i was the little girl walking along the barwon river with my mum and dad right at the very end i still remember the man asking us if we would do it for him to film
Privetazation free trade killed australia.dammmmm those internationalists dammmmm the positions who sold us out dammmm them and there family's too hellllll.may God send them too hell.its end days now thank god
Tina Mercuri I agree totally I'm 56 years and I look back What happened, people say that's progress BULLSHIT Australia was deliberately sold out to unscrupulous globalists Everything you buy these days is Shanghai Shit from the land of the yellow dog eating souless puppets. China ruined the world
Emigrated from Greece & hit Geelong '63 age 4. The people/institutions, culture, were amazing. No crime. We were free from suffocating regulation. Australia's golden years.
I almost shed a tear at the start. All that industry that we have lost and sent overseas, so sad. I love living in Geelong but have to travel into Melbourne for work like so many others. Let's bring those manufacturing jobs back, Australian made all the way!
My old Economics teacher said free trade would help us all. Maybe he met help us to an early grave. Three cheers for old Mister Cohen, I am pretty sure he is now in Tel Aviv sun baking on the beach.
Man life just flashes before your eyes. the kids in this video are most likely retired, the adults are most likely all dead. Life just seemed so laid back in those days.
Boy back in 1966 Geelong looked SO layed back. NO stress, No road rage, No drugs problems compared to now, AND NO ice problems and the only ice around then was FROZEN WATER.. And not alot of traffic on the road.. I was born in 1969 and came to Corio or Geelong in 1973.😎
My brother Greg Downes was the kid at wood work, at the library, eating the lamb roast and sailing the Cadet class yacht. The school was Geelong West Technical School.He went on to be a Tug Master working out of Port Hedland. Greg passed away this week. RIP
Hi Mia, thank you for letting us know. We always like to hear from people connected with these old films. However it is very sad to hear of Greg's passing. Our condolences.
Born there in 1938 ,lived and worked there until 1988. Married and raised a family there when it was still a great regional city. Time and so called " progress" has not done it any favours. The only constant is the mighty Geelong Cats Football team!!
I currently work in Geelong but live on the surf coast. I've always frequented the city and its surrounds. It's sad to see how its gotten worse as the years have gone by. Drugs, crime, lack of opportunity.
In 2020 we have too many mobile phones with everything and anything being filmed. Back in 1966 we didn't have enough being filmed!! Footage like this is just gold, showing how we used to live and work.
I am 15, grown up in Geelong and proud to belong here. But to think we were an importance with car manufacturing and oil production back in the mid-20th century, compared to now where we've lost the cars and the suburbs around it like Corio and Norlane have now turned into bogan slums, is incredibly depressing for me to think of. I mean, it's nice to see Geelong is having a population and economic boom now; we've rebuilt ourselves off the money we got from the beach-makers down at the Surf Coast, by turning the Waterfront from a gloomy-looking dockland into a nice place with parks, restaurants and hotels, getting ourselves some new shops and buildings in the CBD, and we've become a popular getaway place for the Melbournians now. But it will never be the same as this...ever.
Grew up in Sparks Rd..Norlane. Harvester.. Fords.. Donaghys ropes.. Jackos meatworks... all gone. Thanks to our politicians. Dad worked at Benders Buses.. drove for Mayne Nicklaus.. and I think he even drove a cab back in the 50s. Now I drive a cab in Brisbane. Miss Geelong.. but not the cold weather.
@@weldmachine I think, in some ways, Australia sold itself out. People will always go for cheaper goods (looked what happened to India under British colonial rule, what a thorough catastrophe) and in the end ... how many Australian these days would like to work in factories doing repetitive jobs all day? Very few I think. But anyway, it is a thoroughly enjoyable video and I'll watch everything the NFSA puts up.
@@corrion1 I don't think they do. Even convenience stores employ mostly Asians and overseas students because the locals don't want to do that type of work anymore. There is a lot of work people won't do now. They'd rather sit on the dole than work at something seen as low paying and hard.
@@RohanGillett you could get a reasonable job as a factory if you were a young guy in you're 20s and still go places,ie raise a family, and move into better positions later on or change career. Woman work now so the family structure has changed and the work is more temporary and competitive, they won't look at a guy in his 20s who works in a factory or at IGA,picks fruit etc, especially when house prices are are half million ,so the job's seems more meaningless with less future and a sticky labour market and I would think more demotivating,migrants generally have family as incentive and work as a team to build a future, however you obviously will allways get people who are a little lazy
Yes i also grew up in Geelong. I love the beaches there. Eastern beach is very beautiful. I lived in Belmont, half of my life, and i enjoyed watching footy with the cats... i barrack for them...
and racism in their hearts, a political system that favoured them and allowed them to have hope as long as they were cisgender white and heterosexual, the good ol' days
Doing wood-work class at Geelong West Technical School.....the wood-work teacher is Mr. Kirkham. "West Tech" was a fine secondary school and I still have fond memories of my time there. Still have my old school jumper, tie and school bag. Motto was, " Knowledge, Skill & Integrity " Go Westie's.
The days when beaches etc weren't crowded AF. I'm a Ballarat boy originally. We spent many summer days in Geelong at eastern beach. Really fond memories of the city. On the road back home there was a drive in on the western outskirts and we would stop our old burgundy coloured Valiant on the side of the road to watch was on the screen. I live in Melbourne now but still love getting to Geelong at least a few times a year to visit the awesome vintage markets there. Great place, you should visit!
Funny you mentioned the Drive In. Ballarat Road. Always good to watch Dusk to Dawn movies there on long weekends. ( if you could stay awake ?? most could not, LOL. ) Still LOVE the Drive In movies. A bit better now with FM radio sound. It was always funny watching the occasional person hanging themselves on the cable for the speakers in the window. I still remember ChocTop Ice Creams and children playing in there pajamas in the playground during the half time break.
You are absolutely right as this Campaign video for President Johnson proved in 1964 .. it only had child counting down the daisies while a countdown for a nuclear missle launch occurred in the background... czcams.com/video/2cwqHB6QeUw/video.html Sorry Sir... I am only taking the piss.. Of course by your statement the media was extremely negative about the Vietnam War... perhaps you were not there watching Walter Cronkite reporting that horrible war... czcams.com/video/tuwBvXYGIQA/video.html I am sorry sir, your premise [That "i am sure they had problems back then but their media was not built on bringing constant depression and fear as our media do these days ."]. is incorrect.. if anything the media was extremely trying and difficult... the Vietnam War at that time was an example... later from 1972 it was Watergate... And here is the reporting at the time of the protests against the Vietnam War... czcams.com/video/Thm03IUiJ6U/video.html Life 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago was not easier then as it is now, over time we subconsciously choose to forget the difficulties that were faced then as we do now.... "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"-"the more things change, the more they continue to be the same thing..
@@hypercomms2001some things were, job's for blue collar males in the 60s were easier you could just safely leave one for another with out much rigmarole, housing was cheaper you didn't need two incomes less competition and government gave you housing with special loans, generally less shitty food(chemical additives) and stress ,there wasn't the obesity rate or diabities or child cancer rates and probably slightly more community and slower pace of life
Eastern Beach - first the little kids pool then the promenade. We spent our childhoods there, it's in our DNA. We went swimming at 6:00am every day before school and it's where we raced off to the minute we got home from school in the afternoon. Not in winter though.
Thanks for sharing this. 100% awesome. Between us tradies on the building site, in the lunch shed...we worked out nearly every single location as it went along. Loved it. Love Geelong. Thanks again. Dave.
@@cheekynandosss581 I guess like most things in life, change is always about progress. The park near that roundabout is still very Nice though. Never thought Geelong would ever get multilevel buildings. Now they are everywhere ?? More Progress.????
I was 4 when this was made. My father was the superintendent at the Glastonbury Childrens Home in Belmont. My Grandmother lived one block from Eastern Beach so we spent many happy times there. It's great to see the old place, even if it's a bit sad' I feel like we were very insulated from harsh realities as kids in those days so we didn't have to grow up as fast as they do now.
I remember drinking that milk at school with an inch of cream on the top through the soggy paper straw after it had sat in the sun for hours getting warm and it nearly made me throw up.
I thought the milk program was a good idea. I realize it was essentially a way of subsidizing the dairy industry, but at least kids got to drink something healthy, instead of scoffing down coke and other sugary drinks. The milk program should never have been withdrawn
So relaxing and beautiful . Go to work and come back home and spend time with family, nothing more beautiful than this in this world. Having a family life in a calm lovely city beside sea. its like a dream. So glad that I am moving to Geelong from next week.
I grew up in Geelong and I was in 6th grade in 1966. I thought the school was West Tech or Corio Tech but a lot of the schools looked the same. I also think that the houses were in Cox Road but they could have been Thomsons Road. I too miss the roundabout at Mercer Street, the industries like Donoghies Rope Works, Alcoa, and others. Although, I am pretty sure that the meat works was Herds in Corio which is still there. The toy shop is Tates, I think, which used to be in Ryrie Street. They had a sign up "Matel Toys". A shame they didn't show the Tien Wah Cafe. It made the best dim sims!!!! Thank you for putting this video here. It was a pleasure to watch :))
Tien Wah Cafe. I am sure it,s the one in Malop Street ? If it is ? I remember all the expensive carved chest that lined the doorway as you walked in. They were stacked higher than me, lol.
I was born this year in Scotland and immigrated 5 years later with my parents to Geelong. My adult daughter lives there while i haven't lived there for 20 years i am still always there to watch the mighty Cats play or see family. Many of the things in this were still the same in the 70's and 80's as i was growing up....
At least Geelong has some of the best beaches still. It,s not all doom and gloom though ?? There are plenty of small businesses opening now. Which is better. It helps to spread the wealth.
I visit geelong in 1971 i was 16 years old i finish university as an engineer in melbourne after finish the university i went back to mother land to work as an engineer in greece now at the age of 68 am retired thank very much australia wich make me an engineer....
I was two when this was made. Have clear memories of Adelaide in the very early 1970s. Didn't make it to Melbourne until 1980. There were a few states inbetween. I miss the days of rocking up for a factory job interview and getting the job. Oh heck, I can remember when schools had serious bicycle parking. Just realised that I haven't seen one in a while.
Thanks for uploading this. My family moved to Belmont, Geelong circa 1996 when I was about 8 years of age. The only one of those industries that remains is SHELL - and that is all but a 'shell' of its former self.
I came toi Australia (to Melbourne) in 1968. It was good to see this flashback to these times, although Melbourne was the "big city" and even then much more comopolitan. I have just moved to live in Queenscliff, and visit Geelong often. Those who speak disparagingly of Geelong today are doing so without knowledge. Sure Geelong has its problems (as does any city of 200,000), but it is now much more a city, offers all the facilities one could want, and has some great areas. Geelong has a great future as it ditches its traditional, and now outdated industries, and build on opportunity afforded by Deakin University's presence.
I am not a Australian but I have very much Love and Respect for this great nation with this great people my Love is from here although I am a mid 90s born guy ...... I really think Industrial units and self sufficient production is needed more Australia has so much huge resources And using her resources and great man power she can make great products and export it .... rather than importing stuffs please don’t mind I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s sentiments but its just my opinion that Australia has huge natural resources and Great Hardworking Brains we should use it all so that other countries buy our products. Wish all the best for this nation 💖🥰
On the contrary, I was six in 1966, and I can remember LBJ arriving in Melbourne and the protester putting their bodies in front of his car; and the documentary on Four Corners about the rise of drug problems, and being scared witless about the nuclear bomb testing films so much so that I could not sleep at night. My father had just come back from Berlin and showed us his pictures of the Berlin Wall, and remember in 1968, the Soviets rolled into Checkoslovakia, and at that time our countrymen were being conscripted into the war in Vietnam... when this film was made, we had come close to Nuclear War with the Russian in Cuba...also for those who like to drink, pubs closed at 6:00pm; and there was no shopping on weekends... let us cut out "it was better back then" because it was not.. every time has it challenges, and no time was ever easier than the next... I am sure the generation growing up now, will be saying the same about this time now, but in 40 years from now...
Yes, if only we could go back to 1966 before there was all this OH&S and have 10,000 people a year be killed or seriously injured at work again just like those good old days. I blame the unions for dragging us into the 21st century. And yep I reckon you were right about there being no crime then too, if I remember rightly the police only started arresting people in 1974 and before that the Force was more like a gentleman's club and gaols were used to store all the rose coloured glasses that were later given out en masse to people like you for viewing of the past.
@@KL2010 It is regrettable sir that one wishes to prove Godwin's Law... but the reality is otherwise, as the government in power at this time [1966] was Harold Holt's government that dismantled the White Australia Policy... "In 1966, the Holt Liberal Government effectively dismantled the White Australia policy and increased access to non-European migrants, including refugees fleeing the Vietnam War.[44] After a review of immigration policy in March 1966, Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman announced applications for migration would be accepted from well-qualified people "on the basis of their suitability as settlers, their ability to integrate readily and their possession of qualifications positively useful to Australia". At the same time, Harold Holt's government decided to allow foreign non-whites to become permanent residents and citizens after five years (the same as for Europeans), and also removed discriminatory provisions in family reunification policies..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#End_of_the_White_Australia_policy Whilst I remember a great deal of dissent on the Vietnam War at the time, I do not remember much dissent on the ending of the White Australia Policy, except perhaps for Arthur Calwell, but six years later Gough Whitlam ended the regressive Labor Policy on that issue. Further in Referendum of 1967, the Australian people granted the Aboriginal people of our country the recognition that they always deserved, and granted them the right to vote and recognition under the Australian Constitution at that time. There is much to do on that but that was a start.
Ah yes, the hill at Eastern Beach where my brother threw me down to land on broken glass, only to visit that lovely Geelong institution the Geelong Hospital, for stitches in my wrist and a lifelong scar. Fun times, happy memories.
not bad. makin me feel real olde but not bad! love the 66 holden prem or spec. my mum an da bought a newy in 66, used to have the purchase an rego paper for it.
My family live in Geelong West within sight of the Cement Works - or, as we called them The Cementies. They were dirty, noisy and damaging but they were also a fixed and solid point in the reality of our world. Two immediate neighbours spent their entire working lives there (and one was killed by the dust in his lungs). My Dad's veggie garden was constantly coated with a patina of gray dust and I have no doubt my ongoing respiratory problems as a kid were created or worsened by that dust. At night we could hear the whining noise from what my Dad described as "the Klinkers" revolving and in the day we could hear the wind howl through the stacks and silos. My folks played tennis at courts adjacent to there and I went to summer school art classes in the old orphanage next to the tennis courts. As a kid I would race down the street to see the last of the steam engines taking cement away to who knew where. The drivers would wave to us. I crossed that train line every day of my primary and secondary school life. I was texted by a friend who told me they'd torn down the old silos and I was really saddened. A certainty in the landscape had been erased in moments and, with it, another part of my childhood. Made me feel old all of a sudden. (edited for spelling)
After 47 years most of these industries are now going or gone, but Geelong is still a great place to live. I wonder what this film would look like if made in 2014? Darryn?
the house with the telephone box out the front is defiantly Norlane, may be even Thompson Rd. The school is Norlane High with the grey uniform, they did end up switching to blue. This movie was intended for immigrants and a lot settled in Norlane and Corio. Both suburbs were working class and not at all like they are now.
I was surprised that there wasnt any sport shown, especially the Geelong VFL Club.By this time I had left Geelong,spent 2 years in Europe and was living in Sydney.
There's so much to have a little giggle about in this film, the girls doing home economics, the boys woodwork, absolutely no safety in any of the industrial plants. But yeah simpler times where we knew our place in the world
Lived and worked here in the late 60's early70's married Gail here and still have many friends there. worked International Harvester , Gallagers auto wreckers Uniroyal, Dunlop and Goodyear tyre services. Used to hang out in McCann st [gone now ]go to the drags at Eastern beach and fish off Cunninham pier and bum around at PortArlington and Torqyay........ still one of my favourite places
The flashback of milk at school. Only problem was it was often left out in the sun or birds had pecked through the foil caps. This milk program ended up creating a whole generations of Australians unable to enjoy milk. Also notice the paper wax straws, these would collapse so that's why plastic straws were introduced. Were now enjoying the rubbish paper wax straws again now plastic has been banned. I love the one step forward, two steps back ways.
It was the same in England. School milk was left out on the school doorstep by the milkman from around 5am, meaning that in summer it had been sitting in the sun for three or four hours by the time we drank it. It was often on the turn and tasted rank, but if we refused to drink it the teachers guilt-tripped us by saying how our wonderful benevolent socialist government had provided it 'free' for us.
I grew up in Geelong at about the time this was filmed, what has happened to this once great country?. Every manufacturing base shown here is now either gone or going. Geelong used to be a huge manufacturing hub, I worked at Grosby Footwear in Norlane, obviously before it went to China, so many places have disappeared, such a shame. I went to the primary school shown here, Corio South Primary, I remember the milk man coming every morning so we could have free milk, whatever happened to that?....Government cutbacks in the face of child welfare :/ At least Eastern Beach was saved. :)
Research "The Lima Agreement" ... or if you havent time check out youtube I am sure someone has put together at least one mini documentary on that subject. It will help you understand the economic betrayal of this nation.
@@lorenzomagazzeni5425 Me too, my sister and I would wake up from the clip clop and watch him go past, back then everything came to your door apart from meat, fruit ,veggies, milk,briquettes just about everything. These things our kids will never experience, they think it's great getting pizza delivered lol
@@JF-xm6tu Jobs Now ? Truck Driving. Construction of Warehouse. Fork lift Drivers. Packing all the cheap goodies away some where for us to buy. Without China. We would Not have Bunnings ??
Agree, if we'd cut the apron strings to England we would be self sufficient to this day. Innocent times where hatred and self love wasn't top of the pops! People now just have no patience or concern toward others and drugs haven't helped at all.
@SKIP AD I can't even make a joke anymore lest some fucker gets offended the west has gone to shit. Look at notre dam surrrreee it was a electrical fire and not a terrorist attack in Easter. Convinient that it burns down then after having fires in it for 870 years. And also how the mass media reports on Christchurch but says nothing about the hundreds of Christians being killed now
Back when you could make a living at a butchers! Glad to see Torquay getting some spotlight. Grew up there and by God it's grown into a small city in recent years. 60% holiday homes left empty for 9 months of the year and nobody knows anybody anymore. I sound like an absolute boomer but I was only born in 2001 lmao.
i was the little girl walking along the barwon river with my mum and dad right at the very end i still remember the man asking us if we would do it for him to film
really ? ! must be the good old days
That’s mad I’m 15 and live in Melbourne. We have a beach house in Barwon heads and visit there often. Almost every weekend in the summer
Privetazation free trade killed australia.dammmmm those internationalists dammmmm the positions who sold us out dammmm them and there family's too hellllll.may God send them too hell.its end days now thank god
Tina Mercuri I agree totally
I'm 56 years and I look back
What happened, people say that's progress BULLSHIT Australia was deliberately sold out to unscrupulous globalists
Everything you buy these days is Shanghai Shit from the land of the yellow dog eating souless puppets.
China ruined the world
Hello Sally - great that you saw you and your mum and dad. Do you still live in Geelong?
Emigrated from Greece & hit Geelong '63 age 4. The people/institutions, culture, were amazing. No crime. We were free from suffocating regulation. Australia's golden years.
here here, i came from England in 59 was 7 on the boat. what a great country it was back then.
I almost shed a tear at the start. All that industry that we have lost and sent overseas, so sad. I love living in Geelong but have to travel into Melbourne for work like so many others. Let's bring those manufacturing jobs back, Australian made all the way!
Stop complaining look at all the benefits of free trade like, crap a savage just took my big screen tv have to run, yes for my life he has a hatchet.
yes re-open the ford factory
agella72 agreed..it's always sad seeing the old vids of Australia sadly it's changed for the worse I wish we could go back in time 😟😟
its all america and chinas fault
My old Economics teacher said free trade would help us all. Maybe he met help us to an early grave. Three cheers for old Mister Cohen, I am pretty sure he is now in Tel Aviv sun baking on the beach.
Man life just flashes before your eyes. the kids in this video are most likely retired, the adults are most likely all dead. Life just seemed so laid back in those days.
@@88njtrigg88 both so right.
Boy back in 1966 Geelong looked SO layed back. NO stress, No road rage, No drugs problems compared to now, AND NO ice problems and the only ice around then was FROZEN WATER.. And not alot of traffic on the road.. I was born in 1969 and came to Corio or Geelong in 1973.😎
Unless you did lappies in McCann street, in the Oldsmobile, then it got a bit stressful...
My brother Greg Downes was the kid at wood work, at the library, eating the lamb roast and sailing the Cadet class yacht. The school was Geelong West Technical School.He went on to be a Tug Master working out of Port Hedland. Greg passed away this week. RIP
Hi Mia, thank you for letting us know. We always like to hear from people connected with these old films. However it is very sad to hear of Greg's passing. Our condolences.
Mia Atkinson God bless his soul..
The classroom footage though was taken at the Bellaire School in Highton. It's printed on the girl's workbook as they pack up at the end of the day.
Tug Master 😂😂 sure is a funny sounding job description
@@NFSAFilms Sorry to hear of your loss
Great old film. My Grandad is driving the crane at 2:08. Thanks for posting this.
Just the grey hair mate :-)
That's great, thanks for letting us know.
If there was a time machine, I could go back to the 60’s in a heartbeat, a simpler, happier life.
Born there in 1938 ,lived and worked there until 1988. Married and raised a family there when it was still a great regional city. Time and so called " progress" has not done it any favours. The only constant is the mighty Geelong Cats Football team!!
I currently work in Geelong but live on the surf coast. I've always frequented the city and its surrounds. It's sad to see how its gotten worse as the years have gone by. Drugs, crime, lack of opportunity.
In 2020 we have too many mobile phones with everything and anything being filmed. Back in 1966 we didn't have enough being filmed!! Footage like this is just gold, showing how we used to live and work.
I am 15, grown up in Geelong and proud to belong here. But to think we were an importance with car manufacturing and oil production back in the mid-20th century, compared to now where we've lost the cars and the suburbs around it like Corio and Norlane have now turned into bogan slums, is incredibly depressing for me to think of.
I mean, it's nice to see Geelong is having a population and economic boom now; we've rebuilt ourselves off the money we got from the beach-makers down at the Surf Coast, by turning the Waterfront from a gloomy-looking dockland into a nice place with parks, restaurants and hotels, getting ourselves some new shops and buildings in the CBD, and we've become a popular getaway place for the Melbournians now. But it will never be the same as this...ever.
Grew up in Sparks Rd..Norlane. Harvester.. Fords.. Donaghys ropes.. Jackos meatworks... all gone. Thanks to our politicians. Dad worked at Benders Buses.. drove for Mayne Nicklaus.. and I think he even drove a cab back in the 50s. Now I drive a cab in Brisbane. Miss Geelong.. but not the cold weather.
HI Alwyn Do you recognize anyone in the video?
Back when Australia still produced... times have changed so much.
It was actually both a sad and happy feeling to watch this video.
When you could see everything we ever needed was right here.
@@weldmachine I think, in some ways, Australia sold itself out. People will always go for cheaper goods (looked what happened to India under British colonial rule, what a thorough catastrophe) and in the end ... how many Australian these days would like to work in factories doing repetitive jobs all day? Very few I think. But anyway, it is a thoroughly enjoyable video and I'll watch everything the NFSA puts up.
@@RohanGillett I think most Australians would rather have an opportunity to work at a factory than be on the dole mate
@@corrion1 I don't think they do. Even convenience stores employ mostly Asians and overseas students because the locals don't want to do that type of work anymore. There is a lot of work people won't do now. They'd rather sit on the dole than work at something seen as low paying and hard.
@@RohanGillett you could get a reasonable job as a factory if you were a young guy in you're 20s and still go places,ie raise a family, and move into better positions later on or change career. Woman work now so the family structure has changed and the work is more temporary and competitive, they won't look at a guy in his 20s who works in a factory or at IGA,picks fruit etc, especially when house prices are are half million ,so the job's seems more meaningless with less future and a sticky labour market and I would think more demotivating,migrants generally have family as incentive and work as a team to build a future, however you obviously will allways get people who are a little lazy
These were Australia’s golden years, lots of well paid jobs, affordable housing. , and a strong manufacturing industry.
Sadly virtually gone.
Ahhhhh, manufacturing in Australia......
Don't see much of that anymore. :(
Yes i also grew up in Geelong. I love the beaches there. Eastern beach is very beautiful. I lived in Belmont, half of my life, and i enjoyed watching footy with the cats... i barrack for them...
Some great memories of a gentler time-people with hope in their eyes and their hearts. Thank you for sharing this time capsule.
and racism in their hearts, a political system that favoured them and allowed them to have hope as long as they were cisgender white and heterosexual, the good ol' days
Hope of a Geelong premiership that was decades away. My time is better.
@@newshound2521 what happened to your premiership last year buddy?
Doing wood-work class at Geelong West Technical School.....the wood-work teacher is Mr. Kirkham. "West Tech" was a fine secondary school and I still have fond memories of my time there. Still have my old school jumper, tie and school bag. Motto was, " Knowledge, Skill & Integrity "
Go Westie's.
Great, thanks for the info Vertical.
15:38 the old playground metal slide that would fry your thighs in the sun
or end up getting melanoma? :)
The days when beaches etc weren't crowded AF. I'm a Ballarat boy originally. We spent many summer days in Geelong at eastern beach. Really fond memories of the city. On the road back home there was a drive in on the western outskirts and we would stop our old burgundy coloured Valiant on the side of the road to watch was on the screen. I live in Melbourne now but still love getting to Geelong at least a few times a year to visit the awesome vintage markets there. Great place, you should visit!
Funny you mentioned the Drive In.
Ballarat Road.
Always good to watch Dusk to Dawn movies there on long weekends.
( if you could stay awake ?? most could not, LOL. )
Still LOVE the Drive In movies.
A bit better now with FM radio sound.
It was always funny watching the occasional person hanging themselves on the cable for the speakers in the window.
I still remember ChocTop Ice Creams and children playing in there pajamas in the playground during the half time break.
i am sure they had problems back then but their media was not built on bringing constant depression and fear as our media do these days .
Too right digger !
Agree, it's creating a warped view of the real world (for those who stay in and watch tv)
You are absolutely right as this Campaign video for President Johnson proved in 1964 .. it only had child counting down the daisies while a countdown for a nuclear missle launch occurred in the background...
czcams.com/video/2cwqHB6QeUw/video.html
Sorry Sir... I am only taking the piss..
Of course by your statement the media was extremely negative about the Vietnam War... perhaps you were not there watching Walter Cronkite reporting that horrible war...
czcams.com/video/tuwBvXYGIQA/video.html
I am sorry sir, your premise [That "i am sure they had problems back then but their media was not built on bringing constant depression and fear as our media do these days ."]. is incorrect.. if anything the media was extremely trying and difficult... the Vietnam War at that time was an example... later from 1972 it was Watergate...
And here is the reporting at the time of the protests against the Vietnam War...
czcams.com/video/Thm03IUiJ6U/video.html
Life 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago was not easier then as it is now, over time we subconsciously choose to forget the difficulties that were faced then as we do now.... "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"-"the more things change, the more they continue to be the same thing..
@Sam Peacock who you too
@@hypercomms2001some things were, job's for blue collar males in the 60s were easier you could just safely leave one for another with out much rigmarole, housing was cheaper you didn't need two incomes less competition and government gave you housing with special loans, generally less shitty food(chemical additives) and stress ,there wasn't the obesity rate or diabities or child cancer rates and probably slightly more community and slower pace of life
Eastern Beach - first the little kids pool then the promenade. We spent our childhoods there, it's in our DNA. We went swimming at 6:00am every day before school and it's where we raced off to the minute we got home from school in the afternoon. Not in winter though.
always wished i could have had a childhood like that, sucks that going out as kids isn't as safe as it used to be
@@quvictus9796
Don,t be to sad about.
Life back then was innocent. Yes.
But we were always told not to talk to strangers even back then.
Thanks for sharing this. 100% awesome. Between us tradies on the building site, in the lunch shed...we worked out nearly every single location as it went along. Loved it. Love Geelong. Thanks again. Dave.
I miss that round about at malop street.
They would always decorate it well during Christmas.
@@weldmachine why tf did they take it away!!!!
@@cheekynandosss581 I guess like most things in life, change is always about progress.
The park near that roundabout is still very Nice though.
Never thought Geelong would ever get multilevel buildings.
Now they are everywhere ??
More Progress.????
Born here in 1975, currently still in mums house.....
Born here to a couple years earlier.
Still Love Geelong.
Unfortunately moved away now.
Maybe / hopefully i can come back when it,s my time, in ashes.
Tooooo funny 😂
Mum's basement
I was 4 when this was made. My father was the superintendent at the Glastonbury Childrens Home in Belmont. My Grandmother lived one block from Eastern Beach so we spent many happy times there. It's great to see the old place, even if it's a bit sad' I feel like we were very insulated from harsh realities as kids in those days so we didn't have to grow up as fast as they do now.
I don't think there were so many Realities back then.
I remember drinking that milk at school with an inch of cream on the top through the soggy paper straw after it had sat in the sun for hours getting warm and it nearly made me throw up.
I remember the 'Milk Program'. :)
We were all basically human guinea pigs.....
It was an SBS documentary.
I think it was called 'Silent Storm'
I thought the milk program was a good idea. I realize it was essentially a way of subsidizing the dairy industry, but at least kids got to drink something healthy, instead of scoffing down coke and other sugary drinks. The milk program should never have been withdrawn
At 5.28 my year 6 teacher, Mr Ron Ellis at Bellaire State School. A favourite of many.
Geelong has changed a lot since the 1900s wow. Glad to live in the great city of Geelong
So relaxing and beautiful . Go to work and come back home and spend time with family, nothing more beautiful than this in this world. Having a family life in a calm lovely city beside sea. its like a dream. So glad that I am moving to Geelong from next week.
This is the past mate
Best Beaches this end of Australia, Too.
Thank you for these wonderful films
This brought back so many memories. So sad to see all the big industry gone from Geelong.
It was kind of depressing actually. Life was so much more innocent. I miss those times so much.
I can remember driving my old HR Holden to Geelong from Adelaide in 1989 and it was so busy with lots of chimneys going and really friendly place.
I grew up in Geelong and I was in 6th grade in 1966. I thought the school was West Tech or Corio Tech but a lot of the schools looked the same. I also think that the houses were in Cox Road but they could have been Thomsons Road.
I too miss the roundabout at Mercer Street, the industries like Donoghies Rope Works, Alcoa, and others. Although, I am pretty sure that the meat works was Herds in Corio which is still there.
The toy shop is Tates, I think, which used to be in Ryrie Street. They had a sign up "Matel Toys". A shame they didn't show the Tien Wah Cafe. It made the best dim sims!!!!
Thank you for putting this video here. It was a pleasure to watch :))
Great, thanks for the local information, always appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the film.
Tien Wah Cafe.
I am sure it,s the one in Malop Street ?
If it is ? I remember all the expensive carved chest that lined the doorway as you walked in.
They were stacked higher than me, lol.
great film of geelong was the good old g town and our family was living in norlane moved that year 1966 to a new house in corio before it all changed
I was born this year in Scotland and immigrated 5 years later with my parents to Geelong. My adult daughter lives there while i haven't lived there for 20 years i am still always there to watch the mighty Cats play or see family. Many of the things in this were still the same in the 70's and 80's as i was growing up....
Its sad that nearly all of those factories have shut and gone now
Not much left in poor old Geelong. No Ford plant. No industry. Welfare recipients. Drugs. That’s it.
fordlandau Don’t forget heaping helpings of cultural diversity
Phoebe JOHNSTON geez somebody doesn’t like people commenting..
At least Geelong has some of the best beaches still.
It,s not all doom and gloom though ??
There are plenty of small businesses opening now.
Which is better.
It helps to spread the wealth.
sounds like a fucking blast
at least our drugs are of a high quality
Ah yes, doing woodwork with a tie on.
I visit geelong in 1971 i was 16 years old i finish university as an engineer in melbourne after finish the university i went back to mother land to work as an engineer in greece now at the age of 68 am retired thank very much australia wich make me an engineer....
Nice film this one, I particularly like the use of the music, rather than the usual narration. Many thanks for posting.
Totally enjoyed that trip down memory lane!
I was two when this was made. Have clear memories of Adelaide in the very early 1970s. Didn't make it to Melbourne until 1980. There were a few states inbetween. I miss the days of rocking up for a factory job interview and getting the job.
Oh heck, I can remember when schools had serious bicycle parking. Just realised that I haven't seen one in a while.
Loved seeing Torquay at the end. The Norfolk pines must be a bit bigger now.
They are massive these days. A lot more of them too. New generation= new pine trees here!
Well thx youtube, idk but this was nice seeing something this old down here in Geelong, things seemed better back then
Thanks for uploading this. My family moved to Belmont, Geelong circa 1996 when I was about 8 years of age. The only one of those industries that remains is SHELL - and that is all but a 'shell' of its former self.
Dont forget Pivot and grain corp.
Imagine hacking away at a coalface for 10 hours, emerging into the depths of an English winter and being shown this.
Indeed - and you can have it all for TEN POUNDS!!!
@@NFSAFilms Irresistible.
I came toi Australia (to Melbourne) in 1968. It was good to see this flashback to these times, although Melbourne was the "big city" and even then much more comopolitan.
I have just moved to live in Queenscliff, and visit Geelong often. Those who speak disparagingly of Geelong today are doing so without knowledge. Sure Geelong has its problems (as does any city of 200,000), but it is now much more a city, offers all the facilities one could want, and has some great areas. Geelong has a great future as it ditches its traditional, and now outdated industries, and build on opportunity afforded by Deakin University's presence.
Yes Geelong is still a great place to live.
That,s why so many want to live there.
Great video, thank you for sharing.
I am not a Australian but I have very much Love and Respect for this great nation with this great people my Love is from here although I am a mid 90s born guy ...... I really think Industrial units and self sufficient production is needed more Australia has so much huge resources And using her resources and great man power she can make great products and export it .... rather than importing stuffs please don’t mind I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s sentiments but its just my opinion that Australia has huge natural resources and Great Hardworking Brains we should use it all so that other countries buy our products. Wish all the best for this nation 💖🥰
What a golden time.
I will show dad this video he will love it just like me
Many thanks for posting this particular film. I watched it for the first time about a month ago, but I’ve had to come back for a 2nd viewing.
No OH&S, no obesity, no food allergies, no crime, people taking a pride in their appearance, no bogans covered in tattoos. What were they thinking...
sad isnt it
On the contrary, I was six in 1966, and I can remember LBJ arriving in Melbourne and the protester putting their bodies in front of his car; and the documentary on Four Corners about the rise of drug problems, and being scared witless about the nuclear bomb testing films so much so that I could not sleep at night. My father had just come back from Berlin and showed us his pictures of the Berlin Wall, and remember in 1968, the Soviets rolled into Checkoslovakia, and at that time our countrymen were being conscripted into the war in Vietnam... when this film was made, we had come close to Nuclear War with the Russian in Cuba...also for those who like to drink, pubs closed at 6:00pm; and there was no shopping on weekends... let us cut out "it was better back then" because it was not.. every time has it challenges, and no time was ever easier than the next... I am sure the generation growing up now, will be saying the same about this time now, but in 40 years from now...
Yes, if only we could go back to 1966 before there was all this OH&S and have 10,000 people a year be killed or seriously injured at work again just like those good old days. I blame the unions for dragging us into the 21st century. And yep I reckon you were right about there being no crime then too, if I remember rightly the police only started arresting people in 1974 and before that the Force was more like a gentleman's club and gaols were used to store all the rose coloured glasses that were later given out en masse to people like you for viewing of the past.
They were probably thinking "Crikey, isn't this White Australia Policy grouse".
@@KL2010 It is regrettable sir that one wishes to prove Godwin's Law... but the reality is otherwise, as the government in power at this time [1966] was Harold Holt's government that dismantled the White Australia Policy...
"In 1966, the Holt Liberal Government effectively dismantled the White Australia policy and increased access to non-European migrants, including refugees fleeing the Vietnam War.[44] After a review of immigration policy in March 1966, Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman announced applications for migration would be accepted from well-qualified people "on the basis of their suitability as settlers, their ability to integrate readily and their possession of qualifications positively useful to Australia". At the same time, Harold Holt's government decided to allow foreign non-whites to become permanent residents and citizens after five years (the same as for Europeans), and also removed discriminatory provisions in family reunification policies..."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#End_of_the_White_Australia_policy
Whilst I remember a great deal of dissent on the Vietnam War at the time, I do not remember much dissent on the ending of the White Australia Policy, except perhaps for Arthur Calwell, but six years later Gough Whitlam ended the regressive Labor Policy on that issue.
Further in Referendum of 1967, the Australian people granted the Aboriginal people of our country the recognition that they always deserved, and granted them the right to vote and recognition under the Australian Constitution at that time. There is much to do on that but that was a start.
Loveit it's great to see the way we were very good history
Life wasnt that much different until the 80s really. Then shit started to change.
Keating floated the dollar and deregulated the banks in the early 80s :-|
OMG the ford sign that's near maccas 😂
The Ford Factory is still sitting there.
Empty now.
Waiting to be developed like everything us we once loved.
Ah yes, the hill at Eastern Beach where my brother threw me down to land on broken glass, only to visit that lovely Geelong institution the Geelong Hospital, for stitches in my wrist and a lifelong scar. Fun times, happy memories.
Wow I’m only 13 at at the 17 minutes in I have rolled down that hill many times and eaten fish and ships there!
Thanks for releasing! interesting nostalgic look at where I live. Sad to see the demise of all the jobs. Cheers.
thank you for the memories
Well shot and nicely framed. Geelong never looked so good. Am certainly glad we have higher safety standards in the work-place now.
Except there's no jobs !
I was there and my dad worked at Ford :-)
The commwnts in this video make you want to cry! Because they are true.
Love it, thank you!!!
Back in the 70,s australian manufacturing was the best
I miss the paddle boats at eastern beach and Highlite park. Life back then was a lot slower and peaceful.
remember going on those paddle boats with my older sisters around 1968
These are amazing films.
Thanks for the feedback. Glad you enjoyed our films. We have thousands more to come.
Love you Australia forever
I always enjoy visiting my home town .
not bad. makin me feel real olde but not bad! love the 66 holden prem or spec. my mum an da bought a newy in 66, used to have the purchase an rego paper for it.
I like the coat of arms at the end, we should have that now.
Cement bagging, no gloves or dust mask :P
Yes, they were heroic Cowboys then . . .
@SKIP AD I still do it.
My family live in Geelong West within sight of the Cement Works - or, as we called them The Cementies. They were dirty, noisy and damaging but they were also a fixed and solid point in the reality of our world. Two immediate neighbours spent their entire working lives there (and one was killed by the dust in his lungs). My Dad's veggie garden was constantly coated with a patina of gray dust and I have no doubt my ongoing respiratory problems as a kid were created or worsened by that dust. At night we could hear the whining noise from what my Dad described as "the Klinkers" revolving and in the day we could hear the wind howl through the stacks and silos. My folks played tennis at courts adjacent to there and I went to summer school art classes in the old orphanage next to the tennis courts. As a kid I would race down the street to see the last of the steam engines taking cement away to who knew where. The drivers would wave to us. I crossed that train line every day of my primary and secondary school life. I was texted by a friend who told me they'd torn down the old silos and I was really saddened. A certainty in the landscape had been erased in moments and, with it, another part of my childhood. Made me feel old all of a sudden. (edited for spelling)
yes silicosis.
After 47 years most of these industries are now going or gone, but Geelong is still a great place to live. I wonder what this film would look like if made in 2014? Darryn?
@Ted, I was living in Melbourne on Geelong Road when I was young, then moved to Brissy. Cheers.
6 minutes in and not an overweight or obese person to be scene.
Seen*
because they died
Yes!! This is so noticeable...people were so much more active both in work and leisure. A full bicycle rack at the school is evidence of this too...
3:20 check again boyo
@@soysaucesnag696 How dare you present evidence that contradicts my prejudice
the house with the telephone box out the front is defiantly Norlane, may be even Thompson Rd. The school is Norlane High with the grey uniform, they did end up switching to blue. This movie was intended for immigrants and a lot settled in Norlane and Corio. Both suburbs were working class and not at all like they are now.
So much memories of Geelong
Eastern beach hasn’t changed much. Still love going there in the summer
More tidy Now.
But much the same otherwise compared to this video.
I was surprised that there wasnt any sport shown, especially the Geelong VFL Club.By this time I had left Geelong,spent 2 years in Europe and was living in Sydney.
i grew up, about an hour up the road in ballarat. not much different to geelong cept the port an ford. good memories.
Ballarat is still great. Although it’s obviously got busier. But still a top place.
There's so much to have a little giggle about in this film, the girls doing home economics, the boys woodwork, absolutely no safety in any of the industrial plants. But yeah simpler times where we knew our place in the world
Those boneless beef guys have a hard earned thirst that needs a big cold beer.
Are the memories of early days in Geelong when it was a thriving busy city.
Lived and worked here in the late 60's early70's married Gail here and still have many friends there. worked International Harvester , Gallagers auto wreckers Uniroyal, Dunlop and Goodyear tyre services. Used to hang out in McCann st [gone now ]go to the drags at Eastern beach and fish off Cunninham pier and bum around at PortArlington and Torqyay........ still one of my favourite places
GREAT FIND BOB I've watched quite a few of these....... I'm also an avid Utube watcher
The flashback of milk at school. Only problem was it was often left out in the sun or birds had pecked through the foil caps. This milk program ended up creating a whole generations of Australians unable to enjoy milk. Also notice the paper wax straws, these would collapse so that's why plastic straws were introduced. Were now enjoying the rubbish paper wax straws again now plastic has been banned. I love the one step forward, two steps back ways.
did you grow up in Geelong?
It was the same in England. School milk was left out on the school doorstep by the milkman from around 5am, meaning that in summer it had been sitting in the sun for three or four hours by the time we drank it. It was often on the turn and tasted rank, but if we refused to drink it the teachers guilt-tripped us by saying how our wonderful benevolent socialist government had provided it 'free' for us.
Geelong, where the sun always shines. They may take our industries, but they will Never take OUR GEELONG
The main reason I chose to live in Geelong is the people. They always seem happy, even if the weather's shit house.
Best Beaches.
This end of Australia.
Wow Geelong has changed so much.
The little boy in the blue swim shorts with the white dots looks like he's about 4, maybe 5 yrs old. Cute! I would think he'd now be in his 50s.
It was a great time to be growing up in Geelong.
I grew up in Geelong at about the time this was filmed, what has happened to this once great country?. Every manufacturing base shown here is now either gone or going. Geelong used to be a huge manufacturing hub, I worked at Grosby Footwear in Norlane, obviously before it went to China, so many places have disappeared, such a shame. I went to the primary school shown here, Corio South Primary, I remember the milk man coming every morning so we could have free milk, whatever happened to that?....Government cutbacks in the face of child welfare :/ At least Eastern Beach was saved. :)
Research "The Lima Agreement" ... or if you havent time check out youtube I am sure someone has put together at least one mini documentary on that subject. It will help you understand the economic betrayal of this nation.
I remember the milkman with the horse...
@@lorenzomagazzeni5425 Me too, my sister and I would wake up from the clip clop and watch him go past, back then everything came to your door apart from meat, fruit ,veggies, milk,briquettes just about everything. These things our kids will never experience, they think it's great getting pizza delivered lol
@@kikurass322 you know that everything is delivered nowadays from online shopping to groceries.
And everyone had a job and a life outside it..
Where's the jobs now
@@JF-xm6tu
Jobs Now ?
Truck Driving.
Construction of Warehouse.
Fork lift Drivers.
Packing all the cheap goodies away some where for us to buy.
Without China.
We would Not have Bunnings ??
@@JF-xm6tu China.
Beautiful 😍
Back when we made products and were proud of them. This country could have been so much better. I feel like we're part of some sick experiment.
Agree, if we'd cut the apron strings to England we would be self sufficient to this day. Innocent times where hatred and self love wasn't top of the pops! People now just have no patience or concern toward others and drugs haven't helped at all.
Check out the two bloke's 'relaxing' on the grass directly behind the little boy at 15:55. Looks like Geelong was a tolerant community even back then!
10:31 That would be a long line of SUVs today ...
Or 4x4’s with mud tyres
chrisfi3d C but no mud
When they bought cars back then they had the car 20years, now it's cheap imported junk. So sad
😂
A time when life was actually worth living
@Perpetual Grin No
Boys doing woodwork, girls doing home economics, good times lol
@SKIP AD I can't even make a joke anymore lest some fucker gets offended the west has gone to shit. Look at notre dam surrrreee it was a electrical fire and not a terrorist attack in Easter. Convinient that it burns down then after having fires in it for 870 years. And also how the mass media reports on Christchurch but says nothing about the hundreds of Christians being killed now
@Sam Peacock nah not insecure, but i have more open eyes then you for sure
Sam Peacock not on my and my mates watch!
@Sam Peacock "Thought Terminating Cliché Warning"
@SKIP AD The all look so miserable, don't they.
What a beautiful place
Back when you could make a living at a butchers! Glad to see Torquay getting some spotlight. Grew up there and by God it's grown into a small city in recent years. 60% holiday homes left empty for 9 months of the year and nobody knows anybody anymore. I sound like an absolute boomer but I was only born in 2001 lmao.
Come see Mornington peninsula exactly the same...
Great memories