South Australia 1961: Elizabeth: A Place To Grow Excerpt 

a communist dystopia after the good guys lost ww2 and we first fought for the bolsheviks in the soviet union who went on to murder 60 million of its own citizens who were for the most part White christians then fought the japaneese for maoist china who went on to kill 100 million of its citizens... and were to see the same fate as haiti, rhodesia, current day south africa and soon to be the united states for all the same reasons as it happened in those countries.

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Hey Susan. Yes, I totally agree. I remember my Dad saying how grateful many people were to have a new house with a garden, and to have gotten away from the depression and poverty of post WWII Europe. I think that is lost on many, as many of us, myself included, weren't there to experience it. It must have seemed very hopeful and new. Those first 15 years of Elizabeth's existence are quite fascinating to me. I would have loved to have experienced them first hand.

@@elizabeththatwas For the most part it was wonderful, and confronting in equal measure. I remember the wide open spaces, but the heat and dust storms were something else! There are remnants of those pioneer gardens...fruit trees and roses. Some of those original houses are now cracking and unloved, their owners long gone. So sad really.

@@susanjacquier5358 the wide open spaces were my favourite growing up. I lived on the corner of Crittenden Road and Tudor Crescent in Smithfield Plains - right opposite the creeks and paddocks that stretched on as far as you could see, but today is suburbia. I remember dust storms and heat. A few floods. And that was in the seventies. I can only imagine what it was like in the 50s and 60s. The pictures of that dust storm of '67 are just wild.

@@elizabeththatwas Dad used to talk about the farms around Smithfield. He was part of the building of Elizabeth West as a 'storeman, ordering materials for the housing. He said each design had a number and he would order X amount of windows for design No 4 etc. I remember a storm played havoc with some half-built frames We lived in Woodford, which was well established by the time we arrived ( '64'.) .

@@elizabeththatwas Ps...the West was later merged with the Fields to become what is now known as Davoren Park

Yes, the SAHT were pushing hard to populate the area, so no surprise they didn't show you anywhere else. It would have been tough for many, so few facilities and all that dirt (mud in winter, of course). Growing up I remember dust storms and locust plagues once a year. Floods and mud fights. It was fun, as a kid, though.

Amazing. Your Grandfather and Grandmother must have been so excited to move into their brand new house in a brand new town. A unique experience, for sure. I agree with you about your last comment there. Though few could predict it, in hindsight I can see how the seeds were sewn from the moment the first town designs were drafted. Modelled on a time that was already slipping away by the time inauguration day came on November 16, 1955. An entire town designed around working men who drove and pedestrian mother's who walked everywhere and stayed home was well out of date by 1970. Couple that with the industrial age giving way to the technological/information age. Thank you for watching, and sharing your history and views with us. Much appreciated :-)

I agree, mate. Few could tell at that point the industrial age would soon make way for the technological one, not unlike the agricultural age making way for the industrial before that. The layout also quickly dated. The original design was based around working fathers who drove cars and pedestrian mothers who walked everywhere. Hence, all those local shops, kindys and schools within walking distance. But soon most women were driving, and mother's working. Amazing how Elizabeth was seen as ahead of it's time one decade, then seriously out of date the next. Who knows what may have happened if Elizabeth had been built 20 years prior, with enough time for her to truly establish herself before times started to rapidly change around her?

@@elizabeththatwas the industrial age didnt stop, the parasite class simply imported our cheaper replacements knowing they wouldnt work against it then shipped our jobs off to asia... we bring in our replacements to work in the often chinese owned mines who only buy parts and machinery from china to send our oil, coal and gas there to fire up their industries while de-industrialising us....

Hey Paul. Yes, most, if not all, are all gone now. Thank you for watching. Much appreciated :-)

@@elizabeththatwas yes it’s good to keep watching.

Yes, I don't think it's the original vision Thomas Playford or the Housing Trust had for Elizabeth