RAG FREAK- Cranbourne st

[Elvis]

Just walked past, Can't believe that after 42 years it's closing down due to owners retirement. Opened in 1969, just think of all the recessions and economic changes it has seen, a real icon of Brighton town centre, probably be replaced by a starbucks!!

A REAL SHAME!! but hats of to the owner for all his years of dedication!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Bizzarly I walked past this week and thought, amazing its still going. Got a good Dead Kennadys T-shirt from them when I was at school

 

[Mellotron]

Remember it seeming like an AMAZING place to go when we were all nippers.

 

[Bakero]

Shame. Used to buy my knee length Guns n Roses t-shirts there when i was a kid.

 

[PHCgull]

red and black stripey mohair jumper.... six-buckle winklepickers.... exploited t-shirts ... the list is endless.

you're right it will be a sad loss to b'ton town centre

 

[Max Paper]

A fixture of Brighton, EVERYBODY knows rag freak! Shame

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The chap who ran it was an amusing chap. I took my daughter (a real girly girl back then) in there when she was about 11 - just to see something different. As we had a look around (trust me - I don't look like one of their customer either) he said "Hi" looked at my daughter and said dead-pan "so are you a goth ?".

Also an old girlfriend worked there back in the day.

 

[Common as Mook]

I can't believe it ever got enough custom to be open 42 years!!

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

I used to LOVE that shop!!

Always full of characters

 

[Dover]

Hate to say this but I have found it one of the most unfriendly shops in Brighton, and the female that serves in there has to be one of the rudest individuals I have ever met.

 

[Butch Willykins]

My friends little girl is shit scared of the place!!! She cries if we ever mention taking her in there!!!

 

[Mellotron]

The chap who ran it was an amusing chap. I took my daughter (a real girly girl back then) in there when she was about 11 - just to see something different. As we had a look around (trust me - I don't look like one of their customer either) he said "Hi" looked at my daughter and said dead-pan "so are you a goth ?".

Also an old girlfriend worked there back in the day.

Hate to say this but I have found it one of the most unfriendly shops in Brighton, and the female that serves in there has to be one of the rudest individuals I have ever met.

I had a mate who was chucked out of there (genuinely) for wearing a shirt of a band they didn't like in the shop.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

I went out a couple of times with a girl that worked there(80s)she was a strange bird in a Wendy James type of look but she f***ing loved the cable.

 

[Woodchip]

My sis and I went in there one day and we were both in work clothes (office smart) and they really looked down on us as "selling out to the man". Didn't go in there much after that, and preferred King of Rock when it was open as they always seemed much nicer people.

Shame it's closing though.

 

[Mackenzie]

My Dad and Grandad painted the original big Union Jack on the front of that building.......they also did the big American flag across the road.