Sarsaparilla bars - any one remember them?

[Dave Br]

Jack had white hair when I was a kid and that was over 30 years ago so he must be knocking on. Glad he is still about.

[canaryback]

Actually I think there were two on Abbeydale Road, one by the cinema which we used to call "Pops" as I think it was owned by two brothers called Poppleton in the late 40s/early 50s. There was another smaller one that sold a few other things beside drinks opposite Abbeydale school near Walker's chip shop. That one was a bit drab and we called it "Dirty Doris's".

[cookingfat50]

i remember the one on abbydale rd which we would go to after swiming at healey batha and there was one on gleadledd rd near to where the old cinema was you can still buy sasapilla in some shops like farm shops or chatsworth shop but havingg tried them they dont taste anything like the ones that were poured from a barrel or maybe its just me yearning for the old days i think it was 3 old pennys a glass

[Mr Pops]

I remember the saspirella bar on Abbeydale Road. I remember as a youngster a day out in the school holidays would be to go to Heeley Swimming Baths and then climb up the hill to Abbeydale to road to go to a chemists shop that had what we called a Children's Bar. We used to buy half a pint of saspirella and thought we were oh so grown up! What innocent days. I had no idea until I read these posts that they existed in other parts of Sheffield.

 

Yeh Me too....

[orielanne]

the one we used to go to was on Chesterfield road,,at Woodseats, we used to go to Woodseats cinema on Saturday morning and then to get a drink there. They served a drink called a Green Godess, but my cousin always referred to it as a Green Gozzer weren't we all so innocent then? .still, we were luckier than kids today

[Hopman]

I was in Rotherham last month and there's a temperance bar which sells Sarsparilla not that far from the main church.

[tinytingle]

Hi Dave Br - you are absolutely right, Jack Lee was the nicest person you could hope to meet. We all felt big when, aged 13 or 14, we propped up the bar drinking pints of sarsparilla! You could also buy his "spesh" - or special sarsparilla, which had some "blood tonic" in it. I don't know what was in the tonic but it added a slightly burnt flavour, and as far as I know my blood is still in good condition..

 

I'd love to know what became of Jack. I like to think he and his wife are still around somewhere, I guess well into their 80s by now, and enjoying life as they well deserve.

Is this the same bar i used in the late 50s early 60s known as Harveys sasparilla bar . I think it was not far from Patnicks ex army surplus store on the other side of Langsett rd.At that time he ran a football team called Harveys wanderers.we played in the Sports and Athletic league, great man great team .

[hillsbro]

Hi tinytingle - the location you give is right for Jack's at 356 Langsett Road (near the corner of Bamforth Street, almost opposite Patnicks which was on the corner of Channing Street). The sign was always in the name 'Jack's' - click here - and it was run by Jack Lee, who took over from George Brooks in the late 1940s, but the business might have been known locally as Harvey's.

[grannypat]

There used to be one on Ecclesall Rd opposite the old Star Picture Palace,and we used to go in after dropping of the tram after footballing in Endcliffe Park and sit like men of the world drinking Sarsaparilla from the same type of pint pots our Fathers drank from in the Pub,and we felt real men of the world!!,as you say PopT Happy Days.

 

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Like you, and many others on this thread, I too remember the one on Ecclesall Road. We used to live just off the bottom of Clarence Street and so The Star picture house was a regular haunt. Then across to Hartley's and on to the Ward's chip shop. We always found it amazing that we would all start eating the chips at the same time and all finish at exactly the same time. We swore that he must have been able to count how many chips he was putting into each portion. Lol. Happy days.

 

Grannypat

Edited August 21, 2013 by grannypat
Wrong spelling.

[tinytingle]

Hi tinytingle - the location you give is right for Jack's at 356 Langsett Road (near the corner of Bamforth Street, almost opposite Patnicks which was on the corner of Channing Street). The sign was always in the name 'Jack's' - click here - and it was run by Jack Lee, who took over from George Brooks in the late 1940s, but the business might have been known locally as Harvey's.

Thanks Hillsbro you are probably right , but i am sure the owner at that time was called Harvey hence the name of the team, he used to run us to the matches in his old dormobile and supply orange slices and bubble gum at half time.he would do anything for the kids great man.(thats the way to do it)