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has finally shut downI enjoyed gettingv stuff from boodle am-it kind of marked my transition from a mod to a hippy.got my first pair of loons and boat necked t shirt therebefore then it was on a saturday moring a visit to ray Allan, or if flush cecil G(now a mobile phone shop), then to vallances to by a record. then harringtons at the side of The Odeon for cheap tab collar shirts.topped off by an hour in the kardomah tea room(now the Halifax I think)and back on the bus to fev in time for Thank your lucky stars.Boodle am was ipoirtant-it broadened peoples horizons regarding the way they dressed.

[quotenick="fevlad"]has finally shut downI enjoyed gettingv stuff from boodle am-it kind of marked my transition from a mod to a hippy.got my first pair of loons and boat necked t shirt therebefore then it was on a saturday moring a visit to ray Allan, or if flush cecil G(now a mobile phone shop), then to vallances to by a record. then harringtons at the side of The Odeon for cheap tab collar shirts.topped off by an hour in the kardomah tea room(now the Halifax I think)and back on the bus to fev in time for Thank your lucky stars.Boodle am was ipoirtant-it broadened peoples horizons regarding the way they dressed. [/quotei used to get all my kickers from there this is the end of (another) era!

[quotenick="Brandy"] fevlad wrote: has finally shut downI enjoyed gettingv stuff from boodle am-it kind of marked my transition from a mod to a hippy.got my first pair of loons and boat necked t shirt therebefore then it was on a saturday moring a visit to ray Allan, or if flush cecil G(now a mobile phone shop), then to vallances to by a record. then harringtons at the side of The Odeon for cheap tab collar shirts.topped off by an hour in the kardomah tea room(now the Halifax I think)and back on the bus to fev in time for Thank your lucky stars.Boodle am was ipoirtant-it broadened peoples horizons regarding the way they dressed. [/quotei used to get all my kickers from there this is the end of (another) era! Well yes it is ,but its the proprietor thats taken the decision to retire,so its not like theyve been forced out by some desingner boutique.

[quotenick="Brandy"] fevlad wrote: has finally shut downI enjoyed gettingv stuff from boodle am-it kind of marked my transition from a mod to a hippy.got my first pair of loons and boat necked t shirt therebefore then it was on a saturday moring a visit to ray Allan, or if flush cecil G(now a mobile phone shop), then to vallances to by a record. then harringtons at the side of The Odeon for cheap tab collar shirts.topped off by an hour in the kardomah tea room(now the Halifax I think)and back on the bus to fev in time for Thank your lucky stars.Boodle am was ipoirtant-it broadened peoples horizons regarding the way they dressed. [/quotei used to get all my kickers from there this is the end of (another) era! ah! 'kickers',i read it wrong 1st time.

did the original boodle am ( early 70's ) be upstairs in one of the arcades? - i remember a shop up there that sold 'easy rider' bomber jackets, never could afford one

jeffn wrote: did the original boodle am ( early 70's ) be upstairs in one of the arcades? - i remember a shop up there that sold 'easy rider' bomber jackets, never could afford one I think there was one but it wasn't the originalthe original was near the merrion centre I think

I'm showing my age here, but can someone explain what it was? I'm guessing a clothes shop but I've not heard of it before.

Hi everyone,I think that the Boodle Am Boutique was originally in either King Edward Street or Queen Victoria Street. As you know I was in the Leeds City Police and around 1969/70 we received information from an informant that the place was going to be burgled. Along with a couple of colleagues we spent a couple of nights waiting inside the premises, upstairs, awaiting the burglars. I suspect that they were tipped off as they never turned up.Ian.

iansmithofotley wrote: Hi everyone,I think that the Boodle Am Boutique was originally in either King Edward Street or Queen Victoria Street. As you know I was in the Leeds City Police and around 1969/70 we received information from an informant that the place was going to be burgled. Along with a couple of colleagues we spent a couple of nights waiting inside the premises, upstairs, awaiting the burglars. I suspect that they were tipped off as they never turned up.Ian. they were probably hippies,so they got wasted on blunts and then forgot all about it.

LS1 wrote: I'm showing my age here, but can someone explain what it was? I'm guessing a clothes shop but I've not heard of it before. It was indeed a clothes shop - boutique in the 'Carnaby street' style - Loons a speciality. It also had lots of other hippy-type paraphernalia - cow-bells, joss-sticks,cigarette papers, copies of 'Oz' and 'Zig-zag' etcIf memory serves the original shop was on Queen Victoria Street - a few doors up from the original Virgin Records.