Such great scenes of the Frankston I knew, the Lawn Bowling club at the foreshore was my best mates Dads work, he was Green keeper. And the drive towards Oliver's Hill let me see the track we took from Gweno Avenue to the Beach, as steep as it was we loved spending our youth at the beach. Floundering in the morning always brought a bountiful catch. I hope the kids today are still able to do this. I love Frankston and miss it dearly. Thank you Gezza 1967 from Jon Ward 1958 cheers!
Great vid of the then ordinary, now special. Newest car I can see is an EH Holden. So at least late 1963 confirmed with the beach weather if all filmed at the same time. Another Studebaker, this time the even more upmarket Hawk coupe model. Maybe from a rich Oliver's hill or Mt Martha person.
1 of our metal work Teachers @ Frankston Tech had a white Studebaker Hawk, i remember looking in the staff Car park & there were 2 Cars i loved, The Studebaker & a R Series Valiant, the 1 with the spare wheel in the boot :)
that brown brick house at 1:16 on Olivers hill is still there. The Patersons store building at 0:08 is still there at 463 Nepean Highway, you can still see an old faded sign on the back of the building from Thompson Lane. The Ritchies store next door but one was the original Ritchies (supermarket) store at 457 Nepean Hwy (was 555 Bay St)
born in 1949 i grew up in frankston from 1954 to 1967, doing all my schooling there. davey street primary school, frankston high and karingal high. this video has some great memories for me. i used to work during the school holidays at woolworths. fruit & veg one summer and menswear the next.
I cast my first vote at Davey St SS and our GP owned the house and practice just down from the school and then the dentist a couple of doors down from him. Rewards were a icecream cone from Arthur's Dairy on Playne St as sustenance for waiting for the dusty blue bus to take us home again. This clip is so evocative of the early sixties for me.. I'm fascinated that so much of Davey"s St has remained as untouched as it has.
Thanks, you do a marvellous job of finding these old film clips of Melb. Particularly, of the 1960s, when I grew up there. A lot of familiar places. Cheers.
I remember all that. I used to hire the little put put boats from Kananook Creek..out into the bay. 12 years old. A whole bunch of kids. no adults. Those days long gone
Mate!! the old clinkers, I remember them well, you would need a torpedo to sink them. White hull with a blue top, earliest I remember was 60 cents ( six shillings) an hour or (12 shillings) $ 1.20 for 3hours. At the Olivers Hill end of the Beach Paddle boards were available for 2 shillings an hour or 4 shillings for 3 hours, it was at the Beach huts next to the old toilet block / change room... We always had a look out while changing, after the Beaumont Kids went missing! It was the first time our Parents worried about us going to the beach so young.
@@jonathanward6483 Yes the old Clinkers Lol. I used to hire them from the bloke who had the old timber ship (looked a ship to me in those days). in Kananook creek. They were brillant. We got stuck on a sand bar at mouth of creek heading back in one time. We tossed our anchor into the dredger bucket, and of course it ripped it off and slung it like discuss, never to be seen again 😅. Of course we didn't tell the hire place. I live qld now, but i go back. none of that now. OHS went stupid and stopped all hire.
@@jonathanward6483 That wouldve been a concern in those days, im sure. That area boat ramp btm Olivers hill is busy now, coffee van there everyday and its become a jetski zone
I remember sitting as a young child at the creek having hot chips and the water was filled up to the top and it was so pretty, now just empty sludge, also Remeber the Sunday market being where Kmart ect is all built lol...im 28 so obviously wasn't around when it looked like this but God it was beautiful 🥰 so amazing to see, and showing my young children too what it looked like when nanna and pa where little 😍 thanks for the vid
It was beautiful, and a great place to raise kids. I have seen how much Frankston foreshore has developed. There has been to much negativity about Frankston. Frankston is people and can still be a haven for our young. Cheers stacey.
My home town. Also Graham Kennedy lived up in olives hill. The original Frankston Bowling Club Before it was moved to today’s place and named the City Of Frankston Bowls Club.
Hey Wayne my best mate John Ebbels Dad, Laurie was green keeper back then. Funnily enough I used to mow Graham Kennedys lawn, there was bugger all and steep where his house looked over the Bay. I lived at 8 Gweno Avenue.
At 1.13 up Olivers Hill before the lane duplication work. Went through Frankston about once a month to visit my grandmother and grandfather, whose home was at the top of Kars Street, about 50 yards from the start of Baden Powell Drive. Golden days of opportunity for all. Not these days.
@@briansmale5457 Amazing brian ! Pop's home was 121 Kars if i recall right. A fibro cement home with a near flat top roof. Pop passed away in 1967 so my grandmother sold up and moved to a retirement home. Cox family next door from memory. Tv repairman? There was a milk bar on Kars and Gowrie Street. Used to buy a Splice ice cream for 5 cents.
121 would be between Blair & Gowrie, the only flat roof place i can remember, was on the corner of Gowrie & the Son was about 1 yrs younger than me. I can't remember their last name ?
There used to be a boat hire place in the creek there, can't recall the name. Bloke had clinker built boats, with single cylinder inboard engines and stern tillers. Bloody things had one speed, slow and no reverse. But in those days, mid 60's they were pretty modern. Spent many a day on the 'reef' a mile or so offshore catching flathead, whiting and snapper. Later in 74, sold cars at bayside Holden in Frankston. What I miss about those days, one of many things, is the diversity and colour of the cars. Seldom saw a grey one. Today they're white, silver, grey or black. Boring as batshit.
The Round House is still there...but the bowling green has gone and been replaced by a kids play/BBQ area. The 4 pubs are still there too. Had a beer at the Vines just last week.
@0.33. The brown building was Moore’s department store. Two levels. Remember going in there a a child. Part of a chain called ‘Moore’s’ - there’s was also a Prahran branch that’s note now Prahran Central shopping centre. The frankston branch became Frankston library.
Thanks. I couldn't work that one out. We used B&W but very little retail in those days other than Saturday morning visits to Ritchies for the ritual cheque cashing in Mr Morris 's Office. And all those big big square tins of biccies which were scooped out into brown paoer bags. Iced tic tocs and pineapple juice took us through the hot summers.
I remember when it was like this. ....so peaceful and idyllic. Have pics of myself and family members on that beach that date from the 1960s back to the '30s. Now, sadly, the area is a filthy, tangled traffic shambles filled with hoodie - wearing junkies and every second wall is covered in spray painted obscenities.
Remember when driving along sea side look up see old bomb cars that had been drivn off dead end roads ,where there years stuck between trees ,that's the road I remember on way safety beach , OLIVER'S hill like slice Brighton in franston ,didn't like franston of 80,s if not local 50 50 chance gettn nose broken or break someone's nose at 21 century night club , unfortunately night always end all in brawl in that carpark heading down beach ,always over Sheila ,get great birds everywhere going that 21 st century ,yeah I enjoyed the franston see this footage than one I experienced in late 80,s suppos diffent memeriors of different times ,I live OLIVER'S hill any day week great hidden little part world
Mate the 21st Century Club was originally the Frankston ten pin bowling alley, Later it was the Kananook Club, which was a pick up place.... But we had real music, Divinyls Rock band, Max Merrit and the Meteors etc. Oh and local Boys the Latauri Brothers, I wonder if anyone remembers them?
Such great scenes of the Frankston I knew, the Lawn Bowling club at the foreshore was my best mates Dads work, he was Green keeper. And the drive towards Oliver's Hill let me see the track we took from Gweno Avenue to the Beach, as steep as it was we loved spending our youth at the beach. Floundering in the morning always brought a bountiful catch. I hope the kids today are still able to do this. I love Frankston and miss it dearly. Thank you Gezza 1967 from Jon Ward 1958 cheers!
Wowwwww Loving these old footage of basically where I used to live ....Fantastic ❤❤😍
Great vid of the then ordinary, now special.
Newest car I can see is an EH Holden. So at least late 1963 confirmed with the beach weather if all filmed at the same time.
Another Studebaker, this time the even more upmarket Hawk coupe model. Maybe from a rich Oliver's hill or Mt Martha person.
1 of our metal work Teachers @ Frankston Tech had a white Studebaker Hawk, i remember looking in the staff Car park & there were 2 Cars i loved, The Studebaker & a R Series Valiant, the 1 with the spare wheel in the boot :)
I must be getting old! Not only did I recognise all the cars but from the first bar recognised the Blue Hills theme.
that brown brick house at 1:16 on Olivers hill is still there.
The Patersons store building at 0:08 is still there at 463 Nepean Highway, you can still see an old faded sign on the back of the building from Thompson Lane.
The Ritchies store next door but one was the original Ritchies (supermarket) store at 457 Nepean Hwy (was 555 Bay St)
The brown brick house has not changed in over 50 years. Living in Mt. Eliza I drive past it from time to time.
born in 1949 i grew up in frankston from 1954 to 1967, doing all my schooling there.
davey street primary school, frankston high and karingal high.
this video has some great memories for me. i used to work during the school holidays at woolworths.
fruit & veg one summer and menswear the next.
I cast my first vote at Davey St SS and our GP owned the house and practice just down from the school and then the dentist a couple of doors down from him.
Rewards were a icecream cone from Arthur's Dairy on Playne St as sustenance for waiting for the dusty blue bus to take us home again.
This clip is so evocative of the early sixties for me..
I'm fascinated that so much of Davey"s St has remained as untouched as it has.
Karingal High - 89,92
Thanks, you do a marvellous job of finding these old film clips of Melb. Particularly, of the 1960s, when I grew up there. A lot of familiar places. Cheers.
Your videos are absolutely priceless ❤️❤️❤️
Around the mid 60s give or take a few years . Awesome stuff buddy cheers .
I remember all that. I used to hire the little put put boats from Kananook Creek..out into the bay. 12 years old. A whole bunch of kids. no adults. Those days long gone
Mate!! the old clinkers, I remember them well, you would need a torpedo to sink them. White hull with a blue top, earliest I remember was 60 cents ( six shillings) an hour or (12 shillings) $ 1.20 for 3hours. At the Olivers Hill end of the Beach Paddle boards were available for 2 shillings an hour or 4 shillings for 3 hours, it was at the Beach huts next to the old toilet block / change room... We always had a look out while changing, after the Beaumont Kids went missing! It was the first time our Parents worried about us going to the beach so young.
@@jonathanward6483 Yes the old Clinkers Lol. I used to hire them from the bloke who had the old timber ship (looked a ship to me in those days). in Kananook creek. They were brillant. We got stuck on a sand bar at mouth of creek heading back in one time. We tossed our anchor into the dredger bucket, and of course it ripped it off and slung it like discuss, never to be seen again 😅. Of course we didn't tell the hire place. I live qld now, but i go back. none of that now. OHS went stupid and stopped all hire.
@@jonathanward6483 That wouldve been a concern in those days, im sure. That area boat ramp btm Olivers hill is busy now, coffee van there everyday and its become a jetski zone
Love your videos, from Reservoir, cheers
Bloody ripper footage! Thankyou for the upload!!!!
I remember sitting as a young child at the creek having hot chips and the water was filled up to the top and it was so pretty, now just empty sludge, also Remeber the Sunday market being where Kmart ect is all built lol...im 28 so obviously wasn't around when it looked like this but God it was beautiful 🥰 so amazing to see, and showing my young children too what it looked like when nanna and pa where little 😍 thanks for the vid
It was beautiful, and a great place to raise kids. I have seen how much Frankston foreshore has developed. There has been to much negativity about Frankston. Frankston is people and can still be a haven for our young. Cheers stacey.
Wow memories heyyy
Agreed
My home town. Also Graham Kennedy lived up in olives hill.
The original Frankston Bowling Club Before it was moved to today’s place and named the City Of Frankston Bowls Club.
Hey Wayne my best mate John Ebbels Dad, Laurie was green keeper back then. Funnily enough I used to mow Graham Kennedys lawn, there was bugger all and steep where his house looked over the Bay. I lived at 8 Gweno Avenue.
About 8 years before I arrived there but many familiar places, thanks!
At 1.13 up Olivers Hill before the lane duplication work.
Went through Frankston about once a month to visit my grandmother and grandfather, whose home was at the top of Kars Street, about 50 yards from the start of Baden Powell Drive.
Golden days of opportunity for all. Not these days.
I lived @ 120 Kars st about 6 house past the start of Baden Powell drv
@@briansmale5457 Amazing brian !
Pop's home was 121 Kars if i recall right. A fibro cement home with a near flat top roof.
Pop passed away in 1967 so my grandmother sold up and moved to a retirement home.
Cox family next door from memory. Tv repairman?
There was a milk bar on Kars and Gowrie Street. Used to buy a Splice ice cream for 5 cents.
@@alanriley9754 Kars and Leslie sorry
@@richardmaskew8518 Dick
121 would be between Blair & Gowrie, the only flat roof place i can remember, was on the corner of Gowrie & the Son was about 1 yrs younger than me. I can't remember their last name ?
There used to be a boat hire place in the creek there, can't recall the name. Bloke had clinker built boats, with single cylinder inboard engines and stern tillers. Bloody things had one speed, slow and no reverse. But in those days, mid 60's they were pretty modern. Spent many a day on the 'reef' a mile or so offshore catching flathead, whiting and snapper. Later in 74, sold cars at bayside Holden in Frankston. What I miss about those days, one of many things, is the diversity and colour of the cars. Seldom saw a grey one. Today they're white, silver, grey or black. Boring as batshit.
Great memories
Great video!!
This is gold
The Round House is still there...but the bowling green has gone and been replaced by a kids play/BBQ area. The 4 pubs are still there too. Had a beer at the Vines just last week.
looks almost the same to me, just different cars and some slight differences in terms of buildings
My home town.
crackhead
It's changed a lott
@0.33. The brown building was Moore’s department store. Two levels. Remember going in there a a child. Part of a chain called ‘Moore’s’ - there’s was also a Prahran branch that’s note now Prahran Central shopping centre. The frankston branch became Frankston library.
Thanks. I couldn't work that one out. We used B&W but very little retail in those days other than Saturday morning visits to Ritchies for the ritual cheque cashing in Mr Morris 's Office.
And all those big big square tins of biccies which were scooped out into brown paoer bags. Iced tic tocs and pineapple juice took us through the hot summers.
did my head in
I remember when it was like this. ....so peaceful and idyllic. Have pics of myself and family members on that beach that date from the 1960s back to the '30s. Now, sadly, the area is a filthy, tangled traffic shambles filled with hoodie - wearing junkies and every second wall is covered in spray painted obscenities.
I was born the day this video was filmed. Or thereabouts. 1963/my guess. How nice to see less concrete and warm colours. Where are all the bogans?
The bogans came, and I never thought I'd say this, unfortunately they went.
Remember when driving along sea side look up see old bomb cars that had been drivn off dead end roads ,where there years stuck between trees ,that's the road I remember on way safety beach , OLIVER'S hill like slice Brighton in franston ,didn't like franston of 80,s if not local 50 50 chance gettn nose broken or break someone's nose at 21 century night club , unfortunately night always end all in brawl in that carpark heading down beach ,always over Sheila ,get great birds everywhere going that 21 st century ,yeah I enjoyed the franston see this footage than one I experienced in late 80,s suppos diffent memeriors of different times ,I live OLIVER'S hill any day week great hidden little part world
You definitely are from karingal.... can't spell
@@JimLahey21 learning
Mate the 21st Century Club was originally the Frankston ten pin bowling alley, Later it was the Kananook Club, which was a pick up place.... But we had real music, Divinyls
Rock band, Max Merrit and the Meteors etc. Oh and local Boys the Latauri Brothers, I wonder if anyone remembers them?
When Dermie was a little tacker
Russell Green also