Aberdeen City Centre

[Cowie]

In other news - I see that is 'under the hammer' shut down for good now?

Shame - was a good bar.

[Betty Swallicks]

Skaters......... LOL

Up there with car geeks ie unsporty weirdos.

 

 

 

 

[styrofoamplates]

3 minutes ago, Cowie said:

Yes - I think  so.

Maybe changed around mid 2000's?

A good bit before that I think. I remember buying 'Different Class' by Pulp in the upstairs of Fopp when it just came out. That was 1995.

(I remember clearly, because it was 9.99 and I gave the guy a tenner and he gave me change of a twenty. Fucking great score when you are 14!)

[Fridge]

Actually was never a fan of pulp but absolute full respect for the Jarvis / Micheal Jackson shit at the brits.

[Studebaker-90]

45 minutes ago, Betty Swallicks said:

Skaters......... LOL

Up there with car geeks ie unsporty weirdos.

 

 

 

 

Everyone in my generation certainly went through their skater phase. Was a right of passage wearing the big bolt London baggy jeans with the chain accompanied with the Korn or blink 182 hoody. 

[Fridge]

In a complete random story I was in Kiev with work and there was some sort of car shit going on with folk showing off with their fancy cars. Cannonball run style in the the Hyatt.

I was just in the hotel bar and ended up getting interviewed on tv with Tony Hawk (skateboarder) Just played along, fuck knows who the Ukrainians think I am.

[minijc]

11 hours ago, Poodler said:

Mind Elementz the skate shop? 
 

Was it ever on Gaelic Lane, where the coffee house is now? About 15 years ago? 
 

It was behind Markies at somepoint wasn't it? 

Elementz was on Gaelic lane to start with then moved to union street where CEX is now I think.

1 hour ago, styrofoamplates said:

It was definitely behind Markies at one point. 

Was it not above Fopp and then Fopp took the space and went on two floors? 

There was also a skate shop on Gaelic Lane, think it was Elementz. I remember buying a Aem'Kei jumper out of there around 1999. 

Borderline was the shop beside Markies.

[styrofoamplates]

2 hours ago, minijc said:

Elementz was on Gaelic lane to start with then moved to union street where CEX is now I think.

Borderline was the shop beside Markies.

Ah that was it! Cheers Mini! 

Was upstairs Fopp next to Bordeline? Accessed through the wee lane (was it called McCrombies Court or something?)

Now I think about it, upstairs Fopp was narrow and the stairs went down to the larger area. 

[minijc]

2 minutes ago, styrofoamplates said:

Ah that was it! Cheers Mini! 

Was upstairs Fopp next to Bordeline? Accessed through the wee lane (was it called McCrombies Court or something?)

Now I think about it, upstairs Fopp was narrow and the stairs went down to the larger area. 

Aye that's it.

[styrofoamplates]

1 minute ago, Bad_Mobby said:

There used to be a decent butcher next door 

Castro's?

[maryhilldon]

Surely a skate shop should be Boarderline? 

[King Street Loon]

Was in the city centre yesterday. Union Street is like a shanty town

To Let signs a'wye. Reminded me of Barrow in Furness town centre in 2008.

[aberdeen1970]

7 hours ago, styrofoamplates said:

A good bit before that I think. I remember buying 'Different Class' by Pulp in the upstairs of Fopp when it just came out. That was 1995.

(I remember clearly, because it was 9.99 and I gave the guy a tenner and he gave me change of a twenty. Fucking great score when you are 14!)

Fopp was a brilliant shop back in the day before it became the hmv bargain store 

[Fridge]

It’s shite. Think it was maybe going  that way anyway with online shopping etc but it is grim. Apart from going for a pint or a haircut why would you I suppose.

[Don Fonte]

1 minute ago, Fridge said:

It’s shite. Think it was maybe going  that way anyway with online shopping etc but it is grim. Apart from going for a pint or a haircut why would you I suppose.

Plenty cctv, less chance of getting mugged by a couple of 14 year olds for your carry out.

[Fridge]

Very good!

i actually reckon I have half kept the city centre alive recently with my ridiculous alcohol consumption!

[aberdeen1970]

10 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

Very true. Don't know if anyone remembers Tower Records in Glasgow but that was tremendous. The amount of dough I spent in that place over the years. 

Yeah that Tower Records store was something else. 

 

Aberdeen used to be full of record stores. You could spend a day browsing. 

The old hmv, virgin, couple of One Ups, Bruce Millers, the section in John Menzies, there was even a wee record shop on Holburn Street which had a lot of rare stuff, it's name escapes me now. 

[dazzy_deff]

1 minute ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Yeah that Tower Records store was something else. 

 

Aberdeen used to be full of record stores. You could spend a day browsing. 

The old hmv, virgin, couple of One Ups, Bruce Millers, the section in John Menzies, there was even a wee record shop on Holburn Street which had a lot of rare stuff, it's name escapes me now. 

Don't forget Our Price

[aberdeen1970]

3 minutes ago, dazzy_deff said:

Don't forget Our Price

Aye and there were a few more department stores that had decent record sections as well.  Woolies, Fraser etc.  Many a Saturday wasted flicking through racks 

[Simply Red]

39 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Fopp was a brilliant shop back in the day before it became the hmv bargain store 

Yip loved Fopp. Always a big table of random £3-£5 a pop albums/books. Great for a skint student, curious about everything on there, but too skint to buy blind, full price (pre-internet days) And you could smoke tabs in there.

2nd hand vinyl bit downstairs at One Up was ace aswell.

[Redforever86]

Aye, it's mental how much city centre shopping has gone downhill even in the last 15 years. 

I could finish my part time student job and hit markies for some reduced food, FOPP for a random arcade fire album and Miller and McLeish deli before it became peckhams for what I thought back then was some amazing goose island IPAs etc.

[maryhilldon]

4 hours ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Fopp was a brilliant shop back in the day before it became the hmv bargain store 

The one down the road from me in Byres Rd only closed this year,  still shopped in it up to the death.  Back catalogue cds and decent paperback books for £3-5.  Was still worth a browse.  Spotify and YouTube killed it. 

[OddJob]

Aye spent a fortune in record shops over the years and as said very disappointing to see them all pretty much gone obviously due to online buying nowadays. Fopp & OneUp were my favourites but bought from all of the stores

[KenDodd'sDad]

Aberdeen Vinyl Records on Union Street is still very good for cheap used vinyl.

[manboobs109]

Grouchos in Dundee has closed. Shame as it was a great wee shop. I read the staff are trying to open a shop elsewhere so fingers crossed. 

[styrofoamplates]

I was back in Aberdeen last year for the first time in about six years. I was amazed at the decline of the city centre. Union Street is basically full of bookies and charity shops. Sad decline from the halcyon days when i was a lad. As mentioned above, I'd trek from HMV to Virgin to One Up to Fopp and then to Plan 9. Was amazed that Plan 9 is still open. Fucking loved that place when i was about 12-15! Cunt behind the counter was the same guy that used to serve me 25 years ago!

[DD1903]

11 hours ago, Sooper-hanz said:

Barras market was always brilliant for bootleg stuff, live recordings etc.  Not been in there for ages. 

The barras isn't anything like it used to be, Hanz. Walked through it 12-18 months ago. Dead. The few Stalls that were there were just selling crap. 
 

nothing like it used to be back in my youth!

[Henry]

13 hours ago, Sooper-hanz said:

You love a decent quality butcher Mobz. Noticed that.

You love talking about Mobby's food intake. Noticed that. 

[minijc]

15 hours ago, maryhilldon said:

Surely a skate shop should be Boarderline? 

Surely you're a nonce?

[DD1903]

4 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

It used to sell all sorts of dodgy stuff. Cunts standing as look outs for the police to give the 'vendors' a warning.  The police though used to get around this genius plan by going in plain clothed. Lol ? What are they like? 

There was a stall that sold second hand wank mags.

Aye, that stall was always busy aswell!
 

Used to get Atari and Amiga games from the barras most weekends. If one place didn't have what you wanted, one of the others would. Or they'd 'get it in for you' - in around half an hour normally. Great customer service