Cronulla 1982 / Filmed by Ross Myers
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- I filmed this in the main street of Cronulla in 1982, six years before the mall was built. Sorry if it gets a bit shakey occasionally. I was experimenting with a new super 8 camera & it didn't work out. I nearly threw the film out at the time but now I'm glad I didn't as it's a glimpse back into the past! Filmed by Ross Myers
My old beloved Cronulla!! I seen "Jolly Roger's" music shop in this clip, I'd hang out there if the surf was crap after school. Back in the day, I think there was half a dozen petrol stations. Everybody knew everybody, well, nearly!! Great memories this film! Nice work Ross, glad you didn't get rid of!!
Love this was at Cronulla High 75-80, recognise every bit of this film. Fantastic place to grow up, we were blessed ...
I was a little kid back then, i would live them days again in a heart beat
I lived in Cronulla in '85 and '86..
I really miss it and the people I met..
I'm sad to see it got so commercialized
Mate love it ...Garlings Chemist...the record shop...the simplicity of the old Nulla..The Cronulla Theatre ...the main street...a true surfs paradise ....love Super 8
MyGawd I feel like crying, such brilliant memories, I get back as often as possible, my family are still there. thanks for posting this
Wow. Great. Family arrived ‘58, born ‘62 Shelley Beach, then Oak Park, Salmon Haul, Darook Park, started drifting ‘81, left 2000. I remember Maria’s Deli. The storm of ‘74. The dunes were so huge.
Yeap they destroyed it , shazz
Great old footage, reminds me of the old days growing up and schooling in Cronulla.
WOW.cronulla and the shire before greedy overdevelopement.brings back fond memories.and as some one else mentioned the old northies.i learnt wisdom there one night 15 years ago.it was last drinks in the animal bar downstairs,this guy turns to me at the bar reaches down to his foot pulls off his thong and says with thong in hand."who needs mates when ya got a pair of thongs"!!15 years on that aussie ocker wisdom still resounds in the depths of my soul.
I was living there then!! Last year at Burraneer Bay primary ! Wow that takes me straight back, thanks mate....
Thanks for sharing Ross.Genius. So glad you didn't throw it out,
Amazing documentation of old and new Cronulla - so enjoyed watching it - thanks for having the foresight to shoot it in the day and for sharing with us -
nice... life was so much simpler back then :)
Your videos are the best. Days gone by. Lives lived. Lives loved. Lives Lost.
Brilliant mate Thanks
Thank you, the memories it bought back are endless.....
only just stumbled across this footage.Grew up there in the 70,S- 90,s.Great place back then.
Mum worked at Maloufs Chemist in the middle of the main drag.Good memories.Thanks for keeping the footage.
This is excellent,and i reckon i can see my car and my mates car parked ...funny that im still driving cars from 1979 today and still parking up there...thank you for sharing ..Pete, Cronulla
Me too shazza
OH WOW absolutely loved this, it was like stepping back in time! loved seeing the old cars, thanks!!!
Love all the old cars from my youth!
Thanks for the memories ... Jolly Rogers before it crossed the road... cool
Life was better in those days, in remembrance of a dear friend Elaine who sadly passed away in 2010.
When me and my friends were about 9 or 10, we used to go into Big Rooster and get free food at closing time- man those free chicken and chips tasted SO good!
Brave man ridin that pushy down Cronulla St with a vid camera too!!!
PS. Top selection of song for them mr Randarook.
Love looking at the cars. Brilliant. Thank you!!!
this is awesome
Loved it,most of the buildings still the same,the Red Rooster hahaha used to go there on the way home from the pub.
BIG Rooster :D
yep. the building at 2:04 is now a cold rock ice creamery haha.
When it first opened, us penniless children used to go there around closing time and they gave us free chicken! Not sure if this was a regular thing, but I know it happened once or twice!
....nice piece of nostalgia :) I grew up in Cronulla from 1956, so I have always plugged for the strip style shopping centre....this footage is definitely my town....the best street for cruzin' on a Friday night!....Happy Days!
Ha, ha, my old home stompin' ground. Have to laugh at the 'Quick Photo Service' ad on the Garling's Chemist facia. My how time is flying.
This is so good - so many memories. It makes me strangely homesick and I still live in the area!
Brilliant video!! '82 was my HSC year at Woolooware. Memories.
0:11 Anyone remember "Porky" the infamous Kurnell Coaches bus driver? For those of you who remember, Porky as we called him rolled the bus outside Northies (the corner of the Kingsway and Eloura Rd). I think this happened in '84 approx. He came close many times while I rode the bus, as he always put the back wheel over the corner when turning there.
This is great, thanks for this. Watched it with mum and got all sentimental! ;)
Great stuff, the time lapse at the end is really terrific, very atmospheric which is hard to create in Cronulla. Don't worry about the shakes, if the content's good the eye corrects all that, Thanks.
I was 18 year of video my brother had the juice and jaffle bar on the corner under the theatre awesome place to grow up .
I remember the jaffle bar well, waiting for a mushroom and cheese jaffle on the way to the beach. Another country altogether back then.
beautiful old green falcon at 1:08.
Amazing to have this footage mate. So good.
Wow what a trip back In time that was
Thanks so much for this. My parents had the deli just down from the Woolworths variety store, with the orange tiles in the front. I spent every summer working there, so I could have been inside at the time you shot this! :)
Made me so happy to see this, you've made me tear up too. How good was Jolly Rogers? Spent most of 1981-2 in there at age 16. Trying to pick out people I know.
Your not the only one.. Jolly Rogers spent many hours in there.. still only picked one bloke i recognize in the video - long haired bloke near the start outside servo cross road from cop shop
Big Rooster - still miss those warm chicken rolls, they were the best!
I grew up in Hornsby ans was a kid then. Cronulla was the other extremity of outer Sydney. It was a foreign country with a football team to me. Now I realise it was pretty much the same place only with a beach.
I bought my Jimmy Henricks collection from that record shop in 75 ! We all miss that life
Jimi Hendrix, you mean.
Love the footage, I still live in the area.
There's no doubt you are the go to guy for these vids,just love them I was born in 1968 so the 70s were very memorable to me and exactly like your clips,I've got a good memory and lots of pics from my childhood and you bring it all back A Big Thankyou.It was a much more chilled time and people were a lot nicer to each other.Funny Adelaide in 1999 felt like that to me when I visited there from Melbourne
I moved out in 85. I'm glad you kept it as well. Thanks.
Loved those days
Glad you took the time to film it, good memories, thumbs up.
Does any one from Cronulla in '85 - '86 remember those Mitchell Rd flat parties (yes Jenny) - legend !
mate I lived and worked at Cronulla station for years and you didn't go near it I used to get all my fotos done at the white chemist shop and eat at effies café up near the theatre man it was a wild place back then
thanks for posting this (and making it!). great piece of social history!
thanks ramdarook brought many happy memories of Cronulla where I lived from 1972 to 1975. Met my wife whos british in the labour and workingmens club,which i think was around the corner from the cinema down the hill towards the beach dont know if its still there are not.Been married for 37 years now , returned to the uk in 1975. big, big mistake!
Golden years of cronulla ,steve rogers,et mcgaw who can forget those sorensen brothers! Toranas,geminis,cortinas, somebody stop meeeee!
Great memories just watchin these vids trying to pickout old mates and I think everyone had munchies from Mamas' next to the cinema at least once!!!
I remember Mick Green riding around Cronulla during the 90's!
Hes still on the same pushy now with the same helmet not fitting over his hair.. which hasnt been cut since LOL!
@@brucebird133 hahaha thats crazy mate...cant take the cronulla out of people
Was looking hard to identify Jolly Roger's Sound Cabin there on the main drag. I think it was still there in 82. Bought many BBVD's (Big Black Vinyl Discs from there, lol).
Have you thought of doing a new vid of the current Nulla for those of us who aren't living in the area anymore... as you can see from comments plenty of us :)
wonderful
I think all the locals know mick green,use to get a tow from the buses on the skate board and pushey up aand down the main drag
God there's a name. Went camping with Mick at Otford in about 78 ...
@@redfern03 Mick is till in Cronulla.. still riding his pushy around with a flanno shirt and hasnt had haircut since the 80s
Thanks for sharing, so many local shops there. No high rise though!
There WAS high rise tower blocks along Gerrale St. overshadowing Monro and Cronulla Parks back then. Also Ozone St., opposite the Cecil... being the far better of the pubs back then. Northies was a dive then... and still is after that monstrosity was built. Thank that corrupt Kev and John at Council for that.
I moved out of Cronulla after 25 years in the area in '83 - returned in the mid '90's till '06, after it turned to shit. EVERY prediction of over-development when I left, not looking back, came true... as confirmed during a 4 week visit in 2018.
It's just a soulless, disgusting concrete jungle, for the most part now.
Well been a while since I watched this vid, and was missing the old place... Gee, I don't feel better for having watched it.. those were the days...
Mick Green is still running around Cronulla in his flanno and Gozo 1978 hairdo and Rory Steele is still hanging at deadshit corner in Caringbah opposite post office.
Interesting to look at the vid these days and see how many of those business are still around today.. not many!
magic stuff, thanks!! great experimenting :)
SOO GREAT!
The workers went in ~1988 :( The Cecil became units
Surf the St George Leader website n search for Workers Club, theres an article on it n photos of the old place
We also spent 100's of weekends there, infact it was the first club I was a member of! I was 16 at the time. ahhh memories. The live bands, Sean Hannan out front sellin hotdogs...
You think thats bad, wait till you see what happened to Northies, its now a latte sippin pure shithole.
omg AWESOME song!
Great video take me back to those days.were not a mask in sight now it's all about get a jab or no job .very sad to what Aus is today
The animal farm , dose it ring a bell to any oldies ? Bad boys hung out there
Happy memories!
Great memories
Liam and Noel would love cronulla
This is amazing footage. Please tell me you have more! Upload it please :)
brilliant mate
Superb
Official its the south, but has always been the western suburbs by the beach.
Thanks truespyfan for the information, I assume you are australian Im still trying to contact any brits who live in the Cronulla area who went in the workers 1972-1975 a long time ago,Yes has ramdarook says it is glimse into the past i suppose it didnt change much from 1975 to 1982 in the vid. Not had much luck on the St. George Leader website but will keep trying!
When I used to live in Cronulla during the '90s they had this crazy-ass building not far from the Lost Camel Cafe (only cafe name I can remember). It seemed like a theatre, but people lived in it and it had a crazy reputation. Does anyone remember it or know what I'm talking about?
Saw my brown 1972 celica
Any of you brits still living in the Cronulla area remember the "workers" in the years 1972-1975 ? .There was a crowd of us used to drink in there at weekends even had our own table!The resident band consisted of a pianist who walked with a limp called Ian cant remember the other guys name. Would love to hear from anyone who remembers those days please cuntact me via youtube service
What was your motivation making those videos? Were you in filmschool ? They are great!
the day they closed the main drag is the day they wrecked cronulla
Not really. I still hang out there to this day and think if they hadn't turned it into a mall/ plaza then it would be an over packed traffic jam. It was getting busy even way back then with cars. Imagine what it would have been like now?
Brian Costelloe an over packed traffic jam?
I guess the traffic now just builds up in the other streets around instead! But the benefit with the mall is that you no longer feel stressed out with the passing cars. It's more relaxed in the 'nulla now.
@@BrianCostelloe And there is still some drive through and parking from the station end to the Rip Curl shop around into Purley Place.
@rabbitoh14 thanks for the reply money permitting might be back in Sydney next year probally woudnt recognize Cronulla today.
Seriously, Ross can I buy you a beer? Please drop me a line.
ha ha! Thanks for your nice comment & offer! I live on the Gold Coast now but still visit Cronulla a few times a year. (Not too much this year) My email is ramdarook@tpg.com.au All the best, Ross Myers
Glad I walked up and down Cronulla Street when it was a street many times before it was ruined. Cronulla was dark by late 70s with drug od's and so on but now its like California - which is worse?
Can any one remember ne hi the shaved beef rolls on the corner on the way down to south Cronulla
Life was so much simpler and happier back then.
Now most of Sydney has been ruined by overdevelopment and overcrowding.
nice plug for your work place mate lol
magic stff
Why play a pommie git song to a great Aussie moments 🤔🤔.
Otherwise. Loved it ..
can any of you aussies still living in Cronulla tell me if the"workers" labor and working mens club is still there? also is the hotel cecil still there? good times in the 70s.
That building was sold off and demolished in '88.
Both the Cecil Hotel and the Cecil Ballroom have long gone, replaced by high rise units.
You wouldnt recognize the shire these days...
@@brucebird133 Yes I was planning a return visit to OZ in 2019 but covid put a stop to that, maybe sometime in the future.
i was born in 1982, lol
mumas hamburgers.
LOL... munchies after the workers or northies every week, or when we camped out teh sandhills, someone would always do a mammas' run for a feed!!