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Photos of inner Melbourne in the 1960s & 70s by Chris Lermanis.
Looking back at Melbourne in the 60s and 70s - in pictures by Chris Lermanis.
Lermanis is a keen amateur photographer who spent his weekends in the late 1960s and early 1970s photographing around the inner Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy, Carlton and Collingwood with his Pentax SV camera and 50mm lens.
He hand-processed the black and white films at home and made prints in the bathroom or laundry, which was temporarily converted into a darkroom. During this time the houses and factories were being demolished and the new housing commission towers built.
Lermanis recently started looking at his old prints and now has a book project planned.
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Piano version of Old Man by Calikokat102
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Wow before inner-city cool types.
i was born in North Fitzroy in the 60's.. we moved out in 73.. twas the saddest day of my life.. i cried because i missed my mates which i played with on the streets most days..
@suekaraiskos7104
5 ай бұрын
Same… spent a good few years next door in Princes Hill, Nth Carlton. We moved next to Malvern. I cried and still remember the culture shock. No laneways. No rabbit-oh, bottl-oh and no fun on streets
@suekaraiskos7104
5 ай бұрын
And our old rental is worth well over $1,000,000 now!
@vinorob
5 ай бұрын
Same. I was Northcote and moved to Greensborough in 77. Loved all the back alleys
@kotchstevens2321
5 ай бұрын
@@suekaraiskos7104 we moved to reservoir first week of Jan 73. The streets had empty blocks & no kids playing, I was 8, lost without my old buddies & bored.
@kotchstevens2321
5 ай бұрын
@@suekaraiskos7104 ours in Fitzroy North 4 bedrooms at the time now would probably b 2.5 to 3 million..
Nostaglic (my era)....Sad Struggle...But Beautiful Photography....
Park St, South Melb...we used to live at number 313 Park St, a German doctor owned it at the time, my grandparents lived not far away on Cecil. I'm 50 now but can still remember sitting on the bench outside the South Melbourne Markets with my grandfather while Mum and Nana went shopping.
Magic
Saw them in the Guardian. They are fantastic. Even better with your well chosen score to accompany them. Thanks Gezza.
Awesome stuff Gezza, great music really sets the mood.
Wow! Thanks.
Terrific photos. Thoroughly enjoyed looking at all of them .
Thanks Gez
The good old days😊😊
I always really appreciate your stuff mate. Cheers.
Damn...seeing the city as it used to look brings back so many memories. I remember the laneways and the roaming gangs of lads having the occasional beef. Loads of fun. Picking fruit hanging over back fences into the lanes and hanging around the parks. You could catch the tram from Kew tram depot to the city for about 25c return. The conductor made sure everyone behaved and people were far more polite.
Awesome 👏 photos Gezza 😊
Love it Thanx
Amazing! Thank you
Well done.Thank you.
Wish he released a book with his photos, excellent
@ChrisLermanis
5 ай бұрын
Coming soon Chris L
@jupite1888
5 ай бұрын
Please and Thanks Chris@@ChrisLermanis
Beautiful .
nostalgia, NOUN, " a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time"
Naw the memories. My dad grew up in Tate St Fitzroy
Brilliant
Very nice.
If I burped at the dinner table, my mum would lament that I “came from the gutters of Fitzroy!”. This was a cliche as a judge said the same thing and the mayor of Fitzroy demanded he apologise for the remark. At the time, the City of Fitzroy was the smallest council and was absorbed by the Kennett reorganization during the nineties. In Macleod Prison on French Island, there were two rows of prison cells, they were called Toorak and Fitzroy.
@vinorob
5 ай бұрын
I never knew any of that. Thanks
Still looking very Anglo Celtic and people were much slimmer. Can't imagine inner city kids, (given the great social change unlikely to be poor white kids these days) playing cricket and footy in the street nowadays.
@kotchstevens2321
5 ай бұрын
True.. rare to see any kids playing on the streets these days. In the 70's we would be a handful, sometimes up to a dozen or more kids playing morning, arvo &(in the summer break)sometimes continuing on until it got dark around 9.30pm.
Great production Gezza ! I'm waiting for the CinemaScope version at my Drive-In. I'm putting together a book with many more photos coming soon.(Chris Lermanis)
@Gezza1967
5 ай бұрын
Brilliant Chris, congratulations on your great work. I’d love to promote your book on my Melbourne history FB page when it’s launched. 👍
@ChrisLermanis
5 ай бұрын
@@Gezza1967 I would appreciate that 📷
0:06 Nobody called the coppers on him? Whew, this must be some lost alternate universe.
Neil Young song ?
@kotchstevens2321
5 ай бұрын
yep ..fits this clip perfectly..
Mr Bob Hawke... One of the many engineers of our social deconstruction...
-Fuck look how wide those streets were before the dogs at the council built bike lanes of everything. -No parking inspectors -Can easily spot your fellow countryman (not being ethnically replaced as they are now) Long lost.
Old Man Neil Young Piano. Could be a couple of WW1 Vets there. They would be in there early Eighties.
The day they built the housing commission flats killed Melbournes soul…
And not a junkie or graffiti on site
Looks like nothin'gs changed !...
Has not changed a bit
Dumpamoondo then and now