Things you remember as a kid visiting Cardiff Town centre

[uncle bob]

Anyone remember that guy with long blonde frizzy hair who used to wheel a big white piano and play it always outside Habitat on Hills Street by the Hayes Island snack bar?

[uncle bob]

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I also remember as a kid going into a place called Strikes pool hall which was in the entrance to Cardiff Central Market on St Mary Street on the left hand side just before you entered the market and you'd go up a few flights of stairs.
Had fruit machines, space invaders, and pool and snooker tables.

[B. Oddie]

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The thrill of all the lovely food in Pillars.

[uncle bob]

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Shopping at the big tesco they built where primark used to be on the Hayes with your parents

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Going to Buffalo Records and Spillers

Buffalo had more heavy rock and metal , spiller was full of students and the staff were odd

There was a little bloke who never served anyone and would just stand by the till

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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my first chicken curry off the bone and chips from dots Caroline Street

It seems to be a very kaaardiff thing

[Moodybluebird]

Re: Things you remember as a kid visiting Cardiff Town centre

Going to Buffalo Records and Spillers

Buffalo had more heavy rock and metal , spiller was full of students and the staff were odd

There was a little bloke who never served anyone and would just stand by the till

Can't remember if it was one of the above shops but there was a sound booth in a record shop in Cardiff that you could go into, put on a pair of headphones and they would put a record on for you. I put on the headphones while they played Easy Living by Uriah Heep and nearly ended up getting thrown out of the shop for singing at the top of my voice. At least I bought the single.

[NYCBlue]

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Gingerbread men from the bakery in the market. The Bear Shop. Asteys.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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The old reinforced concrete bus-stops in the station.

On a hot Summer's day, drinking from a public hole-in-the-wall drinks fountain near Greyfriars.

Markross store.

[bluesince 52]

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Top rank Saturday morning straight into wimpeys for egg burger those were the days didn’t cop on as they might have wanted one aswel

[jimmyscoular]

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So many. Egg and chips at Astey's. Bag of cockles from the fishmonger at the entrance to Cardiff Market. Faggots and peas upstairs. Also upstairs, buying a goldfish and taking it home in a little plastic bag. Scary stuffed bear. Where was that? A growing awareness, as the years passed, that the Prince of Wales theatre was a naughty place. That cold shower I had to race through before entering the Empire Pool. The old central library — marble everywhere, spiral staircases and gloomy floors. Scary public toilets in The Hayes. Whatever-you-want and chips on Caroline Street. Lears bookstore. Corpus Christi. Watching the Daleks roll down Queen Street. I'm sure I'm forgetting a thousand things.

[Seabird]

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Trolley buses Ah! jumpers for goalposts - oh and Asteys flakey sausage rolls.

[Porth Pouncer]

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Cashing in Green Shield Stamps in the shop in the old Hayes

[Blue Tone]

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Sarsaparilla Bar in the Arcade.

[BLUETIT]

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The bustle of Mill Lane market

Froffy coffee & a Wimpy

Proper pubs

Traffic in Castle Street