Sharron McQuaid shared the above picture of Park Street in decades gone by recently over on Facebook.
There was an interesting reply by Ciaran McNulty though, who used an image from Google Maps (see below) to compare how the street has changed over the years.
He said: “Pretty much every building has changed but I think the building nearest the left is Paddy Power and the shop/bar front with the people and the barrels outside is the leathergoods place (Cassidy’s video shop).”
The Google mapping car is reported to be in Dundalk today.
They must be going to update the street view of Dundalk on Google Maps. The last mapping took place over four years ago in May 2009 and a trip down popular streets such as Park Street is like a trip back through time with stores on view such as Mr James, D’Arcy Flowers and Oscars Pub which have all since either closed up or changed hands.
There’s alos a view of Ridley’s before it was renovated and the old Tara Bar before it was converted to Eden/The Garden.
Talk of the Town 