City of Melbourne Mid 1960s.

City of Melbourne Mid 1960s.
An incredible amount of material is fitted into the film's short duration.
A Cine-Austral production, footage courtesy of the ACMI collection.
Piano added of Petite Fleur which is an instrumental written by Sidney Bechet and performed by Rainbow Piano Tuto.

[@robertaquilina3848]

I remember this as a young boy an amazing time to be alive Melbourne is not the same now

[@gkana872]

What a wonderful time.

[@Funkteon]

In the 60s and 70s, Melbourne was blanketed with a thick layer of smog and one in every ten suburbs had an opioid crisis going on. You couldn't shop past 5pm, and the sound of the traffic at street level was deafening. There was also only a third the number of trams and trains running, so if you missed one, you'd have a 30 to 40-minute wait for the next one, and the taxi fare per kilometer equated to approximately 30% of the median hourly wage compared to the 5% it is today. You fkn boomers and your rose-tinted glasses are the reason we keep getting LNP Coalition governments pandering to your poor memory recollection... Melbourne is a global city now, thanks to the incredible hard work over the past 20-30 years by Gen-X and Millennial business owners and public officials. Had we left you boomers at the helm much longer, Australian cities would have continued to slip into insignificance and cultural oblivion by the nineties... Every one of these kinds of videos is trailed by countless boomer comments like yours which completely ignore tha brilliance that Melbourne has become compared to the dull drudgery that it was four or five decades ago.

[@baronpedro9263]

Right in the mood for this video. I know it wasn't perfect, but I wish I could go back and visit for a while.

[@swishswish386]

Another great find there Gezza… Bravo 👏 I know I always sound like a “has been” but I really liked the old Melbourne and those much simpler times

[@Hannah-ks4mi]

You can't be a 'has been' when you're a being!

[@Funkteon]

In the 60s and 70s, Melbourne was blanketed with a thick layer of smog and one in every ten suburbs had an opioid crisis going on. You couldn't shop past 5pm, and the sound of the traffic at street level was deafening. There was also only a third the number of trams and trains running, so if you missed one, you'd have a 30 to 40-minute wait for the next one, and the taxi fare per kilometer equated to approximately 30% of the median hourly wage compared to the 5% it is today. You fkn boomers and your rose-tinted glasses are the reason we keep getting LNP Coalition governments pandering to your poor memory recollection... Melbourne is a global city now, thanks to the incredible hard work over the past 20-30 years by Gen-X and Millennial business owners and public officials. Had we left you boomers at the helm much longer, Australian cities would have continued to slip into insignificance and cultural oblivion by the nineties... Every one of these kinds of videos is trailed by countless boomer comments like yours which completely ignore tha brilliance that Melbourne has become compared to the dull drudgery that it was four or five decades ago.

[@letsseeif]

I worked during this era and visited Melbourne CBC frequently. This is how I remember Melbourne. Dec 2022

[@Gezza1967]

City of Melbourne Mid 1960s. An incredible amount of material is fitted into the film's short duration. A Cine-Austral production, footage courtesy of the ACMI collection. Piano added of Petite Fleur which is an instrumental written by Sidney Bechet and performed by Rainbow Piano Tuto.

[@danrobinson572]

Awesome 👏 video

[@pisstinpete4700]

The scenes change so quickly its hard to take it all in, but Im always a sucker for films of this era,(my childhood) thanks Gezza

[@Melbournelost66]

That's marvellous Melbourne. Melbourne today is not the City my mother took me in on the train as a boy in the 70s. Walking through the Arcades from Degraves Street exit of Flinders Street Station to Myers. Lunch at Coles Cafeteria, crumbed sausages with gravy and chips. Jelly with the cream on top served by the ladies in their uniforms with a tiara. I'll never forget those things. Melbourne today is a foreign city.

[@RS-rj5sh]

Literally .....

[@Funkteon]

In the 60s and 70s, Melbourne was blanketed with a thick layer of smog and one in every ten suburbs had an opioid crisis going on. You couldn't shop past 5pm, and the sound of the traffic at street level was deafening. There was also only a third the number of trams and trains running, so if you missed one, you'd have a 30 to 40-minute wait for the next one, and the taxi fare per kilometer equated to approximately 30% of the median hourly wage compared to the 5% it is today. You fkn boomers and your rose-tinted glasses are the reason we keep getting LNP Coalition governments pandering to your poor memory recollection... Melbourne is a global city now, thanks to the incredible hard work over the past 20-30 years by Gen-X and Millennial business owners and public officials. Had we left you boomers at the helm much longer, Australian cities would have continued to slip into insignificance and cultural oblivion by the nineties... Every one of these kinds of videos is trailed by countless boomer comments like yours which completely ignore tha brilliance that Melbourne has become compared to the dull drudgery that it was four or five decades ago.

[@mrtactica]

Melbourne when there was still generosity and hope

[@joymcdonald8240]

Melbourne has always been a big busy city. There seemed to be people everywhere but some how it always worked. It was a vibrant place where I loved to work and shop

[@Hannah-ks4mi]

Thank you Gezza1967 that was a brilliant video. I'm proud that I could name most of the locations in the shoot. 😊

[@a7128]

Spotted Flemington racecourse, the zoo, site of city square prior to demolition of buildings, Wesley College, Melbourne High School, Chadstone Shopping centre, old Treasury building, Supreme Court, state Library, McPherson college, GPO, old Magistrates Court, GMH Fishermens Bend, Vic market, RMH, Melbourne Uni, Exhibition buildings, Olympic Park pre eastern grandstand, MCG, Olympic pool, Shrine of Remembrance, Government House, Middle Park playing fields, BP House, Chapel St, Dandenong, Essendon Airport, Southern Cross hotel, among many other gems….cheers Gezza

[@perpetualgrin5804]

We're you a taxi driver in 1963 ? 😆.

[@cudgee7144]

Your eyes are better than mine, where is the Flemington Racecourse shot.

[@a7128]

@@cudgee7144 1:40

[@cudgee7144]

@@a7128 Thanks.👍👍👍Have a good New Year and Year. 🥰

[@cudgee7144]

Yes i missed that, thanks again. That shot was taken from the old abs on Smithfield Road.

[@RGC198]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. Back in January 1967, my dad and I visited Melbourne on a two week holiday from Sydney and this video reminds me of that time here, which we thoroughly enjoyed. I live in Melbourne these days, having moved here with my family from Sydney in mid 1981. Melbourne has certainly grown a lot since the 1960s for sure.

[@leonchalita2169]

What were the 60s like?

[@RGC198]

Interesting question. For me personally,: finally leaving school in 1968, getting my first job in 1969, enjoying great music, getting my first transistor radio, seeing he early days of TV here in Australia. Also, the 1960s seemed to be less complicated, with higher employment and at least where I was living, being in a city that had not grown too big. Of course, it certainly wasn't a perfect world with the Vietnam War, which included conscription, less medical advances and there was quite an amount of pollution around.

[@bahnannapeelz]

Great video. Played it back at .25 speed to soak it all in better. Looks like Ferguson St Williamstown at 1:35.

[@traceyyoung1592]

Beautiful video 🎉 loved the cars especially. Was born 1960 so lovely to see what Melbourne was like then 💞

[@reverseuniverse2559]

Paused @ 2:54 The two people more to the left, one appears to be looking down to the ground or is the other dude naked 😆 Great Video ide just love one EH from the day,that’s all! Thanks for sharing 👍

[@carlylepalmer1634]

Beautiful...so, so long ago...look at the classic cars worth a fortune now

[@divarachelenvy]

fantastic video Gaza, loved it... Keep up the great work... so many familiar places..

[@OopsiDazie]

Umm, great vid, this bought a tear to my eyes, yeah l am nostalgic for a reason and here we have a magnificent season of time that will never be the same again thanks to the poisoning apple.

[@darylcumming7119]

The old Spencer Street Station.

[@ivanhajncl8833]

sorry, that was the third Spencer St station. The current one with the wavy roof is the fourth incarnation.

[@BrandonLee-bv2fz]

That's one I remember Daryl I was just thinking about one your posts about luna park 1970,S how had like wild rapids ride in cannoo like thing ,going by what said ,,must got rid it mid 70 S otherwise I would of remember it ,like ya self just moved station from Westall ,had good luck got to live port south last year ,,don't even think tatts win get place south Melbourne,or little bagdag these days cheers mate 👍

[@Jim-ok9zi]

When I watched this I couldn’t help but think how regulated we are today.

[@Jim-ok9zi]

@@aural_escape Your joking of course.

[@johno01970]

1:13 GMH cnrs Salmon and Lorimer Streets Fishermans Bend (cars turning into Salmon) and the Kraft factory just up the road in Salmon Street...and 3:15 Chadstone Shopping Centre and the single in line mall with McEwans.. thanks Geeza!

[@danrobinson572]

Great 👍 video

[@Krustyclown5791]

melbourne is so beautiful. great job 👏 makes me cry 😢 we had it all but we've let it fall. when you weren't over taxed and were free to travel anywhere in Australia and make business. now it's all imports and red tape. but you paying higher prices for rubbish. "such is life "

[@jameslaver6970]

Please someone invent a time machine.

[@Australian_Made]

🙇 THANK YOU

[@davidharlem6824]

I far prefer society then to now.

[@LukeXMV]

Yes, the Australian society was incredibly lovely towards the aboriginal Australians back then 🤣🤣🤣

[@davidharlem6824]

@@LukeXMV ....and just as lovely today hey.

[@lorrainereeves4466]

Depressing music.

[@davidriddiford7385]

Yes a far more egalitarian way of life. Nearly every family could afford to purchase a home on one income, wages were more equal and although more socially conservative people cared for one another and that includes our indigenous communities in Victoria

[@trackdusty]

@@davidriddiford7385 Yes, yes and...yes.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

Didn't know they had the ' Harris ' train as early as 1963.

[@johnd8892]

Harris introduced in 1956, then different versions up until 1971 or so.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

@@johnd8892 Thanks.

[@BrandonLee-bv2fz]

This was the decade of demolition of so many great buildings,that i have only seen book ,, Melbourne then and now ,,,😢crime

[@Nae395]

Before the Greens were even a thought and Bandt was not even a thought in his father's imagination.

[@paulbata9649]

now its a greenie sh#thole

[@DrakeN-ow1im]

...and the Yarra river ran deep with garbage and chemical pollution, reed banks full of dead wildlife and fish floating belly up after every rainstorm which carried more shit into its tributaries. I was a twenty something appalled by the rubbish blowing in the wind and running down the street gutters. But "There's none so blind as them what don't want to see." I trust that you are happy in your blissful ignorance.

[@Nae395]

@@DrakeN-ow1im oh another Bandt chump 🤪😜. Presume school teacher or other such public servant?

[@nkelly.9]

Brilliant Gezza. I looked for graffiti, rubbish and obese people, and saw none.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

Gezza ! 👍🏻

[@euanthorburn8135]

♡

[@MS-qd6bm]

Give me a time machine.

[@jamesgovett3225]

That looks like Box Hill in Whitehorse road looking west as the road diverges before Station street @ 3.03

[@freeagent8225]

Rose coloured glasses are so popular now😅.

[@sanchomemark6292]

Dandenong from around 3:24. Townhall, then the old Westminster carpet factory. Looks like Monas Uni 3:54

[@planetX15]

Could that be the Monash University in Clayton?

[@sanchomemark6292]

@@planetX15 Yep, I'm pretty sure it is.

[@wave6413]

Great footage. What you don’t see is the hard underbelly. Great times but you wouldn’t come out as gay if you were. Hard underbelly gave hard slap downs

[@125sloth]

Did you know that there were gays actually in the "hard underbelly"? It was no real secret and they could do hard slapdowns better than some others. And most of the underbelly from the 60's had more brains than the later ones, who bragged about everything they did. Chopper Read was so right about the modern underbelly. Some were so full of themselves they were stupid. Quite a few of the younger ones thought they were so smart yet spent more time in the slammer than at home. And why? Because they got caught by smarter police. If they were good at their 'craft", they would not have been caught. The "old school" knew how to lay low. They also did not interfere with innocent people, especially women and children.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

@@125sloth “the pink mafia” someone said they are called. i don’t know. the guys that run hollywood and all that.. i believe the young man’s comments about “hard underbelly” may have been figuratively speaking and referring to the hard arse working class Aussies that were descended from convicts. and stuff. they were hard men back in those days. built tough. merry christmas 🤠

[@125sloth]

@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 Yes it did cross my mind that he may have been referring to "hard underbelly" in a figurative way. Now I know, or know of a couple of "hard arse" cops in Melbourne. One retired now, one still serving. Both would fit into the "pink mafia" easily. That said, I would not want to get into an altercation with one of them, who when younger was a world champion in one of the forms of martial arts, and he could box traditionally as well. I know for a fact he took on five thugs in inner city who attacked him, two ran off, and the others ended up in the old Prince Henry's Hospital. Great days indeed.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

Remember back then the zoo had Polar bears, not any more.

[@derhampaul2182]

You all like the old Melbourne

[@leopoldonotarianni8663]

This would be either 1965 or 1966. No earlier and no later

[@philipo9624]

Great but too fast on the slides.

[@paulgerard4503]

And, always, the trams..

[@kenambo]

I look at all the people and realise at least 80% are now dead.

[@getwhatdeserve5039]

A strange feeling

[@ACDZ123]

You'll be dead soon as well ..scary how quick life is ..first 30 years seems to take forever then it seems to go to quick

[@barrycade9803]

Enjoyed the old Olympic Park number 2 ground which greyhounds raced on Thursday nights and soccer was played. How white and clean society was and no graffiti back then. Then the floodgates opened for the third world to become an unsafe city, dirty and drug ridden.

[@adastra3591]

Wonderful video. So nice to see it ll in one place.

[@derhampaul2182]

Did I just see a giraffe