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Cheers butt. The name of that pub has moithered me for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Jothams
Rhoopa jeans
Marcross
Restaurant upstairs in BHS
Capitol Cinema
Pet shop upstairs in the Market
Gwyns
Charles Street night clubs
Military tattoo in the castle
Bevans motor cycles by the Angel
Mr Nudge
Model train shop in Castle arcade
Dominions arcade with the cafe that had Scramble and Space invaders in it.
Spillers and Buffalo records
Hayes Bridge Road pre the "new" library toys are us and the ice rink
Central boys club
Empire pool
Guilford crescent
Faggots and peas from Donnelly's cafe upstairs in the market
As a Child
Sarsaparilla Bar
Asteys
Cafe upstairs in BHS
Mackross / Alders
The Coop that used to be next to the Old Arcade
Some cut price warehouse store that used to be by Mill Lane KayCee or something like that.
Going with my dad to the Old Arcade, or Cardiff Rugby Club bar.
As i got older
Bristol Hotel
The Cambrian
Wine Press
Sams Bar
Bluebell
Red Dragon Bar ( Railway station )
Jacksons
The Ice rink in town
the terror of seeing 300 punks and skins walking down queens street while wearing a parker and pork pie hat
Beaties? Was that it’s name? Remote control cars and stuff where the Sony shop is now opp the castle.....loved that place as a teenagerQuote:
Originally Posted by insider
Little Arthur the dwarf screaming at everyone, "Go on you"
Gwyns upstairs in the market.
All the gear, Ben sherman butterfly and button down collar shirts, stay press strides, tank tops all displayed in glass cabinets.
Couldn't afford any of it, my paper round paid bladders!
Green shield stamps shop....the house was fill of stamp books!
Are you thinking of Bud Morgan's in one of the arcades?Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
The Louis - it was really very good. Remember being taken with my mother to the restaurant downstairs in Morgans/Howells. It had imitation portholes all around with painted fish. I was fascinated.
Spillers was slightly cheaper I found, cheap and cheerful.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Buffalo went all modern with their earphones so you could listen before you bought. I suppose they had to get their money back somehow.
Have a listen in Buffalo, buy in Spillers.
Kids beer :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Tone
my first time encountering a newspaper seller on queen Street or the Hayes, shouting "Western Mail and Echo" but it sounding more like "met mun barneghew" and absolutely pissing myself laughing about it with my brothers
Trolley buses running down Queen Street
Gwynn’s in the Market
Sasparilla Bar
Spiller’s Record Shop
Judging by my album collection I bought mostly in Buffalo as quite a lot of them still have the price stickers. Most are £4.99 from the early 80s which shows that music was a lot more expensive relatively in those days.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Qui Qui's on a Saturday night until it closed at 1am then Monty's next door until 2 unless you were having a meal (I never did) and they let you stay on.
Definitely called beaties. Then after that the Sony shop it was called next to barfly
I remember trips to Cardiff with my grandmother when I was a little boy. Just the bus or train journey alone from Mountain Ash was as exciting as getting on a plane to the USA would be to a kid today! It was a rare treat though but the things that really stand out were:
The market, the smell of coffee coming from the Kardomah cafe (we never drank "proper" coffee at home, only tea or Camp "coffee"), David Morgan's, the trolley buses (especially when the driver had to replace the pole when it sometimes came off the wire at a road junction), the toilets in the Hayes (I had never seen public toilets that were below ground!). There are probably lots of other things that will come to me later today!
Bud Morgans - Beaties was by the rose 7 crown opposite the castleQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
Cockles from the market and deli food from Wally’s are the most evocative for me as a youngster in the 90s/00s. Spent a lot of time in Cafe Europa as a teenager. Old Spillers and Kelly’s, along with all the chain record shops. Gamlins and Cranes. The Plan, Crumbs and Fresh. The ice rink. Jacob’s market.
Appreciate some of these things are still there but as an exile my visits are pretty infrequent now.
I have a memory of this fella playing what sounded like funeral dirges to me on a keyboard of some kind and mic’d up vox outside of the Capitol. I was fascinated and frightened of him as a nipper.
Different Place - Castle Arcade was Bud MorgansQuote:
Originally Posted by uncle bob
Beaties was by the Rose & Crown Pub on Kingsway.
Grassroots cafe - Charles St.
Same place. Barfly was named this after rose and crown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadstool
Yes it was - but beaties wasn't in castle arcadeQuote:
Originally Posted by uncle bob