We grew up on six acres and it was a wonderful time to be alive: jumping on trampolines, riding bikes: carefree days of playing with other kids !! My heart longs for those times, today’s kids will never have the freedom that we had, nor could they experience the toys, books and games that we were fortunate to have access to.
I am happy to be able to report that my kids are still able to roam free, jump on trampolines and ride bikes everywhere here in Switzerland. Wouldn't be too happy about them doing it in too many countries though.
Bonfires..crackernight my fav ..having Christmas 🎄 not best home in street ..people were respectful to each other ..simple things in life ✨️ was always appreciated..not many luxuries or toys 🧸 people were always happy 😊
No. The past is always only best remembered and never lived. Don't romanticise the past. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. For one thing, medicine was nothing like we have today. Also, road fatalities were high since people didn't wear seatbelts and cars were made of metal, which didn't crumple to absorb the impact in an accident like cars do today. Technology has improved the quality of life. People like to romanticise the past. I'm 54 years old and I would hate to go back in time. Imagine, no internet. I lived that life until I was 25 (1995). No thanks. I'll live in the 21st Century with my internet and smart phone.
For some - This version of life in Sydney Australia depicts what it was like for a white middle class family. If you were an immigrant or from a working-class background (which I was), then life was not as idyllic as this. @workouts_2024 accurately points out that not everything in the past was as lovely as this film reel makes it out to be. It sure seems nice but remember many in society were ignored: * Australia's Indigenous people were still not given the right to vote. That wouldn't happened until the following year - 1967 * LGBT people were harassed and abused with no laws in place to help them * Victims of domestic violence were not given the assistance or understanding they needed. * Maritial rape was still legal and the law surrounding this did not change until the 1970's * Mental Health issues were not widely understood, and help was extremely limited
I was born 06/01/66, at Parramatta Hospital. I've had a love for Sydney ever since and I've never wanted to live anywhere else. Cheers from Pyrmont, near the Sydney fish markets.
Seriously, I could have watched another hour and a half this. Totally enjoyable and takes me back to my younger years. The one thing I forgot was how smoggy the air in the city was back then. Ugh!!
Thanks for your comment. I do put in about an hours work into every video that I upload... so it's nice to see people watching and enjoying them as much as I do.
@@ThatRobbie Your effort, and work put into these are very much appreciated, great to look back at better times in OZ, ( my opinion) looking forward to seeing more, thanks mate!!
I was born in 65…and grew up ac70s and 80s kid and spent most of my young years around Redfern …. We played until it got dark ….never had to worry about peds or junkies…..
Yet Redfern’s crime rate in the 70s and 80s in particular was about significantly higher than what it is today… if you’re parents were letting you out to play there back then, they had rocks in their head.
Their digitisation is good work. The producers of the films also did well. It's a shame that so few people are aware of such content... Which is why I help the NFSA and other archives to further spread these educational films.
@@prahslrathis is 1966. This is the civil rights era. Prime hippie era. Breaking conventions was kinda cliche by this point. And it wasn't all what was on the surface. My grandmother would've been 33 in 66. She had 3 kids by this point and was trying to move away from my gambling criminal grandfather. It was during the 60s she was dating a lot of Sydney's underworld figures. I heard stories of them having meetings and my dad would witness my grandmother taking coats, hats, and guns. He would describe very colourful characters. Sydney was a wild place. Not at all the sterile and souless city you see today.
@@juliangrant9718 Individual perceptions differ of course, especially of times past, but for the record, hippiedom didn’t really take off until San Francisco’s 1967 “Summer of Love”, and the movement’s peak was arguably around ‘69/70. Meanwhile, since its foundation, Sydney has always had a flourishing, “colourful” criminal underworld, but that was (and is) the antithesis of hippie idealism.
As a boomer who well remembers 1966, I'd much rather today thanks. In 1966 you couldn't even make a long distance phone call without calling the Operator first and then you were charged in three minute intervals. The music however was better in 1966, the year the Beatles released 'Revolver', a masterpiece by any standard.
Really? The girl is working until she gets married! There was not a lot of choice for women. The SMH had jobs segregated- Men and Boys and Women and Girls. I moved to Sydney in 1983 just as this practice ended. I am extremely grateful I was born in the 1960s and I wasn’t a woman then Did you also notice the heavy smog in the air, with a population less than half what it is now,
@@brontewcat I lived in an area that had a view of Sydney's skyline until the mid 00s, that smog was there then. It was a band that covered the entire skyline for at least twice the height of the tallest buildings att. I wouldn't be surprised if it was there now! How are you qualified to really know how ppl felt about their situation back then. My mum was a happy contented housewife whose job was to raise several well adjusted, well educated, well balanced children who went on to do the same. 1983, you missed the boat afa this narrative is concerned. So what do you really know to justify your comment here?
@@originalsusser I have a pretty good idea of what a woman’s life was then. I can barely remember 1966, as I was only 4. But I grew up watching my mother and her friends in the 1960s and 1970s. If my mother had had her way I would have been married off to one of her friends’ sons regardless of the fact we had different values and beliefs. My mother thought the primary goal for a woman was to marry and have children. However I had the influence of my sister who 9 years older than me. Thanks to my father who believed strongly in education, and my sister I was able to get a good education and chose what I wanted. Not sure where you got the idea I wasn’t a woman. The point I was making, was until 1983 (actually the late 1970s when legislation making it illegal to discriminate on sex when hiring for work) women had limited choices if they wanted to work.
It is still awesome, you just have to go out and enjoy it. The National Parks and Beaches are still there, there are plenty of walks around Blues Point etc where you can get great views of the city. The theatres are still there as are the pubs and clubs.
I was born a Kiwi but lived in Bunbury, WA and Toomwoomba, QLD for a time too. I have been in Europe for over 20 years now. If I did ever move back to that side of the globe, I would probably choose Australia over New Zealand. So it must be pretty good still.
Good view of the times. I was there working in the city and attending UNSW part-time in 1966. Lots of migrant families. We called them ‘New Australians’ then.
Bruce Walker, we migrated from Malta in 1967 and we had very kind Aussie neighbours in Hurstville, NSW, but some local yokels called us wogs and dagos because Sydney had its fair share of cretins and morons back then.I married an Aussie cutie and I spoke better English than her family.
I remember hearing the term wog... not familiar with dagos. Being from Malta, did most people think you were Italian? Or did they actually differentiate and understand that you were Maltese?
@@ThatRobbie In 1967, every common Aussie never differentiated because they were totally ignorant of Europeans. We Maltese spoke English better than Aussies,but all migrants with an accent were wogs,and Germans were Krauts.
Interesting video. I was actually living in Sydney back in 1966. I was actually attending secondary school at the time. Love the old views of the buses, trains and ferries. Certainly plenty of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge even back then.
You guys did a great job in restoring this. Looks like it was recorded yesterday. Also Sydney looks SO more opened up back then. Nowdays it’s just crammed in.
These films seemed to often include props. Almost like they were telling the story of one or two nameless characters going about their life in the city.
Really enjoyed. I observed how just about everyone is slim. No obesity in abundance like today. No fast food and processed food available. Makes you think.
Looked like it. But then, I guess it is either a compact and she is checking that she still looks amazing... or she was getting a cigarette out for hubby (correction, it is Julie, the daughter). Either wouldn't happen nowadays.
@@ThatRobbie That was her dad btw. Love those days as a kid going in my late dad's 59 FC Holden Special. No seat belts, no speed cameras, no A/C, dad smoking and throwing his ash out of the window.
A couple of folks have noticed this. Interestingly, when I arrived in Switzerland and Germany in 2003, I was shocked by the lack of overweight people. It is slowly changing now... but we were ahead of schedule in NZ and Australia. They certainly were in USA too.
@ThatRobbie It all started when MacDonalds, Pizza Hut, and KFC started in this country. As a struggling family in those times, we only ate homemade meals. I still cook at home for the most part and still lean.
I grew up in the North Shore area at that time. I moved back after living in another state. And let me say, it wasn't as rosy as this movie has made it out to be mate. Not everyone in the North Shore is middle class. That's only a very small demographic of the area, and limited to certain pockets. Back then it was populated, as it is today, by lower class and working class people. Mostly unit blocks and renters. We've had to learn too conduct ourselves more politely than other areas due to the amount of people around you everyday. Don't believe that the North Shore is populated by the Middle Class and Upper Class of society. That's a lie that the real estates want people to believe so that they buy property and invest in the area. That's not what it's really like. The North Shore is very densely populated and hugely expensive. And I should know, I've lived here for nearly forty years.
Highly captivating and insightful. Was it filmed to recruit new "Aussies" I wonder? It appears to have been oriented towards a British audience. However, having lived in Sydney since '85, I recognise many of the locations and am amazed not just at how things have changed, but in some cases, how things haven't changed. However, for all our "progress", I don't think everything has evolved positively in our city. The Doolans certainly covered some territory in their week. Was that Gordon station at 2:09? Looks like Palm Beach at 17:41(I think they've parked next to the rocks on Ocean Rd), then Bondi, sport in the Eastern Suburbs (11:32??), Centennial park, Bondi for a surf, going to school in Forrestville (that building is still active (5:40) etc. Didn't recognise the beach at 17:33. Interesting too to see the old Gladesville Bridge to Huntley's Point and the building of Tarban Ck Bridge at 0:51 (I lived close to there for some years at Linley Cove, now on the Upper NS). I could watch these for hours but alas have work to do! Cheers and thank you - marvellous restoration of an excellent historical piece! Cheers, David
Thanks for your great comment with all of the extra details of locations. This is really helpful for other viewers. Yes, the films that I have uploaded in the Now & Then series of Australia... Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane were from a series called Life in Australia that were created to promote Aussie to Poms.
@@ThatRobbie Excellent, thought so! Thanks for your kind words. I'll try to make time to create a list of timestamped locations. That would be fun and I'll question mark uncertainties. Regards - David
Good spotting! It was Noeline Brown. She was appearing in How the West Was Lost at the Music Hall restaurant in Neutral Bay. Here a clipping from The Bulletin, Vol. 86 No. 4424 (5 Dec 1964) "Music Hall Restaurant, Neutral Bay. 90 1237. How The West Was Lost. Noeline Brown, John Unicomb and Sheila Kennelly help make this still one of the best nights in town." nla.gov.au/nla.obj-685329726/view?sectionId=nla.obj-701954833&partId=nla.obj-685524199#page/n55/mode/1up
@@ThatRobbiefurther evidence that this was just released in 1966 but filmed earlier in 1965 , 1964 and possibly earlier. There is a similar Melbourne version starting with the 1964 VFL Grand Final between Melbourne and Collingwood and later showing 1965 HD Holden's being made. No decimal currency from 1966 either, like this one. No 1966 cars at all. The NFSA get annoyed when this is pointed out. Possibly to make it seem more modern to the intended UK potential migrant audience. To not mislead people, as is happening with the 1966 comments here, you could consider pinning a note that nothing seems filmed in 1966, but all a bit earlier when looking for anything that can be dated.
@@ThatRobbie It sure is sport , it reminds me of the film " They're a weird mob " , I was born Into those day's in NZ , everything seemed so good in those days, I couldn't see any reason for it to change.
No OSH back then. 😂 It makes my palms sweat just looking at it but I also remember working with my Dad on building projects and stuff with absolutely no care for safety.
Below 3,000,000 then. Nearly 6,000,000 now with future slum developments everywhere. Time to sell up and leave this hell created by State Politicians funded by Developers.
@@URACELL. I moved to SE Qld. Bought one block from the beach on the southern GC. Now I've got high rises going up all around blocking my sun, construction going on everywhere, ppl clogging every nook & cranny on the roads, Kiwis & Victorians en masse upsetting my local born mates! Where do you suggest I go that won't end up the same?
Guadeloupe. I ask myself the same question often. Where can I take my life to... where there is a beach, nice weather, less New Zealanders (🤣 even though I used to be one)... and where it won't get over-developed in the near future. The answers don't come easy.
Give me the Sydney of 2024 every day of the week and twice on Sundays. From the 60s through to the 80s Sydney’s crime was increasing rapidly, we’d torn up the tram networks and turned the place into a smog heavy hell hole. It was a garbage place if you didn’t live right on the beach, and even then it was hard to get anywhere because the transport options were so limited. Compare that today where Sydney has one of the biggest metro projects currently being built anywhere in the world with multiple stages nearing completion, a CBD that is more geared towards pedestrians than at any time in our history (and only getting better), a second airport well under way and amazing new sporting entertainment infrastructure that is frankly just amazing. I no longer live in Sydney as I moved to the US for work, but every year when I return I marvel at how much more has been built, how clean the city is and how safe so many previously dodgy areas have become.
The metro wasn't needed, neither the 2nd airport. The original tram lines, along with the buses back then should have stayed, all of Bradfield' projects should have been completed. Get rid of the stupid bike lanes, and more importantly, get rid of the stupid current Lord Mayor of Sydney City Council. She has done nothing but screwed a working city, along with all the other idiots at Macquarie Street.
@@JoelDavies-cl6nr The metro was massively needed - all real cities need and deserve a good rapid transit rail system. All cities without them are pointless backwaters that are permanently choked in traffic. Mates I have that live in the areas where it’s completed north of the bridge tell me it’s cut their prior 40-60 min drive/bus commutes into a 20 min train trip. As for the second airport, it only isn’t needed if you don’t want it a proper global city. The new airport will be operational 24 hours and add more avenues to get in and out of flexibly - ontop of that, it’s going to be a hub for defence tech and new businesses, all pretty needed right now if you ask me. A lot of Aussie just reflexively bitch and moan about anything that changes the city, but if these metro lines weren’t built and the city hadn’t planned for growth and just tried to pretend nothing needed to be done from the 1960s onwards, the place would be utter garbage and harder to get around than Jakarta.
+++🐸🦘+++I 🐸 WAS THERE "THEN"+++❓❓❓+++1965+++🤣🤣😍+++LOVED IT++++OH I'M 🐸 IN ADELAIDE+++SOUTH AUSTRALIA NOW 🦘 + HAVE BEEN 4 TTHE LAST 35 YEARS+++ADELAIDE IS MY 🐸 FAVOURITE STATE🦘+++
This is before Sydney was ruined as it is now It was a real pleasure to live. In Now it has been wrecked by greedy developers and far to many immigrants from countries that don’t care how they live
😂 But I bet it's not as fun to drive as your older cars. FWD, automatic braking assistance, no manual hand-brake, etc... takes a lot of fun out of driving.
Todays Sydney doesn't have a finger nails clipping of charm that the Sydney of the past had. Probably stopped being awesome around the 2000s. Coincidentally, that's when the Olympics came around and made architecture sterile and souless looking. Right after they made those garbage villiages in Homebush I swear they just started making all apartment blocks made exacly like those.
Sure, we didn't worry about things like that even in the 80's. Scary to think how many bush-fires must have been started from such behaviors back then.
@@ThatRobbie I was thinking if that was now with cigarettes being by far the most expensive in the world here in Australia he may have prematurely thrown away ten minutes worth of wages!🤣
I lived in Sydney just after this era. Went to school there and was devastated when we left. Loved it. I hate Sydney now. The city centre is filthy. My old school is now a Muslim school. Far too many foreigners
I was born in 1961 and grew up in Sydney. Australia was a far more integrated and harmonious place. Immigration has caused such division and disintegration it is appalling. Labor being neo Marxist has destroyed our country. I walk down the street and I am the outsider. Mistrust has risen and there is no shared focus.
1. No Opera House! 2. Although it says 1966, the prices in the shops are pre-decimal. 3. No safety or PPE gear for the construction workers. 4. Everyone is dressed neatly. the blokes are mostly wearing ties. 5.No seatbelts in the Doonan's car. 6. Gotta love the narrator's "proper" accent. 7. No bogans or "weirdos". 8. Conspicuous by their absence are the indigenous and "foreigners". 9. Most of the suburbs are on the lower north shore. 10. Church on Sunday.
How incredibly uniform this film makes it all seem. Mum looking after the kids during the day, Mum goes shopping, everyone loves the beach, the young girl works, but she won't when she gets married. The pub after work is only occupied by men, no women allowed. Everyone plays sport on Saturday, then everyone goes to church on Sunday. Everyone is white Caucasian it seems, we dare not go down to Chinatown. Indigenous Australians are invisible. I'm glad it's not like that anymore. I was born in Sydney in 1954, yes a bit of nostalgia, but this just shows how restricted and conforming our lives really were.
Paradise ruined by over populated Sydney and Melbourne the main cities, due to extensive emigration. Sydney and Melbourne are now too expensive to live in or buy a house thus rent forever. The west gave their manufacturing jobs to China and there are very few well paid jobs to live a life like you see here. Yet more and more emigrants arrive destined to live in mostly these two cities Sydney and Melbourne. Australia's liveable land is huge and population spread needs to be look at.........enough with expanding these cities!
Think of it how you will. It was as it was. Forget the family narrative, if you went to a beach, a national park, a night club, a dance hall, dove down a street, worked in the city, lived in the suburbs, did your job, raised your kids this was exactly how it was for the majority. In those days the minority didn't own the agenda as they do today
Sure, it looks idyllic through a rose-coloured lens but what about all the things this video glosses over? Racism, marital rape not a crime, married women couldn’t work in the public service, no bank loans for women without male guarantors etc.
This content is not stolen. It is in public domain. I am a professional librarian and archivist and am interested in helping more people to see such content.
Sydney - was and still is a beautiful city. There has been a huge change in the demographic of people though. Major changes in society and culture thanks to mass immigration, and the rise of these new aged alphabet people. These strange new cultures have seemed to have disrupted Sydney’s social norms. The people of past generations must look back and think about how good they had it.
Compared to today, it's like another planet.
Sure is.
Dog eat dog 🐕
But a good planet
We grew up on six acres and it was a wonderful time to be alive: jumping on trampolines, riding bikes: carefree days of playing with other kids !! My heart longs for those times, today’s kids will never have the freedom that we had, nor could they experience the toys, books and games that we were fortunate to have access to.
I am happy to be able to report that my kids are still able to roam free, jump on trampolines and ride bikes everywhere here in Switzerland. Wouldn't be too happy about them doing it in too many countries though.
Remember when Saturdays were recreation/sports days and Sundays were days of rest?
Now, every day is just another work day.
Just breaks my heart to see how backwards we have gone. Sydney today lacks proper jobs, is overcrowded and feels like a 3rd world country in parts.
Such childhood memories. Sydney in the 60s was a wonderful time to be a child.
I bet it was.
@@MrButtonpresser Yep!! I got there in 1966.
I concur ..not much ..keeping up with the Jones's ..mostly got along.
We grew up a street from Kuring-Gai chase. Of course “skippy” was the big thing then. Every helicopter that flew over was “Jerry”.
Bonfires..crackernight my fav ..having Christmas 🎄 not best home in street ..people were respectful to each other ..simple things in life ✨️ was always appreciated..not many luxuries or toys 🧸 people were always happy 😊
love to see them show all these places NOW and what they are like NOW.
Sydney is RUINED.
Thanks again Aus Gov.
What memories, Sydney in the sixties was an awesome place.....nothing like the horror that it is today.
So much has changed.
Born in 1955. Went to school in the city in 1967. Brings back a lot of great memories. You could park your car anywhere, even in the cbd!
And you probably didn't bother locking it either.
What an idyllic life back then.
No. The past is always only best remembered and never lived. Don't romanticise the past. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. For one thing, medicine was nothing like we have today. Also, road fatalities were high since people didn't wear seatbelts and cars were made of metal, which didn't crumple to absorb the impact in an accident like cars do today. Technology has improved the quality of life. People like to romanticise the past. I'm 54 years old and I would hate to go back in time. Imagine, no internet. I lived that life until I was 25 (1995). No thanks. I'll live in the 21st Century with my internet and smart phone.
For some - This version of life in Sydney Australia depicts what it was like for a white middle class family. If you were an immigrant or from a working-class background (which I was), then life was not as idyllic as this.
@workouts_2024 accurately points out that not everything in the past was as lovely as this film reel makes it out to be. It sure seems nice but remember many in society were ignored:
* Australia's Indigenous people were still not given the right to vote. That wouldn't happened until the following year - 1967
* LGBT people were harassed and abused with no laws in place to help them
* Victims of domestic violence were not given the assistance or understanding they needed.
* Maritial rape was still legal and the law surrounding this did not change until the 1970's
* Mental Health issues were not widely understood, and help was extremely limited
I was born 06/01/66, at Parramatta Hospital. I've had a love for Sydney ever since and I've never wanted to live anywhere else.
Cheers from Pyrmont, near the Sydney fish markets.
My last visit to Sydney was in 2018... and I loved it then. Still a great lifestyle on offer.
Christ i wish i was living in those days
As a 36 year old, i wish i could go back to these times. So safe and peaceful
They were better times back then. Now it's see how many humans we can squeeze into every little spare space in Sydney.
Seriously, I could have watched another hour and a half this. Totally enjoyable and takes me back to my younger years. The one thing I forgot was how smoggy the air in the city was back then. Ugh!!
Wasn’t often like that as I remember
Wonderful footage, great post and many thanks for going to the trouble of sharing with us, very much appreciated!!
Thanks for your comment. I do put in about an hours work into every video that I upload... so it's nice to see people watching and enjoying them as much as I do.
@@ThatRobbie Your effort, and work put into these are very much appreciated, great to look back at better times in OZ, ( my opinion) looking forward to seeing more, thanks mate!!
The prices in the shop were pre decimal so made prior to Feb 14 1966 😉
Great spotting. The film way have been released in 1966 but footage is likely a mash up from a few years prior.
That was so interesting, I was working in Sydney during that time and seeing this brought back so many memories. Thanks for posting!
I was born in 65…and grew up ac70s and 80s kid and spent most of my young years around Redfern …. We played until it got dark ….never had to worry about peds or junkies…..
City life...
Yet Redfern’s crime rate in the 70s and 80s in particular was about significantly higher than what it is today… if you’re parents were letting you out to play there back then, they had rocks in their head.
You must not be Catholic nor brought up in an orphanage nor be an Aboriginal kid stolen & thrown into an abusive family or church home. Lucky you.
You must not be Catholic or an orphan or an Aboriginal kid stolen & stuck in an abusive family or church home. Countless kids routinely abused.
You would need to be doing well financially to buy anything in Redfern now. Redfern was a shithole back then.
I drove buses for 21 years (STA) around the city and various suburbs, I thoroughly enjoyed the clip. Trying to guess the locations was fun for me.
the good old days!
Would be nice to go back.
It's better now.
The NFSA did a great job on these films.
Their digitisation is good work. The producers of the films also did well.
It's a shame that so few people are aware of such content... Which is why I help the NFSA and other archives to further spread these educational films.
Nobody obese, no hybrid humans, all beautifully dressed. So much self respect.
Yes, and terribly dull, conformist and conservative.
@@prahslrathis is 1966. This is the civil rights era. Prime hippie era. Breaking conventions was kinda cliche by this point. And it wasn't all what was on the surface. My grandmother would've been 33 in 66. She had 3 kids by this point and was trying to move away from my gambling criminal grandfather. It was during the 60s she was dating a lot of Sydney's underworld figures. I heard stories of them having meetings and my dad would witness my grandmother taking coats, hats, and guns. He would describe very colourful characters. Sydney was a wild place. Not at all the sterile and souless city you see today.
@@juliangrant9718 Individual perceptions differ of course, especially of times past, but for the record, hippiedom didn’t really take off until San Francisco’s 1967 “Summer of Love”, and the movement’s peak was arguably around ‘69/70. Meanwhile, since its foundation, Sydney has always had a flourishing, “colourful” criminal underworld, but that was (and is) the antithesis of hippie idealism.
Fond nostalgia ❤️
3:17 Those escalators are still there and look the same. :)
1960s is heaven and mpdern times is hell
ultraboomer
Everything got more stressful.
Modern times are waaaaay better. Boomers are dumb.
As a boomer who well remembers 1966, I'd much rather today thanks. In 1966 you couldn't even make a long distance phone call without calling the Operator first and then you were charged in three minute intervals. The music however was better in 1966, the year the Beatles released 'Revolver', a masterpiece by any standard.
@@mikevale3620 I guess the good part is that music still exists, alongside a lot of great modern music.
Why do I shed tears when I watch stuff like this....?
What a treasure
Glad you like it.
Looking at Australia now the people back then didn't realize how good they had it.
Certainly had it good then.
Really?
The girl is working until she gets married! There was not a lot of choice for women. The SMH had jobs segregated- Men and Boys and Women and Girls. I moved to Sydney in 1983 just as this practice ended.
I am extremely grateful I was born in the 1960s and I wasn’t a woman then
Did you also notice the heavy smog in the air, with a population less than half what it is now,
@@brontewcat I lived in an area that had a view of Sydney's skyline until the mid 00s, that smog was there then. It was a band that covered the entire skyline for at least twice the height of the tallest buildings att. I wouldn't be surprised if it was there now! How are you qualified to really know how ppl felt about their situation back then. My mum was a happy contented housewife whose job was to raise several well adjusted, well educated, well balanced children who went on to do the same. 1983, you missed the boat afa this narrative is concerned. So what do you really know to justify your comment here?
Take off your rose-tinted glasses lol. If you were white and well off, sure, but if you were poor or not white, you were shit outta luck.
@@originalsusser I have a pretty good idea of what a woman’s life was then. I can barely remember 1966, as I was only 4. But I grew up watching my mother and her friends in the 1960s and 1970s. If my mother had had her way I would have been married off to one of her friends’ sons regardless of the fact we had different values and beliefs. My mother thought the primary goal for a woman was to marry and have children.
However I had the influence of my sister who 9 years older than me. Thanks to my father who believed strongly in education, and my sister I was able to get a good education and chose what I wanted.
Not sure where you got the idea I wasn’t a woman.
The point I was making, was until 1983 (actually the late 1970s when legislation making it illegal to discriminate on sex when hiring for work) women had limited choices if they wanted to work.
I live in Melbourne but I love Sydney, what a City!
I turned 6 that year, my parents bought a new house in penrith in 65, doesn't seem real looking back
Times have changed, that's for sure.
My parents bought a house in Cambridge Park in 1969 when i was just one year old.Cannot believe the change has occurred over the 50 so years.
Simply awesome.
I'm glad you like it.
This really made my morning! But also made me mad to see how awesome Australia used to be, to where it is now. 😢
Australia is still awesome!
It is still awesome, you just have to go out and enjoy it. The National Parks and Beaches are still there, there are plenty of walks around Blues Point etc where you can get great views of the city. The theatres are still there as are the pubs and clubs.
@@janetpendlebury6808 Ahhh! Blues Point! Now I understand. You are a whitebread North Shore girl! 😶🌫️
I was born a Kiwi but lived in Bunbury, WA and Toomwoomba, QLD for a time too.
I have been in Europe for over 20 years now. If I did ever move back to that side of the globe, I would probably choose Australia over New Zealand. So it must be pretty good still.
@ThatRobbie Well over 12% of NZ pop lives permanently in Aus, so you're right in guessing there must be something "pretty good" about the place!
Nice to see Nolene Brown doing the Wild West show. 🎉
Lovely colour in this video.
Good view of the times. I was there working in the city and attending UNSW part-time in 1966. Lots of migrant families. We called them ‘New Australians’ then.
Bruce Walker, we migrated from Malta in 1967 and we had very kind Aussie neighbours in Hurstville, NSW, but some local yokels called us wogs and dagos because Sydney had its fair share of cretins and morons back then.I married an Aussie cutie and I spoke better English than her family.
I recall Melbourne had a large Greek community. And Italians I think? What were the common migrant communities in Sydney?
I remember hearing the term wog... not familiar with dagos.
Being from Malta, did most people think you were Italian? Or did they actually differentiate and understand that you were Maltese?
@@ThatRobbie In 1967, every common Aussie never differentiated because they were totally ignorant of Europeans. We Maltese spoke English better than Aussies,but all migrants with an accent were wogs,and Germans were Krauts.
That Hospital Receptionist was a bit of a looker 9:01 🤣
The theatrical production with the "free and easy" woman was a shocker! 14:00 😬🤣
🤣 but Nurse Stanley (I think the namecard says) was quite alright.
Interesting video. I was actually living in Sydney back in 1966. I was actually attending secondary school at the time. Love the old views of the buses, trains and ferries. Certainly plenty of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge even back then.
Thanks for sharing!
I lived in Sydney from 1968. What amazes me is I clearly remember terrible traffic jams even with a population so small?!
You guys did a great job in restoring this. Looks like it was recorded yesterday. Also Sydney looks SO more opened up back then. Nowdays it’s just crammed in.
Restoration and archiving was done by the NFSA. They do very good work.
Enjoy what’s left - it can only get worse
That silver/grey '64 Pontiac Parisienne made it into the show at least three times ...obviously a prop.
These films seemed to often include props. Almost like they were telling the story of one or two nameless characters going about their life in the city.
Geez. I grew up in Manly - so there's Manly Ferry, Warringah Mall - even the high school I went to (Forest). Creepy.
Really enjoyed. I observed how just about everyone is slim. No obesity in abundance like today. No fast food and processed food available. Makes you think.
1:30 I thought Judy was checking her smart phone 😅
LOL I thought the same. Then I realized no seat belts either.
Looked like it. But then, I guess it is either a compact and she is checking that she still looks amazing... or she was getting a cigarette out for hubby (correction, it is Julie, the daughter).
Either wouldn't happen nowadays.
@@ThatRobbie That was her dad btw. Love those days as a kid going in my late dad's 59 FC Holden Special. No seat belts, no speed cameras, no A/C, dad smoking and throwing his ash out of the window.
it is a smartphone and Judy is a time traveller 😅
Thanks.. I just noticed that today and then came back to correct my comment.. and saw yours from 3 days ago. It was Julie, the daughter.
Wow, what a walk down memory lane, even though I was 2 at the time. What I did notice was that there were no overweight people. Thoroughly enjoyed.
A couple of folks have noticed this.
Interestingly, when I arrived in Switzerland and Germany in 2003, I was shocked by the lack of overweight people. It is slowly changing now... but we were ahead of schedule in NZ and Australia. They certainly were in USA too.
@ThatRobbie It all started when MacDonalds, Pizza Hut, and KFC started in this country. As a struggling family in those times, we only ate homemade meals. I still cook at home for the most part and still lean.
Noeline Brown in dinner theatre at Neutral Bay Music Hall!
Imagine massive stars of today trying to do that.
Thank you, I knew she was familiar!
Nice. But obviously middle class North Shore types. Rugger and cricket whites. Wasn't like that in Green Valley 😊
I hope to add a Green Valley video in the next few days. I will try to remember to tag you when I do.
Had to get them out of Surrey Hills somehow.
@@ThatRobbie no need; we have Houso's as a doco..
I grew up in the North Shore area at that time. I moved back after living in another state. And let me say, it wasn't as rosy as this movie has made it out to be mate. Not everyone in the North Shore is middle class. That's only a very small demographic of the area, and limited to certain pockets. Back then it was populated, as it is today, by lower class and working class people. Mostly unit blocks and renters. We've had to learn too conduct ourselves more politely than other areas due to the amount of people around you everyday. Don't believe that the North Shore is populated by the Middle Class and Upper Class of society. That's a lie that the real estates want people to believe so that they buy property and invest in the area. That's not what it's really like. The North Shore is very densely populated and hugely expensive. And I should know, I've lived here for nearly forty years.
I remember all this growing up in Shitney as I know it …live 300 kms north in paradise these days
Definitely a quieter life up there.
WOW Australians manufacturing goods….
Hard to imagine now.
Highly captivating and insightful. Was it filmed to recruit new "Aussies" I wonder? It appears to have been oriented towards a British audience. However, having lived in Sydney since '85, I recognise many of the locations and am amazed not just at how things have changed, but in some cases, how things haven't changed. However, for all our "progress", I don't think everything has evolved positively in our city.
The Doolans certainly covered some territory in their week. Was that Gordon station at 2:09? Looks like Palm Beach at 17:41(I think they've parked next to the rocks on Ocean Rd), then Bondi, sport in the Eastern Suburbs (11:32??), Centennial park, Bondi for a surf, going to school in Forrestville (that building is still active (5:40) etc. Didn't recognise the beach at 17:33.
Interesting too to see the old Gladesville Bridge to Huntley's Point and the building of Tarban Ck Bridge at 0:51 (I lived close to there for some years at Linley Cove, now on the Upper NS). I could watch these for hours but alas have work to do! Cheers and thank you - marvellous restoration of an excellent historical piece! Cheers, David
Thanks for your great comment with all of the extra details of locations. This is really helpful for other viewers.
Yes, the films that I have uploaded in the Now & Then series of Australia... Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane were from a series called Life in Australia that were created to promote Aussie to Poms.
@@ThatRobbie Excellent, thought so! Thanks for your kind words. I'll try to make time to create a list of timestamped locations. That would be fun and I'll question mark uncertainties.
Regards - David
miss the old red rattlers but not the nightmare SHB traffic - fair dinkum
I was stunned by that traffic on the bridge approach. But then, Auckland still looks like that. 😂
8:33 The spires of St. Mary's cathedral were not constructed back then
Is that the incomparable Noeline Brown at 13:58?
It certainly looks like her!
Good spotting!
It was Noeline Brown. She was appearing in How the West Was Lost at the Music Hall restaurant in Neutral Bay.
Here a clipping from The Bulletin, Vol. 86 No. 4424 (5 Dec 1964)
"Music Hall Restaurant, Neutral Bay. 90 1237.
How The West Was Lost. Noeline Brown, John
Unicomb and Sheila Kennelly help make this
still one of the best nights in town."
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-685329726/view?sectionId=nla.obj-701954833&partId=nla.obj-685524199#page/n55/mode/1up
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@@ThatRobbiefurther evidence that this was just released in 1966 but filmed earlier in 1965 , 1964 and possibly earlier. There is a similar Melbourne version starting with the 1964 VFL Grand Final between Melbourne and Collingwood and later showing 1965 HD Holden's being made. No decimal currency from 1966 either, like this one. No 1966 cars at all.
The NFSA get annoyed when this is pointed out.
Possibly to make it seem more modern to the intended UK potential migrant audience.
To not mislead people, as is happening with the 1966 comments here, you could consider pinning a note that nothing seems filmed in 1966, but all a bit earlier when looking for anything that can be dated.
At 1:30 I thought she was about to look at her phone😅
We think it was either a compact mirror or a cigarette box, for her dad.
Bonza.
***That would be right for now a Days.! *** from Maroubra 1961 - 2021
Holden's everywhere, I suppose Valiants were for the more discerning motorist.
It's great to see, right? Oh for these times.
@@ThatRobbie It sure is sport , it reminds me of the film " They're a weird mob " , I was born Into those day's in NZ , everything seemed so good in those days, I couldn't see any reason for it to change.
1:31 Thought she had pulled out a mobile phone!
9:40 check those safety standards..
No OSH back then. 😂 It makes my palms sweat just looking at it but I also remember working with my Dad on building projects and stuff with absolutely no care for safety.
Below 3,000,000 then. Nearly 6,000,000 now with future slum developments everywhere. Time to sell up and leave this hell created by State Politicians funded by Developers.
Indeed!Sydney is getting unlivable and un affordable.What great times though.Hardly remember the old red rattlers and the double deckers
Did that 25 years ago, now getting the same way here now. There is no escape wherever you go it'll follow you
@@originalsussermove to a different state that might fix it but the current prices might not help as well as where you family are located
@@URACELL. I moved to SE Qld. Bought one block from the beach on the southern GC. Now I've got high rises going up all around blocking my sun, construction going on everywhere, ppl clogging every nook & cranny on the roads, Kiwis & Victorians en masse upsetting my local born mates! Where do you suggest I go that won't end up the same?
Guadeloupe.
I ask myself the same question often. Where can I take my life to... where there is a beach, nice weather, less New Zealanders (🤣 even though I used to be one)... and where it won't get over-developed in the near future.
The answers don't come easy.
Back when we actually made things in this country
Was a great city to live and grow up in... NOW pff.
Yep take me back there, funny how there weren't any fat people back then.
A lot more walking, healthier food based on whole foods, less processed food, people working active jobs...
Everything was under control then. Now!? No thanks.
Life is better out in the suburbs or country.
Give me the Sydney of 2024 every day of the week and twice on Sundays. From the 60s through to the 80s Sydney’s crime was increasing rapidly, we’d torn up the tram networks and turned the place into a smog heavy hell hole. It was a garbage place if you didn’t live right on the beach, and even then it was hard to get anywhere because the transport options were so limited. Compare that today where Sydney has one of the biggest metro projects currently being built anywhere in the world with multiple stages nearing completion, a CBD that is more geared towards pedestrians than at any time in our history (and only getting better), a second airport well under way and amazing new sporting entertainment infrastructure that is frankly just amazing. I no longer live in Sydney as I moved to the US for work, but every year when I return I marvel at how much more has been built, how clean the city is and how safe so many previously dodgy areas have become.
The metro wasn't needed, neither the 2nd airport. The original tram lines, along with the buses back then should have stayed, all of Bradfield' projects should have been completed. Get rid of the stupid bike lanes, and more importantly, get rid of the stupid current Lord Mayor of Sydney City Council. She has done nothing but screwed a working city, along with all the other idiots at Macquarie Street.
@@JoelDavies-cl6nr The metro was massively needed - all real cities need and deserve a good rapid transit rail system. All cities without them are pointless backwaters that are permanently choked in traffic. Mates I have that live in the areas where it’s completed north of the bridge tell me it’s cut their prior 40-60 min drive/bus commutes into a 20 min train trip. As for the second airport, it only isn’t needed if you don’t want it a proper global city. The new airport will be operational 24 hours and add more avenues to get in and out of flexibly - ontop of that, it’s going to be a hub for defence tech and new businesses, all pretty needed right now if you ask me.
A lot of Aussie just reflexively bitch and moan about anything that changes the city, but if these metro lines weren’t built and the city hadn’t planned for growth and just tried to pretend nothing needed to be done from the 1960s onwards, the place would be utter garbage and harder to get around than Jakarta.
Traffic an issue even back in the day! 🤣
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Make sure you check that first Adelaide video then: ruclips.net/video/UgYBbvDH43A/видео.html
King's Cross was considered a den of iniquity.
Indeed, even into the 80s.
Apparently it was okay in the sixties. Mum said they used to stop there and have an ice cream.
Times where so much better then!
1966 was 10 times more similar to 2024, than 1966 was to 1908 - i think.
Probably.
Any idea where the house is today? I also wonder if the family were just actors or a real family.
No matter what they did they never solved the traffic problems lol
Same in Auckland, Zürich, etc. Traffic just seems to get worse every day.
Simple solution...get the hell out of your cars and learn to use public transport and walk.
No food courts like nowadays
Full of terrible Bain- Marie pre cooked garbage
This is before Sydney was ruined as it is now It was a real pleasure to live. In Now it has been wrecked by greedy developers and far to many immigrants from countries that don’t care how they live
Being far from Australia now, I wonder what immigrants you have coming in these days.
No drive by shootings ..domestic violence...footy,meat pies , 🥧 kangaroos, Holden cars , valient,Ford.. Easter 🐣 show ..
I have a newer car and thats all i can say about 2024
😂 But I bet it's not as fun to drive as your older cars. FWD, automatic braking assistance, no manual hand-brake, etc... takes a lot of fun out of driving.
How great these times were ! Everyone helped each other out ! Great times & memories ! Lower population too no black people!!😂
All The Kongregation In Nucleatic Singing
Pope Jack
Church of Songwriters
Todays Sydney doesn't have a finger nails clipping of charm that the Sydney of the past had. Probably stopped being awesome around the 2000s. Coincidentally, that's when the Olympics came around and made architecture sterile and souless looking. Right after they made those garbage villiages in Homebush I swear they just started making all apartment blocks made exacly like those.
did i see dad flick a ciggie out the car window?
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Sure, we didn't worry about things like that even in the 80's. Scary to think how many bush-fires must have been started from such behaviors back then.
@@ThatRobbie I was thinking if that was now with cigarettes being by far the most expensive in the world here in Australia he may have prematurely thrown away ten minutes worth of wages!🤣
Yes, nobody ever does that these days lol
I lived in Sydney just after this era. Went to school there and was devastated when we left. Loved it. I hate Sydney now. The city centre is filthy. My old school is now a Muslim school. Far too many foreigners
where are all the arabs ?
The Jews had not changed our immigration policy yet
What a site to see, when Sydney was just White European hard working families. If only it was still like that….
It was even better before the white Europeans got here
How was this created in 1966? Ive watched horse races from 1966 such terrible quality yet this technology is hollywood style
The horse races were probably from TV footage, in beautiful 576 line resolution. This is film.
Man we have gone backwards so bad. wtf happened?
I was born in 1961 and grew up in Sydney. Australia was a far more integrated and harmonious place. Immigration has caused such division and disintegration it is appalling. Labor being neo Marxist has destroyed our country. I walk down the street and I am the outsider. Mistrust has risen and there is no shared focus.
1. No Opera House!
2. Although it says 1966, the prices in the shops are pre-decimal.
3. No safety or PPE gear for the construction workers.
4. Everyone is dressed neatly. the blokes are mostly wearing ties.
5.No seatbelts in the Doonan's car.
6. Gotta love the narrator's "proper" accent.
7. No bogans or "weirdos".
8. Conspicuous by their absence are the indigenous and "foreigners".
9. Most of the suburbs are on the lower north shore.
10. Church on Sunday.
Wasn't born yet but am I the only one who's seeing the segregation of the sexes, no thx. But it's great to see the old cars.
How incredibly uniform this film makes it all seem. Mum looking after the kids during the day, Mum goes shopping, everyone loves the beach, the young girl works, but she won't when she gets married. The pub after work is only occupied by men, no women allowed. Everyone plays sport on Saturday, then everyone goes to church on Sunday. Everyone is white Caucasian it seems, we dare not go down to Chinatown. Indigenous Australians are invisible. I'm glad it's not like that anymore. I was born in Sydney in 1954, yes a bit of nostalgia, but this just shows how restricted and conforming our lives really were.
As a 20 yr old back then I can assure you that life was great fun for the young anyway
Paradise ruined by over populated Sydney and Melbourne the main cities, due to extensive emigration.
Sydney and Melbourne are now too expensive to live in or buy a house thus rent forever.
The west gave their manufacturing jobs to China and there are very few well paid jobs to live a life like you see here.
Yet more and more emigrants arrive destined to live in mostly these two cities Sydney and Melbourne.
Australia's liveable land is huge and population spread needs to be look at.........enough with expanding these cities!
State media propaganda
Think of it how you will. It was as it was. Forget the family narrative, if you went to a beach, a national park, a night club, a dance hall, dove down a street, worked in the city, lived in the suburbs, did your job, raised your kids this was exactly how it was for the majority. In those days the minority didn't own the agenda as they do today
Exactly. It's... um.. creative what these folk came out with.
Sure, it looks idyllic through a rose-coloured lens but what about all the things this video glosses over? Racism, marital rape not a crime, married women couldn’t work in the public service, no bank loans for women without male guarantors etc.
Very multicultural society. Great propaganda movie.
Oh My Gawd! "'Julia's working in one of the stores until she marries". That'll set back women's emancipation by 58 years - oh, wait...
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Where are all the Chinese & Indians ? How did we manage without them
it was so much better without the ethnic problem then. without a doubt.
Sydney has an ethnic problem?
Unless you’re aboriginal, you’re an ethnic as well ya dope lol
Sydney - was and still is a beautiful city. There has been a huge change in the demographic of people though. Major changes in society and culture thanks to mass immigration, and the rise of these new aged alphabet people. These strange new cultures have seemed to have disrupted Sydney’s social norms. The people of past generations must look back and think about how good they had it.