This channel is dedicated to exploring the life and history of Elizabeth and the "Adelaide Plains" district in South Australia (SA).
Materials used in videos on this channel come from multiple sources and are meant for educational purposes only, in an attempt to service the Northern Plains community. Sources include:
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Superjesus founder and guitarist Chris Tennent as Paul Stanley at 1:40 and other spots. First band was “Almost Human” a nod to his admiration of KISS; band formed by his older brother Andrew.
I was 18 when this opened, too old for the rides, they were all kids rides, the days i went, dazzleland was always nearly empty, only 2 people on the roller coaster, nothing like the ads showed, full of life, clowns and pure adventure.
Yes. It only lasted about 7 years, and limped along for most of that. Interesting concept. MYER opened a centre in Brisbane in the late eighties with a dragon roller coaster. Not sure when they closed the Brisbane Dazzleland but the centre itself closed down last year. Thank you for watching, Mark. Much appreciated :-)
I Lived in PE as a Child in 1979. Went to Piet Retief School. Lived in Sidwell. Dad Worked at Sydenham Loco. Grandma Worked at Sydenham Hotel. My Mom and us Kids could walk to the Shops. No Problem. We Lived in the Block of Flats in Sidwell near Fire Brigade. Now PE is not the same anymore. What is?
Hi Will I remember going there when it opened. It's such a pity it didn't work out, maybe if the had different entertainment on each week. Plus Myer was a bit expensive for us Elizabethans, Target was about our style. It looked like a atrium on a large cruise ship with those outward facing lifts and open spaces. I would have been about 28 around then ah the good old days. Thanks for the memories mate.👍🏻
No matter what people think of the (cough Cough) Myer center back in the day, it couldn't beat walking past DJ's and getting that woft of all things yummy. Cheers.
Back when I was student going to TAFE in the early-mid 90's, I used to catch the 224/224F one day a week and head straight to Rundle Mall with the Myer Centre often being the first stop. I never had the guts to go on the roller coaster but I still vividly remember the noise it made running along the rails and the screams, such an odd thing if you think about it to be hearing in a shopping centre! I mainly went there for the Virgin Megastore and the Myer shop itself, I don't think much else there had much interest for me. Have so many fond memories of buying computer games from there back when they used to come in a box and rushing home to play them on my computer. Something you don't get to experience these days, no box and there's no need to go to the shops. It's little things like this you miss.
Yes, agreed. There are many simple things that are gone now. I'm grateful I got to experience them, as well as the benefits we have today. But I would hate to have never experienced life before the complexity of social media and a world where people live most of their lives online, staring at screens. Thank you for watching, and for sharing with us :-)
Those were the days when going to 'the shops' like the Myer center, Johnnies, David Jones and Harris Scarfe was an adventure. Now, they're more like ghost towns. 'Bricks n Sticks' shops are being replaced by on-line and sadly 'on-line' is where you can only buy products. My kids used to love the ability to look around and make choices for themselves.
Yes, it's interesting, the culture change. Even with the old neighbourhood shopping centres there seemed to be incentive for people to gather - the West had the train, many of them had outdoor seating areas. Elizabeth City Centre had Windsor Green. Now they're merely for getting people in and out as quickly as possible. They're mostly more of a chore than anything else now. It's just a different world. Many perks to it, but I'm sure glad I grew up before phones, the internet and especially social media. I love them now, but would not want to have had to deal with them growing up. Give wide open plains, push bikes, solitude and lizard hunting as a little kid any day :-)
Looked a lot better than it does now. I went in to buy a suit last week at the sale and stood around for 20 minutes with nobody in attendance to serve me. I asked at another brand area to be told that the Van Husen man isn't coming in today. That was an $800 sale that they never got. The staff are ill dressed and look like they have just come from a hard night in Hindley street. I have reason to predict that Myers Adelaide has not got a lot of time left to live. This will contribute to the death of the CBD. Have a look at what's happened in the USA. The big stores close down and the city centre dies.
I heard in the early days recently after the opening that during the design process the building design was allowing for a quick transition to apartments/hotel style use if retail needs declined in the future. Maybe that's true and going to happen.
The MYER Centre in Brisbane closed last year, Ian, so you are probably right about the Adelaide store not being around much longer. It's just all a part of a world that is passing away. Nothing lasts forever. But I do know what you mean when it comes to customer service in these big stores today - the leaders of these companies really do hire people sparingly and begrudgingly. You pretty much left to your own devices much of the time. Thanks for watching, mate. Much appreciated :-)
Thank you very much, Chris, much appreciated, mate. The eighth and final part in this series drops one week from tomorrow, Friday the 12th. The series will then cover life in the Elizabeth area before, during and immediately after its rise and fall as an independent city its own right. I'm hoping the series will be promoted in local schools at some point to educate students about who and what came before them. Thank you for watching
Brings back memories of my 1980 WB panel van. The old 202 and 3 on the tree racing shifter. Great for touring and camping. Sleeping in the back with the swag was so easy.
In 1997, I worked in an office in Adelaide with a young female, whose family had been from & to the UK 5 times. Her mother kept on getting homesick for Manchester... 🤣
Wow. I wonder what they ended up paying in the end, seeing as they started out paying just 10 pounds. Her poor Mother must have been so torn. Cool share, mate. Thank you :-)
@@dantunno9264 you are very correct mate. We've lost so much, sell our natural resources for peanuts overseas and import everything. We are the very definition of a third world country now. After covid procedures, our national debt is now impossible to ever reconcile. 🥹
It's amazing how not much had changed when I used to go to the show with my nan in 1985. My uncle used to work on the gate every year Made a tear to watch this. 🥹❤️❤️
Thanks for sharing your pics. I was born in 78 and I remember a great deal of this even though we grew up in CLG. The time of hard working families doing it tough but still enjoying life. Now we all still working hard, doing it tough, but the enjoyment is not the same. ❤🥹 Amazing pics!
In the central lawn area next to the toilet block was a food booth with a PA blaring out loud in an endless loop all day and night, a deep mature male voice proclaiming: "PERCULATED COFFEE! THE ONLY PERCULATED COFFEE AT THE SHOW!" "MAKING, BAKING, FRESH HOT CINAMON DONUTS" I would've been at that show that year when I was 10. A year after my step dad passed away, and I lived with mum in North Unley. We walked to and from the Show, and it was the only time of the year my feet ached that night from all the walking on Show day. lol
Cool share David. Thank you, mate. Sorry to hear about your step Dad, that is very young to lose someone significant to you. Thanks for watching, mate, much appreciated.
ironically, read an article on these from old "walkabout" magazines... a time when australia was isolated, had to fend for itself, and was proud for doing so... we didnt need no damn "global economy" to survive... when the future was bright and everyone was working towards it... now look at the mess we have. let the wrong people run the place. as usual.
@@unknown-ie4hl Hills Industries, Electrolux, Pope, Mitsubishi, Monroe, Industrial springs, Hercus, Perry, Engineering, WIA. Shall I go on? We used to have massive industrial enterprises.
Pity Joe Hockey and Abbott and co never watched these. Now Dutton wants to go Nuc-u-lear to distract from Labor actually wanting to build stuff here again.
Wow, how do you think all that Made in Australia production is going to be powered? If you actually think solar and wind can then I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Stop listening to Labor and the fear mongers and do some of your own research. You’ll be surprised about how much you’ve been lied to...oh yeah, how’s your energy bills looking under Labor, have you got your $275 reduction yet? Have a nice day😊
Labor won't be able to get any big manufacturers to take them seriously on an intermittent renewables ONLY electricity grid. We need cheap reliable baseload Nuclear power in Australia.
@@JasonISF 💯 I did comment before stating the same but it was taken down. We are definitely heading off a cliff in this Country and Labor will be the reason for it🤬
As a nation, we were self sufficient and could build things here. We could do it in decades gone by but apparently, we can't do it now. Unions made our labour too expensive to employ. Having factories with cashed up workers is great for the surrounding area. They generate economic activity, which prevents areas from dying away. Any credible government would move heaven and earth to maintain this economic model.
You're right when you say having factories with cashed up workers is great for the surrounding area. Elizabeth hasn't been the same since Holden's closed in 2017. Who knows how long until she recovers. Thank you for watching, Noel. much appreciated :-)
You say the unions made them too expensive to employ then go on about factories with cashed up workers being great, they can’t be cashed up if it wasn’t for the unions ensuring they got a decent wage to begin with. Nothing to do with their wages, our cars simply didn’t compete with the luxury and refinement of Japanese imports. We sat on our laurels too long with models going a whole decade without keeping up with the trends. With a minor export to sth Africa and NZ, we should have gone global but we just didn’t have anything to offer. So slowly but surely our fords and holdens lost out to all the exciting vehicles that Japan and Europe threw our way. Instead of the libs letting it die, they should have poured money into it and kept the Holden name alive and tried for an electric car or similar, they had plenty of money for submarines so that wasn’t a problem. Worst thing we ever did was letting our car manufacturers go, we just needed people with vision and a finger on the pulse of the people and what they wanted.
Saying wages were high is not factual. Wages paid were fairly average. The problem was Asian wages are so much lower and all the manufacturers there that ramped up production, the removal of tariffs required local industry to compete head to head which was just not possible. Look wider and see what we used to make and see where it it made now. Asia has taken (or been given (?)) our manufacturing and it still continues, take a look at supermarket staples such as cleaning, mouth care, wound care which are now all coming from Asia. Blaming unions / wages is narrow minded.
@@oo0Spyder0oosorry can I join that dream. Yes it is the wages. You can fantise all you want but wages play a part. So does quality. So does development. We became reliant on two large 6 cylinder cars that were bought primarily by fleet and never developed much else. Meanwhile the Japanese and Koreans developed very good smaller cars as well. So while it’s not 100% wages they certainly played its part - as did strikes.
When you think about it, it wasn't just the plants themselves that provided valuable employment and skills. My cousin worked at the Elizabeth plant as an' in-house' nurse. There were local shops that catered for 'on-the-way' shopping, or 'take-aways for an easy quick meal. I'd forgotten about Woodville....a distant memory. Thanks Will
Yes. I worked at the Elizabeth plant for a time. It was, itself, it's own little village. Doctors, nurses, there was a bank even. Cafeterias employing food and beverage staff. Then all the component suppliers that fed Holden's tools and parts etc. As you say, there were also local shops that catered for 'on-the-way' etc. It was a huge boost for Elizabeth, and I'm sure the Woodville area also. GMH spawned an entire culture, really.
Very cool,Tim. A pretty exciting time to live in Elizabeth. Everything coming up around you and a future full of possibilities. I was born in 1970, so missed this period. I would love to have witnessed it all, though. Cheers for sharing with us, mate, and for watching :-)
I worked both at Woodville as an apprentice Fitter and Turner then later as a Work Study Analyst while doing my Engineering Degree and finally at Elizabeth as a Project Engineer in the Plant and Equipment Engineering Department. GMH took me from High School graduate to experienced Mechanical Engineer from where I moved into the mining industry and overseas jobs. Thanks Holden's....🚘🚗👨🎓👨🔧
I worked in the Elizabeth plant (Plant 4 Metal Press) and some of the original manual presses were there right till the end. Keep the videos coming! Amazing archive you’re building here.
Oh, wow. Really. I wondered about those, looking at the footage. Those presses just looked so old, like they would have quickly dated. I had 2 stints at Holden - Paint Shop in 1990 and then Body Shop from 1992-93. Second stint I was escorted off the premises and asked not to come back...haha. My old leading hand even made me strip my ragged overalls off and hand them over. Good times :-) Thank you for the kind words and for watching, mate. Much appreciated.
Shows us how much we have grown. Which is a good thing. Especially in the last couple of decades. Australia is a much more tolerant and inclusive place. One of the most in the world. Let's hope that continues. Thanks again for watching, Eric.
