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Post by headstone on Jun 28, 2019 14:30:45 GMT
A Duke Box was a machine that you put money in and then you could chose a record to play - I guess you must have lived a very sheltered life Mr65 not have spent a days wages on one ? You could really piss people of by putting you selection on replay so that the same song was played over and over again - it was a great invention. I seem to remember that the whole of the ceiling was covered with beer mats - they were little square things that you where supposed to put you pint on on the table Mr Sword - just in case you have never heard of them as well If there is one thing you can say about my existence it is not sheltered. I may not have attended school on a regular basis,much preferred the pub or fishing,but I did learn how to spell and in my day it was JUKE BOX not a duke box which is something Prince Phillip will be in soon . The JUKE BOX at the London road ground cellar bar was brilliant for the time and you are right in one aspect as I used to play 'playground twist' by Siouxsie and the Banshees over and over again. As for beer mats ,well I used to collect them years ago but had to relinquish the collection through lack of storage space. There was a bar at the Athletic Ground???
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Post by sword65 on Jun 28, 2019 15:37:15 GMT
If there is one thing you can say about my existence it is not sheltered. I may not have attended school on a regular basis,much preferred the pub or fishing,but I did learn how to spell and in my day it was JUKE BOX not a duke box which is something Prince Phillip will be in soon . The JUKE BOX at the London road ground cellar bar was brilliant for the time and you are right in one aspect as I used to play 'playground twist' by Siouxsie and the Banshees over and over again. As for beer mats ,well I used to collect them years ago but had to relinquish the collection through lack of storage space. There was a bar at the Athletic Ground??? Is this a trick question?
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Post by headstone on Jun 28, 2019 17:24:32 GMT
No, obviously we had different priorities!
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Post by pedant on Jun 28, 2019 18:02:25 GMT
If there is one thing you can say about my existence it is not sheltered. I may not have attended school on a regular basis,much preferred the pub or fishing,but I did learn how to spell and in my day it was JUKE BOX not a duke box which is something Prince Phillip will be in soon . The JUKE BOX at the London road ground cellar bar was brilliant for the time and you are right in one aspect as I used to play 'playground twist' by Siouxsie and the Banshees over and over again. As for beer mats ,well I used to collect them years ago but had to relinquish the collection through lack of storage space. There was a bar at the Athletic Ground??? I believe the 'powers that be' at the club at the time had delusions it was a pub.
Additionally there was a bar serving the glazed area overlooking the pitch (restaurant, director's and vice president's area) of the main stand which I recall taking major advantage of for my 21st birthday bash.
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Post by jdl on Jun 28, 2019 20:00:18 GMT
There was a bar at the Athletic Ground??? I believe the 'powers that be' at the club at the time had delusions it was a pub.
Additionally there was a bar serving the glazed area overlooking the pitch (restaurant, director's and vice president's area) of the main stand which I recall taking major advantage of for my 21st birthday bash.
It was a pub - The Stones Inn. I never drank in there, so I don't know what it was like - was it a proper pub, or just open on match days?
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Post by Better things to do in life on Jun 28, 2019 20:31:21 GMT
I believe the 'powers that be' at the club at the time had delusions it was a pub.
Additionally there was a bar serving the glazed area overlooking the pitch (restaurant, director's and vice president's area) of the main stand which I recall taking major advantage of for my 21st birthday bash.
It was a pub - The Stones Inn. I never drank in there, so I don't know what it was like - was it a proper pub, or just open on match days? The Athletic ground was a great stadium with huge terracing oddly placed in one corner and had fantastic potential for development bland like the old Stamford Bridge had huge gaps behind the goals from the athletics and greyhound track days. It was tragic we sold it instead of developing it as we should have done. There was room for a Genco sized stand at both ends and for a huge main stand but instead we sold it to MFI and became nomads for a generation. Criminal. As it was my childhood home of the stones in the Woy Hodgson days I get the same nostalgic chill down the spine and regret us losing it every time my wife drags me to Dunelm Mill.
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Post by headstone on Jun 29, 2019 11:03:01 GMT
But parking was an increasing problem at London Road for an increasingly mobile fan base. We've cured that at The Gallagher, obviously...
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Post by pedant on Jun 29, 2019 13:36:53 GMT
But parking was an increasing problem at London Road for an increasingly mobile fan base. We've cured that at The Gallagher, obviously... "increasingly mobile fan base"?
Judging by the fairly regular clamour on here for more seats to be installed at the Gallagher one might conclude the exact opposite.
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Post by jdl on Jun 29, 2019 20:24:16 GMT
But parking was an increasing problem at London Road for an increasingly mobile fan base. We've cured that at The Gallagher, obviously... "increasingly mobile fan base"?
Judging by the fairly regular clamour on here for more seats to be installed at the Gallagher one might conclude the exact opposite.
That 15 minute walk to the ground is a bugger, though. O&T could have chosen a more central location. Just at the end of Holland Road would have been nice.
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Post by shamstone on Jun 29, 2019 20:42:08 GMT
What end ?
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Post by rollingstone on Jun 29, 2019 21:14:50 GMT
Going back to juke boxes, who remembers the rack in the newsagents, where they sold 75p ex juke box 7" singles that were now out of the the chart and had that funny plastic middle thing?
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Post by sword65 on Jun 29, 2019 22:19:28 GMT
Going back to juke boxes, who remembers the rack in the newsagents, where they sold 75p ex juke box 7" singles that were now out of the the chart and had that funny plastic middle thing? Me and I still have lots of them though I don't think I paid as much as 75p. My local record shop did a pavk of 10 singles for a pound right 8 of them were crap but you got the odd gem thrown in.
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Post by soulstone on Jun 30, 2019 8:06:08 GMT
There is some Athletic Ground stuff on the Facebook page.....Unofficial Maidstone United History. Would put the link up if I knew how.
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Post by jdl on Jun 30, 2019 12:13:35 GMT
Either, we live right in the middle! Knock down the prison - ideal location, just the right size...
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Post by pedant on Jun 30, 2019 13:24:05 GMT
Either, we live right in the middle! Knock down the prison - ideal location, just the right size... An 'interesting' location certainly. Somewhat expensive to maintain as at least part of the ragstone perimeter wall is "listed" which will make access difficult for any different future use.
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