A few views of Sydney, Australia in April 1992 (A), including train views, etc. Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon www5d.biglobe.n... / lylehsaxon tokyoartmusic.b...
Trust me if you have great memories of Sydney like this (I'm more into the 80's variant but early 90's is fine) , you don't ever ever want to ruin it by going there now via 2022+! Just don't do it and remember it for how it once was...
Wow! Is the first part from the roof of the newly-built 'Waratah' hotel? I have such fond childhood memories of staying there with my dad for a couple of weeks shortly after it opened. I thought the open roof was wicked and so high up! So excited I stumbled on this. I love these minimally-edited videos where you just get to experience the sounds and sights of the time - really takes you back.
@dolanzz Thanks for the comment! I took this while visiting there in 1992 and haven't been back since then, so I've been wondering how the city has changed. I have some more material that I'll try to post in about a week - so there should be a "(B)" and maybe a "(C)". - LHS
Through your Sydney videos, which are beautifully shot and nostalgic to me, I discovered your Japanese videos. You are living the life which I dream about one day, as I would love to live in Japan. I'm just scared about the employment situation, and managing to get a permanent residency, but watching your videos let me envision the dream a little more vividly.
I am very surprised that voice hasn't changed after so many decades of hearing his voice at Sydney train stations. I didn't know his name, but after your comment, I looked up Grant Goldman, and discovered he died of cancer this year on 17th January 2020, at the ripe age of 69. Grant lived an interesting life, and I urge more Australians look him up and read about him. Especially if you're from Sydney, and wonder who's voice it is you hear at the train station. May Grant R.I.P., and may his voice continue to live on in Sydney for more decades to come.
I remember at the time being surprised at how much tourism there appeared to be from Japan. Just around six years before this, Japan went from Y245 to 1US$ to less than Y100 to 1US$, so suddenly overseas travel was something ordinary people could afford. Every hotel I stayed at on this trip either had someone Japanese or someone who spoke fluent Japanese at the front desk. 1992 was the early part of Japan's debt bubble recession, but it hadn't hit hard yet. - LHS
I agree, but at the time, people were using film video cameras the same why they had used consumer movie cameras - to record events and vacations. Often as I walked down streets in Tokyo taking ordinary scenes, I could hear people saying "Why is he filming here?". People didn't think there was any reason to record the ordinary. So rather than there being sleeping tape in people's closets that could be posted, there probably isn't (much of) anything from that time in existence....
@erana19 I've forgotten the name of the hotel, but that was taken from a balcony equipped room in the hotel (most of the rooms didn't have one). It's been 19 years, but I think it was on the top floor, so the roof would be about the same height. - LHS
Hi Lyle, I was wondering if those buildings you were filming at beginning of video and again at 7:40 were of Centennial Plaza at 260-300 Elizabeth Street just across from Central Station? I work in this precinct today and it looks eerily similar though I thought the buildings today were built a bit later than 1992.
wow, so much has changed since then! Most dramatically of all the people..Doesn't seem as packed with foot traffic compared to now where you have to walk on the road, you would also have trouble trying not to film any footage without asians walking through it these days
Reign Roamze bloody oath mate! we are being over run by them. Even my Chinese colleague at work says the same thing so we are not being racist it's just the truth
Unfortunately circle of life a lot of the time people take over land and then get overrun themselves but certain politicians are making it easy for them
You happened to visit during the middle of Australia's last recession and it was a big one,, unemployment was at 10.8%! As severe as what the USA has been going through this decade. Australia has not had a recession since, thanks to booming Asia. Though are are some big construction projects under way, there evidence of the recession all around, a few for lease signs, empty holes of cancelled skyscraper projects.
@erana19 Thinking back on staying at that hotel - I remember going to the hotel pool and meeting a man who was staying there with his son - it would funny if that was you! I think he said his job was... something to do with baseball? Boy scouts? I can't remember what it was exactly, except that he was there on business. - LHS
I don't actually remember (it was 30 years ago...) but in the scene just after showing the ticket, there's what appears to be a man taking tickets standing on the left - wearing a tie. And... I say I don't remember, but I think I would have remembered if there was no kind of ticket verification at the exit, so I'm pretty sure it's that man - taking tickets.
@grig60 Well - it's the same style of camera handling as my Tokyo stuff (same guy holding the camera after all). But - yeah - I think there's a common element of the era as well - in 1992, people weren't using computers very much yet, and e-mail hadn't become the standard tool it is nows, etc. - LHS
Yeah, when I took that video, I sure didn't imagine how the world would become! Things are so messed up now... But 29 years ago actually - 30 years in 2022.
Wow this is great i was 26 back then 58 now living in the inner west still there now won’t leave Sydney ever feel safe here.
Great Video....1992 was the year I left Sydney to live in Europe....i have not been back since then....thanks for the great memories...Regards
Trust me if you have great memories of Sydney like this (I'm more into the 80's variant but early 90's is fine) , you don't ever ever want to ruin it by going there now via 2022+! Just don't do it and remember it for how it once was...
That's how I feel about London!
I was living in Potts Point during that time.
Wow! Is the first part from the roof of the newly-built 'Waratah' hotel? I have such fond childhood memories of staying there with my dad for a couple of weeks shortly after it opened. I thought the open roof was wicked and so high up! So excited I stumbled on this. I love these minimally-edited videos where you just get to experience the sounds and sights of the time - really takes you back.
@dolanzz Thanks for the comment! I took this while visiting there in 1992 and haven't been back since then, so I've been wondering how the city has changed. I have some more material that I'll try to post in about a week - so there should be a "(B)" and maybe a "(C)". - LHS
Through your Sydney videos, which are beautifully shot and nostalgic to me, I discovered your Japanese videos. You are living the life which I dream about one day, as I would love to live in Japan. I'm just scared about the employment situation, and managing to get a permanent residency, but watching your videos let me envision the dream a little more vividly.
It's a big step to make - moving to Tokyo to live. I'm glad I did, but it hasn't all been smooth sailing....
wow u can hear grant goldmans voice in train announcements
I am very surprised that voice hasn't changed after so many decades of hearing his voice at Sydney train stations. I didn't know his name, but after your comment, I looked up Grant Goldman, and discovered he died of cancer this year on 17th January 2020, at the ripe age of 69. Grant lived an interesting life, and I urge more Australians look him up and read about him. Especially if you're from Sydney, and wonder who's voice it is you hear at the train station.
May Grant R.I.P., and may his voice continue to live on in Sydney for more decades to come.
92年の再生リスト、見れていなかった映像全部見終わったぁ～...たぶん😅見終わるのに2日掛かりました。でもライルさんの映像は楽しいから全然飽きない😄
ありがとうございます！ 気に入ってくれて嬉しいです！
ホントに不思議で同じ動画を何回見ても飽きないし、分かっているのに同じ所でクスッと笑ってしまったり何か楽しいんです🎵
I remember at the time being surprised at how much tourism there appeared to be from Japan. Just around six years before this, Japan went from Y245 to 1US$ to less than Y100 to 1US$, so suddenly overseas travel was something ordinary people could afford. Every hotel I stayed at on this trip either had someone Japanese or someone who spoke fluent Japanese at the front desk. 1992 was the early part of Japan's debt bubble recession, but it hadn't hit hard yet. - LHS
29年前のオーストラリアですか😳❗列車の形がまた独特ですね〜。
6:11 I remember him... He sang ''Piano Man'' on guitar
Incredible. Doesn't seem that different from Tokyo. Excellent footage!
No phones !
And no good coffee!
@grig60 Some of the time I was by myself, and some of the time I was with friends, etc.
PLease anyone reading this comment can we get more of these video's posted on youtube. Ask your friends and family to post them.
I agree, but at the time, people were using film video cameras the same why they had used consumer movie cameras - to record events and vacations. Often as I walked down streets in Tokyo taking ordinary scenes, I could hear people saying "Why is he filming here?". People didn't think there was any reason to record the ordinary. So rather than there being sleeping tape in people's closets that could be posted, there probably isn't (much of) anything from that time in existence....
@erana19 I've forgotten the name of the hotel, but that was taken from a balcony equipped room in the hotel (most of the rooms didn't have one). It's been 19 years, but I think it was on the top floor, so the roof would be about the same height. - LHS
Hi Lyle, I was wondering if those buildings you were filming at beginning of video and again at 7:40 were of Centennial Plaza at 260-300 Elizabeth Street just across from Central Station? I work in this precinct today and it looks eerily similar though I thought the buildings today were built a bit later than 1992.
wow, so much has changed since then! Most dramatically of all the people..Doesn't seem as packed with foot traffic compared to now where you have to walk on the road, you would also have trouble trying not to film any footage without asians walking through it these days
Reign Roamze bloody oath mate! we are being over run by them. Even my Chinese colleague at work says the same thing so we are not being racist it's just the truth
Unfortunately circle of life a lot of the time people take over land and then get overrun themselves but certain politicians are making it easy for them
You happened to visit during the middle of Australia's last recession and it was a big one,, unemployment was at 10.8%! As severe as what the USA has been going through this decade. Australia has not had a recession since, thanks to booming Asia.
Though are are some big construction projects under way, there evidence of the recession all around, a few for lease signs, empty holes of cancelled skyscraper projects.
Took us almost 30 years to have another recession, first one I've ever experienced
@erana19 Thinking back on staying at that hotel - I remember going to the hotel pool and meeting a man who was staying there with his son - it would funny if that was you! I think he said his job was... something to do with baseball? Boy scouts? I can't remember what it was exactly, except that he was there on business. - LHS
Were you by yourself?
3:09
Did they have ticket machines at the exit, or did you show your ticket to the worker?
I don't actually remember (it was 30 years ago...) but in the scene just after showing the ticket, there's what appears to be a man taking tickets standing on the left - wearing a tie. And... I say I don't remember, but I think I would have remembered if there was no kind of ticket verification at the exit, so I'm pretty sure it's that man - taking tickets.
@grig60 Well - it's the same style of camera handling as my Tokyo stuff (same guy holding the camera after all). But - yeah - I think there's a common element of the era as well - in 1992, people weren't using computers very much yet, and e-mail hadn't become the standard tool it is nows, etc. - LHS
Fast forward 20 years Sydney is in its worst lockdown pandemic COVID
Yeah, when I took that video, I sure didn't imagine how the world would become! Things are so messed up now... But 29 years ago actually - 30 years in 2022.
Time capsule.