Amiens Street -- In quieter times.

Seeing as how most of my fellow students would cross Amiens Street to get to the IFSC, I thought they might like to see the photograph below of Amiens Street (in the early 80's) BEFORE the IFSC was built. Look at your man with his briefcase on the bicycle rack how cool was that?
Even the traffic waiting to turn up Talbot Street was light, I know it might sound a bit melancholy but they were in some ways better times than the present. Greed and over-development whilst waiting in the wings had yet to take hold...
I had some great times in Dublin back in the 80's and I wouldn't change them for the world, why don't some of you post me some of your best memories of your earlier years in Dublin? I would be very interested in reading some of them. By the way I do not know the origin of this picture, if you know who has the copyright for this image please let me know. I would prefer to have their permission to use it.

Traffic heading out of town was terrible!!!