Kingscliff 1973 Tweed Heads Coolangatta Surfers Paradise 1973-1974. 

Grew up in surfers 1952 through 1972, terrific place then, sad what it's become !

Thanks David great memories fantastic era.

Grew up in Kingy...we moved from Terranora in 1966....loved seeing how it use to be.....i left before the craziness set in.....I miss the old Kingy growing up there was the best...thank you😊

Thank you for this great footage. I grew up around Sexton's Hill, Banora Point at 3:29 and was only about two years old when this was shot. It's amazing how easily we can recognise the places even though plenty has changed.

Thank You for your Comments. I'm glad you enjoyed my film. It's like a Time Machine to what used to be.

Thanks for bringing back memories of school days at Tweed River High

Looks so much better than what we have now .felt like Australia back then!

That was great 😂 just waiting to be snatched up , that two story house you zoomed in on , lived next door

My home where I grew up and just as I remember it all. Thanks for uploading.

Thanks David, some very happy memories of Coolangatta & Greenmount.

So lovely to see the Kingscliff of my idyllic childhood summer holidays. We used to walk past that strip of shops every day for 6 weeks on our walk from the Caravan Park to Cudgen Creek., sometimes stopping at the post office to check for redirected mail, or at the chemist for sunscreen, or the newsagent for a special treat of a comic book if we'd been really good all week, or fish & chips once a week at the corner shop there. I used to walk to the service station opposite the Takeaway shop to fill up the gas bottle or buy mantles for the lanterns. We used to camp in a tent on the end of the caravan park nearest to the Surf Life Savers' Club - on Jasmin Jaywalk - all of the access lanes to the tents had funny little names. Such happy memories ...

Fantastic footage. Loved the old road signs, signals and old highway. Also how the Gold Coast used to look, ruined now

Lived in Kingy when I first married in '94 in Moss St then again in 11 Valiant Street from '04 to '19. Bought the old house there, knocked it down and built a new one. Raised our girls there until they moved out and then my marriage split. Just sold the house last year. Great part of the world. Seeing the changes from '88 till '19 were amazing. Very very different place. Cudgen Creek is still the same and the Moreton Bay Fig at the roundabout is massive now. Unfortunately moved to Sydney, miss the place and my friends. Time marches on.

Woah this is crazy to watch in 2020

Oh Thank you sooo much David!!! That is wonderful stuff!! As a Born & Bred Gold Coast Local I really appreciate that footage! Very much indeed!! ...'ELSTON AIRWAYS' ...Airlines of Gold Coast....... ;)

Wow. Bless you for uploading. Content like this is what really gives youtube its value. Disturbingly, I don't recognize ANYTHING in the Surfers Paradise segments. I can only really identify the sidewalks along the Esplanade. Did I see The Clock Hotel? Hmmm....

Thanks David ... ghee! 1973 that's when I went bush and never went back to the gold coast until my daughter took me a few years ago for the night markets on what was once the spit I think. In the early 70's we would head straight to coolangatta to bypass surfer's paradise èt al. Coolangatta still had that feel abt it. Bruce Small the mayor of the Gold Coast att led the never ending story of development of greed and eventually the family oriented camp grounds where you could pitch a tent were replaced by the investment crowd and condo's and rentals of what's in it for me.

Born and bred kingy local , man has it changed I remember when casuarina was like 4 houses on a hill then all this development etc.. most things change but a few remain the same , feel as though has lost its sense of community though , all these new faces good for money for area , but at what cost …

I remember the Gold Coast like this … Wish it still was like this Not so keen on it today…

I remember when the coast was like that. We lived at main Beach then. Pity about how it is now.

Awesome vid,thanks for sharing and thanks for not sticking some music track on for the sake of it.👍

The strip of centre parking spaces along Griffith Street brings back floods of memories. Worst system ever lol.

I lived at Currumbin beach 73/74

Wow 4:08 pretty sure that was a fruit and veg shop and the( Egg & I) was there years later my Uncle Geoff Price built some Squash Courts there

hey there . At the very start of the film there is a hill with a bunch of dead trees on it . Do you happen to know where that is ? I have some old slides with the same hill and would like to find out its location. Thanks

That was in '73. Imagine today, with the world population explosion, all these areas filled with houses, pollution, mynas and rodents. 😣

Nothing from Burleigh Heads? It's the birthplace of champions! 😺

It might have been interesting to look at, but the camera man's hands had a bad case of the shakes. I gave up up half way through!

That first shot of the ocean as you pan around towards Surfers, not a house in sight? Looks very different now

Sexton hill was just a farmsted lol

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