Diggers Rest Hotel during the first Sunbury Rock Festival in 1972.
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2022
- All appeared ok at the Diggers Rest Hotel during the first Sunbury Rock Festival in 1972, until the meat wagon rolled up to make sure.
The hotel was partly destroyed by fire in October 2008, leaving only the walls and chimneys standing. Since the fire there have been separate campaigns in the local community to have the hotel rebuilt and reopened, or demolished.
*Wikipedia.
*Footage courtesy of Sunbury concert dvd. - Спорт
All appeared ok at the Diggers Rest Hotel during the first Sunbury Rock Festival in 1972, until the meat wagon rolled up to make sure.
The hotel was partly destroyed by fire in October 2008, leaving only the walls and chimneys standing. Since the fire there have been separate campaigns in the local community to have the hotel rebuilt and reopened, or demolished.
*Wikipedia.
*Footage courtesy of Sunbury concert dvd.
Great video Gezza
Who’s bird man Gezza???
Cheers @@danrobinson572 I’m advised “The Wizard” Ian Channell. 😄
@@Gezza1967 okay 👍 thanks 🙏
Loved this pub, got drunk there when I was 12 years old after a day out watching my brother in law in the Diggers Rest Tug O War comps, no bullshit.
What a time capsule! 1972. Police were wearing the pith hats...classic tank tops, side burns and old timers at the bar. Reminded meof the old timers that drank at the Auburn Hotel public bar before it became the Geebung.
We have to get our coppers wearing pith helmets again, they protect them from sunburn AND from axe handles aimed at the head.
@@Dave_Sisson lol
There were a few wild local lads at the auburn in the 70s.
@@paulgerard4503 Yes and into the eighties
I am too young. But was Hawthorn/ Auburn a rough suburb back then?
I love that as one guy went into the wagon he still had his beer.
😬
Molly doing his best to be an investigative reporter. 🤣
Pass the pub all the time. Would be nice if one day it was restored. Dad was busy building our new house in 1972 in Sunbury.
The Police on the bikes remind me of Matlock Police.
Solo One!
Yeh I was just thinking the same thing. The motorbike cops in Victoria back here in the early 70's all looked like Paul Cronin in Matlock. Helmut, sunglasses, uniform and bike.
I gotta friend on a motorbike
And he's just called solo one
Somethings never change " Can't make any comment at the moment " . " You'll have to speak to the officer in charge ". They would have gone on to make excellent politicians.
My Dad's generation (he was born in 1929) and his mates used the term "Long Hairs" as a term of derision right until the late-1970s. The generation gap in those days was immense. The dude in this video with the long hair, beard, earrings (and a sense of justice) in 1972 would've set off major alarm bells among most people over 40 at the time. This video is a fantastic slice of life, but it brings back a lot of bad memories of the closed-minded, conservative attitude of my father's generation. They didn't want any change at all, and they kept banging about how the "old days" were so much better for years and years. Of course, the generation that they spawned (1960s-80s) had freedom beyond belief and now we say how things were so much better "in the old days" because we could get up to all sorts of mischief with virtually no supervision. No wonder teenagers are always miserable having to listen to their parents.
My grandpa called them guys with long hair and side burns hippies. He was born in 1921 and was in the navy in War World 🌎 2.
My Dad was born in 27 so similar. He just missed WW2. If you had to be sent to WW1, go though the depression and then WW2 you could understand those old timers position. Those early 20th century generations were dirt poor and still made good. To them the young people of which I was one were spoilt and self obsessed and wouldn’t know justice if it bit them on the bum. Post WW2 as you know was a golden era.
@@Melbournelost66 yeah I’m from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in America 🇺🇸 and I was born in 1973. My grandfather and his brother joined up the day after Pearl Harbor. He told us how tuff it was for him . He had 3 brothers and two sisters. They ate a lot of stew 🍲 and back than people had many kids back than.
@@danrobinson572 100% the case. It was the same in my family. ✌🏻🇺🇸🇦🇺✌🏻
@@Melbournelost66 👍 take care
excellent stuff ! the last guy locked up for asking questions is my hero... it’s what we need more of in victoria!
Such beautiful Aussie accents and attitudes.
Aussies are legends .
I LOL'd when the police piled out of the old school brawler van and started grabbing people.
Cops haven’t changed after all these years
nothings changed this is how the state government sees all victorians
The cops were more heavy handed 50 years ago than now in times of covid19. These young people would now be old age pensioners
Dad is 68. Was busy building our first house so missed this lol. Frequented the pub though. Simple times. Those had to be Sunbury or Melton Cops.
Awesome video and those were awesome times.
Great stuff.Could have been a scene from Stone. The only thing missing is The Grave Diggers. Maybe a different outcome?
It's interesting to observe the behaviour of both police and citizens at that time. Police quietly enter the hotel and arrest random young people who quietly comply. Then the police arrest a bystander who asks why those people are being arrested. Fast forward to 2022 and the behaviours or actions would be very different on both sides.
What a great view of Australia in the 1970's as the love and peace crowd weren't welcomed with open arms by the police.. everyone ends up in the back of the paddy wagon it seems!!
The seventies, a young Molly Meldum, pre Countdown.
0.50 Isn't that Jimmy from H.R Puffnstuf?
Yeah he does look 👀 like him haha 😆
Is that Molly Meldrum at 2:49 Gezza?
Sure is! He was a columnist for Go-Set magazine at the time.
Hotel had never been so busy
Nothing's changed with the cops haha
They should have chucked that Cop in all that Pink in the Divi Van, YUKK. Great Vids Gezza
Isn’t this the hotel that burnt down in mysterious circumstances? The old ones you see from the freeway.
Sadly yes. Traveling home north bound always stopped there for couple travelers.
Good old Molly with a pommy accent
Its a wonder why they needed all those popo to arrest these law abiding patrons
So why did the cops arrest these guys???
Is this in England?
Victoria. Australia 🚬🤠
Here was me thinking that it would’ve been easy times …… things have not changed much …. Bloody trouble makers !!
Was that Molly Meldrum I spotted?
🔭🦘 yep
Daddy Cool is awesome 👏
👍
Victorian pigs just dont change eh?
Be great in this video if the cops started dragging Mr Democracy Manifest out of the Iron Pot restaurant for eating a succulent Chinese meal lol
They probably got bashed once they got back to the police station.
and planted weed on them
@@rickyelvis3215 I wouldn’t doubt it.
For sure. I remember being beaten up by the Richmond Pigs in about 1990 for standing in a circle talking with friends outside The Great Britain Hotel.
Yes I think you might be right there. Victorian coppers weren't exactly known for their hospitality. Usually just bash shit out of you in the cells.
@@craigmartin5939 okay 👍
These cops would go great at the 2021 anti- vax protests in the city, just pull up, jump out, throw anyone you can see with long hair in the back of the divvy and go. This actually surprised me because the cops didn't even ask them to leave, they just started grabbing them and they weren't doing anything wrong. Even back in this time, the cops should have given them a chance to move on without arresting them.
Do you kids today still think baby boomers had a easy run?
Whats the charge? Exactly. Natural law prevails.
Cagey bloke at 1:35 100% a drug dealer 🤣🤣
👀 like the drug dealer Marty Mr. Asia!
Undercover copper cleverly disguised as a hipster. Fail.
First.....I was at Sunbury that year as well.
The guy at 3.00 nothing much has changed with the popos. They've become more communistic these days.
Grouse.
All fine till the oinkers arrived
Oh god yuck
Ledger mate.fairdinkum.or bullshit wearers.traffic route mate
Dictator Dan would have loved this right up his alley that policing
The good old days when Vic police didn't like long haired young men
These days Victorian Police prefer to apprehend pregnant women and elderly women
Looks and sounds like Molly Meldrum doing the interviews.
because it is 🚬🤠