80's dublin (1 Viewer)

[mamul]

would anyone have any good pictures from 80's dublin that i could use? street scenes in housing estates, dublin airport, and any landmarks would be most appreciated. been trawling the net but its been hard to find anything. hit me up please! its for a college project yokey.

 

[magicbastarder]

might be an idea to post this to archeire.com

 

[mamul]

might be an idea to post this to archeire.com

cheers big ears!

 

[pete]

if you find any photos of the Swastka Laundry chimney in Ballsbridge be sure to post them here. pretty sure it still existed in the early eighties.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I remember there always being parking places in the inner city when I were a lad and if you parked in them your car got either broken into or stolen. I also remember there were alot more of those buildings with a chunk missing and wooden beams holding up the rest of the building. I know this is of no use whatsoever. If you know someone who has copies of old Magill magazines etc I'm sure they'd have pics from the time.

 

[mamul]

I remember there always being parking places in the inner city when I were a lad and if you parked in them your car got either broken into or stolen. I also remember there were alot more of those buildings with a chunk missing and wooden beams holding up the rest of the building. I know this is of no use whatsoever. If you know someone who has copies of old Magill magazines etc I'm sure they'd have pics from the time.

i remember those parking spots, but if ya paid the chap running the show before ya left yer car it would be alright, ya didnt and it got broken into! rules of the street i guess. sometimes there was old men sitting on chairs watching them and sometimes it would be a gang of ten year olds. age was just a number in the hey day of inner city dublin.
cheers on the magill tip.

 

[broken arm]

would anyone have any good pictures from 80's dublin that i could use? street scenes in housing estates, dublin airport, and any landmarks would be most appreciated. been trawling the net but its been hard to find anything. hit me up please! its for a college project yokey.

if you get this going post it up here...

 

[La La]

hey not exactly photography related but.........


you know that estate between george's st and the stephen's green carpark? well if you look up at the phone cables you can see a few pairs of shoes hagning there - is it true that's some kind of gang thing, when they beat someone up or whatever they take their shoes and chuck them up there?

or are they just up there for no apparent reason...

 

[Vinnie]

It was sports casual day for the telephone cables.

hey not exactly photography related but.........


you know that estate between george's st and the stephen's green carpark? well if you look up at the phone cables you can see a few pairs of shoes hagning there - is it true that's some kind of gang thing, when they beat someone up or whatever they take their shoes and chuck them up there?

or are they just up there for no apparent reason...

 

[mamul]

hey not exactly photography related but.........


you know that estate between george's st and the stephen's green carpark? well if you look up at the phone cables you can see a few pairs of shoes hagning there - is it true that's some kind of gang thing, when they beat someone up or whatever they take their shoes and chuck them up there?

or are they just up there for no apparent reason...

remember hearing somewhere it was a sign that there was a dealer there. bollix. see it all over the place. more likely what your saying, someone gets a hiding and they throw his shoes up for the crack. all in jest like.

 

[mamul]

if yer interested, heres the inspiation for this project. fantastic story i discovered online a while back


Copyright 1985 Times Newspapers Limited
The Times (London)

August 20 1985, Tuesday

SECTION: Issue 62221.

LENGTH: 322 words

HEADLINE: Stowaways home after trip to New York / Schoolboys Noel Murray and
Keith Byrne

BODY:


Two schoolboys were back in Dublin yesterday after crossing the Atlantic in
the second of two stowaway adventures in a week.

Noel Murray, aged 13, and Keith Byrne, aged 10, were discovered at Kennedy
International Airport, New York, after an illicit journey to the United States
through London.


They were united with their parents at Dublin airport, yesterday morning.

The boys, from Coolock, Dublin, had been caught several days earlier on
board an Irish Sea car ferry as it headed for Holyhead in north Wales.

They were returned to their homes, but made another attempt within 24 hours
to get to London, again using the car ferry, and reached Heathrow Airport.

There they smuggled themselves on to an Air India flight bound for New York.

The pair were discovered only after they had gone through Kennedy Airport,
apparently unchecked, and asked a policeman which bus would take them into New
York.

They were put on an Aer Lingus jumbo jet for Dublin.

Lieutenant Richard Richards, of the New York Police Authority, said:
'Normally I put stowaways in jail for what we call 'theft of service', but in
their case as they were under age I handed them over to the Irish airline once I
was satisfied they were in good shape.

'These boys were what we consider here streetwise. They could both end up at
the head of some large corporation.'

Keith Byrne said that he and his friend went to the United States because he
wanted to see his favourite television star, B A Barabus, of The A-Team.

He added: 'We saw a plane and we asked a man where it was going. He told us
New York. When going on board we were asked for our tickets but we said our
mother was following behind with them and we were allowed to go ahead.'

He added: 'At New York we just walked through the airport

'We went out of the airport and asked a policeman where to get a bus for New
York. That's when we were caught.

 

[La La]

my memories of eighties dublin are mums with the palest of legs wearing velvet high heels walking their kids around in prams

 

[pete]

if yer interested, heres the inspiation for this project. fantastic story i discovered online a while back


Copyright 1985 Times Newspapers Limited
The Times (London)

August 20 1985, Tuesday

SECTION: Issue 62221.

LENGTH: 322 words

HEADLINE: Stowaways home after trip to New York / Schoolboys Noel Murray and
Keith Byrne

BODY:


Two schoolboys were back in Dublin yesterday after crossing the Atlantic in
the second of two stowaway adventures in a week.

Noel Murray, aged 13, and Keith Byrne, aged 10, were discovered at Kennedy
International Airport, New York, after an illicit journey to the United States
through London.


They were united with their parents at Dublin airport, yesterday morning.

The boys, from Coolock, Dublin, had been caught several days earlier on
board an Irish Sea car ferry as it headed for Holyhead in north Wales.

They were returned to their homes, but made another attempt within 24 hours
to get to London, again using the car ferry, and reached Heathrow Airport.

There they smuggled themselves on to an Air India flight bound for New York.

The pair were discovered only after they had gone through Kennedy Airport,
apparently unchecked, and asked a policeman which bus would take them into New
York.

They were put on an Aer Lingus jumbo jet for Dublin.

Lieutenant Richard Richards, of the New York Police Authority, said:
'Normally I put stowaways in jail for what we call 'theft of service', but in
their case as they were under age I handed them over to the Irish airline once I
was satisfied they were in good shape.

'These boys were what we consider here streetwise. They could both end up at
the head of some large corporation.'

Keith Byrne said that he and his friend went to the United States because he
wanted to see his favourite television star, B A Barabus, of The A-Team.

He added: 'We saw a plane and we asked a man where it was going. He told us
New York. When going on board we were asked for our tickets but we said our
mother was following behind with them and we were allowed to go ahead.'

He added: 'At New York we just walked through the airport

'We went out of the airport and asked a policeman where to get a bus for New
York. That's when we were caught.

simpler times.

 

[therealjohnny]

if you find any photos of the Swastka Laundry chimney in Ballsbridge be sure to post them here. pretty sure it still existed in the early eighties.

 

[pete]

Lots of people find it hard to believe that up until about maybe only 25 years ago there was a smokestack in the middle of Ballsbridge with a durty great big swastika on it.

 

[therealjohnny]

I'm amazed there aren't hundereds of photos online of it!

 

[Space]

Re: the shoe thing, it's an american gang tradition in memory of lost gang members.

 

[classic seanc]

hey not exactly photography related but.........


you know that estate between george's st and the stephen's green carpark? well if you look up at the phone cables you can see a few pairs of shoes hagning there - is it true that's some kind of gang thing, when they beat someone up or whatever they take their shoes and chuck them up there?

or are they just up there for no apparent reason...

It means drugs are for sale there, according to a politician I heard talking about the social problems in the docklands

 

[mamul]

It means drugs are for sale there, according to a politician I heard talking about the social problems in the docklands

maybe its used to signify that in the states and in the movies but the shoes that hang from the lines round my way are just thrown up for the craic. defo not thrown up by dealers.

 

[oh shit]

or are they just up there for no apparent reason...

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