Postcard From Perth 

Seeing London Court being the same as it is today is very nice and has not been bulldozed for some stupid bullshit office tower

I remember every building, ,, trams. Trolley buses, king’s Park without a Brewery building in sight. Perth is still home to me. What a fantastic video to see and reminisce about what we had and what we have become. A humongous City with new suburbs that have grown out of nowhere. No pine plantation left. No easy pace of life. High rise buildings are the norm. I’m too bloody old to like what is happening. But Perth is, and will be home forever.

I'm from New Zealand and first visited Perth with my family in May 1981 as a 14 years old.I immediately had a strong connection with Perth's beauty and revisited in 1987 , living there for 8 months on Monash Ave in Nedlands behind Kings Park. A great location being close to the beautifully designed University and Swan River along beautiful suburbs such as Dalkeith and Cottesloe.The Indian ocean and it's beaches were simply wonderful playgrounds. Revisited 18 months later in 1989 for a week on my way to England and then again with my wife in 1993. Perth has grown rapidly since then and I hope that hasn't had a negative effect on what I classed as Australia's gem city.

I am 82 and can remember so much and oh boy I miss it and totally hate this modern way

This is like a time machine, it's one thing to see photos and videos from that era. But to see it coming from your home town, showing streets my grandparents much have travelled down is fascinating.

Our city really has come a long way. We've even learned how to pronounce Mundaring properly.

Pre-1950's Perth (CBD) had so many wonderful old buildings it was amazing. But business wanted a 'new' modern-looking city and money talks the loudest, so the victorian-era buildings were demolished so hideous office towers and ugly commercial buildings could move in. It's ironic how most of those ugly 1950's-60's buildings in the CBD have now been demolished and replaced with newer ugly buildings. You can't stop progress but we still need to limit how destructive it is on historical sites.

Everybody in WA needs to watch this.

It was a great place once. Small, yes but with the POTENTIAL to grow and modernise while keeping much of its history and charm. What has wrecked the place is idiot political fools believing that motor cars were more important than lifestyles and secondly as someone else has said, the flooding in of all kinds of losers who do not understand the meaning of respect. JC, you are so so right with your comment.

From a singer in West L.A. ~ I see your Perth of WA from almost 60 years ago is FILLED with charming buildings and beautiful countryside ~ Bravo ~ hope to see it in person one fine day! ANDY

Wow so beautiful. I will always love Perth, my birth home and favourite place on earth 🖤💛

I wish we still had all these beautiful old facades in Perth city... it looks so ugly and bland now. There's not much left of our old heritage.

I would love to re-do this film shot-for-shot. Oh I wish I had the time. And money...

I guess York and Northam could be considered southwest of the rest of Australia, but they're definitely northeast of Perth.

I'm 71 now, it was such a long, long time ago.

Great film, thanks for posting.

The good old days when people were honest,caring, helpful, helped one another, genuine, humble, and NOT selfish and worked hard and were happy with what they had..

Lovely Perth... the music...completes the ambience...🥰

Very nice indeed and thank you to the photographer who took the footage and showed how important it is to record events as they happened thus preserving it for future generations. If you are a photographer you might consider recording today's scenes for those who come after us.

Wish we didn't cut so many trees down

All the culture disappeared when they knocked such historical buildings down. That's Perth's main issue, just houses and no certain cultural building style except for Fremantle and some other small spots.

This feels like a 1000 years ago now. How times change people

There are still hundreds of old buildings that have been preserved, Heritage week, April - May is a great time to explore some of them and learn more about their history

WOW! Thanks IC. What an entertaining time capsule. I lived next door to the house in Floreat featured, not realising I was almost famous.

Makes me sick seeing all this beautiful houses subdivided with no garden.

1:10 that's the corner of St George's Tce and Barrack st......all gone now...criminal

Very interesting. Love the old architecture.

They got rid of those great trolley buses not long after this film. I often wonder why. Funny thing they are now popular in the more advanced and enlightened parts of Europe.

You don’t see the dams over flowing much these days

Beautiful looking city. It reminds me of Plymouth, in England. The only difference is that the city looks more pedestrian friendly, and car and truck friendly than Plymouth. I'd like to visit Perth one of these days. I've heard by some people that it's a boring city to visit. I reckon so if you expect more than what a city is willing to give you. I believe in touring a city for a few days to get a feel for what it's like before making my own decision.

Can't imagine having to cut down a Jarrah tree by hand. It's a nightmare just trying to split it for firewood.

This is great! I only have a few black and white photos of the 50's but the vision in this video is embedded in my memory. So good to see it all again just like we lived it! Thanks for the memory!

Brought back so many memories of a happy childhood !!!!

wow..imagine coming back in time to this

6:25 - Was hooking prams on the back of buses done anywhere else in Australia? 7:50 - Footage of the WAFL match between West Perth and Claremont at Claremont Oval on the 21st of August. West Perth 15.7 (97) defeated Claremont 6.6 (42), before a crowd of 2,482.

Some serious nostalgia going on at my place right now.

Perth is now doing a wonderful job is preserving some of the old city facades as it develops the city further.

I want to cry when I look at the beautiful old architecture in this film, compared to the eyesores that clog Perth today.

Wish we hadn't destroyed so many great (human scale) buildings Still, when it comes to sterile foyers in unremarkable glass skyscrapers we're probably up there with the best!

@johnnymanhands This video was made in 1954. Of course it looks like something out of the 50's!

So different, in some respects maybe better than today

I am fond of the UWA campus, Winthrop Hall 😍

what a time-tunnel trip this one is!! This was filmed in the year I arrived in Oz and brought back a huge array of memories. For all that many of the buildings were quite striking, they weren't actually "old", they weren't genuine renaissance or medieval buildings - just mid-20thcentury reproductions for the most part. Let 'em go, I say. Europeans and Brits are paying through the nose for one series of renovations and upgrades after another to keep their old piles useable. Forget 'em, we've got better and more ethical things to spend our hard-earned pennies on.

@3.00 when did York and Northam become southwest towns? Obviously a production by o’siders.

Ahh... home. I miss it terribly after 25 years away.

The destruction of Perth

The Trolley Buses were so nice.

If you visit Perth on the basis of this, you'll be disappointed. If a building reaches 70 years old it is pulled down. If it reaches 120 it would still be pulled down, except perhaps for the facade.

Great video. Unsure why so many dislikes ...

@thatgrumguy that would be an interesting project for sure - good luck!

really hits home for me. and im 19

It's sad to watch this old footage and see how Perth's history has been destroyed along with it's culture. It was such a friendly place up until the early 80's, shame it has been transformed into such an antisocial shithole today.

Can't believe they didn't show the beach, would have been funny to see what they were wearing in those days.

pretty sure a few things haven't changed. i used to live in that house next door to 7:26. The house in this video is still there great vid. this was before the cashed up bogans came and destroyed trading prices and cost of living

Good to see this as we cannot go to the Republic of WA anymore

What happened to brilliant architectures in Perth?? All new buildings now are boring rectangular monoliths! 4:26 When Mundaring Wier was full. Its last overflow was in the 90s :(

One of my mates tried to rob a bank on horseback when I was a kid, good times!

funny enough i have actually been on the train at 1:19 and that was somewhere between 1989 and 91

Hello from 2021❤️

Now this great city has evolved into a modern metropolis of almost 2 million, yet when you look at Adelaide it still looks like this even now lmao

loved it!! Cheers Inside Cover that is some great vision of Perth.

Unfortunately Perth has lost its charm. Such a shame.

Music at 5:29 during UWA is Gaudeamus Igitur - a 1700s latin based drinking song about the joys of student life.

Charming movie. Why are 90% of the comments on here so vile? Time for you tubers to mature a bit, I think.

Beautiful times - and when and why did Australians stop speaking so mellifluously...?

@fuzzjunky Wow looks different today - but quite beautiful in it's own way. Nice video you should post it as a video response.

I visited Perth in 2006. One of my favourite places in the world. I like that last shot of the city skyline. I took a picture fromwhat might be around the same spot. Makes a nice comparison of then and now.

Thanks for that. Wonder what that footy oval was.

We had a “Pizza Showtime” in the late 70’s !

They forgot to say, ‘giant white pointer sharks await the struggling swimmer, or lone surfer, gaily near the shores, basking in the western sun’

So nice to pigs outside enjoying life rather than in a hell hole.

2:08 These days that forklift driver would could lose his license for driving along with the load swaying up in the air like that. It's a sure way to get someone killed.

Bon Scott's WA paradise zone That why its one among zillion's reason i love Perth and want to visit if God let me win in lottery lol !!!!! God bless WA

@thatgrumguy Unfortunately you wouldn't be allowed to film at the train station or the airport, and quite possibly half of the industrial locations.

i can't believe you just made me watch that inside cover! i suppose it was somewhat entertaining...

2 questions: What is that church at 6:02 please? Is it still there also? Thanks

Give me a time machine, better day's.

I want to visit Perth so bad

@sharonhammill Well, I heard Fran Kelly on the ABC pronounce Trangie ,Trangee, Narromine as Narromeen and Canowindra as it is spelt instead of Canowndra.

The house jn Floreat at 7:25 is still around in 2024.

i want to visit

We should've kept the fucking steam trains. Steam trains ROCK

I was wondering if I could use for a documentary I am making?

@ 0:50 The sailor seems awfully interested in that guy for some reason ?

5:18 The Triumph of the Will.

Is this a film that was made to attract immigrants from UK?

No Irish Need Apply would've been on the front door or windows in almost every Perth outlet or am l over exaggerating?

@lpoleschtschuk - HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA ... was thinking the same

I enjoyed this, though it would have been better if someone who could pronounce the place names had narrated it... "Mundahring" FFS!

Righto , which one of you funny buggers painted the swans white?.

What the building from the thumbnail? Is that gone now?

@antijerrem Wish we didn't destroy so many old buildings...

nice then by fay...civilized...

Does anyone know the name of the song at 0:40? thanks

What year do you think this was filmed

so may beautiful knocked down for skyscrapers

@PimpGravy why is that?

How much money would be raised by OHS? There would be a gold mine waiting for them with those two loggers.

What happened to the Perth baracks

no aboriginal ? were they not allowed to be in the city?