Remember When #1- Looking back on the past from 'Reflection Soft Rock- Collection -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWitmGibnK5_fac

The background music sounds like an instrumental of Cyndi Lauper's Time after Time

St Vincent’s boys home and Marist Brothers Parramatta (in Westmead) are in the background.

It was great shopping in Church street until a truck load of sheep would pass through, heading north or south. This was before it was a mall & any bypasses such as James Ruse Drive.

Romantic

Most beautiful

Now...THAT'S my Parra...! ✌

Was this on the site of the current Westmead hospital?

Honestly, Parramatta was a normal area for me, but after going there several times and seeing the beautiful towers and the elegant and clean shopping center, I liked it and found it an upscale area .👍🌹🏭🏩

Fantastic i lived in Parramatta years ago a little light background music would have topped it off.

I grew up in Parramatta during those years - I'd forgotten it was possible to water-ski along that part of the river in the park. The river used to regularly flood after reasonably heavy rain, in that part up to the weir (closing the low-level crossing near the-then hospital).

Unbelievable !!!

Did Mr Andrews live at 17 The Park ? If so, I went to school with his son (I think).

Wasn't life simple then, and didn't we know how to have fun.

The brown/red Bedford truck with the Grand United Hospital Rebates Fund banner at 1:18 is proudly sitting in our shed at home. This is a very rare 1938 WS model Bedford truck and, at the time this film was taken, belonged to a monumental stonemason from Flemington.

I had to turn the muzak off, but that is great.

When this section of the river is this low it usually means the floodgates have been opened, www.google.com/maps/@-33.813274,151.0097597,3a,61.3y,79.54h,91.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sn7Pw-qSijEdZGEWw1des6A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Westmead Speedway.. old Parramatta showground off Hawkesbury Road. Spectators would get sprayed with stones and dust as the cars raced past. I went to a show there once they even had showbags. Was lika a small version of the Royal Easter show at Moore Park. 1:38 tall building in the background is still there. www.google.com/maps/@-33.8069357,150.9878392,3a,28.5y,240.64h,91.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEpOGCoZN3yquEboUSp5fZg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Now that is MY Parra..........

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Thanks for uploading this. More innocent simple days. I wasn't born yet, but it was great to see the opening of Parra Baths where I used to walk every weekend from Mays Hill in the summer months -- me and my fellow 7yr old mate, with his 5yr old brother, just the three of us (until Wenty Baths opened in 1965).

I don't think I went. I'd left PHS still in 5th Form a month before, and was working in a bank in Homebush (to help out my parents) and so if it was a weekend I probably would've been lazing around or having band rehearsal at home. (Saw Jethro Tull at Horden Pavillion Sydney approx 3 months before this.)

I can just remember it like that. (Didn't grow much until the mid-1970's, and then with bloody big eyesores like Westfields.)

Wonderful to see this. It brought back memories of my 1950s childhood.

Its now gone new stadium is growing all the way to O'Connell St

Parramatta Noir - Love it!

I'll keep watching this clip again and again.

and now to be closed forever by our State Government .. so sad..