Who remembers lunch at the Coles caffateria or seeing a movie at the Forum...I note too at 0.45 we were very close to getting a glimpse of the Shaft Semena (Cinema) next to the Barrell. And the No 7 tram to the city in an old W class with it's distinctive c-sharp bell...ding, ding. Great memories of a time long gone. Walk along Swanston Street now and be disappointed.
Yes Coles Cafeteria 1st Floor Bourke Street store where you grab a tray and slide it along and pick what ever foods you like. A working-class smorgasboard.
Who remembers the original Darrell Lee shop with the ladies wearing the big bows. So bright and colourful…and the smell, and the chocolate was delicious.
I do!! When we went into 'the city' as a family to have a special lunch and see a 'picture' we'd always end with a special treat visit to the store you're talking about. I LOVE these old archive films and old photos. I could look at old photos and old film for hours and not get bored. I also remember that amazing movie theatre with the domed ceiling painted in dark vibrant blue to give the illusion of a twilight time starry night sky. It felt really romantic and glamorous. I loved it as a kid. I love finding places that haven't been totally modernised. Remember the diner along Flinders Street (or was it Swanston Street, hmm?) that had the table top jukeboxes at each booth. You'd sit and flip through the options whilst waiting for your milkshake or banana split sundae and press B5 for a Beach Boys song that would never come on, ha!
Absolutely! The old lady next door used to get a box of Darrell Lea every Friday when her daughter came home, still wearing the very colourful outfit. Every Saturday, the lovely old lady secretly gave them to me. Her doctor had forbidden her to eat sweet stuff, but she didn't have the heart to tell her daughter. My Mum wouldn't let me eat any sort of lollies except Xmas Easter and birthdays, so this was heaven. I'd hide in my cubby house with a book, and wolf through the lot in one sitting, lol.
When you went into "town" it was an event. Having worked in there for years, it lost the gloss. But I still remember the "good old days", the innocence of youth.
I was six years old and it was a big treat for my mum to take us into "town" see a movie and have lunch at coles cafeteria !!! How I wish I could time travel back. Thanks for the memories 🎉
0:08 -- The Southern Cross Hotel.... I really loved that place and I was saddened that it was pulled down. My father was the specialised pastry chef there in that era and received a resounding compliment from Ringo Starr on a pastry dish that was prepared for them when the Beatles had their tour there.
Back when it was safe to walk the streets. Back when everybody who wanted one had a job. Back when everybody dressed decently. Back when we had some basic rules of life that most abided by. Back when...
Back when hard working people could actually afford to buy a nice three bedroom house with a garage, garden and room for a pool in the back garden. What in the hell's happened to the world?!
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293its good stuff at the moment. Work away at an honest job for years and maybe youll get a mortgage in a decade if youre lucky, then have fun paying that for the next 30 years. Meanwhile i can either take off my clothes online and sell it, or make awful videos 'pranking' or just harassing people in public and potentially make unfathomable amounts of money through 'CoNtEnT cReAtIoN'. Society is fucked. Elite overproduction has begun just as mentioned in Peter Turchin's secular cycle theory. Next up, global conflict, a great reset and probably a new major world power.
OMG - 1966 the year of my first trip to Melbourne. I was just a kid and was absolutely in love with the city, very vibrant and still retaining some great buildings that have been subsequently lost. We stayed at the then new Southern Cross Hotel now also gone. Thanks for the upload. Great memories.
Oh no! What happened to the Southern Cross hotel?! We used to go to their Palm Court restaurant for lunch as a family sometimes. What's there now I wonder?
@@wizzard5442 Do you know what's there now? Another commenter said the whole hotel was pulled down rather than just renovated and redesigned. Is that true?!
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Yes it was pulled down and an office block with street level shops were built. Its called Southern Cross Towers. See wiki.
I arrived from the UK in 1966 also aged 9, lived in Moe initially, then Frankston; now back in the UK since 1973. Collingwood barracker since 1966, and still am! GO PIES!! 😊 My Son now lives north of Sydney in Mayfield and is marrying an Australian girl in March 2024. 🇦🇺🌏🦘🪃
Once was a great city and full of character. Fantastic memories of a great place and time...Stanley Kramer must have liked it as he filmed much of On The Beach (1959) in Melbourne.
I love the young boy at 1.32 with him Mum. I am a few years later than this but my Mum always insisted that whenever we went into the City that you wear your best clothes. I can bet the young boy here was told the same thing. He looks immaculate- as indeed nearly everyone else here does too.
funny, that scene also caught my attention.. I was also born a few later but recall ijn the 70's growing up that mum would always dress us up as immaculate as possible
I love it too, but unfortunately people lost their personal standards at some point. Im only 28 ('96) and the current state of things makes me utterly miserable.
I just remember that it was never that crowded. Nowadays it feels suffocating. I think it's due to the invasion of a more existential non physical space via the internet too, it contributes to this awful claustrophobic suffocating feeling. I feel constantly pestered. Everybody's got their necks permanently wound into the business of strangers. And oh my what banal, painfully boring nonsense it all is.
I always remember taking the train from Chelsea to the City with my Mum to visit the Downflake Doughnut shop in Swanston Steet and watch the Doughnuts being made in the window.
Do you remember this then. As you walk through life brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole! Cheers PS bloody auto correct
Ah, the days when the city was bustling with people. Going into the city was a treat the family would look forward to. Now you avoid it like the plague!
The other week I took a train into Melbourne’s CBD, which I had not done in a long time. I was GOB SMACKED. I may as well have been riding a train in Singapore. I think I was the only Australian in the carriage. 😢
@@shaun1900 we don’t have the resources for all these extra people, we can’t afford it. An extra half a million humans here in 12 months, we don’t have the hospitals, schools, houses, etc, etc. This means less quality of life for everyone here. If you need an ambulance for example, your waiting time is increased because they aren’t investing in more paramedics in line with immigration. Our economy and our society cannot cope with this level of immigration if we are not building the infrastructure. Not to mention young Australians being unable to buy a house due to wealthy immigrants pushing up the prices. Again, quality of life for the average Australian is affected. More young Australians have to stay with their parents for longer, or rent for longer (or forever).
@@stefanie.elinor you are pointing the finger at the wrong people, please at least try and do some research before commenting. You just sound daft otherwise. Simple fact is Australia needs immigration, we have an ageing population, decreasing birth rates and an economy and social welfare systems that wound not survive to pay your pension and provide the healthcare you need in old age. Please try harder.
@@stefanie.elinorplenty of investment in vehicles though! Five stationed in the town I live in, constantly parked up. Don’t think I’ve ever seen two out on the roads at the same time since they built their big new brick garage. So is that staff shortages or just lack of trained staff? And if it’s the latter, who commissioned for all those new ambulance vehicles if there isn’t a plethora of trained paramedics? Our ambo’s in Vic are screaming for higher wages and better resource’s, like the cops did several years ago, and like CFA&SES did for years - decades in fact - now we have made a huge capital investment in buildings and vehicles, but no-one wants to even pretend to be interested in actually working a shift, unless there are “perks” like tickets to motorsport events, or other sporting events?? How many of the resourcing decisions in emergency services management are made these days actually totally defies even my trained responders brain. Glad I got out of emergency services when I did, and grateful to still be capable of thinking strategically about organisational waste!
@@cgas7344 terrible isn't it. Can't even feel safe walking around now with all the jungle savages and their machetes...politicians in Canberra don't have to live with them .they ok
Awesome footage. I was 3 years old in 1966 and I lived about 2 miles down the road. What I notice the most about video is of course the changes, but not so much the older architecture, although some of it certainly has gone. It’s the newer, taller buildings. They seem to be the ones that are missing today. Replaced by bigger taller buildings. It was a great place then, and it still is today. Dare I say, maybe even better.
I remember those self-driving milk carts. Our local dairy was just at the end of our street and as kids we played in the horse paddock and would often crawl through the crate loading shoot into the bottling plant to explore. All the stainless steel inside, still wet from being washed down, was kind of mesmerising.
Makes me cry these kind of videos. Melbourne used to be a beautiful place to live and raise your kids. Now it’s a hellhole where you can’t buy a house, soaring crime and nobody knows their neighbour anymore. I live in Tas now and I’d never move back.
I first landed in Melbourne in 1961 as an 19 year old British seaman & visited regularly until 1965 when I came for good! It was a fantastic city then, not so much traffic like today’s mad roads! No freeways, only the S.Eastern Freeway, which didn’t go far. I miss those days (An old man’s nostalgia, lol.) Melbourne was wonderful. I moved to the country in the late 70s, glad I did, I could not live in the city now!
We arrived from England in 1970. We went to Enterprise Hostel in Norlane, Geelong. Dad bought a EK Holden with 3 on the tree. Got it a bit stuck with the gears. And burnt his finger on the cigarette lighter. It took us to Springvale for work prospects and a home. Mum still has it. Different times indeed.
The original of this gives lots of clues that it was filmed over the period 1964 and 1965. But editing etc took until 1966 to release and put that date on the titles. Made it look up to date but newer for audiences too.
If you can identify where the opening panoramic sweep was taken from and when traffic lights flashed amber from late night through to early morning - then you do remember a different Melbourne.
I first went to the footy in 73 withmy uncle and we both dressed casually, and yet watching footy from the 60s everyone looks to be wearing their Sunday Best....l wonder when and how it changed...
@@EliteURBX All the beautiful villages that lefty tourists coo over here in England are almost entirely populated by educated financially solvent hardworking old white people. They cannot seem to be honest and intelligent enough to do the simple sum of 2 + 2. They pooh-pooh snobbery, the idea of privilege and they pooh-pooh monocultures yet seek out beautiful clean villages filled with gentle, respectful white folks on their weekends and holidays. I wish people could just be more honest about things but they're forever deaf to the sound of pennies dropping. Oh dear.
I looked at the footage showing Elizabeth Street looking toward Flinders Street, not a single homeless, violent druggie to be seen! In those days possession of a single “reefer” got you 5 years in the bluestone college in Coburg.
My friend worked for ACCMI about a decade ago and his job was to locate film and transfer to digital- I remember that he did a lot of this for them- it was so fascinating to see the rise of commission flats in all the areas (combat the slums of inner city suburbs). Maybe check with ACCMI in Melbourne- re:Copyright.
The difference isn't so much architecture but due to our adoption of things like US zoning (which is obsolete...but we still have it) EG, Paris has La Defense, but by necessity we've built CBDs on centres due to those zoning restrictions making it that financially the easiest option
Hay a good one to see is the history of the city of Elizabeth South Australia from nothing in 1955 to now.it was an experimental city of the commonwealth ground up housing,small industrial estates,shopping centres etc shows excellent footage and commentary of story of 10 pound poms the building of now old holden factory etc town planning.excellant nartation 21 minutes long RU-vid enjoy some good 50s 60s footage australia! Elizabeth was a successful city at first then went on downhill dive to one of Adelaide's most bogan cities and now successfully pulling itself out interesting watch!
Yes, I remember how rare it was to see a fat person. Now every second person is so out of shape that I don't even register it anymore. Not even the morbidly obese in mobility scooters.
Before women started dressing like men (1.33 excepted) and getting tattoos. With 100,000 of us born in Asia we were still mostly Australian but Harold Holt was about to change all that for good.
Yes! I've noticed this too. I made this observation to my husband the other month. I said it benignly, no offense intended at all. I just remember how rare it was to see fat, out of shape badly (or inappropriately) dressed people back when I was a kid and a teen. Now I'm oblivious to it, it's just so common. Strange isn't it? Why do you think this is?
Ah back in the good old days when roads & streets covered peoples trash they tossed out car windows dog chit on footpaths as you walked to work teen hoods waiting in phone boxes Ah the good old days always fights in pubs
We used to live near a dairy in East Doncaster and a horse and cart was still delivering as late as 76...we'd put the milk bottles out and some notes in theneck of the bottle - l found it curious that they money was never stolen.
Maybe British MP Enoch Powell was correct after all in his 1968 'Rivers of Blood' warning. Wasn't just referring to Britain but the West in general. Thanks Dad, Mum, Grandparents, great legacy you left us, Vote for Mainstream parties and this what you get. The electorate since the 70s has alot to answer for.
Like Ginza Tokyo does. Such a bustling yet respectful, glamorous peaceful atmosphere there on the pedestrian-only roads on special weekends in Ginza. It always reminds me of Melbourne as a kid. People dress up nicely in Ginza and conduct themselves respectfully and quietly, just like Melbourne once upon a time...oh how times have changed.
Truly beautiful. If there was 1 place on Earth left like that right now I would move there. One thing you cannot deny is that it was beautiful BECAUSE it's religious, cultural and racial cohesiveness. It was a white christian country at it's peak. But the greediest of people had a problem with this: a rich society needs to be well paid by definition. That's why they preferred to open the floodgates of migration, destroy the culture and hopefully impoverish the society so that they work for nothing, own nothing and are completely tied to and dependent on working for the biggest man. It is very sad what happened to the West. It's a huge waste for the benefit of a few.
Melbourne today is a pale version of this footage ! Certain groups have had their way and smothered our city ! Once open streets are reduced to pathways ! Our city is for all to enjoy, not just people who walk and ride push bikes ! The more people that can get access to our city, will come to it, enjoy it and spend their time and money in it ! Melbourne town is for all, this footage is a perfect example of how a city can live and breathe, today it's being choaked !
