Shivers down my spine! Faces from the past! Was a Radio Operator with Reg back then at Combined, when I was called Rick. 45 yrs passes in a moment, enjoy what you have while you still have it... it'll be gone all too soon!
@lisabudd59792 жыл бұрын
My family worked and lived in paddington...it fasinates me ,to see how my nana and mum lived back than ...
@barrygiddey91392 жыл бұрын
Some of my most enjoyable car rides have been in a taxi listening to the driver tell me about the people he has picked up in his lifetime,you couldn’t buy them stories!
@Royalbigness8 жыл бұрын
What a great video. I remember coming home from shopping with mum when cabs were HQ Kingswoods and XA Falcons. Loved seeing the metal cars of the 70s !
@kelliefrancis24333 жыл бұрын
I have the same memories 💕
@petergiesel3791 Жыл бұрын
Oh yes I remember the HQ's and XA falcon taxis oh so well 🇦🇺🤠👍🍻 Cheers mate
@smokeybirdman2 жыл бұрын
My dad drove a taxi, from Granville depot since i could remember. He was driving in 1980 when this was made that's for sure. When i was 17 i took his cab and got a fare in Merrylands and was tipd lol i didn't even have the meter running.
@phillipmicjan80585 жыл бұрын
When a cabbie was a cabbie. That was gold. 👍
@franzchong58892 жыл бұрын
true.most of these guys would be in shock at what rideshare has done to their businesses.we are not talking legitimate taxi alternatives such as smart car(that exist in adelaide since 1996 and are therefore locals)but all these uber(american(didi(chinese)and ola(spanish)run businesses out to hurt the traditionalists.i'll never use any foreign owned business as I have had a mate whose done all of that but has since switched to driving buses.
@theytwatcher9502 жыл бұрын
@@franzchong5889 OLA is Indian
@anthonyrbrockman9 жыл бұрын
I was nearly born in a taxi on the way to King George V in 1969. For a moment I thought the driver's story was about me until he mentioned that the baby's father was telling his wife to, "bear down." This driver was driving taxis when I was born, however my father was at work in Erskineville when I was born. Thank you for posting this documentary.
@sanctuaryism6 жыл бұрын
st. george kogarah for me back in '85. yep great to watch this.
@singrest20064 жыл бұрын
King grordes hospital camperdown... yep thats me too.
@pearcey1113 Жыл бұрын
Wow very cool to watch I was born in 1973 it’s 2023 abs it’s changed so much it’s crazy always lived in Sydney Australia my whole life
@artysig98332 жыл бұрын
Peak hour then is like a Sunday drive now!
@100ververis2 жыл бұрын
No Pakistani or Indian drivers that is so good and all Australian made cars. Boy how things changed.
@franzchong58892 жыл бұрын
true.the only way to avoid those is book citicar or smartcar or take a bus if not driving self.
@nicolaburgess2033 жыл бұрын
That’s really depressing, we live in a totally different country now, life was great back then.
@forestsoceansmusic6 жыл бұрын
Love that old Rocker cabbie, started driving Ford Mercurys in Sydney when he started -- that was before my time. I can only remember Falcons and Holdens at the earliest.
@melvinleong3731 Жыл бұрын
Oh my god, it’s like hearing my old relatives tel stories
@shaundevlin3905 Жыл бұрын
Those where the day's when an Aussie cab driver drove an Aussie built cab,....fast forward to 2022 and its a foreigner driving an imported car turned in to a cab.
@Zoe-sg3le2 жыл бұрын
Notice that none of them are wearing seatbelts...LOL
@raoul30163 жыл бұрын
My dad was a taxi driver in Sydney during the 80s
@jamesfrench7299 Жыл бұрын
It was another much more colourful world back then, both within the industry and without.
@lincolncollingridge88228 жыл бұрын
not a Bangladeshi behind the wheel.....strange times
@theytwatcher9503 жыл бұрын
Include Indians, Somalians and Chinese
@fernortiz60902 жыл бұрын
Struth! Not an Indian or Bangladeshi behind the wheel.....Nowadays it's hard to spot the Aussie.
@franzchong58892 жыл бұрын
@@fernortiz6090 and no uber or ola or didi crap
@victorsauvage1890 Жыл бұрын
Point taken - (They won’t support each other.)
@user-dw4kn9oi1m7 ай бұрын
Excellent old film of Sydney cabbie life in 1980
@a1citizen9813 жыл бұрын
Back when it cost 20c to get over the Harbour Bridge......
@Reactaddict3 жыл бұрын
Back when Australia was full of Australians . what a great era.
@jerusalem56462 жыл бұрын
It’s actually sad 😞 that it’s never going to be the same….they turned Sydney into a hornet nest
@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 Жыл бұрын
@@jerusalem5646 a megalopolis rat race
@peter6516 Жыл бұрын
Still full of Australians last time I looked only millions more.
@jamesfrench72996 ай бұрын
Full of foreign faces black hair brown eyes. Some diversity that is.
@sanctuaryism6 жыл бұрын
if you have to swing across a medium strip you wanna be driving a tough old falcon trust me. was a 1974 fairlane that is probably a good reason as to why I am here still today.
@MrWackozacko5 жыл бұрын
Doubt it, old cars arent built to crumple. The occupant is free to bounce around the cabin but
@sanctuaryism5 жыл бұрын
@@MrWackozacko the evidence is sitting here typing to you... quite fine...
@MrWackozacko5 жыл бұрын
One instance doesnt equal evidence deano
@sanctuaryism5 жыл бұрын
@@MrWackozacko oh really smarty pants... it looks like good enough proof to me. you drive your FIAT while I will happily love my old fords. how does that sound?
@AlonsoRules6 жыл бұрын
I took up taxi driving as some work to get me off Centrelink. At least 1 in 3 passengers are intrigued that I'm one of the only white Australian taxi drivers they've seen.
@265hemi73 жыл бұрын
I've seen one in ten years !
@Marc-io8qm2 жыл бұрын
Depressing. Diversity is killing western nations. It’s ok for Koreans or Kenyans to protect their own culture and people but western people are labelled racist for wanting the same. Evil.
@AlonsoRules2 жыл бұрын
2022 update: still driving and still getting the comments
@franzchong58892 жыл бұрын
@@AlonsoRules I have a hungarian mate who used to work in this profession but drives buses these days.one of the few people whose a born here Australian even if the parents are europeans or maybe he was a migrant to break the mould of the types of driver we get.
@jamesfrench7299 Жыл бұрын
I drove 2006 -2014 and only got one comment and am white. This was Sydney mind you.
@NinaB19773 жыл бұрын
Not much traffic back then. I loved Sydney back then free spirited place.
@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 Жыл бұрын
sydney was much better then today are only yuppies and immigrants
@garymarquett79893 жыл бұрын
Before all Cabbies were Indians
@peter6516 Жыл бұрын
Yes, when they were English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish, you mean?
@timpriddy3495 жыл бұрын
Sharp falcon with mags
@jamesfrench72996 ай бұрын
Much prefer the XC or XA. Never liked the XB.
@Gezza196713 жыл бұрын
G'day samsung4109, glad you enjoyed the old Cabbie footage, good stuff, cheers Gezza
@DizzyKizzy646 жыл бұрын
You cannot find an Aussie cabbie in Sydney anymore 😥😔
@riz9844 жыл бұрын
Andrew Young cringe.
@peter6516 Жыл бұрын
What do you mean? Sydney is full of Aussie cab drivers. What on earth are you on about?
@absoluteb228 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately now many of them have barely been in the country a few months. Quite common also to have a cab that absolutely stinks.
@franzchong58896 жыл бұрын
this was years before uber and go catch had even been invented if we had cabbies like the ones in this movie such services would not even be needed.
@paulblack62883 жыл бұрын
The cabs stank back then too. Cigarettes, BO, hot vinyl and Hair cream to name a few stenches
@thewayneflyinghigh91289 жыл бұрын
Is it Peter Luck doing the voice over here?.
@The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door3 жыл бұрын
So good bugger all traffic on the road 👍
@trancepower12057 жыл бұрын
Its nice to see true blue aussies driving cabs in this video! ONYA BOYS!!! You gotta miss the good ol days!
@nicolaburgess2039 жыл бұрын
where did all the aussies go???? 1980 to 2015 is not that long
@franzchong58896 жыл бұрын
long gone.you will very rarely find one in this industry these days or a Greek or an Italian.I would rather use two buses to get to the airport in my home town or if out of it a shuttle bus or a train.
@StephenWestSyd6 жыл бұрын
penelope creighton- we all live in West Sydney mate
@forestsoceansmusic6 жыл бұрын
When I was driving cabs in Sydney in 1989, I picked up a group of League footballers and as soon as they saw me they said, "Hey! Spot the Aussie!" (because even in 1989 most cabbies were Asian by then - mainly nice Indian dudes). But those League footballers were a bit rough: "Ya wanna tip driver? Well here's a tip in the f_ckn gutter, har! har! har!" They said that a few times, they were pretty tanked. But they did give me a tip - a huge joint. (No, I waited till it was my day off.)
@franciesruber68816 жыл бұрын
I totally agree, Sydney is not Sydney, :-)
@sanctuaryism6 жыл бұрын
by the mid 90's this would have been changing obviously to what we see now. I know as a kid in the 90's you would still see the odd white guy driving but yeah...
@albertkelly71295 жыл бұрын
"hope she named the kid after me" bahahahaha
@1greenMitsi3 жыл бұрын
bring back the taxi brothel
@KingFahtah2 жыл бұрын
Ok but that chick is in her 60s now.
@thomasr53 Жыл бұрын
@@KingFahtah and the problem is? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@DavidCaldwell13 жыл бұрын
"I'll give you a look at it for the other £-/6/6"!! for a trip to Kings Cross... sounds about right
@bbstrider11 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, thanks for posting. Cab drivers were very different back then - all "white bread" English speakers and none of them wearing seatbelts!
@peterjones62806 жыл бұрын
I was there at the time, people complained bitterly about the cab drivers not speaking English and being new to the country.
@chrisjohnson68764 жыл бұрын
No Japanese or Korean cars as taxi's in those days, strictly Holden/Ford/Valiant!
@theytwatcher9504 жыл бұрын
The Camry the cabbies use are from Australia, except the XV70 version which is from Japan. They also use Toyota Priuses For wagons they use Toyota Prius Vs Toyota is a popular choice by the cab industry, but some cabbies are opting for other models e.g. Kia Cerato, Hyundai Elantra etc.
@jashugg3 жыл бұрын
Hobart had a few Peugeot 504 diesel taxis from 1979 till the mid 1980s
@franzchong58892 жыл бұрын
@@theytwatcher950 they had Nissan Pulsar Sedans for a while and also run Corollas at the moment.
@theytwatcher9502 жыл бұрын
@@franzchong5889 Corollas yes, Adelaide runs Nissan Pulsars. But unlike previously, theres a lot more models, like VW, Skoda, Honda etc.
@franzchong5889 Жыл бұрын
@@theytwatcher950 The Corolla is way too small to be used as a Taxi unless It's just yourself and maybe one companion.as is the Camry.40 years ago we had Falcons with six seats.Today unless you order a Maxi Taxi you for the same job need an Uber XL.
@LLOOYYYDD4 жыл бұрын
Time Traveller: *In 40 years, taxis will pretty much be minimal and people will order private cars from miniature phones/computers in their pocket* Cabbie : *Ah fuck off ya lunatic*
@franzchong58892 жыл бұрын
but jokes on most of us except for anyone born in the last 20 years we will be dead by then.
@KingFahtah2 жыл бұрын
@@franzchong5889 Yes we will all be dead by 2020. Quite right.
@petermaxwell29655 жыл бұрын
back when they spoke English !! 🇦🇬🇩🇲🇱🇺🇵🇬🇺🇬
@Joshua-jj4xn3 жыл бұрын
Your mum speaks English
@Davo-gj7gl Жыл бұрын
40 cents a toll unbelievable
@adventuresofaidan35413 жыл бұрын
That’s a XC Falcon taxi
@MyDarkDesires9996 ай бұрын
When the cabbies Street Directory is their Bible. They knew the book from their hearts.
@AussieFords3 жыл бұрын
1:58 and I don't want to take it. His own words would come back and haunt the taxi industry, when Uber and others take over nowadays.
@boonthongudomporn69214 ай бұрын
I was driving taxis in Sydney in the 80s. Those radio room operators in Paddington were bunch of assholes.
@Darren-D.C-Cross Жыл бұрын
Anyone know what music is underneath?
@eldderkingsmartz24864 жыл бұрын
Back when English was spoken by cabbies
@forestsoceansmusic6 жыл бұрын
The film is squashed vertically.
@sexobscura6 жыл бұрын
I used to be a cab
@thomasr53 Жыл бұрын
Were you a holden or a falcon?
@sexobscura Жыл бұрын
@@thomasr53 Hyundai
@thomasr53 Жыл бұрын
@@sexobscura 😂😂
@ThaChief737 жыл бұрын
our country is messed up now
@bilawalbill87355 жыл бұрын
Czar Bianchi it’s actually someone else country, you forgetting big time
@riz9844 жыл бұрын
bilawal bill wrong.
@sanctuaryism4 жыл бұрын
very. you can't relate to this now in any form except sit back and laugh at it... enjoy it.
@Robochop-vz3qm2 жыл бұрын
Especially now, 4 years after your comment. Cant get a job because I'm not jabbed. Not the Australia I grew up in.
@nicolaburgess2039 жыл бұрын
tragic actually
@mubd123411 жыл бұрын
Have you got the second part?
@what_up7778 жыл бұрын
Thank God for Uber now. Last time I got in a Sydney cab the Indian driver was clueless on directions even with a GPS.
@franzchong58896 жыл бұрын
if only such a service did exist way back in 1980.The last time I used a Taxi for say an airport transfer was in 1998 $31 from my old house in Salisbury to the Adelaide Airport.Coming home was in a HUGHES LIMOUSINE for $39 they were subcontracted to Ansett Australia as a Chauffeur drive in those days.I on the way home might have got an older car(1989 Fairlane)but in the absence of parents unable to pick me up it was reassuring after a week in Singapore using local taxis there and being a passenger in a relatives honda accord to have someone take me home safely and in comfort.
@StephenWestSyd6 жыл бұрын
Max Turbo big problem now is a lot of cab drivers are also uber drivers
@nicolaburgess2033 жыл бұрын
Anyone brave enough to respond in pc 2021 I dare you
@265hemi73 жыл бұрын
Anyone who speaks out about immigration , gay rights , etc , is branded as right wing extreme ! I can assure anyone that people of Indian , Pakistani , and other races hate white Austrailians in a lot of cases! In particular if an Aussie is working poor and person of colour is tertiary educated like a doctor they look down on them !
@Gezza196711 жыл бұрын
mubd1234, will upload the other parts now cheers Gezza
@xpusostomos3 жыл бұрын
Why is the picture all squished and out of proportion?
@jamesfrench7299 Жыл бұрын
Filmed for 4:3 aspect ratio TV.
@xpusostomos Жыл бұрын
@James French duh, so why isn't it uploaded in 4:3?
@andrewgeen2576 Жыл бұрын
Why they sitting so close to the steering wheel.
@Gezza1967 Жыл бұрын
Don’t know, I drove cabs for 2 years in the late 90s, on my first shift I drove an old Ford that had a hidden (to me) seat adjustment lever. The seat was set up high and forward, so I just put up with it with my head slightly tilted pushed up against the roof and my gut close to the steering wheel. I’m 6.2” & 120 kgs, so not too comfy! I got it sorted by my 2nd shift. lol
@MrVsbt17 жыл бұрын
when was this on channel 72?
@expatmartin10 жыл бұрын
GMH made a bad decision getting rid of the Kingswood as they lost the entire taxi cab market.
@franzchong58896 жыл бұрын
it's going to get worse now.this new age commodore coming soon is about the same size as the old kingswood but is front drive.good luck getting more than five people into one of those and it's a hatchback.
@paulcooper34636 жыл бұрын
your not taking the kingswood lol ted bullpit
@franzchong58896 жыл бұрын
Now it's the commodore.can you imagine something that's known as an INSIGNIA in Europe as a Taxi.it's barely much bigger than say a Mazda 6 for instance and you don't see a lot of these or Subaru Liberty's as cabbies does one now.
@sanctuaryism6 жыл бұрын
hahaha yeah its funny isn't it... after all considering people are only getting much larger but the cars are literally toys now and as we are saying smaller too.
@franzchong58892 жыл бұрын
@@sanctuaryism I have seen Corollas even used as Taxi these days.would not be surprised if it's a mix of those or we go the Jetta/Golf or even Mazda or Honda small cars(almost the size of where an Accord was 30 years ago and barely much smaller than a Falcon of about the same era become the future cabs).
@jonglewongle34383 жыл бұрын
There has always been an intensive demand for taxis, be it metropolitan or rural. People shall always shell out heavily for the convenience. They might be sozzled, or got a load of shopping, or they wanna cut out the public transport crap, or they just wanna get somewhere on time, or they wanna freight something heavy in the boot, or they are geriatric or somehow infirm, and so it goes on. The taxis have traditionally been speed demons, so that they are not attempting rip off and over-servicing by going slow. They are zip-zip merchants, get a fare done in order to get onto the next fare.
@kikarboota162 жыл бұрын
Yellow Cabs Greater Melbourne
@juliakate5684 Жыл бұрын
Ah the cabbies . Remember Varise Wolfe and Julia . Hey mate they were 2 blonde cheeky goodlooking teenage chicks many laughs catching a taxi
@kikarboota162 жыл бұрын
Black Cabs Victoria
@ianbolton96503 жыл бұрын
If a taxi driver saved your life by skilful driving, would you care what country he came from?
@fatsnorkel Жыл бұрын
Since when has a cabbie ever driven skilfully 🤣
@franzchong5889 Жыл бұрын
@@fatsnorkel VERY RARELY.this week or rather next Tuesday I have ordered an Uber Premium to work as one upmanship to prove a thing or two to the clowns who are still using Taxis.the other way has me using a mix of Uber to the local bus stop and a bus back to town.
@BarryRyder637 жыл бұрын
Aspect Ratio fail
@BarryRyder633 жыл бұрын
@@denisovanhybrid9610 yes thanks captain obvious But the aspect ratio has been further butchered
@BarryRyder633 жыл бұрын
@@denisovanhybrid9610 thanks for missing the point
@BarryRyder633 жыл бұрын
@@denisovanhybrid9610 if being dumb as dog shit was a sport you'd be on the Olympic team
@stevetici266811 жыл бұрын
Bloody cheap to get across the hb compared to now
@sanctuaryism6 жыл бұрын
pre- tunnel.
@nicolaburgess2033 жыл бұрын
Where did all the white people go? I feel like I’m the only one left
@Igloo34713 жыл бұрын
No STINKY foreigners driving!
@franzchong58892 жыл бұрын
the last cab I was in had an Australian at the wheel they didn't get lost or try take me a long way round.
@jamesfrench7299 Жыл бұрын
Giving away your racist attitude much?
@Igloo3471 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesfrench7299 It's the truth. Now stop sooking it up and go sit down to piss.
@thomasr53 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesfrench7299 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@MkdMuzza3 жыл бұрын
lol at the fake taxi story
@kikarboota162 жыл бұрын
I know what secret services don't honest Truth
@darioburatovich2240 Жыл бұрын
You ring now, 1st September, 2023, and the algorithm answers with a femake voice....then a taxi van arrives, the kind that takes passengers to the airport, its dark ....the van looks oldish....yes, its 2023, and Uber its not better, go the dystopia ......,🤣