Melbourne 1964

Here is a rare colour look at Melbourne in late 1964 just before Christmas

[@gusman37]

No plastic bags, bottles, wrapping used back then ... Take me back 😢

[@Prieze868]

Yes and lower rates of cancer cause of no plastic etcetera and less immigration obviously

[@johnedwardpattison4407]

Happier times. I had just finished my final year at R.M.I.T.

[@bettysteve322716]

Lunch in the Coles cafeteria and the Myers windows displays later that night, was a Christmas treat for the kids for many years back then.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

I miss McEwens, great store.

[@Gator1699]

I was there and I remember Foys Roof Top. Garboongah. Thanks for the upload. Cheers

[@johnclifford1537]

Brilliant!! I wasn't born until 71 but my Mum always insisted whenever we go into the City that we dress your best. I think a lot of people here believed that also. They look immaculate. Demons reigning Premiers too !!

[@tessanderson2431]

Fantastic clip! Nobody used plastic bags- all paper and string wrapping and string bags. All the girls had great mod hair does!!

[@user-ov5uu5nn3r]

Quite amazing. Most of the people are now gone, the toddlers are in their 60's now. Time passes quickly. What a beautiful City it was, innocent and clean. We fall downwards rapidly now. Thank you for the wonderful footage.

[@philhudson...5017]

I used to go through Myers Cafe, my natural mum worked there as a pastry chef,, I never met her & walked past her all the time ... She passed away.... 😊🇦🇨🦘👍...

[@Prieze868]

O wow sorry to hear!! I'm in a similar situation.i found out by accident. I was adopted. When I asked (not believing ) the next time my adopted mum baked a moist chocolate cake.any way.proclaiming Im hers.on her death bed she admitted it.she adopted me! My adopted sister Will not give adoption certificate to me,I ve been though find and vanish they can't find adoption is(private)

[@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv]

Excellent music choice.

[@GrumpSkull]

I remember carrying a heavy bag of lay-by stuff up the staircase at Myers with my mother back then. It was the first time I saw an elevator which had an attendant to operate it for you. I asked my mother if we could go up in it but she said: "No, they are too exclusive for us". I asked what exclusive meant and she firmly replied: "They are for customers only". I then struggled with the heavy bag of stuff we just bought there and trudged up the staircase thinking my mother makes absolutely no sense at all. Very conservative times for most.

[@judycasemore2168]

Thanks for the memories I wish we could bring back those good times and the respect we all had for each other .

[@a24-45]

It must have been an unusually cold December. So many women wearing winter wool coats; and kids in jumpers.

[@gregpies1649]

Much of not most of those things were made in Australia by Australian owned businesses and sold in Australian owned retail shops. All gone now either sold off or closed down.

[@GlowingTube]

Very true, we also had a lower income per head in real terms back then too.

[@bert23337]

But a decent house could be purchased for a couple of thousand pounds @@GlowingTube

[@Perusalstein]

@@GlowingTubeand in general, people were less materialistic and more careful with what their earnings bought than in today’s throwit-away-n-buya-new-one era.

[@BrianKavanagh123]

These images are from my film Joyfully and Triumphant

[@GlowingTube]

Wonderful short film. I also saw you in the credits for an early 1960s TV program with Frank Thring in it.

[@DavidOlver]

thank you

[@daleconway141]

I was 6 months old when this was filmed, Lived all my life in Melbourne and so many of these things I remember !!!

[@66secularist]

Maybe that was you sound asleep in the pram.

[@stevewiles7132]

7 years old back then

[@josip909]

Beautiful just when I was born, great greetings from Zadar, Croatia.

[@chrisbye7922]

Fabulous! Thanks for sharing

[@hello88888]

See how everyone wasn't overweight or obese. Still using animal fats, fasting during the day and not eating as much quantities of food or sugar even though several people eating ice creams...

[@AridersLifeYT]

thats because the following generations were raised on fatty foods from birth.

[@michaelmaguire8223]

Let’s all believe in Teleportation and arrive back in Beautiful Melbourne ! Go FITZROY LIONS ! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺. 🍺.

[@marthasheilds2446]

English and Irish stock in Australia 🦘

[@kissmyklawz]

I would have been there then, aged 16

[@ExRhodesian]

A paradise, too bad you lot let is slip away.

[@Prieze868]

Government policy Australia is to be the great mixing bowl of the south a plan put in place in the 1930's or the 1916 and all all buildings that are made by immigrants and you know good enough but it's a really change society it's no in not no longer in English looking

[@redwandennaoui4508]

Oh you beautiful, beautiful Melbourne, where are you? ❤

[@andrewthornhill7042]

My first Christmas......

[@Melbournelost66]

People were well dressed, far more dignified. When i was a kid in the 70s my Mum would take me in on the train from Auburn Station and we'd come out Flinders Street via the Degrave Street subway. There was always a man in a wheelchair selling the Sun or the Herald. From there, it was three arcades two Burke street Myers. . These days one of them is gone. I loved that walk. Lunch was at the Coles Cafeteria or Myers, but Coles was famous with the ladies in yellow uniforms and tiaras. Australia was a much more cohesive society then. Thats the nicest way i can put it.

[@MS-qd6bm]

No mobiles or computers, people had a brain. Give me a time machine.

[@familyhistory4U]

Nice but frustrated by so many tight shots, If only they had been wider street shots we could have learnt so much more about Melbourne.

[@GrumpSkull]

Move with the times. Telephoto lenses were it back then.

[@tessanderson2431]

It was of its time... 1964. Look at the people, the social habits , the demographics of Melbourne at the time. This is a wonderfully edited clip ( possibly my amateur??) that provides a vignette of the time

[@lloydmatthews6967]

WOULD LOVE TO HAVE OWNED A MENS TIE SHOP THEN

[@merpav]

The good old days

[@HMASJervisBay]

I was 6 and my Nana would take us to Meyers, where we had meat pie and chips in the cafeteria. Then run amock outta control. Toys were a great pacifier. Then, on Saturday, avo Carlton with Uncle Joe and Nana, but Barrassi was our favourite player. When he came to Carlton in 67, my uncle cried, "There is a God." Oh, I lived in Jacana then.

[@GlowingTube]

@@HMASJervisBay Lovely story

[@gail2500]

My mum was Ron Barrassi's housecleaner in Heathmont. 😊

[@HMASJervisBay]

@@gail2500 As a boy, he was one of the kids in my street, Kinnaird St's idol. Although none barracked for Melbourne. I met him when Swans coach I was in the navy and would take my kids to Randwick army barracks met Brereton then also at the swimming pool. Go Blues. Great memories.

[@bert23337]

So many overcoats being worn at Christmas... it must be Melbourne

[@denisthemenace.]

Ah my beautiful Melbourne, once so great, now so horrible. Why did we let it happen?

[@douglasbanks3318]

The year i was born at the Royal women's hospital

[@Prieze868]

Is the royal arcade tea house coffee shop used to have beautiful large Paisley dark green wallpaper racing green wallpaper and now the homogenised it made into something modern with the Greys

[@ThePlataf]

You mean the Hopetoun Tea Rooms?

[@jamesgovett2501]

$25.95 for a small Sanyo transistor radio (12 pounds 19 shillings and sixpence) you could get a modern equivalent for about the same money today in numerical terms but that price back then would probably be around $600.00 in todays money!!

[@GlowingTube]

Cars, electronics and clothing was expensive back then. Food and housing was not.

[@brianlove8413]

It would be around $406 in 2023

[@aheat3036]

More English than London!… How does it look these days?

[@ACDZ123]

The Congo

[@marthasheilds2446]

💯 agree full of English and Irish invaders in Australia left the miserable UK.

[@brianlove8413]

@@ACDZ123 I would have thought Mumbai.

[@ACDZ123]

@@brianlove8413 take your pick 🤦‍♂️

[@davidharlem6824]

Totally fu.ked!

[@octurn]

Bet Lygon Street was the only place you could get a decent coffee.

[@brianlove8413]

And what was wrong with Pablo :-)

[@jenniemortimer2361]

No track suits, no tattoos, no overweight individuals

[@StrawberryFieldsNIR]

Some of those Santas were a little on the creepy side, particularly the last one.

[@medullaoblongata9670]

English Crocodile?

[@GlowingTube]

Yes indeed. It was very upmarket to say products were from England

[@darylcumming7119]

Time capsule.

[@marylewis-577]

Definitely not swinging London 😅

[@ACDZ123]

Londonistan

[@roderick2105]

What is the name of the instrumental in the first part of this video. Its great

[@GlowingTube]

What every the shape you are in. T Bones

[@roderick2105]

@@GlowingTube Thanks Glowing !!! My ears are now glowing !!

[@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv]

It's fantastic

[@SunnyBoyy448]

Before multiculturalism

[@marthasheilds2446]

Not really as most of the Europeans are immigrants in Australia from the UK and Ireland and even today so many expats in Australia. Loads of racism brought from England to Australia.

[@SunnyBoyy448]

@@marthasheilds2446 multiculturalism means different cultures. English, Irish are our people and culture

[@wan-juyim1919]

100% Europeans. Not a single Asian has been seen.

[@GlowingTube]

@@wan-juyim1919 It was the White Australia policy