My goodness me! What a flood of memories this film brought back to me. In 1964, I was 18 years old in June. I had already been in the Army for three years. Should have enlisted at the age of 17 which was the official age for enlistment but I lied about my age and joined up in 1961, which was 2 months after arriving in Australia from Scotland. My dad signed the papers for me, but did pick up that I had not entered my date of birth. I told him to sign the papers and I would put the DOB in late. Poor old dad thought the Australian Army enlistment age was 15 yrs which was when boys signs up as Boy Soldiers in the British Army. Got married to the love of my life in September 1964, and bought my first new car that cost me 1032 Pounds (A standard EH Holden Station wagon) on 12 December 1964. Life was much simpler then. We did not have all the gizmos kids today have. we were happy and contented. Looking at the decorum and respectful way people behaved then makes me want to go back to that era. I miss i so much. Now; after 55 years (55 in September) of marriage, my wife and I look back to our seven children and 29 grand children with a great deal of happiness. I remember the Roma Street station in Brisbane back in 1964 which is how I remember it. Wonderful Memories. Thanks for sharing.
Holy siht! This is THE Brisbane we came to in April ‘65! Compared to the Liverpool of my childhood, this place was sooooooo weird. My dad loved it, he was thrilled to pieces with it - a pioneering adventurer at heart, he saw nothing but opportunity, sunshine, and wondrous new beginnings. But 7 year old me was like my mother - we’d landed on an alien, sun-scorched, weird, backwater colony and just wanted to go home to Liverpool. One word became taboo: “homesick”. We weren’t even allowed to whisper it much less openly cry for Kirkdale, Aunty Dolly, our cousins and me nin. My mother put in 10 hard years then finally had the money to go home. For the rest of her life she flew back and forth between Brisbane and the UK more times than I can remember. My dad had a plaque that read, “Happiness is never having to leave Queensland”. He was an adventurer, my dad, and he travelled the world, but he always loved Brisbane, QLD. It was always his home.
I saw this for the first time only a few days ago. What a surprise, I saw myself and my mother strolling round the dept store. Mum has passed on so its great to see us both together . And, yes, that's how Brisbane was back in the sixties. People got dressed up then to go out. Brisbane was a safe place to live. Everybody was slim then. People have become isolated from their neighbours now. People was more honest then, more respectful. No drugs.
As an historical record this is pure gold. It's slanted towards the more clean living side of Brisbane at the time (naturally), but other than that it's a very accurate portrayal of living in Brisbane in 1964.
@Paul G Who are these 'anti whites' you speak of? "Anything built by whites will be knocked down if these anti whites have there way".... Cmon mate. That is just straight ignorance and lack of information. Please inform me of what building company is all white? Don't spread non sense with your irrational fears.
Thank you for uploading this! I moved to Brisbane in 1971 from California, I was 9. I have some great memories and its sad to read these comments about how much it changed there. I moved back in '74. But living in Australia was a magical experience and it felt like I went back in time. We didn't lock our doors or our bikes at school.
We arrived from London in 83 but still recognise most of the places. My wife’s first job was in the Wintergarden, we landed Wednesday, she had an interview Saturday and started work Monday still jet lagged!
A fabulous time capsule of our lives and times. How our society has changed so much. Somewhat amusing Dad and his ever present pipe! NFSA keep these treasures going:))
The city I was born in in the year I was born. Makes this so special to me. It didn't change much for another 20 years and then bang, it got a shot of Expo and that was Brisbane as we once knew it.
Thanks for letting us know. We will be re-releasing all of this series in 4k. Still highly compressed to get on UA-cam of course but a big improvement.
Good times. A simpler happy life. Plenty of work and in general a healthier population. It was nice to see the city hall steps before they were covered by the roof of the King George carpark!
@@movieklump The truth is, no era is perfect. Every period in time has its problems...but on balance, the 60s looks like a far more peaceful, harmonious, law-abiding, enjoyable time than today...in Australia at least. I think it is significant that almost any person you speak to who actually lived through that era will tell you it was better than now. BTW why did you feel the need to immediately point out something negative about the 60s in your reply? Do you feel threatened in some way by the suggestion that the present time is not necessarily the "greatest ever"?
The good old days, with no ultrasound, CAT scan, or MRI, so best not to get a serious illness - and don't forget that polio was still kicking around. Are you really sure you want to go back? Nostalgia tends to overlook the little things, like the fact that maternal deaths in childbirth have decreased from 41.2 in 1964-1966 to 7.1 in 2008-2012. We've come a long way since the 60's. Some things have been lost, but much has been gained.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge The only real gains have been technological ones like those you mentioned. In other fields - particularly socially and culturally - I believe we have actually gone BACKWARDS since that time...
Wow! This such an amazing and beautiful piece of nostalgia! I was born '67, but it's not a far cry from the Brisbane I remember of my childhood (minus the trams though). Those times; the fashion, the hairdos, the cars, all captured in the photos I still have of my parents and relatives too. Australia, 'the lucky country' - everything seemed so hopeful, abundant and innocent then. An idealistic paradise in many ways and wonderful place to grow up.
@raymond daubney That's pretty harsh and uncalled for. I think Seapin 1 was referring to the fact that most businesses were closed on Sundays, and life was more relaxed on Sundays. I think so too.
@@robertmackintosh5163 all your generations doing what do you mean no one else to blame you raised us Hahaha I think its just hard that a 20 something year old has more knowledge then learnt more understands more Fucking cant handle progression Need to go back to school learn about inflation and fiat currency
Hi Jason, nice to hear from you again. This one was presented before but is available now in 4K. As is the whole series so we will be re-uploading them all. Hope you appreciate the improved quality.
MY goodness, brought a tear to my eye. Used to live in Inala as a kid Im 71 now. A lot of memories in Brisbane for us all, Im just down the road now place called Gold Coast Cheers all Christopher Waring.
Great video. To all those people moaning about how much better life was back then... You do know you're watching a UA-cam VIDEO on the INTERNET, right?
I absolutely *loved* this film. I'm going to draw out £10 from my building society and emigrate to this enchanted isle. Hope it's just like in the film when I get there.
Australia was great before colour TV arrived. It almost seems as if the more technological Australia became, the less society was cohesive and happy. Technology has a nasty habit of enslaving us, rather than freeing people. Color TV arrived in Oz about 1973. I think it was a lovelier country prior to this time. Color T.V. also brought along a mass of degenerate American programming. This was when the rot set in. The United States has ruined everything it's touched - socially, financially and academically.
Wow. You might be um ... disillusioned by all the changes. Maybe the skimpy clothes wearing swearing welfare women with their kids fathered by a guy who left 5 years ago for a start or the people with headphones in who don’t even look up from their electronic device to say hello or speak to any other living breathing human around them even in a public place like a bus stop or a shopping centre . Maybe the expensive food, fast food, all the car people, the women with little to no clothes on, the men who swear and teenagers swear with no respect for their mothers or families in public. Skateboarding, vandalising, drunks, hoons. We have that all here now. Well done Australia you came so far 🙄👏🏻
So much of "Old Brisbane" was still around in the 80's & 90's when I was a little tacker, and if you know where to look it's still out there, the Dean Brothers haven't gotten to it yet.
I'm certain I saw my aunty Flo! My grandfather too, who later moved to Victoria and the rest is history. I remember them as hard working people who cared for others including their families. Those days gone by. Now your left to fend for yourself with little or no support and Australia's top polical issues are: homelessness, no work, no play, in some cases no hope and Australia doesn't own Australia any more and Australians can't afford to live in Australia anymore Those days are gone.
@@cookie-dough-fox69 You're quite right. There were many attitudes and problems plaguing Australian society back then, usually not spoken about or (criminally) ignored. It's very easy to be seduced by the nostalgia fallacy. Yep the Salvos or the Brotherhood were the social security net for many.
Brisbane used to look so wonderful. Now its a soulless corporate husk of what it used to be. Every building looks the same as the skyscrapers cast shadows over the very little old buildings left. Everything else has slowly been demolished and replaced with "efficient" buildings. Every house is beyond reasonable to purchase or even rent right now. Convenient transport such as trams were removed. Too many buses exist on the roads, along with cars, causing constant traffic congestion.
We had home phones and decency, unlike today where a mobile phone turned into a tool of obsession with all the apps, Internet, etc. How many young kids watch porno on smartphone nowadays? How many kids are having underage sex? How many kids do nothing worthwhile but play computer games all day, hardly play any sport?
Sometimes less is by far definitely more. Three or four channels on tv( instead of hundreds like today, net flux, Stan, foxtel etc) people sat down for a meal and spoke to each other, there was interaction. A book was a gift, not something you got a long face when one was given to you. Cars were built to last. Houses were not stacked on top of one another, the 1/4 acre block was common place. Traffic actually had a peak hour, not a constant drone like it does now. People were courteous and respect full and didn’t push right past you at the checkout. Progress hey.....? By any other name could it be so deceptively called?
Great film, kinda sad though. Time is a cruel mistress, that hot young daughter will be in her late 70s now. I'm a 1966 baby, now in my 50s. I have fond memories of my childhood. On the weekends, I'd leave home on my bike after breakfast & not come home till dinner time. Groups of friends hanging out, building secret cubby houses by the creek, when the creek water was clean enough to drink, eating worms, playing with matches, good times.
Would have been great if Brisbane had retained some more of its old character as other cities have done....rather than the cluttered mess we have now. The power of the developer and no forethought,
Just like Perth. Interesting that forethought means premeditation, more commonly used for crime. Very apt for those planners because what they did was a crime
Yeah, and it cost about 5 times what it would cost now. You may not like free trade, but it brought prices down so ordinary people could have a better life.
You would have to work it, hard, to make it go anywhere. Close contender for the worst car of all time, at least from Britain, but there are a few Vauxhall models that beat it, especially the one with the vertical boot (or was that a Singer Sunbeam?). Fun in the sun though.
A beach in Brisbane, HA Ha, I lived in Brisbane for a few years, the closest beaxh is on the Gold coast, it took me over 2 hours drive in summer from Brisbane to get there, all the locals swarm to the Beach and traffic is hopeless.
Pommies decided on Brisbane with the Moreton Bay Islands are a protection from invasion. Who else would build an Aussie capital without good beaches. Bribie Island has the best beaches.
There is a beach in Brisbane now - an artificial one but nevertheless a beach at the Southbank parkland area - and of course there are also beaches at Sandgate and Redcliffe. As for surf beaches - yes the Gold Coast or the Sunshine Coast, both about 100km from the city - the former to the south and the latter to the north. Bribie had a surf beach too - but you needed to walk a long way north from the ocean-side village to get to the real surf...
Have you not been in a house lately? They still make them with timber, steel, and plaster like they did back then. The only difference is that we don't have a risk of mesothelioma if the insulation gets cracked.
Yes, I remember adults always dressed up to leave the house. My granny wore hat and stockings, good shoes, gloves in her hand bag, made me wear a little clip on tie and bryll creamed my hair. And we were only walking up the road to attend Sunday mass!
Old Brisbane qlder homes are splendid when well maintained like it this video. Maryborough QLD has some amazing Qlder homes and they don't Knock them all down either..
i was born in brisbane in 1954 i lived through the 60s going to school and the 70s disco era top of the state general jacksons newyork new york sybils the underground great memories
My Gran used to let my brother and I ride the tram into Queen st from Torbreck, Highgate hill to go see a movie. Really safe and fun and easy to get around. Lived there years later while working in George St, and rode the bus or drove to work. So different these days.....
this is almost identical to south Africa in 1964 including the sub tropical weather . and now SA is a Marxist shithole nice one libtards. well what do you8 know its the same here in old England too nice one again you libtard stupid 'feel good' cunts
Population 600 000! Australia just added more than that to our annual population growth in a year but I ain't seeing more major cities springing up. We're just concreting over anything livable in the existing cities and putting up dog box high rise apartments but apparently it still isn't anywhere near enough and we're in a rental crisis.
0:31 in. the position of Albany (King George Sound) is incorrect. that is awesome :) As an Historian, this is absolute GOLD. Wonderful to watch, thank you for the upload. What a wonderful Era to be a young person and be brought up in, Australia so young and full of growth potential. No concern of America's lust for Nuclear war, just living. Maybe that's why they called it the Golden years, long after WW2. And far from WW3 which America is so keen to seen occur.
Great place in those days and surfers paradise was just a little village before that bloody Victorian Bruce small arrived, now surfers is the cess pit of Australia !
My goodness me! What a flood of memories this film brought back to me. In 1964, I was 18 years old in June. I had already been in the Army for three years. Should have enlisted at the age of 17 which was the official age for enlistment but I lied about my age and joined up in 1961, which was 2 months after arriving in Australia from Scotland. My dad signed the papers for me, but did pick up that I had not entered my date of birth. I told him to sign the papers and I would put the DOB in late. Poor old dad thought the Australian Army enlistment age was 15 yrs which was when boys signs up as Boy Soldiers in the British Army. Got married to the love of my life in September 1964, and bought my first new car that cost me 1032 Pounds (A standard EH Holden Station wagon) on 12 December 1964. Life was much simpler then. We did not have all the gizmos kids today have. we were happy and contented. Looking at the decorum and respectful way people behaved then makes me want to go back to that era. I miss i so much. Now; after 55 years (55 in September) of marriage, my wife and I look back to our seven children and 29 grand children with a great deal of happiness. I remember the Roma Street station in Brisbane back in 1964 which is how I remember it. Wonderful Memories. Thanks for sharing.
I am 62, so 7, living in Stafford, when this was made. It brings back many memories
I live in Stafford now
My Dad is the same age as you, though he grew up in Enoggera, as did i. He describes this era of Brisbane so well.
I used to live in Stafford also
Sure does Brian.
Brian Tayler Don't see any Burkas
Saw Ian Drury and The Blockheads at Cloudland ….. was such an awesome venue. 🙂❤️🧚♀️
Holy siht! This is THE Brisbane we came to in April ‘65! Compared to the Liverpool of my childhood, this place was sooooooo weird. My dad loved it, he was thrilled to pieces with it - a pioneering adventurer at heart, he saw nothing but opportunity, sunshine, and wondrous new beginnings. But 7 year old me was like my mother - we’d landed on an alien, sun-scorched, weird, backwater colony and just wanted to go home to Liverpool. One word became taboo: “homesick”. We weren’t even allowed to whisper it much less openly cry for Kirkdale, Aunty Dolly, our cousins and me nin. My mother put in 10 hard years then finally had the money to go home. For the rest of her life she flew back and forth between Brisbane and the UK more times than I can remember. My dad had a plaque that read, “Happiness is never having to leave Queensland”. He was an adventurer, my dad, and he travelled the world, but he always loved Brisbane, QLD. It was always his home.
Did you go back with your mum? I'm invested in your story now.
I saw this for the first time only a few days ago. What a surprise, I saw myself and my mother strolling round the dept store. Mum has passed on so its great to see us both together . And, yes, that's how Brisbane was back in the sixties. People got dressed up then to go out. Brisbane was a safe place to live. Everybody was slim then. People have become isolated from their neighbours now. People was more honest then, more respectful. No drugs.
Wow Norma, thanks for letting us know and for sharing your memories. It must have been quite startling to see all these years later.
As an historical record this is pure gold. It's slanted towards the more clean living side of Brisbane at the time (naturally), but other than that it's a very accurate portrayal of living in Brisbane in 1964.
Yes it completely ignores a lot of stuff away from white middle class suburbia! More pure shite that gold ha ha
@Paul G Who are these 'anti whites' you speak of? "Anything built by whites will be knocked down if these anti whites have there way".... Cmon mate. That is just straight ignorance and lack of information. Please inform me of what building company is all white? Don't spread non sense with your irrational fears.
@raymond daubney Is this what it was like for you growing up? It doesn't seem real to me
Thank you for uploading this! I moved to Brisbane in 1971 from California, I was 9. I have some great memories and its sad to read these comments about how much it changed there. I moved back in '74. But living in Australia was a magical experience and it felt like I went back in time. We didn't lock our doors or our bikes at school.
Country Australia is still like that. I never lock anything.
Such a beautiful record
Feels good to see the trams again. My dad and grandparents always told me about them and know I get to see them.
We arrived from London in 83 but still recognise most of the places. My wife’s first job was in the Wintergarden, we landed Wednesday, she had an interview Saturday and started work Monday still jet lagged!
A fabulous time capsule of our lives and times. How our society has changed so much. Somewhat amusing Dad and his ever present pipe! NFSA keep these treasures going:))
Neale Newton Smoking it inside the house too.
Hi Neale, thank you. We will keep them coming. We have thousand more to upload. Most with pipes.
The city I was born in in the year I was born. Makes this so special to me. It didn't change much for another 20 years and then bang, it got a shot of Expo and that was Brisbane as we once knew it.
Shout out to the milkman at 19:25. I haven’t seen them in action since the 80s.
I always wanted my first job to be doing the milk run before school but by the time I was old enough they were gone.
Bring them back!
i can’t believe australia used to look like this. amazing
Now it’s destroyed sadly
90s were still ok in Brisbane..
I'm very impressed with the quality of this video, as well as the editing and cinematography. Especially given that it's from the 60s!
Ah good ol' Brissie the way it was and should still be today. I miss those days.
Thank you so much for this video , great memories of a fantastic time to be Australian .
Thank you for the feedback.
I grew up in Stafford and now live in Hobart. This video brought back many childhood memories of the fifties and sixties. Thankyou for sharing
Looks fantastic in 4k on a big screen. I grew up in Brisbane 60's and 70's and this brings back memories. Thank you.
Thanks for letting us know. We will be re-releasing all of this series in 4k. Still highly compressed to get on UA-cam of course but a big improvement.
@@NFSAFilms Thank you for your work. Looking forward to seeing the rest in 4k. 👍🏻
@@gregwallace9035 Thanks Greg. Another one to go up this week.
Good times. A simpler happy life. Plenty of work and in general a healthier population.
It was nice to see the city hall steps before they were covered by the roof of the King George carpark!
Another great film uploaded by the NFSA, thank you
Thanks Aznageel.
Great video! People in the 1960s were much better-mannered than those in the streets today.
Wake up dimwit. You really want to go back living that????
yes yes yes @@ytxmak
Yes OK if you're from a white, straight, non-minority, religious (the 'right' religion, mind you!) ignore the rest of the world subset of humanity.
Just pedophiles and alcoholics. WHITE pedophiles and alcoholics (let's ignore the black fellas, of course).
The good old days with a lot of family time, no kids sitting around on their Xboxes or Playstations. No mobile phones . Great days.
ditmar laenger yeah instead watching shit tv and having useless jobs taking about 4 times more hours
This is the destination for my time machine 😊
Beautiful video ! I wish it was possible to go back to the 60s, it was Paradise on Earth.
Yes the great old days when aboriginals weren't considered citizens and could not vote.
movieklump Go peddle your racist garbage some where's else. Your not welcome here.
@@56bluegold Maybe you should google the word irony.
@@movieklump It doesn't matter. Whingeing dickheads will always whine away. Fuck off victim boy
@@movieklump The truth is, no era is perfect. Every period in time has its problems...but on balance, the 60s looks like a far more peaceful, harmonious, law-abiding, enjoyable time than today...in Australia at least.
I think it is significant that almost any person you speak to who actually lived through that era will tell you it was better than now.
BTW why did you feel the need to immediately point out something negative about the 60s in your reply? Do you feel threatened in some way by the suggestion that the present time is not necessarily the "greatest ever"?
Wonderful film, thank you very much🙂
Thanks for the feedback.
Great Film, Obviously a well-to-do family. Love the old cars, EJ/EH Taxis
What shits me, is the We were poor with colour cameras and new cars, tax dodging most likely @ Chris Johnson ,as before comment
starquant And then you had to pay for a tv license to use it.
starquant I have to say we managed at home on one wage. We certainly weren’t rich,my dad was a Wood Machinist.
19:16 Dodge Polara. 20:15 Studebaker Lark.
Pure Gold ! How nice to see what a nice place brisbane was ,respect and common decency,something that my hometown is now void of, how sad!
The good old days.
If only I had a time machine to go back.
Hi Vicki, we are you're time machine. Welcome aboard.
If you ever get that time machine - *please, please* take me with you.
The good old days, with no ultrasound, CAT scan, or MRI, so best not to get a serious illness - and don't forget that polio was still kicking around. Are you really sure you want to go back? Nostalgia tends to overlook the little things, like the fact that maternal deaths in childbirth have decreased from 41.2 in 1964-1966 to 7.1 in 2008-2012.
We've come a long way since the 60's. Some things have been lost, but much has been gained.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge The only real gains have been technological ones like those you mentioned. In other fields - particularly socially and culturally - I believe we have actually gone BACKWARDS since that time...
Ian you just need to hit the subscribe button and we're on our way.
Wow! This such an amazing and beautiful piece of nostalgia! I was born '67, but it's not a far cry from the Brisbane I remember of my childhood (minus the trams though). Those times; the fashion, the hairdos, the cars, all captured in the photos I still have of my parents and relatives too. Australia, 'the lucky country' - everything seemed so hopeful, abundant and innocent then. An idealistic paradise in many ways and wonderful place to grow up.
Oh if things stayed the same. Thanks for the post. Truly enjoyed.
Thanks Chris.
be nice if we could bring some of that back
Fantastic! Great memories !!! Fantastic!
This is superb!!!! Absolutely enjoy the street scenes with the old buses and classic cars. By the way I drive a 1963 Triumph Vitesse 6 Convertible
This is what caught my attention in the promo. Watched the whole thing to see the Herald. Seemed to go quite swiftly in the film.
Gregory Sukroo So did i. My dad owned a Triumph Herald convertible.
I keep watching this. I love it! Thanks NFSA.
Thanks Greg.
Thanks great film,My birth year can remember lots from this era
I liked those days of quiet roads on Sundays
@raymond daubney That's pretty harsh and uncalled for. I think Seapin 1 was referring to the fact that most businesses were closed on Sundays, and life was more relaxed on Sundays. I think so too.
by the way, I hope you don't profess to represent real Australians with that arrogant demeanor and rudeness.
@raymond daubney what a rude arsewipe you are
@raymond daubney shut the fuck up baby boomer
@@lindaross4331 Obviously that C#%t isn't a Queenslander. Just a s##t c##t.
Brissy - the world's most livable city. Love Brisneyland.
A reminder of how Australia once was the greatest place to live.There was no comparison.
Leave then haha simple dont like it anymore
Leave 190+ country's pick one
I was there during that time.
@@robertmackintosh5163 all your generations doing what do you mean no one else to blame you raised us
Hahaha
I think its just hard that a 20 something year old has more knowledge then learnt more understands more
Fucking cant handle progression
Need to go back to school learn about inflation and fiat currency
@Norm T that last comment was for you
Gotta agree with you the place is fucked now
I love Brisbane
I love Brisbane. Would not want to stay anywhere else in the world. Paradise found for me.
S O you need to get out more then.
G'day guys. It's nice to see another "Life in Australia" video.
Hi Jason, nice to hear from you again. This one was presented before but is available now in 4K. As is the whole series so we will be re-uploading them all. Hope you appreciate the improved quality.
@@NFSAFilms Thanks. I look forward to checking it out. :)
MY goodness, brought a tear to my eye. Used to live in Inala as a kid Im 71 now. A lot of memories in Brisbane for us all, Im just down the road now place called Gold Coast
Cheers all Christopher Waring.
Excellent!
Amazing quality, thank you.
Thanks Benny
I grew up in Queensland when we returned to oz in 1973. This is literally my memories.
So many good memories in this video, for me.
Great video.
To all those people moaning about how much better life was back then... You do know you're watching a UA-cam VIDEO on the INTERNET, right?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Arrived in 62 on the Stratheden. Brings back memories.
I moved to cairns 2021 and this Film Is Memorising i wish i could live there for a week
I remember that day in autumn quite well. There was a lot going on. Great film
Best day ever!
So crazy, as it panned over the bridge I could see the building that 60 years later turned into my place of work 😅
Thanks for making it 4K!
Thanks for the comment. We will be uploading this entire series in 4K. Even though we have it all up there in SD.
I absolutely *loved* this film.
I'm going to draw out £10 from my building society and emigrate to this enchanted isle.
Hope it's just like in the film when I get there.
Australia was great before colour TV arrived. It almost seems as if the more technological Australia became, the less society was cohesive and happy.
Technology has a nasty habit of enslaving us, rather than freeing people. Color TV arrived in Oz about 1973. I think it was a lovelier country prior to this time. Color T.V. also brought along a mass of degenerate American programming. This was when the rot set in. The United States has ruined everything it's touched - socially, financially and academically.
We'll be waiting.
Wow. You might be um ... disillusioned by all the changes. Maybe the skimpy clothes wearing swearing welfare women with their kids fathered by a guy who left 5 years ago for a start or the people with headphones in who don’t even look up from their electronic device to say hello or speak to any other living breathing human around them even in a public place like a bus stop or a shopping centre . Maybe the expensive food, fast food, all the car people, the women with little to no clothes on, the men who swear and teenagers swear with no respect for their mothers or families in public. Skateboarding, vandalising, drunks, hoons. We have that all here now. Well done Australia you came so far 🙄👏🏻
So much of "Old Brisbane" was still around in the 80's & 90's when I was a little tacker, and if you know where to look it's still out there, the Dean Brothers haven't gotten to it yet.
I'm certain I saw my aunty Flo! My grandfather too, who later moved to Victoria and the rest is history. I remember them as hard working people who cared for others including their families. Those days gone by. Now your left to fend for yourself with little or no support and Australia's top polical issues are: homelessness, no work, no play, in some cases no hope and Australia doesn't own Australia any more and Australians can't afford to live in Australia anymore Those days are gone.
Yes, this is the classic nostalgia fallacy!
There were no benefits for "abandoned mothers", the disabled, the unemployed, back then. Your best bet was the Salvos if you were struggling.
@@cookie-dough-fox69 and is the case still. Love the Salvos, they have helped so many people with so little also.
@@cookie-dough-fox69 You're quite right. There were many attitudes and problems plaguing Australian society back then, usually not spoken about or (criminally) ignored. It's very easy to be seduced by the nostalgia fallacy. Yep the Salvos or the Brotherhood were the social security net for many.
Thanks for uploading this film! I came to Brisbane in July 1982 just before the Commonwealth Games. 🙂
Brisbane used to look so wonderful. Now its a soulless corporate husk of what it used to be. Every building looks the same as the skyscrapers cast shadows over the very little old buildings left. Everything else has slowly been demolished and replaced with "efficient" buildings. Every house is beyond reasonable to purchase or even rent right now. Convenient transport such as trams were removed. Too many buses exist on the roads, along with cars, causing constant traffic congestion.
Miss the simple times
Me too ! How things have gone down hill since then .
People had so little...stuff in those days. No mobile phones, no late night shopping, no iPads. I don’t think having more now has made us any happier.
We had home phones and decency, unlike today where a mobile phone turned into a tool of obsession with all the apps, Internet, etc. How many young kids watch porno on smartphone nowadays? How many kids are having underage sex? How many kids do nothing worthwhile but play computer games all day, hardly play any sport?
On the other hand, I am sooo glad life is not like that now! Who needs the white god nonsense for a start?
@Ytxmak - going back to Vietnam anytime soon? I'll help you pack
@Mick Carson - underage sex? What dinosaur egg did you just climb out from? How old are you, 90?
Sometimes less is by far definitely more. Three or four channels on tv( instead of hundreds like today, net flux, Stan, foxtel etc) people sat down for a meal and spoke to each other, there was interaction. A book was a gift, not something you got a long face when one was given to you. Cars were built to last. Houses were not stacked on top of one another, the 1/4 acre block was common place. Traffic actually had a peak hour, not a constant drone like it does now. People were courteous and respect full and didn’t push right past you at the checkout. Progress hey.....? By any other name could it be so deceptively called?
Great film, kinda sad though. Time is a cruel mistress, that hot young daughter will be in her late 70s now.
I'm a 1966 baby, now in my 50s. I have fond memories of my childhood.
On the weekends, I'd leave home on my bike after breakfast & not come home till dinner time.
Groups of friends hanging out, building secret cubby houses by the creek, when the creek water was clean enough to drink, eating worms, playing with matches, good times.
No worms just don't have the flavour they used to.
A beautiful time. The place where you would like to grow up and to live. Until today’s world Australia is an amazing place to live ! 🙏
It still is an amazing place to live
When I saw the Cooparoo Bowls Club I smiled, I have been going there for years now and it's nice to see what it looked like back in the day.
Would have been great if Brisbane had retained some more of its old character as other cities have done....rather than the cluttered mess we have now. The power of the developer and no forethought,
Same in Adelaide, it used to be beautiful, now it's an architectural mess.
Melbourne ftw
You can thank Sir Joh for that
Warner, Albany creek and samford are still pretty decent👌
Just like Perth. Interesting that forethought means premeditation, more commonly used for crime. Very apt for those planners because what they did was a crime
Back when everything was made in Australia and it was the best quality
Yeah, and it cost about 5 times what it would cost now. You may not like free trade, but it brought prices down so ordinary people could have a better life.
Amen
loved it!
Interesting video
awesome vid. i used to have a triumph herald back in the daze. fully worked it.
You would have to work it, hard, to make it go anywhere. Close contender for the worst car of all time, at least from Britain, but there are a few Vauxhall models that beat it, especially the one with the vertical boot (or was that a Singer Sunbeam?). Fun in the sun though.
grasshopper My dad used to have one too. Oh the memories!
Love the 'phones! Living in Queensland & still waiting for the N.B.N.!
I'm sure I was born too late, I would have loved to be a young adult back in the 50's. What a simpler life....
How can you be sure you weren't alive then? Everyone reincarnates even you.
You could fix and maintain your own car back then. They were built like tanks.
It was amazing
Moved to this beautiful city in 2008. Love it here.
A beach in Brisbane, HA Ha, I lived in Brisbane for a few years, the closest beaxh is on the Gold coast, it took me over 2 hours drive in summer from Brisbane to get there, all the locals swarm to the Beach and traffic is hopeless.
Pommies decided on Brisbane with the Moreton Bay Islands are a protection from invasion. Who else would build an Aussie capital without good beaches. Bribie Island has the best beaches.
There is a beach in Brisbane now - an artificial one but nevertheless a beach at the Southbank parkland area - and of course there are also beaches at Sandgate and Redcliffe. As for surf beaches - yes the Gold Coast or the Sunshine Coast, both about 100km from the city - the former to the south and the latter to the north. Bribie had a surf beach too - but you needed to walk a long way north from the ocean-side village to get to the real surf...
The closest beach is Bribie Island, not sure how ya missed that one.
looks great in 4k on the big telly
Thanks Dave, we appreciate the feedback.
bowls clubs still look the same.. everything else is different. The change from the 60s to the 80s seems so drastic compared to say the 80s to today.
1960-1980 = 20 years
1980-2019= Almost 40 years.
Go figure. But the world evolves very quickly yes
Woww this is so insightful. Seemed like simpler times.
When homes were made of real wood and real craftsmanship
and asbestos.....lots of it.
Have you not been in a house lately? They still make them with timber, steel, and plaster like they did back then. The only difference is that we don't have a risk of mesothelioma if the insulation gets cracked.
20 year old homes these days are ready for repair work due to the crap pine they are made with.
8:36. Grace before meals..it took me ages to throw off that ritual, although thanking the cook is still appropriate.
The props department sure shared that corncob pipe around. Everyone gets a go.
Who else was checking out the Morris 850 in Dove Grey and the Morris Mini Cooper in Tartan Red and Old English White roof? 20:16
everyone is so well dressed
Yes Brisbane is a very very fat city now
Yes, I remember adults always dressed up to leave the house. My granny wore hat and stockings, good shoes, gloves in her hand bag, made me wear a little clip on tie and bryll creamed my hair. And we were only walking up the road to attend Sunday mass!
Old Brisbane qlder homes are splendid when well maintained like it this video. Maryborough QLD has some amazing Qlder homes and they don't Knock them all down either..
Pure and innocent times back then, in europe too .
pure an innocent,, where were you,, that wasn't Brisbane ,,
@@iceblue1963 I was in Europe, lived in AUS many years ago
This music is so lovely
ah..back when the Australian Dream was a thing... gotta love the average Brisbane home at 5:03. Palatial by 2023 standards, and affordable.
Could pay that off in six months on one income.
its like playing whats not changed over the years but good to see how it was in 1964
So many buildings still exist in brisbane
Its like looking into the past
i was born in brisbane in 1954 i lived through the 60s going to school and the 70s disco era top of the state general jacksons newyork new york sybils the underground great memories
wow, great video. Did anyone recognize that family's suburb?
Mount Gravatt
@@NFSAFilms Thanks mate!
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My Gran used to let my brother and I ride the tram into Queen st from Torbreck, Highgate hill to go see a movie. Really safe and fun and easy to get around. Lived there years later while working in George St, and rode the bus or drove to work. So different these days.....
Not one mobile phone, people walking around watching where they are going. Ahhhh, the Serenity.
Ppl also dumb AF and gross
Huh?
I worked at the pineapple factory in my school holidays in the early 70s. It looked exactly as shown in this film.
This looks like paradise and you are saying I can get on a boat and go live there for £10!!
Count me in who wouldn't want to live there?
Better be quick. That deal won't last. ;)
Just missed out mate. Only 47 years too late.
PS. It's nice here.
this is almost identical to south Africa in 1964 including the sub tropical weather . and now SA is a Marxist shithole nice one libtards. well what do you8 know its the same here in old England too nice one again you libtard stupid 'feel good' cunts
The Dave That’s what my parents did. I consider myself an Aussie through and through.
The Triumph Herald at 16:17 is what what brought me here. I once owned a Vitesse.
Population 600 000! Australia just added more than that to our annual population growth in a year but I ain't seeing more major cities springing up. We're just concreting over anything livable in the existing cities and putting up dog box high rise apartments but apparently it still isn't anywhere near enough and we're in a rental crisis.
8:50 the old germ laden dish mop..I well remember we had one
All these Familys must still be here
0:31 in. the position of Albany (King George Sound) is incorrect. that is awesome :) As an Historian, this is absolute GOLD. Wonderful to watch, thank you for the upload. What a wonderful Era to be a young person and be brought up in, Australia so young and full of growth potential. No concern of America's lust for Nuclear war, just living. Maybe that's why they called it the Golden years, long after WW2. And far from WW3 which America is so keen to seen occur.
Thanks for the comments Aaron
Great place in those days and surfers paradise was just a little village before that bloody Victorian Bruce small arrived, now surfers is the cess pit of Australia !
dave manning well, there’s always Ipswich to make it look good
Amazing footage 👏👏recognised Wilston State School 😍
Wish it was still 600,00 people.🙁way too much congestion now.
How society has changed. That there are people who were my age, 37, at this time, who are still alive today - mind-boggling.