Macaroon Bars and spearmint chewing gum

***BILLYHIBS*** · 16-09-2018 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by WoreTheGreen

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The programe hut at the top of old east Ricky ?

Ricky Reginas Programme Hut
Remember saying tae him ahve goat aw oh these programmes !
And him saying Aye, and so have ah ! Are ye going to buy anything?
Like the barman oot oh Still Game.

***Hibbyradge*** · 16-09-2018 09:27 PM

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I think it was something original like "Hibs Supporters Club" and I'm sure I had a membership card at one time.

50 club?

**Forza Fred** · 16-09-2018 09:48 PM

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I think it was something original like "Hibs Supporters Club" and I'm sure I had a membership card at one time.

I’ve still got my Hibs Supporters Association (club card’) from 1974 for the Sunnyside club.

There WAS a club in the old car park owned by Hibs that was there for a while, but before and after there was also the St Andrews Bowling Club...

***Greenfly*** · 16-09-2018 10:00 PM

Getting lifted over turnstiles as a bairn.

**Forza Fred** · 16-09-2018 10:58 PM

I remember a time when squads were fully assembled prior to the season starting.

***Hibbyradge*** · 16-09-2018 11:30 PM

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I remember a time when squads were fully assembled prior to the season starting.

Yet clubs could add to their personnel at any point during the season.

***The Harp*** · 16-09-2018 11:43 PM

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ps. What was the name of that club round the back of the East?

Joined when it first opened around the late 60's.
Pretty sure it was the Hibernian Social Club.

**hibbydog** · 16-09-2018 11:55 PM

Getting a pink paper after the game....they were brilliant

***GreenLake*** · 17-09-2018 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by bigwheel

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One for the older viewers..who remembers this? Beechnut chewing gum - quite brittle stuff if I correctly recall ?

Anyone other things from footballs bygone days which bring back fond memories ??

I like cocktail bars and Spearmint Rhinos

**heretoday** · 17-09-2018 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by hibbydog

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Getting a pink paper after the game....they were brilliant

Queuing outside the newsagents at six on a Saturday evening.
The same faces in the queue.
Pink and ten no6.

***BILLYHIBS*** · 17-09-2018 07:03 AM

Radio HIBS the wee hut in the North Enclosure DJ Bill Barclay

Everytime an opposition player went down injured the chant would go out from the shed “dig a hole and bury him” dug on the pitch “ Colin Colin Colin Stein” opposition fans fighting amongst themselves “ Hooli Hooli Hooligans!” Great days ! Building site hard hats painted green and white to protect you from flying bottles.

I can still picture Stewart Brown EEN peering out from the press box a big Hibby sadly dead now.

Many of his team lineups including those great players NEWMAN TRIALIST and AN OTHER !

White dog *****!

***BILLYHIBS*** · 17-09-2018 07:12 AM

Peter Cormack in goals

Willie Wilson oan the left wing wi a bandage roond his heid

**leith lynx** · 17-09-2018 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by The Harp

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Joined when it first opened around the late 60's.
Pretty sure it was the Hibernian Social Club.

The Hibernian development club?

**Shanksaidno** · 17-09-2018 11:06 AM

Standing in the corner swinging my chain
Along came a jambo, asked my name
Kicked him in the balls and kicked him in the head
Now that jambo is dead

Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na

We are the mentol hibees

(sang many a time in the old shed)

**Shanksaidno** · 17-09-2018 11:09 AM

In retrospect not entirely politically correct wording for a song I suppose ...

**~~Peevemor~~** · 17-09-2018 11:30 AM

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A bold attempt to force people to buy a programme by announcing half time scores as " Match A nil nil, Match B zero two, Match C one nil ".

The booing and whistling forced the announcer to read the teams names' fully .

...

I was at that match. It was when we had the old electronic scoreboard which, up until then, had always shown the half time scores with the team names written out in full. That day the scores came up A 1-0, B 0-0, etc. and the supporters started booing. Then 5 minutes later the announcer said "here are the half time scores A 1-0, B 0-0.... I've never heard fans going so mental outwith match time. 2 minutes later the scores sere announced in full.

**Tomsk** · 17-09-2018 12:13 PM

Does anyone remember climbing up the telegraph pole at the back of the Dunbar End to get in buckshee?

**~~Bangkok Hibby~~** · 17-09-2018 12:36 PM

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Does anyone remember climbing up the telegraph pole at the back of the Dunbar End to get in buckshee?

I remember shinning up a plank of wood and over the wall as a laddie. Was there a builders yard at the Dunbar end around 67-69?

**~~Chic Murray~~** · 17-09-2018 01:38 PM

They started a Sunday market in the old car park, and it must have been Salvador Dali that designed the poster.

I remember a cartoon of Bertie Auld, smoking a big cigar, getting out of a taxi wearing a massive cap. The words on the side of the taxi were "Bertie's Caps".

Perhaps I had too much Camenbert the night before, but I have no idea how that was supposed to drum up custom, and how anybody would think punning cap for cab would be in the slightest bit amusing.

**HappyAsHellas** · 17-09-2018 02:33 PM

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Does anyone remember climbing up the telegraph pole at the back of the Dunbar End to get in buckshee?

Feet on the wall and hands on the wire and you walked up the wall to get round the broken glass in the top. You had to jump down as you couldn't dreep because of the glass!

**Tomsk** · 17-09-2018 02:39 PM

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I remember shinning up a plank of wood and over the wall as a laddie. Was there a builders yard at the Dunbar end around 67-69?

I remember there was some work done on the social club at the back of the main terracing around about 1972-74, which resulted in various ladders, planks and whatever conveniently placed for the patrons.

***MM19*** · 17-09-2018 03:06 PM

Walking along Albion Road at a night game especially the European games and seeing the floodlights on. It's no the same now as when the big floodlights were there.

**~~Bangkok Hibby~~** · 17-09-2018 03:55 PM

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I remember there was some work done on the social club at the back of the main terracing around about 1972-74, which resulted in various ladders, planks and whatever conveniently placed for the patrons.

Maybe....just can't trust the memory these days

***lapsedhibee*** · 17-09-2018 04:10 PM

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Feet on the wall and hands on the wire and you walked up the wall to get round the broken glass in the top. You had to jump down as you couldn't dreep because of the glass!

Such a marvellous word. I don't think I've seen it written down before.

**WoreTheGreen** · 17-09-2018 04:16 PM

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Such a marvellous word. I don't think I've seen it written down before.

Dreeping usually scuffed your ‘clarks commandos ‘

***s.a.m*** · 17-09-2018 04:20 PM

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Such a marvellous word. I don't think I've seen it written down before.

It made an appearance in a Higher English Reading Comp paper in the 80's in an article by the columnist Miles Kington. He went to boarding school in Scotland, and the article was about words we have up here he liked that don't have English equivalents. He also liked our use of the word 'bucket' as a universal term for rubbish disposal containers ('Put it in the bucket'), with no need for tedious specifics like 'waste-paper bin'.

I don't know why I remember this, I'll be 51 net week.

**Greenbeard** · 17-09-2018 04:24 PM

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Dreeping usually scuffed your ‘clarks commandos ‘

Clarks Commandoes. Now there was a piece of ace marketing before marketing was invented.
(PS I've checked and there's nae apostrophe in Clarks. Then again if they are the commandoes of Clarks, maybe there should be one!)

Dreeping is now built into the sport they call "free running".

**West lower** · 17-09-2018 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Halmyre Hibee

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Those cameramen Dinnae half look dodgy. The matching jacket and hat is a beauty😀

**Is It On....** · 17-09-2018 07:55 PM

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It made an appearance in a Higher English Reading Comp paper in the 80's in an article by the columnist Miles Kington. He went to boarding school in Scotland, and the article was about words we have up here he liked that don't have English equivalents. He also liked our use of the word 'bucket' as a universal term for rubbish disposal containers ('Put it in the bucket'), with no need for tedious specifics like 'waste-paper bin'.

I don't know why I remember this, I'll be 51 net week.

Higher English..takes me back..remember someone walking past the exam room in "E" Block at Firhill with a "gettoblaster" just before the exam started..