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Friday, 29 May 2009

CACTUSVILLE - CASTLE STREET - 1982


Cute on the outside - kitsch on the inside!
It's Cactusville, in Castle Street.
It sure was shiny, what with all those mirrors and all that chrome - but on reflection, this, along with the bright green seating, was quite trendy back then.
You may remember the name Cactusville was the hometown of Desperate Dan in the Dandy.
Can't remember the pub selling cow pie at lunchtime mind you!!
All pics were taken in 1982.

Photos by DC Thompson.
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10 comments:

  1. Larster16 October 2009 at 13:28

    Absolutely loved this pub on a Saturday afternoon. Mental> I believe the first plce in Dundee to have a video jukebox as well.

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  2. RETRO DUNDEE17 October 2009 at 08:10

    Nah, Slickers in South Tay Street was the first pub in town to have a video jukebox.

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    1. Anonymous3 January 2014 at 13:05

      This seems to be a matter of debate as to who was first with the video jb anything in black and white to settle this lol

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  3. Steve Morrison20 November 2009 at 03:17

    HAHA I got banned from there for complaining cause the twat of a manageress switched off the jukebox after I put my money in and I dared complain that I never got to hear my music.

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    1. Anonymous10 May 2019 at 07:59

      Mary Wallace was her name . She wasnt all bad . She went on to be a bus driver in Dundee and had more hits on the citys roads than Take That . She had some crashes lol

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  4. Anonymous24 February 2011 at 16:39

    Hey, do you have any more images of the place?

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  5. RETRO DUNDEE25 February 2011 at 00:53

    There are 3 images of Cactusville up on Retro - just type it into the SEARCH box top left.

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  6. Anonymous10 May 2019 at 07:57

    Mary Wallace run this pub . Blonde behind the bar . She took no nonscence . She went on to be a bus driver and had more hits with them on roads of Dundee than Take That

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  7. James Fairley1 February 2020 at 22:33

    Loved it there went there when I worked in Dundee with davy Quinn when contracting loved the video jukebox great time there

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