Around Malta in 1989

[@MrRodmic]

We took the film :) well actually my father and a friend of his, everyone is alive and kicking only the car we are driving ceased to exist which was a VW Beetle 1969 model!

[@macayers]

Albeit not 1989 but a little over 20 years later, many of those views and roads around Sliema and Tigne are so familiar having been my regular morning walks... Sort of miss that but not the thunderous summer noise levels living just there!!!

[@realadamsandler1991]

cannot be, number plates are the pre-europe variant, which ceased to exist in 1997.

[@lucilleclackson6410]

Malta has changed so much. It's my favorite county.

[@2BLUEBLOP]

at 0:02 isTower Road. And I believe the Eden Rock hotel where we stayed in 1976 is torned down. We walked there last week.

[@fishfire_2999]

You live in Malta ?

[@danrudge5443]

I went there in 1992 when i was 9 years old.. we stayed in apartments above "The cotton club". I've tried to find that building on Google earth/street view and i can't find the building.. I guess it's not called the cotton club anymore but i would really like to find it and go through a trip down memory lane

[@Cellsolid]

Enjoyed watching this. Many areas have remained the same, except for some changes in the road furniture and pavement infrastructure. The St Julian's area seems to have changed the most - places like McDonalds were obviously not yet open, but the area near Saddles is almost identical to now. As we can see, Paceville had already started developing into a nightlife centre, with Axis, Styx and the bowling place already having opened. Much of Sliema looks the same - apartments had already become numerous along the seafront. Qui-si-Sana is also very similar, especially to how it was before the recent Tigne Point developments.

[@hazelb7218]

Thank you for sharing

[@abigailvella1257]

That was Malta not now

[@Allinone-yl6mw]

Nice good 👌👍♥️🥰🥰🥰

[@davidbryant8584]

Awesome video mate I stay'd with my family in St George's bay at the Villa Rosa complex in 1987 (I can remember the restaurant next to our hotel on the front there had the song The Final Countdown and Bon Jovi's Living on a prayer more or less on repeat) I'm going back to Malta next May for the first time in over 34 years but staying in Mellieha but will travel down to this area (St julians etc) to see how much it has changed!

[@ioannisproteus7286]

Hugos burger, Intercontinental hotel, and the chaos!! Bars,thousands of cars! cazino of malta opposite the bowling ..70s and 90s the best!

[@paulgoode5245]

Best times in Malta pre EU days❤

[@katkylekim]

Nostalgia !

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Nice tune at the start, I think that was "Was (Not Was)" with "Out Come The Freaks", from their album "What Up, Dog?"

[@brigittegalea8585]

1989 the year I got married. Nostalgia. Thanks for sharing.

[@seamed100]

I wonder where these people are now who took this film.

[@MrRodmic]

We are all alive and kicking :) my father was driving the car a VW Beetle 1969 model, he is almost 70 now and his friend was filming. When the movie was shot I was 11 years old and now I am 39.

[@Stelia2010]

I was 2 and a half when this was shot lol

[@hazelb7218]

The beginning....was that Qawra/Buggiba region??

[@MrRodmic]

No, this is all Tigne' / Sliema & St.Julian's area back in 1989

[@dking657]

32 years ago

[@sfiprmasterz2142]

Ma niftakarx il banner tar reklami digitali dak iz zmien kienu jezistu fl 80s? u it tower cranes? jien ossesjonat bil mandela effect ma nafx jekk ka tafux bijha filkas ghamlu google search.jien twelidt fi 1976 pero certu affarijiet jidru differenti ghalija.nice video thanks for sharing.

[@MrRodmic]

Dak id-'digital banner' kien ghadu kif jitwahhal ftit ta' zmien qabel u kien infatti xi haga gdida fjamanta ghalhekk parti mil video jidher hu, kienet xi haga innovattiva.

[@dirkhartman9572]

what is the song at 2:50

[@jamieborg4547]

Billy Squier - On Your Own

[@Rowena74]

Look! No traffic lights near Sea Cliff! :P

[@fishfire_2999]

A city on top of a city

[@fishfire_2999]

Are there good areas "crime " and bad areas ? Or is the entire island peaceful ?

[@jovsitalo]

Mostly peaceful. Petty theft has always been a problem but the many times I've been there nothing has happened to us. Very friendly and happy people.

[@fishfire_2999]

@@jovsitalo Thank you for sharing that .

[@marlvinmifsud]

Streets where more save back in the days now days there's to much cars in MT

[@JCRC]

Not around Malta, but around the ugliest and worst parts of Malta, Sliema, St Julians, Paceville and St Georges Bay. Today they are all dumps! Lost to progress and greed. Disgusting places. Overpopulated and over-commercialised!

[@IxNxFxExRxNxO]

Kien hemm hafna iktar spazju zgur. Issa kollox go xulxin. Ez. 8:35 hemm naqa ta ftha sew. Issa bilkemm tghaddi karozza li ma tajjarx lil xihadd.

[@JCRC]

The modern dump of Malta in 2025, Sliema, St. Julians and their surrounding areas!

[@giuliosaglibene9067]

mela