The Melbourne I loved! Tragic what it is now. Thanks for the awesome memories. BTW, am I the only one that feels like crying at what our city has become?
@@cudgee7144 Yes, I feel we have lost our identity as a nation. Perhaps the city is now a reflection of a totally screwed world, but I too, now avoid a place I used to adore. My sense of loss, obviously like yours too, is painfully sad. Something about, “My cake is melting in the rain, I’ll never find the recipe again.”
I remember so well getting off the train at Flinders and just being swept along. No one dared walk on the right and there were lines painted on the footpath. Us women wore high heels and by the time I'd get into work my feet would be throbbing but you daren't say anything. Does anyone else remember the tea trolley? Morning tea break, cuppa tea and a biscuit by the tea lady. No takeaway coffees then.
Yes i remember the tea trolley, and everyone having a chat, not staring mindlessly at a mobile devise. This so called coffee culture has taken away Melbourne's soul. It seems like every second shop is now some sort of coffee/food outlet, hardly any shops as you and i knew, why would you want to go into the city. And the amount of rubbish blowing around the streets from some of these take-away joints is disgusting.
Yes, I remember the tea trolley and the lady who gave us our morning tea. My then girlfriend sometimes used to serve morning tea when the tea lady (May) was ill. Guess what - I married that gorgeous young girl and we have been together for forty-nine years. Love her more as each day passes.
Maybe Sally Capp should watch this and work out where it all has gone wrong. Tram superstops and concrete barriers on roads, bike 'roads' (they are not lanes) everywhere, food delivery bikes everywhere. I was a copper in Melbourne in the late 80's, traffic and people moved and flowed in the old city. I drove through there this weekend and made the same comments posted here how it is rubbish now. Great video, good song choice, good memories (even all those train strikes and no airconditioning on trains was good memories). Mick
Peter Goodwin Awesome memories, back when it was a real treat to go to the city. Every time a new ugly building goes up a bit more of Melbourne becomes unliveable and unfortunately it's spreading into the suburbs. Melbourne really has lost what made it special😔
@@shaneferlazzo6157 so true mate, I used to love Melbourne but now it's a conjested gridlocked third world city. The suburbs are just as bad , they jam thousands of houses into small area's and build no roads . If they wanted mass imigration they needed to build another city to cope with it or better still have low imigration numbers. They destroyed Australia just to keep a few greedy traitors happy. They get Rick out of it all while we suffer and foot the bill.
Hey Mick, I was young cop stationed at what used to be City West police station in William street in the early 80’s. I even did point-duty at the Flinders / Swanston st intersection with City patrol in Flinders lane. Melbourne used to be so easy to drive around back in the those days. During my time Docklands was actually working dock lands, there used to be Vic Dock police station down there, and Flinders st extension was all the railway freight yards……Nowadays I avoid the city like the plague. Tenez le droit👍
What a beautiful city Melbourne once was … it’s now a dirty , crime ridden place I no longer feel safe in . Thankyou so much for that fabulous footage of a city that was so worth visiting and enjoying . Take note Sally Capp .
"Don't Change" is a great theme song for this video. Melbourne seems to have changed in old the wrong ways since then! The Melbourne CBD is now a sad and sorrow place to be avoided nowadays.
It's like a dream or an alternate reality when I see this now. I'm not going crazy by viewing as it's proof here!!! That melbourne one time in that timeline would be bathed in that overwhelming bright warm orangish glow that would wake and warm up the whole city! No days it's a dead grey barren lifeless that even the sun sometimes refuses to shine on now and if it does?! It'll never be like this again!!
More fantastic stuff. And notice back in the days of no mobile phones, people actually took responsibility and looked where they were walking when crossing the road.
@@hanajinks1044 That is a terrible thing to do. You might hurt them. I do that too..bump into them. If they get hurt it was totally unintentional, however I have not hurt anyone yet. Mind you, it is better you bump into them than them stepping off the kerb in front of a car, then blaming the driver for hitting them.
@@125sloth More a situation of just walking along and l have to change my line cos they're looking at the phone, in which case l make a point of keeping my line. I'm extremely courteous and polite and perhaps it's the rudeness displayed by these types that makes me react in this way. Plus, when l tried it it made me dizzy.
Something very rare these days right at the start, a person reading a newspaper in public, let alone a young person reading a newspaper. Who would have predicted that back then?
I"m a Yank but lived in Melb(Coburg,Fitzroy) a couple years.I loved that city,but couldn't believe how the locals tolerated the brutal wind.I literally had a contact lens blown out in St Kilda.Adelaide(Glenelg) got blustery,but just in winter.
@@matube73 I have exactly the same sentiments, i feel an outsider in my own city, and so do many people i know. Some politicians and bureaucrats should be watching this clip and READING the comments.
0:46 - Fond memories of grabbing a bite to eat at the Classic Restaurant after working night-fill in 1976 at the Woolworths grocery store in the basement of what's now the Telstra store on the Bourke/Swanston corner. Love your work!
Yes....thats the one I remember.....I left in 1978 just returned to visit since then.....certainly a different place now...I noticed the changes after the early 90s.
Our long lost diggers would turn in their graves if they saw this. Put their lives down for our value and freedom but in recent decades given away. Like Taiwan Australia will soon be a province of china.
2:33 how did the Westgate bridge get that empty? Possibly when it was still a toll road City bound, or before the population explosion surrounding Werribee. Unless they stopped people using it to make a deceptive ad for buses and how smoothy they flow. Usual tactic from government from to mislead about public transport. A mystery.
It wasn't always bumper to bumper before a lot if transport companies were based around Laverton North and not as many people lived around Point Cook, Wyndham Vale, Truganina and other new suburbs.
@@stevecini2964 I remember going through those toll gates coming from work, not sure how long they had tolls on there for but definitely not for decades and decades like now!
What? People actually keeping to left while they're walking? And sheilas wearing dresses! To top it off, Kingswoods and Premiers! How did it all go wrong...?
@@scottclark1634 I don't think they even think about it - I went left in front of what looked to be an Australian woman the other day, and she moved to her right so I had to pass on her right!
My beautiful city, I used to work in the city for years from 86 to 2003 and felt very safe and comfortable, I have always felt safe while visiting Melbourne throughout the years, I was born in 64. I left in 2003 and moved interstate but came back to Victoria in 2016 to live in the country, I heard the city has changed, is it really that bad now? and who destroyed it?
Without doubt....it is this incessant need to look wonderful on the World stage. Gone from this once perfect city to a dirty crime riddled ghetto. Its a betrayal and those responsible should be imprisoned. Another London sadly.
@@jumbo6009 could not agree more JUMBO. The sad reality is that those responsible will never be held to account, in fact, many of them sharing the profits. A city forever gone but at least we got to share it while it lasted.
Yes true.....I grew up in Geelong in the 70s and 80s, and have travelled extensively around the World. Experienced a lot of places. Nothing was even close to Melbourne in my opinion. It was perfect. Recently revisited after a long long time and I could have cried and not likely to return. All the best mate.
Ok so there was not much general crime like bashing’s , and you could get a real pie or hamburger, meat was affordable , people were much more polite and weekends were weekends , oh and political correctness was pretty much non existent, and teenagers could actually have a conversation without looking at a electronic devise Families had more time for each other and a few other things I’d left out , other than that these days are so much better , don’t you think ☹️
And that’s a Hobart footy club poster on the wall, it’s the old Brisbane hotel at 3 Brisbane St, Hobart, used to be owned by the Tigers. Building is still there.
It really has a unique look about it but I imagine it probably that practical to wear but I maybe wrong?! It's massive contrast to the police wearing white in one of the best eras to be in melbourne to now were they all almost wear black!! Perhaps a sign of grim times now?!..
@@Remington61189 unfortunately it's happening world over especially in the UK/US etc. The 80's melbourne police officers in their whites look far more approachable back then than they do now! Color factor plays alot here..Maybe they should go back to it to get back the public's trust but it's probably too far gone now...
Why are UA-cam allowing this video clip on their site and their is no copyright infringement claim by a third party? It's got INXS music on it. Whenever I go to upload any original video on UA-cam and it has any music in the video they say that it is not allowed because they sampled the clip and found that it infringes a copyright claim by some unknown party. I'm sick to death of the parasites that run UA-cam. They have done this shit to Richard Clapton and Graeham Goble many times and would not allow them to upload their own videos to UA-cam.
Wonder if cleaned up grand ballroom on floors above clocks Flinders st up there as kid had pool tables Vic rail workers the dome above under that delaptated grand ballroom 81 back up there 90 still nothing doing massive space ,asked old bloke few years ago doing mataneice outside toilets ,,nothing changed up there , massive station ok New York Rockerfeller paid big station there ,look far building travels down Flinders st , suppose people to busy trying not run in each other stop look above wonder what up there ,amazed see were people had been up there glad no nob head thrown match what looked like pile of wall paper swept corner ,have be in no get up there ,made great rave party up there
Max Q his disco stuff under different name great stuff what voice Ross Wilson ,Stevie Wright doc , AUSSIE crawl of course bon no yank can hold candle to none them ,Iggy pop ,England John Lennon John Lydon sex pistols ,new Zealand go dragon ,open mind not get stuck on jonre
This video has sadden me, reminds me how awesome and wonderful it was living here until Geoff Whitlam signed us up to UN’s Global restructuring of our way of life and every other Prime mister after him has followed in his steps by being in 3rd world immigration and from war torn countries that’s single Handley made this and other states very unsafe!
Well you now what if they had listened to Pauline Hanson I'm pretty sure things would be very similar to those great times...The Government thought it would be a great idea to open the Flood Gates and let anyone and everyone into the Country .
Ahh, the good old days. Before Melbourne turned into a shit hole.
it's always been a shithole Melbourne
Long gone days - sadly never to be seen, nor experienced again.
The Melbourne I loved! Tragic what it is now. Thanks for the awesome memories. BTW, am I the only one that feels like crying at what our city has become?
No you are not. It is so sad, i avoid going into town as much as possible, it makes me want to cry.
@@cudgee7144 Yes, I feel we have lost our identity as a nation. Perhaps the city is now a reflection of a totally screwed world, but I too, now avoid a place I used to adore. My sense of loss, obviously like yours too, is painfully sad. Something about, “My cake is melting in the rain, I’ll never find the recipe again.”
I got a lump in my throat looking at my old Melbourne. I feel the same when I watch the film clip of Leaps And bounds by Paul Kelly
As I have said before...blame the Immigration Dept for the mess. Has gone from one of the greatest cities in the World to a shithole.
No, I cry too.
Im in tears especially when i heard the start of the song it was all over.. goodbye beautiful melbourne . Thank you so much Gezza.
Thanks very much for your kind words and compliment Serah.
I remember so well getting off the train at Flinders and just being swept along. No one dared walk on the right and there were lines painted on the footpath. Us women wore high heels and by the time I'd get into work my feet would be throbbing but you daren't say anything. Does anyone else remember the tea trolley? Morning tea break, cuppa tea and a biscuit by the tea lady. No takeaway coffees then.
Yes i remember the tea trolley, and everyone having a chat, not staring mindlessly at a mobile devise. This so called coffee culture has taken away Melbourne's soul. It seems like every second shop is now some sort of coffee/food outlet, hardly any shops as you and i knew, why would you want to go into the city. And the amount of rubbish blowing around the streets from some of these take-away joints is disgusting.
Yes, I remember the tea trolley and the lady who gave us our morning tea. My then girlfriend sometimes used to serve morning tea when the tea lady (May) was ill. Guess what - I married that gorgeous young girl and we have been together for forty-nine years. Love her more as each day passes.
INXS Don't Change. Perfect for this great clip.
What a fantastic, free, prosperous and vibrant city Melbourne used to be.
Calm down with your ‘free’ bullshit
@@cherryy7609
Why? Do you prefer Socialism?
Not anymore, it's worse than a third world city.
Maybe Sally Capp should watch this and work out where it all has gone wrong. Tram superstops and concrete barriers on roads, bike 'roads' (they are not lanes) everywhere, food delivery bikes everywhere. I was a copper in Melbourne in the late 80's, traffic and people moved and flowed in the old city. I drove through there this weekend and made the same comments posted here how it is rubbish now.
Great video, good song choice, good memories (even all those train strikes and no airconditioning on trains was good memories). Mick
Spot on Mick,spot flamin on!!!
Totally agree with that, it's a joke now . No one obeys the road rules or has no idea what theyre doing or how to drive.
Peter Goodwin Awesome memories, back when it was a real treat to go to the city. Every time a new ugly building goes up a bit more of Melbourne becomes unliveable and unfortunately it's spreading into the suburbs.
Melbourne really has lost what made it special😔
@@shaneferlazzo6157 so true mate, I used to love Melbourne but now it's a conjested gridlocked third world city. The suburbs are just as bad , they jam thousands of houses into small area's and build no roads . If they wanted mass imigration they needed to build another city to cope with it or better still have low imigration numbers. They destroyed Australia just to keep a few greedy traitors happy. They get Rick out of it all while we suffer and foot the bill.
Hey Mick, I was young cop stationed at what used to be City West police station in William street in the early 80’s. I even did point-duty at the Flinders / Swanston st intersection with City patrol in Flinders lane. Melbourne used to be so easy to drive around back in the those days. During my time Docklands was actually working dock lands, there used to be Vic Dock police station down there, and Flinders st extension was all the railway freight yards……Nowadays I avoid the city like the plague. Tenez le droit👍
Loved riding on the ‘ red rattlers’. You could jam the door open while it was moving!
you could actually take a piss on the red rattler if you had a few too many and couldn’t hold it…just sayin
What a beautiful city Melbourne once was … it’s now a dirty , crime ridden place I no longer feel safe in . Thankyou so much for that fabulous footage of a city that was so worth visiting and enjoying . Take note Sally Capp .
"Don't Change" is a great theme song for this video. Melbourne seems to have changed in old the wrong ways since then! The Melbourne CBD is now a sad and sorrow place to be avoided nowadays.
Awesome song. Awesome footage.
At times my emotions are stirred, this is definitely one of those times.
It's like a dream or an alternate reality when I see this now. I'm not going crazy by viewing as it's proof here!!! That melbourne one time in that timeline would be bathed in that overwhelming bright warm orangish glow that would wake and warm up the whole city! No days it's a dead grey barren lifeless that even the sun sometimes refuses to shine on now and if it does?! It'll never be like this again!!
More fantastic stuff. And notice back in the days of no mobile phones, people actually took responsibility and looked where they were walking when crossing the road.
I make a point of bumping into them.
@@hanajinks1044 That is a terrible thing to do. You might hurt them. I do that too..bump into them. If they get hurt it was totally unintentional, however I have not hurt anyone yet. Mind you, it is better you bump into them than them stepping off the kerb in front of a car, then blaming the driver for hitting them.
@@125sloth
More a situation of just walking along and l have to change my line cos they're looking at the phone, in which case l make a point of keeping my line. I'm extremely courteous and polite and perhaps it's the rudeness displayed by these types that makes me react in this way. Plus, when l tried it it made me dizzy.
@@hanajinks1044 I do that as well. Just keep my line. And people on phone walking along and holding their caffeine fix in other hand is even worse.
@@hanajinks1044 Me too :)
I'd forgotten all about those old tram stops. Thanks for posting Gezza.
Your 4 minute clip captures the essence of the Melbourne of my childhood. This is high art
Back when melboirne was good
Something very rare these days right at the start, a person reading a newspaper in public, let alone a young person reading a newspaper.
Who would have predicted that back then?
Thanks again Gezza. More Melbourne 80's stuff please.
I"m a Yank but lived in Melb(Coburg,Fitzroy) a couple years.I loved that city,but couldn't believe how the locals tolerated the brutal wind.I literally had a contact lens blown out in St Kilda.Adelaide(Glenelg) got blustery,but just in winter.
Nice montage of Melbourne's modern history Gezza..keep finding more for us to savour!
By no means a perfect place......but it was OUR place ! This WAS HOME. Don't know if you could say that now sadly !!
OUR place, exactly. I always loved Melbourne but somehow feel like I don't belong anymore. 😔
@@matube73 I have exactly the same sentiments, i feel an outsider in my own city, and so do many people i know. Some politicians and bureaucrats should be watching this clip and READING the comments.
A big day in town as kids, racing to Flinders St to get the last 'off peak' train home! LOL
Gezza, keep them coming mate, a big fan, just awesome!! btw: red rattler at 2:09
0:46 - Fond memories of grabbing a bite to eat at the Classic Restaurant after working night-fill in 1976 at the Woolworths grocery store in the basement of what's now the Telstra store on the Bourke/Swanston corner. Love your work!
The Melbourne - Brighton Bus lines bus crossing flinders Street brought back memories for me 👍
What’s happened to once great city?
Good times.... 👍
Great footage and great Aussie music to go with it. Thanks Gezza!
As usual Gezza...great footage..👍..and soundtrack too..
The days when the Classic Restaurant was the height of sophisticated Melbourne dining
Loved going to the Classic Restaurant, always got a coffee and toasted raisin bread.
Yes....thats the one I remember.....I left in 1978 just returned to visit since then.....certainly a different place now...I noticed the changes after the early 90s.
Amazing video and soundtrack
The good ol days. Before it became known as MaoBourne.
MaoBourne - very funny but sadly, very, very true. WTF happened?
Our long lost diggers would turn in their graves if they saw this. Put their lives down for our value and freedom but in recent decades given away. Like Taiwan Australia will soon be a province of china.
Before we sold everything off
Great song great video!!
My fave song by INXS👍
many memories of melbourne where i was born in 1949, living and working until 1987 when i moved to cairns.
Beautiful 💞
Melbourne needs to deport about 3 million and we can have the great old Melbourne again.
I am hearing ya ✌
Agree.
Blame the immigration dept....criminals who should be imprisoned for betraying our country.
.........at least.
Another Excellent Addition
Flinders street will never change the building unless they do an outer upgrade
Before we were swamped.
I remember the red rattlers you would freeze your ass off in those things during winter.
Tops video.
Where did it all go wrong.? Great clip
Blame the Immigration Dept......should be all in prison for what they have done.
2:33 how did the Westgate bridge get that empty?
Possibly when it was still a toll road City bound, or before the population explosion surrounding Werribee.
Unless they stopped people using it to make a deceptive ad for buses and how smoothy they flow. Usual tactic from government from to mislead about public transport.
A mystery.
Early on a Sunday mornings there never used to be much traffic back then.
Have A look At Hunters and Collectors Film Clip Lumps Of Lead from 1982 West Gate Still Had Tolls
It wasn't always bumper to bumper before a lot if transport companies were based around Laverton North and not as many people lived around Point Cook, Wyndham Vale, Truganina and other new suburbs.
@@stevecini2964 I remember going through those toll gates coming from work, not sure how long they had tolls on there for but definitely not for decades and decades like now!
@@johnogsii7976 I'm pretty sure I remember the tolls being removed around 82-83.
What? People actually keeping to left while they're walking? And sheilas wearing dresses! To top it off, Kingswoods and Premiers! How did it all go wrong...?
People walk on the right now ie majority asian
@@scottclark1634 I don't think they even think about it - I went left in front of what looked to be an Australian woman the other day, and she moved to her right so I had to pass on her right!
Driving through Swanston Street.
Ahh the memories
Spot the Aussie car; easy back then.
Where do you get this stuff from ? Incredible.
If only a quarter of these cars were put in sheds ....
Ha ha I remember the round seats that were wooden you could put a tree in the middle
My beautiful city, I used to work in the city for years from 86 to 2003 and felt very safe and comfortable, I have always felt safe while visiting Melbourne throughout the years, I was born in 64. I left in 2003 and moved interstate but came back to Victoria in 2016 to live in the country, I heard the city has changed, is it really that bad now? and who destroyed it?
The immigration dept destroyed it about 25 years ago.
Yes, tragically it is that bad now. Who destroyed it you ask - politicians!
Without doubt....it is this incessant need to look wonderful on the World stage. Gone from this once perfect city to a dirty crime riddled ghetto. Its a betrayal and those responsible should be imprisoned. Another London sadly.
@@jumbo6009 could not agree more JUMBO. The sad reality is that those responsible will never be held to account, in fact, many of them sharing the profits. A city forever gone but at least we got to share it while it lasted.
Yes true.....I grew up in Geelong in the 70s and 80s, and have travelled extensively around the World. Experienced a lot of places. Nothing was even close to Melbourne in my opinion. It was perfect. Recently revisited after a long long time and I could have cried and not likely to return. All the best mate.
0:08 I would love to have that poster in my house!
Melbourne is not a nice place anymore. Sad
Nothing like a ‘7’ at the pub.
Oh yes, now you're talking. Watching the rings down the side of the 7 each time you took a sip.
Oh look Melbourne before there was terror squads on high alert 247.
Wonder what happened...
Ok so there was not much general crime like bashing’s , and you could get a real pie or hamburger, meat was affordable , people were much more polite and weekends were weekends , oh and political correctness was pretty much non existent, and teenagers could actually have a conversation without looking at a electronic devise Families had more time for each other and a few other things I’d left out , other than that these days are so much better , don’t you think ☹️
Do you have any em Ballarat Sturt Street or Wendouree
When Melbourne was a great place. Now ... ugh
Gezza !
Aussie bands ,yanks just love to rip us off ,,best intro riffs frontmen Australia
I remember by Paul Kelly
Cops with moustaches remind me of that song, at the ymca
Spot the non Anglo 🤣
The late seventies ,early eighties?
You can't be showing that mate, jesus, there are too many gender specific people of white color.
I'm going to say the mid 70s that was filmed
I’m pretty sure at 0:08 that is a pub in Hobart, not Melbourne.
And that’s a Hobart footy club poster on the wall, it’s the old Brisbane hotel at 3 Brisbane St, Hobart, used to be owned by the Tigers. Building is still there.
Another chestnut mate
Nary a mobile phone or fat gut in sight...
But reading these comments is pretty sad. What went wrong? If it’s anything at all it’s the pessimism in your black hearts.
3xy
New what song play gezza get comments every sub
You’ve got ripper taste in music Brandon 🎶 😃👍
They were better police uniforms then.
Loved the white helmets
It really has a unique look about it but I imagine it probably that practical to wear but I maybe wrong?! It's massive contrast to the police wearing white in one of the best eras to be in melbourne to now were they all almost wear black!! Perhaps a sign of grim times now?!..
@@Remington61189 unfortunately it's happening world over especially in the UK/US etc. The 80's melbourne police officers in their whites look far more approachable back then than they do now! Color factor plays alot here..Maybe they should go back to it to get back the public's trust but it's probably too far gone now...
Regarded most liveable city but never again thanks to incompetent hunchback Dan's comrades management of the state. R.i.p
Oh Bullshit. Yeah, everything is Dan’s fault.
@@trapezoidspangle934 Yep or is and your obviously a lefty commie woke mug . R. I. P. Melbourne.
The shit set in much earlier than Dan.
Why are UA-cam allowing this video clip on their site and their is no copyright infringement claim by a third party? It's got INXS music on it. Whenever I go to upload any original video on UA-cam and it has any music in the video they say that it is not allowed because they sampled the clip and found that it infringes a copyright claim by some unknown party. I'm sick to death of the parasites that run UA-cam. They have done this shit to Richard Clapton and Graeham Goble many times and would not allow them to upload their own videos to UA-cam.
Good question, UA-cam eventually block a lot a uploads like this. I’ve had many similar taken down. Some sooner rather than later.
Wonder if cleaned up grand ballroom on floors above clocks Flinders st up there as kid had pool tables Vic rail workers the dome above under that delaptated grand ballroom 81 back up there 90 still nothing doing massive space ,asked old bloke few years ago doing mataneice outside toilets ,,nothing changed up there , massive station ok New York Rockerfeller paid big station there ,look far building travels down Flinders st , suppose people to busy trying not run in each other stop look above wonder what up there ,amazed see were people had been up there glad no nob head thrown match what looked like pile of wall paper swept corner ,have be in no get up there ,made great rave party up there
Max Q his disco stuff under different name great stuff what voice Ross Wilson ,Stevie Wright doc , AUSSIE crawl of course bon no yank can hold candle to none them ,Iggy pop ,England John Lennon John Lydon sex pistols ,new Zealand go dragon ,open mind not get stuck on jonre
Grouse.
This video has sadden me, reminds me how awesome and wonderful it was living here until Geoff Whitlam signed us up to UN’s Global restructuring of our way of life and every other Prime mister after him has followed in his steps by being in 3rd world immigration and from war torn countries that’s single Handley made this and other states very unsafe!
Well you now what if they had listened to Pauline Hanson I'm pretty sure things would be very similar to those great times...The Government thought it would be a great idea to open the Flood Gates and let anyone and everyone into the Country .