My beautiful Adelaide, gave me the best childhood ever.From Mt. Lofty to Glenelg, was my playground. 💖💖

We are soo very lucky to have recordings such as this.

Really interesting to see this footage- especially of north terrace and the railway station, much of which hasn't changed a whole lot. That, and the fact that it still talks about the four lakes of Mount Gambier, which now only has two, as Browne's Lake and Leg of Mutton Lake have long dried up

Oh Adelaide was so beautiful ... the trees, the suburban gardens, the orchards in the hills ...

@geoffmower8729

3 жыл бұрын

It still is.

@sharms888

Жыл бұрын

@@geoffmower8729 Absolutely

Gorgeous 🥰🥰 Wish it could have been recorded today in colour. Would have been breathtaking.

a wonderful record of the beautiful state of SA

Nice to see Linnets Island Resort guests pulling in large whiting at American River, Kangaroo Island. Thankyou.

This makes me feel homesick.

@James-kv6kb

Жыл бұрын

I had to leave because we were so generous with overseas refugees that there were no houses left ,but I get the same getting homesick until I actually go back there and have to drive

I remember Rundle Street, before it was turned into Rundle Mall. The first street in the world I understand ever to have been been changed so. That was in 1976.

Fascinating footage. Should be River Torrens rather than "Torrens Lake". And I believe we saw Morialta Falls, not "Gorge". Still a lovely city.

@TheZodiacz

3 жыл бұрын

It is actually Torrens Lake because the river is dammed here to create it. Or you can use the Aboriginal name Karrawirri Parri.

@jennklein1917

11 ай бұрын

As kids we would pick blackberries at the Gorge, then later ,would skip school and spend the day at the Gorge. Lots of Italians in my suburb of Newton, .I remember all the market gardens spreading for acres behind our house. And stealing the little, ripe watermelons.And getting chased by cranky farmers, cursing us kids in Italian 🥰🥰

Ah, the days when you were the only car on the road during a Sunday drive through the Adelaide Hills.

@MichaelKingsfordGray

Ай бұрын

Lots of sidecars!

I remember the gracious city .. of my childhood ... Now .. oh dear ...

It struck me how class conscious society was back then. "the great estates" (houses for the rich). the great students of learning from St Peters and PAC (who would also be the ones to go onto university because it was all upfront fees back then and kids from public schools probably couldnt afford it. I'm glad that is one thing that has changed in our modern times. I am currently sitting in my housing trust home immediately across the road from PAC, (which I could never have afforded to send my sons to), and I have just come back from visiting my son, Doctor Hayes, because today, everyone can go to university.

@MysticOblong

2 жыл бұрын

It struck me too they mentioned the great "public" schools of St Peters and PAC. It makes me wonder if this film was aimed at middle class British people in the hope of luring some skilled immigrants.

@facethefacts9014

Жыл бұрын

Well thankfully the evils of socialism had not taking ground at that period.

@James-kv6kb

Жыл бұрын

They're still is a class divide but it's just harder to see

Emotional

Iv'e been to Adelaide, I don't remember any trains that travelled to Mount Lofty. interesting

@steelblue8

Жыл бұрын

If you went any time after roughly the 70s those trains would've been long gone- unfortunately, while South Australia used to have an expansive and well-running passenger railway network, beyond the bounds of the main Adelaide metro area there aren't any true passenger trains to be found.

@James-kv6kb

Жыл бұрын

When I was a very young kid you could catch the interstate trains at the city station as well

I miss those days... I'm not from them, but I have a rather romantic view of what they were like... and I know there was not so nice things about those days, but I do miss how refined people were and the music & architecture of that day. Modern architecture is plain and horrible and most of our modern music could hardly be classified as music...

Found pics of country Horsham vic 1908 etc 1920s .

And now the trams are back in North Terrace

@ijustdidahugeshit

3 жыл бұрын

Ok so you can dance!

@MysticOblong

2 жыл бұрын

The story I heard is they ripped up the tram lines when the Holden car factory opened here to maximise the number of people buying cars. Holdens have gone now anyway so we might as well slap a few new trams lines in here and there

@SalisburyKarateClub

2 жыл бұрын

@@MysticOblong Haven't heard that, but could be true

@facethefacts9014

Жыл бұрын

@@MysticOblong unlikely, it was due to the introduction of the bus which was more flexible, as every city in Australia ripped up their tramlines except Melbourne.

@MysticOblong

Жыл бұрын

​@@facethefacts9014 OK I didn't realise Perth and Brisbane etc ripped up tram lines too. Will look into it further and see if there's evidence of a deal between Holden and the gov. It's something I heard from a historian I think a long time ago. I'm not a fan of urban sprawl and reliance on cars so the story suited my biases ha ha.

Torrens Lake

They haven't really done much to the city in the last 80 years it all looks the same