Sydney 1968

Opera House being build , Hydrofoil on harbour, lots of old cars

[@clacclackerson3678]

Sometimes the nostalgia almost becomes to hard to bear.

[@jesstill7833]

Sydney was a dream place in 1968 I was 18 years old and was king in my head love the place ,,,Not same any more I was in Sydney visiting my sister and went opera house man tourists all around ,,on my way back to Kingsgrove I took the train and honestly I was the only whits bloke on the train I’m not racist but saying what I saw happy days to you all 👍👍👍👍❤️🦘🦘🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@Ben.216]

It’s ok mate .. your slower to have an opinion and tell the truth with out feeling guilty 👏

[@joools1953]

1968, I was in third form. What a fantastic time to be alive. ❤❤

[@SR-xk8cd]

When life in Sydney was so much simpler and stress free, I could stay in the sixties forever.

[@Westyrulz]

Too Bloody Right!

[@trackdusty]

It was better everywhere.

[@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393]

well said !

[@godfreypigott]

People that believe that the times of their youth were the best times have a name - Conservatives - and they brought us the lunacy of Trump.

[@peregrinemccauley5010]

My dad used to leave keys in his XP Falcon's ignition , overnight , parked on the street . House unlocked at night also . Primary School lunches , salad rolls , meat pies , pasties etc , 10 cents each . On way home , duck into fish and chip shop . Potato scallops , 2 cents each or 6 for 10 cents . Real nutritious hamburger with beetroot , toasted bun , 20 cents . Smokes ......

[@clicktoday]

Peregrine McCauley Thanks for your comment I was 14 at the time diving with my dad and my uncle filming. You could buy a can of coke for 10c.

[@amp279]

Mmm It's not a proper burger without beetroot.

[@pintificate]

@@clicktoday I can remember when a full milk shake was 11 1/2d. Eleven pence ha'penny.

[@pintificate]

@@amp279 True.

[@rogergreen9861]

Packet of Peter Jacksons for 80 cents. That was affordable for a 5 year old with pocket money AND they would sell them to you.

[@adriennehunt1799]

O.M.G. I remember the Sydney Harbour Bridge Toll Gates so well. 1968 I was 12. I remember watching the Sydney Opera House being built. I felt Sydney was SO quiet, but I'd love it to be that way again. Slower pace of life back then. Miss it now.

[@Playdory]

Oh Australia. You were so good. What have we done to you.

[@johnm84]

Australia is horrible and shit now.

[@connemara08]

Great footage of a great time-love the old holdens etc

[@kelimcgregor6924]

Thank you so very much for sharing this. I was going to have my first birthday of November, 1968. I have lived in Redfern all my life.

[@nicolaburgess203]

gosh thank you so much,so generous of you to share this amazing footage of such a unique lucky happy optimistic time, so sad its over

[@Pascal869]

These types of videos are like showing a cool pond to a crab that is being slowly boiled

[@bronwenewens1198]

Perfect analogy.

[@reedbender1179]

😵...yes...😭

[@MrButtonpresser]

My golden years. Thanks

[@alanm6454]

Just come across this video, and I'm glad I did. Happy shots of a bygone age. Never to be repeated. I liked the shots of the suspension bridge at Northbridge. But then again, I liked it all.

[@Westyrulz]

Look at all the space on the roads!!Its a bloody nightmare now.

[@SR-xk8cd]

You’re right, Sydney now has a population of 5.2 million people, it’s way too many people. Sydney is now overpriced, over populated and the traffic is bad nearly seven days a week.

[@Westyrulz]

@@SR-xk8cd the big money people want this,not ordinary aussies.

[@martinnevey7258]

Greetings from Scotland. ..why is it all these old films you see posted it always looks better to be around then?...from local clips of your old town to foreign lands things seemed a little nicer,simpler but nicer.maybe I've answered my own question there..

[@davidmarkersnr.1888]

I was driving a Yellow cab in Sydney then, didn't see me though. ;-( Fond memories from the other side of the world now. ;-)

[@scottmunro3674]

Good old days

[@amp279]

The year i was born, all those magnificent HK's & HR's.

[@David_P132]

I don't remember a HK Holden . . . the HR's were 1966 right? Wait a minute, just Googled it: the HK's replaced the HD/HR body shape with something more like the Kingswoods.

[@karlbarr5744]

Nice and quiet Sydney was then..(:>)

[@brettmitchell5229]

Melbourne and Sydney were at their best in the 50s and 60s. Perth and Brisbane in the 90s and early 2000s.

[@stephanedajtlich]

1968. the year my wife landed in Australia by ship. she was 1 month old only....I visited Sydney in 1994. we got married on the Jerry Bailey vessel cruising on the Harbour on Australia Day of 1997....

[@TenOrbital]

Now we're so rich we can't afford houses. ABC today had an article about a single-fronted, one-story terrace sold in Bondi that last exchanged for £1000 in the 50s which would be $37,000 in today's money. Still as it was then. It sold for $2.7 million.

[@TweedSuit]

I ride those same roads now and they're pretty much the same.

[@jamesgoodman9560]

Bloody hell! That Holden station wagon gunned it!

[@noelgibson5956]

I'm going to report him to the police. I'll just jot down the rego number! Lol.

[@skinnydipper3493]

Didn't she what...!!!

[@billmago7991]

Someone loved their new HR.....great times back then even for a 5yr old

[@rmoz2729]

1:43. HT station wagon. My family car through to about 1988. I was born in 73 so it was just ‘there’ in my childhood.

[@every1665]

Because cars were much more expensive (related to salary) back then, I've noticed tailgating was quite rare in these old videos. These days they get used as battering rams!

[@xr6lad]

Geez you need to watch more older videos. I’ve watched them from a the 50’s and the way they tailgate or pull out in front of traffic or pay no attention to lanes is incredible.

[@pennylanghorn6712]

Wow. That’s my hometown I was nine when this footage was made

[@LarryYacoub]

I was born in 2008 looks so cool.

[@steveskrobot9496]

Film shot from the front seat of a new ZA/ZB Fairlane by the looks of that! Boy wouldnt you kill for some of the cars in this video, today!

[@clicktoday]

Yep your right it was my Dads brand new ZA fairlane.

[@steveskrobot9496]

I could just see the twin grooves going down the centre of the bonnet, and the fairlane emblem at the end!

[@BH-kl2rn]

My old man bought a white ZA with a 289 in early 1968 which I used to steer while sitting on his lap.. lol. I learnt to drive in it, and he ended up giving it to me in 1978 once I got my licence, and I still have it, and take him and mum on summer drives. A beautiful, classy car, that truly matched the times in Australia back then, and how I miss them.

[@RolandElliottFirstG]

Cronulla as well, cool.

[@leokimvideo]

The year Kentucky Fried Chicken started in Sydney. It all looked so fresh and new and the trees were still yet to grow

[@birdie2219]

bloody marvelous

[@38mariner]

Better days..

[@jonoedwards4195]

Insane. Rosy Bridge traffic was so bad we only skated an egged Cop Cars after ten at night. Brilliant post CT, Beauty.

[@garyquelch888]

Meanwhile in the suburbs the people they gave you all this beautiful infrastructure the Warringah freeway etc still didn’t have sewage or hospitals

[@CameraMan66]

1:21 Sydney Opera House under construction and didn't open until 1973

[@pintificate]

Late '73. But the Opera House looks almost completed in the footage. It took forever to build.

[@GoodMrDawes]

Glad I knew that World

[@Flynno19]

So many Volkswagen beetles, I wish it was like that now

[@Bk2fut100]

Why did I destroyed my time machine?

[@Mexxx65]

SLOW PLAYBACK SPEED TO 0.75 Guys....Cars weren't this speedy back then!!!!

[@jasonjason5184]

The leaded fuel and carbon monoxide emissions, those were the days.

[@RuffKutz]

Wow I think the roads are still the same bitumen

[@chuckselvage3157]

5 years before I was born.. harbour bridge was 36 years old.

[@sanctuaryism]

17 years before my time.

[@Hitman-ds1ei]

See plenty of 67 HR holdens but could not spot a 68 HK !

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

The glory days of Sydney.. Perth is where you want to be now.

[@johnm84]

Perth is horrible now like Sydney and all other big cities in Australia.

[@anthonygebala1198]

When Australia was a great country before the loony government arrived 😒

[@top40researcher31]

note the crossing sign suspended over the road you dont see that anymore

[@bert23337]

You don't see pedestrian crossings any more

[@top40researcher31]

@@bert23337 theres a few arounnd but not much

[@clacclackerson3678]

Lots of north-of-the-harbour footage, but what road is 0:14?

[@em945]

North as well..out heading toward the beaches.(i dont know name)

[@kaizanatorcatchncook]

Any vespas ?? I have a few 62 63 66

[@gkiltz0]

We can conclude from this film that in 1968 Aussies liked white cars

[@forestsoceansmusic]

Cool! Was that Condamine Street near the start? Much later, was that the Roseville Bridge? Northbridge hasn't changed much. I wish you had filmed the Harbour Bridge toll collector more clearly, it might've been my Uncle Frank! (who passed away about 2000). Ah, memories. I was in 1st Form then.

[@aussiejezza]

It's most certainly the Roseville bridge

[@lanamack1558]

I don't remember the Opera house to be finished in 1968. And from that, a very fuzzy video.

[@goojedooje660]

Wages then were 40 to 50 dollars per week maybe more with over time

[@noelgibson5956]

Sure this was 1968? That looks like a cream coloured HT Holden at 3:00. Admittedly, it is rather blurry....... could be an HD!

[@brettyoung8691]

Condamine street the early years

[@iain1969]

My city prior to the gift of multiculturalism.

[@Westyrulz]

yeah the multicult has F'd the place!

[@Westyrulz]

@@sg-yq8pm Just luv how you lefties like to hide behind childish monikers.

[@markrigg6623]

Yeah the unessercary population growth has accelerated a deterioration in our day to day life.

[@Westyrulz]

@@mobius2176 I much preferred Oz when we were culturally homogeneous.I don't want to live in an Asian nation.If I wanted to do that I would have moved to Asia years ago.But that's just me and your entitled to your opinion as well.

[@markrigg6623]

@@mobius2176 Mostly just the acceleration in population growth. My 2 closest friends are migrants and I agree with you on that aspect. There's also been too many people let in that don't want to assimilate. It makes my job very difficult and frustrating. But most people that object, Object to the overcrowding.

[@48tilt]

The year my old man kicked me out. Rent $8 dollars a week including breakfast in Manly. Benson@ Hedges 38 cents. Wage $28 a week and the a few months latter the mighty Vain won the Champagne by 10 in 1.92. Those were the days.

[@david.m.304]

B & H 38 CENTS! I WAS ROBBED!! I paid 40 cents per packet!!

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

Me: that's old. Also me: that time is closer to my date of birth than the present time.

[@paulclissold1525]

Not many fords

[@ilovesuisse1]

Pity the ugly telegraph poles are still aroundin 2021.

[@johnm84]

Back when Australia was a lovely nice laid back relaxed country. Sadly Australia is not like that now. Australia is horrible now and Australia has gone to shit.

[@paulclissold1525]

So do we get to have a say. 31% of us werent born here. Of those here 50% of their parents werent born here. What are we doing? Lets at least have the conversation. I know my version of australia no longer exists.

[@phils2180]

A conversation about what exactly? The vid was posted up for pure nostalgia. Blame the population explosion, "progress" or whatever you want but everyone of whatever age knows those times are gone forever. I've never been to Australia but I watched a similar video about 1960's London recently and felt the same emotions, intense sadness about how things have changed but a thankful joy that I was around to experience them.

[@paulclissold1525]

@@phils2180 yeah phil its your pommie empire not ours we have precisely no history with india shit we didnt have a test with em till 1948. Your indian restaurants may be full at closing time but ours are empty and go out of business. A few scungy inner city colleges popped up in the 90s and next thing security firms sevenelevens and drive thru takeaways were lousy with em. The logistics industry is a frightening place to be these days. And the politics how can they be in the quad and allies with china supporting russia. Makes my head wobbly. Dont get me wrong l love the untouchables.

[@Harold_Flite]

It still amazes me that people enjoyed this time....if it was so good, why did you ruin it for something as pathetic as empathy...you opened the flood gates for brown immigrants, now Sydney's a dump. You should be made to live in what you created.

[@vinnyd91]

Thanks for not beating around the bush and directly blaming brown people Harold.

[@Harold_Flite]

@@vinnyd91 anytime.

[@vinnyd91]

@@Harold_Flite Harold! So nice of you to take time out of your busy schedule to reply. I know you'd rather be doing what you do best, fucking pigs at your local pub for beer money.

[@toomuchinformationforu9919]

blurry unwatchable shit ,why bother ?

[@toomuchinformationforu9919]

@@vitalsigns2679 its called an opinion you fucking idiot .

[@TheGKFront]

@@toomuchinformationforu9919 you sure need some love in your life

[@toomuchinformationforu9919]

@@TheGKFront not sure how my comment on the quality has anything to do with me "needing some love" , Im not really looking for anyone at the moment but thanks for the offer and I hope you find Mr right real soon.

[@peterbrown6224]

iPhone 5, give the man a break.

[@usausa2390]

No watch it then

[@barzu8266]

before all the lebs moved in