Hi Ian, the picture of the Melbourne street is Swanston St it’s a main road that runs north/south up the middle of the city, it is in the seventies not sixties because if you look on the street at the Bradmans building you’ll see there’s a red 1972 HQ Holden parked in the gutter also the yellow car on the right is a British Leyland which only came out in 1971.
The bike is a Ducati. The photo labeled 1960's I think is 1970's as the red car to the left looks like a HJ Holden and the yellowish car next to the tram looks like a Datsun 120Y.
Nissan (Datsun then) actually sold the 120Y in the US, too! They called it the "B210". I had a '76 hatchback for awhile. Had that bullet-proof A series engine in it. Had a wrist-pin clicking when I bought it, sold it three years later with the same noise going on. Didn't eat any oil. Funny aside - I live in Atlanta now. Big 'underground' street bike scene here. I'd walk outside work for a cigarette and hear them..three or four J-bikes, "Reeuw, Reeuw, Reeuw.." and then a roar like nothing else. "Hmm..that one must be a Duc." :D
I went through the imperial to metric change. I was actually learning to drive in 1975. Even at that time, 12 months after the change, the road rule book had both imperial and metric speeds as well as distances. We had to learn both and we were tested on both. Fun times.
@12:10 The 1970s street picture of Melbourne with the trams, etc. Was taken on the corner of Flinders and Swanston street from the old now demolished Princes Bridge station (it's now part of Federation Square) opposite it to the left of this photo is Flinders Street station, the Bradford sign is on the renowned Young and Jackson hotel and St Paul's cathedral is on the other corner to the right of this photo. And yes I'm old enough to easily remember seeing this intersection as it is in the photo.😢
14:33 I first went to school just as they were rolling out metric into the curriculum (a couple of years ahead of the metric changeover. Since the teachers were learning metric themselves, they thought in terms of conversion from imperial to metric and inadvertently taught us both systems😆 And in turn, us kids had to teach the rest of the adults
A lot of changes happened in the 60's and 70's. Our currency changed from pounds to dollars, measurements changed from imperial to metric, speed limits changed from mph to kmph and cars had to be fitted with seatbelts, which was not mandatory before. I was in primary school so not only were we learning the old way, but suddenly we were also having to learn to convert everything as well.
My own appreciation for their nation started about 1981 after discovering Radio Australia on shortwave radio in the middle the night (US Central Time). "What is that song?!?" I'd later discover that it was 10yrs old the first time I heard it. Legendary. ruclips.net/video/oQfAZVsz6KM/видео.html
@@v8falconute46 , had the best news bulletins about the SW Pacific Islands at the time. But they'd play music for the rest of the hour. Also the first place I'd ever heard Split Enz for the first time (yeah, I know the Finn Bros. are from NZ, but I loved it. :D )
@@panamafloyd1469 Yeah, Radio Australia was our equivalent of your Voice of America. I was a teenager living a long way from anywhere in the early 70's, my introduction to good music was AM and SW radio at night with about 30' of wire up a tree for an ariel. Still like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc.
Woo hoo Daddy Cool...Eagle Rock...Ross Wilson is is an Aussie Icon. He also fronted another band Mondo Rock during the 80's and onwards ...mondo Rock are still touring ❤prolific songwriter who not only wrote for himself but also many other Aussie bands / singers
@@v8falconute46 , I was actually pretty lucky, growing up in North America when SW was still 'a thing'. BBC used to run repeats of the John Peel shows on their overseas service to NA. Discovered a lot of good music there as well.
First one Speedos up is classic, Buggie Smugglers (What is the difference between a budgie and a budgerigar? Budgerigars, or budgies, are most commonly known in the United States as parakeets. They are native to Australia,) you welcome.. XD
I started driving in Australia in the mid 1990s, and it still hadn't become very unusual to convert speeds from miles/hour to kilometres/hour. At least it wasn't unusual when buying a first car as anything over 20 years old still had an MPH speedo.
Fantastic photos, I am the keeper of five generations of family pics and recognised many of the fashions! 😂 I used to watch a lot of old movies with dad too, and remember many showing maximum speed of 30mph, I thought wow, I could bicycle faster! 😁👍
and before going metric the currency changed from pounds shillings and pence to decimal currency in Australia and New Zealand in the later 60,s.....67, 68. I remember my oldest brother giving me some play money for my birthday and he told me 'that's the sort of money we are getting soon. A double scoop ice cream cone went from sixpence to 5 cents (relavant to a 5 year old.) I was taught both systems in school.🙂
I miss the 90s also man. I remember thinking back at the end of 99 that things don’t need to get any better…. Then all the shit hit the fan after 2000. 🤷🏻♂️
Cars in Melbourne 1976 at earliest with Trams Red HQ 1976 Isuzu Gemini(olden BADGES)Gold XB Falcon 1972 Subaru Behind Falcon looks like 1965 66 XP Falcon Behind Turning Left Gemini; Powder Blue LC/LJ Torana
I’m 69 and was an apprentice electrician working on the half round building in 1971 for 3 yrs and use to walk one block south to Elizabeth st and flinders st t intersection in from of flinders station. Hot flavourded milk shacks at the cafe. Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family.🇦🇺✌️🇺🇸🌲
G'day Mate! That shot of Melbourne with the trams...I'm pretty certain that lower left is a bright red HQ holden which came out in 1971 so possibly not from the mid 60's... Cheers!
KMart clothing is cheaper now than it was in the nineties. I remember metric starting in Australia when I was in Grade 6 in 1972. We were learning conversions in Grade 6. The Concorde had just started passenger flights, too, if I'm remembering correctly.
The Melbourne shot with the trams looks like the intersection of Swanston and Flinders Sts, with the Young and Jacksons hotel on the left hand side of the photo, which means St Pauls Cathedral would have been on the right and Flinders St station is opposite Y&J's hotel. Y&J's is home to the famous painting of Chloe (a nude female which hangs is the main bar).
omg, listening to someone who thinks the '90s were cool. Just reinforces the idea that the best of times was when you were a kid, because there was no responsibility. hmmm. The girl was definitely '80s
I can use both quite easily. When we switched to metric many businesses used it as an opportunity to rip off consumers by giving less for the same price. The switch was fairly easy to do. Teachers had to be the first to learn and then teach it to kids. Conversion tables were available for everyone to use.
The Bike WAS INDEED a Ducati . Pantah 650 model I believe , although could have been 600 of even 500 . I'm thinking , the Wedding Photo , the Bride has just spotted that the Parents are starting to fight , and the Boys are BETTING on the Outcome . 🤣
@johncunningham4820 1982-84 Ducati 1000cc S2 Mille or the 900 version. They had a similar fairing, but you can tell by the primary case on the left side of the motor, paint job and frame geometry.
Might be worth having a look at Front Up a SBS show from the 90's. The host would interview random people walking by all over Australia. Everyone has a story.
Yeah it was a bit of a hard thing to get your head around with metrics as I went to school starting in 1960 and was taught pints and gallons, feet, inches, fathoms, furlongs miles and chains, ounces, pounds and tons so it wasn’t easy and I remember buying a sticker that went over my existing speedometer for my pretty new 1972 LJ GTR X-U1 (wish I still had it) that was designed to fit that model that showed kilometres per hour as well as well as smaller miles per hour and companies made these for the majority of popular cars, I also remember for many years after having to do quick calculations in my head where I would convert metric to British imperial to get a comparison like four and a half litres being equivalent to a gallon etc, believe it or not but I still think and speak in old imperial measurements quite often
I remember my Dad, buying a clear decal, with Km/hour on it that he stuck onto the speedometer in our car. I sat in the car and watched him apply it, hesitantly, because he was worried about lining it up properly with the miles per hour already on the speedo.
Those photos of the 90's got me reminiscing about day of old. Throughout out the 90's I had long hair, down to the middle of my back. I lived in a small mining town in Central Queensland. I worked hard & partied harder. Put on a little reggae music (with a spliff) or garage or grunge (Very loud) or hair metal (Big time). Sitting around a raging camp-fire, drinking until you fell over, in the middle of a national park's camp-grounds. Oh how I miss the 90's.
IWRocker. That MELBOURNE picture is in Swanston Street, when it had cars. Now it is CLOSED to through traffic. The little YELLOW CAR is a Datsun 120Y. 1200cc 4 speed 4 cylinder. Popular for 1st Car Buyer of the time.
The Australian National Swim Team is actually one of the few that raises the eyebrows of our US Team when they show up. We remember the Thorpedo and Ms. McKeon very well.
There was a short period when some cars had both mph and kmh...my dads Holden HZ Kingswood Wagon had large mph and small kmh on the speedo...but subsequently old cars only had mph and newer cars only had kmh.
It looks like a Ducatti to me, Ian judging from the emblem on the front...I was at that Beatles concert, in Sydney 1964, the old Stadium at Rushcutters Bay....I was 15 years old...Unfortunately, I dont still have the ticket....It was amazing! I remember the old trams well.. I used to travel on them with my grandmother all the time....We used to have the same ones in Sydney....Think that be Spencer St in Melbourne...I grew up with the old imperial system in Australia, so I remember it well...I was 10 years old when Buddy Holly and his friends passed away...
No speed cameras in the 80s ..often l would drive at 180 klmph...in my 78 Holden wagon....never got a ticket ..I'm from Melbourne I'm camping at Apollo Bay at the great Ocean Road right now . .bit stupid leaving my dirt bike home...about 2 hours drive to Melbourne....
Growing up as a true blue Aussie Cricket fan 🏏 nothing was more exciting & more Australian than a Summer of Cricket! I have always wished that I got to experience Cricket during the 70s & 80s - just watching the highlights had me buzzing with excitement - but at least I got to enjoy the 90s & early 2000s! So imagine: hot, sweltering & humid heat always in or around the 40°c mark - so bloody hot that your thongs melt to the tarmac & your entire body is constantly sheathed in layers of dripping sweat; the smell of VB or XXXX beer, BBQed meat & chlorine from the swimming pool lingers heavily in the air & the familiar sound of Richie Benaud, Tony Gregg & Bill Lawrie commentating the current Cricket match on the TV, OR the radio is switched over to ABC Grandstand - anything just to make sure you don't miss a single wicket or 6! Australia, of course, in the lead. Christmas is nearly here & you're looking forward to being able to play Cricket with the relo's rather than by yourself against a brick wall, & knowing that the Boxing Day Test would be the next day. I was even nicknamed: "Warnie" for my love of spin; & then there was the rest of my boys: Gilly, Simmo, McGrath, Punter, Hayden, the Waugh Brothers, Gillespie.... watching Brett Lee & Shoaib Akhtar go head to head with their fast pace, pegging the ball at each other in excess of 160km/hr... Every ball bowled was a potential wicket & had you on the edge of your seat - every wicket taken would have you jumping up & down cheering loudly & every wicket lost was booed.... Ah mate, THOSE were the days - what an INCREDIBLE atmosphere, there truly was nothing like it - it was M.A.R.V.E.L.L.O.U.S, as the great 12th man would say 😉 Then all of a sudden, all my boys retired, pretty much at the same time (making the same mistake the Windies made, that cost THEM their form), they even changed the Cricket tune - no more "ya da da, ya dada da..." The DRS really went to shit, relying too heavily on technology; & quite frankly, was disrespectful to the Umpires... Cricket just suddenly lost all its shine - like an old, well used cricket ball. It died. No more buzzing, excitement inducing atmosphere anymore. Now I just sit quietly on the lounge & watch it 🤷♀️ But anyway, that's my Australian story of nostalgia I thought I'd share - I know some of you can relate, but for those of you who can't: I feel sorry that you never got to experience a great Australian Summer of Cricket 🏏🥵🍻🇦🇺
Born, Sydney , 1964. Loved the late 60's. Hated the 70's. Loved and totally miss the 1980's. Live Pub Rock, bright day-glo everything. 6 hours in the water surfing at Wanda/ North Cronulla then home to zap pizza and rewatch Top Gun. Bathurst wasn't a two horse race back then either. Houses had proper backyards.
Yeah the guy is wearing a red Speedo. Nah, the cardboard box under the barbie is to catch the fat dripping fat off lamb chops. It aint a 'mole-it' it's a mull' it - short U That's a rescued baby wombat. They're gorgeous playful & really funny. Wildlife rescue checks the pouches of all roadkill wombats & kangaroos. It's not all that uncommon in rural areas. There aren't heaps of venomous spiders. The nearest venomous spider is probably in the next suburb. Very few & far between. Yep I know where that shot is in Melbourne. Swanston Street in the CBD. Bradmill is the name of a company that makes bed sheets. Nearly all of the cars are Holdens; there's a Holden Torana, a Holden Kingswood, a Holden HQ and probably more Holdens, our national car until only recently. No, the showery comment isn't too dumb considering some dumbfuck left the E out of the sign. 1992 ey? That's the year my first grandkid was born. ha I watch your channel a lot coz I like your appreciation for Australian stuff. x Linda. (LindyLu from Oz)
I started school just after they changed to metric. We got our drivers license at 17, for me that was 82 right at the time 2nd hand EH and HR holdens where cheap and if you wanted to pay a bit more you could pick up an SLR Torana, A9X and GTR XU1 or the cream of the crop, an XB Ford Coupe. 77 Bathurst one two baby. Those were the days. AC/DC Sydney 1981, the release of Hells Bells. what a concert. Cold Chisel last Stand 1983, another (you had to be there). The Werriikimbi 4 Day Music Festival 1984. 19 bands including Barnesy, The Angels, Rose Tattoo and Redgum. That was huge (and mind altering). Dire Straights 1986 final Aus tour. Another mind altering event but that was perfect for Dires Straights performance in the Sydney Entertainment Centre. A five year span, that had to be experienced to truly imagine those opportunities lost to time. Best time to be a bloody aussie.
Oh budgie smugglers. They should have been outlawed. Oh an Australian 80's Bond girl.... That would have been cool. I hoped they would call her something like 'Pussy Down Under". Take care man.
"...even THAT looks nostalgic now - it's freaky how the 90s, early 90s, seem like they're far away now... wow." Feeling old, Ian? 😂 (NB: I was born early 70s, so imagine how I feel!)
Now, come on, iWrocker - lol 😂 - don't you see the standout intense cherry metallic 4 door HQ Monaro at the very bottom left hand corner. It probably is Swanston Street in Melbourne. Now a closed off mall, except for trams and taxis - I think. Probably Melbourne's main Street in the CBD, back then. This is the same street that AC/DC filmed their famous song: " It's a long way to the top, if you want to ROCK and roll ", moving slowly along, on the back of the flat bed truck. The title of mid 60's must be wrong, as the HQ didn't come out, until 1971. And it is definitely a HQ - rear c pillar tells you. Always able to verify a photo's true time, if there are enough cars in it.
No offense bud, but the imperial system isn't the "standart" system ^^ Actually the definition of a mile is ... a distance of 1609.344 meters xD Also, it would be super simple to go metric, since it takes away ALL the weird "inch to foot to yard to mile" conversions. Also 1 liter is 1kilogram. It's axtremly easy, that's the beauty of it.
Those kmart prices in the catalogue are actually quite expensive for the day. The prices are a bit cheaper now actually in kmart. The most expensive clothing now would be $40, cheapest would be say $15 jeans and $8 tshirts. Regular bra would be $12, still get a nice dress for $20.
The cars pre-metric all had mph, cars during the switch were manufactured with dual graded speedos (like you said about US cars), and then they eventually just came in kph. I remember early HQ Holdens were mph, then transitioned to both, and the newest ones had kph only (my dad's was kph, 74 model). You could buy stickers for your speedo for older cars to stick over the older numbers. American cars added kph in the 1970s when Canada went metric. Previous to that they only showed mph. The funny thing is cars sold in the US had the mph as the dominant with kph as the secondary, while "exports" had the kph as the dominant and mph as the secondary.
In 1947 Australia signed the Metre Convention, making metric units legal for use in Australia. In 1970 the Metric Conversion Act was passed, allowing for the metric system to become the sole system of measurement. 1987 - the property industry, the last major industry holdout, converted to metric. 1988 - with Western Australia fully implementing the change, metrication was completed nationwide and the metric system became the only system of legal measurements in Australia.
That shot of Melbourne looks like the intersection of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, looking up Swanston from maybe opposite St Paul’s Cathedral. That’s the famous Young & Jackson pub on the left with the Bradmills advert on the top. I had my first Australian McDonald’s a few doors up from there just over 20 years ago, and sat there being all Britishly taken aback by all the armed cops wandering in and queueing up for their lunch. Yes, Aussie cars only have km/h on the speedos - another one of those things expats like me find odd for a bit. We’re used to both mph and km/h markings because driving your own car in Europe is something Brits do now and then, just as Americans sometimes go to Canada or Mexico. Australia is of course a very long boat from anywhere that uses miles.
Wow, that Kmart catalogue really shows how prices used to be quite high back then before all stuff came from China. Now a basic t-shirt is anything between $3 - $5 and a womens skirt would be $8 - $16 ...even now with the inflation it's still cheaper now. This was also just as "store brand" food items started coming in...but they were noticeably worse quality and many people just bought the brand name still until they upped the quality over time.
In New Zealand, we also changed from MPH to KPH, dad bought a really tidy low mileage AP6 Valiant that year, the government supplied little KPH stickers for old MPH speedometers, and unfortunately the Valiant's prior owner had messily stuck them on with Ados glue ,a bit annoying.
Every dad and grandad have a pair of Speedo's/Budgee Smugglers on hand here in Aus. Especially in the back of the car lolz. Surf lifesaving, Lido's and Rowing regatta's are very popular here.
I learnt both metric and imperial measurements, i went to school in the 60s and 70s . Still to this day i can convert all imperial measurements into metric and back . Some conversions we were taught 2.2 lbs = 1 kg ( 1 lb = 450 gms) , 10 mph = 16 kph ( 6mph=10 kph )and as a rough calculation Celsius into Fahrenheit is double it then add 30 , not exact but close enough to know whats what .
The UK also has MPH and KPH on car speedos and MPH on road signs. Only 9% of the planet still use MPH. Apart from the US and UK, it's mostly a handful of current or previous British and US colonies/territories that still cling to the old ways.
I don’t know if anyone has answered yet but the picture from the 1960s in Melbourne is Swanson Street. The picture is of the buildings opposite the State Library of Victoria. It’s a pretty icon subject matter. If you do a quick google search you can use this backdrop and see Melbourne transform throughout the decades. X
I can't even remember why Australia converted from imperial to the metric system of measurements, even though the United Kingdom and the United States - our two biggest allies - were still using imperial measurements at the time. We just accepted, apart from expressing our annoyance from time to time at having to convert from imperial to metric. Incidentally, even though Commonwealth countries started transitioning towards the metric system in the 1960s, it didn't all happen at once. In Australia, for example, road signs switched from mph to km per hour and fuel switched from gallons to litres at the petrol bowser in July 1974, but it wasn't until 1988 that the government formally announced that it had completely transitioned to the metric system. I myself converted back to inches and miles for a long time after the changeover (old habits die hard) but I eventually gave in to the new system. I did keep my old SAE spanner and socket tool set for a long time, however, even when automotive industries converted to metric, since every now and then I would have to work on old cars that had been built with SAE/AF sized fasteners. Not too many of those around now, though.
That army photo is from around 1900 and the info is wrong 1788 to 1901 Australia's army had the same uniform as the UK other than hat. 1901 to 1956 The Australian uniform was almost the same as the UK, from 1856 to now the uniform has been moving to less wool and more cotten The 3rd person in the photo was South African from the bore war.
the speedo is called Budgie smugglers here in australia
Also dt's
Also seadicks lol, australians just generally call shit what it looks like with a twist@@lukegraydon6266
Dick stickers
The name “Speedo” was developed to take over the term “budgie smugglers”. Just didn’t stick as well.
@@skoll_2024Speedo is the Brand name.
The 80's was my teenage years, really bad fashion decade, but amazing time for Australian music.
Yeah music was better for Oz, a lot of bangers 8o’s
It's a long way to the shop if you wanna sausage roll, acdc
We were so lucky to have music with actual melodies 😅
Same
Countdownnnnnnnn! 😂👍 Forgot Molly's hat 🤠 😂😂😂😂
Hi Ian, the picture of the Melbourne street is Swanston St it’s a main road that runs north/south up the middle of the city, it is in the seventies not sixties because if you look on the street at the Bradmans building you’ll see there’s a red 1972 HQ Holden parked in the gutter also the yellow car on the right is a British Leyland which only came out in 1971.
And the blue Holden Gemini turning left into Flinders Street...
I think the YELLOW CAR is a Datsun 120Y..?
Given the Gemini this picture is 1975 at the earliest. Whoever posted this knew nothing about cars.
That is exactly what I thought too. HQ Kingswood.
@@MelodyMan69I thought the yellow one looked like a torana
FYI Speedo was originally Australian
The bike is a Ducati. The photo labeled 1960's I think is 1970's as the red car to the left looks like a HJ Holden and the yellowish car next to the tram looks like a Datsun 120Y.
Nissan (Datsun then) actually sold the 120Y in the US, too! They called it the "B210". I had a '76 hatchback for awhile. Had that bullet-proof A series engine in it. Had a wrist-pin clicking when I bought it, sold it three years later with the same noise going on. Didn't eat any oil. Funny aside - I live in Atlanta now. Big 'underground' street bike scene here. I'd walk outside work for a cigarette and hear them..three or four J-bikes, "Reeuw, Reeuw, Reeuw.." and then a roar like nothing else. "Hmm..that one must be a Duc." :D
Yep, definitely not Melbourne in the 60's.
I went through the imperial to metric change. I was actually learning to drive in 1975. Even at that time, 12 months after the change, the road rule book had both imperial and metric speeds as well as distances. We had to learn both and we were tested on both. Fun times.
My first car was a 120Y - I loved that car!! Even if it leaked like a sieve in the rain 😂
@markfiddyment1984 1982 Ducati S2 900. They superseded the old 1970s Super Sport models.
That picture in Melbourne with the trams was not in the 60s. It was early 70s. If you look at the red car in front of the tram it’s a HQ Holden sedan
Also what looks like a XB Falcon 1974 they ,came out Gemini looks like a 76 model
Yeah I spotted quick with the lemon Torana.
Your money ( notes ) changed in 1974 as well from “Commonwealth of Australia” to just “Australia” at the top.
Very late 70s or Early 80s(81-ish) looks to also be an XD in the far distance in front of the XB
That's what I thought too but thought maybe I was wrong if they were saying it was the 60s.
@12:10 The 1970s street picture of Melbourne with the trams, etc.
Was taken on the corner of Flinders and Swanston street from the old now demolished Princes Bridge station (it's now part of Federation Square) opposite it to the left of this photo is Flinders Street station, the Bradford sign is on the renowned Young and Jackson hotel and St Paul's cathedral is on the other corner to the right of this photo. And yes I'm old enough to easily remember seeing this intersection as it is in the photo.😢
Oh my golly gosh, you're a year younger than my son. The 80's (and 90's) were great, especially the bloody music I enjoyed that, thanks Ian.
Music was better in the 70's
14:33 I first went to school just as they were rolling out metric into the curriculum (a couple of years ahead of the metric changeover. Since the teachers were learning metric themselves, they thought in terms of conversion from imperial to metric and inadvertently taught us both systems😆 And in turn, us kids had to teach the rest of the adults
A lot of changes happened in the 60's and 70's. Our currency changed from pounds to dollars, measurements changed from imperial to metric, speed limits changed from mph to kmph and cars had to be fitted with seatbelts, which was not mandatory before.
I was in primary school so not only were we learning the old way, but suddenly we were also having to learn to convert everything as well.
Abolition of the white Australian policy in 1973 as well
Love these videos of old school life. Much easier times, much simpler and heaps of fun.
Speedo= budgy smugglers
Melb in the 60s Nope its the 70s by the cars.
Bastard stole the kid's cricket stumps to prop up the bloody barbie!
The 70s and 80s was the best time in history to be a teenager. Total freedom
I was 18 in ‘92, not the same country anymore….
My own appreciation for their nation started about 1981 after discovering Radio Australia on shortwave radio in the middle the night (US Central Time). "What is that song?!?" I'd later discover that it was 10yrs old the first time I heard it. Legendary.
ruclips.net/video/oQfAZVsz6KM/видео.html
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@@v8falconute46 , had the best news bulletins about the SW Pacific Islands at the time. But they'd play music for the rest of the hour. Also the first place I'd ever heard Split Enz for the first time (yeah, I know the Finn Bros. are from NZ, but I loved it. :D )
@@panamafloyd1469 Yeah, Radio Australia was our equivalent of your Voice of America. I was a teenager living a long way from anywhere in the early 70's, my introduction to good music was AM and SW radio at night with about 30' of wire up a tree for an ariel. Still like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc.
Woo hoo Daddy Cool...Eagle Rock...Ross Wilson is is an Aussie Icon. He also fronted another band Mondo Rock during the 80's and onwards ...mondo Rock are still touring ❤prolific songwriter who not only wrote for himself but also many other Aussie bands / singers
@@v8falconute46 , I was actually pretty lucky, growing up in North America when SW was still 'a thing'. BBC used to run repeats of the John Peel shows on their overseas service to NA. Discovered a lot of good music there as well.
First one Speedos up is classic, Buggie Smugglers (What is the difference between a budgie and a budgerigar?
Budgerigars, or budgies, are most commonly known in the United States as parakeets. They are native to Australia,) you welcome.. XD
Yep, deffo a Ducati. Probably a Desmo, maybe a Darmah with a fairing.
@rhombusisotope8117 S2 900 or Mille. Superseded the old bevel drive 900 Super Sports.
the 80's was the best.
its not pronounced as mollett its mullet
I started driving in Australia in the mid 1990s, and it still hadn't become very unusual to convert speeds from miles/hour to kilometres/hour. At least it wasn't unusual when buying a first car as anything over 20 years old still had an MPH speedo.
Fantastic photos, I am the keeper of five generations of family pics and recognised many of the fashions! 😂 I used to watch a lot of old movies with dad too, and remember many showing maximum speed of 30mph, I thought wow, I could bicycle faster! 😁👍
and before going metric the currency changed from pounds shillings and pence to decimal currency in Australia and New Zealand in the later 60,s.....67, 68. I remember my oldest brother giving me some play money for my birthday and he told me 'that's the sort of money we are getting soon. A double scoop ice cream cone went from sixpence to 5 cents (relavant to a 5 year old.) I was taught both systems in school.🙂
I was Sydney born 1961, I started school the same year our currency changed 1966.
14th February 1966
Fun Fact: Speedo is an Australian brand, started in 1928 Bondi
Yes, it used to be known as "the great Aussie cozzie" (for non-Aussies, we call our swimming costumes "cozzies", right?!) 😊👍
I miss the 90s also man. I remember thinking back at the end of 99 that things don’t need to get any better…. Then all the shit hit the fan after 2000. 🤷🏻♂️
We had advisory speed signs on corners. We used to take the kilometre ‘suggestion’ and try to do it in miles.
Cars in Melbourne 1976 at earliest with Trams Red HQ 1976 Isuzu Gemini(olden BADGES)Gold XB Falcon 1972 Subaru Behind Falcon looks like 1965 66 XP Falcon Behind Turning Left Gemini; Powder Blue LC/LJ Torana
You should check out these two Aussie movies...Don's Party & The Odd Angry Shot.
The “60’s” Melbourne pic is actually the “70’s” hj Holden, Gemini and 120y Datsun
Aged 14 I also saw The Beatles in Melbourne,1964. Magic times.
I’m 69 and was an apprentice electrician working on the half round building in 1971 for 3 yrs and use to walk one block south to Elizabeth st and flinders st t intersection in from of flinders station. Hot flavourded milk shacks at the cafe. Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family.🇦🇺✌️🇺🇸🌲
G'day Mate! That shot of Melbourne with the trams...I'm pretty certain that lower left is a bright red HQ holden which came out in 1971 so possibly not from the mid 60's... Cheers!
KMart clothing is cheaper now than it was in the nineties. I remember metric starting in Australia when I was in Grade 6 in 1972. We were learning conversions in Grade 6. The Concorde had just started passenger flights, too, if I'm remembering correctly.
the bike is a DUCATI 900 s2 maybe 1984 bevel drive. (Gear driven cams)
Who cares when the pic was taken ,That Sheila was hot looking & I am 75 years old but I can still appreciate something beautiful.
I can't remember much of the 90s, I was drunk most of the time.
Me too drink drank drunken. The time of our lives.
bro me too
The Melbourne shot with the trams looks like the intersection of Swanston and Flinders Sts, with the Young and Jacksons hotel on the left hand side of the photo, which means St Pauls Cathedral would have been on the right and Flinders St station is opposite Y&J's hotel. Y&J's is home to the famous painting of Chloe (a nude female which hangs is the main bar).
the photo of melbourne 1960s is actually mid to late 70s going by the cars
Maybe the ladies in the wedding party look unhappy because of the lack of room due to their damn shoulder pads! 🤣🤣
Jeez, Mark. I was just going to post about the Maroon Kingswood and the Datty. Ha.
omg, listening to someone who thinks the '90s were cool. Just reinforces the idea that the best of times was when you were a kid, because there was no responsibility. hmmm. The girl was definitely '80s
The cars on the photo at 11:22 tell me that’s later than the 60’s. I can see a Datsun 120y and a Holden Gemini so probably mid 70’s IDK
Hi mate got my licence in 1970 very confusing tried to telling a copper I thought the the sign was mph Cheers
I can use both quite easily. When we switched to metric many businesses used it as an opportunity to rip off consumers by giving less for the same price. The switch was fairly easy to do. Teachers had to be the first to learn and then teach it to kids. Conversion tables were available for everyone to use.
Proof that this is no big deal. I still can't understand why the US hasn't switched to metrics yet. It's so much easier and so much less confusing...
The Bike WAS INDEED a Ducati . Pantah 650 model I believe , although could have been 600 of even 500 .
I'm thinking , the Wedding Photo , the Bride has just spotted that the Parents are starting to fight , and the Boys are BETTING on the Outcome . 🤣
@johncunningham4820 1982-84 Ducati 1000cc S2 Mille or the 900 version. They had a similar fairing, but you can tell by the primary case on the left side of the motor, paint job and frame geometry.
@@warrenbridges1891 . Ah Right .
Timing Case IS the give-up .
Awesome as always mate. I love it when you laugh at us, knowing full well you get us. You truly are one of us. Love to the whole family mate
Might be worth having a look at Front Up a SBS show from the 90's. The host would interview random people walking by all over Australia. Everyone has a story.
Can you swap your format you should be in the small screen
Yeah it was a bit of a hard thing to get your head around with metrics as I went to school starting in 1960 and was taught pints and gallons, feet, inches, fathoms, furlongs miles and chains, ounces, pounds and tons so it wasn’t easy and I remember buying a sticker that went over my existing speedometer for my pretty new 1972 LJ GTR X-U1 (wish I still had it) that was designed to fit that model that showed kilometres per hour as well as well as smaller miles per hour and companies made these for the majority of popular cars, I also remember for many years after having to do quick calculations in my head where I would convert metric to British imperial to get a comparison like four and a half litres being equivalent to a gallon etc, believe it or not but I still think and speak in old imperial measurements quite often
Hi ian great vid .mate been following you for years and i dont think you have ever done Aussie drag racing .should do vid on that subject mate
Speedo is an internationally renowned Australian company.
With that said, they’re better known here as Budgie Smugglers.
I remember my Dad, buying a clear decal, with Km/hour on it that he stuck onto the speedometer in our car. I sat in the car and watched him apply it, hesitantly, because he was worried about lining it up properly with the miles per hour already on the speedo.
Those photos of the 90's got me reminiscing about day of old. Throughout out the 90's I had long hair, down to the middle of my back. I lived in a small mining town in Central Queensland. I worked hard & partied harder. Put on a little reggae music (with a spliff) or garage or grunge (Very loud) or hair metal (Big time). Sitting around a raging camp-fire, drinking until you fell over, in the middle of a national park's camp-grounds. Oh how I miss the 90's.
The bike is a Ducati 900S2. I had one .
I learnt to drive in a car with miles on the dash in the mid 80's. I still remember the conversion rate for miles to kms.
Australia Australia yeah yeah enough. Bruce Wilson Scania content please.
As an Aussie there’s NEVER too much of my Country.
IWRocker. That MELBOURNE picture is in Swanston Street, when it had cars. Now it is CLOSED to through traffic.
The little YELLOW CAR is a Datsun 120Y. 1200cc 4 speed 4 cylinder. Popular for 1st Car Buyer of the time.
I am so glad my dad didn't wear budgie smugglers, he wore stubbies thank god.
My brother wore his footy shorts everywhere in summer in the 80s.
as a surfer in the 60s and 70s I wore Speedos under my Adlers board shorts.
The bike is Ducati mille S1 or S2
🛼 girl is the 90s can tell by the sunnies
Speedos is actually an Australian brand. All the go back then, but the ladies today prefer boardies. (Boardshorts)
The bike is a Ducati S2 900.
The Australian National Swim Team is actually one of the few that raises the eyebrows of our US Team when they show up. We remember the Thorpedo and Ms. McKeon very well.
@dougcox3990 Definitely an S2, but could even be the 1000 Mille. Edit: From memory the Milles had red fork legs.
Speedo - the 'Great Aussie Cossie' was born on Bondi Beach in 1928....
I was born in metric but my first car was in miles per hour. I had a sticker of conversions on my dash so I knew how fast I was going.
Wonder if your speedometer having both miles and kmh is due to a lot of American vehicles are also sold in Canada which use kms
Prices are pretty much the same at Kmart
There was a short period when some cars had both mph and kmh...my dads Holden HZ Kingswood Wagon had large mph and small kmh on the speedo...but subsequently old cars only had mph and newer cars only had kmh.
My parents both told me that the conversion was fairly easy for them. They were 18 and 15 at the time
The bike is a Ducati S2.
In 1992 I was 29 years old.
The Bike is a Ducati
DEFINITELY a Ducati! I had a black late 70’s/early 80’s Ducati Darmah that was easily the best bike (including sound) that I ever had. Cheers from Oz.
@mikeparkes7922 All the old bevel drive V-twins sounded great. I had two 750s and a 900.
It looks like a Ducatti to me, Ian judging from the emblem on the front...I was at that Beatles concert, in Sydney 1964, the old Stadium at Rushcutters Bay....I was 15 years old...Unfortunately, I dont still have the ticket....It was amazing! I remember the old trams well.. I used to travel on them with my grandmother all the time....We used to have the same ones in Sydney....Think that be Spencer St in Melbourne...I grew up with the old imperial system in Australia, so I remember it well...I was 10 years old when Buddy Holly and his friends passed away...
No speed cameras in the 80s ..often l would drive at 180 klmph...in my 78 Holden wagon....never got a ticket ..I'm from Melbourne I'm camping at Apollo Bay at the great Ocean Road right now .
.bit stupid leaving my dirt bike home...about 2 hours drive to Melbourne....
Growing up as a true blue Aussie Cricket fan 🏏 nothing was more exciting & more Australian than a Summer of Cricket! I have always wished that I got to experience Cricket during the 70s & 80s - just watching the highlights had me buzzing with excitement - but at least I got to enjoy the 90s & early 2000s! So imagine: hot, sweltering & humid heat always in or around the 40°c mark - so bloody hot that your thongs melt to the tarmac & your entire body is constantly sheathed in layers of dripping sweat; the smell of VB or XXXX beer, BBQed meat & chlorine from the swimming pool lingers heavily in the air & the familiar sound of Richie Benaud, Tony Gregg & Bill Lawrie commentating the current Cricket match on the TV, OR the radio is switched over to ABC Grandstand - anything just to make sure you don't miss a single wicket or 6! Australia, of course, in the lead. Christmas is nearly here & you're looking forward to being able to play Cricket with the relo's rather than by yourself against a brick wall, & knowing that the Boxing Day Test would be the next day. I was even nicknamed: "Warnie" for my love of spin; & then there was the rest of my boys: Gilly, Simmo, McGrath, Punter, Hayden, the Waugh Brothers, Gillespie.... watching Brett Lee & Shoaib Akhtar go head to head with their fast pace, pegging the ball at each other in excess of 160km/hr... Every ball bowled was a potential wicket & had you on the edge of your seat - every wicket taken would have you jumping up & down cheering loudly & every wicket lost was booed.... Ah mate, THOSE were the days - what an INCREDIBLE atmosphere, there truly was nothing like it - it was M.A.R.V.E.L.L.O.U.S, as the great 12th man would say 😉 Then all of a sudden, all my boys retired, pretty much at the same time (making the same mistake the Windies made, that cost THEM their form), they even changed the Cricket tune - no more "ya da da, ya dada da..." The DRS really went to shit, relying too heavily on technology; & quite frankly, was disrespectful to the Umpires... Cricket just suddenly lost all its shine - like an old, well used cricket ball. It died. No more buzzing, excitement inducing atmosphere anymore. Now I just sit quietly on the lounge & watch it 🤷♀️ But anyway, that's my Australian story of nostalgia I thought I'd share - I know some of you can relate, but for those of you who can't: I feel sorry that you never got to experience a great Australian Summer of Cricket 🏏🥵🍻🇦🇺
Born, Sydney , 1964. Loved the late 60's. Hated the 70's. Loved and totally miss the 1980's. Live Pub Rock, bright day-glo everything. 6 hours in the water surfing at Wanda/ North Cronulla then home to zap pizza and rewatch Top Gun. Bathurst wasn't a two horse race back then either. Houses had proper backyards.
Yes it is a Ducati.
😂😂 IAN... are you watching BRUCE WILSON trip to Finland and the SCEANA factory ?? ✌🇮🇪
Yeah the guy is wearing a red Speedo.
Nah, the cardboard box under the barbie is to catch the fat dripping fat off lamb chops.
It aint a 'mole-it' it's a mull' it - short U
That's a rescued baby wombat. They're gorgeous playful & really funny. Wildlife rescue checks the pouches of all roadkill wombats & kangaroos. It's not all that uncommon in rural areas.
There aren't heaps of venomous spiders. The nearest venomous spider is probably in the next suburb. Very few & far between.
Yep I know where that shot is in Melbourne. Swanston Street in the CBD.
Bradmill is the name of a company that makes bed sheets. Nearly all of the cars are Holdens; there's a Holden Torana, a Holden Kingswood, a Holden HQ and probably more Holdens, our national car until only recently.
No, the showery comment isn't too dumb considering some dumbfuck left the E out of the sign.
1992 ey? That's the year my first grandkid was born. ha
I watch your channel a lot coz I like your appreciation for Australian stuff.
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Linda. (LindyLu from Oz)
I started school just after they changed to metric. We got our drivers license at 17, for me that was 82 right at the time 2nd hand EH and HR holdens where cheap and if you wanted to pay a bit more you could pick up an SLR Torana, A9X and GTR XU1 or the cream of the crop, an XB Ford Coupe. 77 Bathurst one two baby. Those were the days. AC/DC Sydney 1981, the release of Hells Bells. what a concert. Cold Chisel last Stand 1983, another (you had to be there). The Werriikimbi 4 Day Music Festival 1984. 19 bands including Barnesy, The Angels, Rose Tattoo and Redgum. That was huge (and mind altering). Dire Straights 1986 final Aus tour. Another mind altering event but that was perfect for Dires Straights performance in the Sydney Entertainment Centre. A five year span, that had to be experienced to truly imagine those opportunities lost to time. Best time to be a bloody aussie.
Oh budgie smugglers. They should have been outlawed. Oh an Australian 80's Bond girl.... That would have been cool. I hoped they would call her something like 'Pussy Down Under". Take care man.
"...even THAT looks nostalgic now - it's freaky how the 90s, early 90s, seem like they're far away now... wow."
Feeling old, Ian? 😂 (NB: I was born early 70s, so imagine how I feel!)
Now, come on, iWrocker - lol 😂 - don't you see the standout intense cherry metallic 4 door HQ Monaro at the very bottom left hand corner.
It probably is Swanston Street in Melbourne. Now a closed off mall, except for trams and taxis - I think.
Probably Melbourne's main Street in the CBD, back then.
This is the same street that AC/DC filmed their famous song: " It's a long way to the top, if you want to ROCK and roll ", moving slowly along, on the back of the flat bed truck.
The title of mid 60's must be wrong, as the HQ didn't come out, until 1971. And it is definitely a HQ - rear c pillar tells you. Always able to verify a photo's true time, if there are enough cars in it.
No offense bud, but the imperial system isn't the "standart" system ^^ Actually the definition of a mile is ... a distance of 1609.344 meters xD
Also, it would be super simple to go metric, since it takes away ALL the weird "inch to foot to yard to mile" conversions. Also 1 liter is 1kilogram. It's axtremly easy, that's the beauty of it.
Speedos are an Australian brand, also referenced as Budgie Smugglers!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Those kmart prices in the catalogue are actually quite expensive for the day. The prices are a bit cheaper now actually in kmart. The most expensive clothing now would be $40, cheapest would be say $15 jeans and $8 tshirts. Regular bra would be $12, still get a nice dress for $20.
The cars pre-metric all had mph, cars during the switch were manufactured with dual graded speedos (like you said about US cars), and then they eventually just came in kph. I remember early HQ Holdens were mph, then transitioned to both, and the newest ones had kph only (my dad's was kph, 74 model). You could buy stickers for your speedo for older cars to stick over the older numbers. American cars added kph in the 1970s when Canada went metric. Previous to that they only showed mph. The funny thing is cars sold in the US had the mph as the dominant with kph as the secondary, while "exports" had the kph as the dominant and mph as the secondary.
In 1947 Australia signed the Metre Convention, making metric units legal for use in Australia. In 1970 the Metric Conversion Act was passed, allowing for the metric system to become the sole system of measurement. 1987 - the property industry, the last major industry holdout, converted to metric. 1988 - with Western Australia fully implementing the change, metrication was completed nationwide and the metric system became the only system of legal measurements in Australia.
That shot of Melbourne looks like the intersection of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, looking up Swanston from maybe opposite St Paul’s Cathedral. That’s the famous Young & Jackson pub on the left with the Bradmills advert on the top. I had my first Australian McDonald’s a few doors up from there just over 20 years ago, and sat there being all Britishly taken aback by all the armed cops wandering in and queueing up for their lunch.
Yes, Aussie cars only have km/h on the speedos - another one of those things expats like me find odd for a bit. We’re used to both mph and km/h markings because driving your own car in Europe is something Brits do now and then, just as Americans sometimes go to Canada or Mexico. Australia is of course a very long boat from anywhere that uses miles.
Wow, that Kmart catalogue really shows how prices used to be quite high back then before all stuff came from China.
Now a basic t-shirt is anything between $3 - $5 and a womens skirt would be $8 - $16 ...even now with the inflation it's still cheaper now.
This was also just as "store brand" food items started coming in...but they were noticeably worse quality and many people just bought the brand name still until they upped the quality over time.
In New Zealand, we also changed from MPH to KPH, dad bought a really tidy low mileage AP6 Valiant that year, the government supplied little KPH stickers for old MPH speedometers, and unfortunately the Valiant's prior owner had messily stuck them on with Ados glue ,a bit annoying.
Every dad and grandad have a pair of Speedo's/Budgee Smugglers on hand here in Aus. Especially in the back of the car lolz. Surf lifesaving, Lido's and Rowing regatta's are very popular here.
quick way to convert kmh to mph is multiply by 6. ie 60 kmh times 6 = 36 mph... if its 100 kmh, times the first 2 digits, 10 x 6 = 60 mph.
Roller skating was big in the 80's ..thik Oliva Newton John- Xanadu the movie but her clothes aren't 80's especially the superman t-shirt.
I learnt both metric and imperial measurements, i went to school in the 60s and 70s . Still to this day i can convert all imperial measurements into metric and back . Some conversions we were taught 2.2 lbs = 1 kg ( 1 lb = 450 gms) , 10 mph = 16 kph ( 6mph=10 kph )and as a rough calculation Celsius into Fahrenheit is double it then add 30 , not exact but close enough to know whats what .
There were crescent shaped "K's per hour stickers that went on the speedo. Just line up the 35 and 60 on the sticker.
We had postal stamps with the conversion comparison of imperial to metric.
The UK also has MPH and KPH on car speedos and MPH on road signs. Only 9% of the planet still use MPH. Apart from the US and UK, it's mostly a handful of current or previous British and US colonies/territories that still cling to the old ways.
I don’t know if anyone has answered yet but the picture from the 1960s in Melbourne is Swanson Street.
The picture is of the buildings opposite the State Library of Victoria.
It’s a pretty icon subject matter. If you do a quick google search you can use this backdrop and see Melbourne transform throughout the decades. X
I can't even remember why Australia converted from imperial to the metric system of measurements, even though the United Kingdom and the United States - our two biggest allies - were still using imperial measurements at the time. We just accepted, apart from expressing our annoyance from time to time at having to convert from imperial to metric. Incidentally, even though Commonwealth countries started transitioning towards the metric system in the 1960s, it didn't all happen at once. In Australia, for example, road signs switched from mph to km per hour and fuel switched from gallons to litres at the petrol bowser in July 1974, but it wasn't until 1988 that the government formally announced that it had completely transitioned to the metric system. I myself converted back to inches and miles for a long time after the changeover (old habits die hard) but I eventually gave in to the new system. I did keep my old SAE spanner and socket tool set for a long time, however, even when automotive industries converted to metric, since every now and then I would have to work on old cars that had been built with SAE/AF sized fasteners. Not too many of those around now, though.
That army photo is from around 1900 and the info is wrong
1788 to 1901 Australia's army had the same uniform as the UK other than hat. 1901 to 1956 The Australian uniform was almost the same as the UK, from 1856 to now the uniform has been moving to less wool and more cotten
The 3rd person in the photo was South African from the bore war.