Only Barry Tiger Will Be Honest Enough To Say He Remembers This!

That's a bit below the belt.

By the way, I'll be 64 in July.

 

Well I'm feeling like a mere tadpole now....

At the tender age of 46 (47 next month) I suppose I'm doing my bit to bring the average down a little.

BTW, as a Whitchurch boy, it was always the Monico for me. Fond memories of Star Wars coming to the cinema and watching it with my elder brother.

 

Canton Cinema for me....Three Stooges every week, and Batman hanging off a building....will Batman come to an end or will he be rescued...to be continued....? 6d entrance....

 

Windsor Cinema in Neath for me. Not very often coz it was a f'in' trek to get there from the valleys.
66 next b'day and still working off and on. I get a call to go on a Monday to some ****hole....get a flight, meet some mates, go there, go undergound if possible, come home after five nights, with food and drink paid, write a report and fifteen days pay. What's not to like!!!!
Then again, getting to like working from home too.

 

Remember them well.... especially the frozen Jubbly's from the garage...walking home on a freezing night sucking on one of them.
Forgot to say that based on time changed, people think I'm 84.

 

Maerdy Hall for me and yes it was a Cinema before it was a club.

Used to get in underage to watch Dracula.

 

ME.

Just. Was 54 in February.

 

I think you all are all getting a little lost without football

Dai do you remember the bakehouse in Thomas street Maerdy used to go there and buy a packet of Smiths crisps the ones with the little blue packet of salt.I can still smell the bread being baked especially on a winters day and we had plenty of those in Maerdy,I even so it snowing once in july.

 

Yes William, I remember people used to take their Christmas turkey there to be cooked the only place with a big enough oven.

We had some big snow in the early/mid '60. It might be my mind playing tricks but we used to have proper winters and hot, sunny summers then.

 

Maerdy hmmm....interesting place! Although only 57, for some reason the very nice people at Cardiff Council offered me a bus pass....very nice! I jumped on a bus and went up the big hill to a place called Blaencwm. Fug me the bus stops because the road ends at the foot of a mountain...how quaint....thought I was in Switzerland! I thought how about Maerdy....through Ferndale...into Maerdy, road ends again....thought Fug me, am I still in Blaencwm or what? Masky lost on a mountain....different t world up here, said the masked hero from Cardiff!




Brave Masky And so young too!

 

58.....just about made it after a heart attack a couple of years ago (Russell Slade's fault I swear). Old enough to have seen Alvin Stardust in Cardiff Capitol.

 

Welcome to the valleys oh masked one.
Not many ways in or out of the rhondda. Up to Trebanog is nice little hill.
Giving directons are easy though. You either go up the valley or down the valley.

 

Been there, done it and got the T-shirt, the heart attack that is, not Alvin Stardust.
I must say I was a bit annoyed when I had it as i like to think I'm a little fitter than the average 52 year old (at the time). I had done the Frankfurt marathon the previous October and had just got back from a skiing holiday. I wasn't aware of a family history of heart problems at the time.
I had a stent fitted and watched on the screen as the surgeons' did their job, all pretty cool whilst dosed up on morphine.

I stopped taking the myriad of pills they gave me about a year after as I kept getting cramps in all sorts of places.
5 years later I'm still playing football and remain quite active. I have lost about 15kg in weight as well, also cut down the booze, wine and spirits, save the odd tipple or two.

 

Impressive Taff pal, would you fancy 10 minutes with Doris? She’s willing to travel!

Doris will sort him outWink!Sure will Wannk!

 

I'll give most things a go, at least once. However, I wouldn't want to deprive you of Doris, but if you insist, she must provide the plank and stress tested rope. I'm only a short lad...

 

Three stents Taff....morphine was good though!!! Knew I had a problem when the ambulance stopped in Thornhill to give me a top-up. 'My Coo Ca Choo' still sounds good (apologies Aber).

 

Last visit to the big league, we won seven games drawing nine, starting with a big one over eventual champions Man City, then a win at Fulham. After 6 games it wa W2 D2 and L2, wouldn’t mind that start again. Close wins over Swanseeeee, Norwich and West Brom followed. Remember that 3-3 draw at West Brom when in the last minute their player mysteriously played the ball into our end....when he should have taken it into their corner area! The 3-6 defeat to Liverpool also stood out with a Suárez hatrick!

We beat Man City, get the Fug out of here!I wasn’t even born then!

 

1963 Dai. Started Boxing Day 1962 and got progressively heavier. Snow fell for 2 or 3 weeks and took up to 6 weeks to clear in some places. I was nearly 9 then.

 

Cinemas - the Coliseum and Odeon in Newport for Saturday cartoons.

The former became Newport's first multi screen - all 2 of them - and as demand dropped turned into a theatre of soft porn. Bring your own grubby mack and tissues. Now low rent flats I believe.

The Odeon, Newport's only effort at art deco, is a grade 2 listed building, and after closing as a cinema and becoming a decaying rat infested hovel, has been used as a snooker hall, bingo venue and, I believe, was relaunched as an independent cinema a year or two ago.

There were 2 other cinemas in earlier times. The Lyceum, which was demolished when I was a babe in arms and the Capitol. I remember seeing a couple of early James Bond films and Our man named Flint there. That got knocked down mid to late 1960's. An ABC cinema was built on the Lyceum site but is now a Travelodge.

 

So where did you go when it closed pal?


Good one MaskySoft porn on this forum....never!