[LU] NON LU: You know you're from Leeds when ...

[John Boocock]

number 62 is having a pint of Tets in the Fenton on the last day before 
they took the beer engines out

number 63 is buying the copy of LOP that didn't have a damop story in it

number 64 is using the bus to go to the Gardeners Arms on the last night 
of West Yorkshire Metropolitan Council running transport cos it was free

number 65 is being on the last tram on Stanningley Road

number 66 is queuing outside the Pavilion to see A Hard day's Night

number 67 is being outside YTV on Kirkstall road when Harold Wilson 
opened it

number 68 is running in a race at Printer's Sports

number 69 is going to the fireworks at Roundhay Park on mischief night 
with your aunty Lal

number 70 is going to Grandways on New York street because you were 
sophisticated and shopped at supermarkets instead of the corner shop

number 71 is watching your nan hang out of the upstairs window of the 
Mad House and shouting at you to get spuds from t'market for dinner

number 72 is drinking in the Mad House before it shut

number 73 is knowing that your kids were born at Jimmy's

number 74 is playing in the Jew's park on North Street when your dad 
opened the shop on Saturday's

number 75 is remembering the roof coming off your house in the big gales 
of 1960

number 76 is preferring the Evening News to the Evening Post

number 77 is spending an entire Friday night with a half of bitter you 
thought was a poodle in the King Charles after dropping your first tab 
of LSD

number 78 is going to Pudsey Feast and seeing Marshall Waddington's waltzers

number 79 is standing outside the City Varieties and wondering why these 
ladies had no clothes on

number 80 is seeing Dickie and Dottie at the Mainline

number 81 is getting a train from Leeds Central Station and making a 
flexi disk record on the concourse

number 82 is hamburgers at the American bar and Grill on Wellington Street

number 83 is the same as 82 but at the damn Yankee in St Michael's Lane

number 84 is going to Bistro 5 and thinking that Pizza Margerhita was 
good French food - especially with the beer they served.....

number 85 is working in Chapletown and going to the Prince Arthur on the 
day pubs started staying open all day

number 86 is tear arsing to the Angel at Morley after the flicks because 
they stayed open til 11

number 87 is Fit Free Exhuasts, The longest running spelling mistake in 
Armley

number 88 is Marshall and Snelgrove's toy department, the most 
unwelcoming place for children since Hamlyn

number 89 is sitting on a rocking horse in lewis's getting your first 
hair cut

number 90 is being outside the Civic Hall in the crowd when we LOST the 
FA cup.

number 91 is being there when Eric Cantona said "I don't know why but I 
love you" when we won the league

number 92 is the Calls early on a Saturday morning getting a Wally 
Arnold when we played away in London.

number 93 is fishing in Rodley canal for sticklebacks

number 94 is rowing across the Blue Lagoon at Jabez Wooly's brickworks 
on a lorry inner tube and finding out a week later that two little kids 
from your street drowned doing the same thing

number 95 is bonfire night, chumping and most of all building a den in 
the middle

number 96 is Whit Sunday, dressing up and knocking on the doors of 
neighbours who gave you money for spice.

number 97 is the old street in Abbey House museum and then rounders in 
the grounds of the Abbey on a primary school trip

number 98 is C101LUM the first front loading double decker (bus nimber 
101) on the number 11 route from Seacroft to Swinnow

number 99 is a pair of purple loon pants and a smelly afghan coat from 
BoodleAm

number 100 is going down the mine in the old Leeds City Museum on Park Row

and finally number 101 is waking up every morning and reminding yourself 
that Leeds is what made you and fuck the rest !