Who remembers lunch at the Coles caffateria or seeing a movie at the Forum...I note too at 0.45 we were very close to getting a glimpse of the Shaft Semena (Cinema) next to the Barrell. And the No 7 tram to the city in an old W class with it's distinctive c-sharp bell...ding, ding. Great memories of a time long gone. Walk along Swanston Street now and be disappointed.
Yes Coles Cafeteria 1st Floor Bourke Street store where you grab a tray and slide it along and pick what ever foods you like. A working-class smorgasboard.
Who remembers the original Darrell Lee shop with the ladies wearing the big bows. So bright and colourful…and the smell, and the chocolate was delicious.
I do!! When we went into 'the city' as a family to have a special lunch and see a 'picture' we'd always end with a special treat visit to the store you're talking about. I LOVE these old archive films and old photos. I could look at old photos and old film for hours and not get bored. I also remember that amazing movie theatre with the domed ceiling painted in dark vibrant blue to give the illusion of a twilight time starry night sky. It felt really romantic and glamorous. I loved it as a kid. I love finding places that haven't been totally modernised. Remember the diner along Flinders Street (or was it Swanston Street, hmm?) that had the table top jukeboxes at each booth. You'd sit and flip through the options whilst waiting for your milkshake or banana split sundae and press B5 for a Beach Boys song that would never come on, ha!
Absolutely! The old lady next door used to get a box of Darrell Lea every Friday when her daughter came home, still wearing the very colourful outfit. Every Saturday, the lovely old lady secretly gave them to me. Her doctor had forbidden her to eat sweet stuff, but she didn't have the heart to tell her daughter. My Mum wouldn't let me eat any sort of lollies except Xmas Easter and birthdays, so this was heaven. I'd hide in my cubby house with a book, and wolf through the lot in one sitting, lol.
When you went into "town" it was an event. Having worked in there for years, it lost the gloss. But I still remember the "good old days", the innocence of youth.
0:08 -- The Southern Cross Hotel.... I really loved that place and I was saddened that it was pulled down. My father was the specialised pastry chef there in that era and received a resounding compliment from Ringo Starr on a pastry dish that was prepared for them when the Beatles had their tour there.
I arrived from the UK in 1966 also aged 9, lived in Moe initially, then Frankston; now back in the UK since 1973. Collingwood barracker since 1966, and still am! GO PIES!! 😊 My Son now lives north of Sydney in Mayfield and is marrying an Australian girl in March 2024. 🇦🇺🌏🦘🪃
OMG - 1966 the year of my first trip to Melbourne. I was just a kid and was absolutely in love with the city, very vibrant and still retaining some great buildings that have been subsequently lost. We stayed at the then new Southern Cross Hotel now also gone. Thanks for the upload. Great memories.
Oh no! What happened to the Southern Cross hotel?! We used to go to their Palm Court restaurant for lunch as a family sometimes. What's there now I wonder?
@@wizzard5442 Do you know what's there now? Another commenter said the whole hotel was pulled down rather than just renovated and redesigned. Is that true?!
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Yes it was pulled down and an office block with street level shops were built. Its called Southern Cross Towers. See wiki.
I love the young boy at 1.32 with him Mum. I am a few years later than this but my Mum always insisted that whenever we went into the City that you wear your best clothes. I can bet the young boy here was told the same thing. He looks immaculate- as indeed nearly everyone else here does too.
funny, that scene also caught my attention.. I was also born a few later but recall ijn the 70's growing up that mum would always dress us up as immaculate as possible
I love it too, but unfortunately people lost their personal standards at some point. Im only 28 ('96) and the current state of things makes me utterly miserable.
I always remember taking the train from Chelsea to the City with my Mum to visit the Downflake Doughnut shop in Swanston Steet and watch the Doughnuts being made in the window.
Do you remember this then. As you walk through life brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole! Cheers PS bloody auto correct
Once was a great city and full of character. Fantastic memories of a great place and time...Stanley Kramer must have liked it as he filmed much of On The Beach (1959) in Melbourne.
I just remember that it was never that crowded. Nowadays it feels suffocating. I think it's due to the invasion of a more existential non physical space via the internet too, it contributes to this awful claustrophobic suffocating feeling. I feel constantly pestered. Everybody's got their necks permanently wound into the business of strangers. And oh my what banal, painfully boring nonsense it all is.
Back when it was safe to walk the streets. Back when everybody who wanted one had a job. Back when everybody dressed decently. Back when we had some basic rules of life that most abided by. Back when...
Back when hard working people could actually afford to buy a nice three bedroom house with a garage, garden and room for a pool in the back garden. What in the hell's happened to the world?!
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293its good stuff at the moment. Work away at an honest job for years and maybe youll get a mortgage in a decade if youre lucky, then have fun paying that for the next 30 years. Meanwhile i can either take off my clothes online and sell it, or make awful videos 'pranking' or just harassing people in public and potentially make unfathomable amounts of money through 'CoNtEnT cReAtIoN'. Society is fucked. Elite overproduction has begun just as mentioned in Peter Turchin's secular cycle theory. Next up, global conflict, a great reset and probably a new major world power.
Awesome footage. I was 3 years old in 1966 and I lived about 2 miles down the road. What I notice the most about video is of course the changes, but not so much the older architecture, although some of it certainly has gone. It’s the newer, taller buildings. They seem to be the ones that are missing today. Replaced by bigger taller buildings. It was a great place then, and it still is today. Dare I say, maybe even better.
The other week I took a train into Melbourne’s CBD, which I had not done in a long time. I was GOB SMACKED. I may as well have been riding a train in Singapore. I think I was the only Australian in the carriage. 😢
@@shaun1900 we don’t have the resources for all these extra people, we can’t afford it. An extra half a million humans here in 12 months, we don’t have the hospitals, schools, houses, etc, etc. This means less quality of life for everyone here. If you need an ambulance for example, your waiting time is increased because they aren’t investing in more paramedics in line with immigration. Our economy and our society cannot cope with this level of immigration if we are not building the infrastructure. Not to mention young Australians being unable to buy a house due to wealthy immigrants pushing up the prices. Again, quality of life for the average Australian is affected. More young Australians have to stay with their parents for longer, or rent for longer (or forever).
@@stefanie.elinor you are pointing the finger at the wrong people, please at least try and do some research before commenting. You just sound daft otherwise. Simple fact is Australia needs immigration, we have an ageing population, decreasing birth rates and an economy and social welfare systems that wound not survive to pay your pension and provide the healthcare you need in old age. Please try harder.
@@stefanie.elinorplenty of investment in vehicles though! Five stationed in the town I live in, constantly parked up. Don’t think I’ve ever seen two out on the roads at the same time since they built their big new brick garage. So is that staff shortages or just lack of trained staff? And if it’s the latter, who commissioned for all those new ambulance vehicles if there isn’t a plethora of trained paramedics? Our ambo’s in Vic are screaming for higher wages and better resource’s, like the cops did several years ago, and like CFA&SES did for years - decades in fact - now we have made a huge capital investment in buildings and vehicles, but no-one wants to even pretend to be interested in actually working a shift, unless there are “perks” like tickets to motorsport events, or other sporting events?? How many of the resourcing decisions in emergency services management are made these days actually totally defies even my trained responders brain. Glad I got out of emergency services when I did, and grateful to still be capable of thinking strategically about organisational waste!
I remember those self-driving milk carts. Our local dairy was just at the end of our street and as kids we played in the horse paddock and would often crawl through the crate loading shoot into the bottling plant to explore. All the stainless steel inside, still wet from being washed down, was kind of mesmerising.
Makes me cry these kind of videos. Melbourne used to be a beautiful place to live and raise your kids. Now it’s a hellhole where you can’t buy a house, soaring crime and nobody knows their neighbour anymore. I live in Tas now and I’d never move back.
Ah, the days when the city was bustling with people. Going into the city was a treat the family would look forward to. Now you avoid it like the plague!
I first landed in Melbourne in 1961 as an 19 year old British seaman & visited regularly until 1965 when I came for good! It was a fantastic city then, not so much traffic like today’s mad roads! No freeways, only the S.Eastern Freeway, which didn’t go far. I miss those days (An old man’s nostalgia, lol.) Melbourne was wonderful. I moved to the country in the late 70s, glad I did, I could not live in the city now!
We arrived from England in 1970. We went to Enterprise Hostel in Norlane, Geelong. Dad bought a EK Holden with 3 on the tree. Got it a bit stuck with the gears. And burnt his finger on the cigarette lighter. It took us to Springvale for work prospects and a home. Mum still has it. Different times indeed.
The original of this gives lots of clues that it was filmed over the period 1964 and 1965. But editing etc took until 1966 to release and put that date on the titles. Made it look up to date but newer for audiences too.
@@cgas7344 terrible isn't it. Can't even feel safe walking around now with all the jungle savages and their machetes...politicians in Canberra don't have to live with them .they ok
@@EliteURBX All the beautiful villages that lefty tourists coo over here in England are almost entirely populated by educated financially solvent hardworking old white people. They cannot seem to be honest and intelligent enough to do the simple sum of 2 + 2. They pooh-pooh snobbery, the idea of privilege and they pooh-pooh monocultures yet seek out beautiful clean villages filled with gentle, respectful white folks on their weekends and holidays. I wish people could just be more honest about things but they're forever deaf to the sound of pennies dropping. Oh dear.
I first went to the footy in 73 withmy uncle and we both dressed casually, and yet watching footy from the 60s everyone looks to be wearing their Sunday Best....l wonder when and how it changed...
If you can identify where the opening panoramic sweep was taken from and when traffic lights flashed amber from late night through to early morning - then you do remember a different Melbourne.
My friend worked for ACCMI about a decade ago and his job was to locate film and transfer to digital- I remember that he did a lot of this for them- it was so fascinating to see the rise of commission flats in all the areas (combat the slums of inner city suburbs). Maybe check with ACCMI in Melbourne- re:Copyright.
I looked at the footage showing Elizabeth Street looking toward Flinders Street, not a single homeless, violent druggie to be seen! In those days possession of a single “reefer” got you 5 years in the bluestone college in Coburg.
The difference isn't so much architecture but due to our adoption of things like US zoning (which is obsolete...but we still have it) EG, Paris has La Defense, but by necessity we've built CBDs on centres due to those zoning restrictions making it that financially the easiest option
Hay a good one to see is the history of the city of Elizabeth South Australia from nothing in 1955 to now.it was an experimental city of the commonwealth ground up housing,small industrial estates,shopping centres etc shows excellent footage and commentary of story of 10 pound poms the building of now old holden factory etc town planning.excellant nartation 21 minutes long CZcams enjoy some good 50s 60s footage australia! Elizabeth was a successful city at first then went on downhill dive to one of Adelaide's most bogan cities and now successfully pulling itself out interesting watch!
Yes, I remember how rare it was to see a fat person. Now every second person is so out of shape that I don't even register it anymore. Not even the morbidly obese in mobility scooters.
Before women started dressing like men (1.33 excepted) and getting tattoos. With 100,000 of us born in Asia we were still mostly Australian but Harold Holt was about to change all that for good.
We used to live near a dairy in East Doncaster and a horse and cart was still delivering as late as 76...we'd put the milk bottles out and some notes in theneck of the bottle - l found it curious that they money was never stolen.
Ah back in the good old days when roads & streets covered peoples trash they tossed out car windows dog chit on footpaths as you walked to work teen hoods waiting in phone boxes Ah the good old days always fights in pubs
My dads dad come to Melbourne in 1960 when was 30 as italian migrant,he said all there was is Australia people,the city was clean, streets, building,roads,etc and now he says it's a shit hole,and now i see what he means. He says the Arabs, indians, Asian,black have trashed it, and yet the Aussi do nothing about this invasion of this once peacefull,beautifull city, may he Rip and the older generation are now past on,if only they could see it now, that a disgrace.
Like Ginza Tokyo does. Such a bustling yet respectful, glamorous peaceful atmosphere there on the pedestrian-only roads on special weekends in Ginza. It always reminds me of Melbourne as a kid. People dress up nicely in Ginza and conduct themselves respectfully and quietly, just like Melbourne once upon a time...oh how times have changed.
Maybe British MP Enoch Powell was correct after all in his 1968 'Rivers of Blood' warning. Wasn't just referring to Britain but the West in general. Thanks Dad, Mum, Grandparents, great legacy you left us, Vote for Mainstream parties and this what you get. The electorate since the 70s has alot to answer for.
Truly beautiful. If there was 1 place on Earth left like that right now I would move there. One thing you cannot deny is that it was beautiful BECAUSE it's religious, cultural and racial cohesiveness. It was a white christian country at it's peak. But the greediest of people had a problem with this: a rich society needs to be well paid by definition. That's why they preferred to open the floodgates of migration, destroy the culture and hopefully impoverish the society so that they work for nothing, own nothing and are completely tied to and dependent on working for the biggest man. It is very sad what happened to the West. It's a huge waste for the benefit of a few.
Yes! I've noticed this too. I made this observation to my husband the other month. I said it benignly, no offense intended at all. I just remember how rare it was to see fat, out of shape badly (or inappropriately) dressed people back when I was a kid and a teen. Now I'm oblivious to it, it's just so common. Strange isn't it? Why do you think this is?
I was 3 years old can't remember it but it was a better Australia cost of living so cheap homes affordable Holdens and Fords plus Chrysler v a l i e n t s and an innocent care free a culture
So much more beautiful back then
Who remembers lunch at the Coles caffateria or seeing a movie at the Forum...I note too at 0.45 we were very close to getting a glimpse of the Shaft Semena (Cinema) next to the Barrell. And the No 7 tram to the city in an old W class with it's distinctive c-sharp bell...ding, ding. Great memories of a time long gone. Walk along Swanston Street now and be disappointed.
Yes Coles Cafeteria 1st Floor Bourke Street store where you grab a tray and slide it along and pick what ever foods you like. A working-class smorgasboard.
Melbourne always has been a shithole and still is.
Who remembers the original Darrell Lee shop with the ladies wearing the big bows. So bright and colourful…and the smell, and the chocolate was delicious.
I do!! When we went into 'the city' as a family to have a special lunch and see a 'picture' we'd always end with a special treat visit to the store you're talking about. I LOVE these old archive films and old photos. I could look at old photos and old film for hours and not get bored. I also remember that amazing movie theatre with the domed ceiling painted in dark vibrant blue to give the illusion of a twilight time starry night sky. It felt really romantic and glamorous. I loved it as a kid. I love finding places that haven't been totally modernised. Remember the diner along Flinders Street (or was it Swanston Street, hmm?) that had the table top jukeboxes at each booth. You'd sit and flip through the options whilst waiting for your milkshake or banana split sundae and press B5 for a Beach Boys song that would never come on, ha!
Absolutely! The old lady next door used to get a box of Darrell Lea every Friday when her daughter came home, still wearing the very colourful outfit.
Every Saturday, the lovely old lady secretly gave them to me. Her doctor had forbidden her to eat sweet stuff, but she didn't have the heart to tell her daughter.
My Mum wouldn't let me eat any sort of lollies except Xmas Easter and birthdays, so this was heaven.
I'd hide in my cubby house with a book, and wolf through the lot in one sitting, lol.
Yep, I remember that also
I arrived in Melbourne in 1963 at the age of 6, when I turned 18 I bought a 63 Falcon to celebrate.
You my man... are a legend!
Im saving up for my birth-car too, super jealous that your erra had better machines. - its a car lovers dream 🥰
What a beautiful city back then
The city is still as beautiful now, its the shit people our govermentt lets in now days
Those people we entrusted to regulate development to the present day have let us down.
When you went into "town" it was an event. Having worked in there for years, it lost the gloss. But I still remember the "good old days", the innocence of youth.
0:08 -- The Southern Cross Hotel.... I really loved that place and I was saddened that it was pulled down.
My father was the specialised pastry chef there in that era and received a resounding compliment from Ringo Starr on a pastry dish that was prepared for them when the Beatles had their tour there.
Were some good restaurants there - specially The Club Grill
I was born in 84' so I never got to see this amazing time. Glad there's footage like this out there to see!
Was so nice back then, give me a time machine.
Oh, I miss those times.
When I came to Melbourne as a child in 1960, this is pretty much how it was. How much I loved growing up there.
What about now with our world leading multicultural and diverse society that we have?
@@EliteURBX Well, not so much. Though I suppose in a way my family was part of all that.
Before the great replacement.
I was nine years old back then, seemed so grand and excitinig.
I arrived from the UK in 1966 also aged 9, lived in Moe initially, then Frankston; now back in the UK since 1973. Collingwood barracker since 1966, and still am! GO PIES!! 😊
My Son now lives north of Sydney in Mayfield and is marrying an Australian girl in March 2024. 🇦🇺🌏🦘🪃
OMG - 1966 the year of my first trip to Melbourne. I was just a kid and was absolutely in love with the city, very vibrant and still retaining some great buildings that have been subsequently lost. We stayed at the then new Southern Cross Hotel now also gone. Thanks for the upload. Great memories.
Oh no! What happened to the Southern Cross hotel?! We used to go to their Palm Court restaurant for lunch as a family sometimes. What's there now I wonder?
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Yes - Palm Court restaurant.
There was another - The Club Grill.
@@wizzard5442 Do you know what's there now? Another commenter said the whole hotel was pulled down rather than just renovated and redesigned. Is that true?!
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293
Yes it was pulled down and an office block with street level shops were built. Its called Southern Cross Towers.
See wiki.
I feel like I have just seen a friendly ghost from my past. Another world that's just a memory now.
Me too. Sad isn't it? I also miss people dressing up nicely and behaving well at airports and on planes.
Busy city. Loved the Milkman delivery. Reminds me of the old time garbos. Fit as and hard working. Milkmen gone. Garbos in air conditioned trucks.
I love the young boy at 1.32 with him Mum. I am a few years later than this but my Mum always insisted that whenever we went into the City that you wear your best clothes. I can bet the young boy here was told the same thing. He looks immaculate- as indeed nearly everyone else here does too.
funny, that scene also caught my attention.. I was also born a few later but recall ijn the 70's growing up that mum would always dress us up as immaculate as possible
Yep, it was always a big day when you went into town with Mum. Lunch at Woolies or Coles or maybe even DJ's
I love it too, but unfortunately people lost their personal standards at some point. Im only 28 ('96) and the current state of things makes me utterly miserable.
I was born in '68, but it still looked like this in the 70's.
The wind-up parking meters were around for years.
Great footage of a long-gone era, Melbourne is no more, a shell of a town that was once the greatest place to live on Earth.
It’s back now
@@ianjenkins8114 indeed, it was a shell for much of the 20th century, but is great now
Too many Indians and Chinese now it's a crowded and no longer british anglo
@@Mac-zl4po karma is a bitch for the white anglos
I was a boy then. I remember adults were well dressed, well mannered, and friendly.
Great footage, I love watching how the city was back then.
I always remember taking the train from Chelsea to the City with my Mum to visit the Downflake Doughnut shop in Swanston Steet and watch the Doughnuts being made in the window.
Do you remember this then. As you walk through life brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole!
Cheers
PS bloody auto correct
R.i.p melbourne
Australia doesn’t even exist let alone Melbourne
@@biggils8894 agreed, it’s been taken over.
Couldn’t agree more …. what happened to that truly beautiful city I grew up in ??
Once was a great city and full of character. Fantastic memories of a great place and time...Stanley Kramer must have liked it as he filmed much of On The Beach (1959) in Melbourne.
Hard to believe. Used to enjoy going into Myers for their banana splits with my mum as a kid. I give the city a wide berth these days.
I just remember that it was never that crowded. Nowadays it feels suffocating. I think it's due to the invasion of a more existential non physical space via the internet too, it contributes to this awful claustrophobic suffocating feeling. I feel constantly pestered. Everybody's got their necks permanently wound into the business of strangers. And oh my what banal, painfully boring nonsense it all is.
I remember the banana splits - on 3rd floor cafeteria, right?
Wow! What fabulously preserved footage of a city wriggling into the Modernist era.
miss those days Coles cafeteria the sun not so hot a different atmosphere with the lighting during the day.
I remember coles cafeteria, but the sun was still as hot back then, you just had to avoid touching it.
Coles cafeteria - a square of green or red jelly with whipped cream on top. That's what I remember.
@@gail2500 me too, and “sarnies” as my mother used to call those dainty little trays of mixed sandwiches.
Back when it was safe to walk the streets. Back when everybody who wanted one had a job. Back when everybody dressed decently. Back when we had some basic rules of life that most abided by. Back when...
Back when hard working people could actually afford to buy a nice three bedroom house with a garage, garden and room for a pool in the back garden. What in the hell's happened to the world?!
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293its good stuff at the moment. Work away at an honest job for years and maybe youll get a mortgage in a decade if youre lucky, then have fun paying that for the next 30 years.
Meanwhile i can either take off my clothes online and sell it, or make awful videos 'pranking' or just harassing people in public and potentially make unfathomable amounts of money through 'CoNtEnT cReAtIoN'. Society is fucked.
Elite overproduction has begun just as mentioned in Peter Turchin's secular cycle theory. Next up, global conflict, a great reset and probably a new major world power.
Those empty Melbourne Streets remind me of the end scenes of "On the Beach".
That was the first thing that came to mind.
And not 2021 lockdown? Worse than china
Remember the Hair Krishna's dancing on a Saturday night?
Remember? Those Krishna's are still doing it. Their restaurant is on the street level now.
Awesome footage. I was 3 years old in 1966 and I lived about 2 miles down the road. What I notice the most about video is of course the changes, but not so much the older architecture, although some of it certainly has gone. It’s the newer, taller buildings. They seem to be the ones that are missing today. Replaced by bigger taller buildings. It was a great place then, and it still is today. Dare I say, maybe even better.
Changed your mind yet???
@@stevewiles7132 ??????
Saying it doesn't make it true
The other week I took a train into Melbourne’s CBD, which I had not done in a long time. I was GOB SMACKED. I may as well have been riding a train in Singapore. I think I was the only Australian in the carriage. 😢
and is that a problem, we are after all in the Asiatic region.
@@shaun1900 we don’t have the resources for all these extra people, we can’t afford it. An extra half a million humans here in 12 months, we don’t have the hospitals, schools, houses, etc, etc. This means less quality of life for everyone here. If you need an ambulance for example, your waiting time is increased because they aren’t investing in more paramedics in line with immigration. Our economy and our society cannot cope with this level of immigration if we are not building the infrastructure. Not to mention young Australians being unable to buy a house due to wealthy immigrants pushing up the prices. Again, quality of life for the average Australian is affected. More young Australians have to stay with their parents for longer, or rent for longer (or forever).
@@stefanie.elinor you are pointing the finger at the wrong people, please at least try and do some research before commenting. You just sound daft otherwise. Simple fact is Australia needs immigration, we have an ageing population, decreasing birth rates and an economy and social welfare systems that wound not survive to pay your pension and provide the healthcare you need in old age. Please try harder.
@@stefanie.elinorplenty of investment in vehicles though! Five stationed in the town I live in, constantly parked up. Don’t think I’ve ever seen two out on the roads at the same time since they built their big new brick garage. So is that staff shortages or just lack of trained staff? And if it’s the latter, who commissioned for all those new ambulance vehicles if there isn’t a plethora of trained paramedics? Our ambo’s in Vic are screaming for higher wages and better resource’s, like the cops did several years ago, and like CFA&SES did for years - decades in fact - now we have made a huge capital investment in buildings and vehicles, but no-one wants to even pretend to be interested in actually working a shift, unless there are “perks” like tickets to motorsport events, or other sporting events?? How many of the resourcing decisions in emergency services management are made these days actually totally defies even my trained responders brain. Glad I got out of emergency services when I did, and grateful to still be capable of thinking strategically about organisational waste!
No. Asia is in Asia. We're in Australia. A totally different continent
I remember those self-driving milk carts. Our local dairy was just at the end of our street and as kids we played in the horse paddock and would often crawl through the crate loading shoot into the bottling plant to explore. All the stainless steel inside, still wet from being washed down, was kind of mesmerising.
Makes me cry these kind of videos. Melbourne used to be a beautiful place to live and raise your kids. Now it’s a hellhole where you can’t buy a house, soaring crime and nobody knows their neighbour anymore. I live in Tas now and I’d never move back.
Ah, the days when the city was bustling with people. Going into the city was a treat the family would look forward to. Now you avoid it like the plague!
Well of course you have to avoid such human interaction now, but before covid times it was all the same
@@vavacadoz haha no you don't
@@mr.jamster8414 What on earth are you on about?
@@vavacadoz are you still avoiding everyone? Still think you're gonna die? 🤦♂️🤣
Have you tried taking a tram or train in?
It's definitely bustling nowadays
I first landed in Melbourne in 1961 as an 19 year old British seaman & visited regularly until 1965 when I came for good! It was a fantastic city then, not so much traffic like today’s mad roads! No freeways, only the S.Eastern Freeway, which didn’t go far. I miss those days (An old man’s nostalgia, lol.) Melbourne was wonderful. I moved to the country in the late 70s, glad I did, I could not live in the city now!
Probably the only freeway in the world that ended at a set of traffic lights - Toorak Rd
When housing was affordable, wages were decent and we weren’t giving away free tickets to the undeveloped world.
We arrived from England in 1970. We went to Enterprise Hostel in Norlane, Geelong. Dad bought a EK Holden with 3 on the tree. Got it a bit stuck with the gears. And burnt his finger on the cigarette lighter. It took us to Springvale for work prospects and a home. Mum still has it. Different times indeed.
All pommes and whinging ones leaving the UK for the longest to invade Australia 🦘
@@marthasheilds2446back in the day, they didn’t have to invade, the government paid them to come here.
The original of this gives lots of clues that it was filmed over the period 1964 and 1965.
But editing etc took until 1966 to release and put that date on the titles.
Made it look up to date but newer for audiences too.
It feels like Hong Kong now!
And the Congo
@@ACDZ123 agree and Congo
@@cgas7344 terrible isn't it. Can't even feel safe walking around now with all the jungle savages and their machetes...politicians in Canberra don't have to live with them .they ok
So glad to have lived in Melbourne during that era , the 50’s and 60’s were a great period life was so uncomplicated and enjoyable.
Better than now with the really diverse and multicultural society we have?
@@EliteURBX All the beautiful villages that lefty tourists coo over here in England are almost entirely populated by educated financially solvent hardworking old white people. They cannot seem to be honest and intelligent enough to do the simple sum of 2 + 2. They pooh-pooh snobbery, the idea of privilege and they pooh-pooh monocultures yet seek out beautiful clean villages filled with gentle, respectful white folks on their weekends and holidays. I wish people could just be more honest about things but they're forever deaf to the sound of pennies dropping. Oh dear.
Those days Melbourne and Adelaide was full of English pommes leaving the UK to Australia to invade.
The real melbs
1:23 WOW!😯
Very hard to find a true blue Aussie anymore
We all moved to Tas, mate.
Those empty Melbourne city’s streets l almost forgot how it was! But the recent COVID lockdown jarred my memory!
Every second man wore. Suit. Now every second man wears a T-shirt today
The WW1 generation were still up and about, they were great for formal dressing.
@@davehall44 yeah grandfathers
@@davehall44 yeah well today people are lazy and think dressimg up is uncool.
I first went to the footy in 73 withmy uncle and we both dressed casually, and yet watching footy from the 60s everyone looks to be wearing their Sunday Best....l wonder when and how it changed...
Actual pride....don't see that any more...
If you can identify where the opening panoramic sweep was taken from and when traffic lights flashed amber from late night through to early morning - then you do remember a different Melbourne.
So much change since then, not sure it’s for the better.
Change isn’t necessarily good or bad. It’s naturally a part of life, and you just have to move on with it.
@@vavacadoz correct. I'm resisting the urge to plop a mini thesis on change and evolution in urban settlements
Too many Indians and Chinese now
@@Mac-zl4po You said the same thing above and are beginning to sound like a broken record
NOW, THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
WHEN MEN WERE MEN AND THE WOMEN WERE GRATEFUL.
Mum took me to Walton's to have my photo taken with Santa in 66.
OH WOW !!!
My friend worked for ACCMI about a decade ago and his job was to locate film and transfer to digital- I remember that he did a lot of this for them- it was so fascinating to see the rise of commission flats in all the areas (combat the slums of inner city suburbs). Maybe check with ACCMI in Melbourne- re:Copyright.
Check NFSA Melbourne to see where this came from but in full.
NFSA original :
czcams.com/video/TC7D5T_m_-k/video.html
Hi. Do you know the copyright status of this footage? Would I be able to use some of it in a short film I am making? Can you help? Jamie
This footage has been lifted from Life in Australia: Melbourne - czcams.com/video/TC7D5T_m_-k/video.html
0:32 looks like a shot from On The Beach
Born in 64 in Melb .Sadly Melb has become a Cesspool
I looked at the footage showing Elizabeth Street looking toward Flinders Street, not a single homeless, violent druggie to be seen! In those days possession of a single “reefer” got you 5 years in the bluestone college in Coburg.
Look what we had.
I like to see melbourne how it used to be. The clothes,the cars,the old trams,the buses and the advertising. The good good old days.😊📻🎸☎️
Women dressed like women beautiful ❤
We do need a time machine,more than ever.
It looks like an overcrowded slum now. More disunity than there has even been.
no there isnt
@@shaun1900Shaun the woke 🐑 trying your hardest to defend mass migration..it sucks and Australia is being destroyed because of fools like you
@@shaun1900yes there is .stop with the denial ..things have never been worse ..especially with this current left globalist government
its more an asian city now rather then an Australian city, when l went there everyone was speaking chinese l thought l was in a foreign country
And I don't like it.
Karma is taking place Australia belongs to the Aborigines not the English and Irish invaders.
So does the horse (0:28) stop, slow down, do a u-turn or just keep going?
This footage has been lifted from Life in Australia: Melbourne - czcams.com/video/TC7D5T_m_-k/video.html
Lifted clips from the NFSA video without acknowledgment?
Poor Melb, just look at now. Oh for 1966.
Before globalisation.
Olden days
Decimal currency just started too.
love it, no useless bike lanes!!!!!
We have definitely regressed as a culture and as a society
A bit like Adelaide in 2024
Still not as busy
😂
Melbourne used to look so European but now it looks like a Southeast Asian country mixed with some European and American buildings lol
Yeah lol, used to have grouse architecture, now it's glass boxes.
The difference isn't so much architecture but due to our adoption of things like US zoning (which is obsolete...but we still have it)
EG, Paris has La Defense, but by necessity we've built CBDs on centres due to those zoning restrictions making it that financially the easiest option
It was a British crown colony back then!… Things started to change during the 1990s.
It was beautiful now its the biggest shithole
Most of the English people left the UK and invaded Australia for a new life . Because the was miserable in the UK.
Hay a good one to see is the history of the city of Elizabeth South Australia from nothing in 1955 to now.it was an experimental city of the commonwealth ground up housing,small industrial estates,shopping centres etc shows excellent footage and commentary of story of 10 pound poms the building of now old holden factory etc town planning.excellant nartation 21 minutes long CZcams enjoy some good 50s 60s footage australia! Elizabeth was a successful city at first then went on downhill dive to one of Adelaide's most bogan cities and now successfully pulling itself out interesting watch!
Another good one to watch is the making of West lakes good 60s 70s footage.
Is it just me, or is there no sound on this?😳
No it's not your speakers, it's archival footage that's visual only, no audio recorded.
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 thank you for responding. ☺️ I later stumbled across a longer version with sound.
@@shanebriggs1039 😄
Never seen so much neon
Is there a lock down? There is not much cars on the road.
not many fat people before fast food
Yes, I remember how rare it was to see a fat person. Now every second person is so out of shape that I don't even register it anymore. Not even the morbidly obese in mobility scooters.
Before women started dressing like men (1.33 excepted) and getting tattoos. With 100,000 of us born in Asia we were still mostly Australian but Harold Holt was about to change all that for good.
The milkman was still delivering Milk with Horse and Cart as late as 1966?
even early 70s in some spots ...maybe even mid 70s from memory
Came to Australia in 1973 as a six year oldwith my family. In Camberwell I remember the horses and the manure they often left behind on the street.
I think the national museum has the last one from Essendon around 1986.
Correction. As late as 1987. Film of the last one and huge background:
czcams.com/video/xP83JVPdnlA/video.html
We used to live near a dairy in East Doncaster and a horse and cart was still delivering as late as 76...we'd put the milk bottles out and some notes in theneck of the bottle - l found it curious that they money was never stolen.
looks like the thames
Whys this got the liveleak stamp ahahah
Ah back in the good old days when roads & streets covered peoples trash they tossed out car windows
dog chit on footpaths as you walked to work teen hoods waiting in phone boxes Ah the good old days always fights in pubs
Milkman on horse and cart in 1966
Before the Invasion
Ha ha yep
before china and india invaded
Unrecognisable now. And I don't mean the landmarks.
Excellent time in our history. Did you notice the complete absence of obese people?
Wow, no Asians!..
Yes, by 1976 Frazer had let half of Beirut in.
Yes. The good old days when Australia was Australia
@@Mac-zl4po Good old days before the white trash landed here
@@Mac-zl4poAustralia belongs to the Aborigines before the English invaded Australia.
@marthasheilds2446 aboriginals lived like animals. Let's be real
I don't remember it I wasn't born until 1972
My dads dad come to Melbourne in 1960 when was 30 as italian migrant,he said all there was is Australia people,the city was clean, streets, building,roads,etc and now he says it's a shit hole,and now i see what he means. He says the Arabs, indians, Asian,black have trashed it, and yet the Aussi do nothing about this invasion of this once peacefull,beautifull city, may he Rip and the older generation are now past on,if only they could see it now, that a disgrace.
Did that milkman just do a delivery with his horse on autopilot? A self-driving cart?
jesus could hang ten without a surfboard !
We should turn the CBD car free on the weekends
Like Ginza Tokyo does. Such a bustling yet respectful, glamorous peaceful atmosphere there on the pedestrian-only roads on special weekends in Ginza. It always reminds me of Melbourne as a kid. People dress up nicely in Ginza and conduct themselves respectfully and quietly, just like Melbourne once upon a time...oh how times have changed.
How people were dressed no bogans shorts thongs trackie pants and Asians in pyjamas.
Maybe British MP Enoch Powell was correct after all in his 1968 'Rivers of Blood' warning. Wasn't just referring to Britain but the West in general. Thanks Dad, Mum, Grandparents, great legacy you left us, Vote for Mainstream parties and this what you get. The electorate since the 70s has alot to answer for.
Very hard to find some-one who speaks English anymore
Yes everyone speaks English in Australia
Truly beautiful. If there was 1 place on Earth left like that right now I would move there.
One thing you cannot deny is that it was beautiful BECAUSE it's religious, cultural and racial cohesiveness. It was a white christian country at it's peak.
But the greediest of people had a problem with this: a rich society needs to be well paid by definition. That's why they preferred to open the floodgates of migration, destroy the culture and hopefully impoverish the society so that they work for nothing, own nothing and are completely tied to and dependent on working for the biggest man. It is very sad what happened to the West. It's a huge waste for the benefit of a few.
Hardly any fat people then.
Yes! I've noticed this too. I made this observation to my husband the other month. I said it benignly, no offense intended at all. I just remember how rare it was to see fat, out of shape badly (or inappropriately) dressed people back when I was a kid and a teen. Now I'm oblivious to it, it's just so common. Strange isn't it? Why do you think this is?
How boring.....no students screaming "racist" at everyone, no druggies, no greenies stopping traffic....how did people put up with it?
I remember even 20 years ago the city would be quiet on Sundays, but no more. It’s now a shit hole
That's what happens when you allow everyone to open 7 days a week 24 hours a day.
I was 3 years old can't remember it but it was a better Australia cost of living so cheap homes affordable Holdens and Fords plus Chrysler v a l i e n t s and an innocent care free a culture
the YARRA DIDNT LOOK LIKE WILLY WONKAS CHOCHOLATE RIVER!!!