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

  1. #101

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Blue Tone View Post
    Sarsaparilla Bar in the Arcade.
    Yep you beat me to it.

  2. #102

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

    Quote Originally Posted by light up the darkness View Post
    Newcastle brown ale in the New Moon Club on the Hayes up a rickety wooden staircase
    I took a bird up there once ~1972, a bit of a dive.

  3. #103

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

    Quote Originally Posted by uncle bob View Post
    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?
    Asteys
    The Sarsaparilla shop
    The Capitol
    Secombes
    Greyfriars
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  4. #104

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    Allders
    Guildford Crescent swimming pool

  5. #105

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    Quote Originally Posted by bluesince 52 View Post
    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
    Loved an egg burger.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    Loved an egg burger.
    They used to cook the eggs in metal rings on a hotplate so they fitted the buns perfectly. I've got the modern equivalent of them (rubberised) and think of Asteys every time I use them.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Taffy Blue in Berkshire View Post
    I took a bird up there once ~1972, a bit of a dive.
    But did you take her out again? (Of the Blue Moon I mean lol)/

  8. #108

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    Being dragged around m&s by my mum and hating it. But then... Sausage beans and chips in BHS cafe making up for it.

    The 3d simulator thing in Virtual Reality which looked amazing as a 10 year old but I've no idea what was going on when I tried it

    Going to a butchers to buy meat in an arcade. It sounds positively Victorian now

    The Gadget Shop when the capitol arcade opened

    The running track in David Morgan's sports dept

  9. #109

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    Quote Originally Posted by B. Oddie View Post
    The thrill of all the lovely food in Pillars.
    Going to pillars was always a treat. Used to get so busy around Christmas time with valleys people. The food used to be great.

  10. #110

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    Quote Originally Posted by insider View Post
    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
    Model train shop in Castle arcade... That place was amazing.

  11. #111

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    Not the city centre but I miss the Monico cinema.

    Magical place. Was the first cinema my grandmother went to in the 30s and the first cinema my father visited when we was a kid in the late 40s / early 50s

    Sad when it closed in the early 2000s.

  12. #112

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    Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
    3 cinemas in Queen street - - depending on how old you are
    odeon, gaumont capitol

    Park Hall cinema around the corner. First one to have 3D, with the glasses.

    I think the film was How the West Was Won

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Taffy Blue in Berkshire View Post
    I took a bird up there once ~1972, a bit of a dive.

    Understatement!

  14. #114

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

    Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
    Toy Mic Trev
    The sound of his singing once reminded me that my cat needed to be spayed. Trev will forever be sorely missed.

  15. #115

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

    Two lanes of traffic on Queen St and the narrow pavements on either side heaving with shoppers on a Saturday, many walking outside the kerbs in the gutter with cars, vans & buses whizzing past.

  16. #116

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    Going into The Empire pool and giving your ticket to an old small guy with a bald head who would then give you a metal cage which had a rack on bottom to put your shoes, then you'd hang your clothes over the rest of it like a massive caged coat hanger.
    Then the walk through freezing cold water to clean your feet you'd have to do before you reached the pool

  17. #117

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    The Prince of Wales cinema adverts for films such as...
    Deadly Weapons.JPG

  18. #118

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    farmhouse grill in the great british burger or wimpeys...
    spillers for my hip hop fix i still know ashley to this day the grand daughter who owns it now
    going to see santa in david morgan or howells...
    going to look at the raleigh burners and mongoose diamond back kuwahara bob haro iron horse and other bmx in the bike shops
    beaties toy shop they had like a train set running round the shop up high and open toys so you could play before you buy
    and lots more

  19. #119

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

    Quote Originally Posted by elytillidie View Post
    The Prince of Wales cinema adverts for films such as...
    Deadly Weapons.JPG

    Fantastic

    Those posters, even the titles of the films, used to do it for me as a kid in those days.

    The Russ Meyer films, Vixen, valley of the ultravixens I remember.
    Never got to watch any in the cinema itself but caught up on them since

    Often looked around the inside since whilst supping a pint in Wetherspoons wondering.
    Beautiful building.

  20. #120

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

    Quote Originally Posted by elytillidie View Post
    The Prince of Wales cinema adverts for films such as...
    Deadly Weapons.JPG

    What was the name of the cinema 2 doors down, from the Prince of Wales ?

    Began with a G, but not the Gaiety or Gaumont. Grey matter not working.

  21. #121

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

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    What was the name of the cinema 2 doors down, from the Prince of Wales ?

    Began with a G, but not the Gaiety or Gaumont. Grey matter not working.
    Gilharmonic?

    I don't remember it but was it something like The Guildhall?

  22. #122

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
    Gilharmonic?

    I don't remember it but was it something like The Guildhall?
    The Gala

  23. #123

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    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    The Gala


    Sex films galore

  24. #124

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

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post


    Sex films galore
    like the titty book shop on caroline by the time i was old enough to set foot in there it shut lol

    didnt like the look of the old gits in dirty macks coming out of there anyways haha

  25. #125

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

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post


    Sex films galore
    .

    I can just picture it, popcorn box on the lap with the bottom cut out offering fellow cinema goers to dip in, those were the days, days of innocence and indiscriminate fondling

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