Forever Young - Cronulla Skateboarding 1970's Filmed by Ross Myers
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- I filmed this skateboarding footage using a Super 8 movie camera in the mid 1970's around the Cronulla area. I'm hoping some locals might recognize themselves! Filmed by Ross Myers.
It reminds me of growing up in the 70's/80's ...Summer holidays riding all day on your bike with your mates. You wouldn't get home until sunset -- not a care in the world because you were safe, and mom and dad knew you were safe. ...Hot chips wrapped up in paper ...Playing test cricket at the park ...Day/Night matches in the back yard with the porch light on hahaha ...life was simple ..it was just perfect
Grew up in US not Australia and a bit older - I would have been at University already in mid 70s when I'm guessing this was filmed. Still this could have been my friends and I in the days when we all LIVED outdoors and thought life would always be sunny in every way.
I grew up on the Mornington Peninsula Vico, in the mid seventys they tar cealed the dirt roads all around our bush community. At that point we rod old push bike's & modified dragsters from the local dump, thrown away by the upper middle class rich kids.
The tared sealed roads were smooth, we made skate boards out of old hard wood planks, useing old school roller skates cut in half, bolted in place for the trucks & chalky wheels.
My first advanced board was a Mckoy fiber glass deck with graphite
run Cones & bearings, it was all about long sweeping turn & speed, big down hill bombs, that's just how it was, loved thoes days. All so motor cross Bush riding, BMX, Surfing 🏄♂️
Born in Sutherland hospital 1958. Lived in Kirrawee. Took the (Red Rattler) to Cronulla beach every weekend.... Family re-located to Perth WA in 1971. The beach scene here back in the day was exactly the same. Skateboards/Girls/Surfing......................... Please Lord take me back to that era......
Hi I'm Greg Elliot's son he's the guy on the right in the opening scene he says thanks for putting up the video and he said it brings back great memories
I youse to know your Dad and uncle! Great film!!!
That is fukin Cool. Tell your dad still lovin' him on long island NY
Incredibile, thanks Gus ❤
A great video and choice of music. Trim kids having fun no tats ,piecing or mobiles a great era!!.
When this was filmed it was considered nothing special, fast forward 40 years and its Art,
Well done mate, just brilliant.
Riding our bikes with towels around our necks, riding to the beach.
Magical times..
I grew up in the area, I would have been between 13 and 17 when this was made, wonderful times, best ever.
same same...cronulla public was 1 of my haunts along with woolooware rd shops (S).
Feel sad watching this. When life was more innocent and free. Thank you for sharing :) Brings back lots of memories of go karting and scootering down streets in Caringbah and Miranda.
Same here...where have those days gone :(
Leanne H this song and film clip haunts me. In a good way and bad
Same mate but out at Liverpool
life is still innocent and free
Cronulla Public School, I was a student there from '81 till '85.
1970 - Record everything on what would have been a heavy camera
2021 - Record no memories on a device with 4k capability in your pocket - no memories.
I am so jealous of the time that you got to grow up in and your videos make me yearn for a time that I wasn't alive in
A lot of stuff gets recorded nowadays, way more than what was filmed back then. Only difference is, most of the stuff that's captured now is crap no one will ever watch (fireworks, a concert/festival, etc). As a 20 year old I've noticed this so much
No smartphones, no facebook, people actually hanging out in person, slim and healthy looking, happy, carefree, no hysteria around "pandemics", no social distancing. WtF happened? Makes me want to cry.
Born at sutho hospital in 1960 & living in miranda & engadine for most of my life this video brought back wonderful memories as well as tears to my eyes. This was my generation and i'm immensely proud to have been part of of it.By the way, Sylvania High School ROX!!
Hi Ross
Based, Red-pilled, woke 👍🏻
Thanks for the movie. I believe those times where ones of the best to grow up. I remember being very happy at my childhood at that time.
I loved this! Didn't grow up in Cronulla but it was the same sort of scene in Manly. Lots of healthy teenagers having the time of their lives on skateboards and at the beach
Then you'd remember Skate City at the Manly Fun Pier.
Oh this so takes me back.If i had a choice.Here is a million dollars or you can go back to the 70s .My choice would be stick ya money
Got to go back young though and not the age we are now
Scooters, billycarts, skateboards, foam surfboards and even a tricycle>>>FUN TIMES
Born 1967 years 70 the best ❤👋
Take me back to the 70’s.
Just found this, what a great clip of when we lived in a easier time, really brings back some great memories.
I just saw this clip bloody made me cry ,shazz
I wish I lived in this generation..... Lucky you, im jealous.
I was friends with Debbie Car little sister to Lyn Carr , great area where you all lived , hi Deb
Similar scenes back here in NZ. Thought we had accomplished all there could be done on a skateboard and roller skates. Man were we wrong.
when australia was young and free
Cronulla Public, Kindy though to 6th class in 1962. Great school, great memories.
love it, cronulla school still looks the same.
brilliant clip RM....I first watched this when away in the US skiing last year and nearly cried reminiscing, so strong were the memories....up the sharkies!!
no clicking away on mobile phones and taking selfies
Perfect video and music combination. Thanks!
it strange how some songs cut through all the rubbish that exists now and bring you back down to earth and allow you to clearly see what is important in life. No mobile phones or high pressure commercialism just simple fun. The basic art of Skateboarding just seems to capture all that was, for some reason. Its the perfect union of vision and audio with the song "forever young "
Kieran O'Loughlin sooo true the world has changed so much because people always are now always on there phone, i wish I was back in those days when there was no phones and just fun outside ;(
Great song, great era!!! 70's!!!!
Have noticed some thing . My grandparents stated fashion never changes only travels in cycles . The out fits the teenage girls wearing in the 1970's now being worn by their granddaughter 's in the 2020's.
You are a young once ,you got it ,flaunt it.
Terry Willett bought me here...
WOW the memories, those homemade skateboards, ass over head down those hills...thanks mate.
born in 1968 in sutho hospital,i grew up in the miranda/gymea area when just about eveyone had a qtr acre block,few units and no mass townhouses.i know growth and population is inevitable,but what a shame to see the shire the way it is today.the local infrastructure will eventually succumb to the rapid growth of people and developement.the area has also a rapidly changing demograph with certain groups not giving a damn about the lifestyle we grew up with.
TheGirls look beautifully natural and the guys look healthy.People were so much thinner back then as we did things that involved exercise and there was far less rubbish food available.Cleaner better times.Although Most Cars exhausts did smell a lot haha
Cool - I was too young to know the people in this, but we recognised Water Street and Fernleigh Rd around Burraneer Bay in some of this footage ... great stuff!
I really love this vid & song, take's me back... way back and it mak's me go outside and skate again!!! One love keep shredding!!!
My sister Jenny, Tod, Goog......great stuff Ross
I love to see Friends and Family getting together for the Love of Skateboarding...
It truly is exhilarating
Great footage
Great video I was there every afternoon borrowing Jimmy Sarkis scatteboard before I got my own Baine superflex. Love it. Can't tell if that's me with the long blond hair but it looks like me.
Jimmy Sarkis is a known rapeist reported only 10 years ago
Simply beautiful
This is amazing!!
Beautiful Thank you.
I lived at Sutherland opposite the cemetery
Nice work, +ramdarook. Just as good as the official 'Youth Group' video.
I love this vid :D
i uesd to skate at that primary school as well great spot fresh smooth tar and all doen hill
Born jackaranda road I 1959 ,I was a surf rat , I had the cutiest boyfriends ,, I am forever young because of nulla , my mum worked at the club old to the new 26 years and I followed ,best Sharky days
nicely done, thanks
Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Reminds me of Puberty blues.
That's how it was.
hahaha. Looking for hubby! That was his school LOL
Love it!! One of the best clips I have seen on You Tube!! Was that Ewos Pde running into Glashier Pde at the end?
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I feel like I grew up in the wrong era
Dude, want to use some of your footage for TT. Great stuff.
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haha well done Ross.......Garlings still going? Brownie
I remember max garlings he used to let Elaine and shazza leave there school bags in the shop 😎👍
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pretty sure the street at the end is "shiprock rd" buranear
I love the music. Where can I find it?
Forever Young by Youth Group. Original version by Alphaville (1984).
Good one Rosco. I might be mistaken but I think I saw a quick grab of Tim Elliot and maybe Garry Webber there. Long time no see. Hope to catch up again one day.
How can you be old enough, you look in your 20s
I wonder where are these kids right now?🤘🥰
Most of Cronulla moved up to the Gold Coast and Tweed-Byron area with their divided inheritances because it's cheaper and turned it into clique Tinny Swamp. Kids are meth heads, bikies, covered in tramp-stamps, hoons, drunks and druggie shit. So cool.
Actually, these days they look exactly like the old baking lizards of and in their 70s, in speedos that propped themselves on the South Cronulla beach pavilion steps all day while their bellies spread and skin turned into leathery sandpaper.
Can anyone tell me if the girl with the long hair, red top and white skirt is Michelle Galvin? She was a good friend of mine at the time and she lived just up the road there.
i think so yeah
did u find her?
What's the stand out thing you notice about all these kids?
Happy
Where abouts in Cronulla is this?
Can we have permission to use a few seconds on this vid in my next indie music video?
Not there song mate 8 years late but
2:39 xy falcon :)
Wish I wasn’t born in 2005😂
the clothes lol!