Time marches on but one thing that will never change is that older folk will pine for the days of their youth and call it a better age, not realizing that what they really miss is how it felt to be young and unburdened by judgements such as these. I'm sure there were those at the time who felt the same way about an even earlier age.

thats the brisbane i know

When did the Eagle St riverside get developed? It looks like the disused wharves there in 82, but I know by late 86 when I first visited it was a well developed, bustling hub of eateries.

I left school 1982, I remember wagging school that year and going to the cinemas in the city… all gone now

Yep Australia is a completely different place now. What have they done to our country?

The "brown snake" looked a lot cleaner back then.

Thank you "Can Do Campbell" for fucking up King George Square.👍

Back in the days of the Australia without out all the bullshit and wokes.

@THE BRISBANE CHANNEL on KZbin has done a great video showing what some of these locations look like today, go check him out. ( Australian city's TRANSFORMATION | Brisbane THEN & NOW part III - 40+ years of change).kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWbPeox4ipmNeac

Back when Brisbane made sense.

Sunday morning in Hay st now is full of druggies and homeless people stinks of urine 😔

10.15 Error , thats Hindmarsh square , Jasmin best Indian food .

What's the music?

Well some things never change lovely video mate

I lived in Brisbane in the early 80s. It was a beautiful small city and very clean with wonderful people. Returned again in 2010 and it was not so great.

The two houses at 3:06 were underneath the Storey Bridge in Kangaroo Point. Next to them on the right you can just see the immigration detention centre and it's barbed wire fence. Me and my friends used to Squat in those houses in 1988 when everyone in Kangaroo Point was evicted prior to massive redevelopment. Crazy place to live. Used to sit on those back steps in the morning and above me some maniac would be hanging under the bridge pop-rivetting.

Thank you for posting this and thank the algorithm for bringing it to my attention. I actually feel homesick ❤️‍🩹 I grew up in Adelaide and left in 89 but I visited the city regularly for the next decade. Now I live an hour away and work in the suburbs but rarely venture into the city and usually just to change bus. But I actually remember it exactly like this. I'd expect to find things in the same places. And I still get a surprise when I catch a tram and it's not an old red with timber step. Do I need to move on and let go? I'll hang onto those memories thanks all the same 💖🥹

3:20 -Sid Plummer spruiking outside Hoyts. I worked with him at El Cabello Blanco 1987. Great bloke. Shame you couldn't drop one of those 40 or so shots of the Esplanarde/ Langley water-gulping wasteland and put in maybe a WACA, Bus Station or St Mary's one, haha.

Hi. There's some great shots here. It's great that they're all from the same time period. I'd love to use them for my next Brisbane Then & Now video (with full credit, of course). Is this something you'd consider?

I lived there at the time. Really miss those days.

Kia ora e hoa (Hello my friend) From aotearoa New Zealand

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The Clips are Great, but the Music is Ok, but way tooo Loud tho.

Song name?

I think Brisbane was at its peak beauty in 1982. Just the right balance between the old and new, the big and the small, and general uniformity with the occasional oddity. Now it's a mess of overbuilt individualism driven by wealth idolisation. Functionally it is vastly improved, but at the cost of aesthetics and a sense of purpose.

Anyone know where that totem pole was. Don't ever remember seeing it.

When Joh and his corrupt mob ran everything …

Yeah. The city has changed. No longer the cozy friendly place it used to be. Now like Sydney and Melbourne, big, brassy and cold.

It's nice to see so many of these buildings I see every day in the context they were built in, or in a context where they weren't crowded out as much. I was a 7-year old kid in 1982, unaware I'd ever call Brisbane or Australia my home, but I remember the vibe of the 80s and the world in the pictures seems familiar. To all the people saying it was so much better than now: I'm sure you're aware that you're parroting almost everyone in history ever, right? If you truly believe that, give some thought to what happened to the world and this city, who was responsible for that and what they did, and whether your behaviour today isn't doing the same to the world of the future that will have today's kids and young people look back and say "I miss Brisbane in 2023..."

That was such a nice time I wish we could bring it back. I came to Australia from Germany in 1978 and got my citizenship in the town hall in 1982. Lived in a flat in Kedron and drove an XC Falcon 500 station wagon. Now I don't like Brisbane any more.

WOW That was amazing to see how much Townsville & Mount Isa has changed in the last 44 years, I moved to Mount Isa in 2008 and moved to Townsville in 2010, and moved to Ingham at the end of 2022. I love it here, so peaceful and scenic, surrounded by mountains, waterfalls and rainforests, God’s Country 🙏🏽💗Jesus is returning very very soon ~ Be ready for the Rapture 🙏🏽💕☁️☁️🌟

the King Dick is amazing, I have 11" KD made in England, as well as a 6" King Dick adjustable, both vintage tools are now being repurposed as twisting tools for blacksmithing. Thanks for showing your vintage tools.

Lots of things I'd forgotten. But something now extinct and distinctly Oz at 5:51(bottom right). Midnight metallic blue Sandman shaggin wagon with mags and the rear flap door up in the trolling position. So funny. It probably had the "if this van's rockin" sticker on the bumper as well. Different era.

Thank you! Love this trip down memory lane Adelaide was so good back then....

This is the innocence of Brisbane, before the modern world caught up to us and Campbell Newman turned King George Square into a drab barren concrete wasteland. He and the Liberal Council must be so proud.😞😞😞😞😞

Used to work in a little shop at the base of lennons called cut price cosmetics… loved it 🥰 I remember the beautiful girl Marnie who worked outside our shop in a little flower stand 🌻 such simple beautiful times 😉😁👍❤️❤️🧚‍♀️

i also remember being in that church building stone off my nut at that time ,,,,i also remember being completely paranoid coz i had too much at that time don't even think about that stuff now ...

i was in hervey bay at this time , but part of this i would have lived in the valley for about six months then took off to perth ...

It’s almost unrecognisable without Stefan’s Needle

I grew up in brisy. This was my last year there. This is what i miss when i visit.

King George Square 😢

1982, I attended West End State School. So many special memories of the Brisbane. King George Square always lighting up with the coloured fountain. I still remember when the AMP building was the tallest building in the city alongside the old MLC building. Go GenX

Love this pix at 11.28 a lot Kick ass towing on motorway ready to serve nite and day whit skyscrapper behind So rockin like picture Inspire me right now to listen fully "" Powerage "" icon's ac dc 1978 album Perth still so great in 2023 folk's annd i hope God give my chance to visitthis Paradise called WA May God bless and protect Perth city , theirs citizen's and bizness Patrick from Montreal city, Qc Canada

A beautiful little town . Have always enjoyed my visits there .

A much smaller city then, but some landmarks virtually unchanged eg City of Perth building.

Born in raised in Brisbane. Stuck in DUMB PERTH atm. There is so much feel to Brisbane. So many memories. What screwed my life up is a few things but one is a dumb medical condition that's crippled me to this day. I just wish I had a chance at a normal life and ALL my years was still in Brisbane/QLD!!!

I was born in Adelaide in '63 and lived in Blackwood and then later Scott Creek. In 1980 I was doing HSC (12th yr matric). In 1981 I joined the army. I loved Adelaide then and like returning and wandering around but I do miss the redhens with the doors and windows open, Balfours blueberry pies, all the fantastic hobby shops, comic shops, the fifty or so book shops, art and poster shops, the second hand book shops, the music shops, all of them hidden in little malls and alleyways and passages. I used to love Fitches Joke shop with its rows of rubber frankenstein masks, pranks and magic tricks. Now every shop sells handbags, shoes, makeup and clothes. No more blueberry pies and redhens, boring as hell!

Used to live in Northbridge in the early 80's, back then like Freo it was deemed a dive. The 87 America's Cup sure changed all that.

Forgot to show a church carpark on Sunday

Back when nature controlled our land and skies, thank you it was a great flash back to normality.