The brisbane i miss. The gold coast and sunshine coast were also amazing at this time

I nearly cried watching this video, brings back so many memories. Where have the days gone?

@cindytartt4048

5 ай бұрын

I know, love, I felt that too. ❤

@craigroaring

5 ай бұрын

Bet you wouldn't have nearly cried had they used the Benny Hill Show theme music.

My first year at QIT. Its how I remember it. Retired now.

@Iggywiggywoo

Жыл бұрын

Do you also remember the flood in the same year? Were you affected by it?

We were living in Wellers Hill in '74. Terrible floods but our home survived. I remember the school had all the old tram bodies in the school grounds. I wish we still had a tram system in Brisbane.

as someone who was born in 99. It makes me sad i never got experience life like this. I had a good normal upbringing but life before the internet and mobile phones where people went out all the time. Life looked sooo much better

wow, thank you sooo much for this. Born in Brisbane 1974!

I lived in Brissy until I was 21 and this makes me yearn for those times.

This is amazing. You don't normally get to see videos from so long ago that aren't movies from other places in the world. What struck me is that... My whole life, the 70's seemed like such a vastly different time, it was like a completely different world, I only saw photographs and representations of it, but this video let me see what it was like before I was born, almost like getting to go there. And it was surprisingly the same. It's the same world. That just blows my mind. I feel like you filmed this knowing that it would be more astonishing as time passed, and I'm so glad you put it on youtube for people like me to see.

@sruti108

4 ай бұрын

I second that, the very start brought back really early childhood memories driving up Logan road when I was only 3...

God I love Brisbane - I'm so grateful to her, she's given me and family so much.

@harpersneil

5 жыл бұрын

@John Wilson Sexist would be telling Brisbane to go iron my shirt! ;)

@harpersneil

5 жыл бұрын

@John Wilson Don't ask! I grew up in Croydon in South London, England. I emigrated to Australia when I was 21. I am so so grateful to Australia - I have no understanding of people who migrate to another country... and then complain about it, or worse still, try and make it conform to the traditions/religion of the country they originated from! It's offensive and those people should be treated with contempt, not exalted in the media.

@barbarahope1934

4 жыл бұрын

harpersneil I feel exactly the same. I am a ten pound Pom and love this country and am now a proud citizen.

While I wasn’t around in 74, I vaguely remember Brisbane being like this in the 80s. Love the film!

I came around 30 odd years after this was filmed, yet I still feel this massive nostalgia watching this. Didn’t know that was possible, to feel nostalgic for a time i never lived. Think it’s something to do with seeing how little and how much things change - this is still very much my hometown, just a different one to the one I’m growing up in

This is the real Brisbane city I grew up in. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. The Botanical gardens where the Brisbane orchestra used to play on a Sunday afternoon, and Mr whippy gurgling out "Greensleeves" in the background. Home...

Love the old cars!Not nearly as much traffic back then either!

@noelgibson5956

8 ай бұрын

I only saw one 70's car in the whole video; the yellow Mazda Capella at the beginning. If not for that, it could have been a video from the 60's.

WOW I really wish I could go back in time and visit the places I grew up in. How awesome would it be to see life back then and how much things have changed!!

@jonglewongle3438

3 жыл бұрын

That is basically what you'd be encountering if you were 47 years ago in that locale. Those in that footage have 1975 and the second half of the 1970s to ' deal with '. Is that for you, or would you rather be taking it up from out in the 2020s?

Crazy to see Kangaroo Point before all the rise residential apartments.

i wasn't around in 74, but i remember the arnotts factory near milton. and festival hall. and las vegas the video arcade.

Amazing footage. Life before the Riverside Expressway looks so lush and green down by the river. I can't second guess the plan Clem Jones had, or what an alternative system of roads would have been to keep up with Brisbane's growth, but it's hard not to dream of a CBD with both sides of the riverside intact.

@maxsonthonax1020

Жыл бұрын

I believe that footage from 1:51 is in fact showing south bank of the river.

They were better days, simple as that. People stood for something and there actually was a feeling of community

Your clips are the closest I will probably get to travelling back in time and I Thankyou so much.Its exactly as I remember no difference at all which makes me happy my memory is strong.I will watch as many as I can.Its like therapy.

1974 the year I left Brisbane for the bush to get away from Clem's air pollution after the trams went silent. Came back for a weekend in 2001 for the daughter's wedding then bush again. Now I visit once a year in a drive from the Evelyn Tblnd Nth Qld for a week visiting the big smoke. Love to visit the place always have as we grew up as kids at Blackstone Ipswich in the 50's and 60's

Still remember that riverside. Not long after the AMP building went up. RIP Brisbane. So many wonderful memories of my town.

I was a scared 17yo who landed at Brisbane airport from Mt. Isa during the floods at that time and there was no one there to pick me up but a message came over the loudspeakers for me to go to the information desk, I received information that I was to get a taxi to take me to Morningside and the taxi had to take the long way around to dodge all the flooded spots..I was so scared, I was never away from my family ever in my life but I went there for business college. And to think that was 50 years ago, giving my age away now 😅

I've always been a Brisbane boy, but I was -15 when this was filmed and -1 when The World Expo was on.

Marvelous footage!!

I was born 5 years later in that city. Now I serve it.

@lukeroberts914

5 жыл бұрын

FullArmourTracksuit same mate

I didnt even exist when this was filmed, I came along 8 years later but I remember brisbane of the late 80's and early 90's. I was in the Mater childrens hospital during expo 88, I remember going on the monorail and hearing the royal navy harriers doing their thing. I was trying really hard to spot places that i can still remember, to see how much they changed between this filming and when i lived in brisbane. Was cool to watch. Also almost no cars driving into the middle of the city. Bet thats changed lol

I have seen a very rare video. Thanks!

Brisbane in the 70,s was happy and carefree

@richardhoulton4016

4 жыл бұрын

I love Animals I love Animals And a fascist dictatorship 😂

@ActiveAussie2024

3 жыл бұрын

The Joh era.

@grammagranski8095

3 жыл бұрын

It was also polluted with a smog and a fascist ideology

@trixie-bellfaith5380

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardhoulton4016 charming

You're right, it was an XY. I loved that car. It took me a lot of places.

@Timmsy

5 жыл бұрын

Shame you don't still have it..thanks for sharing this footage 👍

I was aged 9 in 1974 ,great memories. The roadway across King George Square was still in operation, dating this as prior to April 1974.

Omg barely any traffic how wonderful

@Ryan-dh7rr

5 жыл бұрын

When driving to work in the CBD wasn't just for executives or those who are willing to pay for daily early bird parking.

@jesusislukeskywalker4294

5 жыл бұрын

yes,

@stopdead1

5 жыл бұрын

And no aggressive drivers either....

@Mikathedog100

5 жыл бұрын

I've only been in Brisbane 2 years, but I've got to say, Brisbane, on the whole, has the nicest drivers of any city or suburb I've ever lived in.

@electrichanoi7244

5 жыл бұрын

I guess you could say that, but the city is not any worse now. i think it is way better now.

So nice. Thanks for your video.

Who said dash cams are only new!!!! Awesome quality of video for the age.I Had filmed a car cruise night out in the Brisbane CBD in the early 1990's on VIDEO that I still have..... Just need to work out how to get it on here... Great job Ross Myers

Bring Back the 70's. Can't believe they knocked down Bellevue and Cloudland.

Fascinating . I don't think that there is any place in Brisbane that has changed so much since I was a kid as Kangaroo Point. By the looks of things, this would have been taken just before Albert St was closed between Adelaide and Ann.

After 23 years living in Melbourne, I’m moving back to Brisbane next month. I was a kid in Brisbane and was there in 1974. It’s a very different city now, but I’m looking forward to it...and living in Kangaroo Point where a lot of this was filmed.

broke down middle lane Story Bridge peak hour bout 8:00 am in '74 on my way to work in the Valley. My '64 Volkswagen Beetle was picked up and put on the footpath by irate commuters behind me....true story....lol

@shanekilpatrick3378

4 ай бұрын

These days they’d probably throw it over the side😂

@quagini69

Ай бұрын

who gives a fk? ffs !!

@xr6lad

Ай бұрын

@@quagini69can I sniff you.

Aye when he was going to the story bridge, it hit me how much it has changed (I live next to it)

Thanks for the video. Beautiful Brisbane

I don't even born yet 1974 , thank you very much for sharing amazing brisvegas. LOVE it ❤❤❤❤❤

@michaeljames1337

5 жыл бұрын

Malika Thea hey just heads up (I don’t even born) dosent make sense while if you said ‘I wasn’t even born’ would’ve 👍😏

@Rinithea

5 жыл бұрын

@Michael James, I forgot to mention this " PS. Sorry for my English. I still confused with grammar. Thanks anyway for your correction. 😊😊

awesome! thanks so much for posting this - the brisbane I grew up in. thumbs up!

@megaselfie6334

5 жыл бұрын

Same, Salisbury QLD

@roydidlock1867

5 жыл бұрын

Same here.

old is gold

Back when Brisbane wasn't too much of a soulless hellscape of high rises.

This is fantastic to see this.

wow, amazing footage of brisbane almost 40 years ago!

@Mr.K_______

2 жыл бұрын

almost 50 years ago now matey...😪

Oh wow. Love ya Brisbane!

Born this year at the RBH ...love ya Brisbane (Northside ) 😁

great video. Videoing mundane things like driving makes it feel like you've timetravelled. Weird seeing cars driving through King George Square as well.

@roydidlock1867

5 жыл бұрын

Cars passed between the Sqaure and City Hall from the new squares opening until April ,1974, when a new one-way system in the inner city was introduced.

Congrats on putting up the footage. Well done.

A much more sedate trip over the Story Bridge than you get these days!

@bjthebear8115

2 жыл бұрын

I know right.

@maxsonthonax1020

Жыл бұрын

Huh.

I remember when you could drive straight past the entrance of city hall. The road was open to all traffic.

Thank you.

When I was a wee lad of 15 in 1974 my boss would pick me up in Hamilton and take me to work. We would catch the car ferry to Borthwick Abattoir which was on the south side of the river. It was cool to see the old James Holt.

@FutureSystem738

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Edwards I caught the James Holt ferry with my Honda 350, whilst working at Bulimba Power Station. Memories!

@cheeseburgertim1694

4 жыл бұрын

@FutureSystem738 Did you work at the powerhouse located on what is now known as Gibson Island? Most people do not know Queensland's first electric rail line branched off from Murarrie to Gibson Island in the 1920's and electric locomotives hauled coal to the power house there up until the early 1960's. The line is still there today but the electric overhead power lines are long gone. There is even a platform still there which I believe was for Borthwicks meatworks. That whole area is sus, meat works everywhere back then, even today the area stinks, I read somewhere people who died from the bubonic plague are buried there, and that's very scary considering the earthworks that has happened there in recent times due to development.

@markedwards5106

4 жыл бұрын

@@cheeseburgertim1694 No mate I work at the abattoir but for a very short time only

@paulbrewer2513

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark do you remember the Echenias the dredge I worked on it as a deck boy at the time we would get picked at the game fishing wharf at Hamilton by boat to Cairncross dry dock to board her great days

@markedwards5106

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulbrewer2513 Hello Paul, I remember a dredge working the river but not the name but I do remember the Game fishing Wharf. Where has the time gone!

That's the way i would like to remember Brisbane

what is that music; love it.

@mickpork

2 жыл бұрын

The Peace Song by Arteres Buipui

Ahh, the old Sir James Holt car ferry if I remember correctly? If you were in a hurry, and you just missed it... bad luck! Get in the queue and wait. Great upload! Thanks.

1974 was a lot more civilized and Brisbane was quite a civilized place to live in back then.

amazing times

Beautiful, but remember that nostalgia is the thief of joy. This time we're living in is the best time to be alive, by almost all measures.

@phaikyouser9499

5 жыл бұрын

it was better before the boomer politicians let in the third world en masse

@dougodyssey50

4 жыл бұрын

Apart from the fact that we surrendered to imported everything and now China wants to move on in.

@karenbourke1783

4 жыл бұрын

I accept your opinion but I don't agree . Having lived then and now, I believe life was easier. People moved slower. Our beautiful city's skyline was not marred by cranes 365 days of the year ... every year. People knew their neighbours. The streets weren't parked out. The days passed by more slowly. Ice cream trucks drove through suburban streets and children would line up on a Sunday afternoon to buy an ice cream. You could have a party under your house and invite your friends with no fear of it being gate crashed and it was ok to have your "Frampton comes Alive" tape playing in your portable tape player..... I would trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday....

@nathancooper1

4 жыл бұрын

Nah. It’s great looking back and remember great times. Three things make life great. Hope for tomorrow, reality of today, and memories of yesterday.

@Janis.7-

4 жыл бұрын

@@nathancooper1 ok Bobby Magee if you say so

What a difference nearly half a century makes, and not just to the architecture.

Awesome to see, thanks!

wooow,really like this place ,,feels good saw this with diffrent face.thanku

Wow trippy this is how brizzy looks back then im only 25 but for some reason i feel sad when i see this even though i wasnt around my generation moves to fast simple time they look like sad thing

awesome video guys.........so glad u did it 

Love ya Brisbane!

Amber before green...I'd forgotten about that!

The ever iconic brown river

I wish that was peak hour now! Year i was born!

@electrichanoi7244

5 жыл бұрын

I wish that no body owned cars and we all used busses, that would make for a much better city.

Some good and bad memories here, I think the worst was waiting for hours some days to get on the vehicular ferry to cross the Brisbane river from Lytton to Pinkenba ( stinkenba to the locals because of the raw effluent) the best was lack of serious traffic congestion, the people were friendly and life was carefree.

Before it was over developed and over populated, before those permanent speed cameras were installed just after the shafston ave bridge, when petrol was around 16c a litre. You don't appreciate what you got till its gone.

@evotme9995

5 жыл бұрын

16 cents in 1974 equates to $1.32 in 2019.. petrol has barely gone up mate.

@PikaPika-Tassie

5 жыл бұрын

Low-IQ comment

@yoguz3283

5 жыл бұрын

Brisbane is still a great place. I’m happy they rejected the zipline, just imagine the tourists...

@RocksmithPdl

5 жыл бұрын

evo tme yeah he was looking at the 16c from todays perspective. That 16c for a litre back then would feel like what $1.31 for a litre is today.

@peterharris8372

5 жыл бұрын

It was 16c a gallon those days. If you filled up at the coin pump the maximum amount the machine took was £1 in 20 pence which would be a tank full or more. Metric was introduced in 1974 in measurements even though the currency change was in 1966 Feb 14th.

If you had said this is South Africa in 1974, I would've believed it. Looked and felt the same then.

I'll have a few of any of those cars thanks! Considering this would have been months after one of the worst floods Brisbane has had it looks pretty good

@DRpokeme

Жыл бұрын

Nah, mate, the floods were coming. Not yet arrived. Cyclone Tracey 🌀

@ifanai

2 ай бұрын

The Brisbane Floods where January 1974, but yes Tracy was still to happen, almost 15 when this was filmed

It’s so weird seeing the places I went to today in this vide

You see those dark undersides of those white clouds. Someone was telling me the other day that such is evaporated water, which never occurred to me before. Is that heavy evaporation from the famous 1974 Brisbane flood ? Not necessarily, but it nevertheless could well be. It goes on over days and weeks, not all in a couple of hours. It doesn't mean that its all going to come down again exactly as is, but is subject to dispersal and wind currents.

loved the track

@jesusislukeskywalker4294

5 жыл бұрын

yeh, totally

@barbarahope1934

5 жыл бұрын

Non Zero Sum Game I thought it sounded a bit sad

@Mookie70

5 жыл бұрын

@@barbarahope1934 yeah, i guess a little sad. of how tines used to be and it will never be like that again

Take me back there.

@PikaPika-Tassie

5 жыл бұрын

Throw away your phones

@electrichanoi7244

5 жыл бұрын

What to a time before good cancer treatment, high rates of HIV and bad healthcare? really? to a time when everyone you knew over the age of 18 smoked. I think brisbane is a much better city today, you just have to change your mindset. When freedom of expression was more limmited, when people were more racist. Come on your kidding, Just because brisbane has more immigrants does not mean its a worse city.

The beginning is corner of Rochedale and Underwood roads. Still a Shell service station to this very day.

@welcomestranger

9 жыл бұрын

Vpmatt I think it's the corner of Logan Rd and Padstow Rd, which is now a Matilda as they drive past Logan and Newnham Rd very shortly afterwards.

@tomtonka1915

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Sharp yeah that's what I thought too.

@Qquitful

5 жыл бұрын

@@welcomestranger matilda is now puma petrol station heheheheh

@Micko350

5 жыл бұрын

It's corner of Logan & Padstow Rds, NOT Underwood & Rochedale Rds!

@PikaPika-Tassie

5 жыл бұрын

Vpmatt no fucking Underwood

Take us back. No vegans. No muslims. No stupid laws. Everyone had class.

@electrichanoi7244

5 жыл бұрын

Oh ok, you leave out the second and third largest non-aussie background group (chinese and indian) We still have class today we are better off today, and vegans? who cares about them. they are annoying but they are not forcing veganisim onto you, have you been to GC its all about the meat.

Wow looking better 🤗

Yes I remember all. Quiet. Beautiful Brisbane. Now a rat race when on the road.

A SUPER-8 CAMERA ON THE DASHBOARD....

Hi there My name's John WIllsteed, and I'm a musicisan and academic. I am doing a couple of public lectures in late October at The Powerhouse and I wonder if I might be able to use a little of this Brisbane footage? How do i contact Ross Myers?

@geraldiner2527

5 жыл бұрын

Bit late now

Was this before or after the flood?

Back when people were happier and not miserable like in today's society

@nunkito

4 жыл бұрын

@@oinkooink ya right there mate, this joints fucked and will only get worse. greed rules today. im selling up and cruising to south america to live.

@filipina5953

3 жыл бұрын

@@nunkito - What, you’re selling you’re 3 x man dome tent and think a change of scenery will change you’re Toxic Take on Life! Good Luck Chump, Hope all goes ell for ya! 😘

@nunkito

3 жыл бұрын

@@filipina5953 fvk up pussy

Wow 😯 I know where exactly where you are. It’s changed soooo muchhh. :( it’s really sad to think about it. :O

@electrichanoi7244

5 жыл бұрын

WHY IS IT SAD, the world is better now.

Sad to see all the lost land to apartments and capitalism all of Australia has experienced this sadly.

awesome.....what road is that in the beginning?....trying to work it out looks like Miles Platting Road? ..... how relaxed the people are walking around in the City (although i gather this wasn't during the week) ....and a whole lot less cars on the roads ...... worked out this the original"highway' heading to Brisbane...where it turns left towards Sunnybank there is now the Puma servo there on the left and the new 7eleven ☺️

@pjamajones8304

2 жыл бұрын

Logan Rd / Padstow Eight Mile Plains......Puma petrol

Wonderful / Life was So Simple in those Days compared to the So Called Progress of Today.

was that a dash cam in 1974?

Great vid thanks, fantastic leasurely time live in Brissy approx 1 million people easier to drive around, little crappy graffiti. Plenty of employment a good era.

0:23 i live in this building 😂😂

Hi Ramdarook - I was wanting to know if I'm able to use some of this footage for a local Brisbane music clip. It's a no-budget, no profit afair. Cheers

Look at all those rain clouds, was this before or after the floods?

@claire4086

7 жыл бұрын

Terry Jones mate this was 43 years ago.

@sarcasmo57

7 жыл бұрын

There were huge floods in 1974.

@oldmutt1427

6 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. But the floods were in late January '74. So it could have been just before or sometime after.

@roydidlock1867

5 жыл бұрын

I can tell you that in December 1973 and January 1974 was an unusually wet summer(rain most days) This culminated in an enormous "rain event" which hit South East Queensland in the early hours of January 24, 1974(created by a cyclonic weather system) 1 metre of rain fell in 24 hours and the river was in flood by January 26. This could be just after.

Fabulous video. Is that the vehicular ferry at the end that pre-dated the Gateway Bridge?

@ramdarook

8 жыл бұрын

Yes I remember we were in the Lytton - Wynnum area & then crossed the river in the vehicular ferry

@thegreaterbilby2171

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, it was called the Sir James Holt Ferry. It travelled between Murarrie and Pinkenba from 1966 - January '86.

how would i seek permission to use some of this in a narrative game set in brisbane?

@ramdarook

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, you can email me at ramdarook@tpg.com.au. Regards, Ross

Was that the ferry to Bribie Island?

I left in 85 down to SA. I still won’t forgive my parents for moving.

@Janis.7-

4 жыл бұрын

Don’t blame you

@sultanabran1

3 жыл бұрын

at least adelaide is the same now as it was when you moved down there. except they've extended the tram from glenelg to no where?

Out of curiosity but has Brisbane river ever been anything but muddy looking? Legit question btw

@electrichanoi7244

5 жыл бұрын

the muddy look is actually natural for the brisbane river because of the upstream soils, so yes. but this river is nothing like the yarra (muddy looking because of melborne) the brisbane river is naturally brown

@weevil_bob

2 жыл бұрын

I read a sign along the river saying that the river use to be green, clearer and only got about 1m deep but they dredged the river to 6m for larger ships. the sediment in the water never gets to settle because the tides mix the water around too much. Alot of the trees and mangrove got removed making alot of sediment flow down river.

@Iggywiggywoo

Жыл бұрын

Well yes, Brisbane had a flood that very same year.

Wow

那个时候就这么繁华，厉害澳大利亚