such a buzz seeing the old adverts from when I was just a kid, brilliant.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #137
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    otnomart wrote: »
    1980s Christmas Advert Compilations
    The Cadbury Daily Milk is so cute !
    https://themincepie.co.uk/2019/09/06/1980s-christmas-adverts-compilations/

    Remember that Old Spice ad. My Dad use to have a bottle in the bathroom and I remember trying some when I was about 10 after seeing the ad on TV (thought it smelt terrible haha).


  • #138
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    My first Christmas in Ireland.. I had been on a North Sea island nine years with little Christmas fuss as Hogmanay was THE festival.

    Driving down the dark, dark mountain in the rain for Midnight Mass... Lighting the candles in the lanterns.. The Church filled to capacity. The lovely Crib... at home my tree.. first occasions always so poignant


  • #139
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    How House Beautiful Christmas Decor Changed Through the Years

    https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/g28862710/house-beautiful-vintage-christmas-decor/?slide=1


  • #140
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    otnomart wrote: »
    How House Beautiful Christmas Decor Changed Through the Years

    https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/g28862710/house-beautiful-vintage-christmas-decor/?slide=1

    Great find, some 'interesting' pictures in there!


  • #141
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Love it!


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  • #142
    otnomart
    Registered Users Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    The People's Friend 150 Years Christmas Cookery

    Fish and custard, or vegetable and yoghurt soup, anyone ?

    christmas_cookery_cover.jpg


  • #143
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    otnomart wrote: »
    The People's Friend 150 Years Christmas Cookery

    Fish and custard, or vegetable and yoghurt soup, anyone ?

    Sounds like half the mains and half desert together!


  • #144
    CheerLouth
    Registered Users Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    otnomart wrote: »
    The People's Friend 150 Years Christmas Cookery

    Fish and custard, or vegetable and yoghurt soup, anyone ?

    So that is where Doctor Who got the Fish Fingers & Custard idea! :pac:


  • #145
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,110 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Sounds like half the mains and half desert together!

    Or Rachel's dessert in Friends for thanksgiving... trifle with layers of Minced beef, peas & gravy... :D
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #146
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.facebook.com/124486407702808/posts/1426580300826739?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo

    Great vid so many memories :)


  • #147
    SarahLil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil


    Loughc wrote: »
    https://www.facebook.com/124486407702808/posts/1426580300826739?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo

    Great vid so many memories :)

    After watching this I think I may have asked Santa for a type writer back in the day what was I thinking I’ll have to ask my mam if I got it or not I can’t remember for the life of me


  • #148
    TRS30
    Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Loughc wrote: »
    https://www.facebook.com/124486407702808/posts/1426580300826739?vh=e&d=n&sfns=mo

    Great vid so many memories :)

    My folks still have (and put on their tree) those ornaments at the very start :D


  • #149
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,110 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    My little sister got that treehouse family set one year, had completely forgotten it until seeing that video... brilliant!!!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #150
    pigtail33
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭pigtail33


    TRS30 wrote: »
    My folks still have (and put on their tree) those ornaments at the very start :D

    Us too! They also have a special version, with streamers coming out the ends. They have to get packed into their own special box ever year, so that they don't get damaged. It wouldn't be Christmas without them!


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  • #151
    Jude13
    Registered Users Posts: 3,794 ✭✭✭Jude13


    TRS30 wrote: »
    My folks still have (and put on their tree) those ornaments at the very start :D

    Ditto, I loved those foil coin type ones as kid, and my kids love them on my folks tree.


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