Years Gone By - Page 14

andrewb · 21-08-2008, 10:55

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

It's an amusement arcade now, called the Blue Lagoon...sacrilege!

Still the same guy though is it not?

Wynonie Harris · 21-08-2008, 10:55

Too right, mate! Practically lived there in the late 60's. A frothy coffee and a few sounds blasting out of the jukebox...paradise!

Wynonie Harris · 21-08-2008, 10:56

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Originally Posted by andrewb

Still the same guy though is it not?

Wouldn't know, as I can find plenty more ways to waste my money than slot machines!

cashman · 21-08-2008, 13:33

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Pardon me or asking but its years since I was in Accy, well that part of Accy anyway, but is the Blue Dahlia still there. I used to know the lad who ran it, he was called John, (Javani Annapo) he came from Sicily, was a great guy used to play pool with him in the Swan in the mid 70s, if I remeber rightly he took up British Citezenship.

thought it was "Chris" the owner

Wynonie Harris · 21-08-2008, 13:44

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Originally Posted by cashman

thought it was "Chris" the owner

Yeah, now you come to mention it, I remember him being called Chris, too. Nice bloke.

cashman · 21-08-2008, 13:48

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Yeah, now you come to mention it, I remember him being called Chris, too. Nice bloke.

yep top geezer,maybe the other guy owned it n chris was manager

Wynonie Harris · 21-08-2008, 13:51

It could well have been, Mr C. One thing's for sure...he always kept a well-stocked jukebox!

Tealeaf · 21-08-2008, 13:52

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Originally Posted by cashman

who remembers the sunken toilets on dutton street? the old tax office was across to the right going up from woolworths, and when roughly were they closed n sealed up?

How many times you puke up in there, Cashy?

cashman · 21-08-2008, 13:53

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

How many times you puke up in there, Cashy?

in all honesty never, cos it was always nearer to the pub bogs.

Tealeaf · 21-08-2008, 13:59

Remember when most pub bogs were outdoors? A far healthier option, in my opinion. Never any smells and it made a man out of you going out in the rain. The only problem was the lights rarely worked. Are there any outdoor bogs left in Accy/Hyndburn?

jaysay · 21-08-2008, 16:06

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Originally Posted by cashman

thought it was "Chris" the owner

When I was going in regularly in the mid 70s, it was owned by a bloke called Alf, as in Alfonso Alaria and Javani managed it for him, Alf ran the Blue Dahlia on Blackburn boulevard and he lived in Darwen

cashman · 21-08-2008, 16:09

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Originally Posted by jaysay

When I was going in regularly in the mid 70s, it was owned by a bloke called Alf, as in Alfonso Alaria and Javani managed it for him, Alf ran the Blue Dahlia on Blackburn boulevard and he lived in Darwen

ah chris musta flogged it him then.

magpie · 21-08-2008, 18:50

you just used to leave your stuff in the cubicle... I once got my shoes nicked: lucky my dad came to pick me up:
used to get soup from the machine... and the highlight in winter was when they turned on the lights.... wowwwwwwwwwww easy to please we were:

cashman · 21-08-2008, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Remember when most pub bogs were outdoors? A far healthier option, in my opinion. Never any smells and it made a man out of you going out in the rain. The only problem was the lights rarely worked. Are there any outdoor bogs left in Accy/Hyndburn?

oh theres loads of outdoor bogs in accy T, just watch the chavs on a sat night you will soon see em.

magpie · 21-08-2008, 18:56

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Remember when most pub bogs were outdoors? A far healthier option, in my opinion. Never any smells and it made a man out of you going out in the rain. The only problem was the lights rarely worked. Are there any outdoor bogs left in Accy/Hyndburn?

shhhhhhh they will go back to the old ways: after all we have to smoke outside... so may as well: