I left school that summer and at Christmas '75 was working in Penney's in Mary Street, so would have walked those streets when they were filming this. Great memories - spending every lunch hour in Golden Discs in Liffey Street listening to Bohemian Rhapsody being played non-stop, going to the Elbow Inn after work to spend what little money I had on pints of Guinness and toasted cheese sandwiches (how DID they toast them in the cellophane??), getting on the 46a and sleeping all the way home. It was a miserable time in a way for an 18 year old boy, but in some ways I was happier than I would ever be again (you could say the same about the country). I emigrated the following May and have only spent one or two Christmases back in Dublin since then. The country has changed beyond recognition - it has become indistinguishable from a lot of other countries - such is the way of the world (whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of opinion). Back then, Christmas of '75, there was a unique and wonderful atmosphere which sadly will never be rekindled.
A shopping trolley full of turkeys, minutes later I bet it was full of Xmas shopping. No sanitizing back then we were made of tough stuff. Merry Xmas and thanks for the memories. 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏🍺🍺🍺🎅🎅🎅🎅
A time when it was socially acceptable to drink and drive. Half the drivers were driving on provisional licences and a good lot had no tax or insurance. I know one woman, shes 76 now and has never taken a driving test. She stopped driving last year and never had more than a provisional license. But she always had tax and insurance, so I suppose that's how she got away with it.
It's a money making racket now! My dad's driving test in the 50s was borrowing the local priest's car to drive to the pub for a stout and then driving home! Good times!
@@Shane-zx4ps 😂😂. I was just talking about her the other day and my wife informed me she stopped driving because she knocked some lad of his bicycle. He wasn't badly injured! 😂😂.
When I was young my dad would bring me into town to see the lights he would park the car at the top of Henry street and we would walk down them days u could look into the shops that woman made me laugh spending 50 pounds I spent over 300 euros at Christmas
I left school that summer and at Christmas '75 was working in Penney's in Mary Street, so would have walked those streets when they were filming this. Great memories - spending every lunch hour in Golden Discs in Liffey Street listening to Bohemian Rhapsody being played non-stop, going to the Elbow Inn after work to spend what little money I had on pints of Guinness and toasted cheese sandwiches (how DID they toast them in the cellophane??), getting on the 46a and sleeping all the way home. It was a miserable time in a way for an 18 year old boy, but in some ways I was happier than I would ever be again (you could say the same about the country). I emigrated the following May and have only spent one or two Christmases back in Dublin since then. The country has changed beyond recognition - it has become indistinguishable from a lot of other countries - such is the way of the world (whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a matter of opinion). Back then, Christmas of '75, there was a unique and wonderful atmosphere which sadly will never be rekindled.
Well said brother. Where are you now. Mine is a similar story....
Very well said indeed....agree 100%
Merry Christmas CR, thanks for the videos helping us get through the year!
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£50 on presents in 1975 was crazy spending
A shopping trolley full of turkeys, minutes later I bet it was full of Xmas shopping. No sanitizing back then we were made of tough stuff. Merry Xmas and thanks for the memories. 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏🍺🍺🍺🎅🎅🎅🎅
Yeah. Dirty kip.
Harry Christmas CR and the wonderful uploads you do.
Sweet 😃 Thanks for all these great videos!
Whoever they are they're a national treasure.
Merry Christmas everyone
Wow, look at all those Irish people
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Skangers
We're all far right now.
There is no such thing as Irish people. We have always been a land of immigrants. So we're told.
Great video, thank you.
The cut of santa😂😂😂😂😂
"""Nollaig Shona duit---- agus-- Béannachtaí---- CR's---- V.V."""🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
A time when it was socially acceptable to drink and drive. Half the drivers were driving on provisional licences and a good lot had no tax or insurance.
I know one woman, shes 76 now and has never taken a driving test. She stopped driving last year and never had more than a provisional license. But she always had tax and insurance, so I suppose that's how she got away with it.
It's a money making racket now! My dad's driving test in the 50s was borrowing the local priest's car to drive to the pub for a stout and then driving home! Good times!
Nosy oul bit aren’t you, leave the poor woman alone.
@@Shane-zx4ps 😂😂. I was just talking about her the other day and my wife informed me she stopped driving because she knocked some lad of his bicycle. He wasn't badly injured! 😂😂.
When Xmas was Xmas unlike today
Happy Christmas to every bl.... essed one of yas
It's amazing how many people survived winter in those days, no masks, no social distancing, just carefree fun and camaraderie - awful, wasn't it?
Before the drugs
Yeah. Just raging alcoholics
1:45 Father Ted sniffing a box
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Ugh, I forgot about this one. The poor Turkey. I have to move on.
Shocking static, 8 of us would be dead before the celebrations end. So Sad. 😥😥😥😪😪😪.
Yea from gargle
Shocked by static electricity?
I used to think those were the good old days but by Jim .. it was ultimately an extremely grim experience trying to make ends meet in Ireland in 1975.
It wasn't perfect but people were happier than they are today.
@@dhalsim-1 people said the same thing in 1975 about the 1930s
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Fewer suicides and fewer people suffering from depression back then.
@@dhalsim-1 so much for the consumerist society we have now then
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Just goes to show how much people crave artificial happiness
When I was young my dad would bring me into town to see the lights he would park the car at the top of Henry street and we would walk down them days u could look into the shops that woman made me laugh spending 50 pounds I spent over 300 euros at Christmas
Gut wrenching seeing the Turkeys ripped apart
It’s Christmas not ‘the festive season’.
They’re different things. New Year is part of the festive season. It isn’t part of Christmas.
Most of those people being interviewed would be dead donkeys years now🤔
Hopefully the lovely ladies from 1:06 onwards are still with us.
У пожилых людей все зубы целы...🙃🙃🙃
Here we go again..."when I was young...we used to sit around and eat our own shit...and we were glad of it, and shur look, we were happy." It gets old