Melbourne 1979, Recognise a few spots?

Melbourne 1979, Recognise a few spots?
Footage courtesy of Cop Shop.

[@Gezza1967]

Melbourne 1979, Recognise a few spots? Footage courtesy of Cop Shop.

[@andrewking4885]

@johnnytheprick It's gold @6:24. Hollywood anyone?

[@davechristian7543]

Do u no why Aussies who come from Melbourne look different than if they come from Sydney, would it be the weather do u think my friend.

[@peachyb1969]

@@davechristian7543 Really? If that were the case, then Sydneysiders would look more wet, since Sydney receives more annual rain than Melbourne does.

[@Rob-fc9wg]

0:58. Vale Tommy Dysart. "Is Don, is good". "G-O G-G-O".

[@ashwin3133]

WHICH MOVIE OF THIS SCENE

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

what a great time to be alive, no speed cameras, no bicycle helmets, open doors on trains and trams to smoke in and hang out of, no nanny state, were responsible for your self, we made everything in australia, cars tvs, radios, tools mowers shoes clothing ect ect , great music, cheap fuel, nothing thrown away just repaired, no hi-density apartments, no 40k zones what a wonderful time, take me back in time anyday

[@125sloth]

Exactly right. So when people started to not take responsibility for their own actions, and decided to blame others for their own stupidity, we ended up with auto closing doors on trains and trams, (although we were way behind the rest of the world with that), speed and red light cameras, and 40 kph zones to make idiots slow down in densely populated areas and school zones. A lot of these rules were the result of population increases, but you are right, what a time to be alive and we took responsibility for our actions. If a train door was open on a hot day for example, we stayed away from it, or closed it. Common sense. If driving near a school we slowed down and watched for kids and drove to suit conditions, still a requirement of driving today, but sadly many do not get that so they have to be "mothered" or threatened by signs everywhere, and back in the day kids were also instructed to watch out for cars and use proper crossings. Not rocket science. Common sense today is not very common.

[@torpedodropkick59]

Miss some things, but like some changes for tram safety and 40 km zone in side streets.

[@torpedodropkick59]

Fuel as not cheap nor cars as per wages.

[@torpedodropkick59]

Great music, no high density living.

[@peterharris4386]

Studies over recent decades have shown that, after the introduction of 40 km speed zones around schools, casualties have significantly decreased.

[@AlexK1dd]

I'd gladly give up technology to go back and live in those days

[@ryanl2537]

@johnnytheprick Had all of those in 1979

[@ryanl2537]

@johnnytheprick Not me but anyone who had a fully loaded XA/XB GT, XC GXL, XD Fairmont Ghia, LTD, Landau, Monaro, Statesman just to name a few would have had AC, Power steering and electric windows and maybe even electric sunroof

[@jillsommerville7828]

Agreed! That would be awesome👍

[@glamnesianouveaux2039]

If only!

[@PlaAwa]

except reminiscing wouldn't be this fun. and things that stay the same get boring

[@chrisled8835]

I was 16 years old living in Melbourne when these scenes were filmed. Met my wife 34 years ago when we worked at Chadstone Bowl together and yes there were punch ups in the car park back then

[@redwandennaoui4508]

Beautiful Melbourne ❤ back then…..

[@carmelobalsamo3583]

I had a 76 datsun 180b in those days nice car

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

Gold!!!!!! The good ol days, real cars and real people 🇦🇺

[@thebunker489]

Yeah, not to mention White Australia!! The best times.

[@peachyb1969]

@@thebunker489 Didn't take long to come across the first racist comment. I'm sure you're proud of it, too.

[@BiznessCrewAu]

@@thebunker489 I agree. All we have now are memories and these old clips.

[@An-lv9vw]

​@@thebunker489Nazi Australia

[@glamnesianouveaux2039]

@@thebunker489 ABSOLUTELY!!!! ... White Australians and Europeans. Before the Rice invasion who ruined Melbourne!

[@karlsheffield1166]

If I still had half those cars I could retire a happy man. Great footage, cheers.

[@rustysworldofentertainment850]

I really wish I'd kept my XC.

[@rcg1111]

You could retire a multimillionaire as well 🙌

[@tommacisaac7492]

5:22 This is at Victoria Park, Kew. The car turns left from Parkhill Rd into Adeney Ave. This intersection now has a roundabout. That large bare tree we see in the next few seconds still exists and is now protected with a fence.

[@georgie6733]

Yessss 😂

[@daveroutley5574]

Thank YOU sir for this it brings back GREAT memories of Melbourne and one of my favorite tv shows COP SHOP. 😀👍

[@daveroutley5574]

And 😥one shot was at the start was seeing "SUPER " @ 27.9.GONE ARE THE DAYS.

[@bradwilliams1691]

Cop Shop - bad show, great days.

[@beano1eye]

@@bradwilliams1691 Opinions are like .........

[@bradwilliams1691]

@@beano1eye And some people are like.......too.

[@mrtactica]

a better Melbourne in those days ...

[@PaulinesPastimes]

I moved to Melbourne in 1981 and it still looked the same then. One thing that stands out is how uncluttered the roads are. No bike lanes that hardly anyone uses, no speed bumps. Part of the great appeal of Melbourne, compared to Sydney where I was born, was the wide open streets and ease of driving. A lot of those streets are so constrained and constricted by infrastructure now, it seems to just back up the traffic and cause frustration. Love the variety of cars in this footage too.

[@mvnorsel6354]

I obtained my licence in a Datsun 200b in a manual as a bloke you would never get an ' auto ' licence.

[@RadioSnivins]

I got my licence in auto, only because the RTA dropped the manual/auto distinction for a cuppla years.

[@bodhi9464]

My first car in 1987 - 4 on the floor - Chrysler Galant … still drive a manual now (albeit 6 gears!)

[@mvnorsel6354]

@@bodhi9464 My dream car is the 380 had to get auto as manual too low geared, wish they came with a 6 speed as I would join you.

[@AJ73]

I remember how easy it was to get a licence back then too compared to nowadays...I just did a pretty short once around the block near Vicroads Ferntree Gully in the 80's while my instructor and the Vicroads inspector talked about the upcoming VFL games that weeken

[@jillsommerville7828]

@@AJ73 got my licence with a copper in the passenger seat, once around the block, no worries 😆great times I'd go back anyday

[@bodhi9464]

Gezza - loved this one mate - so many great memories - saw some of the old cars I drove and drove in - Chrysler Galant - valiant - XB - XD - XP and many more !! Chaddy - still remember when it was simple and much smaller than today … thanks again mate.. loved those days . 🙏🏼🏄‍♂️💦☀️🇦🇺🎵

[@TheCleaner76]

Back in the days of driving around trying to find a pay phone ☎️

[@YortOK]

🤣

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

Yep, then sometimes getting in line.👍

[@colinl9018]

And when you found one it was out of order or vandalised 🔨

[@kouta43210]

Absolutely LOVE the songs from '79.

[@xr6lad]

@ 2:15. Armstrong St Middle Park. They are the middle park shops. The row of buildings across the road are still there as is the chimney. Only more leafy now with trees. And he is at a bus stop - not a tram stop. There has never been trams on that street ( apart from further towards the bay where it crosses Park St route).

[@tazzy615]

You are 100% correct, that is Armstrong St. The hardware store there was on the corner of Armstrong and Richardson St. Well spotted

[@JimBoBJames-no5db]

This is absolutely AWESOME. I have been searching for some time now and accidentally stumbled upon your video. I though i might be the only person missing old Melbourne. Its changed so much now. Its like unrecognisable. I feel like ive woken upfrom a coma to find the world changed.

[@thebiscuitbreaker3601]

Gezza as a 1970 born melbournian all I can say is that you are an absolute farking legend. I think that says it all. Thanks for the rewind

[@Gezza1967]

Thanks very much, 🤗good to read your enjoy the old Melbourne stuff👍

[@davidhusband5022]

keep the old car footage coming!

[@pkfilms5867]

27.9 cent/ Litre for petrol at the Golden Fleece petrol station.

[@xr6lad]

I remember early 80’s when I first started work I could make a tank of petrol last two weeks. Mind you I only drive to work and back and shops. Not much else

[@northseabrent]

I remember I bought my first house in Port Melbourne in 1979 (Graham street opposite the primary school) a single fronted Victorian cottage cost $9,800…

[@kyrieeleison1905]

@@northseabrent so petrol is about 6 times the cost and houses now are about 60 times the cost compared to back then

[@greebo7857]

I remember when $2 filled the car...., AND they checked the tyres and cleaned the windscreen.

[@somedumbozzie1539]

I can remember the out rage in the 60's when petrol hit 10c a gallon yes a gallon not a liter but Potato scallops were 2cents and a can odf coke was 14 cents.

[@samartz]

I lovw how Melbourne is so much different to Sydney and got their own culture and architecture

[@timscarman4599]

Having just turned 55….. what a time to have your childhood…… the world moves on, however, I’d be happy to be trapped in the 1980’s / 90’s forever….. such great times, pre internet explosion.

[@Rocketrooster177]

Melbourne has turned into a shit hole now, have to pay to cross town, cant find a carpark anywhere 5km into the CBD due to high density living, building quality is crap now, the suburbs are seas of high density town houses, shopping centres are charging for parking, nowhere to park at the beaches unless you own a $10M house, Pubs are expensive micro breweries, road speeds go 40,60,40,60,40,60 every 50 metres FFS followed by a Speed Camera in a hidden car with tinted windows, even Fish and Chip Shops are now BS Chipperies and charge twice as much for half the food, and cook frozen chips....

[@stuartmcquade3407]

Spot on 👍

[@An-lv9vw]

​@@stuartmcquade3407says a convict

[@johnd8892]

Beach car park at 1:46 likely to be Williamstown beach behind the life saving club. Williamstown started being a preferred filming location being pretty quiet and having some country type parking to set up film production vans. Thanks for these Gezza.

[@icascone]

I think so to! The brick home at 1.48 looks the same... not the other houses around it as they look too slick and too new....

[@LjXu1]

I was thinking maybe Altona

[@vaughanvandabilt6709]

I think go John d as he never been wrong so far ,so play odds agree John

[@icascone]

@@vaughanvandabilt6709 I do go to Williamstown often during the summer too so I agree with John too lol ;)

[@baldandaboomer8367]

100% swimming pool in the background, I learnt to swim there in ~1965

[@jamesfrench7299]

Not filled with new money posers and XC Falcons were as common as the aforementioned set -in a different sense! Nice 6 cylinder Transit vans. Every car was AUSTRALIAN to some degree. Cop Shop always had great street scenes.

[@mebeme007]

Instead, they were just posers with their hotted up Falcons, Monaro's and Valiants, back then. All trying to brag about how much faster their car was, how big their engines were and all the rest of it.

[@gerrym75]

Ah the good old Chaddy Bowl. Spent lots of time there in the 80s as a kid

[@koyami7984]

Yep same. Played plenty of asteroids there. 😆

[@smedleyfarnsworth263]

I can remember when Chaddy was a cow paddock.

[@antrimlariot2386]

Hi to Bronwyn who used to work in the cafe at Chaddy Bowl. I always loved you!

[@michaelpowell6023]

no one bowled, we all were there for the "video games" "tarzan" clocked it after 6 weeks, thought how cool am I. was very sad when it all changed and was gone.

[@KIP_KnowledgeIsPower]

The music is everything!!!! What a mood upper!! 🙌😂

[@JamieMcF1967]

Thanks for sharing this Aussie nostalgia awesomeness Gezza! I was born in Nhill in '67 and don't have memories of Melbourne as it was sadly. Extra kudos for the songs, some of my faves :) I'm thinking it might be time to see if I can find these old shows anywhere...

[@markissboi3583]

Nhill just up the road from horsham :)

[@suzanneevans1522]

Oh the good old days at 9.28 when if you rang for an ambulance it turned up.

[@ashleyember6822]

I use to pedal past The Croxton Park hotel on my pushbike. They use to have Roc at The Croc stickers to give to patrons. Many big brawls in the car park on a Saturday night.

[@frankinz2995]

The XC Falcon handling like a boat around those corners. 😂

[@somedumbozzie1539]

Chasing a Suzuki Waterbottle as if they would have ever got a second look at it.

[@Australian_Made]

@@somedumbozzie1539 Yes, the Suz "waterbottle" .... Wawnt that called GT-750 triple ?

[@Rob-fc9wg]

Yep, with steering, brakes and suspension straight off an 1850s Cobb & Co mail coach. A car ain't handlin' til she gets down on one knee and bounces around a corner!

[@mud1837041]

Great vid that, all the old Holdens, fords and dattos and the old actors in cop shop, awesome!!

[@garynewton1263]

Chadstone is the largest shopping centre south of the equator. Southland at Cheltenham is no 2. In Melbourne we're a lot like Texas, we do it bigger and better than anywhere else in the southern hemisphere. Like the Marchants soft drink tv ads in the 1980s, we take what we reckons ours, and Australia is ours, we made it!

[@Kobifrmda]

Ahaha good one Gary but thing is it ain’t yours and nobody gives a flying fuck bout ur shopping centres only reason yous took over is coz u had guns no guns = whites Eliminated always was always will be

[@ACDZ123]

Texas lol. I think WA is the Texas of Australia..they got the big trains,trucks etc .Victoria is a tiny little state

[@MrPtripidakis]

Recognise every single bit of this and boy does it bring back memories!

[@Seahorse20]

Unknown suburb is Port Melbourne, as the public housing tower in the background is Park Towers (South Melbourne).

[@queenofthebutterflies5212]

Wow, love the fashion. 79 was an awesome year

[@paulcooper5748]

Brings back memories.

[@Bellett64]

Amazing that out of all that footage, I saw precisely zero Isuzu Belletts. I've got a couple and know a few people with them, but man there would have been 100 times as many on the road in 1979 as there is in 2022, yet I still saw none!!! Great footage though; thanks Gezza and Cop Shop.

[@douglasbanks3318]

My friend Terry Gibson ex Mad Max 1 was a stuntman for many Crawford productions, also i was in the Music Industry for 2 years in 1979 to 81 .Sadly Melb has become a Cesspool these days ,same as Sydney

[@stevewiles7132]

Chadstone Bowl, I won a tournament there.....

[@australianbloke3934]

What a great collection of memories. 1979 was the year of my second marriage which means we have been married for 43 years! Nicely edited mate.

[@kingcosworth2643]

I'm glad the second one worked out for you

[@kouta43210]

If the first ended in divorce then the "second" is illegitimate.

[@andrewgoldbergs4474]

Timeless footage again Gezza..those cars copped some treatment in Cop Shop!

[@caseylwr]

Well looks like the car parking at Chadstone has not changed much, still hard to find a parking spot despite all the multilevel car parking area's :)

[@simon_patterson]

Except on Sundays. Then it was empty...

[@danrobinson572]

Great music Gezza your playing with this video.

[@floydroadheroes]

As a Melbourne taxi driver, recognised lots of streets and houses. In fact at one point, I am sure my first shift ever in a taxi 11/11/1985, that black kingswood in one scene was the car I drove! It was a shocker! Great to see Gil Tucker! Picked him up one morning, many years ago, A lovely chap, going to glabal studios to do a Neoghbours episode! I driver past his place just about every day, as a short cut, in Malvern East and smile! Legend! Great to see many legends on this Cop Shop montage! INcluding the famous Chadstone Bowl, I spent many days playing pinball instead of being in class at Chadtone High school!

[@Wandafulofit]

LOVE these videos

[@jamesgovett2501]

At 9.36 the Sun and The Age newspaper Headlines state “O’Meally Set Free” which meant that William O”Meally was released from Pentridge prison as he was the longest serving prisoner kept there as originally he would have been Hung in the gallows for shooting dead a police officer in Caulfield I think it was so you could quite easily get the exact day this film was shot

[@jackmag4056]

1979 was my fav year growing up , So many memories

[@YourLittleDeath]

Me too. I can't put my finger on it but there was something about that year.

[@kouta43210]

@@YourLittleDeath The best team won the granny and the most memorable songs (as heard during this clip).

[@peterfitzgerald5429]

1979 was a good year for me as well. To name one I met the spunkiest girl ever. I wish we were still together. Always had fun with heaps of friends on the St Albans train out of Flinders Street.

[@thrusta100]

Must be why Smashing Pumpkins did a song about it...#goodoldays😢

[@tonyde6423]

Cop shop was a great show good ole days

[@sidboraus6151]

The place was better to be in than now.wonderful.👍

[@Twenty_Six_Hundred]

The cars, what i would do to turn back time. Its 4 years before i was born but seeing these classics in good condition all over the roads makes me wish i had one

[@shaundgb7367]

Tandy Electronics.

[@letsseeif]

It's hard to believe that this all happened a decade after I sold my E Type Jag..

[@darrylknight2675]

In 1979 I was driving my Datsun 120y. I bought it in 1977 and it lasted until1987 when I had a smash in Collingwood.

[@rodneymcgiveron7494]

wow....I would have been 19 then....great cars too fantastic music,...great vid..

[@markissboi3583]

80's 1st car HR holden $500 lived in separation st Northgate units above the old tip now a shopping mall / park Anyone remember the black towtruck called Bandit that sat in High st carparks across the niteclub pubs

[@colonelklink9911]

The cafe on the corner still has the same curtains today.

[@stevendouglas786]

Love your choice of music that goes well with the clips of the era .

[@christinejackson3922]

Wow the Croxton Park Hotel from what I remember had great bands there in the early 80’s good times

[@mebeme007]

My nephew was showing me a while back, a list he found on the internet of bands that played there back in the 70's to mid 80's. So many great bands, like AC/DC, The Angels, etc. Back when you could go down to your local to check out all the great bands about once a month or so and have a great night.

[@Havencheese]

10:00 near Studley Park boathouse, car park and Kane’s footbridge over the Yarra.

[@deanwishart9981]

Got the tunes right Gezza!

[@Gezza1967]

It’s not the Croxton Park hotel in High St Thornbury as I first thought.

[@danwils2470]

Those were the days I wish they never ended bloody great cars no stupid SUVs and definitely no poison jab.

[@jashugg]

We had quite a few jabs in primary school in the 70s, for diphtheria, polio and other lurgies.

[@danwils2470]

@@jashugg yeah so true they were all near 90% effective unlike the covid vaccine which is now less that 20% effective.

[@MT-kf4ei]

5.28 - Adeney Ave Kew - Rear of Victoria Park Kew

[@joejoannides4945]

Correct, and the wall of the Kew cemetery is in the background.

[@1ihws]

I don’t only recognise a few spots, but a few vehicles…that falcon bears a striking resemblance to my mother’s except for the bucket seats. Ours had a front bench seat, that my father used to dangle his arm over - right before he “swatted” all three kids in the back seat, and I used to cop the elbow to the head as he brpught his hand back to the steering wheel….never let it be said that you can’t whack four kids in the car all at the same time without missing a beat - some of us remember otherwise!

[@garynewton1263]

I had a Ford XC 1988-90, thankfully it was a Falcon GS with sports suspension, 302 V8 and C4 auto with the twin headlights. These standard falcons were like trampolines.

[@rustysworldofentertainment850]

Yeah, comfortable but 😀

[@larawood9518]

The beach at 1.45 minutes is Williamstown.

[@Techno-Universal]

The bowling alley at Chadstone shopping centre was actually demolished and replaced with a new wing of the centre less than a decade later in the mid 1980s! Also the Myer building was converted into a David Jones location in the mid to late 1990s while at the same time Myer moved into a newly built larger store space which was built as a part of a massive extension to the centre! :)

[@michaelpowell6023]

after ten years living in Elwood, my family moved to Chadstone, I was only ten at the time, but remember most of this footage.Lots of TV and a couple of films were made in this place/ era. What really worries me, is I am almost certain that I personally know that Vic Police valiant. I am sure that it was on loan from Elwood police station to the tv studio. As a broad-minded 6YO, I was "going out" with the local ,police sergeants daughter (Susan). I do remember getting a tour of that car, but not moving, just in front of the police station. Of course everything has changed since, not just "Chaddy", but also Elwood. No longer any Police station there anymore.

[@Techno-Universal]

@@michaelpowell6023 It’s still possible that same Valiant may still exist somewhere today unless it’s been scrapped since then! :)

[@RaphaelChan888]

I can almost hear Molly Meldrum's voice introducing each of those music acts...

[@scrappy5011]

3.30 Howe Crescent South Melbourne - my old postie round in the 90s

[@saxongreen78]

'Don't bring me down, Bruce!' Jeff Lynn's mate Bruce must have been a bit of a bore. 😊

[@dickwilliam3793]

"groose" not Bruce

[@saxongreen78]

@@dickwilliam3793 I thought it was 'pruss' - a bit like 'pompetus of love' in _The Joker_ by Steve Miller (a made up word that sounded good.) Jon Anderson from Yes reckoned he never cared much about what the words meant as long as they sounded sexy. ☺

[@vivrowe2763]

Great times they were, had quite a few of those cars, know the areas well too! I wish it was still like it! It was Australia then, was a great place. Chadstone Bowl, used to hang out there, play bowls. Cop Shop I used to watch it, good to look back on.

[@rizalukman7982]

I come to Melbourne in 1997.My host parent's take me to Chadstone shopping center

[@JimTsoukas]

lovet his footage. remember it all.

[@bobdown8043]

Couldn't get a park at Chaddy even back then.

[@darylcumming7119]

No masks or lockdowns. Cop Shop.

[@MrGcadness]

1:08 to 1:24 is Bridge St Port Melbourne travelling from Bay St turning into McCormack St

[@nkelly.9]

Terrific stuff , as usual Gezza. I dunno where you get this stuff from but it's amazing. How about all those XC Falcons!

[@KK-qi6mt]

That Chaddy scene was funny. I remember there was a donut shop near the bowling. It has donuts being cooked in view.

[@YourLittleDeath]

Yes, I remember it too, it was the Downyflake Donut Ship. Could watch it all day.

[@michaelpowell6023]

Not totally sure if my mother was sleeping with the manager, but some how we always got freebies...@@YourLittleDeath

[@Mercmad]

Falcon Cop car with the bug grinder screwed to the bonnet. 😂😂

[@romandybala]

SUZUKI WATER BOTTLE 750

[@kentaylor8386]

Pretty sure the "Unknown Suburb" at 0:54 and the "Commission Flats" following are Carlton North, vicinity of Canning St. Not sure they actually were commission flats either, my brother lived around there soon after.

[@RobbiRocks]

hahahaha the 1st second of this has my car strolling past ;)

[@BenTvHowman]

Awesome

[@rozzyretreat3300]

Ahh the datsun 180B now worth 10k it was junk back in 79

[@danrobinson572]

CopShop shows all the hot spots in there show.

[@kaynicholls9066]

A hot topic of those days too was to build a railway line to Melbourne Tullamarine airport. I doubt it will be built in my lifetime 😂😂

[@everteykman5515]

It was a great time and place ! NO INTERNET.

[@BradPham]

Cripes. I thought Melbun had gotten more violent recently but I see it’s the other way ‘round. 😉 Used to watch Cop Shop before I was school age so can’t remember much. Can see the influence on Good Guys Bad Guys (1997/98).

[@Cam8super]

@1:30 is Aitken st. (Off Thompson st) Williamstown. Not Port Melbourne 👍

[@darting100]

few nice old falcon's ,valiant's and holden's in there back when we had A car industry

[@brandonlee1330]

Ahh the good old days when doing a bank job on ya push bike possible 😂🤣👏

[@MichaelNorris-lp3ki]

Life imitating art

[@microwave-vh2uc]

thought I saw my car at one stage

[@victorsauvage1890]

Allowing for the fact that the people in this film clip are professional performers - one cannot help feeling that the population at large during that era - up to say 1990? - had greater sel confidence.

[@a7128]

5:37 just of Graham St Port Melbourne,

[@rexkyte696]

Cool footage gezza

[@somedumbozzie1539]

I do recognize that bike it is a Suzuki Waterbottle 750 AKA "the widow maker", top speed 110 mph and in the real world that Falcon would not have got a second look at it

[@Australian_Made]

Wasn't that called Suzuki GT-750 triple? Affectionately known as Suzzie waterbottle

[@BoxofficeForney6969]

@ 0:20 is High St Northcote, heading south past the old Commercial Hotel.

[@citybeatdisco19]

Which building are you saying is the Commercial Hotel? And are you saying the bike is heading south before or after he turns? (since he'd be going uphill if going south past it) The Commerical Hotel now Northcote Social is same building it's always been. I also can't see the side street next to it - but may just because not clear vision of it