Visited the Casino Cafe in the Grand arcade Wigan a couple of days ago.Its all a bit of a cringe really but one exhibit did interest me.The original Casino turntable decks were on show.The thing is after studying the photo of the decks in the book The In Crowd they appear to be different.Were The decks changed at some point and does anyone know what make they were or any other details

Before anyone says it yes i need to get out more and hopefuly Stoke on Saturday will Release my anorack

Is that both copies of Frank Wilson on the turntables?

Why they got handrails on them?

Why they got handrails on them?

Garrards/ BSR ... classic 70s kit .

Edited February 19, 200916 yr by Russ Smith

Oh god i knew someone would bring the subject of what records were on the decks.Well here goes one was a photo copy job of Frank Wilson and the other was a casino Classics copy of The Flirtations.But can anyone ID the decks

Oh god i knew someone would bring the subject of what records were on the decks.Well here goes one was a photo copy job of Frank Wilson and the other was a casino Classics copy of The Flirtations.But can anyone ID the decks

Garrard SP 25 .. probably. not easy to see from that pic though.. they may be the later, cheaper BSR ones though..

Edited February 19, 200916 yr by Russ Smith

Garrards/ BSR ... classic 70s kit .

What they are for people over 70 to use so they have handrails for support

What they are for people over 70 to use so they have handrails for support

The handrails are actually for carrying the decks while putting them back into the purple carrycase. the decks are BSR although they did use Garrards as well. Chisser actually still uses a citronic twin deck at Soul at Joe's

GAZZA

Visited the Casino Cafe in the Grand arcade Wigan a couple of days ago.Its all a bit of a cringe really but one exhibit did interest me.The original Casino turntable decks were on show.The thing is after studying the photo of the decks in the book The In Crowd they appear to be different.Were The decks changed at some point and does anyone know what make they were or any other details

Before anyone says it yes i need to get out more and hopefuly Stoke on Saturday will Release my anorack

Didn't they change from SK&F to Evans?

Didn't they change from SK&F to Evans?

Now there' s an idea for a very interesting thread

Visited the Casino Cafe in the Grand arcade Wigan a couple of days ago.Its all a bit of a cringe really but one exhibit did interest me.The original Casino turntable decks were on show.The thing is after studying the photo of the decks in the book The In Crowd they appear to be different.Were The decks changed at some point and does anyone know what make they were or any other details

Before anyone says it yes i need to get out more and hopefuly Stoke on Saturday will Release my anorack

Did Russ lift them from Wigan Rugby Club? ........................I'm sure Later on the Casino had three decks or did i have some bad "help"

Steve J

SM330 Hawaii

SM330 Hawaii

THE DEX USED AT WIGAN CAME FROM SK&F WELYN GARDEN CITY, OR ONE OF MANY OUTLETS THAT STOCKED THEM, ONLY AVAILABLE AFTER CLOSEING TIME AND WITH THE HELP OF A CROW BAR AND A GOOD MATE TO KEEP LOOK OUT FOR UNSOULFUL TYPES DAVE KIL

Dawson and Haydn are correct in ID'ing a Citronic Hawaii with BSR decks. I used one with Garrard SP25 decks and Stanton 500 carts.

Late seventies decks that were the Mobile standard till Technics took over.

Did Russ lift them from Wigan Rugby Club? ........................I'm sure Later on the Casino had three decks or did i have some bad "help"

Steve J

Definitely saw a picture of the three deck system which I thought was the original set up. Quote underneath from Russ said this was a picture of him and a local guy called Ian Fishwick who helped in the early days

Mark C

Definitely saw a picture of the three deck system which I thought was the original set up. Quote underneath from Russ said this was a picture of him and a local guy called Ian Fishwick who helped in the early days

Mark C

Ian Fishwick was from Aspull nr Wigan i worked for his Dad for two years in 77/78 J W Fishwick builders.

Ian played in a band i think it was called Copper Kettle at the time, He also helped Russ at Wigan Rugby Club soul night in the ealy 70's, The decks in the photo look like the ones the rugby club had, I'm not saying there the one's they just look like them

Steve J

Edited February 23, 200916 yr by SteveJohnston

Ian Fishwick was from Aspull nr Wigan i worked for his Dad for two years in 77/78 J W Fishwick builders.

Ian played in a band i think it was called Copper Kettle at the time, He also helped Russ at Wigan Rugby Club soul night in the ealy 70's, The decks in the photo look like the ones the rugby club had, I'm not saying there the one's they just look like them

Steve J

HI STEVE

THE DECKS USED AT THE CASINO WERE CITRONIC HAWAII AND WERE SUPPLIED BY A COMPANY CALLED MITREX THEY SUPPLIED THE COMPLETE SYSTEM ie DECKS,AMPS AND SPEAKERS THE DECKS PRIOR TO THAT WERE SUPPLIED BY SOUND AMPLIFICATION INSTALLATIONS SAI FOR SHORT AND WERE SAI 4S DECKS AS WERE THE ONES USED IN MR Ms BUT TOWARDS THE END OF THE CASINO THE ONES USED IN MR Ms BELONGED TO STEVE WHITTLE . THE ONES IN THE CASINO CAFE DONT LOOK LIKE THE ONES IN THE PICTURES I HAVE

HOPE THIS HELPS

MR Ms dj

THE DEX USED AT WIGAN CAME FROM SK&F WELYN GARDEN CITY, OR ONE OF MANY OUTLETS THAT STOCKED THEM, ONLY AVAILABLE AFTER CLOSEING TIME AND WITH THE HELP OF A CROW BAR AND A GOOD MATE TO KEEP LOOK OUT FOR UNSOULFUL TYPES DAVE KIL

and fat people or even beter- thin people that pretended to be fat , not to mention folks that was good at writing in latin like me!!!!

Visited the Casino Cafe in the Grand arcade Wigan a couple of days ago.Its all a bit of a cringe really but one exhibit did interest me.The original Casino turntable decks were on show.The thing is after studying the photo of the decks in the book The In Crowd they appear to be different.Were The decks changed at some point and does anyone know what make they were or any other details

Before anyone says it yes i need to get out more and hopefuly Stoke on Saturday will Release my anorack

BSR tables,citronic mixer not sure of the number but def citronic,maybe a very early version of the hawaii console,Later versions came in a large purple carry case hence the handles to pull out of case,In later years type of deck was the norm for many mobile dj's

BSR tables,citronic mixer not sure of the number but def citronic,maybe a very early version of the hawaii console,Later versions came in a large purple carry case hence the handles to pull out of case,In later years type of deck was the norm for many mobile dj's

I loved using Citronic Hawaii consoles .......

Malc Burton

Visited the Casino Cafe in the Grand arcade Wigan a couple of days ago.Its all a bit of a cringe really but one exhibit did interest me.The original Casino turntable decks were on show.The thing is after studying the photo of the decks in the book The In Crowd they appear to be different.Were The decks changed at some point and does anyone know what make they were or any other details

Before anyone says it yes i need to get out more and hopefuly Stoke on Saturday will Release my anorack

Best person to ask surely would be Russ Winstanley. He will know where the original decks ended up cos they were'nt destroyed in the fire. No thoughts about conning the insurance company in them day's. I would like to know where they are, wonder if they still work !!!! C'mon Russ give us a clue mate.

SM330 Hawaii

Not sm330 that was a later version of the citronic mixer,

The one on view is an older version

I Have uploaded a photo of the sm 330,but dont know where its gone to!!!!!!!!

Any doubts go to google images and type citronic sm330,its different than the one on show

And by the way yes Iam a sad old bast**d

lol---ktf

Grant

Not sm330 that was a later version of the citronic mixer,

The one on view is an older version

I Have uploaded a photo of the sm 330,but dont know where its gone to!!!!!!!!

Any doubts go to google images and type citronic sm330,its different than the one on show

And by the way yes Iam a sad old bast**d

lol---ktf

Grant

F**k me there it is

I had a pair of them decks in the picture sold em recently there not bad decks citronic they are belt drive.