Your memories of Josephine's Nightclub.

[Grappler]

He sure was a nice and fair guy. I remember him well from the mid 80s and his smart velvet jacket (not sure if it were black, or purple??)

 

Purple I think (from memory) and I doubt it was "off the peg"!

[GLASGOWOODS]

Purple I think (from memory) and I doubt it was "off the peg"!

 

I think his ma must have made it him out of some stately home velvet curtains.

[Rsmith_]

Hi everyone, just to let you know & for all others interested, Dave Allen is hosting a Josephines Reunion party at Napoleons Casino on Ecclesall Roadon Thurs 29th January, all the info can be found on the Napoleons Facebook page.

[redted50]

Never keen on the place to be honest.Full of weekend millionaires.

I actually built the dance floor there,but nah,not my cup of tea.

[Lyn691]

young simon who worked with dave in dj box and also in his video shop has just been out to nerja(where i now live)he's actually going home on sat..bomber was a great lad,and actually bumped into him whilst working iin corfu . the food was always well nice,do you remember ted the italian who was rest. manager in the early days before joan(what acharacter he was!!),the toilet ladies husband who worked in the gents was called george and they lived on parson cross.

 

Young Simon as mentioned.....Simon James (Buxton)......does anyone have any photos at all of him or the time that he DJd in Josephine's? Please get in touch

[schoolrdgal]

My husband has just said that Dave Allan used sell racing pigeons the queen!

[stpetre]

My late wife and myself somehow got some tickets to the pre-night opening of Josephines ..and Georgy Flame and the Blue Flames were the star attraction...it was quite special ..great times!

 

From what I heard of the opening night in Nov. 76, was that Georgie Fame was 'plastered' before he came on and was messing the words up and almost falling over to such an extent that 'Josie's' stopped the show and to use a Working men's club expression, 'paid him up' !

 

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Wonder what italian ted is doing now

 

Italian Ted (Giordano) moved after 'Josie's' and' Napoleon's' to a wine bar that he may have co-owned, was on the corner of Furnival Gate and Eyre Street, name I forget. He did move to the New York area and lived in New Jersey. He had something to do with a restaurant called 'Gemelli' that was on the ground floor of the World Trade Center when it was destroyed in Sept. 2001, (I was at work 5 streets away from there that day.) As that restaurant was an afternoon/evening place no employees were among the fatalities unlike the 2,800 + poor souls who perished that day. Later, he actually had his own web site as a salesman -it was him, his photo is on it ! for Lexus cars and according to Ted, he was 'New Jersey's Lexus salesman of the year" ! (2013-14 ?). Coming from him it has to be right (right?).

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[JoNett]

I had such happy memories of Josephines. It was the place to go you would meet the same people generally. It felt like the heart of a night out. Really miss it when you go out now its just not the same. I use to go in every Friday and Saturday. On Wednesday nights we would go to the Karaoke. Mitch was the DJ and I always thought that he was funny but by that time I had generally had a few.

[Guest makapaka]

From what I heard of the opening night in Nov. 76, was that Georgie Fame was 'plastered' before he came on and was messing the words up and almost falling over to such an extent that 'Josie's' stopped the show and to use a Working men's club expression, 'paid him up' !

 

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Italian Ted (Giordano) moved after 'Josie's' and' Napoleon's' to a wine bar that he may have co-owned, was on the corner of Furnival Gate and Eyre Street, name I forget. He did move to the New York area and lived in New Jersey. He had something to do with a restaurant called 'Gemelli' that was on the ground floor of the World Trade Center when it was destroyed in Sept. 2001, (I was at work 5 streets away from there that day.) As that restaurant was an afternoon/evening place no employees were among the fatalities unlike the 2,800 + poor souls who perished that day. Later, he actually had his own web site as a salesman -it was him, his photo is on it ! for Lexus cars and according to Ted, he was 'New Jersey's Lexus salesman of the year" ! (2013-14 ?). Coming from him it has to be right (right?).

 

Was the wine bar "gossips".

[verona]

Use to have some great nights in there. Couldn't wait for the weekend to get suited and booted. I actually took one of the barmaids out who used to work in the cocktail bar, god I loved it, thought I was the bees knees because all the lads used to chat her up but I was the one taking her home.