Re: Past times in Limerick

On Feb 20, 2:36 pm, "mul" <eco...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject:  Reminders of Limerick Past- hope it doesnt make you feel too old

  Some of you might remember these.

      1, Schooners (The Granary)
      2, The Basement (Glenthworth)
      3, The Glen Tavern
      4, Gullivers / Speakeasy (texas steak)
      5, Pink Elephant for mad haircuts, Studio 5 for normal haircuts
      6, The Slattery brothers on the door in Fernandos.(the George) they
don't
      make bouncers like they used to.
      7, Candy Corner outside CBS sexton street
      9, The dolphin

      1. Building rafts in the swamp in Wetsfields Park.
      2. Nancy refusing to serve pints to women in Nancy Blakes.
      3. Lying about your age to Martin outside Schooners (The Granary).
      4. Getting the bus for 5p.
      5. The crush outside The Royal Cinema for "The Bermuda
      "Triangle". Turned out to be a documentary.
      6. John the man's death notices. "Ah sure, it's grand, we didn't know
any
      of them.
      7. Vote Mick Crowe, the man you know - best election slogan ever.
      8. Happy butcher, Noel O'Connor!
      9. The Horses and Traps going to hurling games in the Gaelic Grounds.
      10. AIL games in the early days.

      DoDo Reddan rolling the dogs around in the pram.
      Buying a paper outside the Limerick Leader Office.
      The pick and mix section downstairs in penneys.
      Kiddies korner at Harrys beside Dunnes Stores on Sarsfield Street.
      Burgerland.
      Boyds.
      Crossing the footbridge from Cals park to Janesboro.
      Getting conkers on pery square off the trees in the protestant church.
      Naughtons chipper coming into CBS on lunch break selling the chips.

      Frankie Flynn singing "There is an Isle" every time we won a
trophy.God he
      used to sing it a lot!!
      Mrs Rowlands bakery across the road from Hassetts pub. Best apple
slices
      ever.
      Playing Queenie-I-O..
      Kellys Field..(covered by the LIT now)
      The Ardhu Ryan Hotel.
      Having to do PE in Salesians cos there was no gym in Ard Scoil..
      Walking the mot down Barringtons Pier hoping for a kiss..
      Jim Kemmy....RIP
      Barringtons when it was a public hospital.
      Bullmans Gym
      The Lucky Lamp pub Ellen ST.
      Number 15
      Playing hurling in Cals Park, with the hacked out guinness barrels
next to
      the place where the drinking party was the night before.
      Walking the line to Sandy and the Lemon's fields
      *** Devane in his pub and Mrs Mac singing Beautiful Beautiful
Munsters!!!
      Buddy's Bar

      1. Swimming at the 40 foot and the "point"
      2. Robbing apples on North Circular Road.
      3. Swimming in Out door pool on Ennis road.
      4. When the Kebab shop opened- Friar Tucks.
      5. Day trips to "Delmeges" - now in Moyross , in hindsight we didnt go
      far!!
      6. Late night Movies in the Central.
      7. Toffee apples from Doyles- How we survived is a Mystery
      8. Buns from the Dainty Dairy in Kileely
      9. Late night chips in Dirty Dicks- you could sit down!!!
      10. Joe malones pub in Denmark- learning to drink first pints Guinness
with
      Blackcurrant-- AGGH.
      Swimming in the Shannon Fields or Corbally baths.
      Soccer in the Markets Field
      The All Blacks at the "old"Thomond Park and the 400,000 people who
claim to
      have been there for the Munster win
      Tom and Pascal shows at Christmas (I don't really miss that one)
      John the Man and Big L (see Tom and Pascal above)
      and the following players Joe Mc Kenna, Keith Wood and Ciaran Carey
      1. Paddy Sausage
      2. Cafe Capri
      3. O Byrnes Minerals, Sexton Street
      4. Cranky Mc Kennas sweet shop on Bedford Row
      5. Green Shield stamp shop, Rutland Street
      6. Tom and Paschal in the City Theatre
      7. John the Man Frawley's weather forecasts on Radio Luimni.
      8. Penny biscuits and money balls.
      9. The honk out of the Lyric Theatre
      10. The way the money used shoot round overhead on that contraption in
      Spaights
      Limerick City F.C. in the Market's Field
      "Penny Biscuits" from that little shop on the way down to St.Michael's
      school from William St.
      Winkles and dilisk sold on the street.
      Scaring the bollix out of ourselves crossing Thomond Bridge at
midnight
      daring a Certain Lady to show up.
      Mad Paddy up in College Ave. in Moyross.
      N.I.H.E.
      My all time favourite Limerick 'personality'....
      Willy Moo!!
      1. Tropics
      2. Being able to party all night and head to the Horse and Hound for
the
      cure and a full Irish breakfast.
      3. Liver beans and chips in Dirty Dicks at 2am.
      4. Watching the Reapers heading for Nellies on Sunday afternoons.
      5. Buddys Bar.
      6. Live bands in what is now the Texas Steakhouse.
      7. Tapping the old pay phones.
      8. Francis Coleman tapping outside the Grand Central.
      9. Listening to egits who went to Saturday Night Fever 40 times.
      10. Shanty Town in Limerick Boat Club
      (1) Cals Park on a Sunday Morning - Running for cover when the Pie
Balds
      stampeded. Everytime an old lad in a suit was coming home from Mass
then
      standing behind the goal watching the game your Old Man then telling
you
      that he was a scout and you then breaking your bollix.

      (2) Peter France and the annual "Closing Down Sale".
      (3) Requests on the Radio for songs. Can you play "West End Girls" by
the
      Pet Shop Boys for all the Girls in Weston.
      (4) Danish Viking on Catherine Street.
      (5) Super Chip.
      (6) Bulldog on the green.
      (7) Sammy Benson Band.
      (8) Joe Walshs and McGoverns.
      (9) Tuesday Blue-Tunnel Vision - Mike Ryan and all that Bahai Gowling.
      (10) John the Man and his failed election Bid- "Frawley John for the
Dail
      has gone and he can't get number one".
      (11) Hank on the door of the Old Tom, manky pints of Furstenberg and
afraid
      to complain about then as you were 17 and then having a dose of the
shits.

      (12) Gola Soccer Boots.
      Ooooh.forgot to add John The Man's "Dressing Gown Brigade" and his
faithful
      Gallopin' Maggot.
      Leaving Limerick to go on holidays and get away from it all - to
Kilkee,
      only to find all your neighbours & friends down there too - kind of
like a
      parallel universe. Limerick with sand.

      Ah yes these were definitely the good old days!

You left out one memory of mine when I was sent deep south on holidays
- climbing up on to the roof of Matterson's to peek through the rusty
corrugated iron roof sheets (miracle that I never fell through) and
watch the hapless pigs being slaughtered by bolt, and usually dumping
a load of *** at the same time. Next ropes around the hind legs, a
bucket of water tossed against the pig's arse, being hauled up and the
poor bastards had their throats slit. I dream of doing something
similar to occupying crown forces......but then on to Ballybunion
.

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