Things you remember as a kid visiting Cardiff Town centre

[xsnaggle]

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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.

[xsnaggle]

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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)/

[Optimistic Nick]

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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

[AfricanBluebird]

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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.

[AfricanBluebird]

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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.

[AfricanBluebird]

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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.

[BLUETIT]

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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

[light up the darkness]

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I took a bird up there once ~1972, a bit of a dive.

Understatement!

[Tokyo Blue]

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Toy Mic Trev

The sound of his singing once reminded me that my cat needed to be spayed. Trev will forever be sorely missed.

[splott parker]

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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.

[uncle bob]

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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

[elytillidie]

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The Prince of Wales cinema adverts for films such as...
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[bluemoon]

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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

[MacAdder]

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The Prince of Wales cinema adverts for films such as...
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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.

[BLUETIT]

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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.