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Machrihanish ...................

the Locarno! What a place! Great ice cream! Ach, nostalgia at it's best! Yer makin' me greet!

I used to hate the way topics would go way off track like this one has - now changed my mind & enjoying how one wee comment can open up a whole new debate.

I remember the Mayfair, Locarno & Royal or top, middle & bottom as they were known.
Where we went depended on which one was first to get the latest releases on their jukebox!

Annie, We used to feel so sophisticated drinking our coffee from the glass cups back then Many fond memories of all of the cafe's and the characters

Don't forget the Copper Kettle, Willie

Those were the days right enough...........we used to spend many an evening in the Mayfair cafe .....you did`nt even need to buy anything just a place to meet friends etc.........

After a few saturday beers A few of us would gather in the Locarno and order Hot Chocolate and Toasted sanwiches, the girls would ask how many ?, the reply was always the same, just keep them coming till we tell you no more, or till you run out of bread, which on a few occassions they actually did.
Then it would be up longrow to Hintons and buy sometimes up to 10, 7inch singles, then home to play them 1 by 1 and drive our mothers mad.
£7 a week went a long way in them days.

John S wrote:Don't forget the Copper Kettle, Willie

So I did John - with the wee booths!
Nae jukebox in there - think they were trying to be a wee bit more up-market - as if!

those were the days all right, Rab Broon had a chip van that used to stop outside woolies too great chips

How about going up to McIlchere's bakery and buying saussage rolls or doughnuts at 2 a.m. - hahaha!

mouth is watering here thinking about their rolls

With big rashers of Ayrshire bacon and a fried egg, YUM!

You are making me CRAZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

take_a_pop wrote

Toasted sanwiches

Best I ever tasted pop and never had as good since

Machrihanish wrote

those were the days all right, Rab Broon had a chip van that used to stop outside woolies too great chips

Not forgetting oorly's faither and Ron Mead and Bobby MacLean afore him. I did a few shifts in that van during the summer and it was like a sauna Never enjoyed a chip since

oorly

take a pop ,i have all the same memories of the locarno cafe ,were you there when the lassies from the dale frequented the cafe?

ullean's mum wrote:take a pop ,i have all the same memories of the locarno cafe ,were you there when the lassies from the dale frequented the cafe?

The toasties were good infact they were great.

But the Dale's Dollies, they were Hot, but I never got to taste any of them, but i tried, freekwently

TAP. i was sure you had tasted the dollies from the dale,but maybe you're not who i thought you were,the toasties and the coke in a glass bottle down the bottom end of the locarno were hard to beat,and a quick visit to hinton's before heading back to the dale with archie darroch.Ahh the good old days