This Is Sydney Australia in 1985 - Documentary - scenes of Sydney Harbour, Opera House, Bondi Beach
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- Documentary filmed in 1985 showing a snap shoot of a day in Sydney. Interviews of what Sydney siders were thinking at the time. Scenes of Sydney harbour, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Ferry boats. Sydney harbour bridge. Sydney harbour bridge worker painting the bridge. Vehicle's crossing Sydney harbour bridge, Sydney Centre Point tower, lady doing an oil painting of Sydney Opera house and the harbour, Nuclear protest on Sydney harbour and Mrs Macquarie's Chair by Sydney Peace Squadron. Sydney Seaplanes at Rose Bay. Bathers on Bondi Beach 1980s, Radio station triple j 1985 Surfing Championship at Manly Beach. What people were thinking in the 1980s. Windsurfing at Sans Souci.
Please let me know if anyone can identify and name the person interviewed at the Nuclear protest so the credits can be updated in the future.
Views of Sydney in the 1980s. Interesting Archival footage of Sydney in 1985.
Features Kellogg's Cornflakes radio advert/jingle recording from 1985. 02:00
Original film type Kodachrome 40 (Super 8 sound film) restored and enhanced to HD.
Interviews
Woman on yacht on Sydney Harbour, Morag McArthur
Man on yacht on Sydney Harbour, Steve Carroll
North Bondi Beach Surf Club Old Boys, Gordon Cassidy and Frank Hurley (Frank Hurley was Australian heavyweight wrestling champion 1949) To view a video about Franks pro wrestling career in the USA, check out Ian Riccaboni's video • 55 in 5 - Episode 54, ...
Unknown woman at Mrs Macquarie's Chair Nuclear Protest by Sydney Peace Squadron in 1985
Narration by Morag McArthur
Windsurfing by Darren Griffin
Surfing by Chub
Underwater man Alan Wright
Underwater girl Jan Lambert
Music by Cali
Music by Pavel Yudin
Music by Crescent Music
Music by Remember The Future
Music by Wilfred Symphony Orchestra
Colourist Tim Wreyford
Film Producer Greg Petterson
There is a background scene with the Royal Australian Navy, attack class patrol boat, HMAS ASSAIL (Pennant 89) passing Garden Island in 1985. News cameras can be seen on board and balloons flying above her which I think is marking the end of her last days in Australian service before being sold to Indonesia.
In 2022 Archival work to identify Frank Hurley and Gordon Cassidy at Bondi Beach
Bondi Local Loop FACEBOOK Group
Bondi Historian
Lawrie Williams
Film conversion to HD Digital by DVD Infinity Australia
Camera - Bauer S715XL
Lens - Angenieux Zoom - Macro 1.4/6-90
Film type - Kodachrome 40 (Super 8 Sound)
Awards
Tasmanian Amateur Cine Society - Blue Gum Film Festival 1986 - Festival winner
Western Australian Amateur Film Festival 1988 - Festival winner
Scenes from this film have been licensed to appear in the Documentary series 'The Secrets Of Hillsong' by Scout Productions LA. Released by Vanity Fair and FX. Through Hulu, expected to appear in episode 3, released on 23 May 2023.
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The way Australia should have remained before our politicians stuffed it up
Multiculturalism stuffed it up.
@@peteormond2828 Found the racist
@@peteormond2828 international interest such as UN and WEF stuffed it up
I second that!
@@peteormond2828 Nope, Building developers and Councils did the damage.
I turned 17 in 1985. These days I live far away, but my heart will always be there. God I miss that town. And my youth, I suppose.
Yes time moves on, but nice to have good memories from that time. Thanks for commenting.
I was also 17 in 1985. Trust me, you miss what it used to be not what it has become. It’s still a visually beautiful and clean city with nice weather but that’s about all it has going for it. I’m leaving next year.
@@bsways We left last year, Sydney is not as it was, its Duplexes and mean angry people, its unrecognisable. Go to the Hunter Valley, its like Australian in the 1980s almost - amazing.
@@fingerprint5511 hey yes Sydney people are very aggro and quite fake. Its very difficult to make genuine friends with anyone. Its like you know lots of people but noone is really your friend. You could be dead in your apartment for a week and no one would notice or care until it starts to smell. I mean I'd love to move more rural somewhere but it's the cost of living here. Its too much. I'm headed to southeast Asia where Ill have a passive income, no longer need to work and I can travel and save money! Australia is a financial prison. A beautiful prison but a prison nonetheless. Until you decide to leave you don't realise how little freedom you actually really have
This is the Australia I grew up in . I’m 60 now but these were good times .
Great to hear the 80's treated you well. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
1985 I was going to pubs and clubs chasing Aussie rock bands like The Radiators, The Angels, The Oils, etc. Every Sat night. All over the St George and Shire regions plus Selinas at Coogee, Dee Why pub and the RSL, Revesby Workers etc. All the clubs made money from youngsters going to watch bands. Pubs put on bands too, until they turned to pokies and ruined everything.
Interesting comment. I think your probably right.
I turned 18 in '85. Revesby Roundhouse always had great bands.
@@grantwilletts5669 17 in '85 and after uni we would always head into Newtown for a beer and a band or somewhere closer to the Cross. Life in Sydney wasn't perfect back then, but it was simpler, almost more 'real' than it seems to be now. Moving back to the country when the kids leave home (that could be decades from now!!). Great viewing! Dave
@@davee8659 it was simpler and a hell of a lot less people and traffic. Great times. The pub vibe seeing great local bands has sadly gone. Heady days indeed.
Yep that's me too along with Mondo Rock, Split Enz, Ice House playing at the Revesby Workers, Bankstown Sports club and RSL.
Sport every weekend for me it was playing cricket and soccer and watching the League Berries/Bulldogs' at Belmore oval on Sunday, or fishing in the Port Hacking/Georges or Hawkesbury on a Sunday or Flexi day.
None of my mates worked on the weekend, we would meet up at the High Flyer Pub, also had flexi days and planned holidays to enjoy life.
Would go back in a flash 😎👍🏼
I'm with you 🤠Thanks for commenting.
I grew up in eastern suburbs Sydney, this was my youth. This brings back amazing memories of simple life and the beautiful harbour and beaches. Thank you for this documentary.
Glad to hear brings back good memories. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
The old blokes saying, everyday it gets better. I will never see that happen today.
Your so right, good observation👍Thanks for taking the time to comment.
the optimism of the 1980s is long gone
they be turning in their graves
I weep for the glorious past - how Australia once was in the fab eighties. I am 72 now with lots of great memories. Thank you for posting this.
I'm sure you could tell a few great stories about the 80's. Thanks for taking the time to comment.👍
It's not Australia anymore, just a mix of a thousand different little groups all doing their own thing and having their own agendas. There was once an Aussie culture, that is now dead and buried.
@@RS-rj5sh Could be some truth in this. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂
@@RS-rj5sh Balderdash. It was exactly the same back then. People just follow their interests, nothing wrong with that. I lived in Sydney 1981-1989 (mid-twenties to early thirties) and had a great life. Rent was reasonable, for a start. The aussie culture was gobbled up by the corporate sector, mate.
@@paulthew2 nah ...it wasn't exactly the same back then ...trust me on that
R.I.P Australia. It’s so sad what happened here. Looking to escape but not sure where to. Everything has been poisoned
Thats the question for sure, where would you go? thanks for commenting.
I was 30 when this was made.I have been living in Queenland the last 7 years and I never thought i would ever say I miss Sydney.
the Sydney you miss doesn't exist anymore
I was ten and it was a golden age, not just for Australia but my family as my Dads business was roaring before the recession we had to have kicked in. Nostalgia is a bitter sweet emotion.
So true, thanks for your comment.
Australia will never be like this again, I blame consecutive governments for ruining such a wonderful city. I moved out of Sydney in 1991 to the far north coast of nsw. I have no interest in going back. I wouldn’t even recognise where I grew up in the hills shire, totally changed for the worse. Kids of today would have no idea how great Sydney was in the 70’s and 80’s. Such a shame….
Some interesting truths there. Thanks for commenting.
Sydney is awesome to this day. You voted for those govs, why didnt YOU make a difference???
So very true Sir..I did the same and moved my family to the Blue Mountains 10 Years ago.
Take care friend
Look up castle hill showground and see what’s happened. The Baulkham Shire Council building isn’t at the ahowground anymore and everything is so different now.
@@Iwishiwasflying Unfortunately progress does not always move in the right direction. Thanks for commenting.
I was 15 at the time. This brings back so many great memories. It was indeed a special time in Sydney
Nice to hear, thanks for commenting🙂
I was 20 years old in 1985 and Bondi was my second home in summer , the beautiful beach and ninos pizza is where we spent most of our time . how I miss 1985 .
Nice to hear your memories. Thanks for your comments👍
I was 7 in 1985. I remember going to the opera house and playing outside and sliding down. Bondi was so different back then. I miss the 80s! Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for your comment. Nice to know the film brought back some happy memories🙂
@@gregpetterson
I was 12, but the film was not completely a memory, a lot of it was commercialized crap
the bondi beach bit was true to history
the beginning was not and the end was not
I'm sensing this was some sort of documentary , which.. as we know they always throw stuff in that no one did
Like Seriously...... SHOW OFF HANDS
Which one of us growing up HAD A YACHT growing up?
LMFAO
I had a car tyre insert that i blew up and took to bondi beach,......>Never a Yacht
This Australia is long gone. Forever. Now we live on a prison planet.
Agree 💯
chinese rule
"This Australia is gone. Forever. Now we live on a prison planet."
-Indigenous people.
Thanks to global communism
@@wolfgangvonuce9803 Million bucks says you're from Sweden...
Beautiful. Proper Australia. A golden age.
Right on. 👍
Absolutely!
When we had an identity
@@thedownunderverse We still have our identity. It's that it's being attacked to relentlessly now. From government and the corporate sector, down through the media and the "left", to the hordes of foreigners whom they're bringing in.
Australia before the CCP took over. It was inevitable.
watching this i am reminded what was so great about Sydney then - and miss it intensely now. the decades have not been kind
Have to agree with you. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂
I grew up in clovelly right next to Bondi
After Sydney had the olympics it was never the same
Interesting comment thanks.
There are a lot of people in Sydney who don’t appreciate what we have. They need to watch this video. Thank you for posting. I was 9 years old when this was filmed, honestly, take me back… If you told people these days the sun shines 15 of 17 days, they would probably tell you that we’re all gonna die.
How funny🤣🤣. Thanks for your comments.
@@gregpetterson no problem Greg, thanks for the video. I can remember the BBQ’s from back then, they were class and there was always a platter on offer. One thing that stands out is how carefree life was then compared to now. No wonder there is so much mental illness these days, too many things to complicate life and not enough time to enjoy the 15 of 17 sunny days.
What a time to be alive! The day's before mobile phones, selfie sticks, reality television and Kim Kardashian that we know of! We're simply a different people nowadays! The times before mass materialism and narcissistic tendencies took hold.
So true👍
Kim who?
Mobile phones were already there. They cost about $5000 and had a run time that couldn't rack up much of a bill. We had reality TV. It was Bert Newton and Norman Gunston. You couldn't get more real than that.
@@philgray3443 I think your right about the cost of mobile phones. I understand NEC made one in Australia, If you got the in-car and boot country range booster you were up for $6000
Dont forget mass immigration. It was 70000 per annum back then, which was a sustainable rate for the amount of housing being built. 400000 now, and Sydney is a chaotic, miserable, and unaffordable mess, thanks to massive immigration being forced on us by our hopelessly corrupt politicians.
This is excellent, thank you for bringing back so many memories of Sydney!
Thank you for your kind comment 🙂
1985 we restored my uncles pub the Mercantile The Rocks! Best days of my life!! ( & yes the Family still own it) Uncle Paul is passed thought!!
Interesting memory of a great Sydney landmark! thanks for sharing and fantastic to hear it's still in the same family👍
Great pub, I think I should own a few bricks!
Was 9 at the time, and lived in Lithgow. We visited my grandparents who lived in Manly many times. It’s still a beautiful harbour - very much a golden era when I think back on it now. Thanks for sharing the video 👍
Manly is a great spot. Most of the surfing shots were taken at Manly. Agree with you about the golden era. Thanks for your comments.
I had family in Lithgow as well as Narrabeen, Im now in Bathurst
What a lovely way to start my day and thank you. I moved to Sydney from the Mid North Coast in 1986 to start uni and have been here ever since. For me, returning to 1986 with your documentary is both nostalgic and sad - back when my dad was still alive, when we didn't have so much tech influence in our lives and life was probably "simpler" than it is now - at least for me. It remains a beautiful city, especially when you spend a lot of time in her many national parks and waterways! Many thanks again and cheers from the North Shore - Dave
Thanks for your comments Dave. Good point about the national parks and waterways they are stunning 👍
I was born and raised in Sydney and have now finally moved to the mid north coast. It took me 60 years to get the hell out of "That Place"... Now if I have to go down to Sydney, I can feel the pressure of the place when I drive south over the Hexam bridge. Looking back, it was all over for me when they tore down the Dee Why pub. Sydney is a developers dream, but not much chop for the rest of us schlubs.. :)
@@lukebable Thanks for your interesting comment.
@@gregpettersonwhat did he say?
@@CarolynEllisQtEllis Who is he?
I was 14 years old and living the best years of my life. Only thing is, I didn't realise this at the time.
I really hate the way this City has become. Over run with immigration, infrastructure bursting at the seams, extortionate energy prices, the death of our manufacturing industries, housing demand driving Australians out of their own market, Medicare crumbling, private health insurance through the nose, cramped suburbs, smaller blocks, smaller streets, every house has to have at least 5 cars, longer waiting times to see a doctor, high density ghetto suburbs, and so on and so fourth...
Our Politicians have really done a number on us and ruined this once beautiful place of ours. At least I have the memories right ???
The 1980's were a unrealised golden period. As you said at least you have the memories 🙂
I hear you buddy, I was 17 in 1985, born at Bankstown. Lebbo capital these days. Now I live at Campsie. All I see are chinese everywhere and not aa word of English. And they are just downright rude people the lebs and the chinese
Yep the Politicians have totally destroyed us!
It seems Australian politicians these days see endless population growth as a positive. I think it will actually lead to the destruction of Australian society and culture. It will destroy what we love about Australia.
@@sushimamba4281 Interesting comment, thank you.
Having your Dog Off the Leash on Bondi Beach.. Try that Now!
Thats not going to happen😂
Now you need a license to go fishing!
Everyone over a certain age remembers how good this country was.
Yep, agree with you. Thanks for commenting.
Too bloody right!😢
Thanks for posting,Greg. Fascinating look at the year before I arrived in Sydney.
Thanks for your kind comment 🙂
The only changes I have seen is equity and diversity has improved.
I miss that Australia so much! Thanks for the trip down memory lane 👏🏻
Thanks for your kind words and taking the time to comment.
it looks so different today. thanks for the upload sir
So true. Thanks for your comments🙂
Thanks for this piece of history. Reminds me of Sydney in 1985. Lived around Bondi
Thanks for your kind comment🙂
Yes me too. Working people could afford to rent a place back then. Great days.😊
Awesome. Back when I didn't feel like I was living in Shanghai or Mumbai.
We wouldn't have anyone running the 7-11's, uber eats or shopping mall security
@@MissHannah2036
Wouldn't that be tragic.😅
@@MissHannah2036 Yes we would we would have Aussies. How rude.
There’s always Bendigo.
What’s wrong with Shanghai?
I was busy growing inside my mum to see these days first hand. Grateful to have video footage of what Australia was like back then. I was clearly born at a wonderful time (1986) 😅
Nice one, thanks for commenting.
Moved to Sydney from the far north coast of NSW in 1986. My girlfriend had moved and I came down a bit later when I had got a job. Thought I would be here for a couple of years. My girl dumped me the day i got here and she was the only person I knew in Sydney. Still here. Loved being in Sydney for for the 80's living in Darlo then Bondi. Still go to Stanley St in East Sydney to revisit the old haunts including the Lord Roberts and Bill & Tonys. Great doco - a love letter to Sydney in the 80's.
Good to hear a bit of your history and to see it turned out OK. Thanks for your kind comment👍
I was 9 in 1985 , I miss those days when Australia was Great ! 💞👍🏻🇦🇺👍🏻💞
Yep. I’m a similar age. It’s really gone to poop now hasn’t it
In the days when it was another UK
What do you miss about it the most given you were 9?
Now with this voice, they want to segregate. Not telling people of land tax if yes
The golden years happy times and folk
I was born in 1985 in Perth. I moved to Sydney 3 years ago. I love it here and it is my home. Great documentary. :)
Thanks for your kind words, good to hear Sydney is treating you well🙂
I miss the eighties
Yep it was a great time, thanks for your comment👍
Superb video. I was 10 years old back in 85, living in my homeland UK and wouldn’t have known very much about Sydney. Been living in Sydney a while now and love life here. Love learning all about its history. Thanks for posting this Greg.
Thanks for your kind comments. Glad Sydney's been treating you well🙂
😎
Thankyou
I worked as a bus driver for a year in 1985. Drove over the bridge from the North Shore to Wynard and back many times. Plus lost a wing mirror or two on occasion.
Not surprised about losing a wing mirror or two, just as busy on the bridge then as it is now. Tough job driving in the city. There is a bus in the film crossing the bridge from North to South, could have been you!
Great doco . Thank you
Thank you for your comment, nice to know what you thought of it
Beautiful🎉.. old is gold❤
Have never seen this before but very cool to discover a shot of me 9:51 as a young bloke shooting the JJJ Junior at Manly. Great memories there.
Unreal fantastic! I've been waiting for someone to recognise themselves. Your the first, thanks so much for letting me know. Was a great day.👍
I will be updating the original film end credits in the future once I have identified some of the unnamed people that were interviewed. I find as time goes on it is important to have these names recorded for future historical interest. If your interested even though you only appear for a few seconds I would like to include your name (guy shooting the JJJ Junior at Manly with Canon Telephoto) up to you? if interested and you don't want to leave your name here just email me. For my email go to my channel page and click on the 'about' section🙂
I lived across from Bondi back then, in a old block of flats in Campbell Pde... to get up at sparrow, run across to the beach and have your morning surf, bit if tea and toast and get on the 380 into the City, do your day's graft then back, either to the beach, maybe walk down to Bronte along the beach in the sunset, down a schooner at Selinas and take in a band, a late night kebab at Bondi Junction, hit the clubs and hotels Friday and Saturday night, hung over morning surf on Sunday.... konk out on the beach.... life was bloody marvelous
Those were the days, sounds like you were living it👍Thanks for your comment.
Yes I lived in Bennett St, Flood St, Roscoe St & Blair St. Flats were cheaper & easier to rent back in the 80's I moved into my first share flat in 1985. At 19 years of age. I had a full time job as a phone technician when I was 18 years old at Telecom before it was called Telsra & stolen from the people. We didn't realise how good we had it back then. Most work places were unionised, work & housing was much more secure & we didn't cop shit from bosses or governments.😊😊
1985 was my last year living in Sydney as a youngster. Always a joy to come back and visit.
Hope you have some nice memories of the time. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I remember what Bondi was like back them. Like swimming in a dunny. Plus nobody ever drank Fosters in Sydney.
Thanks for your interesting comments. I think you're right, Bondi did have off days depending on wind and tide conditions back then. Tooheys beer was popular if I remember correctly.
@@gregpetterson Yeah although Malabar was probably worse Bondi had a bad rep for a while. And pretty much everybody drank Tooheys if not Tooth / Reschs. Although VB and Swan had started to make inroads into the market.
You are right, nothing like a Tooheys or 2, as the advert went.
Bondi cigars everywhere..
@@davidjohnston7512And I thought someone had dumped a load of Picnic bars in the water.
I like how the bloke at the end is so repulsed by work he has to spell the word out 😂
🤣🤣🤣 Life was a little more laid-back in the 80's
Nsw has some the best beaches in the world. Sydney is absolutely heavenly. I will never understand why people compare melbourne with sydney its night and day difference
Good comment about the beaches. Melbourne has other qualities different to Sydney.
Melbourne? They have nothing. Always makes me laugh when they go around the country for the New Years Eve fireworks & they show that stupid little stream that goes through Melbourne that they call The Yarra River where they showcase their $100 dollar bag of fireworks & then Sydney harbor pops up on the TV screen with it’s multi million dollar bag of fireworks & it’s the best in the whole world .Who wants to see boring Melbourne & don’t laugh South Australians , Adelaide is just as boring .
@@blastermaster2383 Agree with you about the fireworks. But I think your a little bit tough on poor old Melbourne and Adelaide though, I'm sure their trying their best. Sydney is lucky having the iconic harbour bridge and Opera house to show case the fire works. 🙂
@@IvanDalmatinac Interesting comment. All the best for your move to the NSW north coast
A guy from Melbourne I met at a party in Sydney was extolling the virtues of his home city.
“If you took away the Harbour, Beaches and Weather.. what have you got “ he pronounced in a triumphant glow.
To this I quipped “ Melbourne “ 😂
I lived in Melbourne for a bit and I stopped telling people I was from Sydney as it kicked off the usual 5 minutes of rather parochial banter which seems weird when people from Sydney really dont care about Melbourne while they seem obsessed in being better than Sydney. It’s kinda pathetic to be honest when Sydney is literally one of the most beautiful cities if not the most. Little brother complex.
This short Docu-film is a ripper. Cheers for sharin' it, mate!
Bloody bonza gettin' a squiz at Sydney back in the '80s and gettin' a feel for the times. The sound added a fair, and them Super8 film shots, mint quality, mate! Classic as, but top-notch shootin' and editin' there. Bauer S175XL wasn't just for dinkum amateurs, ey? Proper professional Super8 gear, fair dinkum.
Cheers 🇦🇺❤
Thanks for taking the time to comment, super nice kind words thank you🙂
Australia was beautiful back then, Sydney back then was the best times of my young life, how did we get to where we are today, the wrong people running our country, Australia isn't Australia anymore, that old Soldier that got out of the German NZI camp would be rolling in his grave if he saw how society in our country is today
Your probably right
Wrong type of immigration. Im late 30s with my parents (Austrlian born) being italian. I dont know what is was like when their parents moved here (i hear stories of getting bullied as "wogs" when they were kids) but i knew my grandparents (immigrants) always worked hard, tried to learn the language and blend in. My parents aren't the type to start trouble. All i see now is arabs treating the roads like their personal playground, no care in the world to follow any rules and second generation asians still not able to speak english clearly. This might sound like a racist comment, but as someone with multiple ethnic friends, and work with multiple cultural backgrounds its the truth as bad as it may sound. some will say you cant generalize but when the majority or certain groups act this way its hard not to.
@@cmelft2463 Very interesting thoughts from somebody with an ethnic family background. Thanks for commenting.
Love Sydney, spent a lot of time there in the 1980's
Nice to hear Zoo Zu
Yep. Great in the 80s. Not now.
@@warriorpoet9629 sad but true mate
This was a few years before I was born. But the 80's seem like an awesome time to be alive. There were still cars and most modern conveniences. Minus mobile phones and fast computers.
Your right it was. But who knows maybe in another 40 years time today maybe looked upon as a great time🙂
@gregpetterson Maybe not the 2020s: inflation and wokness are rampant. The poor can't afford electricity, and the politicians don't even know what a woman is.
You're right, it was awesome.
The 80's were awesome we weren't backwards, just really laid back :) We got to experience life without mob phones and the internet, and then we did. Apple Mac coming to Aust 1986 I think. To see what Australia was like in the mid 80's and how it has changed 35 years later is a privilege I suppose. Very Aussie ocker then.
Great video!
I read your bio and see that you enjoy documenting for historical and future reasons! 😊 Our family has an hour or so worth of film, and much of the film is/was recorded from my grandfather's airplane, back when he owned and flew a small commercial airplane just after WW2 (He was in the RAAF and flew in a light bomber during the war, i suppose thats where he learned to fly).
Im not sure if you want Australian film like that, but if you do, i can go find the DVD, set it up on my laptop and send you a copy. Wether you use it or not, thats upto you, maybe you'll simply enjoy viewing some footage of rural Australia from a birds eye perspective. 🙂
Either way mate, have a good one 👍🏻
Oh, i nearly forgot to say -- the film is from the mid 50s).
Its family/home footage of my mothers side of the family.
Wow! sounds great, would love to see a copy of it. For my email details please click on the 'About' section of my CZcams channel page. 🙂
This was a nicely edited short doco and good little glimpse back to the mid-80s.
Thanks for your kind comments 🙂
wow amazing footage of syd in the 80's😮
Thanks for your kind comment.
Those where the days my friend we thought they would never end weed sing and dance the hole day through , great time and song if you remember 😮👀😳🫣
So true 😊
Great work and brings me back lots of memories about Sydney. Can I ask where do you get the film transfered? Nice shots.
Thanks for your kind comments. The film transfer was by DVD Infinity in Crows Nest Sydney. (The option was for HD and enhancement). They did a good job including the sound transfer. Further work on stabilisation and removal of scratches/marks was done using the editing software Davinci Resolve. Also I had a professional film colourist Tim Wreyford do the colour correction. I changed the transferred film to full aspect so you don't have the black vertical bars on each end. The negative with doing this is you loose some quality as the film has been zoomed in but the plus is you can move the scene up or down to hid the film gate which can be seen sometimes between scenes. Also with the editing software I removed 2-3 frames either side of a lot of the original join splicers to stop the judder where the projector jumps over these physical splices which where originally overlapped and glued together.
Wow love your work
@@adambooth600 Thanks for your kind comment 🙂
Absolutely loved this documentary thank you for sharing. Can you tell me the name of the/ artist of the piano music that is throughout the documentary? At the beginning etc … it’s beautiful ❤
Thanks so much for your kind words. Glad you liked the opening music track. It's called Mysterious Ways by Crescent Music.
My memories of 85 are just that, golden sunsets.. summer was summer. Many weekends down at balmoral beach. A few trees there still have our carvings 😊 life and people were fascinating (not screens) .. that vision of the aqua plane, as a kid you'd look up and see all kinds of flying objects. You played sports and enjoyed it. Family was more valued...
Great comments and memories. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂
@@gregpetterson thanks mate ... the coastline, colors of summer, personalities at bondi .. centrepoint looked golden and new! and how many people living in Sydney at the time can identify with all these images. Life was magical. BTW so was TV .. countdown .. Cheers .. Hey Hey .. its amazing how the environment at certain times rubs off on other bits of society and there is a richness and abundance.
@@cvarikos More good memories👍
i was 11 y.o in 1985....sad to see Australia now looks like baghdad
You have obviously never been to Baghdad...
you obviously havent been to auburn/bankstown/fairfield/liverpool/...to name a few,Australia is becoming Arabised?
@@slyonmeshut up. Australia was anglicised when we turned up on boats and raped and pillaged. Who are you to decide who lives here?
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I was one of the very fortunate people privileged to grow up on the Northern Beaches. We did not understand that it was a paradise. We were the luckiest people in the world, living in the most beautiful part of the most beautiful city in the world. I was in my late twenties then and those couple of decades were when it was when it was at its best. Truly superb.
So true, sure is a beautiful part of the world👍Thanks for your comment.
Manly, Dee Why and Freshie, great spots, mate...
@@stevestewart-sturges2159 Yes, I lived near Dee Why, but Harbord was the best for body surfing. Pittwater was and still is the most beautiful place in the world to go sailing. Halcyon days.
@@stevestewart-sturges2159 All great spots, a lot harder to get parking now to back then.🙃 Was easy parking at Freshie then. I'm guessing it's all changed as it was over 20 years ago when I was there last.
@@thomaselliott573 harbord was also my favourite spot for body surfing. My mate had a VW Combie and on our way to Harbord if the Spit bridge closed we would all jump out and leave the Combie in the traffic jam and go for a quick swim until the bridge went down. Does anybody do that these days?
I was 9 and living in Bondi beach at the time, such good memories of my redstone skateboard and morey boogie board.
Nice to hear the film brought back some good memories for you🙂
I left the Sutherland Shire in 1987 ... I could see the changes happening and they weren't good. I went back in 2009 and saw the changes. Absolutely deplorable.
It would be interesting to predict what it will be like in another 40 years. Thanks for commenting.
Great video, Kiwi whom lived in Coogee for 2 years at this time. Loved the City, great Pubs Selina's Cooggee Bay Hotel saw so many great Aussie and Kiwi Bands.
Nice to hear you have some good memories. Thanks for your comments.
They definitely had stronger accents back then compared to now!
Intersting observation 👍
There are other people mentioning this. A gentrification is erasing regional accents in the UK.
Andrew 'the boy wonder', aka Denton, assisting Doug Mulray on 2MMM - what a way to begin! I was flatting in East Sydney while at Kenso Kindy. What a time. Pumped fuel at Rosebay on weekend - watched the seaplanes or the 18 footers. Life was simple and good.
Good memories. thanks for sharing👍
Still Centrepoint Tower to me... & Bondi in the 80's... I remember was a very relaxed place 😜
Have to agree with you. Thanks for your comment👍
@@gregpetterson I was staying with my dad in 1983 in a penthouse in Bondi Junction & then he looked after a friends place with a private beach nearby
@@Slashkamr Wow! living the life with a private beach. Sounds like great memories. Thanks for sharing.
The good old days just before the real estate market was stitched up and a whole assortment of other hustles
No doubt about it, a lot easier to buy and payoff a home then. Thanks for your comment.
I was born in Liverpool hospital in 1984. A lot has changed since then .
Your right, thanks for taking the time to comment👍
I love my city of Sydney I was only a child in the 80’s but I remember how it was.
Nice one, thanks for your comment.
My first experience in Sydney was 1987, on a rugby trip from Nz, went to Katoomba played there, Wollongong. I loved the experience as a young 15year old. I would move back to live in my 30s to Brisbane Queensland,,Aussie is in my blood, love this nation and its people.
God bless Australia 🇦🇺 👍
How nice, great to hear. Thanks for telling your story.
Can anybody identify the women at 5:18 interviewed at the Nuclear protest on Sydney harbour? and the guy in the middle at 7:35 interviewed on Bondi Beach? (the old boys lifeguards). So the film credits can be updated in the future.🙂Also thanks to some viewers who have pointed out a very important incorrect date in the narration. The narration at the start of the film has the first fleet dropping anchor in Sydney Cove on 28th of January 1788 when it should be 26th this will also be updated in the future.
I was an old Bondi lad and those old fellas look like Icebergers. Bondi Icebergs used to be the rock pool on South Bondi.
@@anthonyraymond5718 Thanks for your comment. With the help of The Bondi Loop FACEBOOK Group and the Bondi Historian Lawrie Williams we have identified Frank Hurley on the left (Australian heavyweight wrestling champion 1949. Was taken prisoner by the Germans in WW2 on the Greek Island of Crete and spent the war years in a prison camp in Germany) and Gordon Cassidy on the right but we are STILL TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE GUY IN THE MIDDLE?.🤔 I have been informed these guys were all original old boy lifeguards.
She seems an inner west type
@@fergspan5727 Could be, well thats a start. Thanks for your comment👍
I wonder where those protesters are today, how their living their lives, how important, concerning, this is subject is for them 40 years later.
I remember those days. International Roast was our coffee. Chinese braised chicken was the heights of exotic cuisine. For the less adventurous there was always Red Rooster or a Chiko Roll from the corner shop. Wine came in cardboard boxes, and VB beer was everywhere. Men dressed in king gees or polyester suits, and women wore Katies or Best and Less. The sweet scent of Winfield Reds permeated the city. A root in a panel van was a classy date. And the Daily Telegraph was our window to the world. Our golden age indeed before multiculturalism.
Thanks for highlighting some of the norms back then.
You wouldn’t have a doctor without multiculturalism.
LOL - spot on!!! Laid back, Anglo-Celtic Australia has all but disappeared. Many of the old diggers would be devastated at how we've sold ourselves out and are being replaced.
@@embracedmadness
This is because the universities deliberately limit med school intakes - it's cheaper to import foreign fully trained doctors. Super bright Aussie students with 98 score ATARS across double maths, physics, chemistry, still can't get into medicine - it's deplorable.
Well you dont know shit, because my grandparents came over from Poland in 1948, my grandad help build the snowy mountains hydro electric scheme with about 65,000 other migrants from over 30 nations.. so immigration helped you have all those wonderful things you enjoyed..
"Original film type Kodachrome 40 (Super 8 sound film) restored and enhanced to HD. " I remember growing up in the 90's and being intrigued by the photos in old magazines from the 80's at the dentist and doctor's waiting room. The colours made it look like another planet, especially since fashion seemed to have changed a lot too by then.
Side note: the narration by Morag McArthur sounds like just like a present day Laura Tingle.
I think your right, Morag does sound a little like Laura Tingle 👍Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Great vid. These were the days even as a 1st generation kid born here from asian parents, you'd still feel the aussie cultural influence. I was 8 yrs old in 85. Growing up in the 80s was a lot better than now.
Nice to hear it sounds like you enjoyed growing up in the 80's. Thanks for commenting.
Before they sold this place out. Now it’s “multicultural” which equals one big mess and overpriced in every aspect.
Your right about overpriced, thanks for commenting.
i was a teenager then, catching the train into Central from fairfield for $1, i would then free range around town, man the things i got up to, all harmless of course but amazing nonetheless
So much nicer to have Sydney Harbour Bridge without the flags spoiling the lines of the arch.
Interesting comment, got me thinking.
1979, I was 17 from holland on holiday in Dee Why and learning to surf at North Cur Curl. O yes on the greyhound bus doing east/ middle australia, big times 😎😎🤗🤗🤩🤩
Good one Hans, Hope Sydney treated you well. Thanks for your comment😄
Thanks Greg, it was the best of times. I have been to Aussie 3 times during my life and in 2027 i will retire( they say🤣😎) and hope to come more often to Sydney and spend a few months every year, for as long as possible. eeeehhh reading the other comments: we in europa have similar problems like Sydney. looks like 'western created problems' and general technical progress and just history taking its toil. Love to read some feedback.
@@Hans-mg5nf Sounds like you have a plan. All the best for your future retirement and hope you enjoy your visits back to Sydney.
I have a cunning plan 😂😂🤣🤣😎😎
Sydney 1985, what a year, what a decade. Babylon. Best time of my life.
Definitely agree with you 👍
100%
They were good days back then. We can't say the same for Australia today. The WEF, WHO & UN test bed now. Banjo & Henry would be rolling in their graves if they could see how gutless Australia has become.
Thanks for an interesting comment🙂
I was 17, at the time, and I miss that time, I think I miss the feel of that time, along with just being young and having your whole life ahead of you. In some ways it was a more innocent time a simpler time. But I still I think Sydney is a great City and Australia, a great country, the greatest, country, actually by far, (my parents came here from Europe in 1962 and I'm so glad they and I was born in Australia ) and I will always be grateful that they were able to settle here, I will always love Australia I have travelled a lot , and would not want to live anywhere else permanently.
Agree your parents made a good move and also agree Australia is still a great place to live. Thanks for commenting.
@@gregpetterson cheers.
when I came to Sydney 1989, it was so beautiful. There were not any tall buildings either in Darling Barbour nor at Opera House
Interesting observation. Thanks for commenting.
Ah,i remember when women used to swim and sunbake topless at beaches.Those were the days.Back when Australia was at it's best and before social media and weak councils and governments stuffed it all up.
Gotta me some truth here. Thanks for your comment👍
@@gregpetterson no worries.Thanks for the awesome video.I love videos of how Australia used to be.Makes me feel nostalgic.
@@ninjamaster7724 Thanks for your kind words🙂
Totally laughing! I finished HSC in 1985 and had joined North Bondi Surf Life saving Club for the following 3 years. Those old Guys were there most days. Lots of other characters, too.
The sewage only came with certain currents. Was gross though.
Great to hear you new the old guys. With the help of the Bondi Local loop Facebook group and the Bondi Historian, I was able to identify Frank Hurley and Gordon Cassidy. The guy in the middle many know him but unable to name him. Would you know?
@@gregpetterson sorry, I can't help Greg. I think they were a regular part of the furniture that the younger Men would joke with and be respectful of. They would swim across the bondi bay, then sit and tan. What they said was correct. It is a perfect Bathers beach. Australia is spoilt. Sydney is spoilt for various beaches.
Nth Bondi club was considered a more family club, as opposed to Bondi and I remember a lot of really cool, but nice clubbies. I've watched the Bondi rescue a few times, and some of the teens, young adults of my time are on it.
I was only in the Eastern suburbs from 85-93 , and had an amazing experience, just as it was going' 'yuppy'. I had wanted to cross over from stillwater swimming to surf swimming, but did not quite have the style or desire. I was at the age where I quickly more interested in being social and getting a career going.
If you are into the older history of Bondi beach, I have quite a personal family history. My Grandmother was born and grew up where the pavillion now is. Her father was the manager of the then 'Bondi Change Rooms' which were built in the early 1900's. You would know they used to have the formal change room system. Their home was built above the change rooms.
Great Grandfather and Mother would go out their side gate and walk up to the Bondi Hotel for dinner often, when it was becoming fashionable in the decades to come.
My Grandmother was born on June 18th, 1912 during a well known quite damaging 4 day storm. When the storm abated, the long wooden dive in platform had been ripped from its moorings at the icebergs pool and was washing up against the frontdoor of the changerooms. The beach still had sand dunes etc, so nothing to stop it, and were really badly damaged. And the big boulders off the north bondi cliffs had been pushed up to their current positions, signifying the power of the storm. It was really quite an event at the time and the council had mermaids placed on the boulders with a date of the storm.
No one officially knew when the rocks came up, but my family always said it was most likely the 19th, possibly 20th. Grandma was born during the storm, but in at Paddos Womens hospital, and couldn't return till storm settled.
I believe the mermaids were stolen a little while back. Sad.
My Grandmother was an absolute fish or mermaid as they would say, and was bodysurfing at age 5. She said she just spent her days with her little dog running around the beach and swimming. At that time there were not many doing so, but I think there were enough good young men doing similar to watch out for her.
She had an extensive pressclippings book to prove it all.
She bacame an incedibly successful swimming in the ladies club, being basically the champ by age 12.
I would bodysurf on her back up until age 8 or so. She was almost as natural as dolphin in the water. Never lost it.
She had an early professional framed photo as I looked at a lot as I was growing up. It was of her, age 6 and 4 other bodysurfers catching a beautiful big wave at the south end.
The had been 6 or them bodysurfing the southend together and one missed the wave.
Sadly this man was taken by a shark. I believe this was the first known attack at Bondi. I think I have that story correct. It was engraved in my brain as a kid. Freaky!
I don't know what happened to the photo when she passed. Another sister has the pressclippings book, so I can't check the details that were in the papers.
Sadly her Dad died when she was 14 and they moved to Paddington, which was quite poor at the time. She became a secretary during the depression and made money for the family.
Around that time the changerooms and their home were knocked down and made way for the fancy new Pavillion, and the rest is history.
Keep up the good work, is fun to see older stuff!
The only thing I notice with the older filming is it doesn't pick up the colour well. The harbour and beaches are so much more vibrant in real life and I think the bright sun washes out the camera catching that vibrancy.
@@em945 Wow! such a great history and memories. Thank you so much for taking the time to share them🙂
@@gregpetterson thanks, Greg. by the way, the long somewhat boring story about the storm and dates was on my mind to tell someone after hearing a history reporter talking about it on ABC radio. I had not realised how big an event it was....a number of shops etc were washed away, and it meant the council had to replan the streets. Prior to that, it was just a dramatic family story. He said It had been a mystery too for detail people, as to what the actual date of the rocks had come up.
I would like to have told him my family thought the 19th.
Take care.
@@em945 Great history, I'm sure the Bondi Historian Lawrie Williams would be interested in this story also.👍
Hi Greg, do you own this footage? If so, would you be open to licensing some clips from it?
Hi Megumi, yes I own the footage. I could be open to licensing some clips. For my email details please go to my channel page and click on 'About'.
@@gregpetterson Thank you. I will email you.
I think 1985 was the year JJJ was formed. Midnight oil did oils on the water on Goat Island in January. Allan Border was Australian cricket captain. There was no Sydney harbour tunnel. Crocodile Dundee would come out in cinemas the following year. There was a tv show on the ABC on late Saturday mornings called BeatBox. And the TV programs in Qld and NSW were basically Rugby League, Rugby Union in the afternoon followed by news and british TV drama. Very nostalgic seeing this.
You have brought up some great memories. Thanks for commenting.
It's mad how popular and common topless sunbathing was in the '80s. Feel sort-of sorry for people these days, as we didn't bat an eyelid about it back then but you rarely see it now. Well, I guess those people have the internet now! But anyway, still sailing and surfing in Sydney. Despite all it's problems and expense of living here, it still stacks up as a great place to be.
Totally agree, its still a great place to live but sad that many struggle with the expenses living in Sydney today. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂
Love the bronze whalers and white tipped pointers.
Sydney is on track to become the first non-Australian city in Australia
Interesting observation. Thanks for commenting.
@@gregpetterson Why do you respond like a bot
Already is
Rather a ridiculous comment. Isn't there a movement in WA trying to get it's 'independence'. Perth would then become a non-Australian city...
80's was a glorious time period all across the world.. The planet was more pristine and hence was the society 🙏
It was a great time living in Australia I agree. I'm sure some parts of the world were doing it tough though. Thanks for commenting.
I grew up in Newcastle. One thing we used to say that Life doesn't exist north of Hornsby. It is funny some of the silly i remember like the safe driving campaign they had in those days 'Drive alive in 85.
They had some great add campaigns back then. Thanks for reminding me.
I was doing a course at Gymea TAFE in 1985 definitely the best of times. A lot more common sense back then.
Thanks for your comment, always interesting to hear what people were doing back then. Agree it was a great time.👍
NO such thing nor mindset of common sense exists, Stupid.
Define it if you Retarted-ly think so 😐🤐
not once do they mention indigenous people like they never existed in Sydney. People overseas who have never visited Australia think its a 'home and away' country but its far from that
You bring up a good point. Thanks for commenting.
We are supposed to be united as one .Anyway I was born here so I’m indigenous
Unless you have black aboriginal ancestry m8 nor about as indigenous as a man calling himself a woman stop trying to change the meaning of the word to suite your own agenda
@@moparmadman1134 I agree with you we should be united as one. I come from an indigenous group from another country. Sure be proud of your heritage but you have just as right as anyone as you were born here.
I remember paying the tolls for my folks on the harbour Bridge as a youngster... Sitting in the front seat 🤣👍
Those were the days of only 1 toll in Sydney and I think it was only 20 cents.
I visited Sydney that year, I'm from Adelaide SA 😊
You will probably notice some changes next time you visit 🤣
I see nobody was concerned about the cost of living or house prices.. 🤨
Your so right, house prices were more stable back then and the banks would never give a loan at such a high percentage of income like they do today. If the same rules applied today, you probably couldn't buy a home in Sydney on the max amount approved by the banks.
@@gregpetterson negative gearing wasn't a thing back then was it? It is just astronomical the prices now and there are either people struggling to get into the market or people with multiple properties. Crazy
@@KellyOsborne222 Yes I think you are right about the negative gearing. Its very sad for some people at the moment, definitely not the lucky country for them like they use to say 40 years ago.
I think there are other factors overlooked here too.
One elephant in the room was the tremendous amount of "New Arrivals" in the last 20-25 years or so.
But I'm sure that I'll get accused of all sorts of nonsense just for stating the obvious.
@@Fnord23Gnosis no-one mentioned that in this video. Australia is multicultural and has been for a very long time.. there has always been other migrants coming here. Their ethnicities have changed but same sitch.
Nuclear free….shows the irrational paranoia of the time.
Thanks for your comment. There were very strong feelings from both sides of the Nuclear aspect. So strong at the time that this film was criticised by judges in film competitions for this footage
Keep in mind, this was filmed less than a year before the Chernobyl disaster. People were rightly suspicious of 80s era nuclear technology. I know there’s a world of difference between a western nuclear powered ship and a meltdown of a Soviet power station.
@@OldAussieAds You bring up some good points. Thanks for your comment. I Like your channel by the way, your channel content brings back some good memories and laughs.
@@gregpetterson Cheers Greg. Makes it worth my while! I’ll be sure to keep them coming.
When you think about it Coal, Oil and Gas are way more dangerous then Nuclear, but you never see these hippies protesting outside Coal mines for safety of workers.
At 10:39 the man was chilled and said something like that where nobody can imagine working two or three days can feed just one people
You are right, no way could you survive in Sydney today working 2 or 3 days a week. People struggle today if only one person in a family has a full time job.
I left Sydney in 1987 moved out to a regional part of NSW ...I do miss Sydney but im afraid I could never move back, its not like it used to be.. not the way it is now...
Understand how you fell, not the same as it was, but still a lovely city in some way.