My first experience of Melbourne was the very start of 82. It was a stinking hot summer (not like we get nowadays) and there were wooden trains, with no aircon, rolling around under blue skies. The cars were mostly Australian made, the music was mostly Australian (a lot of it timeless), there was a great deal of Australian-made television (series and stories, not franchised 'reality' garbage), and the banks and building societies, electricity, telephones, gas, water, trams, trains, and most of the buses were ALL owned by the Australian population via our governments. Plus we made our own clothes and kettles. And the news media was Australian owned. And there was Moomba, and the VFL. The self-centred greed of banking corporations and property developers, and forty years of absolutely dreadful politicians motivated by ideology, greed, self-interest and the immoral benefits of unaccountability, have all laid waste to what was a beautiful and uniquely Australian city. And of course, like the rest of the world, most of the population now walks around with their faces focused on plastic screens. It's all just great nowadays, isn't it? How do you fix it, at least a little?
That was just like going home for a little while! The absolute sweet spot for how I remember Melbourne when I was a kid. RC Cola!, The last tram stop at the top of Batman Ave for the 70 and 75! Thanks mate.
That was great just to see all those memories in front of us all in those more relaxed times.Just seeing a Billy Guyatts sign brings back memories. Thanks for that great footage of the city in the 70s. Tarax!
I was a great time, I suppose everyone says that when they look back to when they were young and didnt have a care in the world. Life was slower, people were more respectful, a trip to Town was a day out. People stopped and chatted to strangers. People had conversations on the Trams. Counter Lunches were the norm as were cups of tea in Coles Cafeteria or if you were flush a meal at Myers Cafeteria. Myers Food Hall on the ground floor of the Lt Bourke St side, you could get everything from a hot smoked Ham Hock to a can of Chocolate coated ants. Lifts were staffed by an attendant, the Corps of Commissionaires delivered internal mail for Businesses and manned foyers. Men who couldnt get a job, were employed for life as Street Sweepers, with a broom and cart carrying two rubbish bins. The City is now a Sewer, it went down hill mid 90s.
l miss the old days of melbourne and the old cars and wc green trams l fine it hard to stop the tears and things were so easy and cheap and love and peace in life.
Now we see ads that say like it is so rare'Proudly Aussie Made,' Because Aussie anything is disappearing at a rapid rate. Thanks Gezza for reminding us more mature folks how good things were. You're a gem mate.👍🇦🇺😊
Australian pedestrians? You mean Anglo-Saxons I think, who are actually European. Sorry, having English ethnicity doesn't make you any more Australian than any one else born and raised here (except for the first Australians, Aboriginals). Talk about tall poppy syndrome. You are an ethnic import just like the rest of us, no better, no worse.
I was born in 1980 so this was before my time unfortunately. Sometimes I wish I was born 20 or 30 years earlier so I could have lived through this wonderful period. Melbourne is such a depressing shithole these days.
It was much more alive back then - lots of live music, cheap and at your local pub - of which there were many more. And beer was cheap - not like now - in the late 80's we were getting jugs for $2. The 80's were a peak for live music. Then they brought in the Pokies and it killed the live music scene, and much of Melbourne's life.
True, back then We could see more White people / Australians compared to today anywhere we turn our heads, we only see 1000’s of Asians. Very hard to to even spot Aussies. Clearly, Asians have taken over everything incl. property market, jobs, businesses,.. Nothing racism, but just telling, we don’t get a feeling that we are in Australia rather than we feel more like I’m in some Asian country 😅.. In Addition, Street foods which used to be Cheap before are now way more expensive (example- Queen Victoria Markets every Wednesday and Sunday street stalls selling a small piece of food for $18😢🤭😮 & I see only rich Asians buying a eating and all Aussies with family and kids are just standing a watching and moving on after looking at the price).. I think now, the world’s food industry is now serving only for the riches 😓.. Back then we’re nice muscle cars with sound and vibe, but expensive plastic fiber with just all technology on market thrown into the car, that’s it.. Back then, we call each other via Telephone ☎️ and fix a time to meet and we enjoyed but now, only virtual or RUclips, people not seeing each others face 😓.. Such a boring lifestyle… these videos takes us back and gives immense pleasure of simplicity, calmness, excitement of development happening at those stages..
Beautiful memories, I had just birthed my second son, on Bastille day.. happy times at home, BBQ in the back yard, in the pool at Summer, humble, simple, innocent. Now at 75 I am in Darwin, left Melbourne 2 years ago, cannot stand to be there, it's painful, once the world's most livable city, now, evil and a cesspit. So sad.
Such a rich tapestry back then. It sucks in comparison now. Everything feels contrived and devoid of feeling and atmosphere now. Too many non English cultures now. There, I said it. We're all thinking it.
God I loved those green trams. Rattling down St Kilda road in the summer with the doors open! I remember the Coke sign opposite Flinders St - that thing must have been there for decades. I loved Melbourne when I lived and worked there in the 80s. Last time I went, in 2019, I loathed it. So sad.
For that three minutes and fifteen seconds I was either sitting on the bench with my late grandfather outside the South Melbourne Markets or I was hearing Dad blast Neil Diamond's Hot August Night LP on his quadrophonic stereo in a flat in Elwood. Take me back.
Mum recently passed away and I non stop play Neil Diamond on the cd in the car since. So many great memories and I'd take one giant step and leave all this behind to go back to the best era ever. All that traffic on the video yet I lived off glenferrie Rd in the large apartment on top of the fire station and at 4 yrs was safe to be out and play down the cobblestone lanes where fences hung with sweat pea scents. Horse and carts delivered the milk! I was born in 62.
@@davidharlem6824 absolutely for sure and its odd that I just happened across these great memories tonight as it was my mums first birthday yesterday since she passed in September. Has to be a sign or manifestation as I've done nothing but think about her and dad wishing that we were all together again in the good old days and alas!
@@jessegold5542 Yes Jesse, it’s amazing how these signs appear - there’s far more to it than we will ever know, at least from this side anyway. You are not alone, many of us remember and wish to return to a world and time long gone. Take care.
Thank you. I used to work in the Princes Gate towers, with a lovely view over the river and gardens to the south. Not so many people today remember them.
As a young teenager going to school in the city I used to muck around in those buildings, riding up and down in the lifts. I was always intrigued by the floor that had no number, it was just called Monsanto .
A very different Melbourne to the one we have today. Back then travelling to the city was exciting and most of all you felt safe. I would have been 18 or so in the mid seventies where the music was great the fashion a bit absurd and best of all.... not a cell phone in site. Thank-you Gezza for your presentation, I have liked and subscribed.
Melbourne born and bred, at the tender age of 54, I can relate to every image you posted. You have sentimentally wounded me, forever, in the best way! Cheers, bud!!!
I'm 50 thanks for memory trip mate said to my 88 year old dad today thanked him for letting me experience the best time on this planet when I was growing up seen the best of it 😊🍻WA🇦🇺
Someone should print all these comments out and send them to every politician who needs to read them. Clearly melbournians want their once great city back.
A time when people were normal and were able to communicate and "THINK FOR THEMSELVES" instead of staring at a small screen. and accepting everything they are told.
I'm a Sydney boy, teenager from the early 70s, what a great time it was to grow up . So much love , unfortunately the world felt and was real! Why have we let out governments become so complicated, powerful . It doesn't matter where the pictures Were taken , great memories!
No bike lanes or Sally Capp to be seen anywhere. 3.03 , Toorak Road Burwood , just west of Warrigal Road where the then route 74 , now 75 tram used to terminate.Been living in the area for 57 years.I remember all those stores and there was also a chemist right on the corner next to the milk bar. I would have been around 10 years old but I can remember it like yesterday.The Supa Valu food market in the photo is now a Chemist Warehouse.Was later a SSW then Foodland then IGA supermarket then was empty for a while them became a Chemist Warehouse to this day.The sign on the roof is still there that displayed the various past tenants and was a neon sign at one point.
Reading these comments ,i thought it was just me thinking of the past .But relieved now other genuine people think the same ........yes Melbourne a great city once ,many memories visiting ,business and pleasure ......Globilisation done a lot of harm to this great nation
Wow 26 years before I was born I was born in 1996 I started my life in bankstown in chapel Rd south I had a good childhood in that house good u upload these videos I want to see the world every country 1500 years before I was born every century every ccountry
I left Melbourne in 1974 for rural NSW . This is the Melbourne i remember. Last time back five years ago i felt like a foreigner, lol , though i was born in the Jessie McPherson Community Hospital which was on the corner of Russel and Lonsdale Streets.
I am not Australian. I currently live in Melbourne as an exchange student. When I arrived at the city I could feel there was something very wrong, I didn't expect it to be like that. I pictured a city with Australians and a lot of local culture, instead we are lots of foreigners living together, I hear tens of different languages at the same time. I got myself a bicycle because I wanted to explore other suburbs and meet actual Australians. I found a BBQ place with lots of posters of Melbourne from the 1970's, and that's how I got to see this video. It's a shame what happened to your city, and that is happening with the capital of my country (México). Only this time the foreigners are Europeans and Americans, and they are displacing us to other areas, and obviously they are imposing their own culture over ours
These images are proof that you can také something beautiful and destroy it. Just look at all the cities rolled into one here, New York, San Francisco, London, Munich, Berlin etc...Melbourne was gorgeous, it was clean, it had just the right amount of green backed up by just the right amount of beautiful architecture, clean and well paved roads, stunning to look at in these pictures. Luckily I experienced it in these years as a kid and teenager. It was exciting. Now its an over developed shithole, ugly tasteless apartment buildings everywhere with no style, bland cement facades or commision house style lime green and orange panels glued onto the front amd sides, junkies and ferals everywhere and wrecked roads
Ah, the City Square! Wonderful memories of meet ups with friends. It was either there or under the clocks at Flinders Street Station. I love Melbourne (even now).
Ah, wonderful. My first car (beige LC Torana), my first real workplace (Cromwell House, since demolished), sitting in the open doorway of a W2 tram, McEwans, Supa Valu grocers, the sand train, Australian-made cars everywhere, local brand names, Darling Road terminus as it was then, yes it was like going home for a visit.
These were the best of times when everyone took responsibility for their actions. No woke bullshit here. I remember my grandma taking me into the city and we would have lunch at the Coles cafeteria before taking all her LAN Choo tea coupons in to be traded for a small gift, then maybe taking in the pictures.....the best day ever, or other times you would take a train into the city to just go to the joke shop for blood capsules or a whoopee cushion,and then sneak past the shaft cinema for a giggle. Now with the woke brigade and bike paths and tram stops, who wants to go into the city anymore.......they have stuffed it up royally.....thanks for the memories Gazza
Yes the big Coles cafeteria with its jellies and custards, but so much food and the shiny wooden seats and those old fashioned lifts with the cage! It was great then my grandmother and mum would stop at the Darrell Lea shop and buy us a dollie jar of little candies. Wish it had never changed and would go back to those times in the click of a finger. Yep saw Charlotte's web, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang etc at the Atheneum Cinema. Oh the memories.
I wish my grandfather had lived long enough to tell me about growing up in Melbourne. He was too young for WW1 and a bit too old for WW2 but went anyway. It was a thrill going there for the first time and doing a hook turn.
My dad smoked Rothmans and was a fire-fighter MFB and joined the fire brigade as he was just that bit too young for WW2. I grew up in Malvern it was the best years of my life.
0:44 I spent many a happy moment on my way home from school around 1970 at those stores under Batman Ave. I was into model aircraft and they sold kits there. Balsa planes and little Cox engines. Everyone hated the Gas and Fuel buildings, that is, until they built Fed Square. God this channel makes me feel old... in a good way...
Straight up On the left Myer Melbourne Bourke Street Store My first job as a stenographer on the 7th floor Lonsdale Street Store “Credit Control”1973 Computers just being installed and our wages turned from cash to direct bank deposit US off the gold standard and the beginning of the end Although I have really great memories of everyone there and Melbourne CBD 😊
I wasn’t born until 1987 and I didn’t move to Melbourne until 2007, I feel even the last 15 years Melbourne is not the same. I remember my first trip to Melbourne in 2005 it has this sense of adventure and I remember everyone being so friendly, then slowly that changed, I live here now and when I head into the city it seems dull and depressing. Maybe we just long for what we don’t have I don’t know. These photos are beautiful thank you for sharing.
I was born 1980 & raised in Melbourne and only left 2 years ago. In those early days, Melbourne felt personal, as if anything was possible. It had that sense of adventure you mentioned, but also a sense of community and warmth. It's well and truly GONE. For me, it took a noticeable turn from the mid-2000s.
I spent time watching a lot of your Melbourne videos. A lot of effort you have gone to finding them. Thank you for the history. From a proud Melbournian 👍
Loved being a teenager in the late 70’s and taking the train into Melbourne with mates on a Sunday. Place was deserted, but the amusement parlours and record stores were open. Such fun times.
Oh wow great nostalgia. I remember starting work in the City in December 1972 at the age of 16. Melbourne city was a thriving exciting place for a young girl to start her working life. So many trendy clothes and shoe shops. Loved Michaels corner store with multi levels of fabrics. The Myer basement store. Clegs and the little knitting wool shop in the arcarde opposite Flinders street station. Daimaru, Georges, Coles cafeteria and the Flinders Street platform where I used to buy soups and Creamy Sodas and stood at the stand up tables. The London Hotel where I used to get a cheeky Southern comfort and coke and Victoria market stalls where there were unique clothing and items being sold. Festival Hall and its weekend wrestling with Mario Milano and other characters. The little cafes with the mini Juke Boxes on the table with cheap diner meals. So much fun
OMG Gezza, what an amazing gallery of memories! They were so much simpler times, sure the public transport was a bit hit and miss, yeah the Gas and Fuel buildings were ugly but would I rather Melbourne be like that now? You betcha! Thanks for the memories.
I used to visit melbourne alot when I was a teenager. I'd catch the Vinelander from Mildura and arrive at Spencer St station early Saturday morning. Such good memories.
Somewhere, in the Bowels of the MCC is, if not sold off, a huge archive of glass slides. Back in the day, the Chief Clerk was photo mad. He took, or had taken, photos of everything, from streetscapes to every nut bolt and screw they purchased in the 1800s. The old MCCESD had thousands of them, they were in my office. Hundreds of thousands more were stored in the Town Hall and the old Lonsdale St Powerhouse.
So long ago, I think I even saw the Yarra River's water was actually clean lol... Love your work mate, Keep up the History to an AWESOME City!!! Thank You...
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Thanks all for your kind comments, much appreciated cheers Gezza
Any pics or videos of FLEMINGTON racecourse in the seventies , maybe floods 1974 , Melbourne Cups ...?
This once perfect city....gone forever.
Breaks my heart.
My first experience of Melbourne was the very start of 82. It was a stinking hot summer (not like we get nowadays) and there were wooden trains, with no aircon, rolling around under blue skies. The cars were mostly Australian made, the music was mostly Australian (a lot of it timeless), there was a great deal of Australian-made television (series and stories, not franchised 'reality' garbage), and the banks and building societies, electricity, telephones, gas, water, trams, trains, and most of the buses were ALL owned by the Australian population via our governments. Plus we made our own clothes and kettles. And the news media was Australian owned. And there was Moomba, and the VFL. The self-centred greed of banking corporations and property developers, and forty years of absolutely dreadful politicians motivated by ideology, greed, self-interest and the immoral benefits of unaccountability, have all laid waste to what was a beautiful and uniquely Australian city. And of course, like the rest of the world, most of the population now walks around with their faces focused on plastic screens. It's all just great nowadays, isn't it? How do you fix it, at least a little?
So sad.
You described that perfectly, good times back then...but never to be seen again unfortunately
Thanks, that’s the Melbourne I knew & loved.
Melbourne was once so beautiful.
What a country we had !
That was just like going home for a little while! The absolute sweet spot for how I remember Melbourne when I was a kid. RC Cola!, The last tram stop at the top of Batman Ave for the 70 and 75! Thanks mate.
Now it's owned by WEF Big Pharma and Communist China.
That was great just to see all those memories in front of us all in those more relaxed times.Just seeing a Billy Guyatts sign brings back memories. Thanks for that great footage of the city in the 70s. Tarax!
I was a great time, I suppose everyone says that when they look back to when they were young and didnt have a care in the world. Life was slower, people were more respectful, a trip to Town was a day out. People stopped and chatted to strangers. People had conversations on the Trams. Counter Lunches were the norm as were cups of tea in Coles Cafeteria or if you were flush a meal at Myers Cafeteria.
Myers Food Hall on the ground floor of the Lt Bourke St side, you could get everything from a hot smoked Ham Hock to a can of Chocolate coated ants.
Lifts were staffed by an attendant, the Corps of Commissionaires delivered internal mail for Businesses and manned foyers.
Men who couldnt get a job, were employed for life as Street Sweepers, with a broom and cart carrying two rubbish bins.
The City is now a Sewer, it went down hill mid 90s.
@Jayden Loader You must have had a miserable childhood.
Such a much better Melbourne compared to now.
Yer na
@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes why do prefer Melbourne now compared to back then?
@@greenacres2319 I prefer Hong Kong. But I just do not like old tech.
A much better Australia then compared to now.
The Yarra River looks a nice blue not the dirty brown it is today
Beautiful memories and beautiful music, pictures are absolutely fantastic. Cheers
Thanks for keeping the memories alive, Gezza.
Back when life was full of promise, how much would I now pay to live there forever
God, I miss my '71 Monaro 2-door
Exactly as I remember as a kid, the buidings, fashions, falcons, toranas.....omg can I go back
Was an awesome place to live in and love in
l miss the old days of melbourne and the old cars and wc green trams l fine it hard to stop the tears and things were so easy and cheap and love and peace in life.
Do you notice how much thinner we were back then?
yep
Australian cars, Australian trams and Australian pedestrians. What a novelty.
Just as Sydney was then, it was taken for granted, now there aren't even Australians on TV ads....We have lost so much.
Funny ,I didn't see one Aboriginal person.
Now we see ads that say like it is so rare'Proudly Aussie Made,' Because Aussie anything is disappearing at a rapid rate. Thanks Gezza for reminding us more mature folks how good things were. You're a gem mate.👍🇦🇺😊
Australian pedestrians? You mean Anglo-Saxons I think, who are actually European. Sorry, having English ethnicity doesn't make you any more Australian than any one else born and raised here (except for the first Australians, Aboriginals). Talk about tall poppy syndrome. You are an ethnic import just like the rest of us, no better, no worse.
@@paulroman4870 down at centre link possibly ?
Look how clean Melbourne is in these photos. Not like now.
Exactly. That’s why I can’t live there anymore. Grubby and grungy is apparently “in”!
Melbourne in its grand old days and the days I remember fondly in my late teens and early twenties. Hope you have more of these to share!
@@warbird747 Just how inner city arts degree yuppie greenies like it!
@@paulbata9649 All of Aus was ruined by the filthy Liberals and their right wing agenda, thank fuck they are gone. For decades hopefully.
its an absolute shit hole now. people crawling over each other, dog eat dog and everything except air costs you money.
Man this made me so sentimental, thanks Gezza, great use of Ringo's song as well mate
Yes it was perfect Music for these pics.
The song has a sad feel too it like a memories of the past long gone feel
Thanks for the memories, so emotional for me ❤❤❤
I was born in 1980 so this was before my time unfortunately. Sometimes I wish I was born 20 or 30 years earlier so I could have lived through this wonderful period. Melbourne is such a depressing shithole these days.
It was much more alive back then - lots of live music, cheap and at your local pub - of which there were many more. And beer was cheap - not like now - in the late 80's we were getting jugs for $2. The 80's were a peak for live music. Then they brought in the Pokies and it killed the live music scene, and much of Melbourne's life.
@@DavidNotSolomon You just described every Australian capital city 😞
True, back then We could see more White people / Australians compared to today anywhere we turn our heads, we only see 1000’s of Asians. Very hard to to even spot Aussies. Clearly, Asians have taken over everything incl. property market, jobs, businesses,.. Nothing racism, but just telling, we don’t get a feeling that we are in Australia rather than we feel more like I’m in some Asian country 😅.. In Addition, Street foods which used to be Cheap before are now way more expensive (example- Queen Victoria Markets every Wednesday and Sunday street stalls selling a small piece of food for $18😢🤭😮 & I see only rich Asians buying a eating and all Aussies with family and kids are just standing a watching and moving on after looking at the price).. I think now, the world’s food industry is now serving only for the riches 😓.. Back then we’re nice muscle cars with sound and vibe, but expensive plastic fiber with just all technology on market thrown into the car, that’s it.. Back then, we call each other via Telephone ☎️ and fix a time to meet and we enjoyed but now, only virtual or RUclips, people not seeing each others face 😓.. Such a boring lifestyle… these videos takes us back and gives immense pleasure of simplicity, calmness, excitement of development happening at those stages..
@@DavidNotSolomon don't forget Kennett killed King Street bringing in the Strip clubs
@@dhanaorkut "back then We could see more White people / Australians compared to today"
- You'd like them to bring back the 'white Australia' policy?
Beautiful memories, I had just birthed my second son, on Bastille day.. happy times
at home, BBQ in the back yard, in the pool at Summer, humble, simple, innocent.
Now at 75 I am in Darwin, left Melbourne 2 years ago, cannot stand to be there, it's
painful, once the world's most livable city, now, evil and a cesspit. So sad.
How sad, I haven't been back for two decades.
Such a rich tapestry back then. It sucks in comparison now. Everything feels contrived and devoid of feeling and atmosphere now. Too many non English cultures now. There, I said it. We're all thinking it.
Your name is ‘French’…but as a person from Greek immigrants parents , I agree!
There’s little harmony and cohesion
@@kaykay865 the only diversity I like is with hair and eye colour.
God I loved those green trams. Rattling down St Kilda road in the summer with the doors open! I remember the Coke sign opposite Flinders St - that thing must have been there for decades. I loved Melbourne when I lived and worked there in the 80s. Last time I went, in 2019, I loathed it. So sad.
Pre Marxist Melbourne.
For that three minutes and fifteen seconds I was either sitting on the bench with my late grandfather outside the South Melbourne Markets or I was hearing Dad blast Neil Diamond's Hot August Night LP on his quadrophonic stereo in a flat in Elwood.
Take me back.
Mum recently passed away and I non stop play Neil Diamond on the cd in the car since. So many great memories and I'd take one giant step and leave all this behind to go back to the best era ever. All that traffic on the video yet I lived off glenferrie Rd in the large apartment on top of the fire station and at 4 yrs was safe to be out and play down the cobblestone lanes where fences hung with sweat pea scents. Horse and carts delivered the milk! I was born in 62.
@@jessegold5542 Magic days hey!
@@davidharlem6824 absolutely for sure and its odd that I just happened across these great memories tonight as it was my mums first birthday yesterday since she passed in September. Has to be a sign or manifestation as I've done nothing but think about her and dad wishing that we were all together again in the good old days and alas!
@@jessegold5542 Yes Jesse, it’s amazing how these signs appear - there’s far more to it than we will ever know, at least from this side anyway. You are not alone, many of us remember and wish to return to a world and time long gone. Take care.
@@davidharlem6824 Thanks, you too.
Thanks for posting this Gezza. It's the closest thing to a time machine!
Melbourne was beautiful
Melbourne was so much more peaceful then. People were more civilised
You mean like the White Australia Policy lol.
@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes are you okay dude?
@@greenacres2319 obviously not lol.
Peaceful? it was noisy as hell in the 70s
@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotes yes.
that was beautiful. homesick for my hometown....and im still living here
Fantastic nostalgic pictures. Thanks for sharing this important part of history. 🙏🏽
Thank you. I used to work in the Princes Gate towers, with a lovely view over the river and gardens to the south. Not so many people today remember them.
As a young teenager going to school in the city I used to muck around in those buildings, riding up and down in the lifts. I was always intrigued by the floor that had no number, it was just called Monsanto .
I want our beautiful city back, just like it was back in the 70s. Thanks for the memories Gezza
A very different Melbourne to the one we have today. Back then travelling to the city was exciting and most of all you felt safe.
I would have been 18 or so in the mid seventies where the music was great the fashion a bit absurd and best of all.... not a cell phone in site.
Thank-you Gezza for your presentation, I have liked and subscribed.
Or a mobile phone in sight either... 😉
News flash on radio 3DB. With John Vertigan, this morning a Lorry got lodged under the City Rd bridge…………
Ha ha! Good one.
Melbourne born and bred, at the tender age of 54, I can relate to every image you posted. You have sentimentally wounded me, forever, in the best way! Cheers, bud!!!
Did you go to myers roof top as a kid on xmas it was awesome for a kid growing up in the 70s
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs Rockin Melbourne Town Hall 🙏🎶🎶🙏 Reminds me of the places we would go 🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏
🎶❤️🎶
I remember the Sun Newspaper the next day reported he played at 120 db and shook the foundations of the Town Hall!
Sad to see how we have destroyed what was once a picturesque and beautiful city
Awesome 👏 Gezza
I'm 50 thanks for memory trip mate said to my 88 year old dad today thanked him for letting me experience the best time on this planet when I was growing up seen the best of it 😊🍻WA🇦🇺
Back in the day it took 20 minutes to get from South Melbourne to Coburg in a car.
You could get on the 48 Tram at Kew Junction in peak hour and be at Flinders Street in 20 minutes. 15 minutes after dark.
Someone should print all these comments out and send them to every politician who needs to read them. Clearly melbournians want their once great city back.
Great thought!
You made me cry🤗Thanks for the memories🥰🙏
A time when people were normal and were able to communicate and "THINK FOR THEMSELVES" instead of staring at a small screen. and accepting everything they are told.
They weren't infected by Instagram and Tiktok
Yes Alex a wonderful time full of amazing memories and beautiful people 👍❤️
I'm a Sydney boy, teenager from the early 70s, what a great time it was to grow up .
So much love , unfortunately the world felt and was real!
Why have we let out governments become so complicated, powerful .
It doesn't matter where the pictures
Were taken , great memories!
I remember that country it was awesome. RIP
Thank you for sharing today's video.
I lived in Melbourne 1969-1971 worked on the trams happy days .Now i live in Southport UK. A lot better.
No bike lanes or Sally Capp to be seen anywhere.
3.03 , Toorak Road Burwood , just west of Warrigal Road where the then route 74 , now 75 tram used to terminate.Been living in the area for 57 years.I remember all those stores and there was also a chemist right on the corner next to the milk bar.
I would have been around 10 years old but I can remember it like yesterday.The Supa Valu food market in the photo is now a Chemist Warehouse.Was later a SSW then Foodland then IGA supermarket then was empty for a while them became a Chemist Warehouse to this day.The sign on the roof is still there that displayed the various past tenants and was a neon sign at one point.
Reading these comments ,i thought it was just me thinking of the past .But relieved now other genuine people think the same ........yes Melbourne a great city once ,many memories visiting ,business and pleasure ......Globilisation done a lot of harm to this great nation
Yes, globalisation has indeed fucked (excuse me) the globe!
Wish it was still like that. No foreigners. What a great place that must have been to live, makes me sad.
Sorry, unless you are Aboriginal, you are a foreigner. Talk about tall poppy delusion 😂
Wow 26 years before I was born I was born in 1996 I started my life in bankstown in chapel Rd south I had a good childhood in that house good u upload these videos I want to see the world every country 1500 years before I was born every century every ccountry
1970s Melbourne photographs.
Piano cover of Ringo Starr’s Photograph song courtesy of Calikokat111.
Awesome 👏
I left Melbourne in 1974 for rural NSW . This is the Melbourne i remember. Last time back five years ago i felt like a foreigner, lol , though i was born in the Jessie McPherson Community Hospital which was on the corner of Russel and Lonsdale Streets.
I am not Australian. I currently live in Melbourne as an exchange student.
When I arrived at the city I could feel there was something very wrong, I didn't expect it to be like that.
I pictured a city with Australians and a lot of local culture, instead we are lots of foreigners living together, I hear tens of different languages at the same time.
I got myself a bicycle because I wanted to explore other suburbs and meet actual Australians. I found a BBQ place with lots of posters of Melbourne from the 1970's, and that's how I got to see this video.
It's a shame what happened to your city, and that is happening with the capital of my country (México). Only this time the foreigners are Europeans and Americans, and they are displacing us to other areas, and obviously they are imposing their own culture over ours
These images are proof that you can také something beautiful and destroy it. Just look at all the cities rolled into one here, New York, San Francisco, London, Munich, Berlin etc...Melbourne was gorgeous, it was clean, it had just the right amount of green backed up by just the right amount of beautiful architecture, clean and well paved roads, stunning to look at in these pictures. Luckily I experienced it in these years as a kid and teenager. It was exciting. Now its an over developed shithole, ugly tasteless apartment buildings everywhere with no style, bland cement facades or commision house style lime green and orange panels glued onto the front amd sides, junkies and ferals everywhere and wrecked roads
Ah, the City Square! Wonderful memories of meet ups with friends. It was either there or under the clocks at Flinders Street Station. I love Melbourne (even now).
Wow, miss the Melbourne we once had
the way we were - love the song Photograph as background too
Ah, wonderful. My first car (beige LC Torana), my first real workplace (Cromwell House, since demolished), sitting in the open doorway of a W2 tram, McEwans, Supa Valu grocers, the sand train, Australian-made cars everywhere, local brand names, Darling Road terminus as it was then, yes it was like going home for a visit.
When cars were made of metal, not plastic and aluminium. And you could see the sky, not hidden by buildings.
I noticed that..the space above
These were the best of times when everyone took responsibility for their actions. No woke bullshit here. I remember my grandma taking me into the city and we would have lunch at the Coles cafeteria before taking all her LAN Choo tea coupons in to be traded for a small gift, then maybe taking in the pictures.....the best day ever, or other times you would take a train into the city to just go to the joke shop for blood capsules or a whoopee cushion,and then sneak past the shaft cinema for a giggle. Now with the woke brigade and bike paths and tram stops, who wants to go into the city anymore.......they have stuffed it up royally.....thanks for the memories Gazza
Yes the big Coles cafeteria with its jellies and custards, but so much food and the shiny wooden seats and those old fashioned lifts with the cage! It was great then my grandmother and mum would stop at the Darrell Lea shop and buy us a dollie jar of little candies. Wish it had never changed and would go back to those times in the click of a finger. Yep saw Charlotte's web, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang etc at the Atheneum Cinema. Oh the memories.
Nice story, the fuck has any of it got to do with being “woke” tho
I wish my grandfather had lived long enough to tell me about growing up in Melbourne. He was too young for WW1 and a bit too old for WW2 but went anyway.
It was a thrill going there for the first time and doing a hook turn.
My dad smoked Rothmans and was a fire-fighter MFB and joined the fire brigade as he was just that bit too young for WW2. I grew up in Malvern it was the best years of my life.
I Remember thus good old days.
What a great city Melbourne was
0:44 I spent many a happy moment on my way home from school around 1970 at those stores under Batman Ave. I was into model aircraft and they sold kits there. Balsa planes and little Cox engines.
Everyone hated the Gas and Fuel buildings, that is, until they built Fed Square.
God this channel makes me feel old... in a good way...
Haha I remember the model aircraft store, dad was stationed at Eastern Hill fire station.
Fantastic photos of the Melbourne I knew arriving there in 1976 I could feel the heat and hear the trams and much more thanks
Straight up On the left Myer Melbourne Bourke Street Store My first job as a stenographer on the 7th floor Lonsdale Street Store “Credit Control”1973 Computers just being installed and our wages turned from cash to direct bank deposit US off the gold standard and the beginning of the end Although I have really great memories of everyone there and Melbourne CBD 😊
Melbourne was such an amazing city. So sad about the last 20 years. Absolute dump now.
Beautiful
I wasn’t born until 1987 and I didn’t move to Melbourne until 2007, I feel even the last 15 years Melbourne is not the same. I remember my first trip to Melbourne in 2005 it has this sense of adventure and I remember everyone being so friendly, then slowly that changed, I live here now and when I head into the city it seems dull and depressing. Maybe we just long for what we don’t have I don’t know.
These photos are beautiful thank you for sharing.
I was born 1980 & raised in Melbourne and only left 2 years ago. In those early days, Melbourne felt personal, as if anything was possible. It had that sense of adventure you mentioned, but also a sense of community and warmth. It's well and truly GONE. For me, it took a noticeable turn from the mid-2000s.
The Holden LC Torana we saw. That was my first car as a new driver. Way back when.
I spent time watching a lot of your Melbourne videos. A lot of effort you have gone to finding them.
Thank you for the history.
From a proud Melbournian 👍
When live was hard work was rewarded and people kind , coming from a family of 11 children really had nothing but everything was a blessing
It's how I remember Melbourne the place to be
Lovely pics and everyone is looking where they are going and not a bloody phone in sight
Please transport me to that time...oh Melbourne how u have changed.
takes me back
Loved being a teenager in the late 70’s and taking the train into Melbourne with mates on a Sunday. Place was deserted, but the amusement parlours and record stores were open. Such fun times.
Thanks I enjoyed that I bought a tear to my eye I used to work In city best days of my life
Nostalgia is such a powerful emotion
Oh wow great nostalgia. I remember starting work in the City in December 1972 at the age of 16. Melbourne city was a thriving exciting place for a young girl to start her working life. So many trendy clothes and shoe shops. Loved Michaels corner store with multi levels of fabrics. The Myer basement store. Clegs and the little knitting wool shop in the arcarde opposite Flinders street station. Daimaru, Georges, Coles cafeteria and the Flinders Street platform where I used to buy soups and Creamy Sodas and stood at the stand up tables. The London Hotel where I used to get a cheeky Southern comfort and coke and Victoria market stalls where there were unique clothing and items being sold. Festival Hall and its weekend wrestling with Mario Milano and other characters. The little cafes with the mini Juke Boxes on the table with cheap diner meals. So much fun
Nice one . Thanks mate
Bringing back some good memories here, mate. Thanks.
Would like to have a collection of those cars now, I would be a millionaire 🚘
Another wonderful uploading from you.
Love the photos
Thank you for sharing ❤
Gezza, great post. Some iconic stores there.
It is like, looking at a different world now. Loved this time in Melbourne.😢😢
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Like going back home to Victoria to when I used to live and work in Melbourne in the 70’s. Thank you 😊
Awesome pics ! And the cars ....very cool......all of it was very cool.....even the music xxx
Ahhh wonderful. 👏🏽 Thank you for sharing.
Top class brings back memories
OMG Gezza, what an amazing gallery of memories! They were so much simpler times, sure the public transport was a bit hit and miss, yeah the Gas and Fuel buildings were ugly but would I rather Melbourne be like that now? You betcha! Thanks for the memories.
I wish we could have these times back againit was so simple and Melbourne was great not like now
A much saner point in time.
Superb!
I used to visit melbourne alot when I was a teenager. I'd catch the Vinelander from Mildura and arrive at Spencer St station early Saturday morning. Such good memories.
Great days. Life was so much simplifier. I love Greater Melbourne
Somewhere, in the Bowels of the MCC is, if not sold off, a huge archive of glass slides.
Back in the day, the Chief Clerk was photo mad. He took, or had taken, photos of everything, from streetscapes to every nut bolt and screw they purchased in the 1800s.
The old MCCESD had thousands of them, they were in my office. Hundreds of thousands more were stored in the Town Hall and the old Lonsdale St Powerhouse.
So long ago, I think I even saw the Yarra River's water was actually clean lol... Love your work mate, Keep up the History to an AWESOME City!!! Thank You...
At 0.35 an XA Falcon GT, a Fairlaine and a red Falcon 500.
We had the best muscle cars back then. Ford, only way to go. 👍