This city was found (founded) in 1838, all those old buildings were already there, history is his - story, all lies !

we used to be an economic powerhouse 40 of the last 50 years of labor ended it

Love adelaide left in 1970 live in brisbane now.still think adelaide is a beautiful city

Strong motor bodies, compare them to the thin metal car bodies of today. Much stronger bodies in the 50s.

Thankyou so much for taking me home - left Adelaide in 1974 but it holds so many happy memories and being able to see the city when i was young and also when my parents were small is magic. It has whiled away a whole afternoon while coping with a winter lurgy and being confined to barracks!! I hope these films bring as much joy and comfort to all who view them.

I've bin there in 2003 remerbered me the Kids television 123 hows the light and Seelbach pretty unique.

Wow. Amazing stuff. Love Adelaide ❤

I go to modbury west primary school

Aww I love watching amazing history videos like this, thank you so much for uploading and sharing, greatly appreciated 💕

Look no blacks or Indians Take me back please

44:10 is my favorite part

Tell me I herd rumours from my friend ages ago about a teacher called mr pudeny

Hello to king Edward is that right thankyou for your time and why is that you know raga picking on who thankyou for your time kind regards

I wonder, for the first recording on Corner North Terrace & King William Street (1908). What music and video did you use?

No obesity epistemic back then, no maccas, hungry jacks, kfc etc. People look healthy.

Brisbane was established in 1823 and only had a population of 600,000 by 1962. So the rate of growth up until 1939 in Adelaide is impressive to say the least.

Wow. Love this. Fantastic. Loved the Holden woodville plant especially.i worked at Mitsubishi motors tonsley sites doing magnas veraads diameter for export

Born and raised in Adelaide, no longer there, but 1908 it was well established

Happy Birthday

Thank god someone back in the early part of the 20th century took a camera and filmed this world for posterity keeping forever how towns and people looked back then, irrespective of how they really lived. Just one point about the posters going on about how gorgeous everything was back then (as if they lived in those times) at least one comment rightly revealed only 5% of the richest lived in salubrious areas and shopped on grand streets, and where the huge slums that existed are rarely seen. My own great grandmother who took four of her children from Lancashire to Adelaide in the 1920s, set up a tobacco shop in the poor and tough part of the docks and my few photos of her depict her driving a cart, filled with children, on dirt tracks. I doubt she ever sipped tea from a china cup in one of King William street's fine restaurants or shopped in the few wealthy department stores. Life for most of the working population in Adelaide was poor, tough and hard working and not the lifestyles of characters from Upstairs Downstairs or Anne of Green Gables. They were lucky to get through a long life on the little they had, health permitting without welfare or medical assistance.

Beautiful Adelaide.

Love it, thank you!

ETHAN RECKONS THAT THE LITTLE GIRL IN THE YOU TUBE SAID SHE WAS TALKING ME IN 1918

White history 'Johnny came lately 'where's the real history the black faller yeah u all know 'go back to where u came from lev

Hi Steven, what an amazing collection of films ! I am curious, where did this footage come from ? in particular I am interested in finding any footage of the Willunga Railway. There is a section of 40 seconds from 1:00:40 to 1:01:20 that I would like to share with a historic railway museum group on Facebook, with your permission. Thanks in advance, Douglas

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lmao my friend goes to this school

I am a Croweater (Sth Aussie) living in Qld Born and bred at Elizabeth Fields - still hold Sth Aust close to me heart.

Very beautiful city with awsome peoples, we spent 3 beautiful years there. Best wishes from Kazakhstan.

Great footage! Wish there was more of the Port Adelaide/Semaphore area.

The very first scene says its the corner of North Tce and King William St, I say it is the corner of King William St and Rundle St, you are looking down Rundle St to the East End. The Tabacco shop in the frame later became Darrel Lea Chocolate and now it is Charlesworth Nuts.

Nice one

It’s great to see old Adelaide. But when you put in sound effects like people walking, and clippity clops of horse’s hooves is just MENTAL! And the music? Good lord! Just the footage would have been great.... not some made up shit.

Trams look so out of place with horse and carriages

Horses dissappearing quick from the roads starting 1925

Great video. Hard to believe the workers did not wear protective breathing gear when spraying the cars....

Thank you for uploading

I want to be like Mahomad Allum, the man slays

Now the Woodville Plant has been demolished for a Bunnings and Harvey Norman . Women buy the Korean SVU's cars now to go shopping for chinese made products .

The city looks like it existed long before the people arrived. How could there be such grand well designed and magnificent buildings and wide boulevards in a dusty old pioneer town? Many cities in Australia and the US are quite mysterious when examined critically. Are we being told the truth about our history?

Wow! It hasn't changed a bit!

Shithole

That was brilliant to watch, having grown up and lived most of my life in Adelaide arriving in 1970 - I remember lots of stories my grade 7 Teacher, Mrs Fatchen, the wife of the late Children’s Author and Columnist for the Advertiser News Paper, Max Fatchen, absolutely wonderful people R.I.P. 🙏🏽🕊💞💙 Mrs Jean Fatchen told the class lots of stories about the days of horse and cart, when Main North Road was a dirt road, the Big old Elephant house in Smithfield, she took us on more excursions in one year, than I had been on in all my years at school combined! to explore all lovely places of Adelaide from Beltana in the Flinders Ranges, to Birdwood Museum, to ride a steam train to Belair National Park, the art exhibitions, the Adelaide Museum, the Philharmonic Orchestra at the Adelaide Town Hall, the Torrens, the Festival Theatre for plays, the Choir we all sung in she led (whether we liked it or not) lol 😂 I can’t believe how much she packed in to 1 year, rain hail or shine! And that doesn’t include all the weekend trips her and Max would take a few of us wayward kids all packed into 2 Volvos, up to Whispering wall pouring with rain, fishing, or just drives in the countryside, making Crab apple Jam from the trees in their garden, their home was a home of wonder, a collection of the most beautiful and unique things, all in perfect disarray 😁 ~ all out of the goodness of their own heart, God Bless their Souls 💗 That wouldn’t be allowed these days, yet that year of school was the best year of my whole schooling life. I even went back to tell her and Max, still in the same Post War house in Smithfield after all these years in 2000, they were so thrilled I went to visit them. Not to mention all she taught us about the rest of the world, where we would map the different Countries weather forecast each morning, I never would have known these places existed. Every year her class always had Sponsor children from India and various countries, every Friday we would go around to all the classrooms and collect coin donations, it was called cent-a-week, everybody contributed when they could, how much they could, she would run raffles for everyone who donated would get a raffle ticket and once a month we would draw the winning ticket, the more you donated the more tickets you got, it was a real hit! The sponsor children would send gifts, photos, art work and letters about their school and what they were learning, they were able to attend because we all paid for their schooling. I remember they sent some skeletonise leaves that were beautifully and meticulously hand painted, we would raffle them off too. It was wonderful after all these years to see Mrs Fatchen’s old stories come to life in this film.. 🙏🏽🇦🇺🙋🏼‍♀️💜

Hi Steven This is great! would you be ok for us to share a clip of this on a clients facebook page re Oakbank racing footage at the 13 minute mark? Happt to name you as the source :) Sars

Laughing at the comment about the tomboy who will be wanting the vote next. Loved seeing the early footage of the Great Eastern Steeplechase. Thanks for making this available.

Its like a different world, yet its our city.

I'd love to see someone retrace this side by side in 2021

It is fantastic to watch Adelaide in the early years. particularly the trams traveling along North Terrace and King William streets. Our present politicians should have watched this video to see that tracks could be laid from King William into North Terrace.

I was happy to see what adelaide looked like in 1900s to 1950s as I was born in the 1970s it was cool to me

Hello to all that went to Dover Gardens infant @ primary schools hope your all doing great. From Dawn Bristol st from 65 to 71. 😊