Life In Australia: Adelaide 

My name is Álvaro and I am the one playing the guitar at Il Bistro In Life in Australia: Adelaide. I lived ten years in that beautiful country!.

It's crazy that despite how much Adelaide has changed since then, almost all of the places shown are totally recognisable and the character has remained.

I was born that year in Adelaide. This was like a romantic movie except for the smoking indoors lol. What a lovely era. Local products locally made, normal sized healthy people doing healthy activities, speaking to each other, manners, cleanliness, no boozing or drugs in the parks or being harassed. Normal families doing normal fun. People dressed immaculately with class and style. Omg society has gone downhill so fast in such a short time

Being 70 and living in Adelaide my whole life I recognised and remember it well . So nostalgic!

I love as someone born in 2001 that I can recognise everything in this video. Adelaide just seems like it’s always had a certain charm to it. I don’t get why people bash on it so hard sometimes.

Please take me back to that time. 2021....Australia has gone down the tubes.

I’m living in Adelaide now. It’s amazing to see that I can still recognize different parts of the Adelaide CBD. They really kept those iconic buildings until today :)

The old Public B.B.Q. stocked with wood, no charge and no one would pinch the wood what a set up!!!! No vandals back in them days I must be dreaming.

I remember living in Kilkenny around 1960 - 65 and hearing the sound of clip clop coming down the street every morning around 9am, it was a horse towing a bakers van (might have been Tip Top) delivering freshly made loaves of bread and a finger bun for me, not the crappy sliced stuff you get today. Also remembering to put out our empty glass milk bottles with coins for the milky to deliver fresh milk every morning, never had any one steal the money before the milky arrived, and the milk was milk, with an inch of cream at the top of the bottle. No video games or mobile phones, made our own fun playing marbles with the kids down the street, cricket out on the street, used a rubbish bin as a wicket and get off the road when a car came along, kicking an old bloated football, (never had a new one ) or flying a home made kite. Great days.

This is exactly what it was like when we arrived in Adelaide from England in 1971. Swap the cab driving for a bus ànd the secretary for the process worker and that was my parents. My sister and I took dance class too 🤣💕I was a wonderful place to grow up. We moved further out to the southern suburbs as the city grew and raised my own kids here ☺️

I love the jazzy sound tracks to these films. Ahh, those were the days, and even musicians had work!

My family had only been living in Adelaide for three years in the year of 1966, when we came over from the U K. I haven't lived in S A for many years, but I remember every street, the River Torrens, the Botanical Gardens, Glenelg, the tram, Adelaide Zoo, and many of the suburbs, like it was yesterday. Life was much easier back then.

I'm only 17 years old, but the 60s looked awesome. I've always thought I was born in the wrong time.

Footage of the Chrysler factory is awesome, some great cars built there. These were the days Australia made things, now we make nothing.

This film was for me like the time machine! It's so nice when you can see the life style of individuals many years ago. Awsome. Friendly and beautiful peoples with smile on their faces. I have been lived there for three years, realy good peoples and good place to live!!! I think local peoples realy can proud with it.

I remember all the landmarks and the clothes and hairstyles..i was 11 back then, i miss being a kid then..it was all good...long xmas holidays that lasted 8 weeks...and going to the movies in Rundle street...those were the days..the Actress is a lady called Judy Dick and she used to be in the Here's Humphrey Show....with that honey loving bear...Humphrey...🤗❤🤗

It brought back memories of visiting Adelaide in the 1960's. I was a 6 year old when this was filmed. My Granny lived at Parkside and I loved it all. I lived 200kms away on a farm and I just loved the buzz of the city the sights and sounds and smells.

It convinced my parents and 48 years later we're all still here and proud Aussies!

Not gonna lie I love ❤️ Australia and Adelaide been here since I was 16 and I love it ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

I was living in the Adelaide hills as a 6 year old when this was made :)

Thank you so much. I was born in Adelaide, in 1966, and your film gave me the opportunity of seeing life through my mother's eyes. She and my father used to take long walks around the city when she was pregnant with me.

1966... I was 15 and couldn't wait to escape that boring bloody class conscious city with very set differences between the working and middle class suburbs let alone the wealthy and it was exactly like this...six o'clock closing dull as dishwater. By 67' I was gone...went to sea on merchant vessels travelled the world and returned in 72' and it was as if I'd never left.

Nice guitar skills Alvaro! We very much enjoyed your part in this film. Thank you for letting us know you're out there! Health & long life to you!!

I remember going on the Cox Foys ferris wheel in 1971, that vision bought back memories of times past

Adelaide, Australias best kept secret

At a time when we made stuff, weren't the nanny state and could get a job anywhere anytime. Cars, electronics, and good public transport.

What a great insight 😍 I wish I experienced that 70s life. Adelaide remains as pretty as ever of course

I was born in 1962 and remember my town of Adelaide well. Everyone in your neighbourhood knew each other. I remember coming home on deadly treadly and my dad and our neighbours from both sides of our house at Glenelg north sitting on our front fence in summer, drinking beers after work. Ppl would be walking past with their dogs and they'd stop and chat and have a beer. My childhood was perfect when i look back on it. My kids are so unlucky nowadays, ppl don't even know their neighbours anymore

As an American, I find Australia fascinating, and I've enjoyed this film series. There's so much I like stylistically about the 1960's, as opposed to the decade I was born in, the 1970's, in which good taste ran off the rails. I'm impressed with how each of these films captured the distinct qualities of the city or part of the country in question. I don't want to be the type of person who says, "Ah, the olden days, life was so much better back then," but thinking about how people interacted more in real life with each other, not by texting or through social media, makes me want to get out more and socialize that way as well.

Bright faces, jobs galore, humble clean living... isn't it just amazing how much much can be achieved by one race, one culture, one nation -all united!

It's pretty awesome to see Horses galloping round the racetrack at Vic Park... Should bring it back and get rid of Clipsal! Adelaide is a beautiful City. People can slag it off all they like. In my heart it's a beautiful city and the people are very friendly. The ones that are not friendly end up in a barrel.. and thats 'fair dinkum.' 'Mate.'

Yes hi would dated around 1967 because of the Valiant cars on the production line and the taxi being used and also everything else around the place.Thanks to the person/s who put this clip on,very good.

at 10:41...the ferris wheel and amusements on top of the old Cox Foys building, Rundle St (later Mall.) My mum used to take me up there when I was a little kid. I tell people now and they think I'm crazy but here's the proof!

Adelaide is amazing even back then!

@Padeo17 Glad you liked it. We do have more films about "old" Adelaide and will be posting soon. Stay tuned!

Brought back memories of working in Adelaide and the old buildings Cox Foys, railway station, riding on the boat on the Torrens, lovely days, fashion, cars, scenery, restaurants...thankyou😊

Life is portrayed as one big dreamy affair.

Love Adelaide, its situated in the middle of Australia. Whether you are from Perth or from Sydney, it doesn't take so long to travel. Beautiful city with blue skies all year round, and from beach to hills only half hour, so convenient. Definitely the best and most beautiful city in Oz.

I lived there from '73 to'77 ,loved every minute,went back last year for a wedding,hated it.

I adore watching all these clips. I'm a time person and I'm always intrigued by the people in them , wondering how their futures turned out, how long they lived till and where they eventually ended up.

time has changed slot.. I wish I could experience this kind of adelaide today,. now its so different feels like no one is as friendly as before. gotta love the old days

WOW!!! A Valiant without rust!

What a wonderful time it was bring back the 60 any time

I was 13 during 1966. Began my first job as an, apprentice italian marble stonemason in 1969. Adelaide was different back then. People were more friendly. I feel as though, it was from about 1988 that attitudes changed. During the 60's and 70's employment was easier. You would approach, the foreman or boss of firm, with a relevant enquiry. The boss or his foreman, would set up an interview date. Then the employer, would notify you of a probationary period. Also there, would be a preliminary induction, on first day of employment. None of this , having to register with agencies. These days it is, very humiliating seeking employment. Just about feels like you are begging. The budget has to be, organised very carefully. No such thing as petrol allowance. This is what other, people on centrelink benefits, would experience also. The week you are not paid, by the government i refer to as " The quiet week ". Why?. Because i keep my meals very basic and simple. Can not afford to go visit friends, because of the petrol cost. Even with my four cylinder car, i have to be ever so frugal. Centrelink pay day, is on wednesday of the second week. I only get to spoil myself, to the extent of moderation. Moderation? LOL! Yes exactly. Counter meal at the pub. No chance of that. Far too extravagant, on the miserable pittance, this obviously corrupt government pays. The meals i spoil myself with, are chips with a nice butterfish. Yiros. Goulash with marinated chicken. But this is, only on a saturday or friday evening, of the centrelink payday week. Unemployed for two years so far!. LOL! So while having meal, at the fish & chips cafe, i feel a bit overwhelmed. I pretend i be at the restaurant somewhere. Because of my budget, i just can not tolerate food being wasted. When i see, what food people waste, it actually disgusts and angers me. Half of their dinner plate, still has an unfinished meal on it. For me their is no excuse for that. Unfortunately 90%, of adelaide people have money to burn. Selfish, arrogant, wasteful plus ignorant. Rude and very negative attitudes. About 95% of people, appear to be that way these days. The attitude and mentality, of adelaide citizens has definitely become severe. I agree with P. Nabsie. The 60's, 70's, and 80's were the decades, when employment was easier to achieve. At least back in those years, i was not begging for a job.

Love Adelaide it’s beautiful. I wish I could visit more often

Everyone dressed so stylish in these times

I remember this era. My father was stationed at RAAF Edinburgh Field as part of an RAF detachment. We lived in Elizabeth, a large and growing suburb not far from beautiful Adelaide, which we often took the train to. We loved the open sided wooden seated trains which travelled along with the cattle-truck style doors wide open! We visited the offices of a newspaper - I think it was "The Australian" where we were told they had a page all typeset and ready to go for when the bad news would come that the Queen had died. That page (no doubt long since digitized) would be about fifty years old now and no doubt periodically reviewed and amended, still in the safe! Adelaide was so pretty, set out in concentric belts of parkland and handsome buildings, with the statue of Colonel Light, its founder, overlooking the city on Light's Stand. Spectacular sunsets and great beauty. What a lovely place! I'll never forget it.

10:41 OMGosh I remember the ferris wheel up on Cox Foys from when I was a child and the Coles restaurant.

People seemed to have a lot of class back then.

The Pat when people used to be able to swim in it...and the Ferris whell on top of Cox Foys...I remember it well :)

My god, how nice were these times, when cars were still classy and people properly dressed.

Back in the day ... When we used to build our cars.

It's 2020, the year of covid19. I'm thanking my lucky stars I live in Adelaide 💓💓💓

absolutely enchanting brilliant thank you so much

Was born in '62 in Adelaide, lived at Woodville, Henley Beach and Col. Light gdns., & foothills up ......still love Adelaide.

Adelaide has changed dramatically, but there is a nice feeling about living in this town

makes me want to cry , they had the best life the world ever had to offer !

A fantastic piece of history, i enjoyed that

Amazing piece of film

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this I like watching old real footage

Love Adelaide in Australia

Back in the days when most of the cars (Holdens & Valiants), televisions and radios(Philips) were made in Adelaide. We're losing or have lost all those skills. If you don't use it you lose it!

Simplicity and innocence!!! What an amazing epoch

Well that was just fantastic. Rundle street, Cox Foys, Flash Gelati, Popeye boat in the Torrens, Glenelg without the monstrous block of flats everywhere. I would have been 4 or 5 when this film was made. So glad I found this clip!

In 1966 it was still the "6 o'clock swill" in Adelaide, where the bars closed at 6pm. All the workers get out of work and drink as quick as they could before closing, resulting in rampant drunkenness. Then Donny Dunstan changed it to 10 pm closing and all calmed down. One other thing Donny did for South Australia was to be the first in Australia, and nearly everywhere else in the world to lower the age of voting, drinking, gambling and all else from 21 to 18. I can remember the exact date this came into effect. It was on April 15th, 1971. It was precisely on my 18th birthday and my boss took me to the pub for lunch and drinks...two pints and a schooner! I did not do a lot of work for the rest of that day!

How's that - Only just the other day my Father and I were driving through Mile End and my Father was telling me the story about when he worked at Perry Engineering Co Est 1916, (the taxi drives past it at 2:52mins). It's no longer there, (replaced by huge shopping centers), and I never got to see it because it closed down in 1969 ( I was born 1968), and wish I had. What a thrill to see it here! THANK YOU so much! Subscribed!!

Amazing :) Gotta love those all docos

Two years before I was born. Life was a different pace back then... Great film.

Great video thanks for sharing. Feeling a bit old after watching this as I was 3 when this was made. Was great remembering and seeing our once great car and manufacturing industries in action.

We made and exported back then now we import everything including people. It was better back then.

I was 5 yrs old when this film was produced,I remember the pool which is featured in this short movie near the end,it was in Rymill Pk. There are a lot of other things I remember also like the shacks along the suburban beachs. Thanks for putting this on RU-vid,its excellent (and peacefull).

absolutely amazing !!!

I was born 1961. Growing up through the 60’s was the best. Didn’t have much but had lots of great outdoor fun, It was an adventure. Values were much more important than today. Can’t get anyone’s attention now, they’re so addicted to their zombie phones. Adelaide has never been rated by the Eastern states, no respect.Great lifestyle.

Love it 😊 when times seemed so much simpler and you did things with others and had family time and kids actually played outside

This is amazing!

What a great time! Wish Australia a greater future.

Wonderful nostalgia. I landed in Adelaide from Scotland in 1965 at 14 and my father worked for Holdens

Back then we had a smaller population and we made heaps of things here.. Now we've got a bigger city, but we don't make much of anything. Are we all going to end up serving coffees to each other in cafes? Would have been easier being a taxi driver too, as the city ended at bus stop 21! Now I live near bus stop 52, and the suburbs go way beyond. Excellent footage. I hope someone has done the same for each decade since...

this is so brilliant!

This was amazing to see especially the cars industries

Adelaide in South Australia is a beautiful place to live. I saw all the other big cities in Australia and lived in Sydney, Brisbane and Alice Springs before my family and I moved to Adelaide. We have everything around us: the most beautiful beaches, deserts, National Parks like the Flinders Ranges, Coffin Bay National Park, Canunda National Park etc. If you like places with thousands of people, with many night clubs etc., then you should really go to Melbourne and Sydney.

The sixties look a whole lot less hectic I’d love to go back in time ❤️🇦🇺

There are no words, no dialogue, no talking and no narration voice in it.

so interesting watching this as a adelaidean, places have changed so much, but alot still i recognise

Notice how everyone is SLIM, elegant and nicely dressed... and society has supposedly advanced? Isn’t it obvious the deterioration and just from this one video in one place

Omg!!! Hahaha... I was looking for my family somewhere in this film... the horses from Dinnies stables ... yes! Grew up in Morphettville. What a revisit experience this is... it's like looking at family vids we didnt shoot ourselves.. defs show this to my children.

What a blast from the past. Was filmed a few years b4 I was born but remember allot of Adelaide as similar when I was a little tacker. Great post!

What a great perspective on Adelaide!

Wow 1966. We (Dad, Mum, 1 Son, 4 Daughters) arrived from the UK in February aboard the Sitmar ship Fairsea. Lived initially at the migrant hostel at Finsbury and I went to Pennington Primary School, I was aged 8 at the time. Moved to Gippsland in Victoria (Moe) not long after and then Frankston in 1969. Parents decided to return to the UK in 1973 when I was 16, I have always wondered how life would have turned out if we’d stayed. My Son (31) is now a permanent resident and will be an Australian citizen in January 2023, his Mum and I will be there to witness it; it’s strange how things turn out.🙂

Before the Torrens river became overly polluted we'd walk from Allenby Gardens and swim near the weir. My best friend and I were very good swimmers. He could swim two lengths of an Olympic pool underwater and I could swim perhaps a length plus twenty metres. We'd swim out to Popeye (the boat) and hitch a ride. We'd also dive down and go under the structure of the fountains and come up in the middle. This was from late '64 when our family moved to Adelaide from the Barossa Valley, a year after my friend's family who coincidentally moved to within four kilometres of where we settled, until about early '68 when I was employed full time and life changed.

I absolutely loved this and i knew Bev harrell. She lived on Sturt Road across from Marion Shopping Centre.. This brings back so many fond memories for me too.. Thanks ever so much.. Loved it !!!

How times have changed

im 18 and love the 60s would love to be around in that time looks sweet!! i need a time machine haha

OMG the Cox Foys rooftop amusements, I rode on those as a kid

Love it...

That was Adelaide, 2019

This is so interesting

Thanks for sharing ! I even saw our old holden station wagon .

Superb! My boss had us all watching it at work - nothing got done for the last hour Friday afteroon!.

SA used to have a lot of manufacturing, the only thing manufactured now is meth