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1/5 Remember that bar under Tribeca called 'Bed' which was just a load of beds full of crumbs? Remember the dentist's chairs in Isobar? Remember the Ginnel Antique Centre on Lloyd St which has George Best's powder blue suede bedroom suite for sale? Remember the Italian ice cream
2/5 parlour on Pall Mall? Remember the goats cheese pizzas in Grinch? The Metz Canal St barge, and Sarasota, the restaurant above Manto with a retractable roof? Remember the designer homewares in Lloyd David where RB&G is now? Remember the city's first pop-up bar, Canteena, in
3/5 Castlefield? And the shortlived Quay Bar which won a RIBA award for Roger Stephenson? Rember the designer shops like Hervia and Gorgeous Couture upstairs at the Royal Exchange, and the antique centre downstairs? Remember the Corn Exchange, all record stalls and patchouli oil?
4/5 Remember Hort's and Ronnie's where McDonald's is in St Anne's Square, with the big fake elephant tusks? Remember getting posh tuna sandwiches from Feed The Five Thousand? Working out at The Sporting Club? Shopping at Richard Creme, Aspecto, Zico, Hurley's and Carl R Twigg?
5/5 Remember Flannel's original basement on Bank St site with all the polo shirts? Hanging on for City Life every fortnight, and reading Moving Manchester? Remember the shark on the fish counter in Selfridges? It had a butchers too. Ahhh me and Manchester, growing old together.
6/6 I missed so many; check the superb suggestions by others in reply to my thread. Personally though I feel I must add the Underground Market for U2 American imports and second hand 501s, and the barber in Affleck's Arcade who did my flaptop with a comb with a spirit level in.
7/7 Permit me a 7th, and then I'll let others take up the baton. I omitted Mash and Air and Love Saves the Day as they seemed too obvious and everyone knew them. But they were SO important and influential to my existence in Manchester at that time I have to add them in after all!
8/8 Though I'm allowed a seperate tweet for suburban places right? The iconic Tandoori Kitchen in Rusholme with its sweet Persian yellow naans. In Didsbury remember the little bagel shop on Barlow Moor Road? Bogda's amazing R&M deli (that cherry clafoutis!) and the Nose wine bar.
9/9 A final one, I promise. I wanted to spread the love but probably under-represented how important ('seminal'?!) Canal St was. We spent a masses of time in Prague Five and Via Fossa, and Velvet too with its QVC shopping in the toilets and fish tanks in the stairs. What times!
