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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
Top Rank
Welsh Rarebits!
what was the name of that punk fashion shop in the late 70's early 80's the bottom end of st mary street ?
paradise ocean or something like that .
Paradise Garage.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
I was going to mention Beatties, that's the one opposite the castle. Spent hours in there looking at the tamiya remote control cars!Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
Also was it Pizza Land just round the corner from there, go down the stairs to get in?
As a kid? You must have had very liberal parents! :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
- Oh, yes, going to Bud’s
- The smell of the rubber floor in the Habitat store (now Waterstone’s) in The Hayes
- Eating at the Positano on Church Street, where Waldo made a big fuss of us children
- Being left in the toy department at David Morgan, whilst my Mum & sisters were about three floors up in the ladies clothes
- Visiting my dad’s fruit machine factory around the back of Charles Street
- Going to see my sister who had a Saturday job in WH Smith (mid 1980s)
- Buskers
- Echo & Football Echo sellers
Howells and Morgan’s
The bomb site type car parks where the St David’s centre is.
Empire Pool diving boards.
The Lious and
Buying concert tickets at Spillers.
Orange buses and a bus stop to go with them.
The old cricket ground at Sophia Gardens and the concert hall next to it.
The smell of the brewery, always thought it was a bit like a pasty smell.
C&A
The cinema on Queen Street and the one in the capitol which has obviously now been reopened.
Getting the bus into town and walking to NP.
A day out for 10d.
Swimming at GC and EP.
Cinemas various
Looking through the windows at Budd Morgans and realising your pocket money wouldn't stretch to just about anything.
Queen Street with traffic and so many people on the pavement they spilled out onto the road.
Waiting for a bus out of town and waiting and waiting.
Bales fishing tackle shop. Most of the maggots made it home. Some were left "elsewhere" on the 25 bus.
Shopping on Christmas Eve when just about everyone was pissed. Or at least seemed to be.
Watching new buildings being built through gaps in the hoardings.
Hurrying passed the Prince of Wales cinema at chucking out time. "Best avoid those kind of men", wondering what an X film was.
cheers latcher yes its come back to me now . was a bit scary walking in there as a whippasnapper :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
some nice photos from the WOL featuring alternative music nights in Cardiff just after the punk scene . was a regular in Neros for alternative music nights .great times
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifest...clubs-13502795
as for the footie remembering getting off the bus as a kid in town when Sunderland came down think it was there promotion season 1979 and they were thousands upon thousands of them and walked to ninian park and I didn't say a word ! in them days everyone wore a scarf and tudor road was a sea of red and white . wasn't too many cardiff fans about !
You just beat me to Trolley buses!Quote:
Originally Posted by Seabird
Beatties was next door to the Rose & Crown, as said where the Sony shop is now. They did model railways, model cars, kits, Subutteo etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Bud Morgan was the same but in Castle Arcade.
Lots of records shops too.
Traffic in Queen Street.,
Two cinemas in Queen Street.
Mackross , where St David's is now.
The Hayes before the knocked it down and built ST David's 2
Lears bookshop, later Ian Allan bookshop.
John Menzies opposite WH Smith.
Pubs.
The gun shop!
Has anyone mentioned 'Sound Advice', the record shop that was staffed with groovy little hippy chicks wearing cheesecloth and smelling of patchouli oil?
I see that someone asked where the stuffed bear was and that was in the tobacconists on the ground floor of the building that housed (and still houses the Prince of Wales). The bear has been moved to one of the shops in the arcades.
Talking of the Prince of Wales, it was a family cinema when I was a kid and the last film I remember seeing there of that ilk was Disney's 'Song of the South', which now seems to have been banned to to racial stereotyping of the Deep South - hence the absence of 'Zippety Doo Dah' in recent years.
The cinema has two changes of character thereafter and I'm not sure in what order. It screened Indian films (and my brother and I sneaked in and watched one of them) and a soft-porn house (and on one occasion extolling in their huge billboard Chesty Morgan's 72 inch boulders. Now it's a cheap slop-shop of the Wetherspoon's variety, of course.
As faras other memories go, I remember the smell of juicy fruit on the terraces of the Grange End, the Kardomah Café (or have I imagined that?) and the Wimpy Bar being the height of sophistication for us oiks.
😳 I obviously missed that element of the question. 🤭Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
I'm revising my answer to concur with the above - plus Oxo crisps with the sarsaparilla.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Tone
Oh it was real alright. I can still smell the aroma of freshly ground coffee beans wafting up onto the pavement opposite the castle. As a little boy that was wildly exotic to me, having grown up with tea and post-war Camp "coffee" (yuk). Does anyone remember that stuff now I wonder?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
Forget the Orange buses I remember the old maroon and cream buses (and trolley buses)!! I remember when they changed colour back in the mid sixties. Cardiff Bus started to replace the old double deckers with open platforms at the back with the entrance doors at the front. They had buses in three colours, two shade of orange and a turquois and asked the public to choose which would be the new bus colour. One of the orange colours was chosen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Majorblue
I remember the Sophia Gardens ground being built and the old Cardiff Arms Park cricket ground. This was where Cardiff Rugby is now.
The old Sophia Gardens Pavilion was demolished after 4ft of snow brought the roof and most of the walls down in 1982. I say old but it was only just over 30 years old when the collapse happened followed by the subsequent demolition of the rest.
There used to be a big concert in the Pavilion with the year 6 kids (Standard 4 as they were in those days) from all the schools in Cardiff singing in a massive choir The boys wore white shirts red ties and grey shorts and the girls white shirts and skirts ( I think the girls wore red ties as well)
No long trousers until High School in those days, and even then in the first year many parents ( including mine!) still made their boys wear shorts It was the middle of the first year before i persuaded mine to let me change into long trousers
Someone has mentioned the brewery smell. I'd forgotten that - the smell of hops was overpowering when the train came into the station. Wasn't there the name Hancocks in huge letters down the side of the chimney?
Same here. I had to go the whole of the first year though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
My parents always had a bottle of Camp coffee in the food cupboard. I can't remember it ever being used, Nescafe was the coffee my mum preferred (Never Maxwell House, my Mum couldn't stand it for some reason)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
I remember the Kardomah. I recall it being next to Boots in Queen Street and it was knocked down when Boots was modernised and extended. I recall it was a wood panelled building with lots of wood inside as well
There was also the Cadena Cafe in Duke Street next to the Rummer Tavern
The Wrestling at Sophia Gardens or the Guildhall on a Friday night
The Greyhound racing on a Saturday evening, before going after the other dogs down the Top Rank :hehe:
I recall when LP's were 12 shillings and 6 pence (62 1/2 p in todays money) Singles were 6 shillings and 8p (about 33p!). This was back in the 60'sQuote:
Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays
Think that pub was probably the Taff Vale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
The bear in the tobacconists.
The Capitol for films but also the visits of all the top world acts to the venue. The Lexington, American style restaurant near the Cap, great burgers, the paper seller on the steps of the Capitol, buses pulled up right outside, cracking business for him. Rows of chocolate & amber football buses lined up on Wood St prior to every home game. Kwiksnaks, the skinheads hang out opposite Boots on Wood St, The Kensington (also known as The Happening) on St Mary St, where Kiwis is now, a West Indian hang out with reggae and Tamla blasting out. The chains on the bollards running along the castle lawn, just couldn’t resist swinging every one as a kid when walking past. Guildford Crescent, three swimming pools, Mixed, Boys & Girls. Dumfries Place, every old large terraced house seemed to be a solicitors office the whole length of the bus stops. The Centreplan 70 building near Wyndham Arcade on St Mary St with mock ups and plans of how great Cardiff was going to look by 1970!!!! The Prince Albert pub on Working St with a tree growing right through the middle of it. The huge map by Kingsway toilets, knobs on the side to roll it up and pinpoint various parts of the city. Blackfriars ruins on Greyfriars Rd, I think it was Blackfriars, the remnants of an ancient house. So much more I s’pose.
As a child I loved walking past The Castle walls looking at the stone statue animals on top.
“ F*cking hell, where does she live? The castle wall?”Quote:
Originally Posted by theclaw
The smell of the brewery on Saturday afternoon.
Horrible smell
I think you must have been a very precocious child.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT