BRISBANE THEN AND NOW (2022)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- HISTORICAL PHOTOS VERSUS PRESENT DAY (2022).
Photos from various sources. Used under 'fair use'.
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Shot with Sony FDR-AX53 on August 15, 2022 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
King George Square in the eighties was such a calm, green, relevant oasis. Then some arseholes turned it into a barren, concrete monstrosity. I agreed with closing the fountain in the middle of one of our worst droughts, but it's time to make this a green space again. Imagine a beautiful hedge maze in that barren, ugly space used only for protests and bad buskers.
They changed it because they were trying to make Brisbane basic and Australia’s most boring city
Agreed it’s stifling hot with all the pavers and concrete.
Great video compilation. We moved to Brisbane in January 1981, so lived here through the 1982 Commonwealth Games and Expo 88. It was Expo that really got Brisbane out of its country town feel. Now with sprawling suburbs, increased crime and traffic woes, I think the old Brisbane was in many ways better. We're in Tamborine now, trying to chase that long lost country with conveniences feel.
l love Tamborine... its expensive to live there yeah??
@@CoMorbiditty It is unfortunately. The views and serenity are fabulous as is the wildlife. We have kookaburras and kangaroos and wallabies on our property (50 plus acres). The downside is having to drive to Yarrabilba or Beenleigh for shopping, but you plan ahead.
They really need a subway system to ease the traffic as one more lane won’t work anymore and we can’t just keep reclaiming houses and making more people homeless during a housing crisis
Thanks for putting this together. I did a job last week at Lucerne on Fernberg...considered the oldest private residence in Brisbane.
It was a beautiful City centre with life, vitality and lots of nice places to relax now its a dark grey, cold, uninspiring place with no soul, spirit, warmth and character...urban planners need to re-visit the past archives for future planning
Thanks for this. The old 'big country town' had more soul in the 80s but as soon as the developers moved in after Expo, the die was cast. SE QLD is well on its way to becoming a monster and the old photos will soon be all that remains of the old girl.
Have you seen photos of Brisbane in the early 1900s? The churches could all be seen from a distance, along with other prominent buildings. From Spring Hill you could see everything at a glance.
@@timecapsulecaptures9846 That's a very long time ago, whereas 1995 doesn't seem that long ago for those of us who trudged those streets on the way to QUT every day ;)
Definitely doomed as more and more people move in. Every historical building has a huge shadow cast over it by the copy and paste skyscrapers.
The process of destruction was started by the Bjelke-Peterson National Party government. And at the time this was popular with the voters. The people of today are nor responsible for the mistakes of the past.
I still can't forgive Brisbane City Council for turning King George Square into the atrocity it is today. It didn't even need to be redeveloped in the first place as it was perfectly fine the way it was. I'm not in the architectural design profession, but I'm sure I could have done a better job at redesigning it myself.
It was rebuilt for the Busway/future Metro.
It was rebuilt to move more people through without them walking through gardens and around hedges
The QEII fountain lasted about 4 months, broke from its moorings and was never seen again.
I remember Jo Jo’s when it first opened in the late 70s- they had the best cafe style food in Brisbane- the crab quiche was the best, and quiche was a new thing then. I loved it :)
They really ruined king George square 😒
Absolutely - a space that was clearly designed to attract people has become little more than a thoroughfare.
@@arthurwatts1680 if you follow the progression of changes they made after they turned the fountains off and the 2010 redevelopment. It was 100 percent to keep the emo scene kids from occupying the space.
It's an event space now??? The top section was last to change and it was so cluttered it was practically useless as the whole area had become a thorough fare. people who want parklands go precisely there, roma st, sth bank and garden point.
It was rebuilt to move more people through without them walking through gardens and around hedges
That’s the point, it was turned into a thoroughfare to make it easier to access Roma Street Station from the Queen street mall to ease foot traffic through Anzac Arcade & Central Station .
This was great thank you! I had no idea that (now) Irish pub was called The People's Palace! I see it in the architecture. I've never even thought about Brisbane in 1898 so I loved seeing Customs House back then.
Thank you for doing this 🫶👏
You're welcome.
Had a good laugh seeing it go from a temperance hostel to a bar/hostel combo in a little under 70 years. Surprised it took us that long!
@@Tester-sh1mn lol 😆
@Tran Duy I'm lucky to have been born and raised here ☺️
Great video, Brissy is a very livable city.
Grew up in Brisbane during the 80s ( Lived in The Gap ) and remember the commonwealth games in 82 even though I was only like 6. When I was a teenager we'd go to "Las vegas" arcade all the time with a load of 20c coins haha. That was a time when the Gold Coast wasn't the hole it is today, always remember the water slides at Grundy's....... days gone.
Thanks for the video - so sad to see what they did to King George Square.
It was rebuilt to move more people through without them walking through gardens and around hedges
That’s the point, it was turned into a thoroughfare to make it easier to access Roma Street Station from the Queen street mall to ease foot traffic through Anzac Arcade & Central Station .
Too bad they didnt save more of the old buildings they were so beautiful. thank you
I lived in Brissy from 1978 to 1986 ( Kedron ) and I loved Brisbane very much. You could go shopping there on a Saturday morning and get a carpark for free. It was
such a lovely atmosphere, so relaxed. I recently had to go there from Hervey Bay to drop my daughter off for UNI and I was glad to get out of this town again. It lost
all it's charm.
I live in brissy and the place really needs to overhaul its public transport and roads and also needs to be cleaned up a bit and made fresh for the 2032 Olympics
So good to see !!! Recognise the hangouts from the 90s 😉
Went into the big smoke after many years away and I was mildly shocked at how they ruined KG Square. It just looks terrible.
It was rebuilt to move more people through without them walking through gardens and around hedges
That’s the point, it was turned into a thoroughfare to make it easier to access Roma Street Station from the Queen street mall to ease foot traffic through Anzac Arcade & Central Station .
Nice little video. Would love your thoughts on my two Brisbane THEN/NOW videos, since you've made this yourself! It was cool to see the growth of those trees on Albert Street in yours.
I'm impressed by your technique. Did you come up with this?
@@timecapsulecaptures9846 Well, I worked out a way to do it, but I'm sure I'm not the only one doing it. I just haven't found others yet.
Have you both checked out the "Lost Brisbane" books? There's two of them filled with this stuff going back to the very beginning of the city. Some of my favourite books from my library.
As my partner remarked upon taking him there recently - a very unusual freeway to cut off one side of a city’s river.
No matter how much glitz and outstanding developments I never return home from visiting feeling like I’m missing something.
Probs our worst planned city.
That said I adored my recent river cruise the length of the city.
Def Oz’s best!
Brisbanites love their cars and many will even refuse to take public transport because that is for poor people and school gangs
@@electro_sykes it’s sad because public transport there is good although expensive.
But I’m living in London atm and nothing compares to the outrageous price of public transport there.
Here in Paris where I am currently, pt is affordable as is much the city offers compared to London.
The river is what necessitated the freeway placement. Where would you put it? I like cruising across the river and into town while joggers and basketballers play in the shade below.
The earlier town planners incorporated a lot more public seating than the updated designs. There have been so many changes over the years, tens or millions have been spent and usually each incarnation is less attractive and less liveable than the one it replaces.
This was my takeaway as well. Brisbane has a general lack of seating, unless of course it's part of the cafe that has taken up residence. part of BCC's plan to monetize every available space. It's better than Fortitude Valley, but only just. Such a waste.
Because it is to actually get people moving and driving
They do it to my be more crowds of people just like how Brisbane Metro is being built not to unclog busways but instead remove the buses to make more room on the streets above for cars
I had an accident in the car park in the middle of the treasury building in 1986. It had big drains beside the walls and I accidentally drove into one. Took 6 people to lift the car out. It looks so different inside now, it is hard to believe there was once a carpark in the casino. I recognise so many of these places from the 80's. I don't go to Brisbane much any more so I get a shock everytime by how much it changes!
Congratulations, very well done.
Do one for Ipswich.
i put this video in 2.5x speed thats really all the time you need
You could eat a steak in 30 seconds, or savour the flavour, enjoying each succulent bite over 10 minutes.
@@timecapsulecaptures9846 you can chew on a mcdonalds meat patty for 5 seconds until it loses flavour and you should swallow it. Or you can chew on it for another 15 seconds for no reason other to have the illusion of quality. The pause button exists and you lose alot of the impact of comparison taking so long.
Thank YOU there's a little of my youth misspent and otherwise right there
Is there another video coming?
Another before and after of Brisbane?
Funny the Peoples Palace was run by the Temperance League . Were against alcohol but would offer a bed if you didn't drink . I love a beer though .
Looks so much better now, today people are much more relaxed.
Better back then
What was wrong with the old king George square
Too much bushes and bench’s in the way, it was turned into a thoroughfare to make it easier to access Roma Street Station from the Queen street mall to ease foot traffic through Anzac Arcade & Central Station .
I remember as a kid in the 80s pigeons everywhere in the city... everything is so sterile looking now..
Yes, no pigeons shitting over everything.
@@davidhoward4715 Yeah like I said “sterile” and instead of pigeons some refugee decided to breed their homeland pets and introduced bin chicken “Ibises” instead .. It wasn’t your family member was it? 🤣
Favolosa
Boy, they've made a mess of King George Square.
That’s the point, it was turned into a thoroughfare to make it easier to access Roma Street Station from the Queen street mall to ease foot traffic through Anzac Arcade & Central Station .
@@electro_sykes There was no issue walking through there before.
Do the same angles
I'll try harder for part 2
@@timecapsulecaptures9846 yay!! I want to do something similar for Burleigh heads area
King George Square today is a disgrace,who oversaw this.
That’s the point, it was turned into a thoroughfare to make it easier to access Roma Street Station from the Queen street mall to ease foot traffic through Anzac Arcade & Central Station .