Melbourne City 1975.

[@SumGuy-fs8sy]

Darrell Lea! What a shop!

[@darrylknight2675]

Back in 1975 I was a young 20 year old rambling around the CBD, I was living in Prahran and used to get the number 8 tram to Glen Iris to get home, think the fare was about 20 cents. Oh to be young again, it all goes so quickly.

[@every1665]

I was a teenager (in Perth) and it's funny how I remember those days as being carefree and like I owned the world. I'm sure I had worries but, compared to the things you have to take responsibility for later it was nothing.

[@greasylimpet3323]

You're right about that... It's all just gone in a flash.

[@somedumbozzie1539]

I lived in Glen Iris down by the creek in 77 best share house ever and the second time with same mates, even then we could see all this coming.

[@mvnorsel6354]

When your young you own the world.

[@luka3174]

@@every1665 im 18 finishing school. Think it was a care free time, there are two types of people now. Become a stoner and waste your time away or go to uni and grind your life away with the hope of owning a mediocre house.

[@Maria-kq4ri]

And who can forget walking past ‘Darrell Lea’ with the bright dizzying lights and intoxicating liquorice aroma? ♥️

[@Ms-oh8gx]

@mick3y mast9rs I was just thinking of the hard candies when i saw this, mun would buy us a little bottle every school holidays and we would eat at Coles Cafeteria

[@toniblackmore3016]

Those uniforms 😆

[@jamesfrench7299]

Yes this is the start of the best decade there'll ever be in history. Only good thing about the present is were able to have our hearts warmed by footage of those years.

[@brendanengland8385]

Well said

[@tomwhelan4561]

Ya got that right!

[@MrProzacmilkshake]

no youtube then mate

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@MrProzacmilkshake Didn't need it but would have been a nice indulgence along with affordable high quality video recording.

[@stevecini2964]

Excellent excellent footage. Homicide again. Bluey. Also has some classic Melbourne. Shots of 1976. Melbourne

[@darkangel2347]

Great to see images from Melbourne in 1975 when I was living in Whyalla in 1975. I have since visited Melbourne on 4 occassions since July 2019 but on each visit it looks like more and more like places like New York or Los Angeles. There's still some old buildings left to see in the Melbourne CBD in 2022.

[@maxsaigon6791]

I think I bought every Suzi Quatro poster in that store,at least my uncle did.

[@craiganderson7565]

What a beautiful city Melbourne once was . It has become a dirty crime ridden hole I don’t feel safe in anymore …. I don’t even put the garbage out after dark . Nice footage of a much better time full of great memories ; well done

[@SunnyBoyy448]

Thank multiculturalism

[@mikisaba9336]

Love it mate as always

[@jayr807]

Wish i could have lived back then and see what melbourne was like in the past. thanks for this video

[@shaneb315]

I was going to school back in those days . Melbourne was a busy city , there were fewer tall buildings in the city centre . On weekends most shops were closed by 1 pm Saturday and Sundays there were no super markets or hardware stores open . Footy was VFL with 12 Victorian teams playing on Saturdays only , or on public holidays . There were 4 tv stations : Channels 2 , 7 , 9 and 0 pronounced "oh" , which later became 10 . For communication , if you wanted to call home one could easily find a phone box and pay something like 10-20 cents to make a call . The old " red rattler " trains were still running as were the more modern " blue trains " , but new " silver trains " were being introduced . We could ride in the back of a tray truck or ute without breaking any road laws and there were no bicycle helmets . Everybody wore rather colourful clothes , flared jeans were in fashion and most young males grew their hair enough to cover their ears . Not many people had tattoos or piercings , never saw anyone back then with a brow or nose piercing . Girls and women often would wear ear rings and some males would get an ear stud. At school we worked from text books , all our school work was hand written - classroom computers did not exist , although basic electronic calculators were appearing and most homes had one , but they could not be used at school. On the roads there was often plenty of traffic jams as the freeways were still under construction or were not built . Australian made Holden's and Ford's were the most popular cars on the roads . Swanston Street in the city allowed traffic and Southern Cross train station was called Spencer Street . Some parts of Melbourne look pretty much the same , however in recent decades many changes have occured , some good , some not so good such as tall apartment complexes cluttering the city skyline . Melbourne's population was around 2 million and Australia had a population of around 12 -14 Million All the best .

[@jayr807]

@@shaneb315 Thank you so much Shanebm for taking me back through to time. Its sad that many people my age( me being millenial) just take things for granted by living in Melbourne and not knowing its history . I can imagine how difficult it might habe been without computers or mobile phones and freeways to what we are accustomed to today, yet people were so happy back then. When you mentioned Holden or Ford, its brought tears to my eyes, cos those factories have now gone and here I am driving imported cars when I could have driven locally made and help support jobs or maintain Melbourne’s heritage and history. I complain when a train comes late by a minute , yet Melbourne has maintaine a long history and one of the best transport systems in the world( trains and trams or other PT) I know that Melbourne will never be the same again during the times you were growing up. I could stay up all night and listen to your childhood stories. Thank you once again 🙏

[@shaneb315]

@@jayr807 You're welcome Jay R . Back in the 70's and 60's , when I was even younger . We were aware of technical advances in computing and marvelled at the prospect that one-day most people would own a computer or carried a phone in their pocket , but it seemed a long way off- we had no idea a thing called the internet would exist . With the Americans using state of art technology to launch moon missions - it's was a brilliant time to be alive for my generation . Some of my primary school teachers were war veterans from World War 2 , one a Wing Commander who flew bombing missions during the Battle of Britain . My grade 6 teacher was a platoon sergeant and fought in New Guinea against the Japanese , another was an army captain during the war - they were great teachers and good , honest men who helped defend and shape Australia . There were plenty of WW 1 veterans still alive then as well . I think maybe we've become too reliant on technology , although it's nice to have the ability to communicate with someone on the other side of the world from a mobile phone - I never take what we have today for granted , have seen so much change over the years . I miss the 70's , life was good . You will get to see amazing advances in coming decades - space missions to the planets might become quite the norm as this century unfolds and maybe your electric car in the future will have the capacity to fly. Artificial intelligence is developing , who knows where that is going 🤔

[@somedumbozzie1539]

@@jayr807 I grew up in those times and just before the fires I was going to cycle down there from Sydney where I have been since 78 but had to cancel and then the rona after watching a video of a guy on a bike riding my old routes that had turned into concrete jungles I decide to just be happy with my memories. Take it from an old man who has been on the wrong end of CPR it does not matter when you live its how you live if you want to know what is the meaning of life do something to give your life meaning which is entirely about kindness and common decency and being the person that everyone knows they can turn to for help and the rest will take care of itself.

[@user-gk-y8t]

​@Jay R It wasn't difficult, it was all we knew. 1975 I was 10 yrs old and we had to buy a simple hand held, digital calculator for grade 5 maths. We thought that was pretty fancy 😄 At the time I remember my dad had a huge push button calculator that printed the sum on paper roll.

[@slatibaadfast]

Used to work at Ted's Camera store as a salesman and developer in 74-5.

[@alasdairbaird7303]

It might be from the Firm Man. A bizarre and obscure film apparently, Peter Cummins was in it. 1975

[@crazyforcrochet]

Memories

[@anoplolepisgracilipes]

I went to the city yesterday.

[@chrisF351]

Young & jackson hotel

[@dalediamond]

Darrell lea chocolate store.. I use to go stuff my face there.

[@irukandji54]

Diamond Dale-Darrel lea chochalate shop would be the first shop i would go to when I got into the city,like you I would always stuff my self but I must admit I never payed for everything I ate lol😀

[@dalediamond]

@@irukandji54 Then wed go up to the greater union russell st cinemas,sneak in and see Jaws...

[@charris939]

The balding fellow in the brown suit looks like Australian actor Peter Cummins, of Storm Boy and Sunday too far away fame. He appears about three times in this footage.

[@darrenjray]

Has to be.

[@JamesStaaks8182]

For sure

[@alasdairbaird7303]

It is. The Removalists as well, a very dark David Williamson play/film.

[@arisl2370]

yes your right o' l chap !

[@theinventionsofmegsy3137]

i would love to time travel

[@swishswish386]

Great grabs there.... Melbourne when it was Melbourne

[@mcshaggy2]

When you say when it was Melbourne, what do you mean exactly? Just curious. Less people? Less non white people? More quaint like a country town?

[@swishswish386]

@@mcshaggy2 Less hustle and bustle, less population, more relaxed environment and the historic / tasteful city architecture was still mostly intact. Then graffiti was mostly an oddity rather being common place and the list goes on....That's a snapshot of my thoughts

[@SunnyBoyy448]

@@mcshaggy2no third world migrants

[@TheCleaner76]

Not one person on their phone

[@MRHenHen]

As Bob Dylan sang in 1964 The Times They Are a-Changin'

[@SumGuy-fs8sy]

Lots of Australians

[@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520]

You mean white people.

[@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520]

@Lock&Load 77 haha good one mate

[@pepper9905]

@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 🤡

[@johnsergei]

But the government wants more tax and you can't tax people 100% of their income, all the time. Today, tens of thousands are in the highest income tax bracket of 48% + GST = 58% and that's if you don't use electricity & live on bread and water.

[@greenhammer3263]

@@johnsergei who gets taxed 100 percent?

[@Scotty-P]

And continued as brilliantly through the 80's and 90's. How is that; over the last decade and a half, we've let them do to Melbourne what they have?!

[@darylcumming7119]

The shorts.

[@lucas-uq1vr]

Whats the name of the background music

[@sebbrazier5678]

I was born years to late

[@harleyguy7]

Wow back when you felt like you were actually in Australia

[@stumarston6812]

Melbourne used to have white people.

[@jasonlay9492]

How about go back another 20,000 years when they were all aboriginal.

[@every1665]

@@jasonlay9492 I've got some videos of Melbourne streets taken in 22,000 BC and you're right!

[@jasonlay9492]

@@every1665 Don't need your videos got ancient wall paintings in caves.

[@mebeme007]

Meanwhile, some paintings on walls tell the story of what the aboriginals did to the more original inhabitants that were here long before them, who were wiped out by aboriginals. But many are so desperate to deny that fact. It doesn't suit their narrative of relentlessly pushing the fairytale that the indigenous people are the so-called original inhabitants/owners of the land. By the way, which aboriginals are you referring to? Since there were many tribes, they NEVER were just one mob together. And they did plenty of their own murdering, raping, etc, in attempts to steal each others patches of dirt, steal women and young girls, steal food and so on. But that's apparently ok when it's a non-white person doing the exact same things. Racist much.

[@gustavobro2484]

Unhappy looking morbid bunch..........

[@brendanpaterson5635]

1975 was not a good year - high interest rates, high (in their terms) unemployment, political instability, getting over the Oil Shocks of 74, Darwin had just been flattened, instability in Asia, Latin America and Africa. But on the upside, North Melbourne's first VFL Premiership!

[@nocomment4848]

What music is that? Not even shazam could guess it

[@paulbullock1057]

Reminds me of the Animals song House of the rising sun

[@nocomment4848]

@@paulbullock1057 I think you're right tbh

[@standupandbecounted972]

A lot leaner.

[@dhanaty6744]

Didn't see any Chinese or Asians 👌🏼... but now can't see any Australians (especially in city)..

[@johnschannel449]

why are there no asian people

[@kevinthomas9002]

no indians and africans back then what went wrong

[@synthicidemusic1915]

Exactly. Our stupid pathetic politicians, that's what happened. War displacement, etc. They all deserve to be hung.

[@lindacampbell6793]

Immigration happened dickhead.

[@johnsergei]

@@synthicidemusic1915 Do you actually think politicians work for you? Taxes do not fund government, so you (nor I) àre the boss of these obedient middle managers we call politicians. They are not at the top of the pyramid like most people think. In fact some are poorly dressed, poorly spoken & some are utter slobs & all are utterly ruthless, to get as far as being a well known politician.

[@dannymiller7880]

Or muslums

[@brendanpaterson5635]

@@dannymiller7880 - At least most of the Muslims I know can spell.

[@every1665]

Chairman Dan will want this video banned.

[@standupandbecounted972]

Lol

[@mebeme007]

Didn't take long to find the moron.

[@letsseeif]

Okay. I plead guilty to occasionally going to Ted's Camera Shop at the very time this was filmed. The people in 1975 Melb CBD look like a bunch of twits. If they could see us in 2021 in LOCKDOWN my best guess that it be a case of "what the ....?" AND they aren't in flying cars and the trams still go.

[@maxsaigon6791]

And st Kilda still haven't won another grand final.

[@dalediamond]

How clean are the streets,dont think i can see 1 bit of rubbish................

[@dannymiller7880]

Or any bums sitting in front of shops begging for money

[@dalediamond]

Danny Miller lol true

[@mebeme007]

Gawd, whinge worse than a bunch of Poms. Just because you don't see those things in this very tiny piece of film that was clearly not intending to film rubbish in the streets or dero's begging for change, doesn't mean those things never existed in those days. 😂 Acting like the place was supposedly perfect, and no-one ever complained about your generation and how different things were in their day, to how it was in 1975. 🤪

[@dalediamond]

Wow you took that to a diff level eh

[@mebeme007]

@@dalediamond Says the old fuddy duddy bleating about rubbish in the streets. When you could've very easily viewed the video in a more positive manner. 🤷‍♀ But I'm apparently the one who took it to a diff level. 😜🤣

[@RobbiRocks]

See that???? some manners hahahaha no ones walking round with their boof head stuck in their phones

[@mebeme007]

Meanwhile, Robbi's got his boofhead stuck in his phone or computer screen, having a little whinge on YT.

[@RobbiRocks]

@@mebeme007 hahaha for the whole few moments while the rest of the day, Months, away from YT.. Cheers ya'll

[@mebeme007]

@@RobbiRocks Someone didn't pay much attention at school, either.

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

This can't be Melbourne -there isn't a Chinese face to be seen !

[@johnsergei]

@Lock&Load 77 Indians usually yell, they don't need phones.

[@synthicidemusic1915]

I noticed that the one last old school diner on Swanson has been remodeled. Bastards. Really hoped they wouldnt ruin the last vestige of '70s Melbourne. Also, look at the people. No Asians!!! And by the way, to an Asian that may watch this. If you can't understand why we are pissed off at the way you have overtaken our city, then you deserve all the ridicule you get, cos China town is no longer just Little Bourke Street. It's the whole damn city. Imagine if we did that to Beijing?!?! Yeah...exactly.... Wind it down or face the consequences.

[@mickeybear1959]

Remember that restaurant called The Ribcage I remember you had to go underground to get to it.

[@synthicidemusic1915]

@@mickeybear1959 the ribcage? I can't place it. Where was it?

[@mickeybear1959]

@@synthicidemusic1915 I went there in 1978 with wifey..she was my friend. .Its catch phrase was "The Ribcage"...when youre fed up with lousy food..haha..mind you the ribcage made the Swagman look like a fine dining restaurant lol

[@djackmanson]

Racist piece of shit, aren't you?

[@davanmani556]

Amitabh Bachchan