My wife and I arrived in Adelaide in 1973 from New Zealand. Compared to NZ, Adelaide was a cosmopolitan revolution with much better food and wine offerings. The Hahndorf Inn was a revolution, and still is. Unfortunately my yellow bell bottom jeans have long since gone. The intensity of SANFL astounded us. Memories!
LOL! Sometimes visited, the Old Lions discotheque. I was a 20 year old, stonemason during 1973. Back in those days, i was slim and had good muscle tone. Can recall, wearing flares and body shirts.
I love Adelaide. Don’t care what anyone says, it’s got a good vibe, great beaches, friendly people, easy to get around and it’s cheaper than other states. Things always change that’s the way it goes.
The State Library has two films in the collection about the history of the Festival Theatre. They are "The other opera house" (1974) and "Adelaide Festival Centre" (1998). We are not able to add them to UA-cam; the films can be viewed by visiting the library.
Ahhhhh Adelaide 1973 went there with my family to see other family there in 1973, first day at my grandparents place where we were staying I met a girl called Mandy, she became my girlfriend for the 2 weeks we were staying there, lovely memories.
The days before self-service was instead Service Attendants. You didn't have have to get out of your car to fill up, and of course you also got your oil levels, and tires pressures checked, and then your windscreen cleaned and your waved goodbye free of charge.
Remember it well. Me strutting out in my chartreuse coloured amco V knees@ brown cuban heel boots. 10 foot tall @ bullet-proof, skinny @ not a care in the world. Don Dunstan was the king of the "camp" a great time to experience. The red legs club, the old lion@ arkaba top room. Happy days.
come out , around 1980 our primary school, & every Adelaide school made a dragon we all got under the paper mache on a stinking hot day holding wooden sticks & walked the dragon down king William Street I will never forget that day.....crap...nearly 50years ago para vista primary school... 1985...elder Park. the first sky show. exactly flowers musicians with iva Davies in their new band, ice house it was huge💯
Billy wigzell I went to the last ever Rowley pk meeting bout 1979 I reckon ffs ...thats nearly 50yrs ago😎 in the pits were ' bikies ' ...😂😂😂 it was a wild place
My recollection of people in Adelaide back in 1973 was that they were snobbish, terribly pompous and self-righteous. They're all still alive and living in Canberra in 2023.
Yes, that's one sector of society then ... the square posers. Where are the with-it emerging hippies wearing paisley shirts, bell bottom jeans and pschyedelic hot pants? ... and listening to Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.
I miss when Australian people embraced their culture 😔 now we have to only embrace other countries cultures only. If we try to be proud of our background and all the hard work we achieved we are labelled arrogant and even racist 😔 we did a fine job and I’m not ashamed to say so. I think South Australia has some gorgeous views and architecture that isn’t found anywhere else. Younger children should be viewing this and this should be shown in the Adelaide airport, along with all the other footage obtained by Adelaideans so that we can showcase what we have come from. I’m amazed when the Duke William and Duchess Catherine visited they only went to Elizabeth when there are many different places to showcase South Australia
It was the real Australia I call it back in the 70,s and back I think,I lived for a few yrs in the early 70,s actually 73 to 76 & in a German homestead Nuriootpa,picked grapes,kids rode horses to school,we walked, down dirt roads.most our food was produced by my aunty and uncle,big garden,s,meat.our snacks were fruit or nuts what ever was in season.hasnt life changed & not for the better.
Well said!!!!! Very true, as with an Italian background and born in this very lucky country, I feel for Australians where the 80’s were the way I wanted it to stay, and ‘ an even ‘ amount of cultures were around , but today , even being brought up in Sydney, I’ve left because the segregation of ‘ new ‘cultures have choked suburban areas with an over run influx of far , far to many people and trying to survive in that state, has labelled it only a disgrace and a very very dirty city , it’s not a lady anymore , but a whore , sadly it’s a very poor word to use , but it’s the only graphic way I can describe it. That’s why we’ve moved to another state and soooo glade to be here , to beautiful here , they label it boring , so let them !!!!! The best kept secret!!!!!!!
All this is very beautiful, but the reality is that you’ve got to work long hours in order to pay off the mortgage and bills. Where do you have the time for prancing about in the park and going to concerts. I know because I lived in Adelaide in the early ninties.
Having lived in Adelaide all my life, all I can say is good riddance to the way it was in the 70's. It was a backwater, long after that too. It's much better today.
I find it funny how everyone who doesn't actually live in Adelaide always have the same tired comments to make about it, when in reality you really have no idea. There's plenty of stuff going on, but who cares. Stay in your little bubble and keep judging the only state that aren't descendants of convicts lol
@@simonf8902 you're the only dull one though 🤷♂️ shut up and find something productive to do with all that time, Boomer, instead of all the trash talk which is only making you look like a fool
My wife and I arrived in Adelaide in 1973 from New Zealand. Compared to NZ, Adelaide was a cosmopolitan revolution with much better food and wine offerings. The Hahndorf Inn was a revolution, and still is. Unfortunately my yellow bell bottom jeans have long since gone.
The intensity of SANFL astounded us.
Memories!
My dad was 19 in 1973 and was an apprentice mechanic at a Holden dealer in Adelaide.
Geeze i miss those days,, people talking, walking communicating, laughing together 💞
Not a bloody mobile phone in sight👍
It’s gone
I remember those days; I was raised there; seems like a golden age now
I'm 20 and I agree. Smart phones have ruined mine and other generations communication
Everything smelt and tasted like tobacco.. delicious
I had a car phone...
This is amazing to see our home town back in the day!
That was the great time to Australia
LOL! Sometimes visited, the Old Lions discotheque.
I was a 20 year old, stonemason during 1973.
Back in those days, i was slim and had good muscle tone.
Can recall, wearing flares and body shirts.
So what you are saying is you were a chick magnet
I was born in 1973 and moved to adelaide in 1990 with my parents. And moved to Sydney in 1994 :)
I love Adelaide. Don’t care what anyone says, it’s got a good vibe, great beaches, friendly people, easy to get around and it’s cheaper than other states. Things always change that’s the way it goes.
Damm bring back Adelaide, 1973 !
Absolutely instead of the drug infested hellhole it is now
What?Nothing has changed. 😅
@@JohnPereira-nl7hu A lot has changed. It's booming!
The State Library has two films in the collection about the history of the Festival Theatre. They are "The other opera house" (1974) and "Adelaide Festival Centre" (1998). We are not able to add them to UA-cam; the films can be viewed by visiting the library.
I used to live in Adelaide I prefer it in the 80s and 90s.
Glenys O'Brien was born in Adelaide.
She was on local TV, and was in a couple of movies.🎉🎉
Ahhhhh Adelaide 1973 went there with my family to see other family there in 1973, first day at my grandparents place where we were staying I met a girl called Mandy, she became my girlfriend for the 2 weeks we were staying there, lovely memories.
I think Barry Manilow sang a song about her.
@@JohnPereira-nl7hu yes he did
Only a small bit of the music features the Don Burrows Quartet. Most is from the KPM library, composed by Jean Bouchéty.
Thanks for information Radioman :-)
I lived in Adelaide, worked at the Festival Theatre in the seventies and lived close to Hahndorf. The lady ended up being Ernie Sigleys wife.
Thanks for that! It's nice to get some background.
The days before self-service was instead Service Attendants. You didn't have have to get out of your car to fill up, and of course you also got your oil levels, and tires pressures checked, and then your windscreen cleaned and your waved goodbye free of charge.
They still have a service attendant at the petrol station on Gilbert St in Adelaide..
They were still getting around with horses and carts as late as 1973. My god.1
Glynis Obrian , Ernie Siglys wife ,what a stunner..... dont know how he swayed her ...punching well above his weight there was old Ernie...lol
Remember it well. Me strutting out in my chartreuse coloured amco V knees@ brown cuban heel boots. 10 foot tall @ bullet-proof, skinny @ not a care in the world. Don Dunstan was the king of the "camp" a great time to experience. The red legs club, the old lion@ arkaba top room. Happy days.
The horse-drawn buggy they are looking at the Hahndorf Mill is as old and curious as us looking back on them and the moon landing now.
3:29 - "How big would you like your tie sir?"
"Yes."
Anybody got a time machine?
The Festival Theatre is 40 years old this year. Happy Birthday! Any other videos about the opening of the Festival Theatre?
10 years later… half a century of culture in a wonderful city
come out , around 1980
our primary school, & every Adelaide school made a dragon
we all got under the paper mache on a stinking hot day holding wooden sticks & walked the dragon down king William Street
I will never forget that day.....crap...nearly 50years ago
para vista primary school...
1985...elder Park.
the first sky show.
exactly flowers musicians with iva Davies in their new band, ice house
it was huge💯
I live in Adelaide and when I saw the 'city' at 6:03 I thought a bomb had hit it. Where are the buildings?!?
In the distance.
The Festival Theatre is basically the exact same in 2020, apart from all the Soviet monuments it used to have outside.
It's all changed now!
where are the credits
Maybe they were from Elizabeth!
I thought for sure theyd visit Rowley Park speedway
Billy wigzell
I went to the last ever Rowley pk meeting
bout 1979 I reckon
ffs ...thats nearly 50yrs ago😎
in the pits were ' bikies ' ...😂😂😂
it was a wild place
What's that bloke doing with Ernie Sigleys missus? Hey Kevin!
Well Ernie probably didn't know what to do with her!
Who is the actress? Lovely.
I was born in this year 🙂
1970 for me lol 😂
2:22 Torana GTR
nothings changed, everything still closes at 5
What a load of bulshit
Closes at 4pm in WA
The young lady in the film was Glynis O`Brien
Ernie Sigley's wife.
I wonder if Ernie knew she used to gallivant around South Australia with another bloke?
i though she was , absolute stunner , dont know how Ernie mannage to say her, punching well above his weight there was old Ernie
She’s gorgeous
I can't believe they didn't visit Elizabeth.
It could feature GMH.Jimmy Barnes and the Elizabeth Town centre.
I really miss how Adelaide used to be back then.
A crowd at Harness Racing?, surely not
It used to be at Wayville showgrounds!
My recollection of people in Adelaide back in 1973 was that they were snobbish, terribly pompous and self-righteous. They're all still alive and living in Canberra in 2023.
It's just like Disneyland!
This is missing the voice of......Telly Savalas!
Yes, that's one sector of society then ... the square posers. Where are the with-it emerging hippies wearing paisley shirts, bell bottom jeans and pschyedelic hot pants? ... and listening to Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.
how can they eat so much and stay so slim?
you had to walk to the post office to pay your bills
i know right.. all they do is eat and drink, eat and drink
Its now a Meth town.
JLINBKK
No it's not!!!!
In fact its the biggest Meth city on earth according to waste water analysis.
@@jlinbkk7184
Grow up...i think Queensland and the other states would out do Adelaide.
Sadly they don't.
@@jlinbkk7184
It has declined since 2017
I miss when Australian people embraced their culture 😔 now we have to only embrace other countries cultures only. If we try to be proud of our background and all the hard work we achieved we are labelled arrogant and even racist 😔 we did a fine job and I’m not ashamed to say so. I think South Australia has some gorgeous views and architecture that isn’t found anywhere else. Younger children should be viewing this and this should be shown in the Adelaide airport, along with all the other footage obtained by Adelaideans so that we can showcase what we have come from. I’m amazed when the Duke William and Duchess Catherine visited they only went to Elizabeth when there are many different places to showcase South Australia
It was the real Australia I call it back in the 70,s and back I think,I lived for a few yrs in the early 70,s actually 73 to 76 & in a German homestead Nuriootpa,picked grapes,kids rode horses to school,we walked, down dirt roads.most our food was produced by my aunty and uncle,big garden,s,meat.our snacks were fruit or nuts what ever was in season.hasnt life changed & not for the better.
Elizabeth of all places.
can you hear the thunder...you better run you better take cover...
yeah now we're little America
@@Paul-hp6zpwith what you have said in regards to fruit nuts and meat (nutrition) in mind, why are the new generation so much taller?
Well said!!!!! Very true, as with an Italian background and born in this very lucky country, I feel for Australians where the 80’s were the way I wanted it to stay, and ‘ an even ‘ amount of cultures were around , but today , even being brought up in Sydney, I’ve left because the segregation of ‘ new ‘cultures have choked suburban areas with an over run influx of far , far to many people and trying to survive in that state, has labelled it only a disgrace and a very very dirty city , it’s not a lady anymore , but a whore , sadly it’s a very poor word to use , but it’s the only graphic way I can describe it.
That’s why we’ve moved to another state and soooo glade to be here , to beautiful here , they label it boring , so let them !!!!! The best kept secret!!!!!!!
Adelaide 2023
A taste of Adelaide (2015) ...much?
Restaurants and bars were weird in the 70s.
Ha ha yep. Salad in a wooden bowl ,copper cups, cane baskets for bread and mateus rose,blue nun wine bottles with candles 🕯😅
One Melbournian dislike
They don't write music like this anymore.
Adelaide used to have white people?
All this is very beautiful, but the reality is that you’ve got to work long hours in order to pay off the mortgage and bills. Where do you have the time for prancing about in the park and going to concerts. I know because I lived in Adelaide in the early ninties.
On the weekend idiot when do you think?
Queen Neferterria
Princess Lavengra
Having lived in Adelaide all my life, all I can say is good riddance to the way it was in the 70's. It was a backwater, long after that too. It's much better today.
Oh yeah so much better people born in Adelaide have to leave because the place is full of Sudanese people and ice addicts
I disagree. I quite like backwaters
its still a backwater...just a backwater with more traffic
Lord Kitcheners Indian Restaurant and not an Indian in sight! Even in the 1970s the white Australia policy was strong.
And that's the way we liked it not like now where people born in Adelaide are homeless because we've taken in all the Africans
Wish it was still like that
Handoff all you can eat I remember that .. Adelaide when Aussies were Aussies
LOL where's the city? :P
Aspect ratio is screwy
@Chris Dewin - Maybe your eyes or your monitor are screwy.
Oh really? You deleted my honest comment? How right wing and prudish ... très snob!
If it was left wing,you wouldn't of even been allowed to comment lmao
EAST SIDE ADL REP
Built for all the snobs and elite class.
Adelaide is very dreary still. Better than Brisbane though.
I find it funny how everyone who doesn't actually live in Adelaide always have the same tired comments to make about it, when in reality you really have no idea. There's plenty of stuff going on, but who cares. Stay in your little bubble and keep judging the only state that aren't descendants of convicts lol
@@FieryFlamingFajitas that’s why you are all so dull.
Lower middle class Brits escaping England. .
No variety.
@@simonf8902 you're the only dull one though 🤷♂️
shut up and find something productive to do with all that time, Boomer, instead of all the trash talk which is only making you look like a fool
@@FieryFlamingFajitas 💋💋
If you find Adelaide is boring well then you obviously haven't looked hard enough