Posted by Barry on 7/7/2008, 12:21 pm, in reply to "Re: The Ranch sweet shop"
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Hi again Bill, actually, things were very similar in the fifties - there was usually a double bill with the lesser of the two films NOT a cowboy. The programme changed three times a week, and Sundays were reserved for X certificate films, usually horror movies. Pie Clark was still 'chucker out'.
Also I checked something out. Carl Wheel definately ran the sweet shop next to the Ranch for a time in the fifties. He was of german origin.
It all brings back memories.
Cheers!
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: Dear Barry,
: I expect that by your
: time (the mid fifties) things had
: changed, but during the forties
: there was usually a double bill at
: the "Grand", the little
: picture more often than not being a
: "cowboy" (we didn't ever
: call them "Westerns") with
: either Roy Rogers or Gene Autry or
: The Three Mesquiteers or some such.
: And "Pie" Clark it was
: who took tickets and kept, or tried
: to keep, order. Happy days.
:
: Bill
:
: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill. I know what you mean about
: memory lol.
: I remember the Ranch though very
: well, and used to go there twice a
: week in the mid-fifties and early
: sixties regardless of what films
: they were showing. I recall going
: one night with a friend of mine (who
: shall remain nameless) who had just
: bought a grass snake at Herdmans pet
: shop in Bishop Auckland. He was
: afraid, after buying it, to take it
: home at first in case his mother saw
: it, so he took it with him to the
: Ranch in his pocket. Of course the
: thing wriggled out and escaped
: causing pandamonium downstairs. Not
: many saw the end of the film that
: night!
: Happy days.
: Cheers.
: --Previous Message--
: Dear Barry,
: Thanks for the message -
: I was beginning to think that
: everyone in West had really carked
: it (as they say these days).
: During the war,not only was there
: standing room only in the Ranch
: itself, but also in the little shop
: next door where we used to spend our
: halfpennies. You may be right
: about the name "Wheels",
: but I don't myself remember it.
: But then, at my age, I hardly
: remember anything. As you age,
: three things happen. The first is
: that memory starts to go. And I've
: forgotten what the other two are.
:
: Cheers,
:
: Bill
:
: --Previous Message--
: With regard to the sweet shop next
: to
: the Ranch picture house, I remember
: going in there everytime I went to
: the cimema back in the nineteen
: fifties. As to the owner at that
: time, the name Carl Weel (or Wheel)
: rings a bell. Does that ring bells
: with anyone else?
:
: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill,
:
: Yes, Dawson rang bells
:
: Lyn
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: --Previous Message--
:
: Dear Lyn,
: Thanks Lyn - yes, the
: name "Dawson" does sound
: familiar. Do you have any friends
: with whom it rings bells ?
: Cheers,
:
: Bill
: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill
:
: Could the name of the sweet shop
: owners be Dawson do you think
:
: Lyn
:
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: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill,
:
: I was told that Wheels (could be
: Weighells)had the sweet shop during
: the war then moved to a fish shop I
: think on the end of Post Office
: Square.
:
: Apparently as sweets were rationed
: during the war it was a stick of
: liquorice (the woody variety) and an
: Oxo cube - a halfpenny each - to
: munch on while enjoying the film!!
:
: Lyn
:
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: --Previous Message--
: Hi Bill,
:
: Could it have been Wheels.
:
:
: Lyn
: --Previous Message--
: Dear All, I know you're out there -
: can't ANYONE tell me the name of the
: little sweet shop which used to
: stand just outside the Ranch, and
: which sold such fine things as
: Bassett's sherbet licorice (a
: halfpenny a triangular bag), and
: (for the very rich) bars of Aero
: milk chocolate ?
:
: Dear Lyn, It could have been
: "Wheels", but I don't
: recall the (usually crowded) shop
: having that name. On the other
: hand there was a fish shop called
: "Wheels" (perhaps spelled
: "Weighells")just on the
: opposite side of the road from
: P.Rea's ice-cream shop - delicious
: ice-cream, at a halfpenny for half a
: cupful. Oh, happy daus. Were you
: thinking of that ? In any case,
: many thanks for the reply. Bill
:
:
: Dear Lyn,
: I should also have said that the
: Wheels
: fish shop (fish and a pennorth,
: please) was there all through (and
: before) the War, as was the old
: sweet shop. And there were
: another two fish shops in what I
: later learned was called Post Office
: Square.: Cheers again, Bill
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