Did you feel that at the time though or is that pink glasses? I hated how things had changed in 1991 but now would be much more appreciative of it, though 74 Sydney was the real deal!
@@jamesfrench7299 Sydney was great in the 90s wat u talking about as everything changed in sydney once the 2000's came rolling in n the Olympics came to town bc after that nothing was the same n its just about turned into a police state/city.. Even killed Kings Cross the fun police, n Cabramatta well that was like stepping into another world like were can u get that in a city lol Anyway im just saying everything was great up until the 2000s came n now in 2024 i dont recognise the place n there isnt any reason to gpo there anymore as there's nothing there anymore. now Sydney's only for young family's wit kiddos n maybe old grannys sadly my child. #Peaceblowssouth.
I was 15 years of age then . Working at my father's printing and stationery business , Parker st' Haymarket , directly opposite the Capitol Theatre . Pub lunch of delicious rissoles , mashed spuds , carrots , peas , gravy and a buttered white bread , $ 1.00 . Or the Italo Australian club , George St' Haymarket , 90 cents for the most authentic spaghetti Bolognese in Sydney , not including ' No Names ' , East Sydney . Nice glimpse of the Wax Works . What foresight , to capture Sydney back then . " round and round , up and down , through the streets of my town " .
Loved that first pan across Rushcutters Bay to lower Paddington, White City ,Custom Credit, Darling Point. Lived in Paddo Off Glenmore Rd. Drank at Five Ways and the Lord Nelson. Future wife worked for Custom Credit in1974..
7 years before I was born , this looks fantastic,, more laid back, peaceful , not very fast , no one was in much of a rush , no heavy traffic , no one treated the city like it was sophisticated or fancy then , no one acted like they were high maintenance or obsessed with money , or stuck up back then like we have now in the 2000s 2020s , back then looked alot better and relaxed and calm
This is how I remember Sydney where I grew up. I last saw this city in December 1975 when I left to live in California. I’ve only been able to revisit once since then. I really miss Sydney. This video is so much more evocative without music. Thanks for posting.
I am from Canada and first visited Sydney in 2001. Have been back to visit every year since then. I love Sydney and love walking everywhere. It's my favourite city.
I was six when this was filmed ,I remember dad taking us into Sydney on Sundays and it was empty not a soul around ,we'd just walk through window shop run around play and just be in awe of the massive buildings,it was like a ghost town
Darren Cottam until quite recently, the CBD was a cold barren wasteland on weekends. I used to come to come in to my office on Sundays to catch up on work. I could drive in and park in Pitt St or Castlereagh. More than once I met tourists walking aimlessly around looking for a restaurant or something, anything, that was open. This was in the 90s. It’s much improved now.
@@albertbatfinder5240 Auckland was the same, Queen St was a ghost town on the weekends we changed the time the ship docked at the city as the tourists wandered around with nothing to do.
I would have been the same age. So many memories. I haven't lived in Sydney for many years, but when I see pictures of it as it is today, it looks so different.This is more like the Sydney of the 70s-90s that I mostly remember.
@@albertbatfinder5240 Sunday trading in NSW has been around since late 80's/early 90's but most of those chinese flats at the southern end were not built until the latter part of the 90's and later so shopping in the city was a bit quieter. Also, many more Australians were at church on Sunday than now.
What happened? Much mischief! Remember Juanita Neilsen? -- the young woman who led the campaign against demolition of grand old boarding houses in Victoria Street and around the Harbour -- and who went missing in 1970s. The answer is that 'when the cat's away -- the mice will play'.
Thankfully many things are still around! I was just 4 years old at this time. Memory unlocked seeing the plants growing from the overhead footbridges!!!
I was working on the Shaw Saville liner the Ocean Monarch we were based in Sydney I spent 6 happy months in 1974 visiting the bars around circular Quay and Kings cross every time we docked, being an 18 year old it was a very exiting time for me and living in England now I have never been back this film brings back good memories I will go back one day but I bet it will feel a lot different to these innocent times.
This was 2 years before I was born. Life looked much simpler back then, like another has said. Nobody seems in a rush, life looks laidback. It’s a far cry from what we have today.
@@48tilt No, things were changing but the 80's was the last great decade for Australia. Things really fell apart in the 90's when the Australia we loved disappeared before our eyes.
What a Interesting life you must have had. Thank you for sharing your Memories. I was born in 1973, full memories but through the eyes of a child. I remember we went to Luna Park the Day before the Ghost Train Fire but I was shielded from knowing that. So Shocking.. I remember the City was to me full of Colourful Individuals. The Man on a Microphone in front of a Store in Pitt St. The Hari Krishna's, LOL . I remember the Arcade & where the Regent Theatre was before it was destroyed .Near the Tropadero ????? Can't think off the name , but I'm sure you & others do. She went to dances there. Mum is 73 now. She & her Girlfriends saw the Bro's Gibb aka The Bee Gees, Peter Allen & yes Johnny there.. So very interesting . Cheers . .
Get over it you old farts lol. Sydney was never going to remain the same as you remember it. Things change and life changes everyday, its common sense so stop sooking
@@sharongoodsell9341 Cool! Do you remember which street it was on? Plus my mother, who was nursing at St V's, used to visit DJs for lunch sometimes; she said she loved their flower arrangements.
My dad had a posting to Sydney in 1977, three years after this film. I was 15. We lived in Cremorne, our local shops were along Military Road and school in North Sydney, a 20 minute walk. Among many other memories including the beaches and the Blue Mountains, I saw Star Wars at the new Hoyts complex on George Street.
I was a young 23yr old girl and lived at Bondi worked at Potts Point. Married a naval officer, so Garden Island naval dockyard very famiiiar. Recognised many of the buildings. Great to see the Queen Vic building. It was earmarked to be demolished!!! Even remember the Elizabethan Inn at Edgecliff. I am now 72....thanks for the nostalgia.
I am 72 also. I was living at the top of the Elizabethan Inn at that time. Now Apartments. I w I rked in Macleay Street for 3 years, early 1980s. Thanks for Your comments.
My first school holiday job was in the city in 1974. It was a much busier and vibrant place, at least in office hours, than it is now. When I go to the city these days I remember 1974 with fondness and am overcome with sadness for what it has become. Working in Sydney in later years I would always see people I knew but today I know no one and it is all completely foreign to me
Amazing to see HMAS Sydney off Bradley's Head and HMAS Melbourne docked at Garden Island in this footage. It is like another world and another era, how lucky we were to be young people then. Thank you for the great film.
I left school in 1973, this Sydney is very much the one in which I had my world views formed. Every street shown here I could name. It was fantastic to be reminded of so much that I had forgotten, not the least of which was being able to park a car at the Opera House and walk to work..... Those were the days!!!
2:06 the old Kings Cross Wax Works, I went there as a kid in the mid 80s. Every school holidays they had discount vouchers in the Daily Mirror newspaper.
I grew-up in Sydney but moved away in the 90s. I realised how much the beautiful city has been ruined when I went to the cricket recently. Moore Park used to be a beautiful parkland with lovely avenues like Anzac Parade and South Dowling Street. Now it has all been dug-up and destroyed with tunnels and light rail.
The claim that recent constructions are "modern" is a sham : Modern design is cheap -- no matter how 'clever' / elaborate / 'quaint' / 'gimmicky' : Such constructions UN-NECESSARY -- and ought to be limited to the far West -- out beyond Paramatta! 'The Gold Coast' / 'Surfer's Paradise' -- (No disrespect to the people of the 'Gold Coast' / 'Surfers Paradise')
Just to point out that the light rail in Moore Park is using the old tram route that was taken over by busses in the early 60s when they destroyed the whole Sydney tram network. So putting back what was once there. Admittedly, it now has to handle light rail and busses. And the tunnel isn't necessarily a bad thing, they put the park back on top. Moore Park is still a car park whenever events are on in the area though.
@@daveg2104 Earlier road transport including tramways were not as obtrusive as the trams recent incarnation with a plethora of paint and signs and tram stations. Same with roads, full of signs, paint and obstacles.
@@bert23337 A lot of standards and regulations have been introduced since those days. If you want to argue that's a bad thing or that they have gone too far, well, you are entitled to your opinion. There was a lot less other traffic on the roads back then, but the roads were also much worse. They had to introduce clearways everywhere to increase peak capacity. Sydney has doubled in size since I was a kid. Do I lament some of the changes? Sure. But I also understand why some of them happened.
In 1975 trained it to the city from Cronulla to the chevron hotel pots point,open windows open doors ,I was 15 and loved it every day , I walked everywhere up until 87 ,great time
Thanks David, 1974 amazing time sydney cbd, love the s sets getting them from town hall to go to work , different times sydney opra house a year old Grate film
Was born in 70, lived in Nth Bondi and seeing the film refreshed memories of travelling into the city for shopping trips with mum or driving across the bridge with dad going past Garden Island cranes, up William Street past The Boulevard Hotel, seeing a movie at the Wintergarden with my nan etc... Enjoyed it! Thank you
Thanks for sharing. I was born in 1965 and these images are what I remember when going in to the city of Sydney. It was a real big deal for me back then. I was there for the Sydney Opera House opening in 1973 and your images make the Sydney Opera House just 1 year old. Your clip has brought back some nice memories for me. Well done!
Yep Ak is right if you were born here or family was here it was good if you migrated here you were subjected to small minded racism,Menzies had a white Australia policy which didn't help much,there was a lot of low IQ Working class Aussies who didn't deserve a say as it was very racist and small minded,but it changed for the better and the migrants often have more assets and money as they worked so hard.Poetic Justice I say heee
imperial cult of rome aka united nations. that's why there is a pyramid on the roof of parliament house. we are not much more than a eugenics project and a prisoner of war camp. And a private company registered on US SEC. anyone that emmigrated was part of the plan, most did so unwittingly. gave up their land rights from tjeir honelands in europe. tricked. duped. strategically relocated... it's a shocker. operation paperclip and operation matchbox allowed the nazis and brown shirts to be snuck in under cover of the normal families pursuing happiness after ww2. ww3 started in 1946. anzac diggers returning home to carlton to find the supposed enemy has been given a government grant to move in next door. disturbed people run the world. i didn't do it
I'm so biased regarding Sydney when it comes to claiming that it is truly an incredible place to live. I think your films reinforce that belief. There's a certain magic between the natural beauty and development that these shots capture and to me make Sydney so fascinating.
Thank's for this, a trip down memory lane I was 15 that year. the Opera House was new. I got my first job in Australia Square as a Mail Boy. I got the Key to the Lifts in Australia's Tallest building. Wow What good times we had in Sydney in the 70's. Great Stuff !
Thankyou David for having the nouse to film every day scenes.I had just moved into a flat in Bayswater Rd,and worked @ garden island[GID].All too many didn't realise how well off we were then.Too many demos!& stikes
How wonderful this is, I was born in 1978 and I wish I could've seen or lived in a Sydney such as this?! And I always thought the 1980's Sydney was king but the 70's variant is a true marvel and a blessing....What we need now post 2020 if we ever get out of it?!..Sigh...
Was very interesting to see some of the opening shots and pan around from Rushcutters bay across Paddington and then to Edgecliff. My Late Grandmother and son still lived in Paddington in those days and there's a shot of my old School in the pan and Trumper Park where I used to play sport. I turned 12 that year and spent a lot of time around that area. Thanks for sharing.
Our family stayed at the Elizabethan Inn around the same time you shot the film. I was 9 years old at the time so my memory may not be accurate, but I recall a little deli around the corner on the main drag which served the most amazing cheese cake. Thanks for sharing your film, cheers Mike.
Thank You So Much for Your Comments! The "Inn" is still there as an Apartment building, and the 'shops' are Still on the Corner, but being used for other purpurses. I Do remember the Deli.The Bar in the "Inn" was always a meeting place for Musicians, as many stayed at that Hotel. I remember having a beer there with Songwriters Harry Vanda and George Young.
I remember that deli too. In the early '80s when I went to pick my sister up from hockey practice in Rushcutters Bay Park we used to stop off at the deli and have the best prawn roll (prawns & sauce in a bread bun) in the world.
@@DavidLillicot Personalities 1964 (no dialogue) : Cameo of chaps at work in "Sydney top Newcastle Expressway, Technical Version Part 1" -- Dedicated to the task -- 'Body Language'! (Note up-beat musical background.)
I was born in 1974, grew up in darling point and double bay, my earliest memories are this 3 years later, so pretty much the same. Great footage, it conjured in my mind the memories of the sounds too, despite there being no sound attached. My dad worked in the mlc building, we caught the first train after opening on the eastern suburbs railway to martin place to see dad, very futuristic! I remember the clock on the lobby wall at mpc, with the lit cylinders telling the hour, minutes ans seconds. Jm
great memories of the city I grew up in, the following year 1975 I was 12 started high school in the rocks, remember those buses very well, catching one every morning and afternoon going through the busy streets, loved centrepoint in those days, it's all changed now
Thanks for sharing this awesome footage of such a beautiful city!!! Had a laugh at the cop writing a ticket; and the car in the bay. What the??!! Amazing footage!!!
I Remember these days well. My mother worked for a bakery cobbitty farm part of her bread delivery was in Sydney. I remember going from Bankstown to the city with her in an old Commer Van.
It is very rare to see shots of the opera house from behind so it was really interesting to see it in your film. It's a shame that the film is so degraded, it's a lovely look back in time.
I arrived in Sydney in 1970 and in 1974 was just starting a small business close to Wynyard station & often had lunch at the Menzies next door, or across the road at the Australia Tower. All those street scenes, the cars, buildings brought back memories. It seems like a life-time ago. Oh wait! It was...
I had an aunty that lived two doors down from JOK's brother Barry in David st Mosman in the 60's. Met JOK a couple of times including a rather frightening drive around Mosman in his open top car in '69.
There were a lot of American cars in the eastern suburbs back then and rich folk driving them. My first job 1969 was in the Custom Credit building (New South Head Road) and my uncle owned a tailoring business (Smith & Bruno) across the road.
Lived in Sydney from 74 to 84. Worked at Channel 9 Artarmon, it was black and white then ..also worked at Channel 10, Epping, on Number 96 and the Mike Walsh Show.
Channel 10 studios were in North Ryde corner of Delhi Rd and Epping Rd, opposite Pittwater Rd. Channel Seven was in Mobbs Ln, Epping near corner of Edenlee St.
The year i met my wife. First date at Doyles Watsons Bay. Had lobster mornay $6.25 and plate of fish was $4. Now Lobster around $150 and a plate of fish about $50. When bookmakers bet to losing figures on nearly every race. Bought my first home on Narrabeen lake for $52K in 1978. Now you pay 40K for a car park around the city LOL. The seventies in Sydney was like living a dream. Never been as good since
The Watson's Bay beer garden was good back then, as 'Doyles' was too expensive, on my wage. Sydney was a Lot less crowded, very few 'tourists', less traffic, lots more Sky overhead.
@@DavidLillicot Remember it well David. You could park right outside the pub and get a beer. Great times. Had to laugh looked at Doyles menu the other day. Lobster now $180 for a small one. Wont' be going back there for a while LOL.
Not even 200 years old yet ! I was born in the bicentenary “88 - it honestly looks more livable and enjoyable in the 70’s - not one awful bit of traffic- everything looks amazing and you can still see the sky- Bonsi beach looks like heaven
Yes, it's Rose Bay in the early 1970's! I've had some Meals in the "Captain Cook Floating Restaurant" then it was Re-Named a few times. In the Late Eighties it was the "Imperial Peking" Chinese Restaurant ,and I enjoyed some meals there too. Then an Eyesore for more Years than it should have been, then Thankfully towed away as Scrap.I drove past There Yesterday and the New Ferry Wharf and Boat Ramp is a Huge Improvement to the Vista! I'm glad you enjoyed my film.
Also the Wintergarden Theatre , which was designed by Henry White , who also designed Sydney's famous State Theatre which was also under threat , in the late 1970s . My childhood memory of The Captain Cook Floating Restaurant is of cutting into a roast potato and finding it to be rotten ! The inside was black !
Not sure it can all be 1974 - Why is Westpac Bank visible at 3:45. Bank of New South Wales (BNSW) and Commercial Bank of Australia (CBA) amalgamated to form Westpac Banking Corporation in 1982.
Grin.. I remember those taxis lol.. and that's exactly how I remember the Cross too. Was working at Pussy Galore and the Panther at the time. Thanks for posting this!
No sound ?? Although i was a young man in Western Australia in 1974, i came back to the east coast from the Kimberley's just before "Tracy" and i can remember there being lots of noisy life !!!
Very nice! It's interesting to see how much is the same (the heritage buildings) and how much is different (the skyline). What was that large white palace-looking building off the Cahill Expressway?
The white building you are referring to is the Conservatorium of Music. It was originally the governor's coach house and stables. You are correct about the Art gallery.
Thanks for Viewing Francis. Sorry, but i had too much trouble with Song Copyright, so i leave it with no sound. Music sometimes does not always 'fit' the film content.
Captain Phillip founded Sydney. Others that passed Australia without Arriving in Sydney included Frenchman La Perouse, Abel Tasman, Dirk Hartog, William Dampier, but Not even Capt Cook sailed into Sydney Harbour. Now, there are lots of people here from The Netherlands.
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I turned 21 in 1974. What a great time to be alive.
Did you feel that at the time though or is that pink glasses?
I hated how things had changed in 1991 but now would be much more appreciative of it, though 74 Sydney was the real deal!
@@jamesfrench7299I loved it
@@jamesfrench7299 Sydney was great in the 90s wat u talking about as everything changed in sydney once the 2000's came rolling in n the Olympics came to town bc after that nothing was the same n its just about turned into a police state/city..
Even killed Kings Cross the fun police, n Cabramatta well that was like stepping into another world like were can u get that in a city lol
Anyway im just saying everything was great up until the 2000s came n now in 2024 i dont recognise the place n there isnt any reason to gpo there anymore as there's nothing there anymore.
now Sydney's only for young family's wit kiddos n maybe old grannys sadly my child.
#Peaceblowssouth.
I was 15 years of age then . Working at my father's printing and stationery business , Parker st' Haymarket , directly opposite the Capitol Theatre . Pub lunch of delicious rissoles , mashed spuds , carrots , peas , gravy and a buttered white bread , $ 1.00 . Or the Italo Australian club , George St' Haymarket , 90 cents for the most authentic spaghetti Bolognese in Sydney , not including ' No Names ' , East Sydney . Nice glimpse of the Wax Works . What foresight , to capture Sydney back then . " round and round , up and down , through the streets of my town " .
Go! 'The Go Betweens'! Yay!
@@victorsauvage1890 Hear hear ! I second that!
Loved that first pan across Rushcutters Bay to lower Paddington, White City ,Custom Credit, Darling Point. Lived in Paddo Off Glenmore Rd. Drank at Five Ways and the Lord Nelson. Future wife worked for Custom Credit in1974..
7 years before I was born , this looks fantastic,, more laid back, peaceful , not very fast , no one was in much of a rush , no heavy traffic , no one treated the city like it was sophisticated or fancy then , no one acted like they were high maintenance or obsessed with money , or stuck up back then like we have now in the 2000s 2020s , back then looked alot better and relaxed and calm
it's always like that in Botantical gardens on Harbour. The same madness was right next to it in 74
The Sydney of my childhood, I remember it well. Great times, I would love to go back for a day and have a walk around, as an adult.
I remember it well, I was born in 1960 and Sydney was a great city to grow up in.
This is how I remember Sydney where I grew up.
I last saw this city in December 1975 when I left to live in California. I’ve only been able to revisit once since then.
I really miss Sydney.
This video is so much more evocative without music. Thanks for posting.
I am from Canada and first visited Sydney in 2001. Have been back to visit every year since then. I love Sydney and love walking everywhere. It's my favourite city.
I was six when this was filmed ,I remember dad taking us into Sydney on Sundays and it was empty not a soul around ,we'd just walk through window shop run around play and just be in awe of the massive buildings,it was like a ghost town
Darren Cottam until quite recently, the CBD was a cold barren wasteland on weekends. I used to come to come in to my office on Sundays to catch up on work. I could drive in and park in Pitt St or Castlereagh. More than once I met tourists walking aimlessly around looking for a restaurant or something, anything, that was open. This was in the 90s. It’s much improved now.
@@albertbatfinder5240 Auckland was the same, Queen St was a ghost town on the weekends we changed the time the ship docked at the city as the tourists wandered around with nothing to do.
Loved Sydney on Sunday. Going into Town to the Domain was great.
I would have been the same age. So many memories. I haven't lived in Sydney for many years, but when I see pictures of it as it is today, it looks so different.This is more like the Sydney of the 70s-90s that I mostly remember.
@@albertbatfinder5240 Sunday trading in NSW has been around since late 80's/early 90's but most of those chinese flats at the southern end were not built until the latter part of the 90's and later so shopping in the city was a bit quieter. Also, many more Australians were at church on Sunday than now.
I was born in 1976 but this reminds me of the real Sydney that I remember. Thank you.
rinazzle yep me too,loved my childhood in the 70 s
I was born in 1974....what happened to our beautiful city......🇦🇺
What happened? Much mischief! Remember Juanita Neilsen? -- the young woman who led the campaign against demolition of grand old boarding houses in Victoria Street and around the Harbour -- and who went missing in 1970s. The answer is that 'when the cat's away -- the mice will play'.
So many familiar landmarks still visible today and largely untouched.This is truly an amazing city in the lucky country! Thanks for sharing David!
Thankfully many things are still around! I was just 4 years old at this time. Memory unlocked seeing the plants growing from the overhead footbridges!!!
I was working on the Shaw Saville liner the Ocean Monarch we were based in Sydney I spent 6 happy months in 1974 visiting the bars around circular Quay and Kings cross every time we docked, being an 18 year old it was a very exiting time for me and living in England now I have never been back this film brings back good memories I will go back one day but I bet it will feel a lot different to these innocent times.
Warning: it is very different to how you will remember it.
This was 2 years before I was born. Life looked much simpler back then, like another has said. Nobody seems in a rush, life looks laidback. It’s a far cry from what we have today.
Thanks David for all your work. Loved it. It didn't get any better than Sydney in the seventies
Yes, Great days in Sydney in the 70s. Things Changed from the 1980s.
@@DavidLillicotMind you the music was better in the eighties but nothing else.
@@48tilt No, things were changing but the 80's was the last great decade for Australia. Things really fell apart in the 90's when the Australia we loved disappeared before our eyes.
What a Interesting life you must have had. Thank you for sharing your Memories. I was born in 1973, full memories but through the eyes of a child. I remember we went to Luna Park the Day before the Ghost Train Fire but I was shielded from knowing that. So Shocking.. I remember the City was to me full of Colourful Individuals. The Man on a Microphone in front of a Store in Pitt St. The Hari Krishna's, LOL . I remember the Arcade & where the Regent Theatre was before it was destroyed .Near the Tropadero ????? Can't think off the name , but I'm sure you & others do. She went to dances there. Mum is 73 now. She & her Girlfriends saw the Bro's Gibb aka The Bee Gees, Peter Allen & yes Johnny there..
So very interesting . Cheers . .
thank you for this video that's the Sydney my poppy remembers fantastic place to live back then he said different world to the Sydney we have today.
He's right, it was.
Get over it you old farts lol. Sydney was never going to remain the same as you remember it. Things change and life changes everyday, its common sense so stop sooking
Who else remembers Grace Bros Christmas windows? The Old Spaghetti Factory in The Rocks? The Chevron in Macleay St?
Me
I remember the spaghetti factory 🙃 I worked at David Jones in 74
@@sharongoodsell9341 Cool! Do you remember which street it was on? Plus my mother, who was nursing at St V's, used to visit DJs for lunch sometimes; she said she loved their flower arrangements.
@@andrewthornhill7042 seriously no I don't to out of it
Yep tick to all those places
My dad had a posting to Sydney in 1977, three years after this film. I was 15. We lived in Cremorne, our local shops were along Military Road and school in North Sydney, a 20 minute walk. Among many other memories including the beaches and the Blue Mountains, I saw Star Wars at the new Hoyts complex on George Street.
Nice days back then. I was in Cremorne a few wee k s ago. Look at these places now on google earth.
I worked in Sydney at this time in my life, seeing this video has brought back so memories of the city I love!
I was a young 23yr old girl and lived at Bondi worked at Potts Point. Married a naval officer, so Garden Island naval dockyard very famiiiar. Recognised many of the buildings. Great to see the Queen Vic building. It was earmarked to be demolished!!! Even remember the Elizabethan Inn at Edgecliff. I am now 72....thanks for the nostalgia.
I am 72 also. I was living at the top of the Elizabethan Inn at that time. Now Apartments. I w I rked in Macleay Street for 3 years, early 1980s. Thanks for Your comments.
My first school holiday job was in the city in 1974. It was a much busier and vibrant place, at least in office hours, than it is now. When I go to the city these days I remember 1974 with fondness and am overcome with sadness for what it has become. Working in Sydney in later years I would always see people I knew but today I know no one and it is all completely foreign to me
Amazing to see HMAS Sydney off Bradley's Head and HMAS Melbourne docked at Garden Island in this footage. It is like another world and another era, how lucky we were to be young people then. Thank you for the great film.
I left school in 1973, this Sydney is very much the one in which I had my world views formed. Every street shown here I could name. It was fantastic to be reminded of so much that I had forgotten, not the least of which was being able to park a car at the Opera House and walk to work..... Those were the days!!!
2:06 the old Kings Cross Wax Works, I went there as a kid in the mid 80s. Every school holidays they had discount vouchers in the Daily Mirror newspaper.
Watching this may help to remind us that progress and development in the last 10 years has destroyed more of Sydney that the previous 50.
I grew-up in Sydney but moved away in the 90s. I realised how much the beautiful city has been ruined when I went to the cricket recently. Moore Park used to be a beautiful parkland with lovely avenues like Anzac Parade and South Dowling Street. Now it has all been dug-up and destroyed with tunnels and light rail.
The claim that recent constructions are "modern" is a sham : Modern design is cheap -- no matter how 'clever' / elaborate / 'quaint' / 'gimmicky' : Such constructions UN-NECESSARY -- and ought to be limited to the far West -- out beyond Paramatta! 'The Gold Coast' / 'Surfer's Paradise' -- (No disrespect to the people of the 'Gold Coast' / 'Surfers Paradise')
Just to point out that the light rail in Moore Park is using the old tram route that was taken over by busses in the early 60s when they destroyed the whole
Sydney tram network. So putting back what was once there. Admittedly, it now has to handle light rail and busses. And the tunnel isn't necessarily a bad thing, they put the park back on top. Moore Park is still a car park whenever events are on in the area though.
@@daveg2104 Earlier road transport including tramways were not as obtrusive as the trams recent incarnation with a plethora of paint and signs and tram stations. Same with roads, full of signs, paint and obstacles.
@@bert23337 A lot of standards and regulations have been introduced since those days. If you want to argue that's a bad thing or that they have gone too far, well, you are entitled to your opinion. There was a lot less other traffic on the roads back then, but the roads were also much worse. They had to introduce clearways everywhere to increase peak capacity. Sydney has doubled in size since I was a kid. Do I lament some of the changes? Sure. But I also understand why some of them happened.
In 1975 trained it to the city from Cronulla to the chevron hotel pots point,open windows open doors ,I was 15 and loved it every day , I walked everywhere up until 87 ,great time
A Great Time to be Young. I Managed the Duty Frre Store opposite the Chevron Hotel from 1979-1982.
IMAGE of RUSHCUTTERS BAY 1974 (20 sec. mark) -- SWEET! -- Beautiful! -- Romantic!
I lived in Mona Road, 7th floor, overlooking the park etc.
Thanks David, 1974 amazing time sydney cbd, love the s sets getting them from town hall to go to work , different times sydney opra house a year old
Grate film
I was 7yrs old in 74' & it was GREAT to be an Aussie kid..
Man, I wish I could have lived in those times...
Cris TR me too
Me too 😢
Me too
I did my life is a classic story , I did it all ,it was easy back then
Was born in 70, lived in Nth Bondi and seeing the film refreshed memories of travelling into the city for shopping trips with mum or driving across the bridge with dad going past Garden Island cranes, up William Street past The Boulevard Hotel, seeing a movie at the Wintergarden with my nan etc... Enjoyed it! Thank you
Thanks for sharing. I was born in 1965 and these images are what I remember when going in to the city of Sydney. It was a real big deal for me back then. I was there for the Sydney Opera House opening in 1973 and your images make the Sydney Opera House just 1 year old. Your clip has brought back some nice memories for me. Well done!
wow 4 years before I was born. Damn I wish I was born in the late 40s. Australia was the best country through out all those decades.
As long as you were white.
Yep Ak is right if you were born here or family was here it was good if you migrated here you were subjected to small minded racism,Menzies had a white Australia policy which didn't help much,there was a lot of low IQ Working class Aussies who didn't deserve a say as it was very racist and small minded,but it changed for the better and the migrants often have more assets and money as they worked so hard.Poetic Justice I say heee
imperial cult of rome aka united nations. that's why there is a pyramid on the roof of parliament house. we are not much more than a eugenics project and a prisoner of war camp. And a private company registered on US SEC. anyone that emmigrated was part of the plan, most did so unwittingly. gave up their land rights from tjeir honelands in europe. tricked. duped. strategically relocated... it's a shocker. operation paperclip and operation matchbox allowed the nazis and brown shirts to be snuck in under cover of the normal families pursuing happiness after ww2. ww3 started in 1946. anzac diggers returning home to carlton to find the supposed enemy has been given a government grant to move in next door. disturbed people run the world. i didn't do it
@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 , which country would you prefer to live ? There are plenty to chose from.
Australia as a country beautiful the way it's run pathetic.
I'm so biased regarding Sydney when it comes to claiming that it is truly an incredible place to live. I think your films reinforce that belief. There's a certain magic between the natural beauty and development that these shots capture and to me make Sydney so fascinating.
Thanks for sharing, great memories, 1974 the year I left school 😀
I gotta say, what a better time to be alive!
Wow, many memories from my high school days!
Thank's for this, a trip down memory lane I was 15 that year. the Opera House was new. I got my first job in Australia Square as a Mail Boy. I got the Key to the Lifts in Australia's Tallest building. Wow What good times we had in Sydney in the 70's. Great Stuff !
We loved seeing this video - thanks for sharing. We watched until the end!
Thankyou David for having the nouse to film every day scenes.I had just moved into a flat in Bayswater Rd,and worked @ garden island[GID].All too many didn't realise how well off we were then.Too many demos!& stikes
Sydney has always been beautiful, And It Still Is Today!!!
Like taking a walk in my teens, spellbound! Thanks.
Great memories of David Jones, old busses and hydrofoil ferry and the Botanical gardens duck pond.
My beautiful Sydney of childhood, my youth and my early adulthood.
How wonderful this is, I was born in 1978 and I wish I could've seen or lived in a Sydney such as this?! And I always thought the 1980's Sydney was king but the 70's variant is a true marvel and a blessing....What we need now post 2020 if we ever get out of it?!..Sigh...
Loving those brightly coloured Taxis.
I was there that year great memories
Was very interesting to see some of the opening shots and pan around from Rushcutters bay across Paddington and then to Edgecliff. My Late Grandmother and son still lived in Paddington in those days and there's a shot of my old School in the pan and Trumper Park where I used to play sport. I turned 12 that year and spent a lot of time around that area. Thanks for sharing.
Almost 50 years later, but so much remains the same. @11:25 the skyline is much more built up.
Our family stayed at the Elizabethan Inn around the same time you shot the film. I was 9 years old at the time so my memory may not be accurate, but I recall a little deli around the corner on the main drag which served the most amazing cheese cake.
Thanks for sharing your film, cheers Mike.
Thank You So Much for Your Comments! The "Inn" is still there as an Apartment building, and the 'shops' are Still on the Corner, but being used for other purpurses. I Do remember the Deli.The Bar in the "Inn" was always a meeting place for Musicians, as many stayed at that Hotel. I remember having a beer there with Songwriters Harry Vanda and George Young.
I remember that deli too. In the early '80s when I went to pick my sister up from hockey practice in Rushcutters Bay Park we used to stop off at the deli and have the best prawn roll (prawns & sauce in a bread bun) in the world.
@@DavidLillicot Personalities 1964 (no dialogue) : Cameo of chaps at work in "Sydney top Newcastle Expressway, Technical Version Part 1" -- Dedicated to the task -- 'Body Language'! (Note up-beat musical background.)
Thanks for this excellent video. I love it ❤️.😊
I was born in 1974, grew up in darling point and double bay, my earliest memories are this 3 years later, so pretty much the same. Great footage, it conjured in my mind the memories of the sounds too, despite there being no sound attached. My dad worked in the mlc building, we caught the first train after opening on the eastern suburbs railway to martin place to see dad, very futuristic! I remember the clock on the lobby wall at mpc, with the lit cylinders telling the hour, minutes ans seconds. Jm
Back when Australia was Australia. I miss it terribly😢!
great memories of the city I grew up in, the following year 1975 I was 12 started high school in the rocks, remember those buses very well, catching one every morning and afternoon going through the busy streets, loved centrepoint in those days, it's all changed now
thanks for uploading this video, amazing stuff to see what things looked like round here back then
Good to see not one mobile phone being used.
Wow My hometown!
I was in year 9 at the time
I worked at Rushcutters Bay in the mid 70s. This is a nice trip down memory lane.
Amazing ozzies just going about life without a mobile phone in site. 74 to 94 Sydney was chilled🙂
Thanks for sharing this awesome footage of such a beautiful city!!! Had a laugh at the cop writing a ticket; and the car in the bay. What the??!! Amazing footage!!!
Thank You! Sydney is even more Beautiful Now.
I hope this film is stored in the Australian Archives
Nice bit of Double Bay from 14:30 onwards. Pan across New South Head Rd and a close up of the Golden Sheaf and the old Woolies.
Remember being in Sydney in 1974 as a 8 yr old! still love visiting there fro melbourne
Sydney loves you!
What has happened to our beautiful city.
Nice to see The Golden Sheaf in Double Bay at 14:40. My local.
I Remember these days well.
My mother worked for a bakery cobbitty farm part of her bread delivery was in Sydney. I remember going from Bankstown to the city with her in an old Commer Van.
I was 14 at the time. Bought back many memories Cool and
thanks.
It is very rare to see shots of the opera house from behind so it was really interesting to see it in your film. It's a shame that the film is so degraded, it's a lovely look back in time.
The Original film is Spotless, but people Copy people's work off here.
At 2 mins 39 secs, the Statue is of Captain James Cook. I went passed it yesterday to check.
I arrived in Sydney in 1970 and in 1974 was just starting a small business close to Wynyard station & often had lunch at the Menzies next door, or across the road at the Australia Tower. All those street scenes, the cars, buildings brought back memories. It seems like a life-time ago. Oh wait! It was...
I could see my house.
Thanks so much for this
I had an aunty that lived two doors down from JOK's brother Barry in David st Mosman in the 60's. Met JOK a couple of times including a rather frightening drive around Mosman in his open top car in '69.
Owned a surf shop on Bondi Beach 1977.at 88 Campbell Parade . Rent $90 a week LOL. When retailers could make a dollar .
There were a lot of American cars in the eastern suburbs back then and rich folk driving them. My first job 1969 was in the Custom Credit building (New South Head Road) and my uncle owned a tailoring business (Smith & Bruno) across the road.
Lived in Sydney from 74 to 84. Worked at Channel 9 Artarmon, it was black and white then ..also worked at Channel 10, Epping, on Number 96 and the Mike Walsh Show.
chris heron The Mike Walsh Show...how iconic!
Channel 10 studios were in North Ryde corner of Delhi Rd and Epping Rd, opposite Pittwater Rd.
Channel Seven was in Mobbs Ln, Epping near corner of Edenlee St.
Did you work in telly?@@jamesfrench7299
The year i met my wife. First date at Doyles Watsons Bay. Had lobster mornay $6.25 and plate of fish was $4. Now Lobster around $150 and a plate of fish about $50. When bookmakers bet to losing figures on nearly every race. Bought my first home on Narrabeen lake for $52K in 1978. Now you pay 40K for a car park around the city LOL. The seventies in Sydney was like living a dream. Never been as good since
The Watson's Bay beer garden was good back then, as 'Doyles' was too expensive, on my wage. Sydney was a Lot less crowded, very few 'tourists', less traffic, lots more Sky overhead.
@@DavidLillicot Remember it well David. You could park right outside the pub and get a beer. Great times. Had to laugh looked at Doyles menu the other day. Lobster now $180 for a small one. Wont' be going back there for a while LOL.
Not even 200 years old yet ! I was born in the bicentenary “88 - it honestly looks more livable and enjoyable in the 70’s - not one awful bit of traffic- everything looks amazing and you can still see the sky- Bonsi beach looks like heaven
I spent the 1970s in my 30s. Life was good.
Bondi beach had a reputation for yobs and broken glass at the time
Yes, it's Rose Bay in the early 1970's! I've had some Meals in the "Captain Cook Floating Restaurant" then it was Re-Named a few times. In the Late Eighties it was the "Imperial Peking" Chinese Restaurant ,and I enjoyed some meals there too. Then an Eyesore for more Years than it should have been, then Thankfully towed away as Scrap.I drove past There Yesterday and the New Ferry Wharf and Boat Ramp is a Huge Improvement to the Vista! I'm glad you enjoyed my film.
When I was a kid it was called Flanagan's Afloat. Always a big event going there!
@victoria I was born in '71, so late 70s. Flanagan's Afloat. Google it.
How cool,the 70s were full of cool stories like that,I loved those times
Also the Wintergarden Theatre , which was designed by Henry White , who also designed Sydney's famous State Theatre which was also under threat , in the late 1970s . My childhood memory of The Captain Cook Floating Restaurant is of cutting into a roast potato and finding it to be rotten ! The inside was black !
I went to the Rose Bay Wintergarden a Lot in the 1970s.
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thanks for this wow I was 12 in 74 Such a Spinout
The hotel I used to work at ,The Park Regis was the tallest building as it panned across.Now you can't even see it
Not sure it can all be 1974 - Why is Westpac Bank visible at 3:45. Bank of New South Wales (BNSW) and Commercial Bank of Australia (CBA) amalgamated to form Westpac Banking Corporation in 1982.
Grin.. I remember those taxis lol.. and that's exactly how I remember the Cross too. Was working at Pussy Galore and the Panther at the time. Thanks for posting this!
Do you remember the Kashmir?
What inspiring shows they were!
Thanks for reminding me of my childhood. I was 10, my dad served on the Melbourne and the Sydney.
Those Navy blokes comprised a honourable class!
Great history. Thanks for letting us see.
No sound ??
Although i was a young man in Western Australia in 1974,
i came back to the east coast from the Kimberley's
just before "Tracy"
and i can remember there being lots of noisy life !!!
I also turned 21 in 1974 some audio would have been nice the lack of it had a bad impact on what may have been a great video.
When Sydney was great to live in
Nice shot of what might be the Captain Cook Floating Restaurant at Rose Bay at 13:56
Flanagan's Afloat
thanks, worth preserving
Eastern Suburbs Railway later leads to Bondi Junction, leading to the most popular beach in Australia, Bondi Beach.
Yes, older buildings Need to Saved.
I was 18 for most of it (turned 19 near the end of the year).
All downhill from the seventies.
Very nice! It's interesting to see how much is the same (the heritage buildings) and how much is different (the skyline).
What was that large white palace-looking building off the Cahill Expressway?
The 'Art Gallery of New South Wales'.
@@DavidLillicot Isn't the Art Gallery the sandstone one with columns?
The white building you are referring to is the Conservatorium of Music. It was originally the governor's coach house and stables. You are correct about the Art gallery.
I'd much rather live in real Sydney then than fake Sydney now.
How i miss those yrs i was 7yrs old and my sister was born that yr.
Why is there no sound or even some commentary.
Nice film work . Thanks
Thanks for Viewing Francis. Sorry, but i had too much trouble with Song Copyright, so i leave it with no sound. Music sometimes does not always 'fit' the film content.
Captain Phillip founded Sydney. Others that passed Australia without Arriving in Sydney included Frenchman La Perouse, Abel Tasman, Dirk Hartog, William Dampier, but Not even Capt Cook sailed into Sydney Harbour. Now, there are lots of people here from The Netherlands.
I thought La Perouse was only a few days late in changing the fate of Australia to be a French colony?