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I was wondering if anyone commenting on here knows of or were related to Lanes N Siganto from Coomera n my grandfather n his brother own a sawmill at Helensvale which my sister Helen is name after our family has 200yrs+ history living n owning a lot from what I know await replies thanks

Love the Gold Coast ❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks for putting this up. I grew up on the 'Gold Coast' in the 1950s at Burleigh. The landscape was so beautiful. My father grew tired of the sickening aping of the American go-getter culture which he had a taste of during the second world war. Then he got ripped off by a 'property developer' who was aided by a corrupt local bank manager who misinformed Dad, then used fiscal and legal threats to force him to sell our beloved home on a hill overlooking the coast that he had built with his own hands. We had to move to Brisbane and I hated it. I still love the landscape of the southern end of the GC and visit on my own terms. The northern end was the pit of vileness of the worst scum of society, who make millions from speculation and then don't know what to do with it except compete with others of their ilk in a childish state of paranoid bragging. Australia needs to do some maturing. The 'American Dream' is dying from rampant greed in the US itself, and we need to learn the lesson.

I love the Gold Coast. In 2016,17,18 and 19 we stayed there for every July and part of August as a Winter escape from NZ, Covid put and end to that annual trip and we never returned. I would love to retire there although I might not be able to handle the heat of December and January, that would be a good time to visit family back in NZ.

I love the Gold Coast absolutely fabulous.

Boonah to Brisbane take 1.25 minutes without traffic if traffic nearly 2 hours

Tacky then, tacky now. Some things never change...

The Bee Gees playing at the Paradise Beer Garden.

Not the same now , home invasions, car theft, juvenile crime, and drug problems . Paradise lost.

First visited in 1966. Loved it since, and visit Every year ❤

The BBC proving that they were a bunch of jealous wankers even back then!

The sleaze coast with all the modern problems, what happened?

Who remembers 4GG?..Bundal

I grew up in Brisbane but came to the Gold Coast all the time as a kid as my grand parents had a house there, now ive moved there myself and I love it!

Bloody condescending Pom . How’s that working out for ya mate ? BREXIT and all . 😂

1 in 3 Australians visited the Gold Coast in those days? Surely that is not possible.

Socially it was a mess. Dangerous for women, mental health, drunk drivers, no seat belts, the list goes on. Some things were better, but not everything. Lots or children during this period were abused, noone cared or listened. It's better now.

It all makes sense now.

….and I thought it was a woeful soulless place now ! At least back then, everywhere had the same crass shoddiness but nowadays these areas are juxtaposed with the ‘exclusive’ gated communities and glitzy multi-storey apartment blocks. At least there is one good thing about the place, it attracts all the tourists from the southern states who remain blissfully ignorant of the rest of Queensland and leave us alone . 😎

Build it and they will come. The gold coast has become bogan central and a bit of a stain on Australia's cultural landscape but like millions of others...I did my time there.

G'day Andre B. Long time! Went there 07/57. Uncle Norm Langham building Top Hat Black cat motels. Offered me apprenticeship. I looked around n said : Nahl! This place won't go anywhere!?😢 I joined RAAF instead. Got back mid 1960's! Lucky enough to buy in then, at now unbelievable good prices. Silly Billy, me regrets ever leaving. Going there for long weekends frequently. Taffifs same $$ as my land cost there in mid 60's. Still a great place to live. Few old mates still around. 'Luke B Manicaros JP' now 84 n NDY!

The Best thing about this video is the knowledge that that “Reporter” is Dead and Cold in his Grave!⚰️👍

1:20 As a kid studying school geography books, I said to myself I would move to Qld one day. 40 years later I sold up in Melbourne and moved..never regretted it for one moment

we lived in ipswich queensland australia in 70s it used to take 3 hrs back in the day to get from ipswich to the gold coast today only takes 1 hr thought i might mention it

South port "The Glorious end" LMAO 🤣

I wish it was still that unspoilt. Now it’s the intersection of petrol head, bogan, and surf culture all rolled into one.

They wrecked it all we lived there in the 90’s and 20,s. What a shame. Suckers paradise is what we call nowadays. Moved to the SunnyCoast and here is a better life.

Great GAY towns at the end of the road.

I'm in my 40s would have loved it back then! 💩NOW!

They should have left it as a "wind swept sea swept wasteland" the council that allowed hundreds of thousands of dwellings to be built on what is essentially a sand bar should be fined. If they had more foresight about urban planning they could have made it an actual pleasant place (assuming the gold coast "culture" changed)

Now it’s a giant free range retirement village full of elitist rednecks, do not visit at all costs!

Wait for the earthquake and Tsunami. 😂

Born at Southport in '45 and left for Brisbane in the mid '60s because the Coast was changing not to my liking. I have fond memories and still refer to BHds as 'my home town'.

Invaluable societal history

Yesteryear or today, it makes no difference. They turned paradise into a sht hole. Only today the sht is a lot higher.

and now it's a cesspool

Fascinating. I never understood the appeal of the Gold Coast - still don’t. Give me the coast before people thought it was a good idea and draw card.

Was the reporter trying to be funny or is he just a judgemental twat, I can't quite tell 😆

What an absolute shithole, the epitome of environmental vandalism where tacky sky rises cast a shadow on the beach, yuk.

Remember Gilltraps motor museum at Kirra?😊

Hahaha how were they living before that?? Their only just civilized and this post makes it look like there was no life before this!! Farmers!! This is supposed to be when I was a child but most farms were empty with no purpose at all. God it's so small and boring all of it

Back when Australia was Australia, now it is full of filth

I know a Mr Misson who was born in coolangatta in 1930s and he said he remembers when electricity arrived when he was barely a teenager and he would play with it in the house like a new fun novelty toy 😮😅

Beautiful time well b4 Australia 🇦🇺 was turned in to a multicultural shit hole

I was in the Gold Coast, recently, only reason I was there was for a charity event, otherwise I wouldn’t bother going there.

Nevada's got Vegas. Queensland has the Goldy. Love it. Not for everyone. What is?

Plenty of tradition loving Australians . Queensland. Au at its purest white clean and sterile. A place where blacks were kept in the fringes, only brown paper bags were allowed. The boys were boys, the pub the church and women were soooo happy and fulfilled! Better be, or otherwise you know what’s coming, pissed or not, he will show her love the Aussie way. 😂

It was paradise then - this footage before 1966, but today ...! Can't get a decent home under a million along the entire coast now, unless its a tiny area with nothing you need like hospitals etc.

Wow that Gold Coast is barely recognisable from the high rise of today. The narrator is one patronising snarky git.