1985 Drive through Melbourne
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- An in-car video I shot in 1985 from my Fiat 125 as we drove north along Kinsgway through King Street Melbourne and onto the Tulla freeway. I shall be following this up with a "25+ years later" version to show the changes that have taken place ... when I get around to it! (...edited... AND HERE IT IS!!: • 2013 Drive Through Mel... the 2013 version) There was no audio on the original because I'd forgotten to plug the mike into the camera, No doubt I would have had the radio on 3XY though.
i keep coming back when I'm down for some reason.........oh how my beautiful city has changed. Truly wonderful video.
I would love to upload the original audio again but until common sense wins out over capitalist GREED I have to remain with this audio because the background music from the AM radio was picked up and rejected by the thought police at RUclips.
So Annoying I know. Political correctness gone mad .. Take me back to the 80s PLEASE 🤗😇
The 1980s was the best period of humanity.
Melbourne was the best city to live in by far back then.
Great cars, great music, friendly people and girls were nice.
Nowadays people have become so detached from others, paranoid and far too dismissive of others.
Bring back the 80s!
A couple of reasons for people being detached etc that I can think of...
Smart-phones, the internet, and the sheer amount of people now! The population of Melbourne alone has practically doubled in the past 35 years or so.
I found people rude and dismissive when I went to New York City in the late 1990's, and came back really appreciating how friendly Melbourne was by comparison. Now Melbourne is a lot more like NYC was back then!
It's a real shame, but 'that's progress', as some like to say. Maybe I'm just old fashioned!
The 80's was the best decade. Thanks for taking me back there for a short drive.
Peak hours were terrible on Flemington Rd back in the day. If I had had
known your route it would have saved me a lot of time. I used to go through North Melbourne onto Flemington Rd via Abbotsford St.
Thank you, just Amazing you had the insight to film this. Northcote Melbourne born n bred The 80s were the BEST Ever in Australia. Not an African Sudanese Muslim Gang in sight. Kind thoughts to you and your family.
I was in the city just last week, first time in many, many years. Parts of it are almost unrecognisable. A lot of buildings have been ripped down and replaced. Give me the Melbourne of 1985 any old day. Friday and Saturday nights would see me and my mates down King street at one of the many bars and night clubs along there having a great night out. I'd give anything to go back and do it all again with the knowledge I have now but sadly the 80's will never return!Thank you for the upload NoRelationToNed this was a great trip down memory lane.
Give me the pre ww2 Melbourne cbd
i believe they tore down the general post office!!!! What a grand building. I was gutted. Who would make anything like that again??? Why was it allowed? Construction companies in bed with government. I would hate to see it now.
I remember it well, and I have to admit I still at times get confused about who goes first even now - just for a moment then it kicks in that the rule has changed. I always thought the main reason was to align with other states which always had right turners give way rule - to make it a consistent rule Australia wide.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart as a Melbournian born in Preston 1966!
You’ve made me cry but made my day! 🙏💜
Same here, born at PANCH..
Beautiful
Likewise panch hospital 1966. Great memories around the Preston, Thornbury, Northcote area..Preston market Saturday mornings compulsory. Sadly those days are long gone Thanks for the memories on this clip
@@alexdrakopoulos7344 Good old Jeff Kennett closed PANCH, It was a great hospital for the community of Preston, they had just spent over $2 million on new operating theatres, all for nothing. Preston Market now is in jeopardy of being demolished for an apartment complex, so much of our history is going for developers to make a quick buck........
@@noelroberts8199 absolutely spot on 💯
Wow. King street. Passed my old apartment building. used to work at the Hippodrome and Inflations nightclub. My Melbourne. Thanks
thanks for posting great footage , the streets were so different not as busy and stressful either
Im aching inside for this to come back.Fuck this life in 2023
Good stuff. Glad I have memories of a great time in history
Spotted a couple of Valiant Chargers
That was my Melbourne 💓, I don’t recognise it now.
Well I have egg on my face now, I just viewed the original video again and remember that it had no audio! :-/ I had forgotten to plug in the mic on the JVC GX-N70E camera. That is why I had background music over it. Oops. By the way, that camera and Porta-Pack still lurks in a dusty case under my bed.
I was in Melbourne in Dec 98 until Late March 99. Awesome city. I was during my backpacking days with my 12 month stay in Australia. I would then go on to meet my future Canadian wife in Cape Town as i was there for the millennium. Thanks for the memories of Melbourne from this clip although i would have been 12 years old back home in Leeds England when this was footed. Melbourne has changed since 1985 compared to 1998/99 and now i see on the TV when watching the FI Australian Grand Prix that Melbourne has really been more built up since i was last there in 99. Sorry i'm just geeking out here.
It just looks so normal. Today's modern looks garish in comparison.
remember when people had to drive themselves, and cars burned petrol? kids today will have no idea what bus drivers and taxi drivers were. regards from 2030
BC 3012 YEAH I REMEMBER NOT ONLY DID I KNOW ALL THE BUS DRIVERS NAMES I KNEW THEIR LIFE STORY ASWELL I REMEMBER GOOD TIMES WHEN I WAS A KID THIS BUS DRIVER CALLED LUCAS WOULD TELL US KIDS ALL SORTS OF CRAZY STORIES AND TALK TO US ABOUT GIRLS AND ALL SORTS OF CRAZY STUFF HE WAS A BLACKBELT AND ME AND MY MATES LOOKED UP TO HIM LIKE HE WAS SYPERMAN 😊I MISS THOSE DAYS I WONDER WHAT HES UP TO NOW HE PROBABLY PASSED AWAY HE WAS A GREAT GUY 😎✌
Awesome. What an absolute gem. I'm imagining Pseudo Echo's "Love An Adventure" playing on 1422 3XY .
Thank you for the upload that's me from 3:32 onwards driving my girlfriends FB Holden Rego HJB 147 two tone green.
Harry
Sorry Harry, nearly stoved into you at 4:28 there!! :-D
All good thanks again for the upload. My girlfriend is actually my wife now. She kept the FB Holden for a few years until around 1990 but handling was too precarious, the car was all original. She now drives a Tiguan
Harry
LanewayGarden Did you actually just find yourself in this video?
ケ hi it came up randomly on my feed and I recognised the FB immediately. At the time my girlfriends car, hers was the only one with the 2 tone green.
Sorry, as I explained in another comment, the original audio doesn't exist because I neglected to plug the mic in before setting off on that drive. The old JVC camera and porta-pack I used were nothing like the integrated devices of today.
What I wouldn’t give to spend a single day back there.
I was 22 years old and a frequent user of that stretch of road. It wasn’t really all that exciting, not enough to give “anything” for anyway.
LOOK AT YOUR iPHONE AND YOU CAN !! LOL
A beautiful piece of history for every Melburnian within reach of a mute button.
I wish I was in the 80s, but unfortunately, I have to deal with life in the 20s on the 21st Century.
omg i seen my house!!
... somewhere in this video i am 5 years old just started prep at Thornbury Primary School, living in Northcote i think ...
I'm 14 then. My mum went to Thornbury primary.
I would have been 12 in my last year of primary and in Sydney. Never been to Melbourne but my mum spent two weeks there in 1982 for a conference. Lucky girl.
3:29 A scene out of the movie “DUEL”
That was hypnotic, comforting and yet very sad. Thanks for sharing it.
1985 dash cam !
year I was born (october). great footage there.
love the footage but this song has always sucked
Yeah, maybe a song from that year would’ve been good
1985?! I was 8 years old (now 40 in 2018) and unfortunately melbourne really has changed alot from back then?! The amount of freedom you have even when driving is unheard off now in 2018. It so so congested that it's not even funny! This was a time when melbourne use to be so great and easy going, fast forward and try and even attempt this now?! This footage makes me sad how crap melbourne is now, a cesspool yet I still love this melbourne on offer here...
This is a great video. Thanks for taking th time to upload it. This and others have been embedded in our Facebook group, "We grew up in Melbourne"
Come and join us.
I take it you meant 2:48? The video is only 10mins long ;). I think that's when it looks like I'm gonna run up the bum of the car in front is it? The video tends to accentuate that effect, I didn't run up too many arses in the eighties, just one I think when I was driving a Yellow cab on the big roundabout at the top of Elizabeth St. To TBHGeorgiaFO, I was trying out my new video camera setup and was into the "Racecam" in-car video which was being pioneered at Bathurst back then.
Sad story - got rear-ended in Toorak Road South Yarra by some uninsured nuff nuff and couldn't afford to repair it at the time. Sold it damaged to a neighbour and watched it go to seed in their yard before being wrecked. :(
I've got an old fiat grille !
Probably half the cause of it was your shit, unperceptive changes in speed, half meter of space behind each car driving skills!
I had a Fiat 124 silver that year l was born in North Melb Curzon St.l also played in band Alleygators that year and worked in south melb at allgraphics but lived in Clifton hill at that time l had 4 to 5 gigs a week great days.Cheers Jeffrey
Did the music in this video get changed? I can distinctly recall Hey There Delilah being one of the songs that had previously been used to accompany it.
Yes, I changed to the music by The Cure as more contemporary with the times. Delilah was not popular and not in keeping with the era.
Goodness me. Abbotsford st. Turn into Haines. Down Sheil st. Over Canning Into Melrose. 👍
Nice memories Love the town!!!I saw it was winter in Melbourne???
Nice to know the traffic has always been shit
Phone!? In 1985? come on, even VHS camcorders were hardly out then. I has a JVC video camera connected to a bulky "porta-pack" VHS recorder. I still have it under the bed, probalby worth a fortune as a collector's item by now.
Was living in a flat in Avoca street South Yarra with a mate. We were 20 years old. Wish I could go back for just one month.
Somewhere in this video I was 6 years old probably home from grade 1 and playing with my he-man toys while mum was cooking dinner and dad was on the way home from work. Times were much much more simple back then.
mark lobosco did you have Voltron toys? I loved those
I was also 6 and in grade 1 - at Errol St Primary (North Melbourne) - in 1985!
A very therapeutic video. Thanks
Ohhh what days! I loved Melbourne then and up to end of 90s when I finished Art School.
I started work in the city in 1985, now im almost old enough to retire. That old Holden (FB or EK?) was approx a 1960 model so was 25 years old in 1985. Another 25 years brings up to 2010. I seem to remember hiring a huge Video in 1985 to record a friends wedding, I bet that you hired this video camera too?
It’s clips this that remind us just how wonderful Melbourne was, thank you for sharing this with us.
WOOOOW!!! Im mindblown. I have driven on that road so many times! !!! It hasn't changed that much since 1985. Just more skyscrapers and cranes.
@ 3.45 passing 'Inflations' nightclub (white building) on the right. A trip through my youth!
Didn't hire it, I had purchased it with a view to doing weddings etc. but that never quite eventuated.
@patmorac Because the glass cladding did not extend that far up the side of the building until well into 1986. (The building was completed in October 1986.)
Gee hasn’t Melbourne gone down hill,people can’t get out quick enough these days.
This is melbourne I live in Melbourne!!! so old and cool and the old cars...
Yes you're right, I just looked at Google Streetview and that brick block of flats on the left is still there.
What a great place. Was there in the 80s.what I would do for a night out with the boys. Golden gate hotel or Windsor castle either one.
I's very cool thay you made this video!
Nice video - aah the days before red light cameras
Thanks so much! What a time capsule of our magnificent city
Most importantly, what happened to the 125??
I appreciate this. Also at approx 3.20 you flipped the bird? That sign language never changed meaning haha
wow i worked at the rialto towers from 90 to 2000 such change
When I watch this I just feel sorrow that we will all leave this Earth all to briefly :/
Follow Jesus Christ and you wont care about leaving this earth.
michael88863 What a horrible and distasteful comment!
So unnecessary but you trolls are hiding behind your screens in every dark nook and cranny of the web!
Didn’t your mother at least teach you that’
‘ if you’ve nothing nice (or constructive) to say then don’t say anything at all ‘??
Triggered
Yes its a big reality... I was not even born 10 years after .... but yes its true we all have to go ... so we should spread love help people and try to make this world a better place ... and don’t fear death its not painful as we all think but its peaceful... and we will get reincarnated in a new body but our soul will remain same.
what an excellent video - I travel this very same route today to get to Pascoe Vale from the city or the south-eastern suburbs...my how it's changed! Thanks!!!
Oh yeah,, that FB/EK Holden!!!!!!
North Melbourne hasn't changed that much in 30 years.
ElementEvil 130 years you mean! 😄
Was this filmed in August? Just the feeling I get from the weather etc.
incredibly beautiful! 🤩
1985 WHAT A GREAT YEAR
AND 2019 WILL LOOK GREAT IN 2050! Jeeeeeeeez
Not sure the year is in fact, 1985 ; the twin tower buildings- Rialto - were only in construction then !
Definitely 85, in another video taken on that same trip you can see the 85 rego sticker on the quarter window. I bought the video camera and porta pack in 84.
I almost had a heart atack at 4:17
Sweet 125. Twin cam 1.6?
Really cool footage ,thanks for uploading.
I was probably a block away working while you drove past Collins Street :-)
Sure Marcus, I'm sure we can organise something. I have the original file as captured from VHS tape so it won't ever qualify as "HD" :-) Send me a direct message so we can set it up somehow, perhaps by shared dropbox or somehing.
Hi. I was just interested to know what you motive was back then for recording this. In an age before the internet was available in any form to the public, it seems like you couldn't have planned for this to be shown.
That's right, maybe I was lucky to have had a quirky streak which made me do stuff which is now everyday hohum. I think it was the advent of the "Race-cam" technology which was being pioneered at Bathurst in that era which inspired me to have a go at some in-car footage generation. At the time I thought it would only ever be home movie fodder.
That's probably what we all think when we make home movies. Who knows, 20 years from now people might come across your 2013 drive and think "So that's what Melbourne used to be like. Also, just another question, there's a short tunnel that you pass through in your 2013 video. Was that built after this footage was shot?
Xboxplayer 12 Kingsway elevated roadway approaching the Yarra from the south is unchanged but still passes under the Crown Casino complex, that's the tunnel bit. Crown certainly was built long after 1985.
+NoRelationToNed Crown was built there during the mid-90's, it was opened in 1997, the tunnel was built 1995/96.
Looks very different without crown casino
wow! nice one mate! truly a masterpiece there! thanks for sharing it!
Why did you give someone the finger at 3:20 when you pulled up to the red light?
Absolutely love it,really great video and I adore the backing song.Thank You so much for uploading this.
Love it thanks for the memorys ;)
haha my first car was a FIAT 125 I bought in 1985 in Melbourne! Great video!
52.9c for (leaded) petrol- cheap by todays' standards, but expensive for 1985! I'm guessing, from the lack of foliage, this was shot in Winter?
This is the same year I moved to melbourne 13yo, wow so long ago
That is too bad! In Europe the Fiat 125 was a very popular car later produced in Poland as the Fiat 125p. I used the own the prior model the Fiat 1300 (Milletrecento). Either way, awesome cars. Too bad in ended its life like that. Awesome video btw! Cheers mate!
The funny thing is that I view certain artifacts of this video, such as the transitions and fonts, as nostalgic in themselves. In 2010 I was 8, so this upload of the video in itself is old enough to be reminiscent of my childhood. I've been watching a lot of videos of Melbourne in different periods of time tonight, I think that a lot of architecture was better back before my day.
Anyway, its funny to see a lot of people nostalgic for the 80s on a video which itself was uploaded at a time which is nostalgic to me.
This is the Melbourne I remember I grew up in Oak Park in a house my father built my parents sold up in 86 for $77.000 sold last year for $855.0000 yes things have changed in so many ways
I'm looking closely 4 a time traveler no luck yet no1 talkin on a mobile or anythin like that! haha
Beautiful video! Thanks for sharing. I'm with the ABC social media team and have been looking for some historic footage from Melbourne to share on our local page. I was wondering if you'd be OK with me running your video. Will say it came from you of course! Ta!
Please feel free Patrick! Thanks for asking.
@@NoRelationToNed That's wonderful, thanks! Will bring back a lot of memories. I'll have to download and put some other music over it I think - we wouldn't be able to run it with Hey There Delilah. Is that still OK?
I migrated to Australia with my family two years after you made this video. While watching this video a lot of happy memories came back rushing to me. Your video made me cry in happiness. Thanks a lot mate.
I moved to Aus with my family 2 years after the video was uploaded! lol!
All the delivery trucks had luton peaks back then (the curved bit over the cab). You rarely if ever see them now.
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we didnt make the freeway???..
Thank You for the old footage, it definitely shows what the area I live in looked like in the day!
surprisingly the traffic hasn't changed much!
I have seen this exact same video somewhere else before, and it had the Time Bandits song "Endless Road" playing in it for the first 4 and a half minutes. In December 2015 me and a few friends of mine shot a 30th anniversary edition of this video, beginning on Kings Way at Sturt Street in South Melbourne and ending where King Street runs into Victoria Street in North Melbourne.
That's pretty cool. 30th Anniversary drive!
Have you uploaded that anniversary video? Would love to see it.
The street structure had changed quite a fair bit when we did our 30th anniversary drive in December 2015 compared to what it looks like in this video. For example, there was no Crown Casino in this video, and no Melbourne Aquarium. There also used to be a bridge overpass at Flinders Street going over King Street next to where the Melbourne Aquarium is now.
your lucky that the 125 didnt break down!
Great video
I was 17 WOW!!
Love it. Fantastic. Thanks for sharing. Nice choice of song, too