Used to go to the Rainbow Suite on a Thursday nights around 1969 - 1970 - 71 .... Sometimes went there on a Saturday night ..... and the BRS ....
A few others, The Top Rank Suite, started out there on a Saturday morning and a Tuesday night ....
Rebecca's, Barbarella's, La Dolce Vita, Locarno, Snoopy's, and one someone on here was looking for in Edmund St, Pollyanna's .....
Lower down the scale there was .... The Daddy Long Legs, The Incognito, The Deritend, The Shamrock, The Jigsaw Club, The Talk of The Town, The Golden Gloves and The Irish Centre ....
There was loads of working men clubs .... One I enjoyed once was The Midland Red Club ....
We even had a strip club back then called The Peter Rabbit Strip Club .... Long, long before Legs 11 and Spearmint Rhino .....
I was in Legs 11 for a Christmas Do in 1997 and I have to say it was well organised, with beautiful girls and it was great .....
We also had a very good entertainment venue back in the late 70's - 80 being it's hey day ....
The Night Out .... Dinner and a show for what I thought to be very small money even for the time ....
We saw the 3 Degrees and the Drifters there for about £7.50 including dinner .... Ridiculously cheap .... I lived in Dublin at the time, as I do now, so maybe I was comparing it with prices here ....
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I think looking back summers 1969 - 71 in the Rainbow Suite when I was a kid and making my way in the world and buying my Levi's, Wrangler's, Levi Stay Press and two tone trousers .... Prince of Wales check trousers .... with braces ....
Jaytex, Brutus, and Ben Sherman shirts .... Loveson Jodpher Riding Boots, Royal Brogues, Smoothes and Oxfords .... Monkey Boots and Doc Martin's .... Cronbie coats and Harrington jackets and denim jackets .... Brut was the aftershave of the day and I was .... 13 - 14 .... Didn't even need any ....
And reggae was the music ..... Yea man !