Shopper’s in Bourke St Melbourne 1985.

Shopper’s on Bourke St Melbourne 1985.
Acoustic guitar version of the Divinyls classic ‘Pleasure and Pain’ by John Francis Carroll.
Footage courtesy of Telerecordings.

[@swishswish386]

That takes me to a wonderful time ,...The 80's were fantastic

[@australianmade2659]

Melbourne use to be so beautiful

[@TheCleaner76]

Before the invasion

[@veganath]

@@TheCleaner76 before diversity became our strength

[@robever]

When Melbourne was a beautiful, clean and safe city to visit!

[@cudgee7144]

I finished work in Flinders lane in Mid 1983, was a great place to work in the City back then, you could dart around to any of the dept. stores in your lunchtime if you needed anything. Towards the end of the clip there is the Buckley's sign next to Myers, so some of this clip is pre 1983, David Jones took over their store in 1982 i'm pretty sure, we used to sell to them. Myer's and Buckley's were 2 of our regular customers. One thing glaringly obvious in this clip, i don't know if any one else picked it up, no fat arse people getting around like slobs in bad fitting trackies.

[@elenawilliams32]

I was at a market a few years ago and a mate and I were looking through all these photos of Melbourne/flinders st area from the 50's to 80's, the fella selling them asked us what we noticed was different. I said hats (heaps of people wore hats/flat caps)... my friend guessed correctly... No obese people. My mum always made us dress up for a trip to 'town' so yes, no trackies or yoga pants.

[@mvnorsel6354]

On my lunch break would head to Elizabeth St to see the motorbikes it's all gone now. Only bubble tea shops.

[@tennisfancaz22]

I worked in the Comminwealth Bank in Collins Street back then. I remember all those sights vividly. I often sat in the Bourke Streer Mall next to those brick flower planters to eat lunch. Everybody looks so relaxed and focused - not glued to their phone! Simpler times with less worries and brighter prospects. Climate change wasn't a thing - we had sweltering summers, cold winters, floods, droughts & bushfires, realising nothing was constant and never would be. Ahh, take me back to the good ol days! 😂☀️✨

[@50shadesofgday64]

Awesome acoustic version of Pleasure and pain

[@vinorob]

I keep looking for faces I might have known

[@jamesgovett2501]

They were good times the early eighties, my wife bought a new Toyota Celica lift back in April 85 (before I met her) and we still have it, still in pristine condition and on classic reg. When Toyotas were made bullet proof if looked after of course, great bit of footage and before Coles and Woolworths diversified into mega money makers!

[@chrisferguson237]

I saw Chrissy Amphlett and the Divinals play at the Village Green in 1986 with mates, I was underage, she was outrageous and beautiful. The sights and sounds of our youth! Really appreciate your posts! Cheers.

[@elenawilliams32]

Melbourne had the best live music scene. It would've been a brilliant gig. All these years later and the village green isn't that far away from where I live.

[@stevep3692]

🤟🍻👍

[@skatewaverider]

Such fantastic times,I really miss the 80s as a youngster,this country just isn’t the same anymore….. Lovely old cars driving around not like the same boring rubbish we have now….a real shame we’ve gone backwards….

[@Hannah-ks4mi]

Far more character in the 70's but thank you Gezza, you're a champion x

[@3800TURBO]

Very cool. I was 6 years old. Still remember a lot of that too. The 80s were so layed back. I miss looking at records and later making mix tapes recorded off the wireless. Above everything, no phones! To find ya mate you had to visit 5 different homes lol. You could leave all your windows open and doors unlocked. Even car would be left windows down outside Tuckerbag!

[@gregpies1649]

Great days plenty of jobs and a simpler life. This country has gone so far backwards and is such a mess. No manufacturing, no local owned businesses, everything imported, an economy headed for disaster.

[@thomaswalsh6844]

It was heading for disaster in ‘85 too if I remember correctly.

[@nigelcreighton2411]

That’s not the eighties I remember.

[@SupaHoon]

But just think how little diversity we had! How much richer we are now!

[@TheAxelay]

It would be "our" last great decade or era before the early 90's and roll/sell outs began. The 80's was the final great swan song before it went to the hell we have now...

[@ianomeara3963]

Yes my mum always would take me for lunch there. Cole fish and chips the best. There were 3 coles the best times 😊

[@xr6lad]

The chips and gravy in a bowl, the wobbling jelly with cream in a glass bowl or a lime spider (lemonade and ice cream) were my favourites.

[@ianomeara3963]

@@xr6lad Yes jelly and cream on top red or green red for me 😊

[@The_Last_Ninja]

What a beautiful country we lived in back then 🥲

[@brendanengland8385]

Ah yes .. remember the freedom.no camera's watching.no phones .. nice one again.

[@xr6lad]

Surveillance cameras has certainly started by mid 80’s unfortunately. Yes not as many but they were there. They started in the late 70’s. On top of buildings - remember articles about it. The ‘Big Brother is watching you’ media articles.I

[@TheAxelay]

Actually there were CCTV cameras but not to the extreme there are now, area I remember having the most cameras in that time was the old post office building which I think is now some kinda department store. I remember as a kid waiting outside via the stair catwalk and standing infront of the cameras and it would track me as a 7 year old at that time, I think the guards at the CCTV room were playing around with me back then as it was in good fun.

[@bernardmolan2976]

GROUSE. These videos always hold such fascination for me as I didn't know Melbourne prior to 1990, when I moved here as a 21-year-old from a pointless and boring existence languishing in Albury. I love Melbourne and always will. As always, thank you for the footage.

[@TheAxelay]

I can feel the "lifeforce" and even that old "warmth" that it was once known for....It feels so faint inside me now but I can still detect it watching this footage here, anyone that grew up in that area just about can and anyone knows that it is gone now. I'll probably foolishly go there sometime this year just to try and get back that old feeling but I know I'll only be disappointed resulting me needing to leave Bourke Street because as off now, I can't stand being in that strip any longer than 20 minutes!!! Then I'll start to go stir crazy...We yearn and long for the past in tough times but it doesn't need us. It simply stares and waves bye bye.....sigh.

[@TheMicturation]

turned 17 & didnt have much money in '85,the year of transitioning from full time student to looking for a job at the CES & preparing to get ya drivers licence,'83,'84 & '86 were better years for me personally in that decade

[@sonnyburnett9393]

The bakery section at that Coles used to make fantastic Apple Pies😋

[@CC3193]

My sister & I were 5 & 10 then and this video captures how I first remember Melbourne CBD. My dad used to take us to the Coles Cafeteria on visits into town. I remember he used to buy records or cassettes of albums on those trips to the city too. I remember him driving us down Swanston Street telling us it was going to be closed to cars, and walking through the new Melbourne Central explaining about the shot tower. He also took us to Southgate when it first opened in the early 1990s.

[@paulelliott97]

Had the privilege of working at both Coles stores in the 80s. Brings back some great memories. Thank you

[@carmen47freixas96]

Wish that it was like this again. My youngest was 4 then. My oldest 17...All gone, just a cesspit now, at my old age I had to move.

[@CC3193]

I was 4-5 then and left 4 years ago for similar reasons. I live in regional Victoria now and been able to buy a house & garden on a good size block. Give my child an experience I never could in Melbourne these days, and his childhood here is quite akin to my ‘80s-‘90s one in Melbourne’s suburbs.

[@mattyleahy6356]

This year and the couple beyond were a very poignant time in my life. I was 15, my religious, authoritarian father had died the year before and my mother while still religious was more progressive. I'd come out of my shell and was beginning to find my tribe, friends I still have today and finding the music that I still like to listen to today. What a wonderful reflection on this year 1985 and I'm only 2/3's through the clip. Thanks Gezza for the flashback.

[@kouta43210]

But you'll still have to answer to God... Should have listened to your father.

[@bradwilliams1691]

Send me back............Please!

[@danrobinson572]

I hear 👂 ya

[@michellezorzi5862]

Me too 😀

[@xr6lad]

Remember that first Coles store (not the one in the mall). You went up those escalators to the cafe. It became a Target store and was recently converted to a K-Mart.

[@BoxofficeForney6969]

Remember the cafeteria in that Coles? Best pie and chips when I was a kid.

[@Anne-ju9vh]

and before it was Coles it was Walton's, which was a bit boring for kids, too much home furnishings.

[@veganath]

@@Anne-ju9vh arhhh yes Waltons, also the name of that TV series that instilled wonderful family values unlike the woke idiocy that passes of wisdom today.

[@brucekilby9957]

Yes Waltons,thanks so many of the old stores just disappear, like Billy Guyatts.🇦🇺

[@TheAxelay]

OMG yes! There was woman's hair saloon adjacent past the escalators which next to a Telecom phone booth which housed the toilets and side back area! There was also on the way to the cafeteria, a silver lift from the bottom ground floor as well, there was a Santa there every December!!! Those jellies, chocolate mouse and the bacon and eggs with 1 full toast slice, 1 slice cut in 2 pieces, crinkle cut fries, 2 thin brown sausages, 1 full egg and lastly slices of tomato and parsley. There roast was nice too! Who could forget the silver food tray ramp, I always went speedster with it right to the drink dispenser and the cashier chick on that that 1930's cash register sigh....Memories.

[@Sirlunchalot429]

Classic Melbourne

[@Gezza1967]

Shopper’s on Bourke St Melbourne 1985. Acoustic guitar version of the Divinyls classic ‘Pleasure and Pain’ by John Francis Carroll. Footage courtesy of Telerecordings.

[@danrobinson572]

Fantastic Gezza

[@LLOOYYYDD]

*I came for the old clips, I stayed for the instrumental :)*

[@trippalea888]

Great footage! I was 5 yrs old at this time and this is how I like to remember our city. It was small but so clean, everything looks so well taken care off. Going to the city really used to be a great day out. Not so much these days, the city has deteriorated, it is smelly, dirty and overall depressing 😕

[@waynewombat266]

This is at least 1970 because the HQ Holden did not come out until 1969 - and the fashion is later than 1965 - but wonderful to be reminded of how good it was back then ❤

[@Schanckas]

The Darrell Lea shops were awsome too. For a 10 yr old 👍👌

[@elenawilliams32]

That coconut ice... mmm

[@kentlandzintoba]

Nice relaxing video. Recognise the fashion of the 80s.

[@darylcumming7119]

Cars and Trams sharing the road in the City, wow.

[@pedrowilson6211]

Great video, was only 9 at the time, I miss the 80’s. As a Sydney person and that travel to Melbourne a lot it is much more bland now.

[@mvnorsel6354]

Myers bargain basement, was my favourite, I'm ' rich ' now for shopping there. Lol.

[@xr6lad]

Remember the bargain basement. It had lino for flooring and there was a little tunnel between the Bourke St and Lonsdale St store basements.

[@vincentwhite7693]

Before the fall...

[@AridersLifeYT]

i love this, thanks for posting.

[@stussysinglet]

I may of just been a baby during this time but I feel very old right now

[@mariasouliotis6500]

These are the good old times !!

[@carolynmcalister2083]

The thing i really noticed was how everyone was dressed very modestly- I remember those days...

[@luiiaco6246]

Coles new World and the trams look brand new.

[@vinorob]

Look at all our comments. it's true. You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.

[@darrylrajamae4855]

much better I that time no mobile phones no internet people talked to each other telecom public phones build like a battle ship card board train ticket

[@cm-kn9cd]

I worked in Bourke st then. Loved the life of Melbourne back then. I was in the city yesterday and it has no life at all. So sad.

[@1greenMitsi]

RIP Melbourne

[@jumbo6009]

Exactly....its heart breaking!!

[@stephen6279]

Thanks Gezza

[@TC-yx2ss]

Spent plenty of weekends and nights working in the old Myers store after they shut.Saturday afternoon and you couldn't buy anything to eat as the CBD was shut at noon.

[@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520]

In 85 my parents had just started dating, no doubt they would of met in the Mall that evening to get dinner after work. Besides Flinders St it was always the easiest meet up spot after work.

[@michaels5928]

Turned into a 3rd world slum since then - wonderful memories indeed !!!!!

[@jumbo6009]

You can thank the Immigration Dept for that....they betrayed us.

[@peternicholson2504]

Same streets, some of the trams look the same but everyone and everything looks so different even the cash register at the end.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

All have their rose coloured glasses on, me included.

[@TheCleaner76]

Do those who can't pick the song it's Pleasure and Pain by The Divinyls

[@woodstock69girl55]

If you see your younger self,please leave a comment.

[@marthasheilds2446]

Those days in Australia 🦘 was full of pommes,very British influences .

[@davidharlem6824]

Never could have imagined then how fucked up it could get.

[@jumbo6009]

You can thank the Immigration Dept....they should be all jailed for there betrayal.

[@TheAxelay]

Council and previous state governments also ruined the area for the last 35 years as well...

[@davidharlem6824]

@@TheAxelay ABSOLUTELY!!

[@frankboal6975]

No smart phones.

[@danrobinson572]

Yeah that’s crazy

[@georgie6733]

I think It just saw myself😂💜

[@RoyBoy29]

The CBD used to have an exciting vibe about it 😁

[@waynewombat266]

Sorry, my bad, it does say 1985, not 1965 as I first read it 😮

[@mregas78]

Tandy Electronics. 😊

[@stewartcash555]

It really wasn't that long ago

[@stevewiles7132]

I think I was working at the GPO back then.

[@philhudson...5017]

What can you say about Melbourne and great times always something happening...

[@markw6586]

What have i been getting wrong. Nothing as far as i see it.

[@oldtyres36]

Dennis Allen was in his little fortress at the time of this filming....

[@TheCleaner76]

He lived in Richmond

[@oldtyres36]

@@TheCleaner76 no shit

[@TheCleaner76]

@@oldtyres36 Your welcome 🙏

[@Jojoxxr]

When & how did it all go wrong for Melbourne? Looks & feels completely different to how it used to be, I know things change but Melbourne is an utter mess now, how sad

[@user-di7ww6pm3c]

Melbourne? You mean Shanghai v2.0.

[@jumbo6009]

The perfect city gone forever thanks to the Immigration Dept.

[@rizalukman7982]

I was in bourke street during 1997-1999.I have no idea what bourke street look like in 1985

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

Not a mask or a worry about a vaccine or a New World Order. A golden era.

[@mondaynight]

We did have New Order then

[@danrobinson572]

Yeah no cellphones 📱

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

@@mondaynight lol New WORLD Order. Look it up ;)

[@footy2rock]

May as well post a video as near back to 2019,there was no masks or viruses then

[@andybourne4094]

No masks now

[@jackmag4056]

I’m no expert but this looks earlier than 1985

[@cameronalexander359]

Cohesive population back then

[@lobbylloyd351CJ]

That lady at 0:59 is absolutely gorgeous.

[@veganath]

true right mate quite the sheila

[@zuokia]

Is this Melbourne in Florida?

[@SupaHoon]

No Australia

[@zuokia]

@@SupaHoon oh Never knew there was a Melbourne in Australia. I learn a new fact today

[@SupaHoon]

@@zuokia it's like our second largest city. Full of communists and social justice warriors. Don't bother visiting , it's an open air prison

[@shaneb315]

@@zuokia Melbourne Florida was named after Melbourne Australia .

[@zuokia]

@@shaneb315 really?? I thought Australia was all desert. Never knew they have cities there. I really need to explore this planet more 😞

[@gingermegs138]

Use to be great now Too Much Curry

[@marthasheilds2446]

Same in the UK Too Much Curry way before Australia.

[@vsboy2577]

A time of freedom and free from woke non sense and corporate greed.

[@shannonsutherland2450]

Melbourne was Melbourne, now it looks like you’re walking through Beijing… or a freak zone, with all those cross-gender women with beards walking around the CBD

[@stevep1941]

Similar to what I see in Europe at the moment

[@TheAxelay]

It's all over the world here actually. All by design by the WEF and Globalism here...

[@jamesfrench7299]

Was doing better under less diversity.

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

Hardly an Asian face to be seen How the City has changed

[@veganath]

@@tommyzeus2802 *_" it was boring and uncultured."_* generally & I hope you agree, for any multiracial society, multiculturalism and it's preservation shouldn't be the headline goal of government, what should be the goal is unity of vision for the future where we don't encourage diversity of thought(Steve Jobs was wrong) for its own sake usually borne of culture, but instead we nurture *_'thinking correctly'_* i.e. thinking that is in line with the most successful methodology historically for arriving at solutions to problems, Science. Science is our last best hope to objectively resolve the many issues we all face today, including ensuring no people are denied access to the necessities of life, but most importantly as visionary Elon Musk intimated science is the gift that will ensure the preservation of the beautiful light of consciousness of humanity into the future & beyond, throughout the universe as we hopefully become a space faring species. This is where unity of vision should be mustered...

[@forkinpig]

Everybody wanted and still wants to go to Australia to see or live the white western culture, nobody goes yearning to see an overdose of multiculturalism, Indians and Chinese everywhere, and least of all that ever expanding ‘religion of peace’.

[@SupaHoon]

Let's just be honest. Multiculturalism destroyed our beautiful country

[@marthasheilds2446]

The UK is far worse than Australia for Multiculturalism.

[@scottclark1634]

melbourne transformed from european to asian in a short couple of decades. zero character now and just one big immigration factory cery sad.

[@clover81]

There was no spot the aussie back then, life was much simpler and enjoyable

[@marthasheilds2446]

Australians originate from England and Ireland.