Bourke Street Mall 1989

[@crashdavis721]

This was a great time in my life. I was 19 and working in the city. I worked on that annexe on the Billy Guyatt building, watched the 89 grand final parade from there as it passed straight by. My coworker at the time, same age as me, yelled out "Gazza" as Ablett's car went by and he looked up and waved to us. I lived at home in the South Eastern suburbs so a big event was going into the city to clubs in King St on Saturday nights. As a 19 year old, it was awesome working in the city as we met many girls and social life was fantastic. I'd go back in a heartbeat

[@roger263]

Sounds like a carbon copy of my 1989!

[@TheAxelay]

This THIS!!!!! This is the melbourne that I revered and once loved here!!! Everything here is what it once was and what it should be (what will never come back back again via 2022+). Thank you for this, I despise melbourne and the current concrete jungle that is bourke street as of now....The sun barely ever lights up the area now....After 33+ years, the strip is destroyed but these memories here of a once better time always remain....I started coming here alot by myself via 1989 as an 11 year old, wouldn't surprise me if at the time of recording this that I did come to the mall at that day wagging school. It saddens me to see the way the place is now but have my memories and this rare footage personifies it even more..The once marvellous/garden state of melbourne...Sigh...

[@stevenpam]

Hey Matthew, I'm glad this brought back some memories for you 🙂

[@TheAxelay]

@@stevenpam , thank you and I've subscribed as well! 😃

[@stevenpam]

@@TheAxelay Cheers... although I don't think I've got any more of this old stuff!

[@TheAxelay]

@@stevenpam It's okay, you did enough with your memory berries here. Subscribe for the hell of it, cheers...

[@gabby20]

Wow One sub and like for you. Those were such great days. There was more shopping and Less office's. Sanity records. Brashes and Klein jewellery. Even the trams look so different. Kind of sad today. Thanks heaps for uploading

[@subatomic10]

I was a 17 year old , often going to the city and King St in 89 . Please upload more

[@stevenpam]

Sorry, I think this is the only clip I have!

[@ange3489]

You never see signwriters painting on store windows anymore!

[@mebeme007]

Probably because they charge a lot more than it costs for simple pieces of printed cardboard for advertising.

[@Matt_Wilson01]

Yeah its all stick on stuff these days, still a few wog shops that get the hand painted treatment

[@FokkerTISM]

The closest to a time machine we're gonna get. When the guy at 2:00 told you he hoped it was for educational purposes, you should've said "Yes, to educate people about the great, beautiful city Melbourne is at the time this is being recorded".

[@businesswolle666official]

Good quality on that Panasonic M7!

[@Techno-Universal]

That’s when my dad was doing his first year of university and was a mobile DJ at Mobydisc and he got to DJ at the Hawthorn Oval for the 1989 AFL premiership celebration party for Hawthorn with the players and club members attending! It was a really funny night as they kept on requesting my dad to play the Hawthorn team anthem and We Are The Champions from Queen and by the end of it both 7inch vinyl records were quite worn out! :)

[@mebeme007]

Part of my old stomping grounds around that time. 😁 1:05 that young woman walking, reminds me of the way I used to dress back in the day, too. 🥰 Thanks heaps for sharing this online.

[@brak54321]

Sax player gives this a perfect Scorsese like vibe.

[@jenniferhector1301]

This is great footage. I'd love to see more like it.

[@Techno-Universal]

2:36 These lifts are hopefully still there if they are heritage listed as they are absolutely beautiful! They can also be quite simple and easy to maintain as they are very likely over engineered and extremely heavy duty because of them being designed to last 50-150 years by the manufacturer originally! :)

[@tristandavies9597]

They are still there, in the Manchester Unity arcade

[@ronburns6920]

Quick someone invented a time machine

[@Gus1966-c9o]

Contact Doc Brown , he’ll help us out .

[@olahblissx]

That's so cool man

[@mickcarson8504]

Those were the real cops I remember, all men on the beat, unlike today.

[@jenniferhector1301]

Yes, and they looked respectable & decent. Anyone doing that job should. They just look and act like arrogant slobs and I have no confidence in anyone of them.

[@ronburns6920]

Yes i noticed how they were ok with filming not like today

[@mebeme007]

@@jenniferhector1301 Yeah, they were never arrogant back in those days, when they used to often take people back to the cells and beat them up if anyone dared look at them or speak to them in the wrong way. 🙄

[@tw25rw_]

Before they turned into paramilitaries.

[@musaka2022]

Awesome

[@stefg4609]

Nice video... Tbh its so sad watching this because wondering whether people in the video are still alive or not

[@JohnShinn1960]

Gezza1967 brought me here. Fun watch yes. 👍🤠 🇺🇲 That and it seems they don't make em pleasant like that anymore. 0:02

[@stevenpam]

Thanks for stopping by

[@gigistar8987]

Hi Steven, l remember the old city square with the inside water fountains and lounge area, my mum would take me to the city and then we would sit inside for lunch watching the fountains. Would you happen to have any footage of this?

[@stevenpam]

Yeah, I remember that, too. Sorry, I think this is all I have!

[@Gezza1967]

G’day Steven, great old Melbourne footage. Do you mind if I do an edit music clip and credit your page? Cheers Gezza

[@stevenpam]

Interesting idea, curious what you come up with!

[@Gezza1967]

Cheers@@stevenpam sorry, didn’t give this magnificent footage justice. Worth a try though, thanks for letting me cheers Gezza. kzbin.info/www/bejne/amGanqNmhc2drKMsi=WM_GVteqk_PncX8d

[@Gezza1967]

@@stevenpamcheers, I just wrote a long reply and KZbin deleted it as I added the link of the upload. I’ve now removed the link, it was something like this …. * 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

[@DaughterofmyMum]

Wow!!! did you have that footage all this time?

[@stevenpam]

Yep, my shed is full of obsolete media! Records, cassettes, Minidiscs, CDs, VHS tapes...

[@williamfraser7959]

What song is that in the beginning?

[@stevenpam]

Sorry, it doesn't ring a bell!

[@Sean-me4fv]

I had a man threaten to punch me there in around 2004 for not giving him money. He threw a punch and stopped his fist about an inch from my face and kept walking. I felt so cool buying clothes at David Jones too

[@planetx1595]

Does Billy Guyatts still exist?

[@stevenpam]

Sadly it exists in name only now (online sales). Bought by Harvey Norman in 2000.

[@derhampaul2182]

Geez 1989 there all dead now the old

[@harleyguy7]

Fuck unlike today back then you actually felt like you're in AUSTRALIA

[@mebeme007]

Is that why many people used to bleat about "wogs" and Asians taking over back then, too.

[@st.michaelthearchangel7774]

A time when women were dressed more modestly.

[@mebeme007]

Yeah, women never used to get around in short skirts, ripped tiny shorts, strapless dressed and so on, until more recently, huh. 🙄

[@stephanmaggs8815]

Ive made many films on melbourne alot around its soul Brunswick and looking at whats popped up on my algorithm, I realise i have all this footage already edited and completed in doco style it started my live of Melbourne. On coming back to Melbourne after Jeff Kennet set up his scheme the city of Melbourne is dead from the inside As i have been lucky enough to win fil competition and such ,people always say "You need to make more films on Melbourne ." At first i thought they meant to postive side yet i came to learn it was how Melbourne had fallen so far from where it was and now even I see it and its so sad as this place had a wonderful heart and soul also a great melting pot of culture now its a tin can of wanna be nothingness that both scares and offends me . A Darn shame