I was 6 in 1990 and the only kid in my rural school class with glasses. Lived on a turkey farm run by an absent criminal (he was in jail for a bit during). It sucked. And was hard work for my little 8 yr old self (by that stage) The early 90s consisted of starving turkeys and me ducking to dodge balls thrown at my head at school. And cant forget fritz sandwich the clown chasing and trying to kiss me as he felt bad for my little picked on self. Fun times in the land of oz for me.
@@julienfroidevaux1143 I remember both fondly, as I was in high school for one era and uni the next. So I guess I was able to enter the workforce once the recovery was on.
What have we become now exactly?? We are no different to any other western nation that has put personal and corporate profits over social equality and public services… we are living John Howard and Peter Costellos dream - maybe you have buyers remorse?
Great to see the uniquely amazing busker India Bharti (at 0.27 sec) playing his very own Bhartiphone. There were some classic buskers in Sydney 30 years ago.
Yeah nice one. I forgot to read comments before adding that he supported Pil at Selenas. That was a pretty bizarre choice, but perfect really. Put something on that is completely unusual and sets up the weird vibe for the ever weird John Lydon.
Great flashback! Used to go there all the time. Hanging out outside the store, talking with complete strangers about music & what bands were playing where. Still got every record I bought there. When they moved up the street, they lost that something special
@@torilea8104 I used to go to St James Tavern every Friday night after work! Worked at Westpac Head Office, head down for Dollar Drinks, get a whole tray of Bourbon and Cokes lol.
People living in & for the moment, enjoying each other & what's happening around them. Since the inception of the smartphone, this has been lost. Sad really! 🙁
By 1995 (the year the Internet took off but smart phones still 12 years away) things had changed quite a lot...1990 was a good year. Cheers from the Hunter Valley (ex Balmain)!!!
@@homebrandrules Yes, I am an I diot. I added extra spaces too. You wrote ..."DIDN'T TAKE OFF IT 95" I can only suppose you meant to write "in" where you wrote "IT" I repeat: I am an I DIOT.
I like to watch these historic videos and imagine where my nan and pop were, and what they were doing in these exact moments. In a way it brings them back to life for me knowing that they were there somewhere. I look at every face however small the chance. While the camera man was in the city filming this, pop might have been a few suburbs away, talking about a horse race or a footy game at work. Nan could've been in a bingo hall or at home hanging out clothes, cooking pancakes or having a laugh on the phone. It brings that point in time back to life and wish they could have it again. Time is brutal.
It was lovely. I arrived in 85, and the next decade 85 to 95 was absolutely magic. Maybe just because it was all new to me, but the music, the TV (especially the mini series), the movies, the bars and the night life, were really good. There was no shortage of good jobs, the streets were safe, things were cheap.
I was 15 and totally loved hanging out in the city back in those days. Sydney was a magical place. Buskers galore and japanese tourists that were super friendly and took polaroids with them.
I was in tenth grade. There was a much better vibe in the city in the 1990s. It's down to a few things. 1) Birth rate in the 1970s-1980s was 2.5 children per woman, instead of 1.5 today. This means a lot more young people, in bars, clubs, around the city, having fun. Growth in Australia is being driven by immigration not by the birth rate. 2) Music was communal heard from the radio and MTV, instead of individual affair it is today, if a good song came on the radio, everyone heard it. Australian music was at its peak in 1970s-1990s, so plenty of songs were on the radio which solidified the Aussie identity. 3) Cheap to live in Sydney, and people weren't as driven to make a lot of money. 4) Because there was no online shopping everyone went to the stores, so it filled the shopping centres and with it restaurants, and other social venues. This is why in small towns, a lot of mains streets have died because lots can be ordered online. 5) The nightlife was amazing. All those young people due to the brith rate being high, there ware a lot more vibrant pubs and clubs and in places you wouldn't think of now has being good night spots. I didn't like night clubs so much, they seem too sleazy, and I'm male by the way, but hanging out at restaurants around town with my friends or going on picnic dates was just awesome. Yes I miss the 90s.
@@user-uq6gi6yy3n overcrowded, overpriced,over policed,locked gates in places where you used to freely roam, smile at someone and they think your a creep, Division being pushed, nue Vue racism is rife, fees being charged in places that used to be free , public areas privatised, I can go on but it will get me down. The best thing I ever did was to leave that s..t hole and go north. Unfortunately heaps of dicks have now followed and want to change it to the place they left. Plenty more I could tell U.
A depressing concrete hellscape, that closes early, filled with people that have no connection to their country or each other. Packed with "new"Australians" with nowhere to live. A completely sold out, self hating, self congratulatory mess.
@@ttephi3667 He's full of shit. He's one of these sad failures who got priced out of the city and writes this hateful nonsense from his shack out on the central coast. As someone who still lives in the CBD of sydney, the place is as bustling, fun and beautiful as its ever been.
This is a very vivid reminder of my childhood and visiting the city with my mum. It was always felt like a wonderful, exciting and special occasion to go into town from out in the ‘burbs. The city and people looked like this. No phones. Very few screens. Still lots of older buildings that hadn’t been knocked down. People’s attention was on each other and the sights, not themselves. The young women had great hair, just like my glamorous cousin whom I adored and who was in her late 20s (and now is in her 60s!) Most train windows still opened. It was fun. A large part of that was my age. I wasn’t worrying over work, a mortgage, bills and supporting a family…but I do think life was a bit simpler in Sydney, with far fewer people, not so much anxiety and a lot less negativity in the public discourse than there is now. Everyone now is either a victim or a perpetrator. Then you were still expected just to get on with it. We may not see those days again in Sydney.
i remember it back then in rand wick used to go to darling harbor all the time in 90's i was 10 year's old. even went on the boat the mainly the narrabeen miss those days when i felt safe in sydney.
What great footage!! I love watching old video clips you can keep and post years later. 1990 brings back solid memories I was only 13. Sydney looks so busy lots of hustle and bustle back then you had Pizza Huts, Sizzlers, David Jones was massive etc! The song you are playing, wow I completely forgot about it this track by Girl Overboard! This was a massive hit back then across Australia!! I saved it in Spotify!! Thanks for bringing back fond memories.
wow I was 20 and working hard to save for my first home in Sydney ,did that in one yr ,early to late nineties was the best time for australia ,you still could get ahead if you wanted to, now you have to work even harder just to survive.
Before the complete post-1997 downward spiral, i.e., the internet explosion, mobile phone explosion, and, most detrimental to our culture, the despicable Bob Carr-led pokies in NSW pub floodgates being opened. I'm not saying we should ignore technology and go backwards; I just that people were more open and present in the early to mid-nineties.
This just makes me sad, as I went to the local mall on late night last week (I wont say what suburb) and it became very clear to me that the majority of the people there were not Aussies. The entire culture and everything Australian has completely gone and I think that is a tragic loss. For the record I was not born in Australia myself and consider myself a grateful resident who loves the country and hates seeing it being lost rapidly.
It felt like things were getting better in the nineties. Sure there were still problems but the majority of people were good people who didn't really give a shit if you were gay, straight, black ,yellow etc. If you saw someone with died hair etc you thought, thats cool and had a chat with them, now? We laughed at ourselves and everone else. It felt like we were coming together. The media and politicians weren't pushing division and hatred simply because you had a difference of opinion. What happened?
I think the same thing. My opinion is that division was cultivated by political interest/activist groups who were losing power due to social advancements being made. The fact we were starting to get along and "live and let live" meant there were fewer agendas to push, and all that sweet NGO money started having fewer places to go. So inflammation became necessary. Also, politics only benefits from division and 'us against them' narratives. And everything got compounded and intensified via the internet and social media, and media conglomerates who lost their monopoly on information. I was a teen in the 90s and I distinctly remember the prevailing social outlook was about celebrating common humanity, looking outward, and getting over yourself and trying to do your best. Now it's about aggressively insisting on difference, fixedly looking inward and making identity sacrosanct, and holding society accountable for your failures. Whatever the reasons are for the culture shift, I hate it.
@@foreignparticle1320 All 100% accurate. Australia in the post-war period was the evidence. It wasn't perfect, because humans aren't perfect, but it was a far happier, less troubled times.
That guy busking at 29s with the crazy rig was the support act for PiL at Selena's in Coogee in about 1990/91. He had some name like India Bahi or some such.
I would have been about 18 in 1990. I remember the 1990's beginning on a high and there being a feeling of optimism in the air. I always thought I was remembering this time period through the lens of a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 18 year old girl from Brisbane, but looking at footage like this confirms that it wasn't just my imagination. Perhaps it was an overlap of the festive spirit of the late 80's, and the happiness of starting a new decade.
@@aldunlop4622 And people seemed friendlier too! I came to Sydney from Brisbane and just loved how cool and relaxed people were in the big city.. But it changed.. 🤷♀
The population of Australian cities now closely resembling Singapore's population with Chinese and Indian now dominating with respectable representation from the Mid east
Try living in Spain, like I did from September 1990 to December 1994. The night-life was wicked!! I still clearly remember my thoughts about Sydney upon my return. "Sydney is dead!"
I was born in August 1990, so I'd be interested to know what date this was filmed on. I go to Sydney quite often, and was in Circular Quay only last weekend, so it's interesting to see how it looked at the time I was born.
@@olivierbarles Ah, thanks. I was born on the 23rd, so 1 week old when this was filmed. It's interesting to see what's changed and what's remained the same in that time.
I was in high school. The Town Hall steps were the meeting spot when we came into the city to go hang out or to see a movie at George Street cinemas. We'd agree a time in advance and if one of your friends was late, you'd just sit on the steps and wait. No texts or IMs.
Was Pancakes at the Rocks 24hr still open then. The world population counter opposite the Natural History Museum was only at 3.4 billion. Live in Qld now. Its getting crowded up here
Brissie appears to be rapidly catching up to Sydney in the diversity stakes. Until very recently it used to be a place to retreat to for a dose of good natured and happy Australian culture.
When life made sense. No Internet - Internet is wonderful for many things but the negative outweighs now... plus Americanisation of Australia - blame Immigration but its Americanisation that had a firm foothold by 1992. The Recession too didn't help, GST talk by Hewson ....
Grew up in the 90s. Houses were afforable, food was cheap, no gst, free education, no excessive, booze, cigs, fuel taxes, good times before john howard started fucking it all up.
It was John's predecessor, Paul Keating who ended free education He knew there was money to be made from Asian students and it continued Bob Hawke's legacy of doing business with China and the rest. John Howard merely kept it up as all govts have since.
It's more than just the buildings, it's the people ... at 3.6m in 1990 to 5.5m today, you'll have a hard time convincing me that it's a place better for it. I just wish we could have a sensible discussion about why we're addicted to the sugar hit of the population ponzi before history becomes irrelevant.
The first 20 seconds is Melbourne. (Tram going to West Preston).
I thought it was odd to see that tram 😂
Thought so, no trams in Sydney.
@@aldunlop4622 they have the light rail now, but not back then
PLENTY OF TRANS THOUGH
@@homebrandrules 😂
This was the Sydney I remember, it was such a different place back then. Makes me feel so old and nostalgic.
It was a different place at the start. It was a Melbourne.
Sweet atmosphere
Something very beautiful about Early 90s Australia. Love that period of time.
Still some very nice regional areas. As for Sydney though..
Me too.
@@mdjcsmith I didn't love the high unemployment , inflation and low economic growth .
Probably the mid 90's is where it's at ?
I was 6 in 1990 and the only kid in my rural school class with glasses. Lived on a turkey farm run by an absent criminal (he was in jail for a bit during). It sucked. And was hard work for my little 8 yr old self (by that stage) The early 90s consisted of starving turkeys and me ducking to dodge balls thrown at my head at school. And cant forget fritz sandwich the clown chasing and trying to kiss me as he felt bad for my little picked on self.
Fun times in the land of oz for me.
@@julienfroidevaux1143 I remember both fondly, as I was in high school for one era and uni the next. So I guess I was able to enter the workforce once the recovery was on.
I was in Sydney from 7 - 10 Oct 2023, and dang Town Hall hasn't changed a bit!
Are you serious, there is a tram going through the place
Song name: Girl Overboard - I Can't Believe
Excellent, thanks. I remember the song but couldn't remember what it was called or who sang it.
I met Lisa a couple of times over the years.
Thank you. I thought it was Do Re Mi.
Thanks! Shit! I thought it was Deborah Conway! But couldn’t find it in Spotify so knew I was off the mark. Voices a very similar!
@@joekrusec9066 Vocal timbre is very similar. That’s what threw me, too.
When life was happy and simple!!
Not like today...so sad what we have become 😢.
I miss old Australia 🇦🇺 😢
move to WA ... it has the freedom of Oz that I grew up with in the 80s
Too hard to live here
What have we become now exactly?? We are no different to any other western nation that has put personal and corporate profits over social equality and public services… we are living John Howard and Peter Costellos dream - maybe you have buyers remorse?
@@youreworthyourweightinavoc7189 after the Covid lock outs from the WA Gov you guys had, ya gotta be kidding
@@youreworthyourweightinavoc7189also has one of the fastest growing Indian populations with many more to come, we are being replaced.
I was 21 that year! Love to go back to that time!
I was 20 and 1 month. Good times!
I moved to Australia in 1990, flew into Sydney.. I thought it was the most amazing place I’d ever been too, would love to do that all again!
I was 22 it looks so different watching this . I can’t say It’s a better place now feels like we are a commie state now
@@moparmadman1134 what the fuck is commie about australia today? you are cooked. we literally have an american spy base in the middle of the country,
I was 24 actually working in Kent st Sydney what i’d do to be that age again.
and look how packed the side walks where. loved sydney in the 80s n 90s
The footpaths?
Footpaths, if you're an Aussie.
Pitt Street Mall looks a lot emptier in this video
@@whophdthat's because it was compared to now
Great to see the uniquely amazing busker India Bharti (at 0.27 sec) playing his very own Bhartiphone. There were some classic buskers in Sydney 30 years ago.
Yeah nice one. I forgot to read comments before adding that he supported Pil at Selenas. That was a pretty bizarre choice, but perfect really. Put something on that is completely unusual and sets up the weird vibe for the ever weird John Lydon.
Great video! I was 25 in 1990 & lived & worked in the city, This is how I remember it. Its a different city now....
Great video.
The Golden Years of Sydney. I miss the Tank Stream Arcade. Red Eye Records and a good place to hang out on a quiet Sunday with friends.
Great flashback! Used to go there all the time. Hanging out outside the store, talking with complete strangers about music & what bands were playing where. Still got every record I bought there. When they moved up the street, they lost that something special
Red eye records is still there, moved locations to across from the QVB
I was 24 at the time, worked in the CBD, life was so great, work hard, party hard, great people to hang out with.
I was 19 and we used to go to the St James Tavern and the Observer at the Rocks. Also worked in CBD 😔 such a long time ago and such a different world.
24 also & worked at caltex oil in Kent st
@@torilea8104 I used to go to St James Tavern every Friday night after work! Worked at Westpac Head Office, head down for Dollar Drinks, get a whole tray of Bourbon and Cokes lol.
People living in & for the moment, enjoying each other & what's happening around them. Since the inception of the smartphone, this has been lost. Sad really! 🙁
I lived and worked in Sydney from 1956 to 1984 and after that used to visit on a monthly basis for work until 1993.
That video brings back a >>lot
By 1995 (the year the Internet took off but smart phones still 12 years away) things had changed quite a lot...1990 was a good year. Cheers from the Hunter Valley (ex Balmain)!!!
internet DIDNT TAKE OFF IT 95. I DIOT
@@homebrandrules Yes, I am an I diot. I added extra spaces too. You wrote ..."DIDN'T TAKE OFF IT 95" I can only suppose you meant to write "in" where you wrote "IT" I repeat: I am an I DIOT.
Balmain is still a good place fortunately.
@@homebrandrulesit did at unis
I lived In Balmain:) and Paddington
I was in Yr11 ..same as my son is now!
I like to watch these historic videos and imagine where my nan and pop were, and what they were doing in these exact moments. In a way it brings them back to life for me knowing that they were there somewhere. I look at every face however small the chance.
While the camera man was in the city filming this, pop might have been a few suburbs away, talking about a horse race or a footy game at work. Nan could've been in a bingo hall or at home hanging out clothes, cooking pancakes or having a laugh on the phone. It brings that point in time back to life and wish they could have it again. Time is brutal.
I would have been 15 months old. Looks like a lovely place to be back then.
It was lovely.
I arrived in 85, and the next decade 85 to 95 was absolutely magic. Maybe just because it was all new to me, but the music, the TV (especially the mini series), the movies, the bars and the night life, were really good. There was no shortage of good jobs, the streets were safe, things were cheap.
I was 15 and totally loved hanging out in the city back in those days. Sydney was a magical place. Buskers galore and japanese tourists that were super friendly and took polaroids with them.
I was in tenth grade. There was a much better vibe in the city in the 1990s. It's down to a few things.
1) Birth rate in the 1970s-1980s was 2.5 children per woman, instead of 1.5 today. This means a lot more young people, in bars, clubs, around the city, having fun. Growth in Australia is being driven by immigration not by the birth rate.
2) Music was communal heard from the radio and MTV, instead of individual affair it is today, if a good song came on the radio, everyone heard it. Australian music was at its peak in 1970s-1990s, so plenty of songs were on the radio which solidified the Aussie identity.
3) Cheap to live in Sydney, and people weren't as driven to make a lot of money.
4) Because there was no online shopping everyone went to the stores, so it filled the shopping centres and with it restaurants, and other social venues. This is why in small towns, a lot of mains streets have died because lots can be ordered online.
5) The nightlife was amazing. All those young people due to the brith rate being high, there ware a lot more vibrant pubs and clubs and in places you wouldn't think of now has being good night spots. I didn't like night clubs so much, they seem too sleazy, and I'm male by the way, but hanging out at restaurants around town with my friends or going on picnic dates was just awesome.
Yes I miss the 90s.
Peak Sydney
What do you mean back then? I go today from Newcastle and it’s great. Go out for a drink, walk, good restaurants, friends, great time!
Now have a look at Sydney today 😞
What’s wrong with Sydney today?
@@user-uq6gi6yy3nmass immigration
@@user-uq6gi6yy3n Muslims, chinese, africans, crime, overpopulation. Need us to explain what clour the sky is?
@@user-uq6gi6yy3n overcrowded, overpriced,over policed,locked gates in places where you used to freely roam, smile at someone and they think your a creep, Division being pushed, nue Vue racism is rife, fees being charged in places that used to be free , public areas privatised, I can go on but it will get me down.
The best thing I ever did was to leave that s..t hole and go north. Unfortunately heaps of dicks have now followed and want to change it to the place they left.
Plenty more I could tell U.
@user-uq6gi6yy3n it's a dive, it's unsafe, full of rude people.
Objectively, apart from the perms, Sydney still looked like this to me in 2012.
Depending on when this was filmed I was around 1 years old. Its amazing to see what it was like back then. Sad what it is now.
What is it like now?
@@ttephi3667 It's fine lol, most of the things filmed are still here
A depressing concrete hellscape, that closes early, filled with people that have no connection to their country or each other. Packed with "new"Australians" with nowhere to live. A completely sold out, self hating, self congratulatory mess.
@@algardaus It sounds very different to what it was.
@@ttephi3667 He's full of shit. He's one of these sad failures who got priced out of the city and writes this hateful nonsense from his shack out on the central coast. As someone who still lives in the CBD of sydney, the place is as bustling, fun and beautiful as its ever been.
Great video. I was in year 4 when this was filmed. Sydney is a wonderful place ❤️
This is a very vivid reminder of my childhood and visiting the city with my mum. It was always felt like a wonderful, exciting and special occasion to go into town from out in the ‘burbs. The city and people looked like this. No phones. Very few screens. Still lots of older buildings that hadn’t been knocked down. People’s attention was on each other and the sights, not themselves. The young women had great hair, just like my glamorous cousin whom I adored and who was in her late 20s (and now is in her 60s!) Most train windows still opened. It was fun. A large part of that was my age. I wasn’t worrying over work, a mortgage, bills and supporting a family…but I do think life was a bit simpler in Sydney, with far fewer people, not so much anxiety and a lot less negativity in the public discourse than there is now. Everyone now is either a victim or a perpetrator. Then you were still expected just to get on with it. We may not see those days again in Sydney.
People actually seemed happy back then, not the depresses corporate serfs that occupy the city now. “Australia” left Sydney a long time ago
i remember it back then in rand wick used to go to darling harbor all the time in 90's i was 10 year's old. even went on the boat the mainly the narrabeen miss those days when i felt safe in sydney.
What great footage!! I love watching old video clips you can keep and post years later. 1990 brings back solid memories I was only 13. Sydney looks so busy lots of hustle and bustle back then you had Pizza Huts, Sizzlers, David Jones was massive etc! The song you are playing, wow I completely forgot about it this track by Girl Overboard! This was a massive hit back then across Australia!! I saved it in Spotify!! Thanks for bringing back fond memories.
I was 13 too.I miss those times.Australia,and Sydney was awesome back then.
Now Sydney has lost so much of it's heritage.
I was 29, mother of 3 yo and 1 yo girls. I miss the 90s.
wow I was 20 and working hard to save for my first home in Sydney ,did that in one yr ,early to late nineties was the best time for australia ,you still could get ahead if you wanted to, now you have to work even harder just to survive.
Before the complete post-1997 downward spiral, i.e., the internet explosion, mobile phone explosion, and, most detrimental to our culture, the despicable Bob Carr-led pokies in NSW pub floodgates being opened. I'm not saying we should ignore technology and go backwards; I just that people were more open and present in the early to mid-nineties.
Do a comparison for 2024
This just makes me sad, as I went to the local mall on late night last week (I wont say what suburb) and it became very clear to me that the majority of the people there were not Aussies. The entire culture and everything Australian has completely gone and I think that is a tragic loss. For the record I was not born in Australia myself and consider myself a grateful resident who loves the country and hates seeing it being lost rapidly.
I agree, I'm young enough to remember what Australian culture was, now we are just an immigrant hell hole trying to be a second rate America.
Thank you, soo much. Sydney had soo much more character then, than what it does now. I was born in August 1990. I wish I could go back.
My Sydney, once upon a time. Changed so much. Glad I got out.
Like many others have also got out. Walking around Sydney in 2024 one can't help but wonder where all those Aussies have gone.
It felt like things were getting better in the nineties. Sure there were still problems but the majority of people were good people who didn't really give a shit if you were gay, straight, black ,yellow etc.
If you saw someone with died hair etc you thought, thats cool and had a chat with them, now? We laughed at ourselves and everone else.
It felt like we were coming together.
The media and politicians weren't pushing division and hatred simply because you had a difference of opinion.
What happened?
I think the same thing.
My opinion is that division was cultivated by political interest/activist groups who were losing power due to social advancements being made. The fact we were starting to get along and "live and let live" meant there were fewer agendas to push, and all that sweet NGO money started having fewer places to go. So inflammation became necessary.
Also, politics only benefits from division and 'us against them' narratives. And everything got compounded and intensified via the internet and social media, and media conglomerates who lost their monopoly on information.
I was a teen in the 90s and I distinctly remember the prevailing social outlook was about celebrating common humanity, looking outward, and getting over yourself and trying to do your best. Now it's about aggressively insisting on difference, fixedly looking inward and making identity sacrosanct, and holding society accountable for your failures.
Whatever the reasons are for the culture shift, I hate it.
John Howard is what happened
You woke up..
@@foreignparticle1320 Bollocks.
@@foreignparticle1320 All 100% accurate. Australia in the post-war period was the evidence. It wasn't perfect, because humans aren't perfect, but it was a far happier, less troubled times.
When hooliganism was a Suzuki Sierra full of blondes.
😂
I remember that time and can confirm Suzuki Sierras were all driven by hot young women. Literally all of them.
I would have been walking around my city in a 3/4 length coat, boots with tassels and half a can of hair spray in my hair ….great look back 🙏
When Australia was still for Australians. ❤
beautiful Sydney! my hometown always a Sydney girl! miss Sydney soooooooooo much :(
Memories now
My ideal time machine time, time I would pick is around 1994.
There appears to be a Melbourne tram
Those old cars! Take me back please!
Turned to shit hasn’t it?
@StevenMilne-sm4fk I was in Sydney about a month ago. There are certain aspects that I like, but for the most part you're right.
Used work in Clarence St and Kent Street late 80s early 90s.
Me too
That guy busking at 29s with the crazy rig was the support act for PiL at Selena's in Coogee in about 1990/91. He had some name like India Bahi or some such.
I was at that concert! I remember John Lydons piercing eyes onstage.... i was age 20 in 1990 😊
I only just moved to Sydney permanently in June that year… I was 18 yrs .. great times 😊
Got any more crowd scenes
I would have been about 18 in 1990. I remember the 1990's beginning on a high and there being a feeling of optimism in the air. I always thought I was remembering this time period through the lens of a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 18 year old girl from Brisbane, but looking at footage like this confirms that it wasn't just my imagination.
Perhaps it was an overlap of the festive spirit of the late 80's, and the happiness of starting a new decade.
I was 24, worked in the Sydney CBD, it was great.
@@aldunlop4622 And people seemed friendlier too! I came to Sydney from Brisbane and just loved how cool and relaxed people were in the big city.. But it changed.. 🤷♀
Just visited from Singapore in 2024. Now majority Chinese too I noticed
The population of Australian cities now closely resembling Singapore's population with Chinese and Indian now dominating with respectable representation from the Mid east
People being people and socializing. Not one mobile phone in sight
When I saw the tram and the Silver Top I wondered if this was a trick video.
What's the music 🎵
Like the sound of it
It was a different time, it was a better time…
I was 16 I wish I could go back to easier times 😢
Sydney's night life is dead.
$25 a cocktail, best to stay at home
Try living in Spain, like I did from September 1990 to December 1994. The night-life was wicked!! I still clearly remember my thoughts about Sydney upon my return. "Sydney is dead!"
Post Card Bandit Was On The Run In This Era
An entertaining time for sure.
I was born in August 1990, so I'd be interested to know what date this was filmed on. I go to Sydney quite often, and was in Circular Quay only last weekend, so it's interesting to see how it looked at the time I was born.
Was shot between 30th and 31st of August 🙂
@@olivierbarles Ah, thanks. I was born on the 23rd, so 1 week old when this was filmed. It's interesting to see what's changed and what's remained the same in that time.
Back when this beautiful city was accessible to people on average incomes.
I was 7 in 1990 but cannot remember having trams in the CBD???? I thought they’d been removed by then?
I was in high school. The Town Hall steps were the meeting spot when we came into the city to go hang out or to see a movie at George Street cinemas. We'd agree a time in advance and if one of your friends was late, you'd just sit on the steps and wait. No texts or IMs.
I worked in Hoyts and Timezone george and pitt street , great time and great city.
Trams in Sydney ?
First 20 seconds are Melbourne
the year i was born,
Was Pancakes at the Rocks 24hr still open then. The world population counter opposite the Natural History Museum was only at 3.4 billion. Live in Qld now. Its getting crowded up here
Pancakes is still in the Rocks opposite the Munich Cafe.
No longer 24 hours though.
Brissie appears to be rapidly catching up to Sydney in the diversity stakes. Until very recently it used to be a place to retreat to for a dose of good natured and happy Australian culture.
Back when Sydney still looked like a part of AUstralia
Except the first few scenes were of Melbourne W class trams?
Needs more icehouse!!!
Was a 29yrold financially living the dream
Yeah Sydney and what it’s filled with is pure garbage now.
yep our culture and our identity has been taken from us
@@smiddysmidton8313replaced with cheap Indian migrants for tiny hat greed
Did Sydney have trams??
Not since the 60s
Would love to know - what's the first song that plays?
Bans: Girl Overboard - Tittle: I can’t believe - out in 1990
@@olivierbarles Thankyou kindly!
Dont forget also - this is a midwinters day!
Not a mobile phone in sight
A better time. People didn’t whinge and whine about the old days as much back then.
Wow. Peak western civilization.
Amazing. Almost all white people and so few minorities. How I miss those days
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Great song btw.
What is the song
Girl Overboard: “I can’t believe”
Back before sydney started resembling Hong Kong
Yeah it's disgusting now
Doesn't look that different 30 years later - except perhaps the hair and fashion!
If i had a time machine,i would go back in time,not to the future.
No fat people.
The ferries ⛴️ use to be blue & white until they were coloured a shoddy green & yellow
Blue and white phase I don't recall lasted too long. They were green and yellow and white before that from memory
Hard to believe....
We used to be a City.
Good then, shit now
not a single indian to be seen
back in the 1900s when the harbor bridge was new
When life made sense. No Internet - Internet is wonderful for many things but the negative outweighs now... plus Americanisation of Australia - blame Immigration but its Americanisation that had a firm foothold by 1992. The Recession too didn't help, GST talk by Hewson ....
It looks like Adelaide in 2024 😂
Minus Indians
Before we got invaded
Yep
Who's fault is that the people who came or the governments that bought them here.
@@moustafamirakhor5418 The governments. I still don't want them here though, they're not welcome. Fake smiles in public is all they'll get
@@moustafamirakhor5418as they say ,-"you get what you voted for..."
@@numbat0072 both labor and liberal and greens all support mass immigration so it dont matter who you vote for
Before the Howard years.
Grew up in the 90s. Houses were afforable, food was cheap, no gst, free education, no excessive, booze, cigs, fuel taxes, good times before john howard started fucking it all up.
Bought mine in 1991 for 198k 10k from cbd.
Mortgage was $400/week
Feel sad for the current generation.
It was John's predecessor, Paul Keating who ended free education He knew there was money to be made from Asian students and it continued Bob Hawke's legacy of doing business with China and the rest. John Howard merely kept it up as all govts have since.
It's more than just the buildings, it's the people ... at 3.6m in 1990 to 5.5m today, you'll have a hard time convincing me that it's a place better for it. I just wish we could have a sensible discussion about why we're addicted to the sugar hit of the population ponzi before history becomes irrelevant.
Its very obviously not a part of the plan to make the country a better place to live or to improve the living conditions of the population.
3:40
peak
The girls at the end, sitting in the back of the little 4WD, with no seat belts, you can't do that these days.
Those Suzuki Sierras had basic lap belts for the 2 rear passengers. That was all that was needed to make them legal.
@@commodorenut Hmm..Didn't ADR 4A require lap sash belts after 1974?
You couldn't do it in 1990! 😊
In those little sierra sardine tins wearing a seatbelt didnt make them any safer
@@smiddysmidton8313 Ejection was a better option than being thrashed around by the waist like a rag doll.!!
Society really peaked between 1990 and 2005
I was 13!
Look at what they have taken from you.
Imagine what it will be like in another 30 years.
They will not treat you as well as you have treated them.
Украинцы! Оставьте им только корабль Коммуна. Это будет самый потешный флот в мире. С одним кораблем и то построенным при еще Царе Николае II.