Driving round Melbourne in my first car a Mazda Cappella
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@trippalea888 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload - miss our old city and culture, these were the greatest times - don’t recognise our city now. This footage is like a knife through the heart! Wish we could go back.
@elowishusmirkatroid48983 жыл бұрын
In 1980 I was a student living in al one bedroom flat in Motherwell St. Sth Yarra, which cost me $32.00 per week! Melbourne had so much going for it, parties,theatre,live music every night at some pub or other, all affordable even though I only worked part time in hospitality.I also had a car and used to drive to the country often. What happened to our economy?
@jesusislukeskywalker42943 жыл бұрын
United Nations Aka "UN" aka SATAN's Lima Declaration 1975. there it is.
@elowishusmirkatroid48983 жыл бұрын
@Panty Sniffer China "Bend over". Aust Govt "How far?".
@andyrob32592 жыл бұрын
@Panty Sniffer let me introduce you to Dan Andrews then. Handed billions over to China owned John Holland cos they alleged cost overruns on the tunnel and didn’t quibble one bit and just sold state land for under the market price in northern Victoria to a Chinese company. And his ‘commercial confidence’ agreement we weren’t allowed to see.
@stephenbingham59352 жыл бұрын
@@andyrob3259 The spivs of the 80's long predate Dan. ''Commercial in confidence'' is a Liberal mantra and hardly unique to Melbourne. Who sold John Holland - and every goddamn things else - to China in the first place ? Your piece is a small one.
@doloresumbridge25312 жыл бұрын
@Panty Sniffer ur dumb. Australia hates China. Especially the libs. Haven't u read the news lately?
@harvey19653 жыл бұрын
It seems like yesterday I was driving on all of those roads in the 80's - amzes me how little and how much those streets have changed in the last 40 years .... geez 40 years went in a pinch of time!!!
@mickcarson85043 жыл бұрын
Hi John. The streets in Port Melbourne were the worst affected when some were removed to make way to the Westgate Fwy and the construction of the Citylink tunnels. Montague, that small suburb, lost most streets near the Yarra side (now Southbank). A lot has changed around the area, including the demolition of foundries, factories, warehouses and a coal fired power generator (I think it's still there half buried). The Dunlop tyre factory was shut down and became a self storage for some time. The Allen's confectionery factory also went down to make way to the new tram lines. In the early 50s my dad and his brother opened a mechanic workshop at the present location in a street adjacent to the Yarra river (no longer there), where Montague Street meets the Westgate Freeway, up until the demolition that led to the construction the Westgate/City link project. Although, many things were demolished, some were left behind as tourist attraction, the old St. Kilda/Port Melbourne rail bridge across the Yarra is still there, the old lead shot factory, etc. If you remember any of that. Also, St. Kilda was so much better in the 50s than now. All you see now is Luna Park, but back in those years St. Kilda had many amusement parlour, including the infamous indoor Dodge 'em boats, where it was closed down immediately after there had been an electrocution incident when one boat rider slipped and fell in the water while holding on the live mast. There were about 6 other amusement galleries in that plot of land next to the Palais Theatre, if you know any of this.
@harvey19653 жыл бұрын
@@mickcarson8504 indeed I do Mick. A great number of the places you mention I knew of and experienced. Of course I spent many wonderful occasions ice-skating at St Moritz on Upper Beacconsfield Parade until it was pulled down to build the hotel. The entertainment triangle in St Klida I remember - however you just helped a very deep and forgotten memory to re-emerge of the water based dodge-ems. They must have gone in the very early 70's. I grew up in Williamstown of the late 60's, early 70's when nobody knew where Willy was - they all thought it was near Geelong!! So being a Port Melbourne lad, you'd know of the old ferry which crossed from North Road, Newport to Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne? All of the areas you mentioned I have memories of - hasn't Melbourne changed?
@mickcarson85043 жыл бұрын
@@harvey1965 Hey Jon. I've been trying to send you a picture through a KZbin comment but the mobile App wouldn't allow it. So, I am trying the PC. Let me know if you received it. paste.pics/CVWRB paste.pics/CVWRB
@harvey19653 жыл бұрын
@@mickcarson8504 yes ... "The Ferry" ... beautiful picture Mick. My family use to cross over on it a few times a year (rather than drive the "long" way down Footscray Road!!) It was always a semi-special event to use the ferry. Melbourne and surrounds have changed significantly since those days. Amazing isn't it!! Thanks mate.
@mickcarson85043 жыл бұрын
@@harvey1965 I am glad you were able to open the picture. I thought is wouldn't allow. Williamstown has changed a lot over the years. From... "Oh, Williamstown, that dump..." to... "Oh, let's live in Williamstown, that high class, posh place". Old homes were either demolished to make condos, units and some two storey homes. Streets were changed as well. Last time I visited the place was in 2006 with my lady on our way to the miniature steam train park. I was impressed to see most old homes, Victorian, Edwardian, Californian, etc., were spared from the bulldozer. They are like new and quite pleasant to look at. A lot of rich people now live there. In fact Williamstown is way better than Toorak, or Kew.
@lsimmo783 жыл бұрын
Much better than Melbourne 2021.
@greasylimpet33232 жыл бұрын
Yes, we weren't in a dictatorship then... Unfortunately we are now
@bjscorpio40413 жыл бұрын
This brought back memories of VFL football, Wobbies World, The Early Bird Show, Festival Hall boxing and Bourke St Mall with red pavers. I hate Melbourne now and am looking to relocate but watching a video like this reminds me that it was a magical place to grow up in back in those days.
@andrewbowers_2 жыл бұрын
Yep. And, my wife is one of those cute little kiddies you can see playing at Wobbies World.
@dennisneo16082 жыл бұрын
Such frikkin great days. Saturday Night Replay on channel 7. :)
@chrisF3514 жыл бұрын
Cool footage, i remember when i was a kid in the 80's when Melbourne was like this👍👍
@iangodfrey45182 жыл бұрын
Remember Mr Cruel as well?
@retrothingz3 жыл бұрын
Great upload.I remember it so well.....1980 ...age 20 ....What have the white shoe / Big Australia brigade done to my city.....Ma ? Answer ? They've damn nearly wrecked it !! Thanks for memories
@jesusislukeskywalker42943 жыл бұрын
no doubt about it . portarthur.org.au/separate-prison/
@madlovebar63543 жыл бұрын
Melbourne was way cool then everything was fun and 'doable', inroads could be achieved and all was within grasp, unlike now.
@j.t.s86183 жыл бұрын
We relocated from Bendigo to Melbourne in the early 80's. Melbourne was super cool then. Great memories, and it was safe. My high school was across the road from the Exhibition buildings ❤️
@Joshua-jj4xn3 жыл бұрын
100% safe. No one was ever raped or murdered or stalked. There were no drugs and pedophilia didnt exist. Or...could it be you are looking back with rose tinted glasses???
@gabby203 жыл бұрын
Wow I was still a late teen then. I really miss Melbourne as I'm still here but only in 2020. Thank you for uploading some good memories ❤️
@lilkaz87942 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video, I am a hangover from the 80's as it was my decade (teenage years ) the BEST OF LIFE , cheers 🍸👍☺😍
@mr.h36033 жыл бұрын
Definitely not 1980. Circa '82-'83 based on 2 cars I see which were the JB Camira 1982 and Nissan Bluebird 1983 🤘😁🤘
@mr.h36033 жыл бұрын
@@satbirbhullar7877 awesome!!! C U Next Tuesday to accept the award 😂😂
@vinorob3 жыл бұрын
Well spotted
@AdamFordGhostships3 жыл бұрын
It's at LEAST 1984, because the Arts Centre is complete
@dennisneo16082 жыл бұрын
Good eye. :)
@christinejackson39223 жыл бұрын
The good old days!!!!
@elzorro87872 жыл бұрын
Economically speaking Melbourne and Australia as a whole was a much better place than now. Kids would grow up playing in the parks not with the play station. But boy was it a cemetary for many adults. Shops and everything would close super early. Saturdays at mid day. Alot more people would have barbecues in their back yard with friends than these days though. And though nightclubs didn't close as late as some do these days it was a faaaar better vibe. There's so much violence and drugs these days. People in general were alot more decent , although their was alot more ignorant racist pricks as well. Cities evolve. For better and for worse.
@mr.jamster84142 жыл бұрын
Good essay. :)
@darrylrajamae48552 жыл бұрын
days when people spoke to each face to face not on a computer screen
@dhanaty67443 жыл бұрын
These streets looks exactly like the Stage 3 lockdown with restrictions 😂👌🏼
@dennisneo16082 жыл бұрын
It was like that. Not a soul out late at night. Not in the suburbs anyway.
@MsMonika593 жыл бұрын
I love how it was then - no traffic. Melbourne unfortunately is far too crowded and has become very dangerous 😕
@mickcarson85043 жыл бұрын
Blame the UN for having started the refugee BS.
@RPI793 жыл бұрын
@@mickcarson8504 F.O.
@TheAxelay3 жыл бұрын
Woke Commieville
@mickcarson85043 жыл бұрын
@@RPI79 Back to you, FO!
@RPI793 жыл бұрын
@@mickcarson8504 haha. Damn there are some real 'tards out there. Good on ya buddy, you keep living in that boomer paradise in your mind. Meanwhile go back to eating boiled lamb with potatoes and beans cooked beyond recognition. The brits 'found' this land but the immigrants 'made' this country. 🖕
@DanielSmith-zv9yc3 жыл бұрын
That was the year I was born. The changes are unreal
@gchlam3 жыл бұрын
thank you for uploaded, I came to Melbourne at 1997, nothing much changed, love Melbourne, beautiful city.
@gracemarino73743 жыл бұрын
Omg i was 20years old!! Great times❤️
@kingmarshmusic3 жыл бұрын
Great to have this footage. Would love captions to say where each part is. Thanks for uploading!
@sonycans2 жыл бұрын
You passed my old school at 0:40. Cathedral college which had some terrible brothers that did things to kids there. At the time of the filming I would have been there. I remember all of this.
@TanPham-sn3fc3 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when my dad was still driving a Ford Falcon.
@dazmac1593 жыл бұрын
love seeing the old cars, green trams!
@acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx30593 жыл бұрын
Australia was a much better place 41 years ago computers have destroyed it not to mention all the bloody cameras
@bradwilliams16912 жыл бұрын
As well as unwanted immigration.
@buggulugs2 жыл бұрын
Also, back then we weren't ruled by a jug-eared fascist and we didn't have to grovel to deadbeats and foreigners.
@georgedanson47593 жыл бұрын
AMAZING. Great memories.
@clintanson2 жыл бұрын
Cool place back then and into the 90’s! TOTAL SHITHOLE NOW!!!
@tturcino3 жыл бұрын
Wow, awesome footage. Really like to see the cars, many very probably new, lol.
@100reality23 жыл бұрын
Wow what went wrong.how did they ruin such a nice place.
@FokkerTISM2 жыл бұрын
Multikulti, feminism, selling our infrastructure off to China, importing Indians and Africans to do jobs heritage Aussie teenagers should be doing and now BS-19.
@TheAxelay4 жыл бұрын
The melbourne that I will only ever identify with (maybe 90's as well..), not this 2020 crap hole we all exist in now. 1980 seems so far away compared to 2020's hellish existence...Saddens me just.
@montecarlo16514 жыл бұрын
Serial troll? You get around mate.
@TheAxelay4 жыл бұрын
Not a troll here as I'd attack you with words in retaliation here!!! No just longing for olden times man.
@TheAxelay3 жыл бұрын
@I'm Right , not going to debate on that notion right now as I'd say both are pretty bleak right now compared o the rest of the country but if we're not careful it can happen elsewhere also...Parts of the world are also doldrums as well.
@cornishhh3 жыл бұрын
I emigrated there from the UK in 1981. I thought it was a wonderful place from day one. I left about twenty years ago.
@TheAxelay3 жыл бұрын
@@cornishhh , you are not missing much tbh here, I guess it's the same all over the world sadly.
@AdamFordGhostships3 жыл бұрын
Date on this is wrong. It's at LEAST 1984, because the Arts Centre is complete.
@chrisdovrik28943 жыл бұрын
Ahh the good old days. When Australia was actually Australia.
@RPI793 жыл бұрын
Give the grumpy boomer a clap. Yay... Farkwit.
@aussieboy773 жыл бұрын
@pjdsa We're just an economic zone these days. We are no longer a nation.
@alidarke31323 жыл бұрын
@@RPI79 you are obviously a new brainwashed import. Well you won't be able to own your own home or have a backyard .
@RPI793 жыл бұрын
@@alidarke3132 Been here since Oct 1982 actually so GFY.
@alidarke31323 жыл бұрын
@@RPI79 mate..hahaha looser
@doctorbohr15852 жыл бұрын
What car are you driving? I remember my dads 1971 Mazda had those little "butterfly wing" things on its wipers. They just triggered some deep childhood memories!
@vinorob3 жыл бұрын
I am there somewhere. Looks hot and very quiet on the roads, Must be during the great beer strike that summer. Pubs really had no beer.
@angelaturra743 жыл бұрын
I Remember St Kilda Road Deaf School 16 Year old in 1980
@bogdananderson14723 жыл бұрын
The first time I drove from Sydney to Melbourne was 81.
@bogdananderson14723 жыл бұрын
@I'm Right Well yeah :-(
@cryptolord98263 жыл бұрын
Ive done it lots of times still love it
@jackmag40562 жыл бұрын
When I come across these videos I’m only interested in looking at the old cars , I know I’m an odd individual
@michaeledwards80583 жыл бұрын
those were the days music from"Malcolm" would be a nice touch
@dave70723 жыл бұрын
Yes 1980 was the launch of Back in Black at the Sydney Myer Music Bowl, I had Tickets :)
@michaeledwards80583 жыл бұрын
@@dave7072 yep I was there too. my first AC/DC concert
@dave70723 жыл бұрын
@@michaeledwards8058 I reckon I was about 18 doing HSC, caught the train both ways - couldn't hear anything much on the trip home :)
@michaeledwards80583 жыл бұрын
@@dave7072 I was on my brand new motor cycle and living tuff
@renebeitans30722 жыл бұрын
All the black and white number plated cars you don't see anymore
@anthonymcdibble94962 жыл бұрын
Love it ... thanks Geoff.
@danmark40383 жыл бұрын
Before China invested….
@robert29813 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Now I can remember how normal life used to be. We still made things. Local businesses were prospering. Everythng was neat and maintained. People had pride. We had lots of hope for our futures. We were mostly happy. Everyone felt pretty equal. People weren't so easily offended. There was no such thing as tagging. We didn't question our history or identity. There was only two genders. We could afford a house. There was no threat from China. So sad its all in the process of being destroyed by 'woke' people who are woke to the wrong issues.
@AdamFordGhostships3 жыл бұрын
Good luck finding a museum to live in, mate. Although that would be pretty interesting for you considering not questioning history like a nation of brainless dropkicks seems to be what you aspire to, so you probably don't have a lot of fun in museums...
@timmawson6423 жыл бұрын
Someone hasn't been taking their Lithium ?... Adam!!!!
@fatsnorkel2 жыл бұрын
@@AdamFordGhostships Calm down Adam.Keep carrying on like that and we’ll line you up a sponsorship deal with Kleenex 🤣
@mr.jamster84142 жыл бұрын
What's wrong with tagging those ugly ass modernist buildings?
@gregpies16492 жыл бұрын
Might have been shot on a Sunday the traffic was unbelievable compared to now. Absolute kaos yesterday near school zone because kids are too lazy to walk or ride or catch a bus.. they have to be dropped at the front gate by mummy or daddy.
@kayesuga937110 ай бұрын
this is NOT 1980..would say closer to 1983..exhibit A 1:33 a No Dams sticker on the back of the yellow vehicle..That was a campaign sticker from the 1983 Australian federal election where the franklin river was a huge issue..hence the abundance of these No Dams stickers
@RiverDanube3 жыл бұрын
Less traffic and less crowds.
@Cureboy4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. May I use your video (or some bits) for one of my projects?
@garymarquett79895 жыл бұрын
My first year of high school
@stussysinglet3 жыл бұрын
So Melbourne did exist before I was born...
@bloggaloggs4 жыл бұрын
I'm not certain this was 1980. Wasn't the Arts Centre spire completed later?
@vinorob3 жыл бұрын
I think it was finished in 84 so this must be older
@gm30433 жыл бұрын
The Nissan bluebird 1983 model suggested it wasn't 1980 to me 👍
@cornishhh3 жыл бұрын
@@gm3043 Pretty sure I saw a Camira too.
@jackwalsh79563 жыл бұрын
They extended the height of it about 20-25 years ago also
@Silencebound4 жыл бұрын
Why can't we go to view the early Southern section of Swanston St ?? How disappointed.
@charlesdarwin72533 жыл бұрын
If Toronto had a baby with LA and that baby was convicted for treason against the British monarch then swiftly exiled to Australia, the end result is Melbourne.
@mr.jamster84142 жыл бұрын
Which Melbourne? We seem to be hurtling towards a tokyo-singapore type city now. I can see it really good with the 80's and 90's versions though.
@thomasmatthewharris19803 жыл бұрын
I was born in that year
@hazptmedia3 жыл бұрын
Hmm... I was too young to experience this world. I was born in the 00s
@gabby203 жыл бұрын
@Lock&Load 77 kliens jewellery and you could even smoke everywhere
@DVSUte3 жыл бұрын
@@gabby20 even on PLANES !! TAA let me go in the cockpit and sit in co pilots chair whilst flying even got "wings" for a jacket lol
@Judy.LoveandLightAlways3 жыл бұрын
Please Take me back to the 80s Not an African Sudanese Muslim gang in sight. Kind thoughts from Here.
@AdamFordGhostships3 жыл бұрын
Plese take yourself back to the 1980s, you utter racist bint. You can have the city where everything closed at 6pm after which time you would be free to get mugged on the empty streets. Seriously, a guy posts a nice video f the city from 40 years ago and it's a cue for bunch of moral vacuum boomers to reminisce about the times when they were only surrounded by white people and the city was dead as a doornail. You have NO MORALS whatsoever, but why you'd want to advertise this so publicly really does mystefy me.
@smedleyfarnsworth2633 жыл бұрын
@@AdamFordGhostships Enough of your nonsense, your ways have turned the city into a sewer.
@Judy.LoveandLightAlways3 жыл бұрын
@@smedleyfarnsworth263 Absolutely 👍 Kindest thoughts to you and your family from Victoria
@Judy.LoveandLightAlways3 жыл бұрын
@@AdamFordGhostships please learn how to spell. Maybe then I can understand your comment.
@gerrys1232 жыл бұрын
I went to St. Euphrasias school located in Abbotsford in the opening scene.
@chrisrumble26653 жыл бұрын
The year I started work in the city.
@mickcarson85043 жыл бұрын
The year Italy had the biggest earthquake.
@TheMASDrummer2 жыл бұрын
What happened to our city
@silkyrider69162 жыл бұрын
Now it's full or Chinese and Indians...
@TheCleaner763 жыл бұрын
I feel car sick now 🤕
@derhampaul218219 күн бұрын
I simpler time no phones no internet no worries at all 1980
@stevemann30803 жыл бұрын
EYE SAW AUSSIE DISPOSALS 😎😂
@kyripetroulas53893 жыл бұрын
Thats when Melbourne was the best city. To crowded now to much traffic not to mention big brother is watching you're every move and Daniel Andrews has destroyed the state the rock spider...
@AdamFordGhostships3 жыл бұрын
No, it's ok mate the state is still here. But anyone who thinks the dead Melbourne in the 1980s that we were all so desparate to revive, is something we want to go back to probably wasn't even born then, and so has no actual clue what they are talking about. I'm right, aren't I?