4 corsie di traffico ogni direzione e potresti ancora parcheggiare nella mediana centrale (O’Connell Street anni ’80) e nonostante tutta quella merda, probabilmente sembrava migliore di quanto non faccia oggi.
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di Larrydog
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That does not look better than it does today.
I see two lads on motorbikes which appear their own so thats a plus
https://preview.redd.it/17guzj2u6kke1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=8efad3c9cefda71cbd23a35bce7853fbd987266b
I prefer this version myself.
Mmmm… leaded petrol.
This post gives strong Abe vibes…
Yeah… what a gorgeous… car park in motion?
As an asthmatic that was wheeled around in a pram at exhaust-level in town during the 80’s, fuck off.
Sounds like someone has picked up a dose of whoremembersitis.
Nostalgia for a past that never existed is a dreaded condition.
Who remembers real bin men?
So many cars there that the older males in my life (dad, uncles, grandas) all had when I was a nipper…..
As someone who has visited Ireland quite a lot and always really enjoyed it, it always sucks to hear Irish people talk about the country like it’s sliding into hell. It’s a wonderful country.
Smells
Have you seen the uncleaned buildings dating from that time – they are pure black from all the emissions, just like the lungs of the inhabitants at the time.
It was definitely safer
Kip today
There are lovely photos of O’Connell street from the 70’s and 80’s with colour saturation turned up to the max makes it look really grand.
Dublin City center was not a utopian paradise in the 80’s however.
I think it looks better with the trams than the mess in this photo.
Do I see DeLorean?
It didn’t look better. I was there.
Actually it looks more as the capital of a country than it does today, streets on Madrid are basically like that with multiple lanes. Having barelly 2 lanes in the city center is crazy.
Good times, do ye remember the night they tried to petrol bomb British Home Stores, feckin missed completely.
It was better in the olden days, the further you go back the better it was. Mmmm delicious primordial soup.
im too young to ever remember (normal) people on OConnell St
Car ownership in Ireland rose 215% between 1980 and 2020’s
That’ll be why
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40748418.html
It used to smell so bad in those days. The Liffey was very badly polluted and stank, cars had no catalytic converters and diesel smoke was rank. The buildings were filthy and the road surface was covered in a film of dirty oil and grease. It’ so very much better today.
I remember central Dublin in the 1980’s, Trinity college and the Bank of Ireland were covered in a black crusty layer of coal smoke residue. I grew up in the 1970’s in Clanbrassil street next to a slaughterhouse and a Coal Yard, I can remember horseshit on the road, filth, people dying in their early fifties, the smell of cabbage, the stench of the Guinness brewery