Life In Australia: Adelaide

Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966. Directed by James Jeffrey. A picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s, social, commercial and recreational. The Life In Australia series portrays Australian cities and rural centres as happy, lively places where good homes, abundant jobs, schools, hospitals and amenities provide the foundation for a relaxed lifestyle where sport, shopping, religion and even art combine to create a homogenous and prosperous society. If you have any information about the people or places in this film we would love to hear your comments.

[@alvarolecuona8073]

My name is Álvaro and I am the one playing the guitar at Il Bistro In Life in Australia: Adelaide. I lived ten years in that beautiful country!.

[@NFSAFilms]

Alvaro Lecuona Hi Alvaro, wow thanks for letting us know. That is a good little feature you got in that film. Nice guitar playing.

[@alvarolecuona8073]

Thanks for being so kind with me. This is wonderful!.

[@alvarolecuona8073]

Il Bistro Rest. was at Hindley st.,

[@shelookstome8727]

+Alvaro Lecuona That's brilliant! Wonderful guitar playing. :)

[@QuestionsStuff]

Thats sooooo cool lol

[@7s29]

Footage of the Chrysler factory is awesome, some great cars built there. These were the days Australia made things, now we make nothing.

[@erlstone]

my great great grandfather started that factory...one of the first Aussie cars...Richards and sons...then became Chrysler, then Mitsu....but I guess you knew all that

[@alexcalos595]

You are so correct, how depressing

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

satan corporation has fool3d most good people. blessed are the car makers.

[@retta6026]

I learnt to drive in a Chrysler lol

[@paulwhite8493]

John Howard happened

[@Thepourdeuxchanson]

I remember this era. My father was stationed at RAAF Edinburgh Field as part of an RAF detachment. We lived in Elizabeth, a large and growing suburb not far from beautiful Adelaide, which we often took the train to. We loved the open sided wooden seated trains which travelled along with the cattle-truck style doors wide open! We visited the offices of a newspaper - I think it was "The Australian" where we were told they had a page all typeset and ready to go for when the bad news would come that the Queen had died. That page (no doubt long since digitized) would be about fifty years old now and no doubt periodically reviewed and amended, still in the safe! Adelaide was so pretty, set out in concentric belts of parkland and handsome buildings, with the statue of Colonel Light, its founder, overlooking the city on Light's Stand. Spectacular sunsets and great beauty. What a lovely place! I'll never forget it.

[@lesskinner8588]

"We visited the offices of a newspaper - I think it was "The Australian" " . . . that would have been The Advertiser, still in print, but also online now. I guess that would have been the Queen Mothers death in 2002 ?

[@brucebanner5073]

Still all those things

[@kennethroyce5968]

Yes hi would dated around 1967 because of the Valiant cars on the production line and the taxi being used and also everything else around the place.Thanks to the person/s who put this clip on,very good.

[@NFSAFilms]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

[@suej9329]

I think early 1967, judging by the girls’s fashions and hairstyles. I used to work at Cox Foys in the school holidays and have ridden on that Ferris wheel. 🎡

[@carolinejanssen9034]

Love Adelaide it’s beautiful. I wish I could visit more often

[@brettwilkinson9529]

I adore watching all these clips. I'm a time person and I'm always intrigued by the people in them , wondering how their futures turned out, how long they lived till and where they eventually ended up.

[@shelookstome8727]

I feel exactly the same way!! :)

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

most of them think they're living upsidedown like fruitbats. it's horrible to witness. water at rest always forms a level surface. everytime.

[@MaikeVogtLueerssen]

Adelaide in South Australia is a beautiful place to live. I saw all the other big cities in Australia and lived in Sydney, Brisbane and Alice Springs before my family and I moved to Adelaide. We have everything around us: the most beautiful beaches, deserts, National Parks like the Flinders Ranges, Coffin Bay National Park, Canunda National Park etc. If you like places with thousands of people, with many night clubs etc., then you should really go to Melbourne and Sydney.

[@pepper419]

Now it's Brisbane that's overrun with population and nightlife. Not to mention the Gold Coast. You did the right thing stopping in Adelaide. I cut my throat and left.

[@AustNRail]

We made and exported back then now we import everything including people. It was better back then.

[@Ghastly10]

Ahh the memories, of a time a lot less hectic and what not than what we have these days. Even though it would be two more years after this film was made, that would be born at the Stirling Hospital in the Adelaide Hills.

[@LASTCARDMANILA]

I absolutely loved this and i knew Bev harrell. She lived on Sturt Road across from Marion Shopping Centre.. This brings back so many fond memories for me too.. Thanks ever so much.. Loved it !!!

[@vivekshivdasani9521]

One of the advantages of working in the service sector in Australia was that the best looking girls stayed clear away from manufacturing jobs. I remember my days of working in a temp agency in Sydney in the nineties. All the waitresses looked like fashion models, I kid you not. Apart from the Australians They came from all over the world. From England, France, Italy, Ireland etc. There was a hot number from Sweden as well. It was fun working in Australia and the hourly wage rate is the best in the world.

[@Varen1667]

Loved it...still do!

[@mikesj101]

How much fun would it be to re-create this, a modern day version?

[@Arianddu]

The painting class - is that in the Schultz building? Now part of Adelaide Uni, but at the time would have been part of the Teachers College

[@alandivineb1028]

Genuine Aussie Dreams

[@Moo01100]

Simple times with minimal fuss and limited neurosis. I want to live in a place like that. Trouble is, it doesn't exist anymore.

[@fjbutch]

My home town....great vid...get a load of the Bay tram...my Grandfather was the Marshal of the tramways back then...''Reg Tyler..''.

[@madogmabz]

Most buetiful city in the world 2024

[@russelljenkins69]

This is amazing!

[@_ThatGuyGus_]

absolutely amazing !!!

[@TheColdplayer04]

I love Adelaide , I always wanted to live here !

[@darrylosborn511]

My mother would take me on that Popeye boat when I was a kid back in 1971 and it's still there today. 2021

[@bravelyHomoSapien]

That was Adelaide, 2019

[@JohnPereira-nl7hu]

LOL.Or N.Z.2029.😂

[@jcdenton9764]

one of my life goals is to go australia for 6 months, maybe even a full year. touring with a RV would be my choice.

[@NFSAFilms]

A bit like this maybe? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZucioWIdratjbM

[@jcdenton9764]

yeah a bit like that. :)

[@duongkien4837]

I remember the Torrent River !

[@WMImages]

I love the way the guy in hotted up car at 2:14 at one moment is going past Grenfell St on King William St, then back past the Town Hall and then turns into North Tce - it might have been alright to drive like that 50 years ago but you can have your car impounded for hoon driving like that nowadays.

[@johnturner1073]

Anyone else miss Friday nights at Rowley Park Speedway, even after all these years?

[@888jucu]

I rememeber International raceway the smell of the methanol Sprint cars and getting showered by mud pellets if you happended to be standing on the turns. Was young then and a bit rough place with a lot pissed aggressive wankers around mum was always keen to ferry us away quickly after the last race in the VL Valiant 😄

[@casscumerford5886]

@@888jucu i recall no.99 race car in 1958 ? ---programme said his name was joe blow

[@sniperquasi]

Very, very few of us.

[@007JHS]

I wonder who the duck wrangler was... very convenient having such cooperative ducks.

[@johnpro2847]

These are the days when a small deposit you could afford a home...clothes were expensive ..but now all reversed.

[@debangelcake]

Does anyone know where/what the outdoor restaurant was and if it still exists. It looked somewhat familiar.

[@anneshepherdson674]

Yes I would also like to know

[@ERLizaard]

Looked like Decca's restaurant in North Adelaide, (Melbourne Street?).

[@hedgemist691]

Did the tram doors really open on to the road like that?(1.04) I bet there were a few accidents.

[@kalaranjimaheswaran2017]

To Life in Australia - The human genetics in Adelaide.🌦 Dear Sir, Thank you for the documentary. The questions in Australia and then extended to Adelaide are in the numbers in the population at the given points in time and the participation in the food networks. The strengths and weaknesses of the human genetics could vary and on that the skill could vary at the given points in time and have an effect on the value added in the goods and services positioned as tradable goods and services in the domestic markets and in the instances for tradable goods in the exports markets. Wish Adelaide and Australia all the best for the future. Greetings Kalaranji Maheswaran.✍

[@imakubreathless]

I wish Adelaide was still like this I'm 19 I was born in 94 and it looks nothing like it did back than now. my mum was born in '60 and I wish I cld have swapped places with her or my grandma who was born in the 40s. I was born in the wrong rime I hate all the developements

[@stepheneverett7164]

Ah ....roof top Xmas party at Cox Foys

[@jasoncarpp7742]

I don't like drunks and brawls, that's for damn sure. I do like stores. I also like movie theatres.

[@JabaarHD]

MY MOTHER WAS BORN IN 1972

[@sarahb6529]

Ha! This might have been the video that brought my mother and her family over to Adelaide

[@m.j.2939]

I was born that year in Adelaide. This was like a romantic movie except for the smoking indoors lol. What a lovely era. Local products locally made, normal sized healthy people doing healthy activities, speaking to each other, manners, cleanliness, no boozing or drugs in the parks or being harassed. Normal families doing normal fun. People dressed immaculately with class and style. Omg society has gone downhill so fast in such a short time

[@tba3900]

SA used to have a lot of manufacturing, the only thing manufactured now is meth

[@pepper419]

I take it you're a resident?

[@alibabahck]

It's crazy that despite how much Adelaide has changed since then, almost all of the places shown are totally recognisable and the character has remained.

[@kdburner7356]

shit hole nowadays

[@jodeofoz]

It's just the people who have changed really.

[@geoffg6867]

The old Public B.B.Q. stocked with wood, no charge and no one would pinch the wood what a set up!!!! No vandals back in them days I must be dreaming.

[@Seánybruv]

That’s because everyone was white

[@kdburner7356]

@@Seánybruv that’s crazy, a comment about race left without abuse for a month

[@killerbunyip]

at 10:41...the ferris wheel and amusements on top of the old Cox Foys building, Rundle St (later Mall.) My mum used to take me up there when I was a little kid. I tell people now and they think I'm crazy but here's the proof!

[@NFSAFilms]

+killerbunyip Would have been great fun.

[@alanaholmes6691]

Yeah, I remember the ferris wheel, it was scary for a little kid .

[@swedishbob_7315]

Same here lived in Adelaide all my life ... The cafe in the Coles building with those red spinning stools :) the old MTT buses :)

[@blackstone3323]

My grand father and i went for a ride on that ferris wheel when it was positioned so that the carriages went past the edge ,or side of the building, you could look straight down to the foot path . Very scary for me as i was only 7.

[@VuPhamMusic]

People seemed to have a lot of class back then.

[@petemitchell3067]

V Pham Australians?Class?🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

@@petemitchell3067 Since this original comment was 6yrs ago and yours is 2mths i am going for ever more recent. Apparently we did. Recently watched some old footage from the 70s in Whyalla. I was taken aback. What we would consider yobbo's actually spoke very proper. I was beside myself laughing. WOW

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

@pjdsa Spot on. Lot of well put together evil people out there. Some people do mistake someone looking clean cut as immediately trustworthy. But it aint so.

[@maxcleghorn]

Keep in mind this was a promotional film for advertising adelaide as a city. Likely in order to attract immigrants. Of course they're gonna show it as more classy and sophisticated.

[@judithschneider7000]

High standards, social manners and respect

[@Jarvee12]

Adelaide, Australias best kept secret

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

Hope it stays that way

[@francespowell6923]

@Deb only boring people get bored, as my grandma used to say.

[@rufusmctavish6442]

Just drown yourself Deb. That would be a good escape. You sound like a batxxxx boring thing yourself.

[@francespowell6923]

@Deb did you just do a wordy version of "No, you!"? LOLWOW

[@marcusmansour5075]

Shhh!🤫

[@jamesgluyas]

I love as someone born in 2001 that I can recognise everything in this video. Adelaide just seems like it’s always had a certain charm to it. I don’t get why people bash on it so hard sometimes.

[@nurse580]

Notice how everyone is SLIM, elegant and nicely dressed... and society has supposedly advanced? Isn’t it obvious the deterioration and just from this one video in one place

[@thegallantsaint2034]

Please take me back to that time. 2021....Australia has gone down the tubes.

[@ferrarikangaroo9271]

Can confirm.

[@TheTheTheTheTheThe]

Hate comments like this

[@pepper419]

Have you seen the rest of the world?

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

yeah... even more down the tubes... @@pepper419

[@pawellewis2155]

I was 13 during 1966. Began my first job as an, apprentice italian marble stonemason in 1969. Adelaide was different back then. People were more friendly. I feel as though, it was from about 1988 that attitudes changed. During the 60's and 70's employment was easier. You would approach, the foreman or boss of firm, with a relevant enquiry. The boss or his foreman, would set up an interview date. Then the employer, would notify you of a probationary period. Also there, would be a preliminary induction, on first day of employment. None of this , having to register with agencies. These days it is, very humiliating seeking employment. Just about feels like you are begging. The budget has to be, organised very carefully. No such thing as petrol allowance. This is what other, people on centrelink benefits, would experience also. The week you are not paid, by the government i refer to as " The quiet week ". Why?. Because i keep my meals very basic and simple. Can not afford to go visit friends, because of the petrol cost. Even with my four cylinder car, i have to be ever so frugal. Centrelink pay day, is on wednesday of the second week. I only get to spoil myself, to the extent of moderation. Moderation? LOL! Yes exactly. Counter meal at the pub. No chance of that. Far too extravagant, on the miserable pittance, this obviously corrupt government pays. The meals i spoil myself with, are chips with a nice butterfish. Yiros. Goulash with marinated chicken. But this is, only on a saturday or friday evening, of the centrelink payday week. Unemployed for two years so far!. LOL! So while having meal, at the fish & chips cafe, i feel a bit overwhelmed. I pretend i be at the restaurant somewhere. Because of my budget, i just can not tolerate food being wasted. When i see, what food people waste, it actually disgusts and angers me. Half of their dinner plate, still has an unfinished meal on it. For me their is no excuse for that. Unfortunately 90%, of adelaide people have money to burn. Selfish, arrogant, wasteful plus ignorant. Rude and very negative attitudes. About 95% of people, appear to be that way these days. The attitude and mentality, of adelaide citizens has definitely become severe. I agree with P. Nabsie. The 60's, 70's, and 80's were the decades, when employment was easier to achieve. At least back in those years, i was not begging for a job.

[@kristopherbell9885]

Pawel Lewis why 88 do you think pawel? very specific. Dont listen to fem chick, 'people these days have the highest standard of living?' Mmm not sure everyone would agree. Generally we all need to be a bit less generalistic haha dont you think? world is too big to be general. we need a more local approach.

[@togoulo02]

Pawel Lewis hey buddy how are you......just curious where u worked as an apprentice? any chance is was on days rd ferryden pk? my dad died months before I was born....he worked as a marble polisher...he died in may 1970 when a few slabs he was moving fell on him....ive always wanted to talk to someone who may have been there that day for closure......thanks from peter

[@pawellewis2155]

Gooday mate!. I began my memorial mason apprenticeship,with a firm on main north road at nailsworth. Their business name was " Neill & Shelton's ". They were exactly opposite, the radio rentals shop. Basically on the corner of, cemetery ave and main north road.When i began apprenticeship during 1969,The car dealership next to us on cemetery ave, was " Ken Eustice ". ## My condolences for your Dad. Thanks for replying.

[@togoulo02]

thank u so much for responding ill find closure one day im sure of it...thank you for your condolences....and wow ken eustice...that takes me back

[@billypoppins9138]

You doing alright mate?

[@upyours1256]

notice the barbecue , all meat no bread and salad + notice no fat people !

[@deejayemceeflounder4328]

They would’ve been struggling to get any meat off all those bones

[@dits791]

I remember living in Kilkenny around 1960 - 65 and hearing the sound of clip clop coming down the street every morning around 9am, it was a horse towing a bakers van (might have been Tip Top) delivering freshly made loaves of bread and a finger bun for me, not the crappy sliced stuff you get today. Also remembering to put out our empty glass milk bottles with coins for the milky to deliver fresh milk every morning, never had any one steal the money before the milky arrived, and the milk was milk, with an inch of cream at the top of the bottle. No video games or mobile phones, made our own fun playing marbles with the kids down the street, cricket out on the street, used a rubbish bin as a wicket and get off the road when a car came along, kicking an old bloated football, (never had a new one ) or flying a home made kite. Great days.

[@saxgrrrl]

I love the jazzy sound tracks to these films. Ahh, those were the days, and even musicians had work!

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

very true. before the dark times...

[@beeeecus]

I’m living in Adelaide now. It’s amazing to see that I can still recognize different parts of the Adelaide CBD. They really kept those iconic buildings until today :)

[@KRW1612]

Yeah, they call it 'Heritage Listing', even if it's an old tin shed, or a dilapidated barber shop. Only in Adelaide.

[@dv2735]

I saw you at Victoria square yesterday

[@kdburner7356]

@@dv2735 Fuck off you freak ahahhahaha

[@Runningrampage25]

Good old Aussie made stuff with Aussie made people none of today's import rubbish from who knows where

[@carolrebers6998]

Brought back memories of working in Adelaide and the old buildings Cox Foys, railway station, riding on the boat on the Torrens, lovely days, fashion, cars, scenery, restaurants...thankyou😊

[@totalrecall8385]

You back then drove a car made in Australia, watched a tv made here, listened to a radio made here, wore clothing made here and you guessed it, ate food ,shopped and bought Australian made. Thank you Government for making us into a 3rd world nation and importing all the refuse from shit countries , wow what a great country we haven't became.

[@Roger__Wilco]

What would you have done different, I mean we were able to keep local car manufacturing viable for decades after this video but I don't see how we could have stayed competitive with electronics manufacturing especially. Even through the 80s all electronics were massively expensive luxury items. You saying we're a "3rd world nation" now is just a joke, it's silly to say that just because we aren't in a position to be a world leader in mass production.

[@bloggaloggs]

@@Roger__Wilco He wouldn't have done anything differently. He wouldn't have done anything at all, actually. Just a whinging rightard with a chip on his shoulder but nothing to contribute.

[@d_shi]

Ok boomer

[@BerlinerStadtschloss]

My god, how nice were these times, when cars were still classy and people properly dressed.

[@pommygeezer9309]

It's pretty awesome to see Horses galloping round the racetrack at Vic Park... Should bring it back and get rid of Clipsal! Adelaide is a beautiful City. People can slag it off all they like. In my heart it's a beautiful city and the people are very friendly. The ones that are not friendly end up in a barrel.. and thats 'fair dinkum.' 'Mate.'

[@morp8047]

Life is portrayed as one big dreamy affair.

[@jeanhodgson8623]

I.e, you agree with my comment that this video isn't realistic.

[@peterjonas1545]

These productions are heavy stylized immigration propaganda. They look beautiful for viewing and are enticing for the right target audience but beyond that, they are just ridiculous in depiction.

[@pepper419]

When I was there, Modbury Hospital hadn't been built and I lived just down the street from its location. My daughter was born there just after it opened. There were vineyards in Modbury then off Montague Road. Seems strange now. I haven't seen the place in over forty years.

[@dosai5094]

This film was for me like the time machine! It's so nice when you can see the life style of individuals many years ago. Awsome. Friendly and beautiful peoples with smile on their faces. I have been lived there for three years, realy good peoples and good place to live!!! I think local peoples realy can proud with it.

[@pnabsie5830]

At a time when we made stuff, weren't the nanny state and could get a job anywhere anytime. Cars, electronics, and good public transport.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

legendary comment.

[@danrussell9411]

Adelaide never has been a nanny state thankyou. Theres nothing wrong with adelaide. A nice small town with everything one needs.

[@hughconboy7330]

I'm watching this now at 25, was life really that great back then? Honestly I watched the other video about life in Sydney. Back then people lived. You went to work to live, you didn't live to work. And back then you were either a superstar or you weren't. Nowadays there is so much expectation on kids, and we are all expected to be rocket scientists or brain surgeons. We spend all this time studying only to find ourselves in dead end jobs or living on benefits. And people knew how to live, you would leave the house and do things like dancing or going to the theatre and stuff. And apparently people didn't do these courses unless you were going to be a doctor or a lawyer. I wasn't alive back then of course but it seems like we're the first generation to not be better off than the one before us, depending who you ask. Was it really that great or is this just my rose colour glasses?

[@oldbloke204]

@J K And how much are those crap cars worth now?

[@dits791]

@@oldbloke204 Agree, i had one of those VC Valiants shown being built, not a new one, cost me around $1,000 in the late 70's and i wish i still had it today, worth a quite a bit now if it's in good nick.

[@glenpennington8053]

Office worker and taxi driver living a life of luxury, wanting for nothing. How did we ruin this so badly? Why did we stop making the world a better place for our children?

[@NoosaHeads]

Adelaide looked like a really lovely place in the mid 60s. It's still a nice place but the globalists have left their ugly mark on what was an almost perfect city.

[@d_shi]

Ok boomer

[@paulduffield2102]

I agree, place is getting built up with shit cheap high rise buildings and third world scum

[@olivejake3053]

Racist alert. Aren't you going a little too far?

[@Manseb]

It was much better when all the females were blonde and everything looked like Hollywood.

[@lshreds1424]

Everyone dressed so stylish in these times

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

our women model themselves on transgendered males such as marilyn monroe and everyone in hollyweird

[@harryb3456]

Ok boomer

[@Cynastriene]

@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 that says so much more about your own personal desperation.

[@maxcleghorn]

@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 You seem obsessed with attacking transgenders? Are you projecting a little there buddy

[@judithschneider7000]

Well we didnt have all the terrible Chinese etc imports of 2nd grade ill fitting clothing.like we have to suffer today. Clothes were properly made back then, more tailor made, quality cotton etc. Now they fall to bits, stretch out of shape, go bally, slapped together and people so gulliblely buy clothes with holes in them that are somehow trendy, beuond comprehension. Sanity and commonsense prevailed back then. They were def uncomplicated good times, slow pace. Family was so important back then.Best of all no computers and mobile phones..

[@colkuskey8657]

I was born 1961. Growing up through the 60’s was the best. Didn’t have much but had lots of great outdoor fun, It was an adventure. Values were much more important than today. Can’t get anyone’s attention now, they’re so addicted to their zombie phones. Adelaide has never been rated by the Eastern states, no respect.Great lifestyle.

[@NFSAFilms]

@Padeo17 Glad you liked it. We do have more films about "old" Adelaide and will be posting soon. Stay tuned!

[@vanessaabbas2309]

What a great insight 😍 I wish I experienced that 70s life. Adelaide remains as pretty as ever of course

[@robbierude9833]

People putting cars together. Mostly it's robots that do that now. It's no wonder jobs are scarce.

[@jem30six]

haha what they don't mention is the underground water was poisoned in Tonsley/Clovelly park from the car industry there!

[@SuperSkipper08]

It brought back memories of visiting Adelaide in the 1960's. I was a 6 year old when this was filmed. My Granny lived at Parkside and I loved it all. I lived 200kms away on a farm and I just loved the buzz of the city the sights and sounds and smells.

[@lauralovesnintendo]

I'm only 17 years old, but the 60s looked awesome. I've always thought I was born in the wrong time.

[@ELApickle]

26 now lol

[@mitchellcooper7]

Would look the same if the globalists didn't leave their ugly mark on it

[@Winebikesandaxes]

Back in the day ... When we used to build our cars.

[@BlueSkyBS]

+Giles Fulton And radios.

[@bigyin2586]

...and hardly anybody could afford a new one, including imports, thanks to the massive tariffs placed on them. Poorly made, low tech (even for the time), modestly equipped and expensive.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

@ big yin. are you a stealth transgendered person like donald trump?

[@harryb3456]

Ok boomer

[@Cynastriene]

Nice guitar skills Alvaro! We very much enjoyed your part in this film. Thank you for letting us know you're out there! Health & long life to you!!

[@patriciaburridge1907]

Being 70 and living in Adelaide my whole life I recognised and remember it well . So nostalgic!

[@noelroberts8199]

Look at all the Holdens in the streets, what a shame our Aussie car industry went the way it did, shame on successive governments for letting our car industry die. If only they had put tariffs on imported cars then, maybe our car industry might have survived now......................

[@ALITISA78]

Good quality life with simple things, These days its no quality with fast fake living. Id pick the old days over today. People might not have had as much back then but it what they did have was of quality, and life was enjoyed. Also drugs hadn't done their damage on the human brain yet so you didn't have anywhere near as many psychotic people running around.

[@shakeAbooty88]

+Nikoletta P Fair statements all round.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

Nikoletta P A lot of people won't like this comment but: white people could have a life and work hard and enjoy themselves without constantly being attacked and criticized for being white. No BLM, no SJWs shoving transvestites in women's bathrooms down your throat, no constant drumbeat of aggression against straight white males. A lot less stress and worry in life. I was a small child in the 60s and I remember clearly was life was like then. People nowadays are desperate and miserable and always second-guessing themselves, they don't know who they are or where they come from anymore. Family, community, church, all the institutions that used to define us have been stripped away and destroyed by the left. Now we're all just floating around in empty nothing, binge buying and stuffing ourselves in the attempt to feel some connection to something.

[@jclarkson1618]

Drugs were just as prominent and more pure so less people were over dosing which meant more overall users. The quality of life may have been better but they still had the same problems. In fact in the 60's they had even worse problems such as conscription, this is a fictionalization but i agree with you, the way people wiz around on their bloody gadgets is so annoying. Just look around for a second, see the world. Anyway always pleasure to hear someones opinion on the matter.

[@bigyin2586]

Jeremy Clarkson when did conscription begin?

[@harryb3456]

Ok boomer

[@peterbrowne3268]

Back in the days when most of the cars (Holdens & Valiants), televisions and radios(Philips) were made in Adelaide. We're losing or have lost all those skills. If you don't use it you lose it!

[@PlasmaMongoose]

It was eventually sent overseas because it became the cheaper option unfortunately.

[@Ghastly10]

@@PlasmaMongoose Unfortunately true, and eventually it will come back if not already to bite us.

[@R0d_1984]

@@PlasmaMongoose No, not really cheaper, lot of hidden costs, like privatization, it's a scam

[@glennaa11]

the ones without dialogue are unintentionally hilarious since you can make up your own story. Did they abandon the girl at the beach?

[@chow729]

She played with local great white sharks

[@rawnature8148]

I checked this morning, she has not aged well but she is still there.

[@julieannejoolz]

I remember all the landmarks and the clothes and hairstyles..i was 11 back then, i miss being a kid then..it was all good...long xmas holidays that lasted 8 weeks...and going to the movies in Rundle street...those were the days..the Actress is a lady called Judy Dick and she used to be in the Here's Humphrey Show....with that honey loving bear...Humphrey...🤗❤🤗

[@sushimamba4281]

I was wondering who she was... can't find much on her though.

[@serendigity]

I was living in the Adelaide hills as a 6 year old when this was made :)

[@jandrew0639]

Those are places I remember All my life, though some have changed Some forever, not for better Some have gone and some remain J.Lennon

[@Paul-hp6zp]

I remember these days, except I didn't realise how uncolourful everything was,tram was fun to ride on,I lived at Glenelg for a while.i also the barrosa,picked grapes to.the old Australia.i like EK wagon.i lived in the Hills to,born up there,spent a lot of time a long the coast line,either fossicking,a lot of life back then,crabs, abalone,we would find underneath the build boulders when the tide was out,fish stuck in the pools.fished with dad out port,larges bay,for the whiting,snapper,gar which taste horrid & tiny bones..I went to a classic little country school which is still there.hi to South Australians.👍🇦🇺

[@karlhorvat9387]

Back then we had a smaller population and we made heaps of things here.. Now we've got a bigger city, but we don't make much of anything. Are we all going to end up serving coffees to each other in cafes? Would have been easier being a taxi driver too, as the city ended at bus stop 21! Now I live near bus stop 52, and the suburbs go way beyond. Excellent footage. I hope someone has done the same for each decade since...

[@The1rhirhi]

Omg so true

[@deanmcinerney2324]

Ha ha ha.... yeah I wonder myself.... are we just gonna end up selling each other coffe and cake.... so ridiculous isnt it.

[@geoffaldwinckle1096]

Lol.

[@serendigity]

I don't think they were done after that. Note the lack of any narration, these were probably designed for use in Europe to attract migrants to Australia rather than as a documentary of reality. All the features people seem to be actors...

[@harryb3456]

Ok boomer

[@loumarlow7295]

This is exactly what it was like when we arrived in Adelaide from England in 1971. Swap the cab driving for a bus ànd the secretary for the process worker and that was my parents. My sister and I took dance class too 🤣💕I was a wonderful place to grow up. We moved further out to the southern suburbs as the city grew and raised my own kids here ☺️

[@dougtaylor4726]

I remember going on the Cox Foys ferris wheel in 1971, that vision bought back memories of times past

[@paulcatalano1441]

Adelaide was so cool back then.. and everyone looks so dapper 🙏 i was born in 88 but wish i was born in this generation today in Adelaide people barely will wave and say hello all to distracted by technology its actually really sad.

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

what a beautiful time to live in australia, our fore fathers were smart, we had strong manufacturing, we made everything that a country needed , high import tariffs protected our factories from the cheap slave labour from Asian countries , now we have free trade, our factories all gone, sidchrome, victa mowers, Stanley tools , holden, to name a few, all gone because of cheap Asian imports , now we are selling out to china, there buying our land, migrating in the tens of thousands, some Aussie suburbs look more like china, governments sold Australians out , RIP AUSTRALIA

[@iamshotty]

How's that - Only just the other day my Father and I were driving through Mile End and my Father was telling me the story about when he worked at Perry Engineering Co Est 1916, (the taxi drives past it at 2:52mins). It's no longer there, (replaced by huge shopping centers), and I never got to see it because it closed down in 1969 ( I was born 1968), and wish I had. What a thrill to see it here! THANK YOU so much! Subscribed!!

[@NFSAFilms]

Great, thanks for the feedback and welcome aboard.

[@gillianbrookwell1678]

My family had only been living in Adelaide for three years in the year of 1966, when we came over from the U K. I haven't lived in S A for many years, but I remember every street, the River Torrens, the Botanical Gardens, Glenelg, the tram, Adelaide Zoo, and many of the suburbs, like it was yesterday. Life was much easier back then.

[@adrianwilliams6908]

So many serial killers

[@KarinaEames]

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[@michaelspears7116]

I'm American and last went to Australia in 2009, but regrettably, I never had the chance to see Adelaide. What's the city like nowadays?

[@alien-_-0180]

Not gonna lie I love ❤️ Australia and Adelaide been here since I was 16 and I love it ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@sweetchartreux7380]

Same here... Adelaide has been my hometown since I was 12 and my good old memories will mostly be with it. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺❤️❤️❤️

[@Rexism7]

i loved Adelaide born 1982., this 17 years before i was born.. Sadly Adelaide really gone to heck over 40 years is not child friendly city no more, sum up some stuff we lost - Magic Mountain + The Show-fair grounds next to magic mountain. then inner city Ferry rides picnic parks festive activities along city water banks. .we lost the theme parks on both sides of Adelaide. they all closed down large open markets places. always fun to go shopping all arcades are gone to. I'am both Sad & Lucky as child & early teen tobe 1 of last to have experienced Adelaide prime time was thee best place for kids tobe raised.. before, not what it is now.. - i think we still have rose garden botanic - I think ?? sigh,

[@dianes9151]

So true, it is not the friendly place it used to be. We left in the mid 90's. It is like it has lost its soul.

[@TigerRogers0660]

I remember the canteen on the top floor of Cox Foys - with the blue & white tiled floor & those large aluminium trays to serve your food on!!

[@wbadventures2024]

Quality is so good, must of been good times, things were slowly improving and happening for Adelaide

[@thewiseone7104]

Thank you so much. I was born in Adelaide, in 1966, and your film gave me the opportunity of seeing life through my mother's eyes. She and my father used to take long walks around the city when she was pregnant with me.

[@shotgunwound]

1966, back when people didn't pull their phones out at the dinner table or in restaurants....

[@SimsMovieCreater]

And when Holdens were gaining height in production.

[@godfreypoon5148]

+T.J. Not in this country. But don't worry, I know of countries where you can find exactly what it is you're looking for today!

[@ossian11]

I remember people read newspapers or magazines at the table back then...

[@dougodyssey50]

Would be funny watching someone pull a telephone out if their waistcoat pocket in 1966. A phone was about the size of a toaster and came with a cord and plug. XD

[@peterm1826]

when people didn't say Awsome every 5 seconds and didn't dress like rejects

[@joeldecoster8816]

moved my family from Adelaide to Gold Coast and regret it so much, Adelaide is my home. I miss it so badly, but its too late now, i will die on this trashy Gold Coast, a pauper, and bored to death.

[@MrKenng123]

Love Adelaide, its situated in the middle of Australia. Whether you are from Perth or from Sydney, it doesn't take so long to travel. Beautiful city with blue skies all year round, and from beach to hills only half hour, so convenient. Definitely the best and most beautiful city in Oz.

[@hughmcinally907]

2500km from Perth, 1400km from Sydney. Not really that close. And hardly our most beautiful city, despite it's charms.

[@summertime787]

@@hughmcinally907 The little girl and her mother was driving down the mountain and the car lost it's brakes and ran off the edge of the mountain and flipped over and over down the cliff with the little girl and her mother inside both of them were barefooted and wearing their bikini tops and bottoms

[@hughmcinally907]

@Rodger Hodgson Don't get me wrong, I like Adelaide, but 'beautiful' is definitely not an adjective that springs to mind when I think about it. Most of Sydney is a shithole, but it is still far and away the most beautiful city in Australia.

[@MarkWhich]

I wouldn't say blue skies all year round, we get average of about 3-4 clear blue skies a week, but much less in the winter too. But I swear the weather looked better years old

[@robertmoffattrob122]

Maybe more footage of the scenerys and building of Adelaide and Elizabeth and other suburbs , not two people in love lol