Who remembers lunch at the Coles caffateria or seeing a movie at the Forum...I note too at 0.45 we were very close to getting a glimpse of the Shaft Semena (Cinema) next to the Barrell. And the No 7 tram to the city in an old W class with it's distinctive c-sharp bell...ding, ding. Great memories of a time long gone. Walk along Swanston Street now and be disappointed.

@wizzard5442

Ай бұрын

Yes Coles Cafeteria 1st Floor Bourke Street store where you grab a tray and slide it along and pick what ever foods you like. A working-class smorgasboard.

@jameshoffman5870

11 күн бұрын

Melbourne always has been a shithole and still is.

@NotMyRealName-pp8cy

18 минут бұрын

I remember going there with my mum and grandmother for lunch circa 1975.

Who remembers the original Darrell Lee shop with the ladies wearing the big bows. So bright and colourful…and the smell, and the chocolate was delicious.

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

I do!! When we went into 'the city' as a family to have a special lunch and see a 'picture' we'd always end with a special treat visit to the store you're talking about. I LOVE these old archive films and old photos. I could look at old photos and old film for hours and not get bored. I also remember that amazing movie theatre with the domed ceiling painted in dark vibrant blue to give the illusion of a twilight time starry night sky. It felt really romantic and glamorous. I loved it as a kid. I love finding places that haven't been totally modernised. Remember the diner along Flinders Street (or was it Swanston Street, hmm?) that had the table top jukeboxes at each booth. You'd sit and flip through the options whilst waiting for your milkshake or banana split sundae and press B5 for a Beach Boys song that would never come on, ha!

@ThePlataf

Ай бұрын

Absolutely! The old lady next door used to get a box of Darrell Lea every Friday when her daughter came home, still wearing the very colourful outfit. Every Saturday, the lovely old lady secretly gave them to me. Her doctor had forbidden her to eat sweet stuff, but she didn't have the heart to tell her daughter. My Mum wouldn't let me eat any sort of lollies except Xmas Easter and birthdays, so this was heaven. I'd hide in my cubby house with a book, and wolf through the lot in one sitting, lol.

@shanebriggs1039

Ай бұрын

Yep, I remember that also

I arrived in Melbourne in 1963 at the age of 6, when I turned 18 I bought a 63 Falcon to celebrate.

@amberravine2232

Ай бұрын

You my man... are a legend! Im saving up for my birth-car too, super jealous that your erra had better machines. - its a car lovers dream 🥰

When you went into "town" it was an event. Having worked in there for years, it lost the gloss. But I still remember the "good old days", the innocence of youth.

So much more beautiful back then

What a beautiful city back then

@ritmolatino1627

10 ай бұрын

The city is still as beautiful now, its the shit people our govermentt lets in now days

@Vic-cv3df

5 ай бұрын

Those people we entrusted to regulate development to the present day have let us down.

Before the great replacement.

0:08 -- The Southern Cross Hotel.... I really loved that place and I was saddened that it was pulled down. My father was the specialised pastry chef there in that era and received a resounding compliment from Ringo Starr on a pastry dish that was prepared for them when the Beatles had their tour there.

@wizzard5442

Ай бұрын

Were some good restaurants there - specially The Club Grill

I was born in 84' so I never got to see this amazing time. Glad there's footage like this out there to see!

When I came to Melbourne as a child in 1960, this is pretty much how it was. How much I loved growing up there.

@EliteURBX

Ай бұрын

What about now with our world leading multicultural and diverse society that we have?

@galear1

Ай бұрын

@@EliteURBX Well, not so much. Though I suppose in a way my family was part of all that.

Was so nice back then, give me a time machine.

Oh, I miss those times.

OMG - 1966 the year of my first trip to Melbourne. I was just a kid and was absolutely in love with the city, very vibrant and still retaining some great buildings that have been subsequently lost. We stayed at the then new Southern Cross Hotel now also gone. Thanks for the upload. Great memories.

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

Oh no! What happened to the Southern Cross hotel?! We used to go to their Palm Court restaurant for lunch as a family sometimes. What's there now I wonder?

@wizzard5442

Ай бұрын

@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Yes - Palm Court restaurant. There was another - The Club Grill.

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

@@wizzard5442 Do you know what's there now? Another commenter said the whole hotel was pulled down rather than just renovated and redesigned. Is that true?!

@wizzard5442

Ай бұрын

@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Yes it was pulled down and an office block with street level shops were built. Its called Southern Cross Towers. See wiki.

Back when it was safe to walk the streets. Back when everybody who wanted one had a job. Back when everybody dressed decently. Back when we had some basic rules of life that most abided by. Back when...

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

Back when hard working people could actually afford to buy a nice three bedroom house with a garage, garden and room for a pool in the back garden. What in the hell's happened to the world?!

@Soipelez

13 күн бұрын

​​@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293its good stuff at the moment. Work away at an honest job for years and maybe youll get a mortgage in a decade if youre lucky, then have fun paying that for the next 30 years. Meanwhile i can either take off my clothes online and sell it, or make awful videos 'pranking' or just harassing people in public and potentially make unfathomable amounts of money through 'CoNtEnT cReAtIoN'. Society is fucked. Elite overproduction has begun just as mentioned in Peter Turchin's secular cycle theory. Next up, global conflict, a great reset and probably a new major world power.

Busy city. Loved the Milkman delivery. Reminds me of the old time garbos. Fit as and hard working. Milkmen gone. Garbos in air conditioned trucks.

I feel like I have just seen a friendly ghost from my past. Another world that's just a memory now.

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

Me too. Sad isn't it? I also miss people dressing up nicely and behaving well at airports and on planes.

I love the young boy at 1.32 with him Mum. I am a few years later than this but my Mum always insisted that whenever we went into the City that you wear your best clothes. I can bet the young boy here was told the same thing. He looks immaculate- as indeed nearly everyone else here does too.

@arisl2370

2 жыл бұрын

funny, that scene also caught my attention.. I was also born a few later but recall ijn the 70's growing up that mum would always dress us up as immaculate as possible

@bert23337

9 ай бұрын

Yep, it was always a big day when you went into town with Mum. Lunch at Woolies or Coles or maybe even DJ's

@Soipelez

13 күн бұрын

I love it too, but unfortunately people lost their personal standards at some point. Im only 28 ('96) and the current state of things makes me utterly miserable.

I was nine years old back then, seemed so grand and excitinig.

@sib4897

5 ай бұрын

I arrived from the UK in 1966 also aged 9, lived in Moe initially, then Frankston; now back in the UK since 1973. Collingwood barracker since 1966, and still am! GO PIES!! 😊 My Son now lives north of Sydney in Mayfield and is marrying an Australian girl in March 2024. 🇦🇺🌏🦘🪃

I was six years old and it was a big treat for my mum to take us into "town" see a movie and have lunch at coles cafeteria !!! How I wish I could time travel back. Thanks for the memories 🎉

Great footage of a long-gone era, Melbourne is no more, a shell of a town that was once the greatest place to live on Earth.

@ianjenkins8114

Жыл бұрын

It’s back now

@betula2137

Жыл бұрын

@@ianjenkins8114 indeed, it was a shell for much of the 20th century, but is great now

@Mac-zl4po

Жыл бұрын

Too many Indians and Chinese now it's a crowded and no longer british anglo

@HYITHO

Жыл бұрын

@@Mac-zl4po karma is a bitch for the white anglos

@just-a-fella3212

8 ай бұрын

I was a boy then. I remember adults were well dressed, well mannered, and friendly.

Hard to believe. Used to enjoy going into Myers for their banana splits with my mum as a kid. I give the city a wide berth these days.

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

I just remember that it was never that crowded. Nowadays it feels suffocating. I think it's due to the invasion of a more existential non physical space via the internet too, it contributes to this awful claustrophobic suffocating feeling. I feel constantly pestered. Everybody's got their necks permanently wound into the business of strangers. And oh my what banal, painfully boring nonsense it all is.

@wizzard5442

Ай бұрын

I remember the banana splits - on 3rd floor cafeteria, right?

R.i.p melbourne

@biggils8894

2 ай бұрын

Australia doesn’t even exist let alone Melbourne

@freyastott4369

2 ай бұрын

@@biggils8894 agreed, it’s been taken over.

@craiganderson7565

Ай бұрын

Couldn’t agree more …. what happened to that truly beautiful city I grew up in ??

Once was a great city and full of character. Fantastic memories of a great place and time...Stanley Kramer must have liked it as he filmed much of On The Beach (1959) in Melbourne.

miss those days Coles cafeteria the sun not so hot a different atmosphere with the lighting during the day.

@stevewiles7132

Жыл бұрын

I remember coles cafeteria, but the sun was still as hot back then, you just had to avoid touching it.

@gail2500

10 ай бұрын

Coles cafeteria - a square of green or red jelly with whipped cream on top. That's what I remember.

@1ihws

Ай бұрын

@@gail2500 me too, and “sarnies” as my mother used to call those dainty little trays of mixed sandwiches.

I always remember taking the train from Chelsea to the City with my Mum to visit the Downflake Doughnut shop in Swanston Steet and watch the Doughnuts being made in the window.

@doughart2720

Ай бұрын

Do you remember this then. As you walk through life brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole! Cheers PS bloody auto correct

I was born in '68, but it still looked like this in the 70's.

@TheRoswellCode

2 ай бұрын

The wind-up parking meters were around for years.

Great footage, I love watching how the city was back then.

When housing was affordable, wages were decent and we weren’t giving away free tickets to the undeveloped world.

Remember the Hair Krishna's dancing on a Saturday night?

@colliric

Жыл бұрын

Remember? Those Krishna's are still doing it. Their restaurant is on the street level now.

Wow! What fabulously preserved footage of a city wriggling into the Modernist era.

Very hard to find a true blue Aussie anymore

@mitch2620

Ай бұрын

We all moved to Tas, mate.

Ah, the days when the city was bustling with people. Going into the city was a treat the family would look forward to. Now you avoid it like the plague!

@vavacadoz

2 жыл бұрын

Well of course you have to avoid such human interaction now, but before covid times it was all the same

@mr.jamster8414

2 жыл бұрын

@@vavacadoz haha no you don't

@vavacadoz

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.jamster8414 What on earth are you on about?

@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479

Жыл бұрын

@@vavacadoz are you still avoiding everyone? Still think you're gonna die? 🤦‍♂️🤣

@betula2137

Жыл бұрын

Have you tried taking a tram or train in? It's definitely bustling nowadays

The other week I took a train into Melbourne’s CBD, which I had not done in a long time. I was GOB SMACKED. I may as well have been riding a train in Singapore. I think I was the only Australian in the carriage. 😢

@shaun1900

2 ай бұрын

and is that a problem, we are after all in the Asiatic region.

@stefanie.elinor

2 ай бұрын

@@shaun1900 we don’t have the resources for all these extra people, we can’t afford it. An extra half a million humans here in 12 months, we don’t have the hospitals, schools, houses, etc, etc. This means less quality of life for everyone here. If you need an ambulance for example, your waiting time is increased because they aren’t investing in more paramedics in line with immigration. Our economy and our society cannot cope with this level of immigration if we are not building the infrastructure. Not to mention young Australians being unable to buy a house due to wealthy immigrants pushing up the prices. Again, quality of life for the average Australian is affected. More young Australians have to stay with their parents for longer, or rent for longer (or forever).

@shaun1900

2 ай бұрын

@@stefanie.elinor you are pointing the finger at the wrong people, please at least try and do some research before commenting. You just sound daft otherwise. Simple fact is Australia needs immigration, we have an ageing population, decreasing birth rates and an economy and social welfare systems that wound not survive to pay your pension and provide the healthcare you need in old age. Please try harder.

@1ihws

2 ай бұрын

@@stefanie.elinorplenty of investment in vehicles though! Five stationed in the town I live in, constantly parked up. Don’t think I’ve ever seen two out on the roads at the same time since they built their big new brick garage. So is that staff shortages or just lack of trained staff? And if it’s the latter, who commissioned for all those new ambulance vehicles if there isn’t a plethora of trained paramedics? Our ambo’s in Vic are screaming for higher wages and better resource’s, like the cops did several years ago, and like CFA&SES did for years - decades in fact - now we have made a huge capital investment in buildings and vehicles, but no-one wants to even pretend to be interested in actually working a shift, unless there are “perks” like tickets to motorsport events, or other sporting events?? How many of the resourcing decisions in emergency services management are made these days actually totally defies even my trained responders brain. Glad I got out of emergency services when I did, and grateful to still be capable of thinking strategically about organisational waste!

@ACDZ123

Ай бұрын

No. Asia is in Asia. We're in Australia. A totally different continent

Those empty Melbourne Streets remind me of the end scenes of "On the Beach".

@somedumbozzie1539

2 жыл бұрын

That was the first thing that came to mind.

@biggils8894

2 ай бұрын

And not 2021 lockdown? Worse than china

The real melbs

It feels like Hong Kong now!

@ACDZ123

Ай бұрын

And the Congo

@cgas7344

Ай бұрын

@@ACDZ123 agree and Congo

@ACDZ123

Ай бұрын

@@cgas7344 terrible isn't it. Can't even feel safe walking around now with all the jungle savages and their machetes...politicians in Canberra don't have to live with them .they ok

Awesome footage. I was 3 years old in 1966 and I lived about 2 miles down the road. What I notice the most about video is of course the changes, but not so much the older architecture, although some of it certainly has gone. It’s the newer, taller buildings. They seem to be the ones that are missing today. Replaced by bigger taller buildings. It was a great place then, and it still is today. Dare I say, maybe even better.

@stevewiles7132

Жыл бұрын

Changed your mind yet???

@Griffin_63

Жыл бұрын

@@stevewiles7132 ??????

@ivanhajncl8833

Жыл бұрын

Saying it doesn't make it true

Makes me cry these kind of videos. Melbourne used to be a beautiful place to live and raise your kids. Now it’s a hellhole where you can’t buy a house, soaring crime and nobody knows their neighbour anymore. I live in Tas now and I’d never move back.

It looks like an overcrowded slum now. More disunity than there has even been.

@shaun1900

2 ай бұрын

no there isnt

@ACDZ123

Ай бұрын

​@@shaun1900Shaun the woke 🐑 trying your hardest to defend mass migration..it sucks and Australia is being destroyed because of fools like you

@ACDZ123

Ай бұрын

​@@shaun1900yes there is .stop with the denial ..things have never been worse ..especially with this current left globalist government

Women dressed like women beautiful ❤

I remember those self-driving milk carts. Our local dairy was just at the end of our street and as kids we played in the horse paddock and would often crawl through the crate loading shoot into the bottling plant to explore. All the stainless steel inside, still wet from being washed down, was kind of mesmerising.

So glad to have lived in Melbourne during that era , the 50’s and 60’s were a great period life was so uncomplicated and enjoyable.

@EliteURBX

Ай бұрын

Better than now with the really diverse and multicultural society we have?

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

@@EliteURBX All the beautiful villages that lefty tourists coo over here in England are almost entirely populated by educated financially solvent hardworking old white people. They cannot seem to be honest and intelligent enough to do the simple sum of 2 + 2. They pooh-pooh snobbery, the idea of privilege and they pooh-pooh monocultures yet seek out beautiful clean villages filled with gentle, respectful white folks on their weekends and holidays. I wish people could just be more honest about things but they're forever deaf to the sound of pennies dropping. Oh dear.

@marthasheilds2446

Ай бұрын

Those days Melbourne and Adelaide was full of English pommes leaving the UK to Australia to invade.

I first landed in Melbourne in 1961 as an 19 year old British seaman & visited regularly until 1965 when I came for good! It was a fantastic city then, not so much traffic like today’s mad roads! No freeways, only the S.Eastern Freeway, which didn’t go far. I miss those days (An old man’s nostalgia, lol.) Melbourne was wonderful. I moved to the country in the late 70s, glad I did, I could not live in the city now!

@wizzard5442

Ай бұрын

Probably the only freeway in the world that ended at a set of traffic lights - Toorak Rd

We arrived from England in 1970. We went to Enterprise Hostel in Norlane, Geelong. Dad bought a EK Holden with 3 on the tree. Got it a bit stuck with the gears. And burnt his finger on the cigarette lighter. It took us to Springvale for work prospects and a home. Mum still has it. Different times indeed.

@marthasheilds2446

Ай бұрын

All pommes and whinging ones leaving the UK for the longest to invade Australia 🦘

@mitch2620

Ай бұрын

@@marthasheilds2446back in the day, they didn’t have to invade, the government paid them to come here.

1:23 WOW!😯

NOW, THOSE WERE THE DAYS. WHEN MEN WERE MEN AND THE WOMEN WERE GRATEFUL.

The original of this gives lots of clues that it was filmed over the period 1964 and 1965. But editing etc took until 1966 to release and put that date on the titles. Made it look up to date but newer for audiences too.

Those empty Melbourne city’s streets l almost forgot how it was! But the recent COVID lockdown jarred my memory!

Every second man wore. Suit. Now every second man wears a T-shirt today

@davehall44

Жыл бұрын

The WW1 generation were still up and about, they were great for formal dressing.

@Jo_Wardy

Жыл бұрын

@@davehall44 yeah grandfathers

@Jo_Wardy

Жыл бұрын

@@davehall44 yeah well today people are lazy and think dressimg up is uncool.

@hanajinks1044

Жыл бұрын

I first went to the footy in 73 withmy uncle and we both dressed casually, and yet watching footy from the 60s everyone looks to be wearing their Sunday Best....l wonder when and how it changed...

@JustNanJustSoap

2 ай бұрын

Actual pride....don't see that any more...

So much change since then, not sure it’s for the better.

@vavacadoz

2 жыл бұрын

Change isn’t necessarily good or bad. It’s naturally a part of life, and you just have to move on with it.

@betula2137

Жыл бұрын

@@vavacadoz correct. I'm resisting the urge to plop a mini thesis on change and evolution in urban settlements

@Mac-zl4po

Жыл бұрын

Too many Indians and Chinese now

@Vic-cv3df

5 ай бұрын

@@Mac-zl4po You said the same thing above and are beginning to sound like a broken record

Born in 64 in Melb .Sadly Melb has become a Cesspool

Mum took me to Walton's to have my photo taken with Santa in 66.

its more an asian city now rather then an Australian city, when l went there everyone was speaking chinese l thought l was in a foreign country

@jamesfrench7299

6 ай бұрын

And I don't like it.

@marthasheilds2446

Ай бұрын

Karma is taking place Australia belongs to the Aborigines not the English and Irish invaders.

OH WOW !!!

If you can identify where the opening panoramic sweep was taken from and when traffic lights flashed amber from late night through to early morning - then you do remember a different Melbourne.

0:32 looks like a shot from On The Beach

Look what we had.

love it, no useless bike lanes!!!!!

Hi. Do you know the copyright status of this footage? Would I be able to use some of it in a short film I am making? Can you help? Jamie

@gumbootnet

3 жыл бұрын

This footage has been lifted from Life in Australia: Melbourne - kzread.info/dash/bejne/hndrppeNj9DFXc4.html

I looked at the footage showing Elizabeth Street looking toward Flinders Street, not a single homeless, violent druggie to be seen! In those days possession of a single “reefer” got you 5 years in the bluestone college in Coburg.

I like to see melbourne how it used to be. The clothes,the cars,the old trams,the buses and the advertising. The good good old days.😊📻🎸☎️

Melbourne used to look so European but now it looks like a Southeast Asian country mixed with some European and American buildings lol

@mr.jamster8414

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah lol, used to have grouse architecture, now it's glass boxes.

@betula2137

Жыл бұрын

The difference isn't so much architecture but due to our adoption of things like US zoning (which is obsolete...but we still have it) EG, Paris has La Defense, but by necessity we've built CBDs on centres due to those zoning restrictions making it that financially the easiest option

@aheat3036

Жыл бұрын

It was a British crown colony back then!… Things started to change during the 1990s.

@mrporsche4236

Жыл бұрын

It was beautiful now its the biggest shithole

@marthasheilds2446

9 ай бұрын

Most of the English people left the UK and invaded Australia for a new life . Because the was miserable in the UK.

My friend worked for ACCMI about a decade ago and his job was to locate film and transfer to digital- I remember that he did a lot of this for them- it was so fascinating to see the rise of commission flats in all the areas (combat the slums of inner city suburbs). Maybe check with ACCMI in Melbourne- re:Copyright.

@johnd8892

Жыл бұрын

Check NFSA Melbourne to see where this came from but in full.

@johnd8892

Жыл бұрын

NFSA original : kzread.info/dash/bejne/hndrppeNj9DFXc4.html

So does the horse (0:28) stop, slow down, do a u-turn or just keep going?

We do need a time machine,more than ever.

Poor Melb, just look at now. Oh for 1966.

Before globalisation.

Decimal currency just started too.

We have definitely regressed as a culture and as a society

A bit like Adelaide in 2024

@ACDZ123

Ай бұрын

Still not as busy

@cgas7344

Ай бұрын

😂

This footage has been lifted from Life in Australia: Melbourne - kzread.info/dash/bejne/hndrppeNj9DFXc4.html

@myuncle666

3 жыл бұрын

Lifted clips from the NFSA video without acknowledgment?

Olden days

Wow, no Asians!..

@hanajinks1044

Жыл бұрын

Yes, by 1976 Frazer had let half of Beirut in.

@Mac-zl4po

Жыл бұрын

Yes. The good old days when Australia was Australia

@HYITHO

Жыл бұрын

@@Mac-zl4po Good old days before the white trash landed here

@marthasheilds2446

9 ай бұрын

​@@Mac-zl4poAustralia belongs to the Aborigines before the English invaded Australia.

@Mac-zl4po

9 ай бұрын

@marthasheilds2446 aboriginals lived like animals. Let's be real

Hay a good one to see is the history of the city of Elizabeth South Australia from nothing in 1955 to now.it was an experimental city of the commonwealth ground up housing,small industrial estates,shopping centres etc shows excellent footage and commentary of story of 10 pound poms the building of now old holden factory etc town planning.excellant nartation 21 minutes long KZread enjoy some good 50s 60s footage australia! Elizabeth was a successful city at first then went on downhill dive to one of Adelaide's most bogan cities and now successfully pulling itself out interesting watch!

@jamiechippett1566

3 жыл бұрын

Another good one to watch is the making of West lakes good 60s 70s footage.

not many fat people before fast food

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

Yes, I remember how rare it was to see a fat person. Now every second person is so out of shape that I don't even register it anymore. Not even the morbidly obese in mobility scooters.

Unrecognisable now. And I don't mean the landmarks.

Before women started dressing like men (1.33 excepted) and getting tattoos. With 100,000 of us born in Asia we were still mostly Australian but Harold Holt was about to change all that for good.

Never seen so much neon

Whys this got the liveleak stamp ahahah

Is there a lock down? There is not much cars on the road.

Is it just me, or is there no sound on this?😳

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

No it's not your speakers, it's archival footage that's visual only, no audio recorded.

@dianavais3361

Ай бұрын

@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 thank you for responding. ☺️ I later stumbled across a longer version with sound.

@dianavais3361

Ай бұрын

@@shanebriggs1039 😄

Ah back in the good old days when roads & streets covered peoples trash they tossed out car windows dog chit on footpaths as you walked to work teen hoods waiting in phone boxes Ah the good old days always fights in pubs

Milkman on horse and cart in 1966

looks like the thames

Hardly any fat people then.

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

Yes! I've noticed this too. I made this observation to my husband the other month. I said it benignly, no offense intended at all. I just remember how rare it was to see fat, out of shape badly (or inappropriately) dressed people back when I was a kid and a teen. Now I'm oblivious to it, it's just so common. Strange isn't it? Why do you think this is?

The milkman was still delivering Milk with Horse and Cart as late as 1966?

@TheMichaelseymour

3 жыл бұрын

even early 70s in some spots ...maybe even mid 70s from memory

@nononsensejohny7525

2 жыл бұрын

Came to Australia in 1973 as a six year oldwith my family. In Camberwell I remember the horses and the manure they often left behind on the street.

@johnd8892

Жыл бұрын

I think the national museum has the last one from Essendon around 1986.

@johnd8892

Жыл бұрын

Correction. As late as 1987. Film of the last one and huge background: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qoRslayPgMfUnKQ.html

@hanajinks1044

Жыл бұрын

We used to live near a dairy in East Doncaster and a horse and cart was still delivering as late as 76...we'd put the milk bottles out and some notes in theneck of the bottle - l found it curious that they money was never stolen.

Excellent time in our history. Did you notice the complete absence of obese people?

jesus could hang ten without a surfboard !

Thank generations of politicians and developers who wrecked our beautiful city. Look, no druggies or homeless people.

How people were dressed no bogans shorts thongs trackie pants and Asians in pyjamas.

I remember even 20 years ago the city would be quiet on Sundays, but no more. It’s now a shit hole

@colliric

Жыл бұрын

That's what happens when you allow everyone to open 7 days a week 24 hours a day.

Maybe British MP Enoch Powell was correct after all in his 1968 'Rivers of Blood' warning. Wasn't just referring to Britain but the West in general. Thanks Dad, Mum, Grandparents, great legacy you left us, Vote for Mainstream parties and this what you get. The electorate since the 70s has alot to answer for.

I don't remember it I wasn't born until 1972

Did that milkman just do a delivery with his horse on autopilot? A self-driving cart?

My dads dad come to Melbourne in 1960 when was 30 as italian migrant,he said all there was is Australia people,the city was clean, streets, building,roads,etc and now he says it's a shit hole,and now i see what he means. He says the Arabs, indians, Asian,black have trashed it, and yet the Aussi do nothing about this invasion of this once peacefull,beautifull city, may he Rip and the older generation are now past on,if only they could see it now, that a disgrace.

How boring.....no students screaming "racist" at everyone, no druggies, no greenies stopping traffic....how did people put up with it?

Melbourne today is a pale version of this footage ! Certain groups have had their way and smothered our city ! Once open streets are reduced to pathways ! Our city is for all to enjoy, not just people who walk and ride push bikes ! The more people that can get access to our city, will come to it, enjoy it and spend their time and money in it ! Melbourne town is for all, this footage is a perfect example of how a city can live and breathe, today it's being choaked !

@andrewreed1329

4 жыл бұрын

Wayne Hauser it was a country town

@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520

3 жыл бұрын

No one smothered Melbourne. It evolved. It's a global city on the planet Earth.

@Mac-zl4po

Жыл бұрын

Pauline Hanson was right. We got invaded and lost our heritage and culture. This video reminds us

@HYITHO

Жыл бұрын

@@Mac-zl4po cry me a river!

@Mac-zl4po

Жыл бұрын

@@HYITHO did I lie

Truly beautiful. If there was 1 place on Earth left like that right now I would move there. One thing you cannot deny is that it was beautiful BECAUSE it's religious, cultural and racial cohesiveness. It was a white christian country at it's peak. But the greediest of people had a problem with this: a rich society needs to be well paid by definition. That's why they preferred to open the floodgates of migration, destroy the culture and hopefully impoverish the society so that they work for nothing, own nothing and are completely tied to and dependent on working for the biggest man. It is very sad what happened to the West. It's a huge waste for the benefit of a few.

We should turn the CBD car free on the weekends

@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293

Ай бұрын

Like Ginza Tokyo does. Such a bustling yet respectful, glamorous peaceful atmosphere there on the pedestrian-only roads on special weekends in Ginza. It always reminds me of Melbourne as a kid. People dress up nicely in Ginza and conduct themselves respectfully and quietly, just like Melbourne once upon a time...oh how times have changed.

Very hard to find some-one who speaks English anymore

@marthasheilds2446

Ай бұрын

Yes everyone speaks English in Australia