This is amazing. You don't normally get to see videos from so long ago that aren't movies from other places in the world. What struck me is that... My whole life, the 70's seemed like such a vastly different time, it was like a completely different world, I only saw photographs and representations of it, but this video let me see what it was like before I was born, almost like getting to go there. And it was surprisingly the same. It's the same world. That just blows my mind. I feel like you filmed this knowing that it would be more astonishing as time passed, and I'm so glad you put it on youtube for people like me to see.
We were living in Wellers Hill in '74. Terrible floods but our home survived. I remember the school had all the old tram bodies in the school grounds. I wish we still had a tram system in Brisbane.
This is the real Brisbane city I grew up in. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. The Botanical gardens where the Brisbane orchestra used to play on a Sunday afternoon, and Mr whippy gurgling out "Greensleeves" in the background. Home...
as someone who was born in 99. It makes me sad i never got experience life like this. I had a good normal upbringing but life before the internet and mobile phones where people went out all the time. Life looked sooo much better
I came around 30 odd years after this was filmed, yet I still feel this massive nostalgia watching this. Didn’t know that was possible, to feel nostalgic for a time i never lived. Think it’s something to do with seeing how little and how much things change - this is still very much my hometown, just a different one to the one I’m growing up in
@John Wilson Don't ask! I grew up in Croydon in South London, England. I emigrated to Australia when I was 21. I am so so grateful to Australia - I have no understanding of people who migrate to another country... and then complain about it, or worse still, try and make it conform to the traditions/religion of the country they originated from! It's offensive and those people should be treated with contempt, not exalted in the media.
WOW I really wish I could go back in time and visit the places I grew up in. How awesome would it be to see life back then and how much things have changed!!
That is basically what you'd be encountering if you were 47 years ago in that locale. Those in that footage have 1975 and the second half of the 1970s to ' deal with '. Is that for you, or would you rather be taking it up from out in the 2020s?
Amazing footage. Life before the Riverside Expressway looks so lush and green down by the river. I can't second guess the plan Clem Jones had, or what an alternative system of roads would have been to keep up with Brisbane's growth, but it's hard not to dream of a CBD with both sides of the riverside intact.
1974 the year I left Brisbane for the bush to get away from Clem's air pollution after the trams went silent. Came back for a weekend in 2001 for the daughter's wedding then bush again. Now I visit once a year in a drive from the Evelyn Tblnd Nth Qld for a week visiting the big smoke. Love to visit the place always have as we grew up as kids at Blackstone Ipswich in the 50's and 60's
Your clips are the closest I will probably get to travelling back in time and I Thankyou so much.Its exactly as I remember no difference at all which makes me happy my memory is strong.I will watch as many as I can.Its like therapy.
Fascinating . I don't think that there is any place in Brisbane that has changed so much since I was a kid as Kangaroo Point. By the looks of things, this would have been taken just before Albert St was closed between Adelaide and Ann.
I didnt even exist when this was filmed, I came along 8 years later but I remember brisbane of the late 80's and early 90's. I was in the Mater childrens hospital during expo 88, I remember going on the monorail and hearing the royal navy harriers doing their thing. I was trying really hard to spot places that i can still remember, to see how much they changed between this filming and when i lived in brisbane. Was cool to watch. Also almost no cars driving into the middle of the city. Bet thats changed lol
I was a scared 17yo who landed at Brisbane airport from Mt. Isa during the floods at that time and there was no one there to pick me up but a message came over the loudspeakers for me to go to the information desk, I received information that I was to get a taxi to take me to Morningside and the taxi had to take the long way around to dodge all the flooded spots..I was so scared, I was never away from my family ever in my life but I went there for business college. And to think that was 50 years ago, giving my age away now 😅
broke down middle lane Story Bridge peak hour bout <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="480">8:00</a> am in '74 on my way to work in the Valley. My '64 Volkswagen Beetle was picked up and put on the footpath by irate commuters behind me....true story....lol
Who said dash cams are only new!!!! Awesome quality of video for the age.I Had filmed a car cruise night out in the Brisbane CBD in the early 1990's on VIDEO that I still have..... Just need to work out how to get it on here... Great job Ross Myers
great video. Videoing mundane things like driving makes it feel like you've timetravelled. Weird seeing cars driving through King George Square as well.
Cars passed between the Sqaure and City Hall from the new squares opening until April ,1974, when a new one-way system in the inner city was introduced.
After 23 years living in Melbourne, I’m moving back to Brisbane next month. I was a kid in Brisbane and was there in 1974. It’s a very different city now, but I’m looking forward to it...and living in Kangaroo Point where a lot of this was filmed.
Wow trippy this is how brizzy looks back then im only 25 but for some reason i feel sad when i see this even though i wasnt around my generation moves to fast simple time they look like sad thing
I accept your opinion but I don't agree . Having lived then and now, I believe life was easier. People moved slower. Our beautiful city's skyline was not marred by cranes 365 days of the year ... every year. People knew their neighbours. The streets weren't parked out. The days passed by more slowly. Ice cream trucks drove through suburban streets and children would line up on a Sunday afternoon to buy an ice cream. You could have a party under your house and invite your friends with no fear of it being gate crashed and it was ok to have your "Frampton comes Alive" tape playing in your portable tape player..... I would trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday....
Oh ok, you leave out the second and third largest non-aussie background group (chinese and indian) We still have class today we are better off today, and vegans? who cares about them. they are annoying but they are not forcing veganisim onto you, have you been to GC its all about the meat.
Ahh, the old Sir James Holt car ferry if I remember correctly? If you were in a hurry, and you just missed it... bad luck! Get in the queue and wait. Great upload! Thanks.
When I was a wee lad of 15 in 1974 my boss would pick me up in Hamilton and take me to work. We would catch the car ferry to Borthwick Abattoir which was on the south side of the river. It was cool to see the old James Holt.
@FutureSystem738 Did you work at the powerhouse located on what is now known as Gibson Island? Most people do not know Queensland's first electric rail line branched off from Murarrie to Gibson Island in the 1920's and electric locomotives hauled coal to the power house there up until the early 1960's. The line is still there today but the electric overhead power lines are long gone. There is even a platform still there which I believe was for Borthwicks meatworks. That whole area is sus, meat works everywhere back then, even today the area stinks, I read somewhere people who died from the bubonic plague are buried there, and that's very scary considering the earthworks that has happened there in recent times due to development.
Hi Mark do you remember the Echenias the dredge I worked on it as a deck boy at the time we would get picked at the game fishing wharf at Hamilton by boat to Cairncross dry dock to board her great days
Some good and bad memories here, I think the worst was waiting for hours some days to get on the vehicular ferry to cross the Brisbane river from Lytton to Pinkenba ( stinkenba to the locals because of the raw effluent) the best was lack of serious traffic congestion, the people were friendly and life was carefree.
Before it was over developed and over populated, before those permanent speed cameras were installed just after the shafston ave bridge, when petrol was around 16c a litre. You don't appreciate what you got till its gone.
It was 16c a gallon those days. If you filled up at the coin pump the maximum amount the machine took was £1 in 20 pence which would be a tank full or more. Metric was introduced in 1974 in measurements even though the currency change was in 1966 Feb 14th.
I'll have a few of any of those cars thanks! Considering this would have been months after one of the worst floods Brisbane has had it looks pretty good
What to a time before good cancer treatment, high rates of HIV and bad healthcare? really? to a time when everyone you knew over the age of 18 smoked. I think brisbane is a much better city today, you just have to change your mindset. When freedom of expression was more limmited, when people were more racist. Come on your kidding, Just because brisbane has more immigrants does not mean its a worse city.
You see those dark undersides of those white clouds. Someone was telling me the other day that such is evaporated water, which never occurred to me before. Is that heavy evaporation from the famous 1974 Brisbane flood ? Not necessarily, but it nevertheless could well be. It goes on over days and weeks, not all in a couple of hours. It doesn't mean that its all going to come down again exactly as is, but is subject to dispersal and wind currents.
@@nunkito - What, you’re selling you’re 3 x man dome tent and think a change of scenery will change you’re Toxic Take on Life! Good Luck Chump, Hope all goes ell for ya! 😘
awesome.....what road is that in the beginning?....trying to work it out looks like Miles Platting Road? ..... how relaxed the people are walking around in the City (although i gather this wasn't during the week) ....and a whole lot less cars on the roads ...... worked out this the original"highway' heading to Brisbane...where it turns left towards Sunnybank there is now the Puma servo there on the left and the new 7eleven ☺️
great video mate, stuff all cars on the road, less over populated by migrants, less judgemental weasels, not seeing everyones head stuck to overated facebook and instagram, when people could talk to a stranger.......... ahhhhhh take me back to the old country town feel of brisbane anyday.
Hi there My name's John WIllsteed, and I'm a musicisan and academic. I am doing a couple of public lectures in late October at The Powerhouse and I wonder if I might be able to use a little of this Brisbane footage? How do i contact Ross Myers?
I can tell you that in December 1973 and January 1974 was an unusually wet summer(rain most days) This culminated in an enormous "rain event" which hit South East Queensland in the early hours of January 24, 1974(created by a cyclonic weather system) 1 metre of rain fell in 24 hours and the river was in flood by January 26. This could be just after.
Great vid thanks, fantastic leasurely time live in Brissy approx 1 million people easier to drive around, little crappy graffiti. Plenty of employment a good era.