so nice to see it before the chinese...they way it used to be.

nineteen seventy five cars.

Wow, that's a ZJ/ZK Fairlane... I remember that dashboard! Actually I believe it's a ZK as it has the plastic button on the T bar. Or it might even be an FD LTD.

I was probably working in the camera shop in Shoppingtown as you drove past. Great to see that urban history.

I grew up in Bulleen in 1984 , just finished my HSC at Marcellin College- your video details how I remembered Doncaster (Shopping town) and Box Hill. In fact, my first ever paid job was working at Doncaster cinemas! I was there for the opening- Mad Max 2 and Puberty Blues were the first movies shown there. Thanks for the memories!

Holy cow! What a gem of a home video! I was 19yo at the time and living in Blackburn, but you drove past Landale St in Box Hill Sth (just before turning into Canterbury Rd). We used to live down the end of that street (cnr Clydesdale St). Doncaster Shoppingtown & Box Hill were my go-to places. There's bugger-all traffic! Fun, carefree days when Melbourne was still marvellous. Oh, for a time-machine! *as a side note, I almost got busted by cops at the multi-storey Shoppingtown carpark with my girlfriend whilst 'parked' in my Mum's Datsun 1200 coupe! Good times.

I can’t help but noticed the lack of vandalism and graffiti - makes me sad :-(

3:00, those twin cinemas. '80s gold

Wow westfield has changed so much but I still recognise that tower from my daily commute 😂

A lost world. Thanks for uploading

You drive past my old house in Macedon Road at the start of this video

This is really good. So precious to preserve memories of a better time in Melbourne. Unfortunately Melbourne doesn't look the same anymore. Box hill looks horrible now. So does Doncaster. I've lived in the Doncaster area for over 40 years and this is awesome to how the place was back then.👍🥰

2:40 Westfield SC Doncaster 4:10 Cnr Station st & Whitehorse Rd

No me cambies de tema,

exactly how I remember it before joining the RAAF in 1985. Been back a few times and Melbourne just scares the hell out of me now.

Table moth

5:46... Oh can we wish to fuel to cost $0.465 as compared to today.

Thanks Gavin do you have any films from around the pines shopping centre at this time in the 80s would love to see thank you

Compare the amount or lack of traffic compared to 2022!

School or community-based athletics were always a thing back in the 1980's or even the early 90's here?! I've always liked them and wanted to take part in them but I never could because I would tire out and cough when I tried to run. Only decades later did I find out that I suffered from Dyspnea which was unheard of back in that time...I still have it but am much more healthier and working on it constantly...Dyspnea was never known in that time sadly....

6:08 The Amoco is now a BP! :)

What’s interesting is that a lot has changed in Doncaster since then such as the cinema being rebuilt with a new multi story car park underneath it while there’s a Cole’s supermarket where Kmart used to be with a massive food court above it! Also this would of been before the 1988-1991 renovation of the shopping centre in Doncaster! :)

This is great footage!

Gavin it feels like you knew exactly what you were doing in 84 .. like you knew how important what you documented is now. If only we could go back to those brilliant simpler cleaner days.

Wow! Let’s just say that Australia in 1984 looks and would probably smell a lot better than Chinatown in 2022🤮

Now the area is known as Little Beijing.

Be carefully.

That’s amazing to see my hometown back in the 80’s!! Westfield was there! Didn’t know it’s been around so long. Wish I was around at that time

Went past where I was brought up. 512 Station Street,Box Hill. There was the infamous Greta's Milk Bar directly opposite us, and another one about 100m up on the same side of the road as us. Amazing to think there were two milk bars so close together.

Box Hill central was completed 1987, looks like things were well under way even in 1984

Great Video Mate

Westfield has changed so much, but box hill seems the same

Today looks a lot better

Ivan millat

Brilliant!

OMG how the traffic has changed, I grew up in Blackburn and I visit my elderly parents there often. The traffic around the area is now chaos, miss the old days

amazing ... what model of car was she driving?

WHen Petrol 4as 46.5 cents per litre.

None of those ugly looking yellow food delivery bikes.

Wow. Incredible. Thanks for posting

Great video Gavin Bring's back so many memorie's would be good if you had a 80's video on a Bulleen Sunday Drive .

This video is depressing, I miss the old days

Cheers for putting this up very cool indeed. Would you happen to know the make,year and model of the car which you were filming from? 82' Fairlane?

amazing :)

SO COOL..... Cheers Gavin

46 cents for petrol whooo

wow!! Box Hill certainly has changed! as has "Shoppo"!!! I grew up in Blackburn so remember all of this!

Rats... I really wish you filmed the whole drive down Tram Road, over the old bridge, past the BMX track in Eram reserve, before that whole Eastern Freeway was made, and then up Station Street through Box Hill North to where you actually started filming Box Hill... I really would have loved to see that again before it all changed forever. Really pains me to think of what that whole area has become as it's really difficult to reminisce about the past when so few remnants of that past are still in existence. Still, it was great seeing the old Doncaster Shoppingtown that I grew up with again after so many years, so thank you very much for that!

If only the traffic was as good now! I remember the area very well.

Awesome video you drove right past my house :)