I both miss and don’t miss so many things in this video. Fond memories but I’m glad they are in the past. Dull and ochre-like colours in paint, tinny cars and lumpy jeans (that are back unfortunately). Even the Imp buses, bright as they were, were stolid and cramped featuring the sort of dodgy schlock logo that became more common the closer you got to the iron curtain. They were great though, some became Nitelink ticket vans after that I think.
I get the impression that Ireland was overcast for pretty much all of the 90’s.
Bodger
+ 1
dav
except for 95
Cool_Hand_Lucan
And the day we beat the Eye-talians
george
I think you’re mistaking the old camera and footage for the actual colour of the place. Most of those buildings are the same colour today.
paul
I’ve worked with footage like this before (2 pleasant years working in the IFI) so my brain automatically translates the colour. There was a lot more brown, taupe and those burnt orange and warm yellow colours around then.
Watching the trends over the past twenty years and we’ve been steadily trending away from ‘earthy’ and towards pastel colours and striking neon and sub-neon colours.
Brother Barnabas
you don’t see lads with newspapers in their back pockets anymore, sadly
scottser
or indeed waving hapless drivers into a parking spot with a rolled up copy of the herald.
Otis Blue
Lock hard! Lock hard!
Spaghetti Hoop
‘Press or Hedild’
Optimus Grime
Ah man I miss the oul imp! I used to get it from Kimmage into town. And those citylink buses. I used to get the Number 3 which ran across the city from Drumcondra to Belfield via Ennis if I am not mistaken
Iwerzon
Go Minic anseo, go tapagh ansuid!
Janet, I ate my avatar
reminds me why I left ;)
Dr.Fart
forgot about the fluzy in the jacuzzi, what happened to that?
wow! that’s some good digging up there, Bodger. Right back to 2010. Thanks a mill! SO she’s still knockin around.. seems like she doesn’t have as much notoriety in her new spot in a gardens no one heard of down off the N4. Used to be the talk of the town. sad. vote FG out and get Anna back to O’Connell street!
Spaghetti Hoop
I hated the floozie on O’Connell Street. Full of fast food garbage, cigarette butts and surrounded by gurriers. She looks ta peace now in the Croppies.
The Old Boy
I had forgotten that there used to be a handful of Austin FX4 taxis plying for hire in Dublin.
RuilleBuille
I detested the Imp buses with their compressed air brakes that you could hear over long distances.
Ben Redmond
Clerys was Clerys in them faraway days, and the floozie was the floozie.
millie vanilly strikes again
*wistful tears*
Evan Ó Catháin
This video literally opens with a double-decker bus in shot.
Elimare
Ah the ‘oul City Gimps. They were dead handy when I lived in Rathmines.
I both miss and don’t miss so many things in this video. Fond memories but I’m glad they are in the past. Dull and ochre-like colours in paint, tinny cars and lumpy jeans (that are back unfortunately). Even the Imp buses, bright as they were, were stolid and cramped featuring the sort of dodgy schlock logo that became more common the closer you got to the iron curtain. They were great though, some became Nitelink ticket vans after that I think.
I get the impression that Ireland was overcast for pretty much all of the 90’s.
+ 1
except for 95
And the day we beat the Eye-talians
I think you’re mistaking the old camera and footage for the actual colour of the place. Most of those buildings are the same colour today.
I’ve worked with footage like this before (2 pleasant years working in the IFI) so my brain automatically translates the colour. There was a lot more brown, taupe and those burnt orange and warm yellow colours around then.
Watching the trends over the past twenty years and we’ve been steadily trending away from ‘earthy’ and towards pastel colours and striking neon and sub-neon colours.
you don’t see lads with newspapers in their back pockets anymore, sadly
or indeed waving hapless drivers into a parking spot with a rolled up copy of the herald.
Lock hard! Lock hard!
‘Press or Hedild’
Ah man I miss the oul imp! I used to get it from Kimmage into town. And those citylink buses. I used to get the Number 3 which ran across the city from Drumcondra to Belfield via Ennis if I am not mistaken
Go Minic anseo, go tapagh ansuid!
reminds me why I left ;)
forgot about the fluzy in the jacuzzi, what happened to that?
It was moved to a small park near Heuston. https://goo.gl/maps/fZNEsNKuAV2iAN1w7
she’s up near Heuston station, Google maps tells me it’s in ‘Croppies Memorial Park’ (didn’t know the name), near the Ashling Hotel.
Dr. Fart: https://www.broadsheet.ie/2010/12/16/floozie-returns-to-oconnell-street-hates-what-theyve-done-to-the-place/
wow! that’s some good digging up there, Bodger. Right back to 2010. Thanks a mill! SO she’s still knockin around.. seems like she doesn’t have as much notoriety in her new spot in a gardens no one heard of down off the N4. Used to be the talk of the town. sad. vote FG out and get Anna back to O’Connell street!
I hated the floozie on O’Connell Street. Full of fast food garbage, cigarette butts and surrounded by gurriers. She looks ta peace now in the Croppies.
I had forgotten that there used to be a handful of Austin FX4 taxis plying for hire in Dublin.
I detested the Imp buses with their compressed air brakes that you could hear over long distances.
Clerys was Clerys in them faraway days, and the floozie was the floozie.
*wistful tears*
This video literally opens with a double-decker bus in shot.
Ah the ‘oul City Gimps. They were dead handy when I lived in Rathmines.
The auld 123 to Marino.. best bus ever…
Ah yeah a stone cold classic!