Cowboys in the Assems
Dublin Core
Title
Cowboys in the Assems
Subject
A trip to the Assems with Bernie McLoughlin.
Description
Bernie McLoughlin recalls the old Assembly Rooms cinema on South Mall.
Transrcipt
"Saturday was always a trip into the Assembly Rooms, a cinema there on the South Mall. The structure, the building is still there now. It was a real old type, sort of, cinema. There was no upstairs, there was just all the one level inside there. That's every Saturday during the winter we'd go, we'd go in there. All cowboy pictures of course, you know? And we'd be delighted watching that. And if we had a few pence left over we'd go to another place on the South Mall, it was called the Polar, Polar Stores. They were a kind of cold storage place, but they had a little shop on the front and they sold ice cream there. Now again it was nothing like the ice cream you'd get now. It was sort of almost ice with a small bit of cream in it, you know? You'd get a huge one for threepence, you'd get a huge ice cream for three pence. And that would be our penny treat. In later years then we got a bit more sort of sophisticated and we'd get a bag of chips instead in Douglas Street on the way home. "
Transrcipt
"Saturday was always a trip into the Assembly Rooms, a cinema there on the South Mall. The structure, the building is still there now. It was a real old type, sort of, cinema. There was no upstairs, there was just all the one level inside there. That's every Saturday during the winter we'd go, we'd go in there. All cowboy pictures of course, you know? And we'd be delighted watching that. And if we had a few pence left over we'd go to another place on the South Mall, it was called the Polar, Polar Stores. They were a kind of cold storage place, but they had a little shop on the front and they sold ice cream there. Now again it was nothing like the ice cream you'd get now. It was sort of almost ice with a small bit of cream in it, you know? You'd get a huge one for threepence, you'd get a huge ice cream for three pence. And that would be our penny treat. In later years then we got a bit more sort of sophisticated and we'd get a bag of chips instead in Douglas Street on the way home. "
Creator
Cork Folklore Project
Source
CFP_SR00417_mcloughlin_2012
Publisher
Cork Folklore Project
Date
8-Sep-15
Contributor
Bernie McLoughlin/Cork Folklore Project
Rights
Copyright Cork Folklore Project
Relation
Eventually this will link to the Omeka catalogue entry for the interview
Format
Mp3
Language
English
Type
Audio
Identifier
Filename: CFP_SR00417_mcloughlin_2012
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Cowboys in the Assems,” Cork Memory Map, accessed May 19, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/cmm/items/show/1.