Colourful advertising on Capel Street, Dublin, 1988
From #DublinBeforeTheTiger (1982-1992),
my long-term, high-res series about the inner city in the years leading up to the Celtic Tiger.
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1988.
Great, if often faulty, times.
With huge Post-It Notes.
Name those white goods, anyone?
Is that a hotpoint washing machine I see?
…or could be an old Siemens Supershrinker like I once had.
Before that I had a Philips Pinky.
(Automatically added a pink tint to whites.)
when Ireland was white poor and hairy
Fully Guaranteed.
So reassuring while also so vague.
…have yiz no home to go to
up the very top, on the corner of bolton st – it’s an establishment offering ‘alternative massage’ now. not that i’d know anything about that.
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Capel+St+%26+Bolton+St,+Rotunda,+Dublin/@53.3510118,-6.269915,3a,75y,102.97h,83.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIZuI5UxJj9hZTbai_bynww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x48670c2a08ac1dcf:0x5cf4c7f0cc924a5e!8m2!3d53.3510745!4d-6.2700595