Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 17th April, 2022)

I don't get it.

Platt Vegas?, doesn't seem all that long ago from when Ashton centre was so disorderly at weekends that it was nicknamed Ash Vegas.

A long long time ago I can still remember
How the menu used to make me smile ,
And I knew that if I was klempt ,
There was tasty jackbit that would tempt ,
Maybe a Poole's pasty or a pie .

There was babbies yed and peys for dinner ,
Or a chip barm cake ( there was nothing finer )
The butties were like doorsteps ,
I couldn't do my kecks up .
I can't remember if I sobbed
When I saw a menu on the Isle of Dogs ,
There was nothing good to fill my gob ,
The day my appetite died .

O my my I miss Galloway's pies ,
Rode my bike from Shevy
Down to Peckham Rye ,
Where good ol' boys were eating
Eels in slime , singing
' Ere guvnor , give these a try ,
Blimey guv are you going to cry ? '

And they were singing ........

Really ??

I only live in Abram, just up the road from here but don't know what i's all about really. Hope someone from Platt Bridge can tell us some more. I've passed it on the way to Hindley and seen it mentioned on the Platt Bridge Facebook but not really sure of what it entails.

Is that what used to be the cinema in my youth?

It does appear out of character for the area, and the Mercedes car, and lad with the baseball cap that fits him like a glove speaks volumes.
But anything that helps the area and the people I would say go for it.
Business attracts other businesses then the area can start to tick.

Not been to Las Vegas but I was under the impression it's desert with palm trees! I've only been as far as NY and Vermont and Massachusetts, so I can't see the link. Unless it's a gamble when you order food! Perhaps it's served by an Elvis lookalike...

It was supposed to be a “VEGAN” cafe, but Mick was consulted about the spelling.

Poet, your version of American Pie , (or is it Platt Bridge Pie?). had me in stitches! Very cleverly written! There are plenty decent people in Platt Bridge and, as John G says, if anything can help the people there, go for it. Good luck to the organisers. Brendell, it WAS a cinema at one time, and was also a carpet shop at one point. We bought a carpet from there many years ago.

Maybe Vegas, is a old name for a bridge, if it is we could start calling Appley Bridge, Appley Vegas.

Straight across the road from McDonalds - which will be challenging for it's appeal I suspect.

I wouldn't go if it was free.

Veronica: I can see what you mean like, If you order a steak, (love me tender, love me sweet.)
If you sit on a table on your own, (Are you lonely tonight). Or if your in Platt Vegas, (I wish I was in Dixie land away, away in Dixie.

Good one John G, Dtease could be right as well.
Which brings me to ' in 'The Ghetto'. ..and his mama cries, Cos if there's one thing she don't need is another hungry mouth to feed in 'The Ghetto'!
( not saying Platt Bridge is a 'ghetto' just in case like! )

That was SO funny D'Tease! John G, you could serenade Veronica and I at our table in the cafe, .(.bring your guitar....)
"Are you lonesome tonight?
Is your bra strap to tight?
Are your corsets just drifting apart?
Have you got a big chest,
Making holes in your vest?
Does your spare tyre reach into the night?
Are your stockings all laddered?
Are you wearing them thin?
Do you hold up your knickers
With a big safety pin?
Are your false teeth all worn?
Do they drop when you yawn?
Well it's no wonder you're lonesome tonight! "

Not a truer word spoken Irene.. :o)!

Just put it on to give people a laugh, Dolly dear! Happy Easter, my friend and all of you on Wigan World. xx

That’s very good Irene, the way you’ve strung the phrases together, (I like it). It’s nice to see you have a laugh, things get a bit serious on here some times.

Irene, that was brilliant it beat the lot. It really made me laugh, loved it.xx

I can't take the credit for that, John G... it isn't my work. I read it on facebook and it just tickled me and I thought it would just be a bit of fun. As you say, things get a bit serious on here sometimes, and we all need a laugh now and again. My late brother Ronnie used to sing a similar song to the tune of "After the ball is over" to make me laugh when I was a child.

I have heard it before Irene, I think it was some comedian in a club somewhere, it's really funny.
Happy Easter one and all.

JOAN, Appley Bridge is known locally as the Little Apple as opposed to New York, the Big Apple.

Irene, I can remember hearing After the Ball was over too, but not all the words so looked it up:

After the ball was over, Bonnie took out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in the water, hung up her wig to dry;
Placed her false arm on the table, laid her false leg on the chair;
After the party was over, Bonnie was only half there!

Another parody verse is:

After the ball was over, Bonnie took out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in the basin, corked up a bottle of dye
Put her false leg in the corner, hung up her hair on the wall
And all that was left went to bye byes after the ball.

There's some clever wags out there.

It's the second one that my brother used to sing, Cyril. Funnily enough, I watched Catherine Cookson's "The Fifteen Streets" yesterday on the telly, and a lady in the Music Hall sang the correct version but I sung along with the parody!

Comedians could get away with anything back in the day... so funny. But would they dare these days with the Woke generation? Even on 'Talking Pictures' on the box there's always apologies for the different times.

So true, Veronica! We often watch the Talking Pictures channel and we are warned that "the following programme contains words and themes from a bygone age which some viewers may find offensive", and I sit all through the programme waiting to be shocked....I am invariably disappointed! But we have to either sit through totally unnecessary foul language on 90% of programmes after 9pm, or switch the telly off. Talk about "The Lunatics have taken over the Asylum!

Exactly Irene, there's far worse on the programmes in this day and age. I rarely watch anything on the box other than ytube which I can get on my tv. I love resorting to the old films. As for 'soaps' no thanks - so boring I could climb the walls..

I heard it became known as Platt Vegas when the bright lights of the American fast food chain of 'restaurants' - McDonald's opened.
Not 100% sure though.

Yes, when Mc Donald's opened, locals said it reminded them of Las Vegas, so Platt Wazz, was renamed Platt Vegas.