I visited Sydney several times during these years..it was an awesome, magical place to a boy of about 10 who was born and lived in a quiet country town.
Will its nothing like this now i can tell u that mate bc when 2000 came along the places started going down hill n now its a shit hole wit rules n regulations everywhere , u cant even fart with out the cops jumping onto you trust me n the side walks r totally dead, no ppl at all not to mention if there r any ppl it will be an Asian n im not being racist or anything like that im just saying thats how much the place has changed since then,. ps, i also no it from the 70s 80s n 90s so trust me iv seen it change wit my own eyes as i grew up there n have lived there for over 5 decades. just sayin nothing more, It truly breaks my hart my friend it really does.
There's nothing better than when you've been away, & you come home via the Harbour Bridge, seeing the whole harbour, the Quay, Rocks, Luna Park is magical, particularly at sunset when the city lights are just starting to go on.
Oh, how i miss the look of the 70's, in 1971 i was 4yo & 1975 i was 8, Oh, i do miss being at that young age, i miss everything the fun & life we had 😢 best yrs of my life. Don't like the life we live in now 😢
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I believe 8u bc u have lots of this sort of stuff from Melbourne, well anyway i like subscribe n watch both of your channels my friend. 'But ya gotta admit Sydney was better back then n even in the 80s n 90s than Melbourne lol eh hahaa .. Nar never been to Melbourne n always wonted to be um sure the place has gone down hill big time just like Sydney so wats the point sadly. cheers buddy.
Yeah no one is Googleing I was 2 in 1971 and I remember my mum taking me into the city for shopping and to visit the botanical gardens and art gallery of NSW everything was clearer 😍🍊🍒🐛🦋
+nickatnights Don't forget watching Countdown every Sunday evening. Eating hamburgers, fish and chips, and meat pies. Hot stinking days on a lazy weekend. Going to the local Drive- in to see Jaws and obscure horror movies. Buying the Sunday Mirror and looking at the half naked hotbabes. Those were the good old days.
100%, 2SM were massive, they used to hold concerts at the beach (until FM & Triple M came along), are you old enough by Dragon was a great song too., probs get shit for it now lol.
@@widetubevision4423 I remember older girls going to the drive in with guys who owned Sandmans, they all seemed to have the same sticker too - If this vans a rockin, don't bother knockin, talk about a puberty blues rip off of real life lol
My biggest regret is not having been able to visit Sydney in the 1980's (especially in 1988!). Although the 70's looks great as well, I visited in 2015 and what a disappointment off a bore it was, I knew I going to be disappointed but not to that level. Couldn't even go on the monorail back then as the price of a ticket was laughable at best and the monorail was barely even seen back then, only to be taken down soon as well....
Check out those haircuts and styles, the British and Aussie made cars, the red rattlers and the hydrofoil. No fatties, and no playing "spot the Aussie", you can keep the Sydney of today, no thanks. It was great in the 1970's to mid 1980's, went down hill fast after that. Great video, thank you.
Took my wife on our first date 1974 to Doyles. We had lobster Mornay. $6.25. and a plate of fish was 4 bucks. Lobster at Doyles is now $140 bucks. Give me the 70's
There was something more vibrant about the 70’s &80’s that seems lost. Now we seem to have splintered into tribes all wanting to hate each other. Apart from some acceptance of things (no bad thing) we seem less united and more divided.
Best period besides the 80s this period of time in Australia housing affordable the 70s new solar housing was really hip food was cheap times with good people had an air of prosperity about them
My dad worked in the city from 1961 till retirement in 2005. He always tells us in the 60s and early 70s after pubs were shut there would often be fights and bar stools thrown around. People deny this today but after about 7pm if you walked alone, muggings did happen and Hyde Park to Kings cross were notorious for knife attacks. The CBD was very dark after peak hour with no security, police presence or late night shoppers like today. It was like a morgue after 7pm. If a police officer spotted you, they'd ask you what you were doing hanging around. Dad told us many more stories of the time just don't have time to write it all down.
@@tefllife2024, yeah agree. I was at uni at the time and returning home through the city after 6:00pm it was very quiet, not many people about. Even Oxford St was quiet compared to the 1980s. Good jazz in Frenches Tavern at the time but never crowded. Never felt insecure though.
An yes we produced great bloody music an it didn't cost an arm an leg to go out. We had paper boys we could earn a quid An guess who sold us out to China in the 70s.
Even as a kid i would stand at the open door of a red rattler & occasionally poke my head out, i never lost aforesaid head so i must've relied on that thing a lot of folks don't have now because the government is too busy telling them how to live - common sense.
Sydney in the seventies was the best city in the world now it is down the bottom. Supermarkets are full of ice skaters, hands behind their backs with little bowed legs clogging up the isles fighting over the milk powder and Timtams. Very sad
