Sunday in Melbourne

[@christinejackson3922]

Wow how times have changed this is when we dressed up to go to town

[@adrianjackson2696]

Now its bogan's in tracksuit trousers and the like. I once emailed the MCC saying that bogan clothes and thongs should be banned from Melbourne CBD. It did not happen.

[@leopoldonotarianni8663]

I still dress like that now

[@TheAxelay]

You know I really miss that quietness and stillness of an old Sunday where nothing was open except for Victoria Market when I was a kid in the 1980's..I remember in 1990 that at 11 I overheard that melbourne was going to consider having open trading hours and I thought that this was the best thing ever! Only because melbourne/the city were once so good. Now at 44 I can't bear to be in the city any longer than an hour and will find any excuse to leave not go there of I can?! 34 years has changed alot and go figure!

[@arisl2370]

I remember the opening of the new city square on Collins & Swanston sts in the early 80's was such a big deal and eventually became a bad cruddy hangout spot. Now today its a hotel i believe

[@user-mt5ff6qd8x]

Yep, I use to enjoy being able to meander the city when it was deserted.

[@MelodyMan69]

Yes. The Church Bells. 🎶

[@hypercomms2001]

1958... Melbourne was a population of 1,735,000, and growing at a rate of 3.27%

[@judycasemore2168]

Yes. Good Old Melbourne Town. It had to be Pre- War. You never gave the year.

[@moose607]

"Post Office Boys" I actually think they are poor men buggered up by WWI and WWII

[@BreconWalsh]

Back from 1958 when Melbourne's population was 1.65 million. Today in 2021 it is around 4 million.

[@grahamnewton3637]

Try 5 million

[@mjames4709]

So sad@@grahamnewton3637

[@scottclark1634]

@@grahamnewton3637most chinese and indian

[@adrianjackson2696]

Great dress standards. No thongs, no poor fitting track suits nor grubby vagrants.

[@graemeross9329]

The Age had Newsday in competition as well to Herald and Sun. After launching within 9 months it was it withdrawn as ardent byers of the Herald and the Sun went back to them

[@Sam_Green____4114]

Two Yorkshire men were standing outside a Burton's and one of them pointed at a shop window dummy ,with a man's 3 piece suit on it and said " That's the one eyed git ! " Just then a Cyclops walking around the Corner at that moment and saw him pointing and saying it , kicked his head in !

[@user-mt5ff6qd8x]

The accent is so different to now.

[@thevirginclanlee275]

Haha, good to see a bit love story in it.

[@transfunctionalmedia5172]

Is that lovely lake and park Victoria Gardens?

[@SkwrHdz]

Could it be the Botanical Gardens near Government House?

[@planetX15]

Where's Lovely Lake?

[@graemeross9329]

The SUN-HERALD is a Sunday paper from Sydney not Melbourne! So how is the woman reading this paper on Sunday in Melbourne??

[@ACMICollection]

Sharp eyes there Graeme!! Perhaps she's a visitor to Melbourne and brought it with her? She might be an ex-pat Sydneysiders who's made the wise choice to move to Melbourne but couldn't let the need for Sydney news go. :-)

[@tomraw4893]

The Sun Herald was a Sydney newspaper, however it would have been sold in Melbourne in some newsagencies, perhaps flown in. Whatever, the lady was certainly in Melbourne.

[@richardfinlayson1524]

Melbourne had the Sun and the Herald the sun in the morning the Harald on the evening, then it merged into the Herald Sun.

[@richardfinlayson1524]

Same publisher did both papers, the sun was in competition with the Age

[@scana1979]

Melbourne did not have Sunday newspapers printed at the time - part of the very theme in this film. Sydney papers were indeed sold here with the small spoiler paper the Sunday Press starting in the 1970s as a joint venture between the Herald and Weekly Times and The Age. Also we had the Melbourne Observer/Sunday Observer at the same time. Full line newspapers finally arrived in Melbourne in 1989.

[@moose607]

"Post Office Boys" I actually think they are poor men buggered up by WWI and WWII