MacCurtain Street 1957-2007

[tim the trip]

quanes toy shop was on that street. remember buying starwars stuff there.

 

[City baller]

Hollywood video store, its chartbusters now

 

[tim the trip]

what about the scout shops and the rape crises center?

 

[tim the trip]

Which incidently, was owned by the Queen...

poor old vice { the owner for a long time} pased away . poor man worked all his life, eventually sold up made his few bob and passed away while out forigen looking into a few apartments for his retirement.
i used get my dinner off him when he had the coburg street conor . great guy.
pity.

 

[City baller]

What about John graces

 

[The Great Island Red]

What about Hadji Beys - the Turkish Delight shop.
The Palace Cinema - ever before 'twas the Everyman.
The back entrance into P J O Heas is probably there since 1143 BC.
O Brien's ice cream parlour for a Nickerbocker Glory.
Paddy Barry's pub on the corner.
There was an underground bar (Subway ??) where Crowley's is now. Remember seeing Jimmy McCarthy & Freddie White playing there.
CBC.
The second hand book/record/musical instrument shop.

 

[D'oriel]

Need some serious help here.
Anyone able to tell me a couple of differences between MacCurtain Street 1957 and today? It's for a project I'm doing for geography!! Supposed to interview people but that's not gonna happen!

No internet cafés.

 

[EDDIEB]

May get some info here :-http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/corkimages/misc.shtml

 

[i_hate_ire]

What about Hadji Beys - the Turkish Delight shop.
The Palace Cinema - ever before 'twas the Everyman.
The back entrance into P J O Heas is probably there since 1143 BC.
O Brien's ice cream parlour for a Nickerbocker Glory.
Paddy Barry's pub on the corner.
There was an underground bar (Subway ??) where Crowley's is now. Remember seeing Jimmy McCarthy & Freddie White playing there.
CBC.
The second hand book/record/musical instrument shop.

My father still talks about that when ever he get a turkish delight. "Hadji Beys and then into the pictures."

 

[gregson1]

Wasn't Mahers Sports across from the leisureplex in a house years ago.. remember going in one day as a smallie with the old man...