Melbourne 1896 to 1978 

Cool!

I HATE trams. Never use them. They just ruin traffic flow. Trams stop in the middle of the road; buses pull over.

Lucky you. The dream comes true

You still driving? I know few drivers been on the job 30 plus yrs...

i love melbourne and it's trams. so do my children. we lost our trams here in brisbane.

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Beautiful and wise words, thank you

Great footage. The images combined with the music make me very nostalgic and a bit sad being the last survivor in my family. Great memories of Melbourne in the 60’s come flooding back.

I was thinking exactly the same just then. The young in these collections of film will be forever young.

there was no Australian draft in ww1

Yes, we ll what waits for us over the next couple of years? We have no idea.

Don't be sad. Hold onto your past memories. Remember everything the media feeds into your mind is designed to make you believe its getting worse. It's not getting worse, turn off your TV and stop reading newspapers and very quickly the joy will return.

complaining about it won't do any good - do something about it.

@@Harkeilla if I alone could do something to change it I would but unfortunately it's not only up to me. I was more nostalgic than complaining. I don't understand why how I feel bothers you.

@@Harkeilla get off the lounge chair and get a job, stop scrounging off the taxpayers who are doing something worthwhile with their lives Hark!. You obviously don't understand Australia at all. Get out and help people instead of trying to stir up garbage all day long. What a party life you must follow

You miss the days when aboriginal people had no rights, child mortality was much higher than now, and Melbourne had literal slums?

That was the idea. Glad you enjoyed it.

He was a legend

Thanks .. extra fine comment.

Wow

@@wian4946 thank you for the info.

It's actually something I try to encourage my friends to do as much as possible... and to somehow pass it on... Sure, the 'special events' are important... but it's the everyday that will be more significant to more people down the track, when what we consider 'normal' is gone.. which is already happening, in a lot of ways... To those who can remember: Children swinging from a Hills hoist in the back yard.. when we used to play marbles around the drain points in a playground.. watching Mum & Dad almost breaking their backs digging in the Melbourne clays to build that fence that they couldn't afford to have someone build... when we used to climb trees and play with 'tins on strings' (as 'stilts' or a 'telephone')... the joy we felt when we finally heard that radio station broadcasting from Equador on the old kitchen radio that could pick-up shortwave... Tech is great... but it's the history that gives context to where we are now.. and where we're headed...

Very true.

you mean when there were no ethnics?

@@hodeesy Nah, just when there was no Dan Andrews. It was a much better place.

@@hodeesy There were plenty you racist drongo.

born there 1975 ....... been in cairns for 10 years now .........happy up here but this brings in some nostalgia for old times thats for sure ;)

its been all downhill for melbourne since

What's it like in Cairns now without the tourist dollars

@@genesis6604 Plenty of tourists escaping the south :)

@@genesis6604 hey there craig it certainly has been a struggle for many businesses up here. no real certainty from one week to the next re possible tourists. sadly there are quite a lot of vacant shops even in our cbd. we are all looking forward to improved fortunes sooner than later.

Thank you

Trees are so over rated.

Because it was homogeneous.

@@Harold_Fliteit was just a simpler time and with less importance on wealth and more on lifestyle

@@arisl2370 yes, the lifestyle our homogeneous ancestors built and left us to enjoy....not anymore thanks to mass immigration. Why is that so hard to comprehend.

You're living in somebody's old days.

​@@Harold_Flite Ya mean white?

The honest, dignified and civil respect that kept the indigenous population out of the electorate and covered for member of the clergy who were sexual abusing minors. Oh if only you could still beat you spouse and children but been seen as a good bloke because you played footy well enough to almost go professional.

@@Tasmantor Are you OK? Yes there were problems, as there always are , but without doubt the prevalence of mental illness and crime has greatly increased ( look it up )

@@Tasmantor You really think things are better today? The number of kids abused in state care dwarfs whatever happened in the church - but it is all hushed up - still going on I am sure.

People did dress up back then. I also like modern fashion too.

You cab wear grbby old clothes and get lost in Simpson desert. No one will miss you.

Or devolve, as the case may be.

Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

the extremely depressing music?

Well I don’t think it’s depressing at all. Each to their own.

I’m more upbeat about the future.

@@GlowingTube , that's great in spite with what's happening with the world right now. Nothing wrong with it. Hope never hurt anybody here.

@@TheAxelay Funnily enough I was also born in 1978, and I was just thinking the exact opposite thing: it's amazing how well many of these historic landmarks have been preserved and how recognisable so much of it is. I guess it's just a glass half full/empty situation.

@@seansingh8862 , great timeline year births think alike?! Well maybe just this once?! The glass is always open to interpretation by whomever until it's smashed! Cheers etc.

Totally agree…

Thank you for the kind words

Id like to echo Doc Martin here, thank you. Very well done, and surprisingly moving.

Yes. This is a great look at Melbourne over the years. The fashions,cars,buildings and city itself changing decade by decade,from slow to much quicker. Nice music as well. 😊🇦🇺

Beautifully put... so much better than some of the negative comments.

@Bruce nah, you've just got a chip on your shoulder.

Go back in time and ask every single one of those people if they think things have changed for the better.

I also was born that year - it is sh*it hole now - if you can even afford to live there.

My pleasure

What was the party scene like in your prime years?

@@TomMathesonColes Probably no different to today's, we just had a crazy way of dressing then.

Thank you for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you, a haunting piece.

Glad you enjoyed it

Have you thought of moving to Victorian desert. Lot of crawling creatures like ya

Muchas gracias or if you are from Brazil, Muito obrigado

@@GlowingTube ☺From Colombia, but Australia is my country too💚💛

@@catalinagomez924true and it is a universal country made for the world 🎉❤

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I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you. It’s just me doing the selection of material , editing and music selection. Glad you enjoyed it.

I’m glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for sharing your story

Diversity sucks

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@@An-lv9vwas soon as they landed in Australia… they were free. You joke. That was the deal. Move to Australia free

@@christina7215 hence we welcome all in Oz

Thank you

History will remember 2021 Victoria in a VERY, VERY different way. And it certainly won’t be romantic.

nobody will ever romance these days

Even now I'm shocked by how well people in the city attire themselves. I used to live on the Gold Coast 6-7 years ago when I was studying and I recently had to travel back for a day to pick up car parts. I had to stop into the shops while I was there and I was surprised by how well people were dressed just out and about at the shops. It wasn't just some people, but it seemed everybody was dressed to the nines; I felt very underdressed wearing a t-shirt and shorts.

Only the rich were filmed, they wouldn't spend expensive film.on eevery day ordinary Joe Blog' s life. Although there are films of British workers coming out of factories. But there's mostly "events" for high society that got filmed.

1956 olympic games = tv just introduced in australia !

That is a very short period of time.

Australia is a very, very young country

And now it smells like New Dheli...

i wouldn't refer to it as achievement because of the iniquities towards the indigenous aussies

How has nobody called you out. Lol 108 years. Noooooooooooo

Melbourne coffee palace and fish markets were two lovely buildings they destroyed

@@jdg2921 Is that now called the Federal Coffee Palace?

@@planetX15 yes

A lot of beautiful buildings still around. That’s why it’s marvellous Melbourne

@@stephenroberts8820 would of had much more character and history as opposed to these soulless modern buildings they build today

@@jdg2921 I think 100 years from now people will regard today's buildings as classic and their new buildings as ugly.

@@humanbeing8819 maybe, I doubt it though. Only because the buildings of the old world had so much detail and expression. But we shall see. The coffee palace was a beautiful building that got destroyed, and in that location is one of the ugliest buildings in Australia

dont be; its a socialist $hithole now

Yeah, me too.

A wonderful memory

What a great memory when people had more trust in others. Life was so close to nature

Me too, 2004

I'm glad you enjoyed it

Thank you and welcome

Working on a few more... stay tuned

Thank you

I also like modern architecture, however, too much of our heritage has been trashed which is a shame.

Back when the opportunity was there, post World War Two, the architecture of the original grid of Melbourne should have been left intact and preserved and new skyscraper centre developed nearby. Although that said, the European cities that seem to survive without skyscrapers are so much more beautiful.

@@theoduval1408 So true. When you visit London, you will see a beautiful building by Sir Christopher Wren then some appalling glass and steel construction beside it…it saddens me.

Tell me of a modern city where this isn't happening. I don't know why you are blaming the current Premier for it. Go and have a look at Sydney and what's been knocked down there.

@@hiramhackenbacker9096 because they let the Herald Sun do all the thinking for them years ago and now exist as pure reactionary spite at what small progress that has been made.

That is so amazing! What time into the video was it?

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you for the kind words