Expo 88 Opening Part 1 TVQ 10 

Watching this 35 years to the day. 30/4/23

That Tonka add literally bought a tear to my eye

My favourite memory. I was working as a photographer for Quest Newspapers and had arranged to meet a journo for a vox pop (street poll) in front of the iconic Australia sign. An Asian tourist asked if I could take a picture with their camera. This was way before the selfie concept. Of course, I obliged and immediately another couple approached me.. no problem I thought. I then looked back and saw a queue of hundreds of visitors waiting for my photography services. I just bolted... no vox pop was done that day!

So many memories. I was 16 and we had ‘season passes’. I skipped school a couple of times so I could go see the live bands! I even remember the switch from Channel 0 to 10.

Thank you for uploading this it was like boarding a time machine back to my childhood. Love the ads too! I think I remember being frightened by the closing ceremony because the fireworks seemed so loud & huge. Be interested to know if anyone else remembers the fireworks not sure if it was Expo Closing or not ?

Before Expo Brisbane was a slow sleepy market town. I thought it was too ambitious and would be a crazy expensive mistake. I was wrong. By 1990 Brisbane was a world city. Sadly, despite being in Brisbane on a regular basis for work during 1988, I never visited Expo. My loss.

This is Australia at its best! 1988 celebrated the 'bicentenary' of the first fleet arriving. Australians were proud of all that they had achieved in only 200 years, transforming an undeveloped continent into a first world nation . But in the 90s the redefinition of greatness began. We were told that we are not "Australians", we are "multicultural". They started to call Australia Day 'Invasion Day'. They tried to get rid of our proud British heritage identity by calling for a referendum on ditching the Monarchy to become a republic. They called Pauline Hanson a racist for wanting to stop huge levels of immigration from China. In 2038 we will celebrate our 250th anniversary of the 1st fleet arriving, and we will not be allowed to celebrate it. In 1988 people went to Expo to 'see the world' but now we watch videos like this to 'see Australia', because it's not the Australia we knew back then.

Thanks for the upload, my Aussie wife keeps telling me about this!

That looked amazing! Too bad I wasn’t born until 1991.

Hello, Thank you for uploading all this great footage! Can I please use some in an upcoming video? I will credit this video in the description and text on the video. Cheers

aaaah fantastic memories :) aaand channel 10 were miles ahead of 9 or 7 in having live tv and technology.....and lovely to see the F1ll's and the Iroquois helicopters what a sight! and notice no barricades along the river front then....no-one managed to fall in (common sense back then)

I had the "great pleasure" of serving as show compare' with ozzie TV personality Mark Baretta for the BP Water Ski Sports Spectacular performed daily on the Brisbane River...for WORLD EXPO '88! Loved Australia then, miss it now...with Ric Burch, Brett Wing and all my oozie mates...we has a RIPPA of a good time...XXXX beer and KING PRAWNS!

Such professionalism on display. X Ten

This video should have over a million views by now.

Aah yes, when DDQ-10(4-5a) in Toowomba purchased TV0 in Brisbane in '88 and swapped channels. Sad one is gone, more or less, not long til Ten is gone too ......

I was 8 years old and my parents lost me or I lost them lol I remember a robot in Canada section good old days that are gone

It looks tacky lol i was there and was bored loved the concert with john farnham.

Wow..this took me back to my childhood. I was 8 the year Expo opened in Brisbane. Some of my fondest memories are from Expo. My mum helped train the performers for the Samoan pavilion in Samoan Siva(Dance) @18m58s you can see two carved wooden statue's. One is male one is female. My little sister was the perfect height for her to swing on the Anatomically correct male statue's.. 🍆 Let's just say after he met my sister that day both statue's were female for a while until he could be restored. I had completely forgotten about it until I watched this video. If I could go back to any year of my childhood it would be 1988. Our city has lost its charm.

It says Melbourne was 1888 yet wiki says it was Barcelona

This is amazing.

Takes me back

Wow thank you for sharing this i was 6yrs old i got lost i was a naughty girl hahaha...lucky the man on stilts found me and somehow he handed me back to my father ..Thnx again..xxx

Yen far through there. No.

I wonder if it was influenced by EPCOT Center in Florida which opened 6 years earlier. The monorail certainly reminds me of it.

We were there in March 88.

Great historical footage but Kerri-Anne really detracts from this. She seems a little snobby. Everytime she talks I just want to hit mute.

Bring World Expo to Sydney!!!!!!

Love the duck at 15:51. What was his/her name?

All the images are fat, stretched out side ways. The clip has been uploaded as wide screen 16:9, when it is old school 4:3.

Its a shame the aspect ratio is all out of whack.

Good damn, it was a sexual time.

The river looks like coke lol

Mr Fish from Lift Off!

Noted

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2:10 wot no social distancing?!