A Day In Perth (1972) HD version
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- A 16mm film made by The Australian Commonwealth Film Unit which shows an average day in the City of Perth, Western Australia. With scenes of the business district to life in the suburbs in 1972, it is an interesting journey back in time as to how daily life in Perth was like back then.
And still no pokies in pubs and clubs, and still no toll roads. How sweet it is ! 😊
I moved here from Sydney 4 years ago and those things still amaze me.
Born in Perth in 72.When I was younger I wanted to live in a busier city . Now I appreciate the slower pace and the connection to bush and water..
It looks so clean and safe... and friendly... this is 10years before I was born but take me back to those days anytime...
I wouldn't say safe. Heard of Eric Edgar Cook? Last man to be hung in Fremantle gaol. Times were much more unsafe back then, far more murders, rapes etc than we experience now.
idk I think perth still looks extremely clean
@fredrikronnberg684 compared to other Australian cities definitely.. but there seems to be something more "brighter" about it back then.. theres no graffiti or neglected or abandoned buildings, no questionable folks loitering around and obviously pollution was nothing then compared to now but i would rather live back then and now.... maybe it's all the modern building and upgrades they have tried to mash with the historical... or maybe it's the overall "population vibe"...
@@GypSea_Blue And there are so many people going outside back then. The city is filled with lives. At 5:30 mark of the video you can see people enjoying their picnic at the Council House. It looks nothing like the Council House today.
I was 15 then and this video brought back great memories. Life was so much less complicated then!
i was 14 same here!
I was 15 and Mal Brown's Mighty Royals won the Grand Final!!!!!!
because you was a child i think the same about 00s because that when i was a child. life was not less complicated just sheltered, i know that is good and it what parent should do but its much healthier to realise that life was always like that. having this change in thought will make it much easier to enjoy life.
Omgosh! Hearing the Paper Boy sing out again! 🥰
I remember "The Weekend News" being sold outside the footy grounds on Saturday after the final siren. Used to always jokingly ask the kid, "Got the footy results in it, mate?"..haha. They'd look at you like, "You got any original jokes?" Haha.
I was in the SAS Regiment & had just returned from Vietnam, 19 years old.
Perth was then & still is a beautiful city, we are so lucky to live in such a great place.
Born in 72 . To think those people are now in their 60's -90's or deceased puts a perspective on how fleeting life is
Ahhhh the good ol days......wish it was still like that
Yeah, too many people in Perth now who don't speak English.
@@brodricj3023everyone I meet in Perth today still speaks English. What are you blathering on about?
@@shockwave2291 Go to a major shopping center and stop and listen.
@@shockwave2291 just some casual xenophobia, ignore them
@@brodricj3023 What's the problem? Most Perthans only speak "Grunt"
ONE "LIKE" FOR THE NEWSPAPER BOY...IN THE BACKGROUND......I AM 63 NOW.
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Remember Cole’s cafeteria, Tom the Cheap, Freecorns, Piccadilly Cinema, wonderful
And Vienna coffees in those long stemmed glass mugs with the handle and a huge dollop of whipped cream. Musgroves, Bairds, Boans, Aherns and Ivan the vagrant.
Thank you for this video I was born in 1979 on the 150th anniversary of Western Australia and you have no idea on how much I miss Perth of the 80s and the early 90s in a lot of ways it was a far better place to live it was a damsite safer and it felt more like a community rather than a special economic zone like it is now thank you for that glimpse of the for the past❤
gee, I work in construction in Perth now, some of those houses are still here today! I first came to Perth in 1982, me and my mates found a great pub, out towards the hills. Could I find it when I came back here to live in 2008??? I met up with some work mates out Gosnells. Standing in the pub I was telling the boys the story, I looked up and around me and geez, I was standing in it!!! Didn't recognise it with all the houses etc around the area lol
This was fun to watch. Seeing my childhood all over again. This is exactly how Perth was when emigrated from the UK. Cheers
The cop asking the young fella not to sit on the planter box and the gent listening and standing up is the biggest change in the whole film. What would happen today? The other big change is how slim everyone was back then.
Standout moment for me too.
They would get bashed or knifed & yes everyone was nicely dressed, had respect & could even spell respect!
Stood out for me too. Typical Perth. Can’t even sit on a planter box for a second to eat your food without being hassled
Those in this film lived through and are responsible for destroying the place.
@@Tattlebot You're alive and everything happening right now is on you.
I was born in Perth 1972 and loved growing up in Scarborough during the 70s and 80s in sunny WA.
I was visiting my cousins in Scarborough in 1972, up on Hale Rd from memory (Wembley Downs). We went to Scarborough beach every day. I was 10…great holiday. Still got some family there.
@@ronanrogers4127 Sounds like you had some good times!
was amazing!
@@ronanrogers4127
my friend still lives near hale rd in wembley downs or floreat
We arrived in 1970 from uk ..what a paradise to live in such joy growing up in perth ❤ ghee i wish it was like this now for my grandchildren to grow up in
Same, 1970 on the Ellinis.
Perth was a lot better back then.
Every city in Australia was better back then.
loved the squeaky old MTT bus
relaxing in Supreme Court Gardens
views of the city from Matilda Bay (Crawley)
... and the men's sideburns!
Great city ..I was 7 that year ..the years have flown by
Ha I was born in 1972 😊
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I was 7 that year too. The city is a different place now!
@@John-kl3ue INCREDIBLE only approx 100,million people born in the same year as you ,whats the chance of that happening.?????
Isn’t it beautiful that no one is on a phone and they’re actually talking to each other?
Yep and the XA falcon was JUST out. As well as HQ and the VH valiant
@@timfordfalconxf7714saw a HT kingswood there as well
Yeah, before people morphed away from being Humans.
Yeah. What are you watching this video on?
Yes.i was thinking the very same thing... I would go back to those days in a heartbeat.
I was 20 back then and remember the milk delivery in the night and the baker bringing bread during the day. Also when the built the Tonkin hwy, we were the only car on it.
I was the only car on Tonkin the other night at 2am. Stopped in the middle of the road to take a piss.
Bottle-ohs! And banging garbage bins on rubbish morning.
I used to work as a milko. God knows how many miles we ran through North Perth. Bread was delivered at 5am, still warm.
We emigrated there from UK in 1973 with2 kids (4 & 2). Thought we were in heaven. TBH it hasn't changed a lot. Great weather, if you like it hot that is !!! No unemployment, loads of money around for the hard worker. I was a glazier before I retired and my last years pay was $175,000 au. Wouldn't get that in UK. Loved every minute here. The good life is here if you want it.
All true except homes are barely affordable these days.
Hasn't changed much?? I don't even recognise half the places now 😅
"I squeezed the best years out of this city before it became an unaffordable hellscape. It still looks the same to me because I haven't left my penthouse since the 90s."
it is! definelty i was born in subi KEMH
@@GM-qq1wi perfectly articulates what some of us were thinking
We didn't arrive from Blighty until 74 but as I sold newspapers on the streets of Perth soon after arriving this video really brings back some memories.
Thanks for uploading.
What is blighty dummy
9:00
I don't recognise this spot. I would have been a two year old child at this point so quite possibly got pushed or driven past this corner several times. It looks like it may be around the Horseshoe Bridge area? It looks like a completely different city...
Corner of William and Wellington. The Metters sign location is now the site of the Yagan Square digital tower. The shop on the right is now Bocelli Espresso.
that was the only outdoor escalator in the city and its still there!
it was near myers opposite, then, what was the post office, yes those were the days when the prams used to go on the backs on the buses!
The biggest difference between then now is how everyone is dressed nicely. Like they actually take time to look good before leaving their house and dressed respectfully...
We were very "british" back then. As a little boy I never left the house without a pair of long socks on, even in the heat of summer.
We came back to W.A. to live in 1972. I was 12 years old, good grief it seems like yesterday and yet it seems so long ago. We had a house built at 57 Somers St. Belmont for $14,000!
Great film, real time capsule. Thanks for posting🙂
Thus was two years before we came here, so nice back then.
No way! In 1972 we moved to Perth from the farm in Dalwallinu for school. We had the first house built in Greenwood. Back then it was known as Greenwood Village and the bus into town was 359. Prams on the back of the bus, kids used to stand for adults, the sound of the old ticket machines, bus drivers carried cash. We all knew each other back then.
Have we evolved?
beautiful and historical film, love it, coudlnt keep my eyes off it looking for every little detail thats changed...
The 353 bus, the one I caught all my childhood.
Is that the one that goes out thru Basso?
@@ceeemm1901 Went through Nollamara and Balga.
Already an americanised car dependent city in 1972. I was born in 1972 and I'm thankful I was born in the original Perth. There wasn't much to do here 25 years ago. I can't imagine how boring Perth would have been with 750,000 people.
I came here in 74, from London, and yes it was extremely boring 😂
@@user-rb3zh6sz1b I came from London too. But in 2002. It was very boring then. Have to admit it's got much better since.
@@danellis-jones1591 It has!
As an 8 year old kid back then it was never boring .always so much to do .no mobile phones so you had to pedal your bike or walk to your friends and meet up.miss these days
In many ways, a simpler, smaller, less developed way of life appears to make us happier. The future seemed to offer hope, and regular human interaction also contributes to this.
I think you captured the daily grind back then. I even recognised the woman collecting donations.👏
Would have no complaints going back to those days.
Blissful. A time without phones in our hands 🤩
Its a pity so many of the shots in this are in close up. Makes it very hard to locate most of those shots.
4:40 oh wow we had our own version of the Shibuya Crossing
I was 8 then still in Sydney until we moved to Perth in 75,been here ever since.
This is the beautiful and boring city I arrived to in the early 90s from the east coast. Still here, but had I first arrived anytime in the past 10 years, I know that I would have kept on moving.
Where's Bondy???
No rd tolls ❤no antisocial poker machines preying on addictions ❤a real state with some integrity 🥇
Average gambling addict IQ is 85. Gambling addiction is a dysgenics problem.
Take me back now please
I looked, but couldn't find myself. :-)
Where's Malcolm😆
@@johnbravo7542Turnbull?
I remember those bus stops and the old ticket machines….
THE YEAR i ARRIVED AND EVERYTHING BETTER
So when did Hiviz become the fashion of Perth?
Maybe around 1999? When AS/NZS 4602:1999 (now superceded) came in.
Aussie post were one of the first to introduce in late 90’s
Oh the golden years. Northbridge safe.
Great place and time to grow up!
When Australia had Australians and wasn’t swamped. So much calmer with our own kin.
When we had belts of bush land between suburbs and kids (myself included) could take their motorbike down the street and ride all day. Then the greedy councils took every inch and if it wasn’t a house it was a golf course or bunnings. Ruined it for the next generation.
And they are still doing it today, harder than ever.
Hope someone recognises themselves, it would be enlightening.
wow, not a meth head in sight.
Valium was the drug of choice back then, also cigarettes (most people smoked), people used to go to the pub at lunch and get stung, hippies were smoking pot.
@@lundsweden Hippies? 1972? Mate, you obviously weren't here. Pot was the high of choice for _anyone_ under 30 who wasn't a piss-head.
@@DustyDingoPhotos If you can remember the 60s/70s, you weren't really there?!
Did you notice the policeman tell the young man to stop leaning on the planter box at about 5' 20"? Compare that to today when we all just tolerate and try to ignore far worse behaviour in the City Centre.
Absolutely. Says a lot about the society we have become because when you keep telling people that the only thing that matters is the individual & making money this is where we end up. Neo-liberalism is a nasty piece of ideology. Peace.
The people in this film are ultimately responsible.
so lively! I like skirt length those time 🙂
The city i remember as a child
That was good to see. As a young teen, I used to work at the Boans store in Perth but in early 1972 I was facing a gold card from the Federal government called conscription hahaha.
The narrator’s voice sounds honey warm
That was great :)
Yep I landed here in Fremantle as a 6 yr old girl from Europe via a ship
LOL - the year I was born ...........in Perth too
7:11 lady carrying her shopping like that is stressing me out 😂
'The people enjoy a relaxed outdoor way of life'......and they weren't obese either. We may be living longer now but are we healthier & happier? Peace.
My family came to Perth in 1970 and it was a lot better. Home security wasn't the issue like now.
What went wrong was immigration from the wrong places. Just watch the news for evidence.
But dat be rayciss
@thearticulateinfant849 It's an observed situation. Just watch the news
Also, the UK is becoming a good example of multiculturalism. Look at the recent incident and responses in Southport. An observed fact is not racist.
90s kids : "omg ! the sky was bluer back then!"
70s:
The bus stops still look like that but blue
I agree that the Perth in this video is gorgeous, just keep in mind that the people reminiscing over and missing the 'good old days' (and how it's better than the present day) are the same people who were around for or even driving those changes that have lead to the modern Perth. You can still find beauty and community in Perth today, and I hope there will be more efforts for preservation and restoration in the future.
they had it all.
perth is best city
Who remembers Ivan wandering the streets with his hessian bag collecting bottles out of bins?
the people are all excellent!!!
Wow. This video is only slightly less boring than Perth.
But life was probably better then too.
We came in 74 from London and it felt like going back in time! No colour tv like we had in the UK, no traffic, hardly any people, and Charlie Carter's was the main supermarket with only a few brands of cereals, etc wanted to go back after three weeks, but we went on to have three children and now have six grandkids so here we stay!
@@user-rb3zh6sz1b Appreciate that. I've been here since 2011 from the USA. Upon landing, we discovered that, for example, it was a third-world Internet country. :)
I have two sons, one born here. I stay for them but will be getting the hell out of here when they are of age.
Even they, who have been to the US for only a 3-week Christmas vacation, have stated that they will be moving to the US when they're of age.
My wife left in ~1994 never to return, and only pregnancy hormones changed that. I believe she still longs to be far from here.
In 1974, you wanted to go back to the UK for what...the 3 day week, IRA bombings, 2 general elections & garbage piled up on the streets from the garbage collectors strike?! You wanted to go back to THAT!? cue 'take me back to old blighty'
wonder if they had the dry heat even then
Aha, so those guys in uniform who shooed people away from sitting on forbidden ledges or stopped people enjoying themselves were around back then too. I remember in 2004 they were around everywhere, if you swung on a bicycle rack as a kid, one of those guys would appear all of a sudden and challenge you. Don't get that these days thankfully, the world is more free. I wonder where those guys went though?
Getting BJs in Thailand
This was the year when the woke mind virus began to take over all the institutions of Australia.
No obesity in the population and no crazy diets🤗
Looks like it was filmed last week. 😂
Hardly
Agree somewhat...This was shot on 16mm film stock which has 2304 x 1712dpi or 2.3K resolution, which is why a good quality print from that era can look "modern" - The main give away for 70s filmstock is the warm colour temp.
@@klyvemurray I was kind of referring to the fact Perth is still pretty much marooned in the mid 20th century. 🤣🤣
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@@klyvemurray whoosh
so those bus stop are from 70s era
That's home
Notice at 6:57 the bus conductor gets off the bus to take the baby stroller off the back of the bus. Much faster than getting today's massive prams onto a bus and settled into position then reversing out again.
I was born in 1967 Perth and found the video a bit boring
Id like to see names like Charlie Carters, Boans or kids riding cool push bikes , prawning in the Swan River , and the Drive in Movies
Kings Park or the beaches
Showing the old ferry or old holden and ford cars
3:12 💀 u still get bus stops like that wtf
Depressing place
No one said you have to stay here.
My mom was born on this year in a village in africa and now we live in perth
🍄 😎 ❤️
Not so multicultural... lol
XBP 183
Was a beautiful machine… tv ads eh! The jingles stick!
XBP 183 (HG) was a beautiful machine
Livin' in luxuary treated right & always beautifly clean.
XBP - 184 was the very same make of car
went to the other side of town, never had a chance to star.
Two years later on ya see where the cars have gone
Autoways have always got the beautiful machine (the beautiful machine)
Privileged to live here 😅😅😅
Ah, such a peaceful homogeneous society.
As it should be.
AI sounds are too exaggerated... but good footage.
i dont wanna go back 🔥
thank god
What a great reminder of how it was…before big money, government corporate and police corruption media and supermarket monopolies and the eventual dictatorship we know today.
That was all there back then and ultimately the people in the film are responsible.
not many japanese cars then
Affirmative
Do Bunbury
History and footage up to the latest date.
Include the Milk Carton Tower… 😂
Ps
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no such thing as a mobile back then
perth was a great city in the 1970s its a shame it as now become a toilet (sh..t hole)
That's not true you just got old and miserable
@@xvola6888 I agree, nothing wrong with the place.
Men were men and women were women in those days. Women had so much class back then, look at them now…to busy working out their pro-nouns! If only we could turn back time!
There are still some women today that recognise ourselves as women and have pride in that.
I see what you mean about the video - very clearly defined and people were dressed respectfully as well.
The people in the film are responsible for letting these problems happen.
cry about it, we can be our true selves nowadays
@@LordComradeAnarchoCapitalus please wait til you are a little older before posting because you are being a nuisance.
No obesity!!!!!!
Its a great city 2024...but its crime rate is increasing and it faces the muslim threat
Dat be Islamophobic! HOW DARE YOU! I'M TRIGGERED!