Recognise any of these Melbourne spots in 1975? Song: “Boys! (What Did the Detective Say?)" is the 1978 debut single by the Sports. Footage courtesy of a Division 4 episode.
Wicked song ,seen Sunny boys as kid at village green walked through kichen into lounge they playing ,just warming up Remember taken poster home with me think the radiators on another poster got that night
The opening scene with the police van is Bosisto St Richmond, heading south from Highett St. The house with the turret room in front is still there at 149 Highett St.
Been so long, but looks like South Melbourne to me? We used to live on Park St. and my grandparents lived on Cecil St. Used to sit on the benches with my grandpa while mum and nana went in the Sth Melb markets.
The opening scenes are in Richmond. The Richmond high rise public housing towers are in the background. The scenes around 1:04 are around Albert Park. The later scenes are around Carlton North. The Redmond Barry building at Melbourne University is visible in the background.
0:53 - 1:31 is actually Bank street in South Melbourne at the pub near the corner of Moray St I know this very well because i grew up at 153 bank St a few doors down from the141 address on the bluestone fence Wow very nostalgic thanks for the memories
Yep Port and Sth. Melbourne. Thompson Street Sth Melbourne in this also. It was used a lot, especially the front of Peter Couchman's house. Remember him? ABC presenter and journo. Crawfords had a huge vinyl tarp sometimes, with huge photo of the front of a terrace house on it. Most terrace places in Sth Melbourne were all the same size, and they could hang this vinyl across just about any house and film from a distance and you would think it was real.
@@125sloth Yes Peter Couchman show last time i seen him he was arrested .Protesting the the grand prix at Albert park lake. Love watching the old films
@@welcometoparadise5986 I remember when he got arrested at the motor racing protest. And these old videos from Homicide, Division 4 and indeed other places is like a trip down memory lane. As well as reprogramming our brains to remember more from those days. I have the complete Homicide sets as well as all Division 4 DVD's. As much as I liked the difficult social issues that Matlock police covered, the authenticity of the show was a bit far fetched.A bloody marked Monaro police car? Give us all a break!! haha
Sadly, most of those old pubs have been gentrified now. The cheap counter lunches have been replaced by new- voh kwee-zeen three foot wide plates with two chips in the middle of them . ...for $97. The locals in their brown cardies and lumber jackets and the builders labourers in their muddy boots are no longer trendy enough to sit with the bleached teeth brigade
It's even sadder when you leave Melbourne for a long time, as I did in the early 90's (moving to North Queensland) and coming back years later as I did to see a final at the MCG and then after the game crossing the road near Jolimont station to see one of your favourite pubs, the MCG Hotel (I used to live right behind it in George st.) had been closed and shuttered. I don't know if it's still closed or gentrified as you say, but I know where you're coming from and like the great music from the past those good old days don't look like coming back.
What a pack of whinging bloody babies. 🤣 I sometimes go to a great hotel in Fairfield. When I most recently went almost 2 wks ago, I got a beautiful crumbed fish meal (several crumbed flathead pieces and plenty of chips), as well as a delicious chocolate mousse for desert, AND got to see 4 great comedians (2 of them are very well known since the 90's, 1 Aussie and 1 known in Oz, UK and Ireland), all for only $75. Some of the locals that were drinking in there around 5-6pm would have been right up your alley, too. There are still some decent places around, if people bother to look for them. And not sit back whinging about one or two places that have decided to keep up with the times, because that also realise that eventually those old guys in their brown cardies, etc, won't be alive to spend their money in their businesses anymore.
Ok, let's ignore the rubbish in the gutter at 0:15 and 0:19 , the graffiti on the phone box 0:35 , the band posters and protest posters, etc, that were always splashed across blank walls right around Melbourne, just like at 0:08. Or the pics of nude girls on the wall at 2:13 All while some tramp strolls around the local street looking for some action at the start and end of the clip. Take the rose coloured glasses off and keep it real.
Matlock police? Arguably the most unauthentic police show ever made. Good story lines sometimes, addressing taboo serious social issues, but the "marked" Monaro police car was way over the top as Vic police never had them. Holden were trying to promote the Monaro at the time and provided the car. But they provided the cheapest version with column change and crappy 161 motor. Hardly a good advert for Monaro.
@@125sloth mmmm what can i say Brian? Vic coppers did have a few Monaro GTS V8's in the Mobile Traffic Section which were marked. I have seen them on Google Images from the 1970 period but they were never used by CIB in the country. It was all for the shows popularity combined with the motor bike and it worked well until there was a horrible real life accident while filming a chase involving the Monaro and a young cameraman was killed on the set. Then the VH Valiants took over in 1972 and continued until the very last episode in 1975. A lot of car enthusiasts were impressed with the Monaro though as it attracted a lot of attention.
0:53 - 1:31 is actually Bank street in South Melbourne at the pub near the corner of Moray St I know this very well because i grew up at 153 bank St a few doors down from the141 address on the bluestone fence Wow very nostalgic thanks for the memories
0:21 Looks like Cameron St Richmond off Church St, North of Bridge Rd. The high rise flats at the start look like the Richmond ones. Just to add a comment on the girl 😍
Ah, the pale blue divvy wagon, only Valliant panel van of its year. Cobbled together when Crawford Productions switched car sponsors from Ford to Chrysler. A lot of the footage was in Richmond, around Burnley Street (Commission flats to the north in one shot), later large red brick building may be Raheen in Kew.
@ 57sec as mentioned is the Town Hall Hotel South Melbourne in Bank st,been closed for 6 years & being transformed into apartments as i type,the apartments (upper left screen) in the background,brown building white balconies, is where i reside : ) as i type,i wasnt here back then,great stuff gezza
Yeah, the Town Hall was the hangout for the staff of Armstrong Audio-Video, across the road. The Publican used to be Molly, but she got tipped out and moved to The railway Hotel, across the tracks. After that it got gentrified something shocking.
Not sure about that. Plenty of wide streets in Carlton and Brunswick, too. And also close to the city. Plus I know that Division 4 sometimes filmed some street scenes in Alphington and Fairfield.
The 1st shot with the girl standing looks a hell of a lot like a house adjoining a laneway in Curzon Street North Melbourne where I once lived. The laneway ends up taking you to the Town Hall Hotel in Errol Street. Then again, a lot of inner city Melbourne from that time looks very similar.
Does look a lot like Port but im pretty sure its not. Those flats are not Port and the park at the start of the video isnt Port. Perhaps South Melbourne?
I reckon lots of that footage is from around the Richmond/Burnley area...looks like Coppin Street in one shot, and a couple of scenes from up near the top end of Palmer Street ... with a shot or two around Abbotsford.
The red phonebox and postbox scene around 46 seconds looks like its outside Fitzroy town hall on Napier Street. New phonebox and postbox there now. Park behind fronting onto Napier?
@@jillsommerville7828 I know where he lived, not asking about that. It just looked like him (only in a suit because i thought maybe coming out of court). Whoever it was he looked angry and not happy being filmed
@@jamesfrench7299 YOU can say whatever you want. It clearly still won't make any sense. You realise we've had a conservative government for all but about 6 of the last 25 years? No of course you don't. You don't live in the real world/ Somehow "the left" is in charge and is running everything including immigration. Yeah? You idiot.
Not in 75 but but it all looks familia. Main thing i remember is fri & sat rockn along the footpath with a case on my shoulder & me mate & ending up with 50 ppl going to a party.
The Melbourne I loved and miss so much! After viewing this short clip I realise that today we are living the nightmare. It is now a huge dunny overseen by shitheads!!!
Recognise any of these Melbourne spots in 1975?
Song: “Boys! (What Did the Detective Say?)" is the 1978 debut single by the Sports.
Footage courtesy of a Division 4 episode.
That girl was pretty. She had a tight body.
I worked in Tennyson Street St Kilda renovating, Steve from the sports would always say good morning on his push bike funny times...👍🇦🇨
@@philhudson...5017 okay 👍 wow that’s crazy.
The guitarist's son plays drums around Melbourne. Phli Para, Sammy Owen Blues Band.
Wicked song ,seen Sunny boys as kid at village green walked through kichen into lounge they playing ,just warming up Remember taken poster home with me think the radiators on another poster got that night
The song is Gold. ..the Val is a rippa.. didn't realise how good the times were. ....till you look back.
When Melbourne was much better, and not overcrowded like now!!!
Yes over crowded with Power points and phone Scammers
Female cop is Rowena Wallace.
The opening scene with the police van is Bosisto St Richmond, heading south from Highett St.
The house with the turret room in front is still there at 149 Highett St.
Been so long, but looks like South Melbourne to me? We used to live on Park St. and my grandparents lived on Cecil St. Used to sit on the benches with my grandpa while mum and nana went in the Sth Melb markets.
Cool. I went to school in Park Street. Good memories.
The opening scenes are in Richmond. The Richmond high rise public housing towers are in the background. The scenes around 1:04 are around Albert Park. The later scenes are around Carlton North. The Redmond Barry building at Melbourne University is visible in the background.
0:53 - 1:31 is actually Bank street in South Melbourne at the pub near the corner of Moray St I know this very well because i grew up at 153 bank St a few doors down from the141 address on the bluestone fence Wow very nostalgic thanks for the memories
@@tomsrides maybe the milk bar is but the tower blocks, at the beginning, are in Richmond.
@@Seahorse20
I think the time stamps that @tomsrevvedrides used, shows that he wasn't referring to the very beginning of the video.
That prototype Valiant panel van was at "Chrylers on the Murray" car show coupla years ago.
Did you take any Pics ?. I'd like to see them...
what a body!
The girl or the ZA ? Fairlane ?
@@retrothingz hahaha yeah ok both
So long as I have a face!
Flares and platform shoes. Memories 🤣🤣😎
Can we go back pls
Port Melbourne south Melbourne I use to ride the push bike around them old pubs . I am blank with the names its been a long time ago.
Yep Port and Sth. Melbourne. Thompson Street Sth Melbourne in this also. It was used a lot, especially the front of Peter Couchman's house. Remember him? ABC presenter and journo. Crawfords had a huge vinyl tarp sometimes, with huge photo of the front of a terrace house on it. Most terrace places in Sth Melbourne were all the same size, and they could hang this vinyl across just about any house and film from a distance and you would think it was real.
@@125sloth Yes Peter Couchman show last time i seen him he was arrested .Protesting the the grand prix at Albert park lake. Love watching the old films
@@welcometoparadise5986 I remember when he got arrested at the motor racing protest. And these old videos from Homicide, Division 4 and indeed other places is like a trip down memory lane. As well as reprogramming our brains to remember more from those days. I have the complete Homicide sets as well as all Division 4 DVD's. As much as I liked the difficult social issues that Matlock police covered, the authenticity of the show was a bit far fetched.A bloody marked Monaro police car? Give us all a break!! haha
@@welcometoparadise5986 Yes, Pete Couchman also had a house at Point Leo, used to see him around on the beach in the 1980s and was quite happy to chat
wasn't the ones on punt rd Richmond was it?
Sadly, most of those old pubs have been gentrified now. The cheap counter lunches have been replaced by new- voh kwee-zeen three foot wide plates with two chips in the middle of them . ...for $97. The locals in their brown cardies and lumber jackets and the builders labourers in their muddy boots are no longer trendy enough to sit with the bleached teeth brigade
Very Clever, Very Funny and so Effin True, good one, you made my day.
That is so true. People have more money than sense with what they pay for meals these days.
😁🤣
It's even sadder when you leave Melbourne for a long time, as I did in the early 90's (moving to North Queensland) and coming back years later as I did to see a final at the MCG and then after the game crossing the road near Jolimont station to see one of your favourite pubs, the MCG Hotel (I used to live right behind it in George st.) had been closed and shuttered. I don't know if it's still closed or gentrified as you say, but I know where you're coming from and like the great music from the past those good old days don't look like coming back.
What a pack of whinging bloody babies. 🤣
I sometimes go to a great hotel in Fairfield.
When I most recently went almost 2 wks ago, I got a beautiful crumbed fish meal (several crumbed flathead pieces and plenty of chips), as well as a delicious chocolate mousse for desert, AND got to see 4 great comedians (2 of them are very well known since the 90's, 1 Aussie and 1 known in Oz, UK and Ireland), all for only $75.
Some of the locals that were drinking in there around 5-6pm would have been right up your alley, too.
There are still some decent places around, if people bother to look for them.
And not sit back whinging about one or two places that have decided to keep up with the times, because that also realise that eventually those old guys in their brown cardies, etc, won't be alive to spend their money in their businesses anymore.
When Melbourne was a livable city
How clean our streets were back then.
And a complete lack of graffiti.
Ok, let's ignore the rubbish in the gutter at 0:15 and 0:19 , the graffiti on the phone box 0:35 , the band posters and protest posters, etc, that were always splashed across blank walls right around Melbourne, just like at 0:08. Or the pics of nude girls on the wall at 2:13
All while some tramp strolls around the local street looking for some action at the start and end of the clip.
Take the rose coloured glasses off and keep it real.
I am sure that the mini is in Cameron St Richmond with Citizens Park Oval in the background at 21 seconds
I think you're right. I posted the same but you beat me by 5 minutes 👍
Thank you for sharing this video !
Nostalgic of 1975 !
The VH ute converted to a van was used in matlock police...here in division 4 with vj front and early episodes of cop shop
Matlock police? Arguably the most unauthentic police show ever made. Good story lines sometimes, addressing taboo serious social issues, but the "marked" Monaro police car was way over the top as Vic police never had them. Holden were trying to promote the Monaro at the time and provided the car. But they provided the cheapest version with column change and crappy 161 motor. Hardly a good advert for Monaro.
VKC to Matlock!..
Yeh Chrysler made it especially for Crawfords in 71 and it had its first scenes in Ryan, Div 4, Homicide and Cop Shop. LDH-018.
@@125sloth mmmm what can i say Brian? Vic coppers did have a few Monaro GTS V8's in the Mobile Traffic Section which were marked. I have seen them on Google Images from the 1970 period but they were never used by CIB in the country. It was all for the shows popularity combined with the motor bike and it worked well until there was a horrible real life accident while filming a chase involving the Monaro and a young cameraman was killed on the set. Then the VH Valiants took over in 1972 and continued until the very last episode in 1975. A lot of car enthusiasts were impressed with the Monaro though as it attracted a lot of attention.
@@craigmartin5939 thanks for the details, very kind of you.
0:53 - 1:31 is actually Bank street in South Melbourne at the pub near the corner of Moray St I know this very well because i grew up at 153 bank St a few doors down from the141 address on the bluestone fence Wow very nostalgic thanks for the memories
My old house in Bank st South Melbourne. Next to Town Hall Hotel 👌
I went to school there. Good memories.
0:21 Looks like Cameron St Richmond off Church St, North of Bridge Rd. The high rise flats at the start look like the Richmond ones. Just to add a comment on the girl 😍
Division 4 Great Aussie cop show
1:00 Town Hall Hotel Bank st South Melbourne
Looks like the streets used for the exterior footage of The Paul Hogan Show.
Ah, the pale blue divvy wagon, only Valliant panel van of its year. Cobbled together when Crawford Productions switched car sponsors from Ford to Chrysler. A lot of the footage was in Richmond, around Burnley Street (Commission flats to the north in one shot), later large red brick building may be Raheen in Kew.
Think I saw a snippet of Alma Road East St.Kilda(Balaclava) toward the end of video. A few Fine Art friends lived in vicinity early 90's
@ 57sec as mentioned is the Town Hall Hotel South Melbourne in Bank st,been closed for 6 years & being transformed into apartments as i type,the apartments (upper left screen) in the background,brown building white balconies, is where i reside : ) as i type,i wasnt here back then,great stuff gezza
Yeah, the Town Hall was the hangout for the staff of Armstrong Audio-Video, across the road. The Publican used to be Molly, but she got tipped out and moved to The railway Hotel, across the tracks. After that it got gentrified something shocking.
Yep sure is. I lived at 143 Bank 2 doors down. Was a great pub when Dominic ran it late 90s early 2000s
0:37
OMG Jim Fletcher steps out of the telephone box. 🤣
South Melbourne is probably the most filmed Melbourne suburb ever...wide streets, interesting vista, near the CBD
And of course, channel 7 was in Dorcas Street, so very convenient.
Not sure about that.
Plenty of wide streets in Carlton and Brunswick, too. And also close to the city.
Plus I know that Division 4 sometimes filmed some street scenes in Alphington and Fairfield.
The 1st shot with the girl standing looks a hell of a lot like a house adjoining a laneway in Curzon Street North Melbourne where I once lived. The laneway ends up taking you to the Town Hall Hotel in Errol Street. Then again, a lot of inner city Melbourne from that time looks very similar.
Port Melbourne back streets? Can’t think of specific ones.
Does look a lot like Port but im pretty sure its not. Those flats are not Port and the park at the start of the video isnt Port. Perhaps South Melbourne?
I reckon lots of that footage is from around the Richmond/Burnley area...looks like Coppin Street in one shot, and a couple of scenes from up near the top end of Palmer Street ... with a shot or two around Abbotsford.
Those good old days in Melbourne. The streets, the W-class trams, the hot pants......
MacArthur Place in Carlton perhaps? And yes, that actress is stunning
The red phonebox and postbox scene around 46 seconds looks like its outside Fitzroy town hall on Napier Street. New phonebox and postbox there now. Park behind fronting onto Napier?
So many good memories, thanks for sharing
Was that Denis Allen at 1:10?
No it's not Denis Allen, he lived in Richmond down the road from me 👍
@@jillsommerville7828 I know where he lived, not asking about that. It just looked like him (only in a suit because i thought maybe coming out of court). Whoever it was he looked angry and not happy being filmed
No idea, but the singer sounds like he's singing "we're going down to Russell st"
That’s where the police station was....
@@fenderfetish Exactly, that was my first thought
I thought thats what he said 😄
The Sports 'Boys (What Did the Detective Say?)' is the song. And yep, he mentions Russell St for that very reason.
I see millions of dollars of rare classic cars all in original condition
The mansion is on Harcourt street Hawthorn and the divvy van turns into it as well
The young woman is very pretty :)
True Melbourne! Melbourne's been diversified up the ying yang over the last decade and it's heartbreaking and enraging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Diversified?
But but but you're a racisss not to like the changes. The left will be civilisation's downfall. Can't say things like white flight.
@@jamesfrench7299 YOU can say whatever you want. It clearly still won't make any sense. You realise we've had a conservative government for all but about 6 of the last 25 years? No of course you don't. You don't live in the real world/ Somehow "the left" is in charge and is running everything including immigration. Yeah? You idiot.
Adam Holden thanks for giving away your damaging left political beliefs with the name call at the end.
@@jamesfrench7299 no response to any of the rest of it then?
Not a lot to go on. I am thinking south Melbourne and maybe a bit of middle park too.
When Melbourne Wharf,s were humming along.
The telephone box.
The Sports. The old red phone booth .
No idea, too close to the hell hole CBD for me.
True that's why everybody is moving to Ballarat City
@@magyarbluey8406 but thats terrible too, its getting like Morwell , full of feral ex crims and general bogans
@@TheFykle ballarat city seems amazing compared to melbourne in so many ways, what area do you like?
@@magyarbluey8406
"everybody is moving to Ballarat City".
"ballarat city seems amazing".
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 As if they are.
That chick in the green top is fucking gorgeous.
19 year old Lisa Peers. Has had quite a career since then
So long as I have a face!
I don't know why some guys have to act so thirsty.
Does anyone know the episodes name for this division 4 series ???
I can’t recall sorry, I’ve got all the colour volumes and a few of the b&w’s.
If I find it I’ll let you know.
@@Gezza1967 thanks i would love to watch that episode one day if i can find it
It looks like Jim Fletcher from Prisoner Cell Block H at 0:39.
It is.
I posted that comment, not knowing someone else had pointed it out on here.
@@mebeme007 Thanks, nice to have it confirmed.
Whats that chick doing hanging out on the street corner,i have no idea?!
What else would it be, when there are also pics of naked women plastered all over the wall down the laneway.
Richmond start ,think flash Albert Park , little BAGDAG
I was 3 in 1975 I was born in 1972 so I don’t know anything about the streets back then
Is this from Division 4 or Cop Shop?
Princes st? Evans st?
1:30 Wilson St Sth Melbourne.
Don't you need a few 100K just to look at those houses now?
A few?
More like 10 or even 20 times that.
I'd even hazard a guess that they'd be close to 2 mil, easily.
Crazy, huh.
i have a solution, lets google the name of one of the businbeses in the clip !!! 😁
Only useful if the business still even exists.
@@mebeme007 realy ? Is that a fact ?
@@MegaasAlexandros Realy 😜
Not in 75 but but it all looks familia.
Main thing i remember is fri & sat rockn along the footpath with a case on my shoulder & me mate & ending up with 50 ppl going to a party.
is that u bluey
It’s not Raining 🌧. Thought it was always rained in Melbourne 😏.
That's Queensland you're thinking of.
Or Sydney, which actually gets around twice the amount (more or less) of annual rainfall than Melbourne.
That girl is my friends sister said she was waiting for a taxi .
And what's her name?
The Melbourne I loved and miss so much! After viewing this short clip I realise that today we are living the nightmare. It is now a huge dunny overseen by shitheads!!!
Well, everyone's free to leave anytime.
And then there'd be one less deadsh*t if ya left.
@@mebeme007 Such as yourself!
U used to go into a pub to get pissed & fight.
Now if get tipsy & swear they politely throw u out!
That's why I hardly go to a pub now.
Immigration just put the cherry on the top of Melbourne. :)
Wrong song !Not a 1975 song".
I know the songs later, though it’s fitting I thought. What 75 tune would you attach?
@@Gezza1967 skyhooks, acdc,sherbet,list go's on🤔
@@abercrombie1416 I agree my favourite bands, though what particular song would suit this footage?
@@Gezza1967 liv ing in the 70s??
@@abercrombie1416 perfect👍