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The Festival Bar 1950's and 1960's - The Honky Tonk Bar 1970's - Peggy Sue's - Zoom 1980's and 1990's195130-8-58
From Robert Palmer, - I worked there part-time as a barman around 1950, Bob Wells was the manager, when the Crystal bar opened he managed both bars over all and I became part-time manager of the ''Fes '' , during the day in summer it was full of holiday makers, at night sailors , we used to look in the paper which ships were due in, I went home some nights with a few bruises , when the Mecca ballroom opened I was offered the part-time bar manager job .
The Alan Kave Klan played at the Festival Bar from 1966 to 1970. There were just three of them! Alan Kave was fictitious.
23-12-7523-12-7522-12-7622-3-7723-3-7729-3-77December 197715-12-7822-12-79May 1980The Bar Staff, left to right, Jeanette, Jean, Derek, Maggie, Tony, Richard Podger(Manager), Lynn and SimonThe original starting trip in 1974Jim, Geoff, Mick, in 1974Mick, Geoff, Jim, in 1975Mick, Geoff, Jim, in 1975New men added, Chris Lowe, Mick Cooper, Geoff Davis, Jim Armstrong, Dave Knight in 1976Mick Cooper, Fred Illingworth, Nobby Glover, and Geoff Davis in 1977Geoff Davis, Mick Cooper, Nobby Glover, and Fred Illingworth, in 1977All change again Fred Illingworth, Mike 'Clump' King, Geoff Davis, Mick Cooper in 1979All change again Mike 'Clump' King, Fred Illingworth, Fred's daughter Karen, Geoff Davis, Mick Cooper in about 1979Mick, Fred, Geoff, in 1979Fred, Mick, Geoff and Clump with the 'Wall', in 1979Geoff gets a present from Father Christmas!The Christmas panto was SINderella!, Left to right Mick, Fred, Geoff, Ann, Richard, Mike and Gina,
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Live music and entertainment comes to an end and the disco takes overIn the early 1980's the Honky Tonk Bar became a 'disco' bar! with various names, Bliss, Lush, Peggy Sue's, Basement and Zoom.Karen Quinnell plus Elaine and Claire, barmaids at Peggy SuesRory at Peggy Sues in the early 1980's |