Fao Tonyav And All Brummies

[hc4361]

Some great photos here

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/remember-ca-chelsea-girl-33-8541557#ICID=FB-Birm-main

[tonyav]

LOL, thanks hc4361, but I ain't a brummy. Although I have spent many an hour or two on a Saturday being dragged around Chelsea Girl in the Bull ring by my girlfreind of the time. Ahh memories :-)

[hc4361]

:) I think you is a proper black country boy. Those were the days, my friend

[DTCwordfan]

calling tony a brummie is only second to calling him a baggie.....the voodoo dolls will be out.

[tonyav]

Great pics, I've spent a few quid in Nelson House back in the day. And spent an happy hour or two in Reddington's Rare Records ( great shop, they could get anything ).

[tonyav]

Those were the days, my friend.
They sure were, hc4361. I'm surprised that there aren't any pics of The Oasis. Remember that place ?, it was great like a catacombs of small independent shops great for clothes and records.

[tonyav]

DTCwordfan
calling tony a brummie is only second to calling him a baggie.....the voodoo dolls will be out.


LOL.

[hc4361]

Oasis, just off the Beehive market, above Top Rank.

[tonyav]

Thats the place, hc4361.

[hc4361]

I really did know that tonyav is not a Brummie, that is why my header does not say 'all other Brummies'. We are both Black Country folk.

[hc4361]

Oasis was for the hip and trendy, selling fab punk gear. I was more Man at C&A. :(

[tonyav]

I knew that, hc4361.

[tonyav]

I'm going back ( Oaisis ) way before punk, T'was the place to get your Northern Soul clobber from.

[DaisyNonna]

Harry Parkes had a shop at Six Ways Erdington at the top of Gravelly Hill before the one in the city centre
Remember acting as a waitress for my dad (friend of Harry's) at the city centre opening and servng Max Bygraves

[tonyav]

The first proper sports shop that I knew, Daisy. And he was an old Villa legend. Retired before I was born though.

[hc4361]

Northern Soul. No doubt you did an all nighter or two at the Locarno, tony.

[hc4361]

Does anyone remember the hairdressers in Lewis's or Greys that had animal shaped chairs for the little uns? And a sort of dodgem car circuit on the roof? Could have been two different places.

[DaisyNonna]

My heartthrob as a young teenager was Johnny Dixon. He and his bro nie were often in our kitchen
Johnny brought his Cup Winner's medal to show me and have a signed photo of him with the FA Cup
Got to waltz with him!

[tonyav]

Surprisingly enough I never went to any of the Brum all nighters, hc4361. Maybe I missed out there.
I certainly remember the Locarno though.

[tonyav]

I think it was Lewis's, hc.

Daisy dancing with an FA cup winner, tut tut.

[DaisyNonna]

My haunts were the Jazz clubs (cellars!)