1970s Amsterdam | Riding around Amsterdam | Wish you were here? | 1974 

I'm born in Amsterdam almost 70 years ago, and lived there for 60 years. Then I became fed up with the crowds, the noise and the pollution. When I see the calm and politeness in this clip I long back for that period.

I was born in Vancouver, Canada ‘64 but moved to Bussum in 1970 for 6 yrs with moeder and brother. We ended up going back to Canada. My mother was a Holocaust survivor and came to Canada after the war and had me quite late in life. She passed in 2010. This video makes me feel like I'm back in Holland. Bitter sweet.

First time I went abroad was to Amsterdam in 1974.

Wish I could go back - looks like a much nicer era

Enjoyed this a lot...even the ducks are considered poisonous! crazy

She needs to be careful riding her bike in those flairs. This is something I remember VERY clearly.

Thank you very Much ❤️😇🙏

Judith Chalmers was a fair sort in those days

THANK YOU❤

That's all very interesting Judy, but how much is a blowie?

Great video, and: I am here, for more than 60 years! New subscriber from.................Amsterdam ;-)

So many bigger (size and numbers) trees - even on rozengracht

The city and its canals are cleaner, better and quieter…but perhaps less green today. Its a fantastic place

Amsterdam is a little overcrowded but still charming

I wonder why Madame Tussauds wasn't mentioned as it did open in Spring of 1972! as they have mentioned it other times on other episodes when in Amsterdam. My dad told me when he saw this episode in the 70's he thought the same. lol

"perfectly preserved" xD Though that wasn't true the moment this was filmed, it certainly wasn't a few years later when the first metro line was finished!

What is the purpose of armbands ? Just to keep your shirt sleeves in place ?

2:27 Rakes Museum?

Wonderful

now a 200ml water coast 3.2o euros

I was there! Still am ;-)

Niceee

Ahh, before the “peaceful” people arrived

@3:28 - Blimey, talk about a gannet !

17 pence a beer, nowadays at least €4😮

Those prices - shocking! :-)

Wat ze van ons hebben afgepakt.

Ufffff go to Amsterdam now and you wont find those prices😭

At the start of the video I thought it was a Benny Hill episode xD

She came from vault 020

" "Cooks" ?? - CHEFS, if you don't mind ! "

I went to Amsterdam in late 2001 for NYE just before they got the Euro, anyway I went with a couple of people I didn't really like... we went to a 'coffee house' and before you could say toke on this I was as high as a stoat... I suddenly realized who I was with and started to go white... luckily I didn't vom but I was close, anyway we ended up in a restaurant for something to sate our munchies and before long I made my excuses and just left... I walked through the snow to the red-light district and I came across one of those adult walk-in video booths... literally... anyway after I'd finished flogging the dolphin ( still as high as a goose ) I decided to walk back to the hostel where I met some lovely American girls who took me under their wing and I had a great time after that, ended up sleeping with a big boobed German girl and I saw in 2002 as a new man... the next day under the 'Euro' everything was chaos... bought a Mars bar from a news agent for 17 Euros... well cheap... who cares.

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OVAKO JA ZAMIŠLJAM AMSTERDAM.IAKO ZNAM DA DANAS IZGLEDA DRUGAČIJE PORADI ...

They all speak English better than french

0:33 Is she a Vault Dweller?

Anyone know if the tasting bar still there?

Judith chalmers was hot

Deze tijd komt nooit meer terug. Amsterdam is nu in een neergaande spiraal ,waneer dit stopt?😢

Wowwww drink whiskey

Judith’s pronunciations (e.g. Leidseplein) suggest she didn’t speak to any Dutch people. Interesting that this is just before the UK joined the EU, and it’s clear the audience isn’t expected to know much about the city/the Dutch. No brown cafes left… but the genever tasting bar still exists.

Ah the 60s and 70s… when everything had to go to make room for cars. Happy we came back from that

Amsterdam, like most tourist cities now, has been ruined by the very tourists it attracts. Swarms of people gawping all around, all the signs in English - how exotic!, the same identikit corporate bars and cafes, the locals dazed and bemused driven out by too many Air b'nb s. What's not to like!?

@1:36 - Woman driver.

Amazingly sanitised report from the 'posh' Judith Chalmers. No mention of Amsterdam''s realities, such as the Red Light district with its thousands of prostitutes, drunk tourists and sex clubs where anything goes. No mention of the low life tourists attracted to come here solely for the sex industry and the drugs, most of whom are not a pleasure to encounter. A trip to Amsterdam today is a world away from the rose-tinted and stage-managed spectacle that Chalmers presents us with here.