RETRO DUNDEE

No idea if the Wellgate Library still looks the same these days, but this is how things were back in the 1980's. Top image is o...

Elsewhere on Retro Dundee I have mentioned the various musical escapades of 2 local musicians who often worked together - keyboard pl...

The Plaza up the Hilltown was not a picture house I went to very often, once or twice in the late 60's/early 70's and that was abou...

This page here is from a Tele dated May 1989 and is a feature about the history of Dundee's cinemas. It coincided with the 10th Anniv...

This ad for The Audio Visual Centre in Perth Road is dated 1973. They were a photographic specialist, although obviously, as their name impl...

I put a few items up in 2008 relating to the time when the BBC filmed the Alan Bennett play "An Englishman Abroad" in the e...

This ad for The Rocky Horror Picture Show was in Dundee's Street Life mag. The late showings took place at the Cannon in the Seagate in...

This instantly recognisable layout comes from the what's on section in the Courier. The one here dating from April 1970. The choice of...

Not so many cinemas in town by the time we reach the late 80's, but here's what films were on offer in October 1988, published in Du...

From the pages of Cranked Up comes this round-up of 1981's best movies, written by their critic, Fabian Bell. I remember going to quite...

The film causing all the commotion at the Gaumont was "Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs". These pictures were taken on the...

A little glimpse at what was showing at the Steps in April 1989. Not much in the way of family films, but looking through the list it re...

Call it the Victoria, Vicky, Vic or flea-pit, but as picture house's go, it was quite low down in the pecking order of cinema's to...

This ad for the Tivoli dates from the late 60's. It was a place I never went to, so don't know much about it other than the thing e...

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...

2 tickets - same band - same place - different dates. Starting with the 13th January 1977 gig... When the tickets went...

As if to confirm that glam-rock fizzled out in '74, Slade brought out this film in 1975 called "Slade In Flame", and was anoth...