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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭stinkle


    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


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


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    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.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,053 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    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.


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


    steveone wrote: »
    where was charlies bar?
    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?


  • 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.


  • 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.


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


    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.


  • Registered Users 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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  • 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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