What you used to love about Cardiff

[badlands]

Strikes
Cabbies
The Tudor
the road in the middle of Queen Street
Alpine pop delivered
the jukebox in the Angel Tavern
rag and bone men
the man from the Pru (and my mum hissing in a loud whisper, "get down, don't answer the door, stay still, ssshhhhh!")

 

[Brockway]

the man from the Pru (and my mum hissing in a loud whisper, "get down, don't answer the door, stay still, ssshhhhh!")

Our mother used to do the same when the rent collector called around.

rent collectors
milk floats
Asteys

 

[Brockway]

That other boutique type shop, Pink Cadillac?
.

Paradise Garage

 

[Sweaty Betty]

The HIppo club

bogiez downstairs

globe cinema (saw BMX bandits )

having a cigarette in the old arcade with a nice pint

The docks, before they fucked with it and forgot about the people who really mattered in that area....

MR whippy van----he has dissappeared

 

[Gromit]

Hah ha i had a man from the Pru. And a little book to keep my payments in

 

[Sweaty Betty]

The corona pop man

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Lloyds- downstairs to philarmonic....

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Sunday all day lock in at the Great Eastern, adamsdown with all the bass brewery crew!!!

 

[Sweaty Betty]

The Casablanca
The Dowlais
Smiley's

U remember the scaramouche* on city road???



* sp

 

[phildwyer]

U remember the scaramouche* on city road???



* sp

Vaguely, but wasn't that a bit after the Dowlais, Smiley's and the Casa B? My Cardiff clubbing/gigging days were the early 80s, and I was mostly in heavy metal bands, so that determioned the kind of clubs I went to. Bogies on Penarth Rd was another favorite, musicians from the Damned, Motorhead and Eddie and the Hot Rods used to hang out there. Also Pino Palladino, who is now in The Who. All those bands had strong Cardiff connections. There was also the New Moon, the only drink they served was Newky B. Ah memories...

 

[1927]

PCs, why has noone mentioned it yet.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Vaguely, but wasn't that a bit after the Dowlais, Smiley's and the Casa B? My Cardiff clubbing/gigging days were the early 80s, and I was mostly in heavy metal bands, so that determioned the kind of clubs I went to. Bogies on Penarth Rd was another favorite, musicians from the Damned, Motorhead and Eddie and the Hot Rods used to hang out there. Also Pino Palladino, who is now in The Who. All those bands had strong Cardiff connections. There was also the New Moon, the only drink they served was Newky B. Ah memories...

I ended up in an AA meeting with a member from the Damned

 

[shygirl]

Guildford baths
Top Rank Saturday morning disco for kids
ABC Saturday kids films
The dandelion and burdock bar in one of the arcades
Casablanca
Lloyds (nightclub)
Heol Trelai youth reggae nights
Fitzallen " "
Exploring llanedeyrn and beyond before they built Pentwyn
Splott baths
Victoria Park
The cafe on the Lake, school lunch times
The Globe (cinema)
Caroline street chips at 2 am
The steak house on Crwys Road
Roopa, first proper jean shop in Cardiff, circa mid-seventies
Central library
Sophia Gardens, collecting chestnuts
Corpus Christi, parading through Cardiff every year in fairy dresses and tiaras