Here is a rare colour look at Melbourne in late 1964 just before Christmas
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@gusman373 жыл бұрын
No plastic bags, bottles, wrapping used back then ... Take me back 😢
@Prieze868Ай бұрын
Yes and lower rates of cancer cause of no plastic etcetera and less immigration obviously
@johnedwardpattison4407 Жыл бұрын
Happier times. I had just finished my final year at R.M.I.T.
@bettysteve3227162 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I miss McEwens, great store.
@Gator1699 Жыл бұрын
I was there and I remember Foys Roof Top. Garboongah. Thanks for the upload. Cheers
@johnclifford15373 жыл бұрын
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 !!
@tessanderson24313 жыл бұрын
Fantastic clip! Nobody used plastic bags- all paper and string wrapping and string bags. All the girls had great mod hair does!!
@user-ov5uu5nn3rАй бұрын
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...50172 жыл бұрын
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.... 😊🇦🇨🦘👍...
@Prieze868Ай бұрын
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-rk9vv10 ай бұрын
Excellent music choice.
@GrumpSkull3 жыл бұрын
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.
@judycasemore21688 күн бұрын
Thanks for the memories I wish we could bring back those good times and the respect we all had for each other .
@a24-453 ай бұрын
It must have been an unusually cold December. So many women wearing winter wool coats; and kids in jumpers.
@gregpies16492 жыл бұрын
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.
@GlowingTube2 жыл бұрын
Very true, we also had a lower income per head in real terms back then too.
@bert233377 ай бұрын
But a decent house could be purchased for a couple of thousand pounds @@GlowingTube
@Perusalstein2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@BrianKavanagh1233 ай бұрын
These images are from my film Joyfully and Triumphant
@GlowingTube3 ай бұрын
Wonderful short film. I also saw you in the credits for an early 1960s TV program with Frank Thring in it.
@DavidOlver28 күн бұрын
thank you
@daleconway1412 жыл бұрын
I was 6 months old when this was filmed, Lived all my life in Melbourne and so many of these things I remember !!!
@66secularist Жыл бұрын
Maybe that was you sound asleep in the pram.
@stevewiles7132 Жыл бұрын
7 years old back then
@josip9093 жыл бұрын
Beautiful just when I was born, great greetings from Zadar, Croatia.
@chrisbye79223 жыл бұрын
Fabulous! Thanks for sharing
@hello888882 жыл бұрын
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...
@AridersLifeYT2 жыл бұрын
thats because the following generations were raised on fatty foods from birth.
@michaelmaguire82238 ай бұрын
Let’s all believe in Teleportation and arrive back in Beautiful Melbourne ! Go FITZROY LIONS ! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺. 🍺.
@marthasheilds24462 ай бұрын
English and Irish stock in Australia 🦘
@kissmyklawz2 жыл бұрын
I would have been there then, aged 16
@ExRhodesian11 ай бұрын
A paradise, too bad you lot let is slip away.
@Prieze868Ай бұрын
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
@redwandennaoui450818 күн бұрын
Oh you beautiful, beautiful Melbourne, where are you? ❤
@andrewthornhill70425 ай бұрын
My first Christmas......
@Melbournelost66Ай бұрын
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-qd6bm2 ай бұрын
No mobiles or computers, people had a brain. Give me a time machine.
@familyhistory4U3 жыл бұрын
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.
@GrumpSkull3 жыл бұрын
Move with the times. Telephoto lenses were it back then.
@tessanderson24313 жыл бұрын
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
@lloydmatthews69674 жыл бұрын
WOULD LOVE TO HAVE OWNED A MENS TIE SHOP THEN
@merpav13 күн бұрын
The good old days
@HMASJervisBayАй бұрын
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.
@GlowingTubeАй бұрын
@@HMASJervisBay Lovely story
@gail250029 күн бұрын
My mum was Ron Barrassi's housecleaner in Heathmont. 😊
@HMASJervisBay29 күн бұрын
@@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.
@bert2333710 ай бұрын
So many overcoats being worn at Christmas... it must be Melbourne
@denisthemenace.2 ай бұрын
Ah my beautiful Melbourne, once so great, now so horrible. Why did we let it happen?
@douglasbanks3318Ай бұрын
The year i was born at the Royal women's hospital
@Prieze868Ай бұрын
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
@ThePlatafАй бұрын
You mean the Hopetoun Tea Rooms?
@jamesgovett25012 жыл бұрын
$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!!
@GlowingTube2 жыл бұрын
Cars, electronics and clothing was expensive back then. Food and housing was not.
@brianlove8413Ай бұрын
It would be around $406 in 2023
@aheat30369 ай бұрын
More English than London!… How does it look these days?
@ACDZ1232 ай бұрын
The Congo
@marthasheilds24462 ай бұрын
💯 agree full of English and Irish invaders in Australia left the miserable UK.
@brianlove8413Ай бұрын
@@ACDZ123 I would have thought Mumbai.
@ACDZ123Ай бұрын
@@brianlove8413 take your pick 🤦♂️
@davidharlem68249 күн бұрын
Totally fu.ked!
@octurn3 ай бұрын
Bet Lygon Street was the only place you could get a decent coffee.
@brianlove8413Ай бұрын
And what was wrong with Pablo :-)
@jenniemortimer2361Ай бұрын
No track suits, no tattoos, no overweight individuals
@StrawberryFieldsNIRАй бұрын
Some of those Santas were a little on the creepy side, particularly the last one.
@medullaoblongata967010 ай бұрын
English Crocodile?
@GlowingTube10 ай бұрын
Yes indeed. It was very upmarket to say products were from England
@darylcumming71192 күн бұрын
Time capsule.
@marylewis-57710 ай бұрын
Definitely not swinging London 😅
@ACDZ1232 ай бұрын
Londonistan
@roderick2105 Жыл бұрын
What is the name of the instrumental in the first part of this video. Its great
@GlowingTube Жыл бұрын
What every the shape you are in. T Bones
@roderick2105 Жыл бұрын
@@GlowingTube Thanks Glowing !!! My ears are now glowing !!
@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv10 ай бұрын
It's fantastic
@SunnyBoyy4482 ай бұрын
Before multiculturalism
@marthasheilds24462 ай бұрын
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.
@SunnyBoyy4482 ай бұрын
@@marthasheilds2446 multiculturalism means different cultures. English, Irish are our people and culture