Newcastle In The 1970's

Silent footage from 1970 through to 1979.
Camera people unknown.

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10:33 I remember Mattara 1971 for the concert in Civic Park put on by Station 2HD-Newcastle. I was 16 years old then. I went to the concert with a friend, Phil. We got to meet and talk to *Ted Mulry* and I also talked with one of the members of Sherbet, who were also on the bill that Saturday night in September. I remember some girl asking Ted Mulry if he was going to appear on Young Talent Time, which was fairly new to the Sunday programme line-up on Station NBN-Newcastle at that time. It started at about 4.55pm and finished about 5.55 with Jayes Travel Time shoehorned into the slot between YTT and the Sunday Night News Bulletin.

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With the punts, the queue on Stockton's side would sometimes stretch along Fullerton Street almost to the Corroba Oval football ground(that's *real* football, by the way, "the round-ball game"). the cars would queue even across the intersections of the east-west-running streets, such as Monmouth, Clyde, Pembroke, Cardigan etc. Come 1st November, 1971 and the official opening of the Stockton Bridge and that queue would be a thing of the past, and the opening spelled the end for the old punts, which were cast-offs from when the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in 1932 anyway.

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29:14 Rail Motor Set 669/769, vintage, about 1966 to 1968 thereabouts. Probably(hopefully) in the Thirlmere museum collection. Dread the thought of the set ending up in the railway *graveyard* that is the Dorrigo "Museum(?)".

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36:37 The Police Station was used as the "Patent Office" in the Yahoo Serious movie, *Young Einstein* while Fort Scratchley(seen earlier) was used as the Lunatic Asylum in the same movie.

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13:26 The old punts. There was the *Kooorangabba, Koondooloo* and the *Lurgerena,* I'm guessing at the spelling as it's over 50 years since they last crossed the harbour. I lived at Stockton at the time, coming home from high school(Newcastle Junior Boys High) in the years 1968 to 1970, it cost just 2cents as a foot passenger on the punts, as against 10cents on the Walters-owned passenger ferries.