Drove a concrete truck for Readymix,back then, and delivered many yards ,meters now,of concrete to this historic site.Proud to be a small part of it,just sayin'

Remember going there in 1979 as part of a holiday. Had a tour and also dined at the restaurant. As a kid from regional Queensland is was like another world!

Wow growing up in Sydney during this time I remember this add like it was yesterday 👍

I remember going up Sydney Tower on LSD in the mid 80s with my mates! What a freakout that was FMD

I used to repair and service The Original Lifts that used to go up to top between 1988-1991. I once had to climb all the stairs when all 3 tower lifts malfunctioned. I was also there when The Newcastle Earthquake happened.

Oh god, I remembered half of the words to that jingle.

First went up there in March 1982, then again in 1998

Sydney Tower, when everyone else calls it Centrepoint.

@Username-ze1ux

2 жыл бұрын

Yep…if your born and raised in Sydney…then you just call it centrepoint

It was a rusty looking tub on a rising rusty looking pole when being built. I'd ask my dad what it was , he'd answer he didn't know.😂🤣

Refreshing to see it without a corporate logo. Back then, groups would be taken around the observation deck several times a day with a guide pointing out various geographical and historical features. Now? You'd be lucky to get the same number of tours in a month as you did in a day.

I'd say the Opera House and Harbour Bridge were greater engineering achievements. The bridge was built even with the small size of Sydney, the faltering economy and crude technology of the 1930's. The Opera House took 13 years to build and it was a very radical design, so those were probably the greatest engineering achievement with regards to landmarks here. There are many more engineering achievements that you don't go to visit (roads, dams) and are much more important than those buildings.

@nickshipway8199

6 жыл бұрын

The outside of the Opera House was an achievement, yes. The inside, less so.

Heaps more buildings now !!

I was down there last week and all the shops in centrepoint have closed, westfield now owns the shopping centre as well as the inperial arcade, skygarden and the glasshouse and they are going to redevelop the lot - there were signs saying the tower will still be open but you wont be able to access it from centrepoint itself but from somewhere in market st not sure if westfield owns the actual tower or not

I went up there when it was reasonably priced, and before they put that stupid Westfield sign on the top, ye gods man, it ain't a feking shopping centre! Beautiful panorama on a clear day.

The crowning glory of the post WWII economic boom (1947-83) in Sydney, the MLC centre (1978) and Sydney Tower (1981) so before the Darling Harbour development gut underway in 1985 there was a definite gap. Hardly any new high rise buildings underway until 1991 when Australia was supposedly back in recession. Governor Macquarie Tower and Arthur Phillip Place are very flash looking buildings. The Harbour Tunnel kept things going from January 1988 but it wasn't as visible for obvious reasons.

Are there any videos of this Landmarks Construction.

@westyno6 Your Breakfast is not so bad. The Banana is nutritional as it has plenty of potasium as much as mushrooms do. But as for the nutri grain, that is loaded with lots of sugar and way high in calories. You'd need to go for a power walk to burn off those high calories.

Now it's owned by the Chinese....all of Sydney I mean

@pyrogaming2500

4 жыл бұрын

fuzzbuttnmutt the tower is owned by Westfield but still pissed at Australia for selling all their shit to China. It’s a trap and Australia fell for it.

@pyrogaming2500

4 жыл бұрын

fuzzbuttnmutt #stopchinatrap

@drewf2et54yu47mij67

3 жыл бұрын

That's your fuckin' fault for voting for the Libs.

Maybe you're thinking about Luna Park in Sydney. Sydney Tower has been open forever, and it makes a hell of a profit.

i was down there again today and skygarden and glasshouse are open as normal so they musnt be part of it

Looks different

Far out that is old I remember that add going back in my time it's funny how time flys n how time changes before it was a big sign of anz n now it's a big sign of Westfield with a land scape on the tower to walk out on slots changed to the heart of the city Sydney point tower

Glad to hear that rumour isn't true

definitly not, currently under huge renovations, tower still open though

Fun place!

I think he's trolling...

Can you still go up there? I hear a rumour it'd closed down.

@westyno6 The Twin Towers did.

alain obert climbed that holy fucking shit

that makes no sense as Centre Point was the name of the mall... not the location

@khylerin70

4 жыл бұрын

It may not make sense , but it's absolutely true. The thing was always known as the Centrepoint tower. Always !!!. ( The heart of the city , thump thump , thump thump). I didn't know anybody who called it anything else until the 90s. Was always known as the Centrepoint tower 👍👍

@westyno6 I had Mushrooms and Eggs on Toast

Could be