Adelaide Moving Memories 1908-1959

[@heatherhall3452]

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.. 🙏🏽🇦🇺🙋🏼‍♀️💜

[@robcheerful]

Great SA history and cultural notes. Thank you for sharing.

[@novasmum474]

Thank you so much for sharing this film, I loved watching our beautiful city in years gone by, I could watch this over and over again. I really enjoyed the Christmas pageants, they were awesome and certainly more original and entertaining than they are nowadays,

[@davidtapp3950]

I grew up in Adelaide during the 50s and 60s. It nice to see how the city was.

[@dosai5094]

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

[@СветланаДятчина-й2ф]

Спасибо за этот прекрасный документальный фильм! Было интересно прикоснуться к той жизни, которая была до тебя, посмотреть, как менялась мода и город. Боже, храни Аделаиду - Родину моих внуков!!!

[@user-ug5hd6sj2i]

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.

[@petercoster7407]

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

[@foleyartist62]

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.

[@Ibadkhan]

I see a lot of viewers say stuff like "oh simple day. Good old days and etc" but trust me , the people who will be watching our lifestyles after 100 years will praise our days. It's the world going worse and worse day by day. So enjoy the moment you are living in and appreciate it. Peace

[@jimmyohara2601]

Yeah, I don't get it. Having such lowly opinions of an era/time they didn't exist, live in nor experienced. hmmm 🤔👀🙄😐

[@Paisly17]

All of these people are probably related to us as we are watching our family history without even knowing it. If only we knew who they were 😢

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

hence the social distancing campaign.

[@channelsixtysix066]

Its like a different world, yet its our city.

[@serenequeen8973]

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

[@steveosborn9709]

Pretty certain the opening scene is actually corner of King William St and Rundle St, not North Terrace.

[@melaniejackson9411]

I agree - Beehive on left hand corner (still present) & road would be too narrow to be North Terrace.

[@Paisly17]

Steve Osborn yes def agree obviously wrong

[@barrydale9013]

I completely agree

[@gardeningdianne]

You are definitely correct. Rundle Street runs parallel to North Terrace. At no point does it meet North Terrace at 90 degrees.

[@tarzan9022]

Isnt it Rundel Mall... and im from Shitsville Melbourne victoria Australia Western Suburbs... See More.

[@skepticismishealthy3443]

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

[@gardeningdianne]

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.

[@gheffz]

Love it, thank you!

[@MarkWhich]

Simple times where it seemed no one was in a hurry, unlike our busy multi-tasking stressful life of today.

[@jimmyohara2601]

Simple times ?? Yeah right (wrong actually). Manual labour & hard labour, what's simplistic about that ?? hmmm 🤔👀🙄😐

[@coolcoconuts4453]

Everyone's saying Adelaide changed for the worse, and yes there is a lot of meth use it's still the 5th most liveable city in the entire world and it's still proud of it's history

[@iamshotty]

I wouldn't live any where else in the world (other than maybe Tassie... Or Stirling Scotland:) and I am well travelled. I LOVE SA.

[@francespowell6923]

There's drug use of various flavours all over the world, and it's actually not that hard to stay away from meth-heads.

[@jimmyohara2601]

@@iamshotty I wouldn't live anywhere else, other than ?? You can't have it both ways dude. Hmmm 🤔👀🙄😐☹️🤪.

[@iamshotty]

@ James O'Hara - Who says I can't have it both ways? You? You're the rule maker now? You're not the boss of me, and I am entitled my opinions. Pft. Don't tell me - you're part of the 'WOKE' crowd - or a Millennial....

[@jimmyohara2601]

@@iamshotty you so full of hot wind & empty too. Oh yeah, you can't have it both ways. That's full of it then. Hmmm 🤔👀🙄😐☹️🤪👎.

[@jamesbarker4054]

Great footage

[@hungrydevil8075]

Wow. Amazing stuff. Love Adelaide ❤

[@ColinVanderheide]

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

[@JohnPereira-nl7hu]

And you moved to Queensland. I get it.

[@alpatriot6227]

What interest me is who built all of this infill structures ? A lot of very impressive buildings back in the 1900 even 1850 s ? Great footage in joyed it very much thanks for sharing!

[@ruppellsbooden8917]

They must of made so many bricks

[@heatherhall3452]

@@ruppellsbooden8917 - 🤣😂🤣😂 they had so many they gave some to people for brains 🧠 🧱

[@heatherhall3452]

Infer structure 😉

[@ruppellsbooden8917]

@@heatherhall3452 hmm maybe that's why there's heavy metals in the water supply

[@joboon2840]

Exactly Al Patriot. Look to Tartaria and mud flood. These buildings are mind blowing flf for Adelaide, I agree.

[@MarkHenstridge]

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.

[@TiffyVella1]

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.

[@teepeeX]

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

[@joyleenweng7535]

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

[@andrewlambert7446]

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

[@helenellsworth9556]

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

[@pommygeezer9309]

Beautiful Adelaide.

[@veenaga71]

Thank you for uploading

[@theworm972]

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

[@pawelsawicki7003]

Nice one

[@rb6725]

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

[@pitvondone]

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

[@paradiseoctagon21794]

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

[@SuSmallville]

Horses dissappearing quick from the roads starting 1925

[@RangaTurk]

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.

[@ROYALWAND]

there was a real sense of `` community `` back then --- alas all gone now!

[@bedrockau6164]

Nah it's still the same they just had horses

[@heatherhall3452]

Totally - too many self seeking Narcissists in the world now, and worse, it’s safer to keep to yourself on most accounts - sad but true

[@jamesgovett2501]

Notice the car @ around 1.40 the automobile was in its infancy @ this time in Australia& it’s not hard to see as per its speed against the horse drawn vehicles as to its future!

[@gerald712liberalswan4]

Thank You James Govett, for mentioning Australia, Cheers!

[@Dawn5048Batchelor]

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

[@Dave.S.TT600]

thanks Steven!

[@michaelpage7691]

It saddens me to see such a beautiful city changed so much, and in my opinion not for the best.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

U.N. Lima Declaration 1975.

[@heatherhall3452]

Pity the weather sucks, too hot & dry, too freezing cold, the tropics is wayyyy better for the weather 🧉😉🌴⛅️🌦

[@michaelpage7691]

Hannah Zen . Hannah...you've got to be joking..lived in Darwin, Cairns and Noosa and hated the constant humidity which rotted clothes, furniture and me. Prefer the changes. As they say, " A change is as good as a holiday"

[@ausrm001]

I love how pedestrians casually mingle with the traffic .

[@sarahcoligan4646]

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

[@heatherhall3452]

It’s in the public domain you can share it where you want, I don’t know how your going to share just a portion of it though 🤔💭

[@BD-cb9mn]

44:10 is my favorite part

[@user-wf4gs2jp6k]

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

[@jiehamilton9223]

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

[@mattymatt2323]

I want to be like Mahomad Allum, the man slays

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

Have to say rather surprising for the day. Wouldn't have thought a mixed marriage and one of his faith would have been so happily publicized :)

[@jiehamilton7305]

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

[@divyanshiyadav2691]

👍👍

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

children need to see this so they can see what is actually going on.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

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 .

[@blahblah6649]

Incredibly sanitised view of Adelaide. All of the ugly slums (of which their were dozens and dozens at the time, were never viewed. Not at all a realistic depiction of what life was life for the average adelaidian at the time, which ranged from so/so to truly appalling. Only the richest five percent of the population lived in the housing shown.

[@Dave.S.TT600]

perhaps, but people could still use the many parks and have access to the surroundings and weather. Not many people getting stabbed in the neck or fined up the arse by speed cameras. Pretty golden era, i'd say

[@davidfotheringham2480]

Yes life up to the early 1970s could be surprisingly tough even in Adelaide. I recall suburbs like Parkside and Beulah Park, parts of Norwood ..all in the desirable eastern suburbs... were very run down and verging on slums in the 1960s. Hard to believe now. We were comfortable but really Adelaide in the early 60s was a pretty Spartan existence.. no fast food, yoghurt was unknown. Most books apart from the Holden owners manual were banned...roads were deserted by 7pm.. hotels shut at 6.30pm. City deserted by 12.30pm on Saturdays... no petrol available on weekends. The only food outlet open late was the Pancake Kitchen in the city ..Lovely !! Still I had a lovely childhood here in the 50s and 60s... so lucky to be born here

[@MickeyGee73]

@@Dave.S.TT600 Any era is golden when viewed through gold coloured glasses..

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

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?

[@nicegan8902]

Lol what the hell are you talking about? Only a handful of buildings exist from before the 1860's and they are well documented.

[@joboon2840]

Marcus, you know, as I do. It’s quite obvious when you observe the architecture. 👏👏 We have and continue to be lied too.

[@ricardodelzealandia6290]

Wow! It hasn't changed a bit!

[@katrinaefstratiou1275]

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

[@pyramidschema8668]

Yet average life expectancy was 60 years. Expensive food and manual labour might make for an attractive waistline but not a long life.

[@Squidz66]

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.

[@manzwatson9146]

Calm down, old fella!

[@harleydavidson8380]

Look no blacks or Indians Take me back please

[@aussiegamer7001]

Trams look so out of place with horse and carriages

[@JohnJohn-zn8ib]

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