Video 1989 Disc 11, 19 and 20 Dec Sydney
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- After arriving in Sydney on the Polish Ocean Lines m/v Profesor Mierzejewski on 19 Dec 1989, I walked into town with the Deck Asst. and another Passenger, Klaudia Monevska.
Next day, 20 Dec '89 scenes in the CBD, Terminal Station, etc.
Great video thanks for sharing. I really miss the good old days pre trackees, pre massive amounts of tattoos and most of all pre bloody mobiles. 😂🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks for the memories. So much has changed. The 80s were the best time!
I definitely agree, Oliver and Company, Batman, Ghostbusters II and many more were in HOYTS and Event Cinemas back then
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Around the time this was filmed, I went and saw Oliver & Company at the movies. As a 4 y/o, I saw the skyscrapers, the harbour, the big bridge across the river, the subway trains and that Coca Cola sign and thought it was set in Sydney!
@@Bennyboy1985 oh yeah the coke sign in the eastern suburbs man that was so good back then.
Didn’t like Hoyts on Pitt. The Lebos always hanging round to steal (roll) your sneakers (pumps)😂
That was ten years prior. By this time they’d moved on to stripping cars drugs and nightclubs.
@@CameraMan66 and cabra was only 2 or 3 years away lol 'yep great times. sadely sydney went to the shit house when the 2000s came rolling in n the Olympics came to town
Would love to be back then, in my 20's enjoying life everything in Oz was great
Was it Oz that was great or being in 20s making anywhere great
@@jso19801980 Both bc this was when u still had ppl walking about in Sydney not like now, its dead now!!
@@davechristian7543 very cool seeing these videos, im near the area so it feels like time travel
@@jso19801980 Oz.
Sydney was a Mecca for live music still. This was a golden period : Silverchair, Powder Finger, You Am I etc etc etc
On top of that you had EDM (House) Raves in warehouses.
Always popping off.
The lock-down laws was about turning the city in to a mini Shanghai of apartments, eateries, casino (lock out laws apply to everyone but the casino)
Chinese that buy apartments don’t want drunk riff raff, they want Bacarat and Noodles.
When was the last time you saw some live music in a venue around Sydney ? The Casino ?
Population would’ve been under 20mil here.
Olympics destroyed everything before the world discovered this gem.
All planned of course.
Can’t believe this was 30 years ago.I was only 11 years old 😮 Times were so much better back than.Im sure everyone would agree with me
Today there are Indians everywhere it is so sad 😞
Back then average people could afford to rent or buy a home there. Traffic could be bad but it has gotten much worse. Can anyone say anything has improved in Sydney? I got out a decade ago and could'nt afford to go back, even on a higher than average salary!
i was in year 7 living in Penrith!
Australia was much better then too
@@crypt0bank446 me too
I was 22 years old and it was awesome growing up in sydney. Cheers for the flashback 🇦🇺💯👍
reading here in comments all testomony making me so nastolgic since i had never gone there. I'm 33
Thank you for this great video, a good friend of mine was one of the guys who were singing carols in Martin Place, I just blew him away went I showed him this. Very cool !
Thanks for uploading this, My Home City. I'm so used to Circular Quay looking much different to in the film. Glebe Island Bridge, I can't remember seeing a car on it, I was still in school when the ANZAC Bridge was built. I remember going to the Sydney Aquarium for school excursions in the 90s & Underwater World Manly, on the ferry..... Sydney had character & charm then, now it's awful.
Great footage! Interesting to see what Sydney looked like before I was born.
Oh how i miss the life and the look back then.
Yes definitely, I was 14 then and would loved to have hung around the city more.
No one looking down at their phones checking social media, just people looking up being social. The good old days for sure
People think I'm weird for not having one today.
Before phone zombies everywhere
And here you are whingeing about it on social media.
On RUclips
Having lived in the northern hemisphere all my life, it doesn't seem right seeing a Christmas tree and hearing carols in a hot climate! Christmas is all about winter, cold days and even colder dark nights! I'd like to say snow, but rarely in England at Christmas in my lifetime. Lovely video all the same!
It was a white Christmas 🌲 in 2010 It was snow
On Christmas Day 🎄In
2010 As I remember
In England 🏴
Christmas isn't really about white snow. It's a Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus. It just happens to fall on December which is summer in the southern hemisphere. I prefer it hot. And am thankful that it is.
Dumbest thing I've ever read.
So wat do you do, not have a xmass lol 'Typical bloody pome 'winge winge winge.
Fantastic footage of everyday Sydney. Thank you so much for sharing such a treasure.
Oh wow. I was 3 years old in 1989 and I remember Drummoyne exactly like what I saw on this video.
19th December 1989, Good day that was as it was my 3rd birthday and was somewhere in Sydney my self. As we lived in Penrith at the time and at every opportunity Mum would take us into the city on the train on weekends, To go to like Manly or Darling Harbour etc for the day. Good times and only finally moved out of Sydney in 2012, Bus still go there at least once a year when I can.
Lovely to see these scenes again after many years. Good on you for sharing!
Ah hell...I knew it, I always knew that visiting Sydney in the 1980's was the time visit it especially during World Expo 88 or Bicentennial Day. There was just something magical about it back then. I tried to visit Sydney back in 2014 and I knew that I'd be disappointed but in reality it was just a plain old "MEH". Too long and too late.
Expo 88 wasn’t in Sydney.
Sydney has barely changed in 30 years.. All the places are still so recognisable and familiar.
I know even harbourside still looks the same
Sydney looks a lot better now, especially the people. More diversity. Everyone all look the same back in 1989. Boring but it was a lot cheaper though in 1989 and much easier to find a cheap place to live near the city.
@@TheTruthIsFiction rare to find one who's pro-diversity in these old timer videos. most are dinosaurs yearning for a time where they can openly say slurs.
I was at Darling Harbour recently, after many years, and I can't believe how much it's changed. The Darling Harbour in this video is the Darling Harbour I remember. Also in 1989 I was able to catch a return train from Liverpool, see a movie, and have a Maccas lunch...a meal, for $20. Granted I was a high school student, so we are talking half fare train tickets, and movie tickets.
In the 80s we had HOYTS, Greater Union and Village cinemas all next to each other on George street, plus there was a small arty farty cinema across the road. A short walk away in Pitt St there was a smaller Greater Union cinema. All around there was places to eat. Return train fare, a movie ticket, drink and popcorn, a decent lunch and a few games at Timezone, grab a box of Darrell Lea and head home, whole day would cost like 35 bucks.
Darling Harbour is currently going through its second overhaul since this time.
It’s the M.O of the govt to bed developers so they can rebuild stadiums etc every 15 years.
incredible insight into my city
I was 21 in Sydney - great to look back on! The passenger ship looks small now compared to today's leviathans. This footage stirred in me existential contemplation - snapshots of days long gone by...people of the time going about daily business - that being, largely inconsequential and ultimately long forgotten about.
There was absolutely no Christmas in Kogarah 2018. No decorations, no nothing. It was very weird. maybe this is the Sydney of the future? I love all the different cultures here in Sydney - but I still love Christmas. And I'm Jewish!
Only just discovered this channel
Great footage!
Love the footage from Central station at the end- memories of the old orange seats inside the terminal, the original XPT logo, the U-boat set at the interurban platforms and of course the old red rattlers! What also stands out to me is the pedestrian mall footage around the 9 minute mark- there's barely a noticeable difference from the same scene over 25 years later apart from two things 1. Some of the women's hairstyles and 2. Everybody is taking in the summer day around them, as opposed to having their head buried in their tablet or smartphone!
Bennyboy1985
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Good god, I was 7 when this footage was filmed... how times have changed.
Lucky you I was 26 I really miss the good old days.
I only started exploring Sydney on my own in 2014.
Nothing looked familiar from when I was with my parents driving around Sydney in the late 90s.
That made me sad.
Thankyou soooooo much for sharing this video, since then I terribly miss the 80’s ,,, so sad to see Sydney how I enjoyed it , yes the future has brought many innovations and , the future is inevitable and it’s path, new buildings , transportation, etc..
But I miss it so much , and watching this has showed how times were enjoyable and NOT over crowded how it is today , today for me is terrible and definitely Sydney has lost it’s beauty due to the ugly side of just to many people in one spot ,
Nsw in general has become another victim, thanks to instability of money injected from overseas buyers of property and segregation due to mass landings and deepening religious conflicts brought tp this shore tearing apart people and creating phobia, whether it’s colour of skin or wealth, religion, these have worsen living in Sydney, and sadly , I’ve witnessed it not from media , but at work and even seeing it in my neighbourhood.
I am of ethnic heritage and grew up , born in Stanmore , but sadly this revolution in this age , compared to when my parents came out tp Australia 1961 and learnt the language, assimilated with the new culture and mixing in with the ‘ Australians ‘
But still retaining there heritage and us growling up having both cultures,
before I’m labeled a racist, please note , the next generation of people that come to make this part of the world and make it there home , what will the present feel when another culture is thrust into the community and they become the minority and and the unbalance of living and mass crowding effect everything that takes part in there daily life , what then ?
Your video brings a sense of medicine that makes me feel better that I was able as a small boy to experience growing up in sydney and viewing your video shows just , stepping back in time , from my kitchen table for a moment how times were fantastic and I Thankyou deeply, and cherish this post , especially the time table board at central , I showed my children this board which is now displayed at the power house museum ,
Thankyou Mr Hicks , please forgive my rant. Godbless
And that’s kinda what Perth looks like now, so I guess it’s inevitable for it to turn out like Sydney eventually
Newtown nightlife in 1989 was alive i was 23 living in the inner west.
The building with the 4 chimneys shown at 2:30 is Pyrmont power station. This was later demolished and there's now a casino on the site.
Everything was similar in the 80s, but the 70s were a lot different. The 80s made lots of changes and looks a lot similar to modern society especially the traffic lights. The only difference is that the train station signs are different and the speaker especially the finished off 70s red trains and 80s to 90s silver Tangara trains begin
I visited Sydney in 1996 for the final two nights of speedway at THE Sydney Showground. I stayed at the Thoroughbred Motel on Alison Road and would go to a little cafe called Argies for a good, cheap breakfast most days. It was on a road nearby, in like a small shopping mall. But when I returned in 2008, I could not find either Argies or the mall itself. Does anyone know this place to confirm I was not dreaming?!
1980s was the last decade when Australia was still Australia.
I would say up until the late nineties, but to each their own
Late 90s, now ir's full of foreigners and hardly any locals to be seen.
Pemulwuy was saying that in 1800.
@@Elitist20 no, the previous Aboriginal nations were not Australians. They had their own way of life and culture, which had nothing to do with with our current nation.
@@eymanyouwell with that logic, our 'culture' didn't exist until the early 20th century or even later considering we were essentially brits in a desert.
Oh I miss the 80s so much. Was just a kid. Shops looked so busy and people really embraced the Christmas season. There waa no woke. Much better times. Wish we could go back.
fruit alexia wine lol haha how funny, great upload my friend n great to see your still about but just no more Fruity Alexia lol eh
Better Days.
Sydney's CBD has barely changed, yes the mono rail has gone and the fashion has changed but all the beautiful building haven't changed
I am not a fan of today's Sydney, and this is from somebody that is grew up in Sydney in the 70's and 80's. I am not sure if I miss this period of Sydney though. I like the late 70's and early 80's when you could sneak into gigs and see real bands like INXS, Cold Chisel, Radiators, Midnight Oil, Divinyls, Split Enz. I saw them all. By 1989, it was a completely different music scene, and asides from some indie bands like Hummingbirds and Ratcat, it was pretty dire with the uprise of doof doof dance music (which was starting in the year this video was made). I don't miss the open racism and the homophobia.
That said, I feel it's a become a bit of a bland monoculture of a city, and quite depressing.
where are all these people now??? please don't tell me Melbourne.....
Blimey. I must've been 5 when this was shot - and I remember Central like this! I was train-crazy, I remember being bought a train book from that gift shop place. There's nothing there like it now. Central's quite depressing. Not even the Hungry Jack's of more modern times is there anymore. Just nothing.
Hungry Jacks burned down 2-3 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. There was cafes , takeaways and other shops. Now it's nothing.
@@OldAussieAds they have cafes now
They took all the orange seats out (as well as the indoor plants) and replaced them with a few wooden bench seats and that's it. Result is the station building feels empty, and waiting for an interstate overnight train feels like you're waiting for a local bus. Glad they've put that cafe in, but more needs to be done with the station building itself- comfy circles of seating for long-distance passengers and more greenery would give Sydney Terminal a bit more class.
The days before the third world landed on our shores
Amazing
Thanks for sharing bring back those years of freedom and laughter. Not a mask or a qr codes insight .or receiving health advice from a government that kills innocent baby's in a mother's womb. Take me back to the 80s
there's always one crow who makes it political.
Is this 1989 or 1998? The beginning of the video says 1998 but the video title says 1989.
The fashion/hairstyles definitely suggest 80s (1989) and the red rattler train at the end also would indicate that this was 1989, not 1998.
Has to be 1989, Bennelong Apartments in Circular Quay were completed in 1998, this video shows the previous buildings still there.
It is 100% 1989, the taxis are all XE and XF falcons and not an AU series to be seen anywhere. Plus "Skygarden" was not yet built there was just a hoarding.
Also the XPTs were still red / orange. Definitely 89 not 98.
Waist hugging jeans, definitely 1989.
Just before it became a Chinese enclave.
And india
Go the Fruity Lexia!!!!
Hey, could I get in touch with you regarding the use of this footage for a project? Credit would to go you. Cheers.
No rules and toooo much fun😎
No Chinese people!!! Incredible, that's nice. What happened later?
They sold Australia. Morons.
There were Chinese people in Sydney in The 1980s
@@kenbaxter9171 I think he means not as many, as opposed to today
@@kenbaxter9171not a majority like it is now and indians omg what has happrned
I was working in the city & come to think of it there were hardly any indians or bangladeshis.
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1989 I was buying smokes at 5 dollars a packet.
I remember smokes being about 2.80 back then ,I recall them going up to 5 in 1993,if I remember correctly.best thing I did was give them up 6 years ago.cheers
This was roughly 2 years before I was born.
I know the guy playing the flute at 10:06
Were things better ? It’s a good question :) nostalgia can play tricks. There less people so it probably was :)
God yeah it was better!
sydney has not upgraded a single bit since this video was taken, and in fact has only gotten worse
Obviously blind!
I love Sydney, but what really surprises me is how many racists are commenting on this video, not lamenting on how beautiful the city was and how its changed, but how its now not as "white" as it used to be. I don't think that reflects how most Sydney-siders feel about Sydney today, but I'm disappointed there are comments like these are here in the first place.
The problem isn’t “migration” - it is mass migration from one ethnicity. I live in the CBD and I often play “how long before I see a Western face” and seriously, you can go for an hour standing at Town Hall. We managed to replace a monoculture with another monoculture.
And before anyone accuses me of racism, I am married to an Asian - and she complains about it as well.
@@rosshilton that response shut them up real quick.
My mum is from Peru and has brown skin and she doesn't like it either!
@@jamesfrench7299 ....mira vos, una vez una señora libanesa me dijo que Campsey ya no le gustaba porque se había llenado de Chinos,....Es que el racismo es un problema generalizado.
@@rosshilton buddy unironically pulled the 'i have black friends so i'm not racist' card
@@doedoe9307 I have lots of friends of all types.
Looks like sri lanka 😂😂
Less Asian immigrants and no SUVs. It's not racist it's FACT.
Don't you know facts are the most offensive thing to a snivelling do gooding leftist!! It's kryptonite to them.
nothing to say about european immigrants, you absolute muppet?