RETRO DUNDEE

Bet most of you remember this...queuing to see Star Wars. This photo was taken in February 1978 on the day it burst onto screen at the Odeo...

Another John Peel memory with a wee Dundee link I can recall, comes from the late 80's. Peely was involved in covering the Eurovision So...

Although these are as well known to Dundonians as the Discovery, Unicorn & Fifies, the Museum's dug-out canoes are hardly ever seen...

The technical term for a stone burial box such as this is a cist. The photo above was the one that was on display in the middle of one of t...

Back in the 60's when the Museum entrance was on the corner of Meadowside, opposite Commercial Street, they used to have a doorman in u...

This photo of Tannadice Street was taken in 1970. It has changed a wee bit since then. Gussie Park carnival would have been there, as well a...

George Kidd went to Clepington Primary School, and being a wee lad, he would often get picked on by bullies, which lead to him becoming a bi...

Before the Tay Road Bridge was built, Dundonians used the "Fifie" to cross the river. This ferry service was for passengers as we...

Here's a quirky item of Dundee music trivia from the 70's that may get a few locals scratching their head! In 1971 Dundee band, Th...

On this day, 26 years ago, U2 were playing in Dundee and it was a show I went to. In fact this was the 2nd time I had seen the band as I c...

This is the same top of the Wellgate Steps area in the previous photo only in it's brand new transformation into the Wellgate Centre, L...

Looking extremely run down at this stage in the mid 70's with all this area preparing to be knocked down. The boards going up on the sho...

And a wee reminder of the steps...

Better get yer hankies oot... This photo taken from the Wellgate steps in the early 70's shows the street empty because most of the sh...

  This spot in Cowgate is where the Gaumont used to be, prior to it becoming the Odeon in the mid 70's. Not much of a chang...

This Barber shop in Exchange Street in the 60's and early 70's used to be known by locals as "Quickies". A nickname, not ...

Around about 1970, Boots on the corner of Reform Street, became the first store in the city to install an escalator. The first weeken...

This was the view you got from the balcony inside the Galleon. Most folk made a grab for the seats nearest to the balcony railing because yo...

On the Angus Hotel reception desk they used to have a visitors book for guests to sign and an additional separate book for celebs aut...

This is taken from the Radio Times, dated 17th August 1966. A 40 minute documentary on BBC1 featuring an unusual Dundee double act... music...