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  • #52
    frankosw
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 809 ✭✭✭frankosw


    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    Must be quite an eclectic mix of characters there:D


    Yep..like me..bald and old former punk rockers,cureheads and goths lol


  • #53
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Hickey's Pharmacy, beside Burger King, O'Connell Street. 'FM'. A bit of a meeting point shop. My early perving, I was a kid at the time, I had a 'thing' for female skinheads and punks..

    Not sure if the branch on Westmoreland Street was as a result of moving or if it existed at the same time. Totally different character though.


  • #54
    frankosw
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 809 ✭✭✭frankosw


    Amalgam wrote: »
    Hickey's Pharmacy, beside Burger King, O'Connell Street. 'FM'. A bit of a meeting point shop. My early perving, I was a kid at the time, I had a 'thing' for female skinheads and punks..

    Not sure if the branch on Westmoreland Street was as a result of moving or if it existed at the same time. Totally different character though.

    Wasnt the one on westmoreland st called "sounds around"?

    As i recall it had a downstairs section that sold badges,studs,sew-on patches and other punf rock merchandise.


  • #55
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,548 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Sounds Around is a DJ equipment shop on Capel St. and has been for as long as I can remember. Could have been the same name elsewhere though.


  • #56
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭steveone


    yep FM in westmoreland street, similar to asha now in stephens green, t shirts etc...


  • #57
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,946 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    Golden Discs next door- it was unusual in that it was spread over two shops, either side of the small shopping Arcade:
    Photo from 1986-

    brown-thomas-2.jpg

    Wow, had totally forgotten about that!!! Was so unusual to me as a kid. :D


  • #58
    Greenmachine
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    D-FENS wrote: »
    Wasn’t Supermac’s in O’Connell street once a KFC and before that Dunkin Donuts?..

    KFC on O'Connell street was where Schuh is now. After that it was a pound shop. I remember walking past that place when shcuh was being put in. The from kfc were still on the walls, looking spotless. I was convinced kfc were opening a store there. Somehow the crappy wood panels from the pound shop kept all the dirt off those mirrors.
    Dunkin Donuts was much closer to O'Connell bridge but on the same side. I remember passing it in the bus one day. You could see the counter from the bus. Someone grabbing a bag from a girl and the till and running out.
    Wasn't there a king burger next to a mcdonalds on the moore street entrance to the ilac. That where I remember it at least.
    Then there was all the market ladies selling shoes out of little units at the back of the ilac on the parnell street side.

    I remember the big peats on parnell was a huge place. Amazed that there was some kind of a restaurant upstairs of where Burger King is on the top of Grafton Street. As someone who used to work there the upstairs is really hodge podge and not particularly big.


  • #59
    Greenmachine
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    Just remembered the abrakebabra on westmorland street where centra is now. That place was tiny at least the ground floor. The kitchen as about as big as a portaloo.
    Right next door just on the quays were the offices of FM104.


  • #60
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Beshoffs westmoreland st used to be Apollo 1 discount store.

    Here's one on moore st

    https://twitter.com/OldDublinTown/status/412743284155371520


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  • #61
    Greenmachine
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    chopper6 wrote: »
    Beshoffs westmoreland st used to be Apollo 1 discount store.

    Here's one on moore st

    https://twitter.com/OldDublinTown/status/412743284155371520


    I remember that Apollo 1 alright. Beshoffs on westmorland became abrakebabra right which is now a kfc.


  • #62
    stinkle
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    Apollo 1! ah the memories! I remember King Burger was where mcDonalds in the Ilac Centre is now - at the Parnell St entrance. I loved the grub there


  • #63
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    I remember that Apollo 1 alright. Beshoffs on westmorland became abrakebabra right which is now a kfc.


    Nope...Where beshoffs used to be is now Supermacs.
    Abrakebabra was where the centra on the corner is now.

    The KFC is where Superburger used to be and before that it was Wendy's.


  • #64
    Greenmachine
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    chopper6 wrote: »
    Nope...Where beshoffs used to be is now Supermacs.
    Abrakebabra was where the centra on the corner is now.

    The KFC is where Superburger used to be and before that it was Wendy's.


    I already mentioned abrakebabra being right at O'Connell bridge. Can't remember when the fire was in beshoffs, tbh.


  • #65
    L1011
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    chopper6 wrote: »
    Nope...Where beshoffs used to be is now Supermacs.
    Abrakebabra was where the centra on the corner is now.

    The KFC is where Superburger used to be and before that it was Wendy's.

    There was an Abra where KFC is much more recently though, up till maybe 18 months ago.


  • #66
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    MYOB wrote: »
    There was an Abra where KFC is much more recently though, up till maybe 18 months ago.

    Exactly


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  • #67
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    steveone wrote: »
    where was charlies bar?
    The Royal Scam wrote: »
    It was on Aungier Street. I think it and the building it used to be may be gone

    Do you remember "Good Time Charlies" on O'Connell St, near The Royal Dublin hotel?


  • #68
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Do you remember "Good Time Charlies" on O'Connell St, near The Royal Dublin hotel?


    A friend of mine was a barman there..it was a bucket of blood by all acconts.


  • #69
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    chopper6 wrote: »
    A friend of mine was a barman there..it was a bucket of blood by all acconts.

    I was never actually in it, just vague recollection of passing by. Older brother went and yes, by all accounts a bit on the rough side.


  • #70
    chopper6
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    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    I was never actually in it, just vague recollection of passing by. Older brother went and yes, by all accounts a bit on the rough side.


    It was owned by an egyptian bloke who also ran three or four "nightclubs" on leeson st.

    He was notoriously scabby..the back office had a sign up saying "1 glass=20 pence".

    A rule of thumb with establishments is that if the owner is an asshole,the doormen and barmen will also be assholes...when you pack hundreds of teenagers and lunatics into an environment like this there will be trouble.


  • #71
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Anyone remember Dixons in Dun Laoire...used to love that shop..they had model trains (Lima) out the back when every other toy store (my favorite Terry's Georges st dublin) were selling Hornby....its a book shop now...nice to see it still open, when the place is turning into a goast town...and people used to slag off Holyhead...:rolleyes:
    Also Murdocks builders providers..became Iceland...not sure whats there now...Apartments...???


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  • #72
    AlanFLynch
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭AlanFLynch


    I worked in Apollo 1, Westmoreland Street in 1988. It was located on the corner of Fleet Street (where 'Chopped' is now).

    Although they paid minimum wage, the staff were all salt-of-the-earth Dubs, and it was a nice place to work. My abiding memories are: the smell of L'Oreal Studio Line gel; girls swooning over postcards of Patrick Swayze; young male staff debating over the Tiffany and Debbie Gibson postcards as to who they'd date first; selling Swatch watches; and shunting what seemed like a million boxes of Cadbury's selection boxes to the fourth floor before Christmas.

    Back then, the only foreigners in our shop were tourists. It was a world away from the Dublin of today...but sometimes I wish I could go back there.


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