Sydney 1971 To 1975 Footage

[@patcom1013]

I love old footage like this and could watch it for hours. They really looked like great times for all.

[@masteryoda498]

Sydney was such a nicer place then it is now. I could stay in the 70’a forever.

[@eyes2338]

Just boring people thats all.

[@rabbitrabbit1243]

It was brilliant

[@freeman10000]

Rose tinted glasses anyone?

[@NickSaravanos]

If you manage to still live near a beach it is basically the same. Just busier. But everywhere is either busier or a ghost town.

[@viviekazanili1077]

Same here luv the 70's

[@thesolaraquarium]

1990s is my favourite memory of living in Sydney. The music was so great, Followed by the 80s. 1970s was cool.

[@jamesfrench7299]

80s way better then 90s. Way better.

[@bert23337]

@@jamesfrench7299 Yes, Sydney started its downhill plunge in the 1990's and it continues

[@viviekazanili1077]

Absolutely ​@@jamesfrench7299

[@teamfilipino7144]

Everyone looked more relaxed because Technology wasn't a huge thing back then

[@oldcrazyhermit874]

Everyone looked more relaxed back then.

[@kyliepechler]

Houses only cost 2 to 3 times the national average yearly income. Renters didn't have to pay over 30% of their income on rent.

[@NFSAFilms]

Most, if not all, of this footage was sourced from The Film Australia Collection. If you would like to see more of it in better quality, including the right aspect ratio, then visit our channel.

[@Gezza1967]

I presume channel 2 sourced it all from FA, I simply taped it off the television when Paper Giants was aired.

[@davechristian7543]

I believe 8u bc u have lots of this sort of stuff from Melbourne, well anyway i like subscribe n watch both of your channels my friend. 'But ya gotta admit Sydney was better back then n even in the 80s n 90s than Melbourne lol eh hahaa .. Nar never been to Melbourne n always wonted to be um sure the place has gone down hill big time just like Sydney so wats the point sadly. cheers buddy.

[@Stansman63]

I visited Sydney several times during these years..it was an awesome, magical place to a boy of about 10 who was born and lived in a quiet country town.

[@davechristian7543]

Will its nothing like this now i can tell u that mate bc when 2000 came along the places started going down hill n now its a shit hole wit rules n regulations everywhere , u cant even fart with out the cops jumping onto you trust me n the side walks r totally dead, no ppl at all not to mention if there r any ppl it will be an Asian n im not being racist or anything like that im just saying thats how much the place has changed since then,. ps, i also no it from the 70s 80s n 90s so trust me iv seen it change wit my own eyes as i grew up there n have lived there for over 5 decades. just sayin nothing more, It truly breaks my hart my friend it really does.

[@dianegreen6513]

This proves my point, in the 70's we were not an overweight nation. I have debated this issue with so many youngsters.

[@dianegreen6513]

@Scott Morrison yes, but mainly older people, if we were to film in the same area today, you would see a marked difference in sizes.

[@billmago7991]

So true...no MacDonald's drive through and we used to say how on earth do those Americans get sooooo fat ...now we know 😒🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@viviekazanili1077]

​@billmago7😢991

[@viviekazanili1077]

Oh, how i miss the look of the 70's, in 1971 i was 4yo & 1975 i was 8, Oh, i do miss being at that young age, i miss everything the fun & life we had 😢 best yrs of my life. Don't like the life we live in now 😢

[@brendanorthard4966]

The best years I love Sydney. My dad was a window cleaner we would go and see him very high up

[@chrisjohnson6876]

Love the old cars, flares, mutton chops and Dame Edna glasses, so in vogue then.

[@moparmadman1134]

Lots of cars from the big 3

[@andrewthornhill7042]

Wonderful Sydney! Lived here 1973-74.

[@jamesfrench7299]

My idea of Disneyland early 70s Sydney, not this planet called Sydney today.

[@THEELDER1]

Gezza, thanks for sharing, love these vids as I worked in the city around that time, great memories ;)

[@carolineinsydney1281]

No overweight people. People used to cook at home.

[@moparmadman1134]

Steak and three veg

[@12121149]

My home town ,best city in the WORLD.

[@amp279]

There's nothing better than when you've been away, & you come home via the Harbour Bridge, seeing the whole harbour, the Quay, Rocks, Luna Park is magical, particularly at sunset when the city lights are just starting to go on.

[@jamesfrench7299]

Deluded biased.

[@freeman10000]

Sydney is my home town. I am eternally greatful that I live in toll and pokie free Perth.

[@moparmadman1134]

I feel like a stranger there now

[@darioburatovich2240]

1970, we were 53 years younger, no wonder we are SOOOOO nostalgic, .....🤣....pero c'eme l' favo' !!

[@Pavanesound]

Thank you for this

[@pollybird7827]

Yeah no one is Googleing I was 2 in 1971 and I remember my mum taking me into the city for shopping and to visit the botanical gardens and art gallery of NSW everything was clearer 😍🍊🍒🐛🦋

[@ryanbasilio9548]

20c for a toll,damn that's cheap compared to now.

[@harrycallahan9764]

A better time in a far better place

[@freeman10000]

Yeah, nah! Things are better now.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

Check out those haircuts and styles, the British and Aussie made cars, the red rattlers and the hydrofoil. No fatties, and no playing "spot the Aussie", you can keep the Sydney of today, no thanks. It was great in the 1970's to mid 1980's, went down hill fast after that. Great video, thank you.

[@freeman10000]

Thanks for your racist tirade Boomer!

[@bert23337]

Mid 80's was a bit of a slide but 90's it went into freefall

[@TheAxelay]

My biggest regret is not having been able to visit Sydney in the 1980's (especially in 1988!). Although the 70's looks great as well, I visited in 2015 and what a disappointment off a bore it was, I knew I going to be disappointed but not to that level. Couldn't even go on the monorail back then as the price of a ticket was laughable at best and the monorail was barely even seen back then, only to be taken down soon as well....

[@sharongoodsell9341]

Absolutely Best years in Sydney As a 15 year old working , Up untill it was not the same 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@nickatnights]

The Dragon song at 0.44 - 100% Summer. 100% Sydney. 100% 2SM in the 70s!

[@widetubevision4423]

+nickatnights Don't forget watching Countdown every Sunday evening. Eating hamburgers, fish and chips, and meat pies. Hot stinking days on a lazy weekend. Going to the local Drive- in to see Jaws and obscure horror movies. Buying the Sunday Mirror and looking at the half naked hotbabes. Those were the good old days.

[@amp279]

100%, 2SM were massive, they used to hold concerts at the beach (until FM & Triple M came along), are you old enough by Dragon was a great song too., probs get shit for it now lol.

[@amp279]

@@widetubevision4423 I remember older girls going to the drive in with guys who owned Sandmans, they all seemed to have the same sticker too - If this vans a rockin, don't bother knockin, talk about a puberty blues rip off of real life lol

[@tefllife2024]

Dragon "this time". 1976.

[@sophdog1678]

The Sydney of my youth in this footage. I haven't been back since 1988. I wonder how much it's changed since then...

[@justnik8727]

You dont want to know!

[@TheAxelay]

Keep your prized memories, don't ruin it by going there now...Apart from maybe the trams?! There is nothing worth going back too..

[@eymanyouwell]

@@TheAxelay Trams stopped in 61.

[@darioburatovich2240]

​​@@TheAxelay I was born in Argentina, emigrated to Oz in 1980, believe me, there is still.worth going to or going back to Sydney....,🤣...

[@TheAxelay]

@darioburatovich2240 , anything is better than melbourne, that's where I'm from heh. 🤨🤣

[@brentmcc6048]

Hahaha still got my paper boy vest, could be the only one still around.

[@xr6lad]

There was something more vibrant about the 70’s &80’s that seems lost. Now we seem to have splintered into tribes all wanting to hate each other. Apart from some acceptance of things (no bad thing) we seem less united and more divided.

[@48tilt]

70's was the best decade. 80s had better music.

[@jamesfrench7299]

1977 Sydney on loop would be my dream existence.

[@Gezza1967]

Its a great city to vist for sure, as Seattle is i'm sure.

[@48tilt]

Took my wife on our first date 1974 to Doyles. We had lobster Mornay. $6.25. and a plate of fish was 4 bucks. Lobster at Doyles is now $140 bucks. Give me the 70's

[@xr6lad]

Obviously if she’s your now wife you got your $10 worth?

[@48tilt]

@@xr6ladWell said.

[@LJS01]

How many of us watch these videos in the hopes of seeing ourselves, family or even our car in the traffic? lol

[@ManfromJapan12]

Milsons point station back in the day

[@Wo0dSyy]

remember it well

[@forestsoceansmusic]

Was that Tully providing the first bit of music?

[@Jay-ro2vn]

Ah back in the day before the Chinese took over.

[@darting100]

yeah the good old days,whats been allowed to happen in sydney would not have been tolerated in china

[@doloresumbridge2531]

lol deal with it.

[@jamesfrench7299]

White race is the best looking. Keep Australia British.

[@jamesfrench7299]

First words they learn. Take over.

[@freeman10000]

Yeah, nah

[@gpet23]

AUSTRALIA!

[@rabbitrabbit1243]

An yes we produced great bloody music an it didn't cost an arm an leg to go out. We had paper boys we could earn a quid An guess who sold us out to China in the 70s.

[@gregfowler957]

a freind of mine told me Sydney was quite violent in the 70s don't know how true it is

[@tefllife2024]

My dad worked in the city from 1961 till retirement in 2005. He always tells us in the 60s and early 70s after pubs were shut there would often be fights and bar stools thrown around. People deny this today but after about 7pm if you walked alone, muggings did happen and Hyde Park to Kings cross were notorious for knife attacks. The CBD was very dark after peak hour with no security, police presence or late night shoppers like today. It was like a morgue after 7pm. If a police officer spotted you, they'd ask you what you were doing hanging around. Dad told us many more stories of the time just don't have time to write it all down.

[@googleuser2609]

@@tefllife2024 interesting.

[@MrRecrute]

@@tefllife2024, yeah agree. I was at uni at the time and returning home through the city after 6:00pm it was very quiet, not many people about. Even Oxford St was quiet compared to the 1980s. Good jazz in Frenches Tavern at the time but never crowded. Never felt insecure though.

[@viviekazanili1077]

​@@tefllife2024and no street cameras back then.

[@bluemarshall6180]

Still no Opal card during that time......

[@CameraMan66]

They still used tickets back then, opal cards weren't used until 2012

[@gentlegiant4386]

Your stupidity amazes me 🤦‍♂️

[@kozmokramer7398]

Lol were u just born 2012.

[@davidlp3019]

Lol I was born in 2002 and have many fond memories of the big blue ticket machine. Opal didn't come in till roughly 2012.

[@Prieze868]

Best period besides the 80s this period of time in Australia housing affordable the 70s new solar housing was really hip food was cheap times with good people had an air of prosperity about them

[@leroy9979]

My favourite colours, yellow black and white 💛

[@mariaszczepaniak9312]

Ja pamiętam Sydney z lat 1977--1981 .Było bardziej przytulne mniej betonu i ludzie sympatyczniejsi .❤

[@keithyco4009]

Life was better then.

[@viviekazanili1077]

Absolutely

[@mcmmx]

Were those F-111s at 1.52

[@harrycrumb742]

Sydney has lost its identity It’s spot the Aussie now Good Luck finding one in the streets

[@green2stayecoswdmarketingn339]

'Taking the power"BACK!"

[@anneshaw9681]

Sydney in the seventies was the best city in the world now it is down the bottom. Supermarkets are full of ice skaters, hands behind their backs with little bowed legs clogging up the isles fighting over the milk powder and Timtams. Very sad

[@aimannorzahariwod]

Be more obvious with your racism why don't ya you convict dog

[@SoulpowerMSRS]

Aspect ratio is distorted and ruins it for me.

[@muosafayome6156]

تللك الايام الاجمل

[@mattyo30]

you wouldnt have paper giants would you

[@veetee4826]

everyone looked like Chanel back den

[@freeman10000]

Nice to see that even back in the decade of liquid lunches Sydney has a love affair with tolls.

[@imadeyoureadthis1500]

1:41 I bet if you done that now were you jumped out when it was going slow you would be lectured about some safety bullshit and maybe fired

[@amp279]

Even as a kid i would stand at the open door of a red rattler & occasionally poke my head out, i never lost aforesaid head so i must've relied on that thing a lot of folks don't have now because the government is too busy telling them how to live - common sense.

[@rods6405]

@@amp279 Yep Me too having a smoke on the way to high school you could ash out the door!

[@bert23337]

Competitions to see who could be the first to jump out of the front carriage. The guards compartment was for smoking in school uniforms

[@googleuser2609]

No fat people

[@nickprohoroff3720]

White bread everywhere.

[@tompchromedome]

those over 40 are most likely dead.

[@caveman3079]

two words.... Hairy minge

[@gdawwg1125]

If you were a straight white male Great times

[@liongsan3691]

white australian policy for the win!

[@amp279]

No, that was put out of commission after WW2 & it was a government initiative i might add.

[@doloresumbridge2531]

ABORIGINAL POLICY FOR THE WIN!

[@blindtoby8967]

1.13 👎📖

[@humor1095]

2days Sydney a shit hole!!!!

[@thatVintageGirl1940s]

It's best I go back to the 70s era than to live in this shit fake era. I was born in the 80s and still stuck in the 90s