Abandoned - Darling Harbour 1988
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2019
- To celebrate 1,000 subscribers, I am returning to Darling Harbour to examine the original Darling Harbour development from 1988 until 2013.
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My family and I spent a lot of time at Darling Harbour through the 90s and 2000’s and have good memories of all the locations like Sega world and even the monorail. I may be getting old and sentimental but it doesn’t feel like the old Darling Harbour anymore. It was never perfect but I’m glad I experienced some of how it was originally envisaged, not like the vanilla sameness it is now. Thanks for the walk down memory lane Sir Laptop. I’ve enjoyed your series so far. Good stuff!
SEGA World, Bring it back
I seem to be one of few negative comments which shows that the majority of people and government officials have poor taste and want to change a lovely and well developed site into a flashy and trashy looking destination. The Sydney City Council are also poor judges of taste and are biased towards pedestrian only movements around the City and environs. Needs other design alternatives to view.
Sad... I was there on opening day in 88 and went there a lot. Why do they need to rip all the Bicentennial 1988 buildings down ?... I'm guessing money and greed has taken over😕 .
This makes me feel ashamed to say I was born in NSW and I love the place but it's just to costly to live but that's wrong
No doubt I still remember the Old Darling Harbour. Me and my family have spent a lots of time there throughout the 90s and 2000s and I have lots of great memories, wonderful memories of the location like SEGA World Sydney, Sydney Aquarium, National Maritime Museum and especially the old Children’s Playground. Even though it’s changed to what it is now I will never forget the old Darling Harbour and it will remain a part of my childhood memories forever.
If only I could see the old playground one last time, the bridge lives in my memory now 🥲
I remember going on a school excursion to the original exhibition centre to see some dinosaurs back in 1996. We were sitting eating lunch or something and some people came up and asked if we would like to go to Sega World... for free. Well yeah!
Now Harbourside shopping centre is being demolished too. Darling harbour isn’t the same it’s tooo modern and urban now😢
That's the only thing that keeps Sydney NSW economy going. Build it knock it down. Darling Harbour is a horrible tourist trap.
It's great to see someone doing "abandoned" type videos that are Aussie specific.
My best memories of Darling Harbour were going to the Motor Show with my Dad and brothers.
I’m of two minds about this.
Darling Harbour was my favourite place when I was five in 1988. It was so much better then than it is now.
This is good to watch, thanks. I have been documenting a lot of the changes around Darling Harbour over the past 8 years and as they are now going to demolish Harbourside it was interesting to watch this. I am hoping to get shots of that demolition tho I do find it a little sad its all been replaced.
The last time we were at darling harbour was 1998 and we stayed in the big hotel behind
Was down Darling Harbour last weekend, haven't really been through the area for over 15 years. Barely recognised the place, development is inevitable but it doesn't have the same personality it once did.
THIS IS GREAT I was in Sydney during the latter half of 1988 and it was great to see Darling Harbour before it got crazy and modernised again. I loved the monorail
Yep. I described it too my dad like this, "if you blind folded me and put me in certain spots I couldn't tell you where I am". Only Harbourside, the skyline and Haymarket give it away. It's ugly too. I hate lend lease for personal reasons.
Just spent a weekend in darling Harbour, pretty much a ghost town pretty sad.