A Melbourne Summer Evening 1989/90 CBD. Footage courtesy of Steven Pam.

A Melbourne Summer Evening 1989/90 CBD. Footage courtesy of Steven Pam.
Filmed on Panasonic M7 VHS camcorder.
Featuring the lift core of 120 Collins Street, a saxophonist on the steps of the GPO, being approached for money on Bourke Street Mall, a green Z-class tram in "The Met" livery, a signwriter, Block Arcade, police walking past the still under construction Sportsgirl Centre (now Collins234), and the Manchester Unity Building.
See full video without music added on Steven Pam’s KZbin channel.
/ @stevenpam
* I spent a few hours trying to find suitable music to add to Steven’s terrific footage from 35 years ago. Not sure I got it right with Simple Man by Noiseworks, so I tried Young Years by Dragon. I think the original full video with the old sounds of Melbourne without the tunes on top is of course best.
Cheers Gezza

[@Gezza1967]

A Melbourne Summer Evening 1989/90 CBD. Footage courtesy of Steven Pam. Filmed on Panasonic M7 VHS camcorder. Featuring the lift core of 120 Collins Street, a saxophonist on the steps of the GPO, being approached for money on Bourke Street Mall, a green Z-class tram in "The Met" livery, a signwriter, Block Arcade, police walking past the still under construction Sportsgirl Centre (now Collins234), and the Manchester Unity Building. See full video without music added on Steven Pam’s KZbin channel. youtube.com/@stevenpam?si=kLDsamI63WbrWSpa * I spent a few hours trying to find suitable music to add to Steven’s terrific footage from 35 years ago. Not sure I got it right with Simple Man by Noiseworks, so I tried Young Years by Dragon. I think the original full video with the old sounds of Melbourne without the tunes on top is of course best. Cheers Gezza

[@danrobinson572]

Fantastic video

[@TheAxelay]

I bet I was there!!!?! I had to be there, I did everything I could to wag school from 1988 onwards as a 10 year old, and I don't regret it and I'd do it again and again but only in that time. I almost felt alive seeing that melbourne again. It's SO alive filled with warmth, vibrancy and sunlight. The sun never shines there now...I miss this so much, who'd knew that within 35 years that it'd all be gone. I can't bear to go down there now no longer than an 1 hour before my anxiety kicks in then I have too leave. But lets remember this melbourne, the once sunny, alive garden state sigh....

[@davidharlem6824]

So it’s not just me that feels that way. Your words are sooo true.

[@johnneill9740]

I feel EXACTLY the same way about Melbourne today vs back then, I was 17/18 years old and going to the city was something you looked forward to, the city today is a bleak, cold and dark .. foreign place, it also gives me anxiety and I just have to leave.

[@petergrundy8081]

Priceless footage belongs in the national archive

[@boyandcatmum]

I used to go to the city every day in 89/90's. It was always really good with no problems whatsoever.

[@travisvanderberg1174]

This was when l was going from primary school to high school... good times... but enjoying the weather in Brisbane these days lol

[@jena.alexia]

That Australia is gone now. I miss it so much. 😢

[@mrporsche4236]

Rip melbourne. Gone forever

[@tiffanysmith8460]

I going to be called a racist for sure, but we have a generation of immigrants who have zero loyalty to the country that has adopted them. The difference between pride and genuine love for their hometown and the bleak disrespect of today. Hopefully THEIR children will love the country they were born in. (Of course my parents were from somewhere else, and I am fiercely loyal to OUR Melbourne!) So grateful for these memories. Thank you. 🫶🏽🌹❤️

[@xr6lad]

@marthasheilds2446 Yawn. Maybe we go back to the days of no language, no metal tools, no crops, no intelligence, subsistence living.

[@jena.alexia]

​@marthasheilds2446You can always pack up and go back to your ancestral homeland if it bothers you that much.

[@plassy3138]

Signwriters! We used to hire a sign writer to paint on our shop window too. Long gone the days of skilled workers, just print and stick now.

[@RalphArchbold-yn4vh]

I was a signwriter then and was never out of work .. Halcyon days indeed god how I miss it ...and I was married to the best girl in Australia

[@davidthomson7847]

Thanks for posting the Peter Allen news segment. Much appreciated. God Bless.

[@Gezza1967]

@@davidthomson7847 cheers kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKnNiqxvppaZoJIsi=11qW7sZUazhgPCCO

[@jennyeland5357]

Thanks Geeza. Where would our memories be without you😘

[@danrobinson572]

Fantastic video

[@guild93]

Omg I remember the guy at :17 who drove people around in that thing, he gave us a lift to the MCG once in the early 90s

[@NevNevNev8655]

His name is Woody and l use to see him at the races quite often

[@gorgen23]

Fit as hell he was

[@cckcollins3636]

Same here , he was a good egg , let us yell at ppl from the safety of the cart lol

[@louiskats5116]

Oh Melbourne, Melbourne Melbourne when you shined like a diamond, no graffiti, lots of pride, easy to get around, How the mighty has fallen

[@kanga1234567]

Now it's a cesspit

[@krakajak67]

I was so in love with Melbourne, truly like a real love affair. But my heart has been broken, and I cannot see that once shining city in the same way anymore. I do my best to avoid it, it’s now soulless and empty to me.

[@JamesStaaks8182]

Same here mate, now I avoid it like the plague

[@Paige_Edgley]

💯​@@JamesStaaks8182

[@darylcumming7119]

The fashion.

[@cudgee7144]

👍👍👍Haven't seen you posting for a while.

[@chezzachezza7325]

My days ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

[@glenda.mcclean]

Where're all the international students and food delivery bikes???

[@gorgen23]

Please no

[@JohnShinn1960]

I fail to understand the loops but I still enjoyed it. Howdy do... 👍🤠 🇺🇲

[@Meridian24]

When the police didn't look like a paramilitary organisation.

[@Australian_Made]

👍👍🇭🇲

[@IvanDalmatinac]

When Melbourne felt like Melbourne before the city was filled with students/political aggitators with pockets full of yuan for the the university campuses.

[@iDrive123]

Before Chairman Dan destroyed the place.

[@maxrpm2215]

When on Saturday's at 12 the city would close no Sunday trading

[@contentcatnip]

Don't you just love it when racists reminisce about a time when Melbourne was more white and homogenous than the present moment. You know...back when there was no culture other than old recycled pale stale and male British dullness. 😂 Before that bro...well before that it was Aboriginal land.

[@alexinanalogue2645]

@@contentcatnipAwwwww bless you.

[@chezzachezza7325]

I work on the 2nd floor of Block Arcade Elizabeth Street is horrible now 😫 😑

[@glencoe1266]

Melbourne had a unqiue a feel to it in the 80s and 90s. Looking at it now there are truly Melbourne things from this era that are iconic, down to the white hats and way the cops dressed. And it had the right amount of population. Kennett started the rot and laid the seeds for the labor party to then come in and change the city for the worst. I don't care that I now have the option of many types of Chinese soy ducks or Korean dumplings or even rotti or naan options, I simply wasn't asked if I wanted to be a foreigner in an over populated new city called Chindia.

[@xr6lad]

No. Labor started the rot. Why do people have amnesia about the incredible debt problem they created. That started the problem. And they’ve done it again. Every time Labor govern they’ve left the state financially crippled for decades.

[@rogerigez21]

@@xr6ladexactly, Kennett was the reaction to John Cain and Joan Kirner screwing the state over in the late 80s/early 90s

[@rogerigez21]

Melbourne was so much better before Dan Andrews

[@kenouif]

Better without the music mate. Wrecks the footage.

[@Gezza1967]

@@kenouif I agree 👍😅

[@Ak-kr7yn]

That song is a clear Rip off of new order.