Brisbane | The Queen Street Story (2000)
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2013
- A brief history of Brisbane focusing on the city area. Broadcast 16/01/2000.
The very beginning of this feature has been cut off.This footage remains the property of Nine Australia.
Oh my goodness, was watching this when at 8.23 I saw myself and my husband walking past the Myers entrance behind the presenter. That was quite a surprise! Great video. 😊
The 'contemporary' nature of this video is now, 20 years later, historical in it's own right. The skyline has changed so much in 20 years.
My great grandfather and his brother, Richard and John Thomas, came to Brisbane on the City of Brisbane, in 1860, before proceeding to Petrie where they lived on the North Pine river and ran the Cobb and Co to Maryborough. They then moved to Mt Mee, North of Dayboro.
There was much more to Brisbane than this! As for entertainment, there was plenty! Not one mention of His/Her Majesty's Theatre and the plays and ballets we saw there in the 40's - also English films. I had more fun as a teenager in Brisbane than I've ever had since - dancing, going to films and the theatre, Jack Busteed's Jive Club, Cloudland, the dances at the Brisbane Town Hall, picnics on the weekend, holidays at Southport or just fish and chips at Sandgate on a hot night. Brisbane always had it all - and the weather to go with it. As for culture, we had the Ballet, the Symphony Orchestra at Brisbane Town Hall, the Art Galleries, the Brisbane Film Society and visits by the Oliviers and others to Her Majestys. We also had the smaller amateur Brisbane theatres which are still going strong. We had the lovely Regent Theatre and the Metro with its glamorous usherettes, The Casa Mara coffee lounge after the ballet and we could have our fortune told from teacups downstairs in Brisbane Arcade.
This is doco is about QUEEN STREET
I know Queen St City to be far more appealing in 1965 than 2020. Actually the whole city area was just amazingly very busy. Oh the trams so great to jump on and off at your destination.
The original site at Redcliffe was selected by surveyor John Oxley but was poorly chosen even though Henry Millar was blamed for this. The replacement site in Brisbane near the XXXX brewery was also chosen by Oxley but over-ridden by Lt Henry Millar because it was indefensible. Instead Millar preferred nearer Garden's Point as the settlement's flanks and rear were protected by the river. Millar was a veteran of the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsula campaign and had a more practical idea of locating a settlement than did Oxley who was a navy man.
James, Emma Leeds Marston, Reuben and William Milliner arrived in Brisbane on the Light Brigade on the 16 May 1863 where we settled in Victoria Street, Red Hill but James died in George Street in January 1879 subject to magisterial inquiry and Reuben was the witness who helped clear land for the Queen Street Mall.
James and the other passengers would write a thank you letter to the captain and crew for their kindness and hospitality.
The mall in the 90s looked much nicer than this 2000 refurbishment.
yes , and king george square too.. the entire city.. 🙈
I did security in 1999 at the depot on the corner of George and Turbot streets for the materials for the refurbishment. There's a huge building there now.
Does anyone remember Rock and roll George from the late 60s. He used drive up and down Queen st?
Pat Kennedy he use to Driving his venerable FX Holden around Brisbane's CBD each weekend, Rock 'n' Roll George became a Brisbane identity. Brisbane may have changed over that time - growing from a country town to a modern city - but Rock 'n' Roll George stayed the same, representing the styles and mores of an earlier era.Good old days
@@cholkong4989 Tell us more im a 22 year old history student. id love to hear any stories
I met him a few times in the early 80s when I worked at the new York hotel in Queen St
He was a nice old bloke
Soon after I heard he was bashed badly, leading to his death on account he was an alleged police informer. Its probably just a rumour but Brisbane was a violent place
@@petere9668he was still driving round west end in the mid to late 90’s.. i remember him well.. 🚬😎
Remember the busker playing the saxophone and the sleeping labrador?
I do.
Did anyone notice the lack of mobile phones ? The world was normal...*sigh*...
i was walking last night with my group and a guy from another group, looking at his phone, started to follow us across the road. Not your group mate. Zombies.
And the lack of obesity that it brought
I remember that water feature
with the chairs. That came and gone quickly.
Water restrictions was to blame...now they should have those chairs 1.5m apart with statutes people wearing masks seated on them 😷
There was a park opposite the treasury (28:40)? I don't remember that. They should have left it there.
the area where the park was is now occupied by that hideous council building containing the library 🙈
Great video which I have shared... a bit lame towards the end about the Queen Street Mall but anyway that was nearly 20 years ago...👍
Oh the good old Queen Street Mall :-D
wooden block paving was completed by GC Willcocks and Co
Does Brisbane have any plans for a modern tram or light rail system like Sydney?
we had electric trams and power poles 1800s before any power station.. GONE. I wonder why these historians always IGNORE THE QUESTION????
SIMPLE
4:15 “certainly probably”
my dads home town
We need to add in 2023 that pig and whistle, Millanos and Myer were all evicted
21:29 Took me a while to figure where i heard this song from. Here it is:
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If only they knew
Sad it was once paradise...
so sad and shit to think about how the area was being used by aboriginals and they had it stolen and taken by force. people talk down about them congregating are musgrave park but that was actually where they have been gathering since long before invasion. to hear that they had ceremonies at woolloongabba, now there are no remnants. very depressing, i just wish i could see what it was like then
If you feel so badly about things that happened nearly 200 years ago, feel free to leave! 👋🏼🙄
What about the dirtiest hungry jacks on the mall that floors a never cleaned and always has random fries on the tables and toilet.
The Building it's in, "Beak House", is heritage listed. Hungry Jacks was added in 1980
heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage-places/1961
And just how did the aboriginals cross the Brisbane River?
Cannoe
miguntyun
I rooted a chick is Brisbane once.
I did just last night
The last time someone "rooted" in Brisbane was in the 80s.
A chicken? You're sick.
I rooted a lot of chicks in Brisbane a lot more than once......also in the late 80's
bread and water flogged. and they build those buildings. you joking. Go. fake. history of Australia. hello
Your opinion is based upon what? Prisoners were used in the construction of public buildings as labour was cheap, and it was hard labour as they were sentenced to. If the prisoner made substandard work it would be reworked till it was suitable for use after a flogging. I'm a Brisbane born 70 year old and have knowledge of much of this information since childhood.
wanka!
Was a beauiful city till they pulled it all down and built today's monstrosity
Well they didn't pull it all down but I share your sentiment that far too many historically important buildings were lost in the bad old days of the 70's, 80's and 90's. Brisbane by the late 60's did need a lot of improvement particularly in the suburbs but the council/government went about "improving" the city, in many cases the totally wrong way.
@@paullewis2413 Let's face it; most (not all) of the people pining for the "old Brisbane" voted for the Bjelke-Petersen government that was responsible for the destruction.
@@davidhoward4715 Of course you´re right. In those days there was a feeling that everything new had to be better but time has told us that´s far from the case. There were people fighting for the preservation of the better buildings but they were usually ignored. Of course Brisbane was not alone in destroying much of its heritage, it was happening all over the World but some cities suffered more than others.
Look we do a good job of leaving the front wall of old buildings up with a skyscraper behind it :/
okay boomer
maul maul maul
5:30 the first true Brisbanites? What about the aboriginals?????
Oh stfu 🙄🙄
Was the city named brisbane before white settlement????
@@bradyjones7577 Point. Well and truly missed. Well done. You fucking numpty.
Bogan history