Launceston City Tasmania (March 1991)

Launceston City TAS March 6th 1991, a hot day that day (31oC) Everyone is about soaking up the sun making the most of the warm weather that Tassie does'nt get too often! Unemployment was a serious problem in Launceston (Around 12%) in 1991 with a lot of young people hanging out in the Launceston Mall.

[@tangofox7124]

I was just showing this to my son, now 23 and saying that I was home on leave and met his mother 12 days after it was filmed. Great to see it again, thanks Mr B Collie!

[@Tassie20]

I filmed Launceston with a National Panasonic M7 Video Camera which took full size VHS Video Tapes. The camera was heavy to carry all the way from Racecourse Cresent, all through Launceston, up the Cataract Gorge (Did'nt have the streagnth to get to Duck Reach!!) and up over West Launceston and back home to Racecourse Cres again! The camera cost $90.00 to hire for a week from Wills in the Quadrant at the time. Also it took me 15 hours to upload this video to KZbin on dial up!! Its worth It!

[@thes15channel75]

Legend!!! Thank you. I was 8 years old. I wish we could go back.

[@tasmanndog]

Certainly a lot more people walking around the CBD back then compared to now.

[@Sharon-hd8fg]

The mall has really gone down hill now. Thank you for the memories 😊

[@pakanaman]

Awesome a trip down memory lane.. it makes your head spin... it make me feel like doing one now for years to come ,so we may look back at life in the same way.

[@suzannarobinson4726]

Look at the lovely greenery in the mall. New mall needs flowers & trees. Too bare now.

[@sarahhesline3372]

Thank you for posting this. There's a snippet of me and my boys at 4:57 in the quadrant walking around to our shop in St John st. I can't believe my hair style!

[@scottclark1634]

Much more lively back then. Birchalls closing is very sad too.

[@lisa198869]

wow it looks so much beta then wat it is now. the trees really do look good in the mall wish they were still there

[@karlso7314]

He's going on about all the old buildings and I'm checking out the cars.

[@hughielouiethefly]

Thanks for posting this up. Fantastic! I used to live in York St, right behind Allgoods, briefly in your vid before you zoom in on the York St Drainage sign. Moved in late 1995 so four years after this, I don't remember it looking so old and conservative. Well done for not only having hired the camera and shot this but also having kept it all those years.

[@anberns6999]

Wow, back when people had a reason to go to the mall 😳😍🎉

[@MrPizza063]

and not a single mobile phone in sight the best huh

[@leonkernan]

I spent quite a bit of time playing on those wooden boxes in the mall near Myer. A few years later and i'd be around here while skipping classes at Launceston College.

[@rsinclair6560]

Great film well done. It will be a great community and visitor asset when the railtrail is constructed from the university precinct Invermay to Scottsdale. It will get students from Interstate (the mainland) and international students, uni staff to explore , socialise. Locals , families getting out for a bike ride , meeting other people ,walk clearing the mind and exercise away from a deteriorating Launceston economic and social situation .

[@pinkenbaweighbridge2585]

Thats the year i walked into the recruiting office at Petterson barracks and spent the next 10 years in the Army

[@milesellis2847]

Thanks for uploading this. I was in Year 12 at Alanvale College back then. The mall was a lot better design back then. Different world.

[@milesellis2847]

How did you know the young people were unemployed? May have been on a break from Launceston College. I was in Year 12 in 1991 and we all looked like that!

[@Tassie20]

In the early 1990s it was a recession and there were a lot of unemployed people around at the time anyway and a lot of young people just hang out in the mall just to socialise. They've been doing that for years since I left school in the late 1970s.

[@KevinAPamwar]

very nice... some of the shops/buildings are still there

[@Marathopita]

I didn't live in Launceston in 1991, so it's really fascinating to see what my new home looked like before I moved.

[@miraclesail]

Looks nice! Very clean too.

[@summerwind1974]

Thanx heaos for posting this. I used to live in the city at this time and I was also one of those "annoying youths" who hung around at the Myer seats! OMG that is so weird... I am sure that is me walking with my ex through the quadrant! I would recognise his walk anywhere!!! He is wearing what appears to be a red t shirt but from memory it was pink!

[@fromotherworld1979]

Launceston was very lively back then. One could not figure out what has gone badly wrong in the course of 30 years or so such that Launceston CBD is technically death now.

[@troybailey9524]

It's like that across the world. Technology means people spend more time on their screens at home. Also people are much poorer now, jobs don't pay as well and everything is much more expensive. People don't have as much money to spend.

[@vman7321]

I was 17yo, saw 2 people I worked with at 6.30 and one of the unemployed youth in the first half is now a Professor

[@thepages2]

Great footage, wow the fashion looks alot older than 91 though lol

[@BoxiesAU]

Great videol

[@rickturner7971]

It was a busy mall back then

[@nickflight]

That was awesome

[@vman7321]

Ps thanks for posting

[@THEMAYQUEEN1]

LOL When I first started watching this I thought you had your dates wrong and that it was more like 1981. You forget that 1991 was over 20 years ago.. WOW

[@TheFennahh]

i was born this year :D

[@Phantom-hy2ix]

I forgot about the wooden cubes near the centre of the Mall.

[@Kendanskylife]

This is great. Hilarious. I know it's not supposed to be but I think it's great. I watched with a big smile. The mall actually looks heaps better then with all the trees etc. that it does now. Now there are 'monster cushions' and the whole place smells like a used ashtray.

[@TheMaster7280]

I know where all these places are, it's so cool!

[@G-w-o-o-d-d]

WOW that's changed

[@9tailedtoad]

omg i was the like two days ago i live in tas :P

[@alienhunter36]

queenstown tas is the town history plus.

[@Tassie20]

Back in the early 1980's I and a few mates of mine went bombing around the streets of Launceston, racing and trying to pick up women, they were the good old days, Love Tasmania for what it has!

[@thomaselliott573]

Good on you mate, glad you enjoyed it.

[@Tassie20]

@@thomaselliott573 Yeah, back in the 1980's we really had some fun on a Friday or Saturday night, doing blockies and occasionally race a EH Holden or HG Holden or XY Ford Falcon off the lights. . . We used to go up the Treavllyn Lookout and sit up there at night and talk to some people on the CB Radio and have a look at the Launceston City Night Lights! No they were the days of good old Launceston they were! 😊

[@figbat1]

my ears are now ringing with a continuous high pitched tone and i dont know what this means. in australia, ross hornes' books have been removed from the libraries and the bookshops. can anyone tell me what i have found?

[@tomwilsondesign1985]

Schitzophrenia?

[@figbat1]

so far i have had eliminations at days 504, 840, 1176, 1512, 1848, 2184, 2520 and 2856. today is day 2903. i have definitely found something. i am not lying. what i have discovered has gone around the world and many songs have been written about it...the foo fighters' last 3 albums.....coldplays' last 3 albums....."vertigo" by U2 (my first name is phil). an elimination is a day when you experience strong flu-like symptoms and feel terrible. bad stuff is washed out of your body.

[@figbat1]

i came up with a theory that involves the book of genesis (fig leaves) buddha (sitting under the bodhi fig tree) jesus (many sayings about figs) ross hornes' book (new health revolution) and science (figs are the most important source of food for fruit eating rainforest animals). i then experimented on the figs by eating mainly dried figs (same brand) for over 7 years now and found cycles which i related to the numbers in psgs 11/12 of the book of revelations. this theory has gone everywhere.

[@onarass]

Looks so much better then it does now. All these friggin bogans with horrid parents hanging around the mall.

[@giggabyt78]

Birchalls will be gone soon

[@JDMilitaria]

Yup, they aren't around anymore

[@fes121tas]

It's pretty sad.

[@JDMilitaria]

FinnIt is, Launceston in general looked better back then

[@Kendanskylife]

Real cars? As opposed to, what, ghost cars?? By the way your wall paper is really disgusting. Don't know what it is but it looks gross.