come on own up, anyone else who use to frequent this club in the 80s.
its been called some names but it was good.
the music was spectacular.
heart of glass-elle warren, ovalteenies etc.
anyone else.

Originally posted by tara
come on own up, anyone else who use to frequent this club in the 80s.
its been called some names but it was good.
the music was spectacular.
heart of glass-elle warren, ovalteenies etc.
anyone else.

where was it ?

It was in the building of the old engineers pub at wincobank
near blackburn.
everyone would come from miles around.
it was like a horse shoe shaped bar and a massive room.
the bar staff were always in fancy dress with tambourines etc.
it was open well after midnight as i remember.
but local residents were always complaining about the noise so they shut it down.
but it was very well known at the time.

The Bar did not close down because of the noise. It closed down because being a fun bar, A good one at that, It used to attract a lot of the gay community. The residents did not mind this so much,, But, This used to attract a lot of undesirables also. It is not possible to go into detail. When it closed it became a regular pub. I do not know what has happened to it since then. I knew the leasee and the managers quite well indeed. They did have some problems with car parking etc. It was on a awkward corner. It was also handy for the railway pub just under the bridge. When closing time in Sheffield used to be eleven oclock then we all went under the bridge. Rotherham was eleven o-clock the bar was never opened till midnight.

I travel by train, along the route that goes past the bottom of Wincobank, very frequently.

The journey takes us right by the site of the Dallas Bar.

I do remember the "reputation" it got for itself - almost as bad as the Bar Rio, on Charles Street, in town, now called the "Yorkshire Grey". (ah, the early eighties! lol )

Sadly, the Dallas Bar is no more, it's been demolished :(

I was shocked a few weeks ago to see the demolition squad working on it, and each time I passed by, there was a little less left of it, and then, there was... nothing!

all that's left of it, now, is the car park/ pub yard, that was behind it.

I do remember the place being derelict for quite some years, after some sort of a fire/ arson attack on the premises.

Maybe the place had become structurally unsound, after the fire. too much so to be viable for renovation, or perhaps it was just simply uneconomical to renovate, full-stop. I don't know.

All I know is that the land is now cleared of any building.

PT

i belive it had the same owners as the bar rio.......when it closed it became the barrow house and then it got serverely fire damaged and never reopened

i remember it well sadly its just been flattened just empty space there now dont know what they are going to build next may dallas mk 2 dont think so somehow best regards steve>>>

yeah it was the old engineers pub for years before dallas.
whether i was too drunk and enjoying myself but i never noticed a gay fraternity there.
it was certainly full of full blooded males chasing women at every corner. lol.
what do you mean the gays attracted the undesirables.
surely anyone can attract undesirables gay or not.

anyway i missed that place when it closed and its a pity it had to close because of some low lifes.

Tara.

I lived next doot to the place. On Ecclesfield Rd. How would you like to wake up in the morning to find human exrement on your back door. Bearing in mind there were only twenty houses on Ecclesfield road close to this pub. Also to find that some drunks had gone round the lane at the back of the houses and pewking in the back gardens. Not to mention my neighbour, She found two men having sex at the side of her house. One of them an employee of the bar. On the whole. The customers of the bar, Also the owner who was gay were great people. The owner once sat in y front room with his mobile phone instructing the DJ to turn down the volume. We did not even make him do this. As I said. Only a few people, Just like anywhere else spoilt things. When they were taken to court and they were ordered to close, They appealed. They won the appeal on the grounds that they applied to certain conditions. But the owner had already made his mind up to sell out. The people that took over altered the pub so much, That despite the fact that it was very nice, Many of the previous customers stayed away. But, It was still doing well. Then we had trouble from local youths, Most pubs were having problems then, The ones that took the lease said they had had enough. That was the downfall. The cost of running the place, The rent, All the other expenses made the pub close.

Tara, the bar came on the scene just before I left Wincobank, but I remember people saying that there were no seats in the place at one point. I do recall a TV interview with the hilariously dour newsagent, Len Beedham [there were two newsagents near to the bar ; Beedham's and Wadsworth's], and he complained of young couples "fornicating" outside his home at night after drinking in the Dallas. To my eternal credit, I never drank in the bar, nor did I engage in sexual congress outside Beedham's.

I recall Beedham, He was a cantankerous old goat at times. But he was right about the sex etc, it was not very nice, Remember this was over twenty years ago. Times were different then, But some a odd things did happen. Overall, The bar was good, Dancing on top of the bar with tamborines, Everyone enjoying themselves, There was very little violence, I never saw any drugs or dope. The previous owner does have a bar in Spain and one in Turkey. I would like to see some of the local pubs run the same as the Dallas. But alas, I do not think we shall see this.

Rodgers, glad you remember Beedham. Your phrase certainly does him justice! He certainly seemed to resent every minute spent in his shop, and appeared to dislike children immensely. I don't want to take Tara's thread too far away from the Dallas Bar, but do you remember the shop next to Beedham's- was it Terry Oliver who ran it? His wife, a German lady called Inga was always very nice to me as a kid. She found me "cute", apparently. I wonder if she would find the hulking 43 year old Timo "cute" now?!
You are right re the undeniably unpleasant idea of sex outdoors in Wincobank, but doesn't the idea of the dour Beedham being stirred to fury by the goatish couplings going on under his bedroom window make you laugh?! I'm laughing now! All the best.

Quite right Timo

I had a chuckle too. It could not have happened to a better guy. But, To coin the old phrase, They were the good times. We all seemed to have a good laugh, Even after a good arguement no-one held a grudge. Just as well I would be hated. But, Yes i remember Inga. Also the bookies. I think the most trouble came from the oldies in the Conservative club. ha ha ha

Rodgers, glad you agree re miserable old Beedham [say "Good morning" to him, and he was stuck for an answer...]. Yes, the Con Club could be like Dodge City at times, according to my late Gradfather, who was a member!

I remember the Dallas bar well,I was just going through my first divorce and what a place this was to meet young or older ladies!I never saw any trouble there allthough sometimes there was a bit of tension in the air!The last time I went in though the bouncer a scottish guy called "jimmy" gave me a chair leg and said be ready the shirecliffe lads are coming down!!I turned round and went back up the road to the Forum a lot safer place.At the same time as the Dallas Bar there was the Amsterdam bar at Huddersfield and also one in Wakefield which i think was called the New Yorker

point taken rodgers.
you say you lived in that row of houses, so did my uncle .
im not sure what year he left but if you lived there for a long time
you may remember him.
Tom worthington.
had a daughter called Elaine.
also i had a friend there -judith wayne.

HI! Tara.

I knew a guy called Tom, At that time he would have been around 58. I think it would have been the next to the end house on the side of the Dallas. I lived at no. 10. A very old lady lived at 12. A guy that owned a shop at Firth Park Lived at 8 with a teenage son called Andy. I knew lots of people to talk to and say hello. I did not know many by name. I was a very busy man at that time The dates I was living in the area would have been 1979 to. 1983.

drove past last nite and there were 3 asian men doing some sort of work leveling the ground may be its going to be a corner shop lol!!

can enybody remember harry who worked the door?

A friend of mine used to run the print shop at the rear of the Dalls. In the Dallas Yard as we called it. There was also a joiner that used to make spirit levels etc. A mechanic. This was a busy yard. I was wandering what has happened to them.

Yes rodgers that sounds like him.
I think he worked at shardlows.
He passed away in his late 60s around 92 .
so that would be about right.
I think he moved from ecclesfield rd in 80s.
In the 60s i use to love going to there house, as the trains ran at back by there.
I remember a lounge to the right with a big piano in it.
you had to go down some steps for the kitchen.

Live up on Standon rd, the land is earmarked for flats I believe, they've just put some fancy fencing round it though

I'll admit it, i did use to visit the Dallas Bar. It was great music and always a good night out. i used to go with a friend but i also met my first real love there. i don't remember seeing any trouble .

Originally posted by tara
come on own up, anyone else who use to frequent this club in the 80s.
its been called some names but it was good.
the music was spectacular.
heart of glass-elle warren, ovalteenies etc.
anyone else.
thats the only pub where i played in a darts match in candle light
it was in a small room on the righthand side as you went in the door
they had snooker tables down stairs

do you mean when it was the engineers.

Originally posted by timo
Rodgers, glad you remember Beedham. Your phrase certainly does him justice! He certainly seemed to resent every minute spent in his shop, and appeared to dislike children immensely. I don't want to take Tara's thread too far away from the Dallas Bar, but do you remember the shop next to Beedham's- was it Terry Oliver who ran it? His wife, a German lady called Inga was always very nice to me as a kid. She found me "cute", apparently. I wonder if she would find the hulking 43 year old Timo "cute" now?!
You are right re the undeniably unpleasant idea of sex outdoors in Wincobank, but doesn't the idea of the dour Beedham being stirred to fury by the goatish couplings going on under his bedroom window make you laugh?! I'm laughing now! All the best.
i rember terry used to work with at yorkshire engine company
befor e he moved into the shop he was a great guy

Originally posted by tara
do you mean when it was the engineers.
yes it was in the 60 i think befor frank bardsly took over
started having strippers

Maybe someone ought to organize a re-union. I reckon it would be great. I find that Council Policy is doing a great deal of damage to the communities as they were. There was trouble no one would doubt that. But, Much of it was sorted by ourselves. Lower Wincobank had a great sense of community spirit, The likes of which are rarely seen today. To go into the area now and see the changes does bring tears to one's eye's. The demolition that has taken place in the name of progress is criminal. Rather than invest in these areas, This Council would rather demolish them. But they also demolish the spirit of those that once lived there.

Originally posted by Rodgers
Maybe someone ought to organize a re-union. I reckon it would be great. I find that Council Policy is doing a great deal of damage to the communities as they were. There was trouble no one would doubt that. But, Much of it was sorted by ourselves. Lower Wincobank had a great sense of community spirit, The likes of which are rarely seen today. To go into the area now and see the changes does bring tears to one's eye's. The demolition that has taken place in the name of progress is criminal. Rather than invest in these areas, This Council would rather demolish them. But they also demolish the spirit of those that once lived there.

Rogers, I have been lamenting the council policy on "destruction of communities", (AKA 'community regeneration!) for the longest time.

I have seen this happen in Attercliffe and Darnall, when the area was cleared, the community was destroyed, and scattered to the four winds.

I spent a lot of my childhood growing up at Heeley and living in Highfields:- the council destroyed the communities there, under the guise of redevelopment. the site where my home was, lay derelict, and undeveloped, for about twenty years, from 1979. It was only what... six or so years ago, when it was finally developed with some nice housing on it, but, feh! not before time!

it happened on the Manor, it is happening on Wincobank, where the Flower Estate is being destroyed. it's the same at Parson Cross, and Shirecliffe.

The council never learn about making cohesive, sustainable communities.

(shakes head sadly...)

PT

PT I fully agree with you. I was a Labour man all my life, I stopped when this Council stopped being Labour, We have very few genuine Labour politicians now PT. I have seen Wincobank destroyed, Attercliffe destroyed in the name of redevelopment. Millions of pounds made and spent badly. I lived on the Kelvin Flats when the same happened, I worked on there, The feeling of community spirit was great, Then came the planners, They spent millions in modernizing Kelvin, If that is what it could be called. Then they gave the tenants Hobsons Choice. They destroyed Kelvin and once again made millions for the developers. Then we have Shirecliffe and other Estates, What is happening is criminal. Committees are being formed. Yet they are also being maipulated. Fraud is prevalent. Tenants and homeowners are turning against each other. Estates are being bribed with regeneration money, Money that is being wasted on silly projects. Also small cowboy contractors and security firms that are run from the kitchens of homes, These people are making great profit. The lunatics have taken over the asylum PT. I do not know if you would agree with me. But, Soon this madness and the knocking down and privatising of peoples homes and the assetts of Sheffield must STOP. We only see the tip of the iceberg. There is much more that goes on behind the scenes. Many ordinary people just do not understand nor do many want to. This Council are making people think that we are having it good here in Sheffield. But at what cost in the future. There are a few web sites now that are taking much of this on board such as rottenborough and just response. But attempts are being made to close them down. Sorry PT I am wandering away from the thread. But we could go on forever. This would make a good debate.. I get so angry.


Respects

Rodgers and Plaintalker- excellent postings. I tend to agree with your wise words.
AWoollen, you knew Terry Oliver did you? I always liked him as a kid [he was a few years older than my Dad], and he had a good sense of humour. Was he any different at the Yorks Eng place you mention? Is he stiil around?

Thank you Timo, Your appreciation and comments are welcome. As I am sure PT will also agree.

Rodgers

yes excellent reading mrs pt and rodgers, i totally agree.

Never get that community spirit back again.
My mum and her relatives were originally from attercliffe and one of my fondest memories was of visits to a great aunt who lived there.
cant remember which street it was but she shared a yard with a few others and when we visited, the welcome from not only her but the neighbours too , in that yard was something never to be forgotten.
they all came in and had tea with us.
all the relatives seemed to live near in those days.
my mum was born on roundel street.

wincobank was just the same.

where i live now in stocksbridge it still has a village feeling but the developers are slowly creeping in.
we have a good town council who dont take too kindly to them.
esp building for the sake of it as in the recent application for planning to convert an old mission built in the 1920s.
It has just come to light that the mission may be on land belonging to the oxley park trust and therfore belongs to the people of stocksbridge.
a lot of land up here was left to trusts, esp land owned by samuel fox who after his death was given to the people.

how can we be sure this is not the case in other areas,
how much of the land that developers have taken and built on
really belongs to the people.
whose ever investigated it.

were lucky to have a town council that cares .

Originally posted by timo
Rodgers and Plaintalker- excellent postings. I tend to agree with your wise words.
AWoollen, you knew Terry Oliver did you? I always liked him as a kid [he was a few years older than my Dad], and he had a good sense of humour. Was he any different at the Yorks Eng place you mention? Is he stiil around?
lived on hill st same time as me great at work moved into the shop after works closed down if you dont know where hill st was it was bottem of meadowbank rd
just before you turn on meadowhall works was on the other side of the road terry had ason but i dont know if their still nocking about sorry i moved to the other side of rotherham when they knocked the houses down

Cheers Awoollen- I know where you mean, but it looks a lot different today from what it did in the 70s. Yes, Terry was a really nice guy and a complete contrast to his near neighbour, the hilariously misanthropic newsagent, Beedham. Is there any truth to the rumour that Beedham occasionally lap-danced at the Dallas Bar?

No Beedham kept well away from the Dallas Bar.....

The Dallas bar,
yes god i used to work there playing the tambourine many many moons ago.
Turned into the barrow house pub that was a good house for many years,then eventually flattened it and now its a car lot.

Okay I own up my friends and I had a few trips to the Dallas Bar it was a good night out and we never saw any trouble.:thumbsup::hihi:

The last but one record played at the Dallas Bar every single night was 'Disco Tango', by Tommy Seebach. It was the Danish entry for the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest. It took me ages to buy it, but I managed to get it some years later. I still have it. The last one every night was Gerry & The Pacemakers - 'You'll never walk alone'.

There were a few of us went o the Dallas bar every Friday and never saw a bit of trouble, it was one of the best placees to go to at that time, although I never saw anything untoward going on I never knew it was full of gays. The lads that we met there certainly wernt gay, perhaps we were more tolerant then and didnt make a big thing of it like these days. :hihi:

I remember the Dallas bar well,I was just going through my first divorce and what a place this was to meet young or older ladies!I never saw any trouble there allthough sometimes there was a bit of tension in the air!The last time I went in though the bouncer a scottish guy called "jimmy" gave me a chair leg and said be ready the shirecliffe lads are coming down!!I turned round and went back up the road to the Forum a lot safer place.At the same time as the Dallas Bar there was the Amsterdam bar at Huddersfield and also one in Wakefield which i think was called the New Yorker

Wow! I remember the Amsterdam bar in Huddersfield- that place was legend! Yes, there was a drag act used to come out and dance on the bar at the end of the night- and sing 'I am what I am.' The place was packed and, yes, full of straight blokes (I pulled once but certainly didn't do anything naughty, at least the first night!)- that was in the late 70s. Didn't go in the Dallas bar, but remember it being talked of.
Thanks for the memories guys- they were good days- and I don't remember any homophobia- when did we become so intolerant?

Hi, feederfil,
I am Joe the guy who used to own the place, it is nice to hear I was able to help with your social. life
I have lived in Valencia for the last 12 years. Jimmy was always a little
dramatic, I think we did very well for trouble, considering how many people we used to get in, the first 2 years.
Best wishes

I am Joe, the guy who opened the Dallas Bar and ran it from 1980-83, firstly thanks to Tara for her compliments. To put the record straight(that sounds like a joke as it was a disco pub). At the court case over the licence in 1983, Whitbreads hired a private detective to watch the bar when it closed. His evidence was that all our customers had gone home peacefully. Then the buses arrived from the centre of town and all the urinating, fornicating troublemakers got off, which the local residents blamed us for. Well
I have lived on the outskirts of Valencia, amongst the orange groves and mountains for the last 12 years.
best wishes to all.
Joe Pratt

the Amsterdam Bar, Huddersfield. Philip and Kees came to a sticky end, VAT got them for all their undeclared door money and they fled to Spain. They have ended up in a rented flat in Amsterdam and have a very ordinary apartment in Benidorm. Philip had a stroke some 10 years back, which still affects him. Gabby was attacked in Benidorm, some 6 years ago and died of his injuries some months later. Philip spent some of his money on taking male members of the group Liquid Gold on holiday, some on rent boys and he squandered the rest.

my dad loved the dallas bar ,harry hes called,i now live up the rd on standon rd ,the land that the dallas bar once stood on is now a gypsey camp,dont think people around here are too pleased !! x

I remember the Dallas Bar well in the 80's. I was only about 17 ish but used to go in Friday and Saturday nights. I remember the last song was always 'Gerry and the Pacemakers, You'll Never Walk Alone'. I also remember the song 'Kraftwerk, The Model' being played all the time. Mentioning these songs as every time I hear these songs I'm instantly taken back to the 80's in the Dallas Bar. I can still see the disco at the back corner and how everyone was sandwiched in.

Wow good days, damn getting old.

come on own up, anyone else who use to frequent this club in the 80s.
its been called some names but it was good.
the music was spectacular.
heart of glass-elle warren, ovalteenies etc.
anyone else.

WHAAAAAAA... REYT KNOCKING SHOP :love:NEVER KNOWN TO FAIL:hihi:

Bestsheff
We are all getting old I will be 62 on Friday, pleased you have happy memories.
the people who took over in 1983, said they would not have the place without
my copy of " Disco Tango"

Bestsheff
We are all getting old I will be 62 on Friday, pleased you have happy memories.
the people who took over in 1983, said they would not have the place without
my copy of " Disco Tango"

AM 50 NEXT :huh:WERE DID IT ALL GO? :roll:

Dallas bar then to Railway pub then back to Dallas bar Happy days Brilliant Bar Rio in town not as good tho always trouble

The court case over the licence at Sheffield Crown Court practically became a pantomime. One of the neighbours who brought the case was called Rodgers, he said that some one came into the bar carrying a machete. One of the bar staff told me that this boy lodged at his house, when the judge asked him if this was true he said: " Oh! yes I forgot about that." You can imagine the laughter this caused. Rodgers was in one night dancing to " New York, New York." So when the barrrister said to me what music do you play, I said: " Well for example New York, New York, which Mr. Rodgers was dancing to last week." More laughter. In the end the judge said: " A licensee cannot be
held responsible for what his customers do, when they have left the premises."
So I got the licence back, in fact because Whitbread's solicitor was so useless, they said
it should never have been taken away at the magistrates court, unless there was misconduct on the part of the licensee, and he never mentioned this. Anyway my very best to all the nice people I met and whose company I enjoyed in those years.

A few of my mates used to go onto the dallas bar from the shiregreen hotel on there motorbikes. sadly both pubs are long gone

I remember when I first moved to Jenkin Rd going down to the Dallas Bar with my mate Paul. We entered this room which was heaving but saw a nice clear space bang next to the bar to which we promptly placed ourselves.
We were stood congratulating ourselves, pint in hand, plenty of room when the music blared out and into our precious space entered this creation of a drag artist inches from our nose and looking at us with evident glee in his eyes - someone to "involve" in his act.
We were soon in the crowd squeezed, squashed but grateful to escape!
Happy Days!

That must have been after June 83, when I left and returned to our other pub, the New York Bar in Wakefield, also to quash any stories we were never associated with the Amsterdam Bar in Huddersfield. This I believe folded in 86, in fact Whitbreads begged us to take it rent-free to keep it going. Naturally we refused, all bars have their life spans.
We were able to continue in Wakefield until 1990, when we retired. You can't run music bars in your forties.

Does anybody know what happened to Christine and Julie Siddall, they were good friends of mine, they lived in Newman Drive, I believe Christine worked as a home help for the council.

Does anybody know what happened to Christine and Julie Siddall, they were good friends of mine, they lived in Newman Drive, I believe Christine worked as a home help for the council. christine still at winco not seen much of julie for ages

Well next time you see Christine tell her that this man still remembers her.

Hi Joe, its Eric I was a Doorman for you working with Trevor Hinemarsh , Steve and John back in the good old days, hope you had a good birthday yesterday, thats if you can remember me.

Hi, Eric
Thanks for the birthday wishes I can remember you, did'nt you kick somebody under the
chin one night? Those were good days, I wish there was a place like the Dallas Bar to go to around here.
Best wishes
Joe

I went in Dallas a few times in 1980/81, I don't remember it being gay (there again I was a bit naive/not very sensitive to such things) it seemed very red blooded to me, a right flirting/pulling joint - very hands on, I got a gentle slap or two for things the guy I went with had done, but they were gorgeous girls to get slapped by - he did have good taste.

Hi, Eric
It was another doorman called Dick, who did that. You were very tall with black hair and a moustache, right.

In response to Big Ken, the Dallas Bar was never gay, it was always people that had never been in that said that. I remember when we were renovating it, the postman walked in the front door and said to me: " This is going to be a gay bar." I said: " Don't be ridiculous there are not enough gay people in this part of Sheffield to fill this place. You should know that!" Well all the builders just fell about laughing.

Hi, Eric did you end up marrying Andreathe barmaid?

Through the clarity of alcohol the tall doorman with the moustache was Richard.

Hi Joe, I did not marry the barmaid, but since then I have been married five times, have got a son daughter and grandchildren, but been ill with spinal meningiteus, legionairs, and if thats not enough I have now got epilepsy, awaiting to go in hospital for a crainioptomy has you can see lifes been good to me, but there is always someone out there worse off than one's self , hope you are keeping well, still has good looking and you have not lost your sence of humour, I will private message you my email, phone number, take care, Regards Eric PS I WAS TALL DARK AND UGLY

Hi, Eric,
the brain has been on search and that doorman was called Kevin. Still trying to put a face to yourself, sorry you have suffered so.

Hi, Eric
Found you on Facebook, it's all clear now. do you know Janet Lawson has started a Facebook Dallas Bar site, I spent last night rummaging my photo tin and will upload them
this evening. Well I am off to move two pallets of stones, we are terracing at the back of the garden.
All the very best
Joe

I'd never have put the Dallas Bar down as a gay bar, I think some of the staff helped them out though.

Well it did not make them bad persons.( quote from the film: " No Way to Treat a Lady."
When Rod Steiger was playing a hairdresser and this woman said ge out you homo.LOL

Well it did not make them bad persons.( quote from the film: " No Way to Treat a Lady."
When Rod Steiger was playing a hairdresser and this woman said ge out you homo.LOL

I thought The Dallas Bar was brilliant, but I liked The New York Bar better. Fantastic nights spent there. Joe and Paul ran the bar brilliantly.

Thanks for the compliment Nigel, I remember you and your friend standing in front of the disco. Paul and I are still together and have lived on the outskirts of Valencia for the last
12 years. Best Wishes
Joe

If you now go on Facebook, Janet Lawson who used to work there with her husband Brian, has set up a site. I have uploaded some photographs, does anybody have more?
Best Wishes to all and thanks for the happy memories of Sheffield.
Joe Pratt

Thats just what I could do with,a good night out in the Dallas Bar.

If only could transport back in time to how I was then, young, free and single, ohh and had money in my pocket back then.

I can but dream, but in my minds eye I can still see a full picture of the Dallas Bar, which is amazing concidering the state I was in at the end of the evening.

Hi, I saw Marianne Faithfull some years back and she had a great song called: "File it under Fun from the Past." Well at least we had it.
Thanks for your nice words.
Joe Pratt

Does anybody know what happened to Christine and Julie Siddall, they were good friends of mine, they lived in Newman Drive, I believe Christine worked as a home help for the council.

Hi Joe

Yep - Julie and Christine are my sisters - they still live in Wincobank - very fond memories of the Dallas bar and the Dallasettes !!

I can still see them dancing on the stage to: "Depeche Mode I just can't get enough and Fun boy Three It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it." Please ask them to get in touch with me through Facebook.
Best wishes.
Joe Pratt.

Hi Joe

I will, Julie is here with me now and she's just on the phone to Christine reminiscing about the songs they used to dance to.

Apparently you all used to do the actions to 'Genghis Khan' and 'Just a gigolo'. They want to know if you remember Sandra!

Yes, I remember Sandra, Afro=Caribbean with glasses, what happened to Debbie, Julie's friend? Christine and Julie, you were unforgettable.
Very fond regards.
Joe

there was another bar down carlisle street , opp the corner pin , the bar staff used to be topless , but cant remeber what it was called

Yes, I remember Sandra, Afro=Caribbean with glasses, what happened to Debbie, Julie's friend? Christine and Julie, you were unforgettable.
Very fond regards.
Joe

Did Sandra go to hinde house school

I remember the Dallas Bar well in the 80's. I was only about 17 ish but used to go in Friday and Saturday nights. I remember the last song was always 'Gerry and the Pacemakers, You'll Never Walk Alone'. I also remember the song 'Kraftwerk, The Model' being played all the time. Mentioning these songs as every time I hear these songs I'm instantly taken back to the 80's in the Dallas Bar. I can still see the disco at the back corner and how everyone was sandwiched in.

Wow good days, damn getting old.

I heard that song on the radio the other day "Gloria" from Laura Brannigan, I also remember that Kelly Marie hit Beats Like drum,,bum bum,,bum bum,,

Those two girls used to stand on the step on the emergency exit in the back corner, they stood out from the rest with their tamborines. It was always chocker block,, every night, didnt matter which night, where some nights you had to queue to get in, "What Recession",, I used to always pair up with someone at the end to the song New York and Youll never walk alone,,,

Thanks for all the nice words John, hard to believe it was all 30 years ago, well at least
we had it. I think the two girls came from Rotherham and were called Karen and Kathy, then there were the Siddall sisters Christine and Julie, Debbie and the coloured girl Sandra
who danced on the stage. Do you know that Janet Lawson has started a Dallas Bar site
on Facebook.
Best Wishes.
Joe