The Oldies Thread



No Alla Violenza said:
“Can I just get off here mate?” driver would just open the door for you no matter where the bus was 😄
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No doors on these. We could jump on and off as they were moving - as long as they had slowed

There was a famous Dublin character called Bang Bang who had a large old key that he would pretend was a gun. He used to stand on the platform of the bus and frighten passers by with a loud 'bang!bang!' aiming his big old key at them.


Thomas Dudley (bang Bang) was an eccentric elderly gentleman who graced the Dublin streets in the 50s & 60s. Because of his love of cowboy films he could be regularly seen hanging from the back of double decker buses and trams staging mock shoot outs. He carried a large key in his pocket which he used as a gun “Bang Bang”! You would hear him shout as the bus whizzed by.

Dubliners would regularly take-part in this welcomed distraction of daily life to return the gesture of shouting back “Bang Bang” at him and pretending they also had a gun in their hand. "Bang Bang" died in 1981 his memory lives on in many older Dubliner's who fondly recall the many mock cowboy street fights they took part in.

"The following is the text of an Irish Independent item on ‘Bang Bang’ at the time of his death on 12th January 1981:

‘One of Dublin’s best known and most beloved characters Tommy ‘Bang Bang’ Dudley has died in a home for the blind. He was 75.

He was an institution in Dublin during his lifetime. He carried a huge jail key with him around the city, mockingly pointing it at strangers and shouting ‘Bang Bang’.
 
Bluerover said:
No doors on these. We could jump on and off as they were moving - as long as they had slowed

There was a famous Dublin character called Bang Bang who had a large old key that he would pretend was a gun. He used to stand on the platform of the bus and frighten passers by with a loud 'bang!bang!' aiming his big old key at them.


Thomas Dudley (bang Bang) was an eccentric elderly gentleman who graced the Dublin streets in the 50s & 60s. Because of his love of cowboy films he could be regularly seen hanging from the back of double decker buses and trams staging mock shoot outs. He carried a large key in his pocket which he used as a gun “Bang Bang”! You would hear him shout as the bus whizzed by.

Dubliners would regularly take-part in this welcomed distraction of daily life to return the gesture of shouting back “Bang Bang” at him and pretending they also had a gun in their hand. "Bang Bang" died in 1981 his memory lives on in many older Dubliner's who fondly recall the many mock cowboy street fights they took part in.

"The following is the text of an Irish Independent item on ‘Bang Bang’ at the time of his death on 12th January 1981:

‘One of Dublin’s best known and most beloved characters Tommy ‘Bang Bang’ Dudley has died in a home for the blind. He was 75.

He was an institution in Dublin during his lifetime. He carried a huge jail key with him around the city, mockingly pointing it at strangers and shouting ‘Bang Bang’.
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He would have loved Beep Beep who used to hang around the traffic lights in Dovecot shouting beep beep to all the traffic and getting beeped back,
Beep Beep Bang Bang imagine the chaos
 

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