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Didn't do much dancing here but do remember the roller skating

A clearer pic IHE but still a shop too dear for  most of us and more suited to our dads and grand dads

Scarlet - joshing CB is always allowed in my book as it should be on anyone on this forum as long as it doesn't get personal or derogatory.

And Dougie D - most unionists I know don't take it seriously

Maybe we can keep the politics out of this  - this is NOT a political forum and I don't think it should be.

So which one is you IHE or did you take the pic?

Remember the Teds with the drape jackets and all the rest although I have to admit I never ever took to the look. Probably because I was always a little bit "  vertically challenged" as they say albeit not quite a wee bauchle and my hair would never go into a DA at all.

Shand and Lindsay - you must be joking.  Too old fashioned, and too dear, Suits at Hepworths and clobber at Johnstons in the Market or Duncan Chisholms were the places to go for me

Scarlet - remember the Chrysler Sunbeam Talbot - made at Linwood's troubled plant just not far from where we reside, . Now long gone of course.

Yes - I remember Clancy of the Mounted. Was it Mounted or Mounties?

Do you remember Nyoka the Jungle Girl - a sort of female Tarzan if memory serves me

Some good memories of the ballerina and the 2 red shoes.   Albert Bonini got some great bands to come north.

I even remember going to a dance in Craigellachie - must have been mad at the time but don't remember ever getting to the scene at the Fleming Hall in Aberlour

Many apologies guys - of course there was no std back then and you just asked the operator to connect you. I should have rememembered that especially as my dad worked as a telephone operator on returning home from the war. I can only think that maybe had to many of the Capn Morgan which dulled the remnants of my brain. That's my excuse anyway and I'm sticking to it.

Love the fact that the Empire's phone number was Inverness 999 - I can't remember what you dialled in those days for the emergency services. Anyone else remember?

The dear old La Scala if I'm not mistaken. Many happy memories especially the Saturday morning matinee and especially good if there was 3 stooges and Flash Gordon serial.

Oooh the suspense every week as it came to end with another cliff hanger.

Scarlet - I can definitely sympathise as I also get these memory lapses usually at the most inconvenient time. But I can still remember the Dick Emery character of the "busty, flirty blonde" who would be interviewed by a male reporter on some issue, during which he would make some remark resulting in that inevitable innuendo and so the blonde would playfully punch him whilst uttering the remark - Ooh you are awful etc. Does that not ring any bells with you?

IHE - the safety curtain with local adverts - is that not the Empire of late 1950s early 60s rather than the La Scala? The "E" at the top gives it away.

Maybe sadly - I remember all the adverts.

much appreciated - but do you mean Dick Emery of the "You are awful....." fame

Scarlet - hate to admit that I didn't consider myself smouldering hot nor indeed a cold fish - probably somewhere in between.

But I do remember going to a dance at the Dores village hall and discovered that on entry the bouncers did a search for drink before you went in so like all the other drouthy young men we planked our half bottle carry out round the corner of the hall and would go out every so often for a quick one - drink that is

A village hall somewhere but I went to the dancing at many village halls in my youth - so IHE which one is this?

Where's his 10000 men then?

Yes Charles - the 8 track was bulkier - about the size of a small paperback if I remember right

the shot of La Scala from just about outside where the sweetie kiosk was if I remember and the balcony at the matinee when I started going on Saturday mornings was 4 d to get in but worth the extra penny if you wanted to (or were perverse enough) to chuck stuff over the edge and onto the kids in the stalls below who had only paid 3d.

Charles - I remember the audio cassette either blank for recording yourself - or copying from someone else - and pre-recorded; and the 8 track which for a while were popular in incar audio but then died a death. Is that the 2 types you mean?

Charles - probably trying to impress as you say with the balcony, a box of sweeties and a choc ice, but when the lights went down...........

happy memories of the La Scala particularly the Matinee in my youth and the back row of the balcony when I was older

IBM - yes I remember the Playhouse like this with the Soldiers, Sailors Home above the STB offices and there were no steps up, only steps after the ticket office inside before you got to the Stalls and the stairs up to the Balcony. The Palace had steps up on the outside though.

Charles - I can remember the wrestling at the Empire and of course the great rivalry between Jackie Pallo and Mick McManus

but I remember the Calum Kennedy song a wee bit different

I can sing like Calum Kennedy

I can sing like Calum Kennedy

I can sing like Calum Kennedy

Who the Hell is Calum Kennedy

And there is no f.....g remedy

Anybody else remember it that way?

Sadly another one of Inverness' old cinemas no longer with us but used to enjoy the Palace and saw my first X rated movie there at age 16. Why was it that the Palace was the one for showing the X rated films I wonder?

IHE - when was this? I presume in days of horse and buggy? also love the trip for an Airing in the Country - was the air in Inverness so bad at that time?

I was thinking the other day about going to see the Caley in my youth - from early 50s -and some names came back to me like Juppy  or was it Joopy Mitchell presumably because he could jupe round an opponent and also players like Ginger Mackenzie, Porridge MacIntosh, Stootie Fraser and I'm sure others. So I thought how did these nicknames come about - OK Ginger is pretty obvious but Porridge?? So anybody out there who can explain how and why these nicknames came to be and there must be other Caley teams of old with famous or maybe infamous nicknames. Can any of you auld yins or young uns remember any?