Old Adverts #52 – Wimpy, Dorset St, Dublin with Phil Lynott, 1968

wimpy dorset st dublin 1 1968 phil lynott pat egan
From 1968, this is an advert from New Spotlight magazine for the Wimpy Restaurant (or Resturant even) at 50 Lr Dorset St, Dublin 1. This is just across the road from the Big Tree pub.  (See location here from Google Street view)

Phil was 18 and still with Skid Row when this was taken. I think that is DJ & columnist Pat Egan sitting beside him in the photo. (update 17/2: it is Pat Egan along with John Farrell – see comment below from Brian)

There was a Wimpy in Dundalk too. I can still smell the onions sizzling away on the heated slab.

More Phil Lynott scans:
Wedding with Caroline Crowther 1980
Fashion Freak Out 1971
Fashion Photo Shoot 1972

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This Post Has 16 Comments

  1. Brian Hand

    17 Feb 2012

    That is Pat Egan beside Phil and a guy named John Farrell who was the lead singer with a band called The Dreams who featured Eric Bell on guitar.

    1. dubdoug

      17 Feb 2012

      thanks for that Brian!

    2. Gabrielle

      30 Sep 2012

      John Farrell was formerly with the Dublin band ‘The Movement’ with Pat Quigley, Alan Thunder, & Paddy Mulvey. Pat Quigley lived just around the corner from the Wimpy, in Synnott Place where a lot of bands of the time rehearsed, including Skid Row with “Brush’ Sheilds & Phil Lynott , Pat Eagan who was ‘THE’ D.J. at the time lived jut a few streets away

      1. dubdoug

        30 Sep 2012

        Thanks for info Gabrielle.

  2. Mike Wright

    18 Feb 2012

    This Wimpy Bar, was owned by the O’Brien family who also owned the Number 5 Club in Harcourt Street in the mid 1960’s and also the Moulin Rouge in North Great Georges Street, Both of them two great Dublin Clubs. I think when Brendan O’Brien sold up the family emigrated to Canada.

    1. tony

      1 Jun 2015

      hi guys ,you mean of course sth grt georges street for the moulin rouge,the number 5 in harcourt street was the best club by a country mile,those were the days

      1. Joan Billings

        29 Feb 2016

        Those were the days. 17 I was. Makes me sad. Joan

  4. doojeen

    3 Mar 2012

    Amazing find – Phil would have been 18 going on 19, as he was born in 1949

    1. dubdoug

      5 Mar 2012

      Thanks Ed. I’ve updated post to say Phil was 18.

  5. Ray Kelleher

    22 Sep 2012

    as far as i know phil and the original skid row used to hang out in synnott place across the road from the wimpy. The Quigley family lived there. they used to rehearse in the house…

    1. dubdoug

      23 Sep 2012

      Interesting. Thanks for that Ray.

  6. Joe

    31 Oct 2013

    the guys in the photo with phil are joe staunton (guitar) and pat quigley (bass)

  7. marycigarettes

    21 Jul 2015

    a ‘whippsy’… i’m laughing my balls off at the idea of a young chap with broad dublin accent in a low drawl like geldof saying “sinead,can i have another whippsy when you get a moment”

  8. Anne Clark

    16 Jun 2016

    Loads and loads of memories of the Scene Beat club off North Frederick Street. Some great bands, including Movement, Granny’s Intentions, Vampires to name but a few. And of course Phil Lynott starting out.

  9. Bob Kelly

    28 Jan 2017

    The Wimpy bar on Dorset St was originally called the ‘Aloha’ Wimpy Bar, and was owned by the O’Brien family.. they also owned the ‘Number 5 Club’ on Harcourt St, and the ‘Moulin Rouge’ on South Great George’s St.

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