25 things you’ll remember if you grew up in Bayside
Dublin People 10 Jun 2016
Bayside in Dublin 13 was a fantastic place to grow up in the 1970s and '80s, with its scenic coastal location, young population and convenient transport links to the city and Howth. Here are a few things you might remember if you ever lived there.
1. Looking forward to the annual influx of good looking Spanish students every summer.
2. Playing basketball beside the DART station
3. How all the mammies used to fancy the smooth, mustachioed manager of Londis.
4. Seeing all the ‘cool’ kids hanging out on the Lamb Chop.
5. Buying Matchbox dinky cars and your weekly comic in Wavecrest newsagents.
6. The aerial photograph of Bayside hanging behind the butcher’s counter in Londis – and trying to make out which one was your house.
7. Eating chips in Munchies with your pals instead of going to mass.
8. Sneaking into the church to get the missalette to ‘prove’ to your parents that you actually went to mass.
9. The opening of the squash courts and playing your first game.
10. Hanging out in the snooker rooms.
11. Being refused a drink by the barman in the Bayside Inn.
12. The summer discos in the national school
13. Louie and Paddy in the train station ticket office.
14. Being afraid to walk through the train station underpass in the dark.
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15. Pointing out to people from Sutton Park that they actually lived in Bayside, not Sutton.
16. Mustering up the courage to take a shortcut through the graveyard after getting off the 31 bus at night.
17. Calling your girlfriend from the phone box across the road from Bayside Shopping Centre.
18. Tripping over the ridiculously small wall opposite the church.
19. Wondering how people living above the shops got into their homes.
20. Getting the DART into town every Saturday, without fail.
21. Looking forward to ‘the Hop’ every Saturday night in Suttonians.
22. Going to secondary school in the comp’ in Baldoyle.
23. That romantic, awkward walk along the coast road on your first date.
24. Living down the road from Ronan Keating before he was famous.
25. Being told by your parents that you weren’t allowed over the other side of the tracks… Baldoyle.
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