Stomping at the disco….

Images via Pixabay EXCEPT the St. Comgall’s Primary School soccer team of 1966/67. Our two featured guests are together in the middle of the back row - Campbell Foster, smiling in his goalie shirt, to the left and a slightly more serious Archie Walls to the right.

“Sometimes I felt that I’d dreamt it all…”

…. confided my husband Campbell, while we were talking about this episode of Little Bangor Stories.

I knew what he meant.

Life can be so vivid at times, can’t it? Some experiences we think we will remember forever – especially when we’re young – but the years roll on and other moments take up bigger spaces in our memory.

Then you hear a word or a song that brings it all back.

Campbell has known Archie – the other voice in this episode – for 60 years. They and their contemporaries were in their mid-teens at the time we are remembering, shaking off their childhoods and becoming individuals …  young adults. It was a subject he and Archie thoroughly enjoying talking about – but for him, it still held that “Brigadoon” feeling.

And when you listen, you’ll probably agree, it was all a little bit strange.

In the course of their conversation, the pair also remember other places that younger people were drawn to in Bangor, so if “Cloud 9” and the “Rave Cave” evoke memories you have to listen!

It’s also a poignant story of how teenage years are swallowed up so quickly.

So please, imagine yourself in your best tie-dye and bell-bottoms, a corduroy Wrangler jacket over your shoulder or a maxi dress with shiny boots and let’s join the queue for the Coffin Disco….