Old Melbourne City Footage 1970's & 1960's

[@jamesgovett2501]

I was born in Melbourne in 1955 and was a young teenager in the early seventies this was my era and I feel privileged to have been part of it! Unfortunately the likes we will never see or experience again they were the best times and the following generations just don’t understand how it really was as you had to have been there!

[@dominicmacaulay1227]

I. Saw U...

[@graerindley6312]

Yes I agree and it's the same for each generation, the nostalgia is so enchanting.

[@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv]

Do you remember lots of Sharpies then

[@CrisTina-tp2jg]

wow! seeing the silver train with the doors opened while travelling brought back memories. We would stand in the door way holding on whiling looking out the open doors. I feel a nostalgic sense of freedom.

[@philipstallwood9813]

My first full time job was in a mountaineering store called bushgear in 1977. It was in hardware lane where all the cafes are now. The city was a great adventure for me, incredible architecture, prosperous, clean, elegant and safe. I remember old buildings with elevators with folding steel mesh doors and an employee who asked which floor and pushed the button for you. Jobs for everyone.

[@ngdukic]

It was such a relaxed, friendly, clean and safe city once. Not anymore. Watching this I kept it together until Flametrees started. Thrn I got emotional. I'd give the rest of my life for just one month back in Melbourne in the 1970s. I grew up in Williamstown. I had to leave Melbourne in 2012 because I can't stand what it has become. Now I only go back when I have to and I walk the streets wondering where I am. Thank you to whoever made and uploaded this. I hope tonight I will dream of Marvelous Melbourne.

[@jacquesdemorton5871]

I returned to Melbourne after working there in the seventies. I reminded me of any third world city. I was glad to leave. Sad.

[@frankboff1260]

I no longer live in Victoria but I used go back and visit...until my best friend died. I haven’t been back since. I have no desire to return....unless I could go back in time as well.

[@jenno0o]

Where did you move?

[@normaclarke2505]

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[@personofearth5076]

Same Nick. I was fretting. See this picture I have here, it's a photo of the Glaciarium ice rink where my father was a skater and the Aspro company, right next door where my mother worked and that's how they met. The picture that I have now means the world to me. lol people assume because it has cars outside that I'm male but it's actually about the buildings, not the cars. I'm actually female.

[@SumGuy-fs8sy]

Always come back to watch this masterpiece. I miss Australia. I still live here btw.

[@bradwilliams7683]

Being born in 1961 It almost made me cry when I saw the past of our beautiful city. I turn 60 this year, but I still dream of waking up only to find the last 50 years was just a dream & I was 10 years old again.

[@greasylimpet3323]

Brad, you and I are the same age. I can't imagine where all the years have gone. The 80s seem like last week. So much has changed, both in physical ways and or culture. I really miss our accent - it's like a mix of imitation British and American now. 😢

[@richiehoyt8487]

Oh *No!* _Who'd_ want to be 10 again?!

[@perpetualgrin5804]

If you have had a good childhood you don't want it to end, not everyone is so lucky.

[@lisaalexander1824]

Reminiscing is lovely..that's why the collectables shops are so popular..

[@drgavinnicholson9334]

Yep I am a 1961 baby also; sadly Australia will never be that tranquil again

[@patricklamanna3924]

Love your work Gezza as someone who grew up in the 80s its hard to relay to kids these days how good it was. We used to have a fruitshop in knox city shopping centre from 83 to 94 before that dad and my uncle had a fruitshop on mountain hyw bayswater dad got up every morning at 3am to go to the wholesale fruit and veg market i would go with him sometimes on school holidays best years ever miss the old days of melbourne thanks for the memories

[@lovlisos]

I was a teenager in the 70’s & this wonderful video makes me SO nostalgic for those lost times. Thank you for this video 💕💕

[@Hannah-ks4mi]

So was I Susan Keech and like you, I feel nostalgic. Worked in Melbourne for 18 months from age of 16 and always went to the Pineapple Spot in Swanston Street for lunch. Was floored to see it still there in 2007!

[@stevewiles7132]

Good time to be alive.

[@ginaostara5034]

l remember beautiful Melbourne in the 70's and 80's, my mum and l traveling on the red rattler and having a lunch break on those indoor couches with the indoor water features in the city square. Melbourne was so exciting and charming, it was magical to me.

[@williamwood5310]

I landed in Melbourne in 1965 from Scotland. My wife and I rented a flat in Moonee Ponds. They were different times. All the local pubs closed at 6PM. By the mid 70s I moved north and also spent a few years back in the UK. Last year, I paid a visit to see my brother, who still lives in Moonee Ponds. After a few days wandering about the city and visiting some of my old friend in the outer suburbs, I was left with a very sad feeling. The city I knew back in the 1960s & 70s is now, it seems, the distant past.

[@MMM-dq9jj14up]

DISGUSTING, AIN'T IT! Our Current female Lord Mayor, 'Andy' C, sorry, Sally Capp, We need to THROW HER OUT. She does not even acknowledge AUSTRALIA DAY. Last few yrs, she's dressed herself, in a theatrical Black Bag, called the photographic media, AND Called Australia Day, "Invasion Day". Now, the City is FILTHY. She's a traitor. Throw her out.

[@ariesred777]

From aged 12years schooled in Malvern, first job at Myer Melbourne in 1971.Train travelling from outer suburbia and evening return.Melbourne city life made an indelible impression on me to this very day.It was all there.Culture,The Art Centre,Botanical Gardens,bustling laneways to Finders/ Spencer during peak hours.Foys Department store Burke St,Myer Christmas windows easy to view,rock concerts Myer Music Bowl,Southern Cross Hotel Ten pin bowling,Paladium Cinema opposite.Coles Cafeteria attendants dressed in soft pink and pink caps,Jazz Bands along the Yarra during Moomba.Lot's more.I'm so glad my teens and 20's many Saturday afternoons were spent with friends inner city Melbourne.Cherished memories of my youth.

[@dmann7004]

Oh my, how blessed were we to actually have spent some of our lives during this time in this wonderful city. It’s 2022 now and I live on the other side of the world. How I loved my childhood in Melbourne. Feel sad what it has now become and how self-centered and utterly wasteful and crap the current world is now. Time for a beer 🍺

[@RATTLEY67]

Yeah having one now.Cheers !!!

[@zacnat12]

Plucked from my memories, so beautifully presented. A walk down memory lane to a time long ago far far away.

[@nigelstringfellow5187]

Marvellous,Melbourne was a much nicer town in the 70's ,it's still a great city but I remember the 70's as being a simpler,happier time,thanks for the upload..

[@EZ-viewing.]

Absolutely agree with you. The 70’s were magical. I was 5 years old in 1970. I feel very emotional thinking of those day’s. So peaceful and so reassuringly safe. I’d give anything just to go back to the 70’s for just 1 day! Enjoy the moment people. Time travel doesn’t exist. 😬

[@brucekilby9957]

Seeing all those Holdens and Valiants was enough for me. I'm amazed Hearnes Hobbies is still in Flinders St.Everything changes,but sometimes you just see it all one day.🕜

[@millertas]

Why do people look at the past through rose coloured glasses? There was more violence and bigotry then but your parents were good enough to hide you from them.

[@karmicselling4252]

@@EZ-viewing. Time travel certainly does exist. You are travelling forward in time every moment of your existence.

[@janreznak881]

@@millertas More violence? How many home invasions and carjackings were there? And drugs, And etc etc. And bigotry? Piss off with that bullshit.

[@rockynanach]

Melbourne of my childhood how I miss you

[@dennisdobin8640]

Born in 52,by the time I was 10 knew ever squire inch of the city,I go there now which is very rare and feel sick.We have hand over our once beautiful city to foreign cultures,we have let our short architectural history be pulled down to be replaced with horrid third word accommodation.It was hard for us to understand,that we WERE the lucky country,we just took it for granted.Some of us still have a memories just how great a place Melbourne once was, and how lucky we were to born there, when paradise was a tram ride away.

[@raksh9]

I take issue with the statement about 'handing over to foreign cultures'. Much of Melbourne's city culture was built with the work of Italians, Greeks and Chinese. It's frankly horrific to recall that we had a White Australia policy until as recently as 1973. So as someone who grew up with friends of many cultures, let's not romanticize a politically racist past. At the same time, it's incumbent upon immigrants to understand and integrate into local culture, not create their own contentious and antagonistic pockets of their own.

[@dennisdobin8640]

@@raksh9 How can you take issue,to something you have no knowledge of,I afraid to tell you Melbourne was not built by the Italians or Greeks,most of them came here during the 1950's and as for the Chinese,they occupied small pockets of the city in dwelling built by mainly migrants from the British Isle who come here a very long time before Italian and the Greeks and the Chinese.And why are you horrified that we had a WHITE ONLY POLICY,HAVE YOU EVER LIVED IN A COUNTRY WITH A WHITE ONLY POLICY.Do you know what it is to live in a community of mostly whites? How do you imagine it was to live in a mostly white community,One it was not a divided community,we never had pockets of different races,we did not have different religions,was color a problem,no because it was never issue,starting to sound a little like paradise? That one of the reason we where known as the lucky country.Today I have to contend with all these issues,which I did not wished upon myself. I and a many Australians where quite happy in our little cocoon.

[@davidharlem6824]

Born in 1949 and you have summed it all up perfectly.

[@RGC198]

I was also born in 1952, though I grew up in Sydney. My first visit to Melbourne was in January 1967 with my dad. My wife and I later moved to Melbourne in mid 1981. Since even then, the city has grown quite a lot.

[@janreznak881]

@@raksh9 You can piss off. Italians and Greeks aren't a foreign culture, and Chinese impact was minimal in comparison. What we have now is cultures that are truly foreign, don't want to integrate or assimilate, want to jump the queue and want more "rights" than those who actually built the country (and we can include Chinese in the latter). It was obvious what was going to happen - and it did. So please review my opening statement.

[@lenglish4613]

Love this footage. I was born in 67 and love looking at 60's & 70's footage. Thanks for sharing :)

[@dalediamond]

same

[@zacnat12]

Same too

[@martymuller9902]

I want more...loved the city in the mid seventies when I worked there...enjoyed the train ride in on a warm summer morning whem you could leave the doors open

[@vinorob]

Red rattlers. Loved em

[@Quest1989]

Thank you for posting another absolute gem. Melbourne was so beautiful then, it's great to see as this is before my time.

[@suzazza]

Great footage! In the days of less traffic :) Gladstone bags, classic cars, red rattlers, blue Harris trains & W class trams. Music for the people... & pure bliss.

[@somedumbozzie1539]

Thanks for posting mate its like watching a memory roll from my own past.

[@remm952]

tHANKS FOR THIS GEZZA You've taken an old man back to a time when he was young with all the good memories that come with those years. Flame Trees just added to the tears. Thank you

[@Gezza1967]

Remm great to read, cheers Gezza

[@christinejackson3922]

Memories of my childhood growing up in Melbourne good times loved the music!!!

[@mickman3582]

I was born in 78. I know it's not like being born in the late 60s or early 70s but even for me Melbourne has changed. Everyday it's go go go. Sunday's aren't even peaceful now. I remember being a teen in the mid 90s and had to wait an hour for a bus on a sunday and walk about 4kms just to get home. Lol. Pain in the arse but I'd gladly go back to those days. It'll never be the same ever again...

[@singsingsingsongsong]

Mick Man same here. You must’ve lived down south I’m guessing.

[@raksh9]

I long for the days when the city was peaceful and quiet on Sunday. The only way that happens now is very early in the morning, or during lockdown when you can't go to the city, anyway.

[@RGC198]

Back in 1967, when I first visited Melbourne from Sydney where I lived in those days, I remember at midday on Saturdays, the city would suddenly become quiet, apart from the sound of a distant tram. On Sundays, the city was so quiet that you could almost hear a pin drop. Very different from Sydney, where even then, Sydney was far more noisy and busy with traffic.

[@RGC198]

Great video. Melbourne was certainly different back then with red rattler trains, W class trams, only three CBD railway stations (Spencer Street, Flinders Street and Princes Bridge), a People's Palace hotel and a high building in the city, where they actually had a Ferris Wheel on the roof. Spencer Street Railway Station used to have a restaurant on the upper level with a great bird's eye view of Bourke Street. I also remember staying at a motel in Brunswick and being woken up by the passing horse drawn milk truck.

[@robertarnold1303]

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[@bradwilliams1691]

The building with the ferris wheel on the roof was Foys department store on the corner of Swanston & Bourke streets.

[@RGC198]

Thanks for the info. My dad and I visited it back in January 1967 and rode the ferris wheel, which was extremely high. We were here in Melbourne on holiday, as we lived in Sydney back then.

[@paulbelfrage1968]

A very big thank u for posting. For a little while i found myself there again when life was simple..Cheers pb.

[@Ballarateast]

Melbourne was once a graceful , beautiful city an amazingly safe place to live and grow up. No longer unfortunately ☹️

[@pinduro1618]

What a pleasure. My world as a 12 year old, on KZbin! That was a long time ago, and watching this makes it seem like yesterday. Good on ya, mate!

[@Gezza1967]

m.g.w. Good one👍

[@larrywalker6105]

Expo,s

[@pinduro1618]

@@larrywalker6105 Congrats on the Hall, champ!

[@tracer7898]

This was 100% through my eyes in the 60s and 70s

[@DeadnightDownfall]

I've been doing a lot of filming in the city recently, and it is really amazing to compare it with this footage. Thanks for uploading

[@anncoral]

When life was simple getting to work and around Melbourne.

[@oldxaverianssoccerclub2014]

2020: it’s even worse now

[@petergoodwin2465]

Like a sardine can now ,gridlocked dump and nobody knows how to drive their new ugly imported junk of today.

[@mickgatz214]

I was born 1962. Thankyou for your shares and comments. Love ya all brothers. Much Love

[@anthonywalsh785]

some great memories there so thanks for posting.. i was born in melbourne in 1949 and lived there until 1987 when i moved to cairns, where i still live.

[@TheMarkipops]

this whole music video composition deserves a medal

[@Gezza1967]

Cheers mate, I thought it well to😁👍

[@JanaS757]

watching this makes me sooo sad!! love to go back in time😔

[@weskitten]

I recall the first silver trains, about late 1974 or '75. They had green vinyl little cube seats, thick rubberized flooring and automatic closing doors which as a kid I thought was a big thing.

[@jewelsvictoria8418]

I think it might have been 76, I remember my first ride, it was on a school excursion and everyone was talking about it.

[@derek5168]

Watched this a number of times great footage of course but the cream on top is this cover version of flame trees probably =if not better than the original

[@BH-kl2rn]

I consider myself fortunate to have been born in the late 60s and to have seen Melbourne in these times. It's quite sad really that humans, while advancing in time, we have gone backwards. Shops closed at 12pm on Saturday as family time was more important. Where did society go so wrong that we felt the need to listen to selfish politicians and bankers to lead the way. Oh I miss those quieter times when society still had a conscience.

[@redwandennaoui4508]

Oh how beautiful you were Melbourne……😔

[@dannye8525]

Compelling. Haunting. Beautiful. Thank you.

[@qqq2211]

This footage is amazing Gezza Love the old Melbourne footage I still remeber how Collingwood used to look back in the 80's

[@RGC198]

Back in the late 1930's, my dad actually visited Melbourne and rode a cable tram to Collingwood. that certainly must have been an interesting experience.

[@SumGuy-fs8sy]

It’s almost like technology aimed at simplifying life has made it so much harder.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

satan corp in full effect.

[@frankboff1260]

It’s not just technology. Everything the government or corporations touch they ruin. Ive often asked others why, in the name of simplicity are things made ever more complex? Almost like someone wanted to make things difficult..

[@trickyotoole3542]

sure has

[@personofearth5076]

I couldn't agree more.

[@personofearth5076]

@@frankboff1260 It's technology too Frank. I do agree with you though, it's a few people at the top who are destroying everything. However, even if they didn't exist and technology did, people would still have their heads and minds in the fantasy world known as phones. Technology needs to die.

[@scottmckellar1157]

I was born in 1970. Lived here all my life. Great memories.thanks

[@kevinmcnally273]

BEAUTIFUL once

[@RaveDave871]

Melbourne sure has its share of buildings dating pre great mudflood 1000 years ago. The floors so high, the tallest giants walked this land back then.

[@gloglos100]

Used to visit from Sydney in the 60s and 70s and stay in the Victorian in little Collins street. My mother in the late 30s stayed there too. I remember the tobacco smells in Collins street and the wonderful shopping, Georges. The small arcades and the well dressed people in the city. Then young in tight jeans duffle coats and berets and music. Wonderful city then.

[@robertharding4166]

Born in Adelaide traveled to Melbourne in 83 as family had moved to greensbourgh and spent a hole day in Melbourne with my cousin 13 I was 11. It still had it's old charm visiting the museum , shops , train station etc. Having my dad's side from Melbourne I seen the busy place they always spoke about. And like the people have commented it was a great and different time. Turning 50 this year wish I could go back even just for a day. P.S Loved the cars and still do.

[@craig3008]

Another wonderful video of Melbourne's history. Thanks for posting it..I always enjoy your videos.

[@1963Toddy]

My best and bad times had in Melbourne.60/70/80/90,s I miss the ol place when I watch this..

[@ashisroy6731]

Life was sooo simple and beautiful in yester years no matter where in world you belong life was great back before 😍

[@Wally1967]

I remember the 70s in the City and I love the Myers huge cafeteria back then on 3rd floor I think.

[@mrsgritoli1]

hot chips from myers cafe, yum

[@SirSSau]

Brad Williams Yeah! Used to eat there with the old pensioners when I was a kid in the 80s - pie and chips on a plate with a milkshake in them old school stainless steel cups.

[@darrengrech4098]

Yes...my mum took me there for lunch many times,great memories 👍🙂

[@Angel-ul1jl]

i remember my nan taking me there alot when i was little.(born 77) what about the Myers rooftop at xmas time?Awsm memories 💜

[@frankboff1260]

Sir Spencer yum!

[@paulcooper5748]

Beutiful i remember this melbourne you can really feel the atmosphere how it was then love it.

[@abhisekroy6430]

A time machine could be so great .. we could visit those people who we lost our loved ones who were alve then

[@retrothingz]

Thanks for this. The Melbourne of my teenage years ! A much nicer city than the filthy, congested mess that the "Big Australia" lunatics have turned it into these days. Sundays were a joy before everything "had to be" (?) open 24/7. You could park anywhere and go for a leisurely wander around. Lots of elegant, stylish shops. I used to frequent Space Age Books in Swanston Street, one of the first shops in Melbourne to specialize in movie, TV and pop music history books, posters and soundtrack albums. In fact, I started work in Swanston Street in ' 79.

[@Ian_KH]

I use to go to Space Age Books and The Technical Bookshop too. I also remember all the small import record shops too.

[@Hanzey1966]

I am not Australian, but did lived in Ozz a short while. Visited Melbourne too. What You say as in ,,All Open 24/7,, is World-Wide in evry Major or Little City. Here in Netherlands too.... Making my Birthgrounds from nice and easy, into a Rat-Race. Such a shame , Its all about Economy and Big Money which has to ,,Grow,, You know , not Satisfied with 10 Million Profit a Year .... HAS to be 20 the Next.....

[@nicholaspatton5455]

This is FANTASTIC... Thank you Gezza1967! 🏆

[@TheAxelay]

I grew up in the 80/90's variant of Melbourne, of course it wasn't as grandiose as the 60/70's Melbourne (1980's was still pretty good!). I can come down to this upload and pay my respects to this video. Especially when I get mad and irritable at the 21st century version of um melbourne (which pretty often!) and all it's useless pitfalls which I won't mention because hundreds and thousands have already pointed it out in not only this vid but many others like this as well. The music is therapeutic but it often fills me with sorrow of what I miss and by watching this, what I wish I could've been in melbourne in an era like this!! Well back to the 2017+ toil that is melbourne now. Thank you for the upload!

[@TheAxelay]

@Brad Williams , cheers mate! It's not too late with the way things are going now via the world?! Isolationism might be back sooner than we think?! Never give up on this footage here!

[@Vinnie101a]

The ladies dressed so elegantly and carried themselves so well, compared to nowadays.

[@Goody478]

wonderful old super video. sound is superb.. Great job :)

[@Gezza1967]

Wasif cheers

[@pete1971351]

Gezza, another brilliant video. Love your work..........more PLEASE.

[@garymitchell6056]

These are important - to remind us all of how things were in times gone by - certain frames immediately take me back and I can almost smell the air as it was then !!

[@gregmartin1085]

The city has certainly changed and not for the better. Didn't see any graffiti unlike today. A time when jobs were plentiful because we made everything we needed. Now its a rat race and we make nothing. The politicians who destroyed this country are disgusting. Makes me sad to see how great it was and how it is today.

[@letstudy2day]

love the city. really miss melbourne. one of the best city and friendly people i ever lived in.

[@KL2010]

Born in Melbourne in 1953, moved to WA (Govt transfer) in 1972 and have only been back for weddings and funerals. But for those Melbournites who've stuck it through, what would be the ONE aspect of 60's and 70's Melbourne you would love to revive? 1. Nine out of ten vehicles on the road are Holdens, Fords or Valiants. 2. People wearing proper hats and not baseball caps with US sporting logos. 3. 40 cent parking for the first hour. 4. Trains without graffiti. 5. Simple (boxy) architecture instead of arty farty monstrosities only an arts student would love. 6. Policemen actually directing traffic (and not during some terror related lockdown). 7. Fewer foreigners.

[@harryb3456]

Ok boomer

[@ignatiusnoirant8174]

@@harryb3456 eat it groomer.

[@RGC198]

I remember the policemen directing traffic, which was still in vogue when we moved here from Sydney in 1981. I also used to like the old GPO in the city and the excellent customer service there when positing letters and buying stamps.

[@guttasnipe4702]

Foreigners yeah right, the place is FULL of Indians & Asians there are NO Aussies anymore, it’s like Mumbai

[@Detroit8V92tta]

What an excellent post of Melbourne and how it used to be! Thank you.

[@Vinnie101a]

I used to work in the CBD in the late Sixties. Saturdays would park in Flinders Lane near Exhibition Street and often drive up to Carlton for lunch. Get back an hour later, no problem parking, sometimes in the same spot. Ohhhhh those days.

[@ConceptualMadness]

Love the time-lapse filmed from the old gas&fuel towers, a unique perspective which you won't be able to see these days with fed square being there. Thanks for the upload. :)

[@Gezza1967]

G'day paparia1969, glad you enjoyed the old 'Loop' footage, good stuff, cheers Gezza

[@dalediamond]

still love this mate..just awesome. DD

[@christopherclarke3022]

Like most things in life we don't realise what has past until it is gone. Alas, there is no going back to what was less chaotic times for the average person, job security and a slightly slower pace of life when in comparison to today there was actually a lot more time to do things and weekends actually felt like weekends. Children on the most part could be just that. Then again the previous generation probably thought the same, as will the next that follow us. The pining for yesterday's gone. Thank you for the upload of a little bit of a not so long ago history.

[@edwardsmithson7944]

This. I look back to it 15 or so years ago as a kid and see some things found in the video that were still around when I was a kid and has now either gone or had its surrounding landscape change. One thing I hope is that Birrarung Marr and the view shown at the start of the film on the Yarra never changes. Probably one of the most unappreciated but iconic features of the city.

[@gegemec]

It is all so familiar, more familiar than the city now. Shows i am getting on.

[@Hannah-ks4mi]

My first job was with the Bank of New South Wales at head office in the city. I travelled from Ringwood to work mostly in the Red Rattlers and occasionally in the Blue Trains and I became very familiar with the rail yards before entering the darkened area just before alighting on the platform at Flinders Street. I enjoyed that splash of darkness and I loved the Red Rattlers. It was 1973! Those really were the days. Thank you Gezza.

[@Gezza1967]

Cheers Hannah, great memories 👍

[@mickman3582]

My god! Inner city roads quiet during daylight. You'll never see that now unless it's past midnight and even then you'll still see cars driving around.

[@vinorob]

Does anyone remember Ma's burger van that used to park outside Flinders Street Station after midnight?

[@philhudson...5017]

Absolutely the best burgers..... 🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔

[@smitajky]

I was born at the beginning of the 50s. I can remember playing a bit of cricket in Elizabeth Street on a Sunday morning. Just to prove a point. No cars or trams at that time of day. By the time of these films so much of the Melbourne I grew up in had already gone. After two decades of nothing the rate of change in the 50s was phenomenal. I can remember posting a letter on Saturday morning in the city saying I would be home late. It was delivered at midday. An era before parking meters had been invented. We didn't need them because who could have a car in the war years. It took twenty years before every family had a car.

[@ChipsCooper]

Just shows how much we have lost as a city.

[@CC3193]

Deeply true. It’s bigger, it’s making much more money. But everything is imported. It’s cost us home-ownership, a sense of community, connection, rituals and simple pleasures. Living in Melbourne is a life for robots. I quit Melbourne 3 years ago, having spent my first 40 years there. My children have the opportunity to live a similar childhood as I did, growing up in a much smaller city. Like the old Melbourne, people here hurry less, and you see people you know out & about, and meet people who are no more than one or two degrees of separation. And it’s easier to find things made locally. It’s comforting and reassuring.

[@Gezza1967]

@FA7273 cheers for that, glad you enjoyed it!, cheers Gezza

[@darrenponton4444]

i loved the vic market back in the day melbourne become to over crowded for me in the late 70s

[@stevemarriott2788]

Sarah Blasko. Meet you up at the Northcote baths behind high St. 1963. To my mates ,Johnny,Cliff,Daryl,Mick Cocks,Shane Cocks,BobbyWwere, Wayne,Pat Coco. What a great time we had. in Sparkes Ave. Don't know where you are now.

[@lisaa6099]

Brilliant thanks. Bless

[@elvisbartoli6687]

Lived there for 57 years but left for Hobart,I dont miss it but these snippets of film were great.

[@mickgatz214]

thnx for the u/l Gezza, much appreciated. :)

[@Gezza1967]

Mick Gatz cheers 👍

[@DisneyJF]

My friend Pam would have been a young girl in her teens somewhere in Elwood when this movie was made.

[@paparia1969]

A lot of this footage was commissioned by the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority. I remember the old FEIP and the arts displays at the Treasury and Fitzroy gardens. Nice work Gezza.

[@ivanhajncl8833]

At 2:22, it's Harry Price with moustache, sideburns and trombone playing on a semi-trailer stage for FEIP.

[@johno01970]

Thanks for sharing this video

[@robsin2810]

Ah. The 60s. No better time. I remember the Red rattlers.

[@xr6lad]

A much nicer city before it became a bloated hellhole of over population, ceaseless migration and slummy buildings…….when will you save her?

[@teunisswart8236]

+xr6lad Strange! It's been the Worlds most livable city for the last number of years.

[@xr6lad]

You need to get out more and look at the things that made it the most liveable - its not what you expect.

[@reality3671]

xr6lad I agree. im 38 now. they last 10 years melbourne has taken a turn. population explosion has wrecked this city. get me outta here!

[@mickgatz214]

can't save Melbourne, it's fk'd :(

[@whoosh1965]

Beautiful city before it bake infested

[@goldenerafanatic4042]

I miss white Aussie Australia 🇦🇺

[@denisegraves4681]

My Melbourne...........

[@ivanhajncl8833]

At 2:22, it's Harry Price with moustache, sideburns and trombone playing on a semi-trailer stage for FEIP.

[@JamesStaaks8182]

Great footage Gezza, so many differences from then to now and I have to say that they haven’t improved Melbourne.

[@Gezza1967]

G'day ConceptualMadness ., glad to read you enjoyed it. cheers Gezza

[@stevepope2014]

Jeff Kennett was the beginning of the Melbourne's demise. Thank you Jeff you destroyed a Great City. And you still don't have a clue of the damage you did.

[@whatwouldiknow1759]

Ok Steve. Give me 3 examples.......

[@whatwouldiknow1759]

@Brad Williams And what's wrong with certain utilities being sold off if funds are required for vital infrastructure?

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

jeff works for satan corporation

[@frankboff1260]

Golfnut the Liberals are still selling off everything that isn’t nailed down. And if it is nailed down it’s burning to the ground while Scummo completely ignores offers of help from many other countries. Even a 10 year knows you can’t sell off all your assets....

[@frankboff1260]

Golfnut And in relation to my last comment - I think all politicians today are just as bad. I can barely tell the difference between the major parties...The lot need sacking. Sorry that’s my soapbox for today

[@djizzah]

some of those valiants holdens and falcons are worth big bucks now

[@markryan5493]

Most would have fallen to bits by now.

[@frankboff1260]

Gee I should have kept my old chariot then 😂

[@Detroit8V92tta]

Love it, more please???

[@planetX15]

What's the name of the first song being played?

[@chopperking1122]

does anyone remember the allens sweets neon sign , I remember seeing it from the train on the L/H side as a kid , I think it was in sth. melb . somewhere . It used to change , with different sweets that they sold appearing on it .

[@anthonymcdibble9496]

@Brad Williams And sadly the Nylex time/temperature on the silo near the river is no longer operational

[@FA7273]

Well worth posting Thank You

[@ronburns6920]

i was born in 83. and it just makes me sad now. its will never be the same again. someone invent a time machine and quick 27/09/21

[@planetX15]

Hey Gezza Wonderful video, thankyou! Apparently the KZbin link in the video description is unavailable, is there a chance you could do a repost? Be interesting to see What it was about, Cheers!