A Day In Perth (1972) HD version 

I moved here from Sydney 4 years ago and those things still amaze me.

We are bloody lucky here in Perth that's for sure.

Yup, I'm 64 today, I remember selling the Daily News at the Balga Shops "DAILY NEWS FINAL" it was 5 cents if I recall. The 353 bus at the beginning of the video was the bus we would catch from Perth to Balga.

Thanks for your service sir

I remember "The Weekend News" being sold outside the footy grounds on Saturday after the final siren. Used to always jokingly ask the kid, "Got the footy results in it, mate?"..haha. They'd look at you like, "You got any original jokes?" Haha.

I wouldn't say safe. Heard of Eric Edgar Cook? Last man to be hung in Fremantle gaol. Times were much more unsafe back then, far more murders, rapes etc than we experience now.

idk I think perth still looks extremely clean

@fredrikronnberg684 compared to other Australian cities definitely.. but there seems to be something more "brighter" about it back then.. theres no graffiti or neglected or abandoned buildings, no questionable folks loitering around and obviously pollution was nothing then compared to now but i would rather live back then and now.... maybe it's all the modern building and upgrades they have tried to mash with the historical... or maybe it's the overall "population vibe"...

@@GypSea_Blue And there are so many people going outside back then. The city is filled with lives. At 5:30 mark of the video you can see people enjoying their picnic at the Council House. It looks nothing like the Council House today.

Perth in 2024 is an amazing place.

i was 14 same here!

I was 15 and Mal Brown's Mighty Royals won the Grand Final!!!!!!

because you was a child i think the same about 00s because that when i was a child. life was not less complicated just sheltered, i know that is good and it what parent should do but its much healthier to realise that life was always like that. having this change in thought will make it much easier to enjoy life.

Yeah, too many people in Perth now who don't speak English.

@@brodricj3023everyone I meet in Perth today still speaks English. What are you blathering on about?

@@shockwave2291 Go to a major shopping center and stop and listen.

@@shockwave2291 just some casual xenophobia, ignore them

@@brodricj3023 What's the problem? Most Perthans only speak "Grunt"

Every city in Australia was better back then.

And Vienna coffees in those long stemmed glass mugs with the handle and a huge dollop of whipped cream. Musgroves, Bairds, Boans, Aherns and Ivan the vagrant.

I was visiting my cousins in Scarborough in 1972, up on Hale Rd from memory (Wembley Downs). We went to Scarborough beach every day. I was 10…great holiday. Still got some family there.

@@ronanrogers4127 Sounds like you had some good times!

was amazing!

@@ronanrogers4127 my friend still lives near hale rd in wembley downs or floreat

Same, 1970 on the Ellinis.

Standout moment for me too.

They would get bashed or knifed & yes everyone was nicely dressed, had respect & could even spell respect!

Stood out for me too. Typical Perth. Can’t even sit on a planter box for a second to eat your food without being hassled

Those in this film lived through and are responsible for destroying the place.

​@@Tattlebot You're alive and everything happening right now is on you.

Ha I was born in 1972 😊

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I was 7 that year too. The city is a different place now!

@@John-kl3ue INCREDIBLE only approx 100,million people born in the same year as you ,whats the chance of that happening.?????

Now expenensive to live houses from two rocks to Mandurah.

All true except homes are barely affordable these days.

Hasn't changed much?? I don't even recognise half the places now 😅

"I squeezed the best years out of this city before it became an unaffordable hellscape. It still looks the same to me because I haven't left my penthouse since the 90s."

it is! definelty i was born in subi KEMH

@@GM-qq1wi perfectly articulates what some of us were thinking

I was the only car on Tonkin the other night at 2am. Stopped in the middle of the road to take a piss.

Bottle-ohs! And banging garbage bins on rubbish morning.

I used to work as a milko. God knows how many miles we ran through North Perth. Bread was delivered at 5am, still warm.

What is blighty dummy

Yep and the XA falcon was JUST out. As well as HQ and the VH valiant

@@timfordfalconxf7714saw a HT kingswood there as well

Yeah, before people morphed away from being Humans.

Yeah. What are you watching this video on?

Yes.i was thinking the very same thing... I would go back to those days in a heartbeat.

Corner of William and Wellington. The Metters sign location is now the site of the Yagan Square digital tower. The shop on the right is now Bocelli Espresso.

Where's Malcolm😆

​@@johnbravo7542Turnbull?

Is that the one that goes out thru Basso?

@@ceeemm1901 Went through Nollamara and Balga.

We were very "british" back then. As a little boy I never left the house without a pair of long socks on, even in the heat of summer.

I came here in 74, from London, and yes it was extremely boring 😂

@@DianaMcFerran I came from London too. But in 2002. It was very boring then. Have to admit it's got much better since.

@@danellis-jones1591 It has!

As an 8 year old kid back then it was never boring .always so much to do .no mobile phones so you had to pedal your bike or walk to your friends and meet up.miss these days

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Maybe around 1999? When AS/NZS 4602:1999 (now superceded) came in.

Aussie post were one of the first to introduce in late 90’s

Average gambling addict IQ is 85. Gambling addiction is a dysgenics problem.

And they are still doing it today, harder than ever.

Absolutely. Says a lot about the society we have become because when you keep telling people that the only thing that matters is the individual & making money this is where we end up. Neo-liberalism is a nasty piece of ideology. Peace.

The people in this film are ultimately responsible.

Valium was the drug of choice back then, also cigarettes (most people smoked), people used to go to the pub at lunch and get stung, hippies were smoking pot.

@@lundsweden Hippies? 1972? Mate, you obviously weren't here. Pot was the high of choice for _anyone_ under 30 who wasn't a piss-head.

@@DustyDingoPhotos If you can remember the 60s/70s, you weren't really there?!

But dat be rayciss

@thearticulateinfant849 It's an observed situation. Just watch the news Also, the UK is becoming a good example of multiculturalism. Look at the recent incident and responses in Southport. An observed fact is not racist.

Getting BJs in Thailand

We came in 74 from London and it felt like going back in time! No colour tv like we had in the UK, no traffic, hardly any people, and Charlie Carter's was the main supermarket with only a few brands of cereals, etc wanted to go back after three weeks, but we went on to have three children and now have six grandkids so here we stay!

@@DianaMcFerran Appreciate that. I've been here since 2011 from the USA. Upon landing, we discovered that, for example, it was a third-world Internet country. :) I have two sons, one born here. I stay for them but will be getting the hell out of here when they are of age. Even they, who have been to the US for only a 3-week Christmas vacation, have stated that they will be moving to the US when they're of age. My wife left in ~1994 never to return, and only pregnancy hormones changed that. I believe she still longs to be far from here.

In 1974, you wanted to go back to the UK for what...the 3 day week, IRA bombings, 2 general elections & garbage piled up on the streets from the garbage collectors strike?! You wanted to go back to THAT!? cue 'take me back to old blighty'

No one said you have to stay here.

Was a beautiful machine… tv ads eh! The jingles stick!

XBP 183 (HG) was a beautiful machine Livin' in luxuary treated right & always beautifly clean. XBP - 184 was the very same make of car went to the other side of town, never had a chance to star. Two years later on ya see where the cars have gone Autoways have always got the beautiful machine (the beautiful machine)

Affirmative

That was all there back then and ultimately the people in the film are responsible.