Fiji Flashback: Unearthed footage shows Suva in the 1960s 🎥🏝️ | RetroFocus

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @benv770
    @benv770 2 года назад +51

    I remember as a young child back in those days, it seems so surreal now, a totally different era than what it is today, there weren't that many people in Suva, people were buying with pounds and pennies, life was very simple and pleasant, but one thing hasnt changed people are still friendly, down to earth and approachable

  • @nan2yvr804
    @nan2yvr804 2 года назад +13

    WOW! I was just imagining my parents and grandparents back in that time. Life seemed so simple.

  • @ianatkins1213
    @ianatkins1213 2 года назад +17

    Fantastic. Everything looked clean and fresh.

  • @jeffvadei3790
    @jeffvadei3790 2 года назад +14

    Wow i was born in 2007. I never get to see the past like this of my country. Thankyou ABC Australia. Your the best.

  • @georgetuisawau4781
    @georgetuisawau4781 2 года назад +21

    I like that no loitering Sign at the Market, Buy And Move On, Volivoli oti toso sara.🤣🤣

  • @ashwinjogia1898
    @ashwinjogia1898 2 года назад +19

    Thanks ABC for sharing footage of Suva in 1960. Cherished memories... 👌🏼👍🏼

  • @mosesfiu2425
    @mosesfiu2425 2 года назад +17

    Beautiful how they live their lives during the 60s.

  • @nikhildeo627
    @nikhildeo627 2 года назад +4

    I was born in the 2000s era but looking at the simplicity and way of life Fiji had, I wouldn’t hesitate even once to go back in time and live here…
    This video truly touches every Fijian’s heart ❤️

  • @ShonKD
    @ShonKD 2 года назад +16

    Its such a privilege being a citizen of this great Nation, wonderful viewing how our Fiji was like back in the days.
    Thanks for sharing this beautiful video 🤙

  • @joshanderson7358
    @joshanderson7358 2 года назад +8

    Beautiful place. Beautiful people.

  • @trevorpowell6951
    @trevorpowell6951 Год назад +4

    Immigrating from Fiji to Australia with my parents in 1967 aged 9, in my minds eye when reflecting on Fiji that is as I always see it.

  • @vikabuadromo9299
    @vikabuadromo9299 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thank u again for all these beautifull memories of Suva city
    I was a 9 yr young girl,selling “small coconut basket” in the market for those “middle man” to sell their cassava n sweet potatoes n other root veggies
    There were no plastic bags
    How times have changed
    Everything we buy is from plastic bags
    Now,I’m old,all them generations are gone Life was calm n peacefull n a lot of people were working so hard
    Our parents to pay for our education
    Thank u again

  • @trishabidesi8604
    @trishabidesi8604 2 года назад +7

    Loook how BEAUTIFUL, everything was back in the Good Days.
    Growing up my Parents shared stories of these times(they were in their early 20s). Its really heartwarming seeing it on footage.
    Thank You 💮💗

  • @FJgirl
    @FJgirl 2 года назад +3

    My parents must've been less than 5 years old when these beautiful footages were collected....I love this...seeing a moment in time we will never experience again ❤

  • @meopai3
    @meopai3 2 года назад +1

    Born 1965 CWM Suva . That was beautiful. to take a glimpse of what it was like. Brought me back sweet memories of my happy grand parents.

  • @beek.4860
    @beek.4860 2 года назад +6

    My dad was born in Suva in 1962! It's crazy to think my grandparents might be in the background of some of these videos. I wish I had a time machine to experience everyday life like this before I was born. :)

    • @bubu345
      @bubu345 Год назад

      same here 1953 born in LAMI

  • @robertcameron2808
    @robertcameron2808 2 года назад +8

    A great little video brought back a lot of good memories

  • @tevitatoloi6703
    @tevitatoloi6703 2 года назад +10

    WOW THANKS FOR POSTING

  • @vitobaleinadogo8973
    @vitobaleinadogo8973 2 года назад +3

    Awesome days. Fortunate to have grown up those days

  • @vikabuadromo9299
    @vikabuadromo9299 Год назад +1

    Thank u for this beautifull memories of Suva in those days
    I can recognise a lady in it
    She was our neighbour in Waibau ,Sawani
    A small “Fijian community of subsistence farming”
    Mostly they were Lauans
    I love the old Ward n the old buildings
    Thank u so much

  • @miathelma2679
    @miathelma2679 2 года назад +3

    awwwww 🤗Watching this makes me think of my grandparents❤❤

  • @MrDeep0103
    @MrDeep0103 2 года назад +8

    As a kiwi with Indo Fijian parents, now it makes sense to me why their hearts yearn and ache for Fiji of the old days, look at the beauty and ghost charismatic it was as a South Pacific nation! Easily looking just like any city in NZ or Australia during the same era. Looking at Fiji now there is a strong difference though not sure if it’s looking as prosperous as you can see here in these video images. God bless Fiji, my ancestral homeland.

    • @ilaitusoya2939
      @ilaitusoya2939 2 года назад +2

      Because back than we were under the the protection of the queen

  • @aminiotanioria1024
    @aminiotanioria1024 2 года назад +3

    Absolutely BEAUTIFUL 🤩😍🙏🏿Thank U For Tha Great Footage💯

  • @rondass62
    @rondass62 9 месяцев назад +1

    Suva was so clean back in those days

  • @MilesAndHeights
    @MilesAndHeights 2 года назад +2

    This is how 80s and 90s felt like when I was growing up there. Seems like from 60s till then nothing much changed.

  • @turuvakeli8987
    @turuvakeli8987 2 года назад +4

    Beautiful

  • @stevensmith8876
    @stevensmith8876 7 месяцев назад +1

    Fiji, great country 👍

  • @upyognisharma5971
    @upyognisharma5971 2 года назад +2

    Memories will live on!

  • @praneelnaicker2060
    @praneelnaicker2060 2 года назад +1

    Thanks ABC Australia for sharing this video

  • @mereaninaco8792
    @mereaninaco8792 2 года назад +3

    Loved this ❤ More more please 💋

  • @maudclaud6132
    @maudclaud6132 10 месяцев назад

    It hasn’t really changed that much - lovely

  • @whoopty6045
    @whoopty6045 2 года назад +7

    It's amazing to see that most of these buildings are still standing

  • @salparhar6744
    @salparhar6744 2 года назад +1

    Reminds me of my time .Williams and Gosling Austin truck, TA model Bedford truck and Suva Hospital Bedford S model Bus which i drove for Lautoka General exactly the same body by P A Lal Lic plate F548 300 cubic diesel engine.

  • @davidratabacaca2390
    @davidratabacaca2390 2 года назад +1

    wow i didnt know there were so many palagi's in fiji back then truly more peacefull times

    • @tonystar8224
      @tonystar8224 2 года назад

      Because it was the colonial era Fiji was ceded to GB

  • @vandhnanarayan8369
    @vandhnanarayan8369 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for posting.

  • @izaadishtiyaaq6708
    @izaadishtiyaaq6708 2 года назад +1

    Just amazing!!!!!

  • @yourlocalkvt
    @yourlocalkvt Год назад +1

    God bless Fiji 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯

  • @sashakumar6507
    @sashakumar6507 2 года назад +1

    My God those days are gone brings back tears

  • @lopisenitaniafinau4994
    @lopisenitaniafinau4994 Год назад +1

    Thank you for sharing this. It’s humbling to see my father Nikolasa Falekawa Fotofil in this video. My father was one of the police guards of the Presidential Palace. 🙏🏽🥹

  • @outbacknomad9939
    @outbacknomad9939 2 года назад

    Amazing footage. Amazing peaple .

  • @BarbaraNitsche
    @BarbaraNitsche Год назад

    YES 👀 🔺great pleasure to watch 🔺Thank you 🔺

  • @Natures_Son
    @Natures_Son 9 месяцев назад +1

    Looks like paradise. The whole world had so much higher standards and life was so much simpler back then.

  • @keheliutai7518
    @keheliutai7518 2 года назад

    Thank you !

  • @Brathaaaaaaa
    @Brathaaaaaaa 2 года назад +2

    Too good

  • @johnrider7619
    @johnrider7619 2 года назад +2

    Did you notice how much the sea level has risen since the 1960s

  • @praneelnaicker2060
    @praneelnaicker2060 2 года назад +1

    Very nice videos

  • @mrdarenkumar
    @mrdarenkumar 9 месяцев назад

    Well done 👍🏾

  • @namasi7070
    @namasi7070 2 года назад +7

    Hard to see someone wearing a sari in suva today.

    • @jpowell2603
      @jpowell2603 2 года назад

      Thats because now they all want to look like Instagram models 😂🤣

  • @RitendraRaulPrasad
    @RitendraRaulPrasad 2 года назад +1

    Hello From 🇫🇯

    • @gurmelbatna6966
      @gurmelbatna6966 2 года назад +2

      I would love to see those Bure houses to go up again that was the signature of Fiji
      Ni Sa Bula

  • @Warrior20245
    @Warrior20245 Месяц назад

    Sir Kenneth Maddock did a great job in enforcing and maintaining public urban and rural hygiene back then.Such a shame there was these groups at the time calling for an independence movement.He was governor at the time and the British administration was really building the country up post world war 2.

  • @escrowescobar5945
    @escrowescobar5945 2 года назад +1

    Wow i was 16 back then. 🤔

  • @isimelilatabua4199
    @isimelilatabua4199 2 года назад +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @hulkstah5625
    @hulkstah5625 2 года назад

    nice!

  • @divyashivanidevi2915
    @divyashivanidevi2915 2 года назад +2

    I'm from fiji

  • @TheRealFrank0
    @TheRealFrank0 2 года назад +1

    Hey I live there!

  • @samfikeu623
    @samfikeu623 2 года назад +3

    Simpler times.

  • @angelineberwick3028
    @angelineberwick3028 2 года назад

    Wow things have changed

  • @banlolo5992
    @banlolo5992 Год назад

    🕊💝🥥🌼

  • @riymawest
    @riymawest 2 года назад +2

    It's hard to see man having those hair styles these days.

  • @isirelisolo4462
    @isirelisolo4462 2 года назад +1

    Fiji Airways?? Can anyone explain

    • @prasadsatish971
      @prasadsatish971 Год назад

      Fiji airways was named air Pacific then it was changed back to Fiji airways and how it should be Fiji airways of those days. Suva then was one regardless which culture their off. Politics and hungry for power has changed this once beautiful oneness together with each other's culture and traditions and customs and true friendship. Miss those days of Suva

  • @KevinJohnson-er9xt
    @KevinJohnson-er9xt 2 года назад

    I wonder if any of these people are still alive today? Or if someone recognizes any of these people, just curious!

  • @alexiskoroi6134
    @alexiskoroi6134 Год назад

    Where is semi Dromunasiga

  • @fairgrowfreestyles
    @fairgrowfreestyles 2 года назад

    Ni sa Bula Vinaka - Namaskaram - toso Viti toso - greetings - to you - go Fiji go

  • @JosefLawakeli
    @JosefLawakeli Год назад

    Simple times...

  • @alexiskoroi6134
    @alexiskoroi6134 Год назад

    In this video
    In 1960

  • @ChenShan-zl6nd
    @ChenShan-zl6nd Год назад +1

    Always "ISA again

  • @soneelita
    @soneelita 2 года назад +1

    Now it looks worse and really dirty .

  • @Raq20
    @Raq20 Год назад

    Did you ever regret getting independent…. Look at French Polynesia… people there got French passports, all benefits from France, free healthcare and education…. All social support You would be the same under British… was it worth it?

  • @brienmacgearailt7801
    @brienmacgearailt7801 3 месяца назад

    Barely changed

  • @viveesha4352
    @viveesha4352 2 года назад +1

    ❤❤❤