This Is Sydney Australia in 1985 - Documentary - scenes of Sydney Harbour, Opera House, Bondi Beach
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Documentary filmed in 1985 showing a snap shoot of a day in Sydney. Interviews of what Sydney siders were thinking at the time. Scenes of Sydney harbour, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Ferry boats. Sydney harbour bridge. Sydney harbour bridge worker painting the bridge. Vehicle's crossing Sydney harbour bridge, Sydney Centre Point tower, lady doing an oil painting of Sydney Opera house and the harbour, Nuclear protest on Sydney harbour and Mrs Macquarie's Chair by Sydney Peace Squadron. Sydney Seaplanes at Rose Bay. Bathers on Bondi Beach 1980s, Radio station triple j 1985 Surfing Championship at Manly Beach. What people were thinking in the 1980s. Windsurfing at Sans Souci.
Please let me know if anyone can identify and name the person interviewed at the Nuclear protest so the credits can be updated in the future.
Views of Sydney in the 1980s. Interesting Archival footage of Sydney in 1985.
Features Kellogg's Cornflakes radio advert/jingle recording from 1985. 02:00.
The voice of Doug Mulray, famous Triple M radio disc jockey. 01:45. Lived a full life from 1951 - 2023.
Original film type Kodachrome 40 (Super 8 sound film) restored and enhanced to HD.
Interviews
Woman on yacht on Sydney Harbour, Morag McArthur
Man on yacht on Sydney Harbour, Steve Carroll
North Bondi Beach Surf Club Old Boys, Gordon Cassidy and Frank Hurley
(Frank Hurley was Australian heavyweight wrestling champion 1949)
To view a video about Franks pro wrestling career in the USA,
check out Ian Riccaboni's video • 55 in 5 - Episode 54, ...
Unknown woman at Mrs Macquarie's Chair Nuclear Protest by Sydney Peace Squadron in 1985
Narration by Morag McArthur
Windsurfing by Darren Griffin
Surfing by Chub
Underwater man Alan Wright
Underwater girl Jan Lambert
Music by Cali
Music by Pavel Yudin
Music by Crescent Music
Music by Remember The Future
Music by Wilfred Symphony Orchestra
Colourist: Tim Wreyford
Film Producer: Greg Petterson
There is a background scene with the Royal Australian Navy, attack class patrol boat, HMAS ASSAIL (Pennant 89) passing Garden Island in 1985. News cameras can be seen on board and balloons flying above her which I think is marking the end of her last days in Australian service before being sold to Indonesia.
In 2022 Archival work to identify Frank Hurley and Gordon Cassidy at Bondi Beach
Bondi Local Loop FACEBOOK Group
Bondi Historian
Lawrie Williams
Film conversion to HD Digital by DVD Infinity Australia
Camera - Bauer S715XL
Lens - Angenieux Zoom - Macro 1.4/6-90
Film type - Kodachrome 40 (Super 8 Sound)
Awards
Tasmanian Amateur Cine Society - Blue Gum Film Festival 1986 - Festival winner
Western Australian Amateur Film Festival 1988 - Festival winner
Scenes from this film have been licensed to appear in the Documentary series 'The Secrets Of Hillsong' by Scout Productions LA. Released by Vanity Fair and FX. Through Hulu, expected to appear in episode 3, released on 23 May 2023.
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This is the Australia I grew up in . I’m 60 now but these were good times .
Great to hear the 80's treated you well. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Lucky barstard! 👍🏻 I was born in that year so got the 90s and 2000s arguably the last two decades before Australian way for life has turned to shite!
I grew up in eastern suburbs Sydney, this was my youth. This brings back amazing memories of simple life and the beautiful harbour and beaches. Thank you for this documentary.
Glad to hear brings back good memories. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
I turned 17 in 1985. These days I live far away, but my heart will always be there. God I miss that town. And my youth, I suppose.
Yes time moves on, but nice to have good memories from that time. Thanks for commenting.
I was also 17 in 1985. Trust me, you miss what it used to be not what it has become. It’s still a visually beautiful and clean city with nice weather but that’s about all it has going for it. I’m leaving next year.
@@bsways We left last year, Sydney is not as it was, its Duplexes and mean angry people, its unrecognisable. Go to the Hunter Valley, its like Australian in the 1980s almost - amazing.
@@fingerprint5511 hey yes Sydney people are very aggro and quite fake. Its very difficult to make genuine friends with anyone. Its like you know lots of people but noone is really your friend. You could be dead in your apartment for a week and no one would notice or care until it starts to smell. I mean I'd love to move more rural somewhere but it's the cost of living here. Its too much. I'm headed to southeast Asia where Ill have a passive income, no longer need to work and I can travel and save money! Australia is a financial prison. A beautiful prison but a prison nonetheless. Until you decide to leave you don't realise how little freedom you actually really have
@@fingerprint5511same here. We got out of Sydney last year. Not the same place I grew up in 😢
Would go back in a flash 😎👍🏼
I'm with you 🤠Thanks for commenting.
I was ten and it was a golden age, not just for Australia but my family as my Dads business was roaring before the recession we had to have kicked in. Nostalgia is a bitter sweet emotion.
So true, thanks for your comment.
What was your Dad doing? Globalization also destroyed many a Mom and Pop business
1985 I was going to pubs and clubs chasing Aussie rock bands like The Radiators, The Angels, The Oils, etc. Every Sat night. All over the St George and Shire regions plus Selinas at Coogee, Dee Why pub and the RSL, Revesby Workers etc. All the clubs made money from youngsters going to watch bands. Pubs put on bands too, until they turned to pokies and ruined everything.
Interesting comment. I think your probably right.
I turned 18 in '85. Revesby Roundhouse always had great bands.
@@grantwilletts5669 17 in '85 and after uni we would always head into Newtown for a beer and a band or somewhere closer to the Cross. Life in Sydney wasn't perfect back then, but it was simpler, almost more 'real' than it seems to be now. Moving back to the country when the kids leave home (that could be decades from now!!). Great viewing! Dave
@@davee8659 it was simpler and a hell of a lot less people and traffic. Great times. The pub vibe seeing great local bands has sadly gone. Heady days indeed.
Yep that's me too along with Mondo Rock, Split Enz, Ice House playing at the Revesby Workers, Bankstown Sports club and RSL.
Sport every weekend for me it was playing cricket and soccer and watching the League Berries/Bulldogs' at Belmore oval on Sunday, or fishing in the Port Hacking/Georges or Hawkesbury on a Sunday or Flexi day.
None of my mates worked on the weekend, we would meet up at the High Flyer Pub, also had flexi days and planned holidays to enjoy life.
I was 20 years old in 1985 and Bondi was my second home in summer , the beautiful beach and ninos pizza is where we spent most of our time . how I miss 1985 .
Nice to hear your memories. Thanks for your comments👍
I was 30 when this was made.I have been living in Queenland the last 7 years and I never thought i would ever say I miss Sydney.
the Sydney you miss doesn't exist anymore
I weep for the glorious past - how Australia once was in the fab eighties. I am 72 now with lots of great memories. Thank you for posting this.
I'm sure you could tell a few great stories about the 80's. Thanks for taking the time to comment.👍
It's not Australia anymore, just a mix of a thousand different little groups all doing their own thing and having their own agendas. There was once an Aussie culture, that is now dead and buried.
@@RS-rj5sh Could be some truth in this. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂
@@RS-rj5sh Balderdash. It was exactly the same back then. People just follow their interests, nothing wrong with that. I lived in Sydney 1981-1989 (mid-twenties to early thirties) and had a great life. Rent was reasonable, for a start. The aussie culture was gobbled up by the corporate sector, mate.
@@paulthew2 nah ...it wasn't exactly the same back then ...trust me on that
I was 15 at the time. This brings back so many great memories. It was indeed a special time in Sydney
Nice to hear, thanks for commenting🙂
I was 7 in 1985. I remember going to the opera house and playing outside and sliding down. Bondi was so different back then. I miss the 80s! Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for your comment. Nice to know the film brought back some happy memories🙂
@@gregpetterson
I was 12, but the film was not completely a memory, a lot of it was commercialized crap
the bondi beach bit was true to history
the beginning was not and the end was not
I'm sensing this was some sort of documentary , which.. as we know they always throw stuff in that no one did
Like Seriously...... SHOW OFF HANDS
Which one of us growing up HAD A YACHT growing up?
LMFAO
I had a car tyre insert that i blew up and took to bondi beach,......>Never a Yacht
@@martinkuliza If you looked around Sydney harbour in 1985 it was full of thousands of yachts. The film is all true history for it's time like it or not. True it doesn't interview anyone using a car tyre at the beach and I'm sure many people did.
Beautiful. Proper Australia. A golden age.
Right on. 👍
Absolutely!
When we had an identity
@@thedownunderverse We still have our identity. It's that it's being attacked to relentlessly now. From government and the corporate sector, down through the media and the "left", to the hordes of foreigners whom they're bringing in.
Australia before the CCP took over. It was inevitable.
watching this i am reminded what was so great about Sydney then - and miss it intensely now. the decades have not been kind
Have to agree with you. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂
Was 9 at the time, and lived in Lithgow. We visited my grandparents who lived in Manly many times. It’s still a beautiful harbour - very much a golden era when I think back on it now. Thanks for sharing the video 👍
Manly is a great spot. Most of the surfing shots were taken at Manly. Agree with you about the golden era. Thanks for your comments.
I had family in Lithgow as well as Narrabeen, Im now in Bathurst
The way Australia should have remained before our politicians stuffed it up
Multiculturalism stuffed it up.
@@peteormond2828 Found the racist
@@peteormond2828 international interest such as UN and WEF stuffed it up
I second that!
@@peteormond2828 Nope, Building developers and Councils did the damage.
I was 9 in 1985 , I miss those days when Australia was Great ! 💞👍🏻🇦🇺👍🏻💞
Yep. I’m a similar age. It’s really gone to poop now hasn’t it
In the days when it was another UK
What do you miss about it the most given you were 9?
Now with this voice, they want to segregate. Not telling people of land tax if yes
I grew up in clovelly right next to Bondi
After Sydney had the olympics it was never the same
Interesting comment thanks.
There are a lot of people in Sydney who don’t appreciate what we have. They need to watch this video. Thank you for posting. I was 9 years old when this was filmed, honestly, take me back… If you told people these days the sun shines 15 of 17 days, they would probably tell you that we’re all gonna die.
How funny🤣🤣. Thanks for your comments.
@@gregpetterson no problem Greg, thanks for the video. I can remember the BBQ’s from back then, they were class and there was always a platter on offer. One thing that stands out is how carefree life was then compared to now. No wonder there is so much mental illness these days, too many things to complicate life and not enough time to enjoy the 15 of 17 sunny days.
Everyone over a certain age remembers how good this country was.
Yep, agree with you. Thanks for commenting.
Too bloody right!😢
Awesome. Back when I didn't feel like I was living in Shanghai or Mumbai.
We wouldn't have anyone running the 7-11's, uber eats or shopping mall security
@@MissHannah2036
Wouldn't that be tragic.😅
@@MissHannah2036 Yes we would we would have Aussies. How rude.
There’s always Bendigo.
What’s wrong with Shanghai?
What a lovely way to start my day and thank you. I moved to Sydney from the Mid North Coast in 1986 to start uni and have been here ever since. For me, returning to 1986 with your documentary is both nostalgic and sad - back when my dad was still alive, when we didn't have so much tech influence in our lives and life was probably "simpler" than it is now - at least for me. It remains a beautiful city, especially when you spend a lot of time in her many national parks and waterways! Many thanks again and cheers from the North Shore - Dave
Thanks for your comments Dave. Good point about the national parks and waterways they are stunning 👍
I was born and raised in Sydney and have now finally moved to the mid north coast. It took me 60 years to get the hell out of "That Place"... Now if I have to go down to Sydney, I can feel the pressure of the place when I drive south over the Hexam bridge. Looking back, it was all over for me when they tore down the Dee Why pub. Sydney is a developers dream, but not much chop for the rest of us schlubs.. :)
@@lukebable Thanks for your interesting comment.
@@gregpettersonwhat did he say?
@@CarolynEllisQtEllis Who is he?
1985 we restored my uncles pub the Mercantile The Rocks! Best days of my life!! ( & yes the Family still own it) Uncle Paul is passed thought!!
Interesting memory of a great Sydney landmark! thanks for sharing and fantastic to hear it's still in the same family👍
Great pub, I think I should own a few bricks!
Do you know the HMAS Vampire? My uncle served on her.
Been past the Mercantile many times when i was young; I can bet my Grandfather drank there (Defended Tobruk with the 9th) he worked at Paddy's Market during the depression; There was another one we went to, but i can't remember the name...
I miss that Australia so much! Thanks for the trip down memory lane 👏🏻
Thanks for your kind words and taking the time to comment.
This is excellent, thank you for bringing back so many memories of Sydney!
Thank you for your kind comment 🙂
R.I.P Australia. It’s so sad what happened here. Looking to escape but not sure where to. Everything has been poisoned
Thats the question for sure, where would you go? thanks for commenting.
No, it's brilliant. Best place in the world. And the world is fine, too. Things are only shit if you insist on seeing shit. Change your vantage and your life will change also. 💗
Mate, you've got to recalibrate your social media feed. It's not all bad in Oz these days. For example, I'm heading to the Illawarra tomorrow to enjoy the sheer beauty of the escarpment, ocean, and lunch at the Mount Kemble pub. Beats living in Seria!
The old blokes saying, everyday it gets better. I will never see that happen today.
Your so right, good observation👍Thanks for taking the time to comment.
the optimism of the 1980s is long gone
they be turning in their graves
@@gregpetterson You're*
Not an Indian or middle eastern in sight. It was beautiful
The golden years happy times and folk
Moved to Sydney from the far north coast of NSW in 1986. My girlfriend had moved and I came down a bit later when I had got a job. Thought I would be here for a couple of years. My girl dumped me the day i got here and she was the only person I knew in Sydney. Still here. Loved being in Sydney for for the 80's living in Darlo then Bondi. Still go to Stanley St in East Sydney to revisit the old haunts including the Lord Roberts and Bill & Tonys. Great doco - a love letter to Sydney in the 80's.
Good to hear a bit of your history and to see it turned out OK. Thanks for your kind comment👍
Superb video. I was 10 years old back in 85, living in my homeland UK and wouldn’t have known very much about Sydney. Been living in Sydney a while now and love life here. Love learning all about its history. Thanks for posting this Greg.
Thanks for your kind comments. Glad Sydney's been treating you well🙂
😎
Thankyou
What a time to be alive! The day's before mobile phones, selfie sticks, reality television and Kim Kardashian that we know of! We're simply a different people nowadays! The times before mass materialism and narcissistic tendencies took hold.
So true👍
Kim who?
Mobile phones were already there. They cost about $5000 and had a run time that couldn't rack up much of a bill. We had reality TV. It was Bert Newton and Norman Gunston. You couldn't get more real than that.
@@philgray3443 I think your right about the cost of mobile phones. I understand NEC made one in Australia, If you got the in-car and boot country range booster you were up for $6000
Dont forget mass immigration. It was 70000 per annum back then, which was a sustainable rate for the amount of housing being built. 400000 now, and Sydney is a chaotic, miserable, and unaffordable mess, thanks to massive immigration being forced on us by our hopelessly corrupt politicians.
Thanks for this piece of history. Reminds me of Sydney in 1985. Lived around Bondi
Thanks for your kind comment🙂
Yes me too. Working people could afford to rent a place back then. Great days.😊
Australia will never be like this again, I blame consecutive governments for ruining such a wonderful city. I moved out of Sydney in 1991 to the far north coast of nsw. I have no interest in going back. I wouldn’t even recognise where I grew up in the hills shire, totally changed for the worse. Kids of today would have no idea how great Sydney was in the 70’s and 80’s. Such a shame….
Some interesting truths there. Thanks for commenting.
Sydney is awesome to this day. You voted for those govs, why didnt YOU make a difference???
So very true Sir..I did the same and moved my family to the Blue Mountains 10 Years ago.
Take care friend
Look up castle hill showground and see what’s happened. The Baulkham Shire Council building isn’t at the ahowground anymore and everything is so different now.
@@Iwishiwasflying Unfortunately progress does not always move in the right direction. Thanks for commenting.
Have never seen this before but very cool to discover a shot of me 9:51 as a young bloke shooting the JJJ Junior at Manly. Great memories there.
Unreal fantastic! I've been waiting for someone to recognise themselves. Your the first, thanks so much for letting me know. Was a great day.👍
I will be updating the original film end credits in the future once I have identified some of the unnamed people that were interviewed. I find as time goes on it is important to have these names recorded for future historical interest. If your interested even though you only appear for a few seconds I would like to include your name (guy shooting the JJJ Junior at Manly with Canon Telephoto) up to you? if interested and you don't want to leave your name here just email me. For my email go to my channel page and click on the 'about' section🙂
I worked as a bus driver for a year in 1985. Drove over the bridge from the North Shore to Wynard and back many times. Plus lost a wing mirror or two on occasion.
Not surprised about losing a wing mirror or two, just as busy on the bridge then as it is now. Tough job driving in the city. There is a bus in the film crossing the bridge from North to South, could have been you!
I miss the eighties
Yep it was a great time, thanks for your comment👍
This was a few years before I was born. But the 80's seem like an awesome time to be alive. There were still cars and most modern conveniences. Minus mobile phones and fast computers.
Your right it was. But who knows maybe in another 40 years time today maybe looked upon as a great time🙂
@gregpetterson Maybe not the 2020s: inflation and wokness are rampant. The poor can't afford electricity, and the politicians don't even know what a woman is.
You're right, it was awesome.
The 80's were awesome we weren't backwards, just really laid back :) We got to experience life without mob phones and the internet, and then we did. Apple Mac coming to Aust 1986 I think. To see what Australia was like in the mid 80's and how it has changed 35 years later is a privilege I suppose. Very Aussie ocker then.
This Australia is long gone. Forever. Now we live on a prison planet.
Agree 💯
chinese rule
"This Australia is gone. Forever. Now we live on a prison planet."
-Indigenous people.
Thanks to global communism
@@wolfgangvonuce9803 Million bucks says you're from Sweden...
No dots or cube worshippers to be seen. Wonderful!!!!
My first experience in Sydney was 1987, on a rugby trip from Nz, went to Katoomba played there, Wollongong. I loved the experience as a young 15year old. I would move back to live in my 30s to Brisbane Queensland,,Aussie is in my blood, love this nation and its people.
God bless Australia 🇦🇺 👍
How nice, great to hear. Thanks for telling your story.
I like how the bloke at the end is so repulsed by work he has to spell the word out 😂
🤣🤣🤣 Life was a little more laid-back in the 80's
Absolutely loved this documentary thank you for sharing. Can you tell me the name of the/ artist of the piano music that is throughout the documentary? At the beginning etc … it’s beautiful ❤
Thanks so much for your kind words. Glad you liked the opening music track. It's called Mysterious Ways by Crescent Music.
Having your Dog Off the Leash on Bondi Beach.. Try that Now!
Thats not going to happen😂
Now you need a license to go fishing!
Special memories of my childhood. I feel blessed to have experienced the innocence of the 80s.
Right on, the 80's were a golden period. Thanks for commenting🙂.
Thanks for posting,Greg. Fascinating look at the year before I arrived in Sydney.
Thanks for your kind comment 🙂
The only changes I have seen is equity and diversity has improved.
I was one of the very fortunate people privileged to grow up on the Northern Beaches. We did not understand that it was a paradise. We were the luckiest people in the world, living in the most beautiful part of the most beautiful city in the world. I was in my late twenties then and those couple of decades were when it was when it was at its best. Truly superb.
So true, sure is a beautiful part of the world👍Thanks for your comment.
Manly, Dee Why and Freshie, great spots, mate...
@@stevestewart-sturges2159 Yes, I lived near Dee Why, but Harbord was the best for body surfing. Pittwater was and still is the most beautiful place in the world to go sailing. Halcyon days.
@@stevestewart-sturges2159 All great spots, a lot harder to get parking now to back then.🙃 Was easy parking at Freshie then. I'm guessing it's all changed as it was over 20 years ago when I was there last.
@@thomaselliott573 harbord was also my favourite spot for body surfing. My mate had a VW Combie and on our way to Harbord if the Spit bridge closed we would all jump out and leave the Combie in the traffic jam and go for a quick swim until the bridge went down. Does anybody do that these days?
I was 17, at the time, and I miss that time, I think I miss the feel of that time, along with just being young and having your whole life ahead of you. In some ways it was a more innocent time a simpler time. But I still I think Sydney is a great City and Australia, a great country, the greatest, country, actually by far, (my parents came here from Europe in 1962 and I'm so glad they and I was born in Australia ) and I will always be grateful that they were able to settle here, I will always love Australia I have travelled a lot , and would not want to live anywhere else permanently.
Agree your parents made a good move and also agree Australia is still a great place to live. Thanks for commenting.
@@gregpetterson cheers.
Nsw has some the best beaches in the world. Sydney is absolutely heavenly. I will never understand why people compare melbourne with sydney its night and day difference
Good comment about the beaches. Melbourne has other qualities different to Sydney.
Melbourne? They have nothing. Always makes me laugh when they go around the country for the New Years Eve fireworks & they show that stupid little stream that goes through Melbourne that they call The Yarra River where they showcase their $100 dollar bag of fireworks & then Sydney harbor pops up on the TV screen with it’s multi million dollar bag of fireworks & it’s the best in the whole world .Who wants to see boring Melbourne & don’t laugh South Australians , Adelaide is just as boring .
@@blastermaster2383 Agree with you about the fireworks. But I think your a little bit tough on poor old Melbourne and Adelaide though, I'm sure their trying their best. Sydney is lucky having the iconic harbour bridge and Opera house to show case the fire works. 🙂
@@IvanDalmatinac Interesting comment. All the best for your move to the NSW north coast
A guy from Melbourne I met at a party in Sydney was extolling the virtues of his home city.
“If you took away the Harbour, Beaches and Weather.. what have you got “ he pronounced in a triumphant glow.
To this I quipped “ Melbourne “ 😂
I lived in Melbourne for a bit and I stopped telling people I was from Sydney as it kicked off the usual 5 minutes of rather parochial banter which seems weird when people from Sydney really dont care about Melbourne while they seem obsessed in being better than Sydney. It’s kinda pathetic to be honest when Sydney is literally one of the most beautiful cities if not the most. Little brother complex.
I was busy growing inside my mum to see these days first hand. Grateful to have video footage of what Australia was like back then. I was clearly born at a wonderful time (1986) 😅
Nice one, thanks for commenting.
Love Sydney, spent a lot of time there in the 1980's
Nice to hear Zoo Zu
Yep. Great in the 80s. Not now.
@@warriorpoet9629 sad but true mate
1985 was my last year living in Sydney as a youngster. Always a joy to come back and visit.
Hope you have some nice memories of the time. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I was 14 years old and living the best years of my life. Only thing is, I didn't realise this at the time.
I really hate the way this City has become. Over run with immigration, infrastructure bursting at the seams, extortionate energy prices, the death of our manufacturing industries, housing demand driving Australians out of their own market, Medicare crumbling, private health insurance through the nose, cramped suburbs, smaller blocks, smaller streets, every house has to have at least 5 cars, longer waiting times to see a doctor, high density ghetto suburbs, and so on and so fourth...
Our Politicians have really done a number on us and ruined this once beautiful place of ours. At least I have the memories right ???
The 1980's were a unrealised golden period. As you said at least you have the memories 🙂
I hear you buddy, I was 17 in 1985, born at Bankstown. Lebbo capital these days. Now I live at Campsie. All I see are chinese everywhere and not aa word of English. And they are just downright rude people the lebs and the chinese
Yep the Politicians have totally destroyed us!
It seems Australian politicians these days see endless population growth as a positive. I think it will actually lead to the destruction of Australian society and culture. It will destroy what we love about Australia.
@@sushimamba4281 Interesting comment, thank you.
The good old days just before the real estate market was stitched up and a whole assortment of other hustles
No doubt about it, a lot easier to buy and payoff a home then. Thanks for your comment.
I lived across from Bondi back then, in a old block of flats in Campbell Pde... to get up at sparrow, run across to the beach and have your morning surf, bit if tea and toast and get on the 380 into the City, do your day's graft then back, either to the beach, maybe walk down to Bronte along the beach in the sunset, down a schooner at Selinas and take in a band, a late night kebab at Bondi Junction, hit the clubs and hotels Friday and Saturday night, hung over morning surf on Sunday.... konk out on the beach.... life was bloody marvelous
Those were the days, sounds like you were living it👍Thanks for your comment.
Yes I lived in Bennett St, Flood St, Roscoe St & Blair St. Flats were cheaper & easier to rent back in the 80's I moved into my first share flat in 1985. At 19 years of age. I had a full time job as a phone technician when I was 18 years old at Telecom before it was called Telsra & stolen from the people. We didn't realise how good we had it back then. Most work places were unionised, work & housing was much more secure & we didn't cop shit from bosses or governments.😊😊
My memories of 85 are just that, golden sunsets.. summer was summer. Many weekends down at balmoral beach. A few trees there still have our carvings 😊 life and people were fascinating (not screens) .. that vision of the aqua plane, as a kid you'd look up and see all kinds of flying objects. You played sports and enjoyed it. Family was more valued...
Great comments and memories. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂
@@gregpetterson thanks mate ... the coastline, colors of summer, personalities at bondi .. centrepoint looked golden and new! and how many people living in Sydney at the time can identify with all these images. Life was magical. BTW so was TV .. countdown .. Cheers .. Hey Hey .. its amazing how the environment at certain times rubs off on other bits of society and there is a richness and abundance.
@@cvarikos More good memories👍
Thanks for the memories ❤ grew up in the east and was 22 when this was filmed
Nice to know it brought back memories. The east a great part of Sydney. Thanks for commenting.
Australia was beautiful back then, Sydney back then was the best times of my young life, how did we get to where we are today, the wrong people running our country, Australia isn't Australia anymore, that old Soldier that got out of the German NZI camp would be rolling in his grave if he saw how society in our country is today
Your probably right
Wrong type of immigration. Im late 30s with my parents (Austrlian born) being italian. I dont know what is was like when their parents moved here (i hear stories of getting bullied as "wogs" when they were kids) but i knew my grandparents (immigrants) always worked hard, tried to learn the language and blend in. My parents aren't the type to start trouble. All i see now is arabs treating the roads like their personal playground, no care in the world to follow any rules and second generation asians still not able to speak english clearly. This might sound like a racist comment, but as someone with multiple ethnic friends, and work with multiple cultural backgrounds its the truth as bad as it may sound. some will say you cant generalize but when the majority or certain groups act this way its hard not to.
@@cmelft2463 Very interesting thoughts from somebody with an ethnic family background. Thanks for commenting.
I was born in 1982 in Sydney. What a wonderful place to grow up in. I'll always be thankful for everything Australia 🇦🇺 means to me.
Nice one 👍. Thanks for commenting.
Beautiful🎉.. old is gold❤
Hi Greg, do you own this footage? If so, would you be open to licensing some clips from it?
Hi Megumi, yes I own the footage. I could be open to licensing some clips. For my email details please go to my channel page and click on 'About'.
@@gregpetterson Thank you. I will email you.
I remember what Bondi was like back them. Like swimming in a dunny. Plus nobody ever drank Fosters in Sydney.
Thanks for your interesting comments. I think you're right, Bondi did have off days depending on wind and tide conditions back then. Tooheys beer was popular if I remember correctly.
@@gregpetterson Yeah although Malabar was probably worse Bondi had a bad rep for a while. And pretty much everybody drank Tooheys if not Tooth / Reschs. Although VB and Swan had started to make inroads into the market.
You are right, nothing like a Tooheys or 2, as the advert went.
Bondi cigars everywhere..
@@davidjohnston7512And I thought someone had dumped a load of Picnic bars in the water.
Great work and brings me back lots of memories about Sydney. Can I ask where do you get the film transfered? Nice shots.
Thanks for your kind comments. The film transfer was by DVD Infinity in Crows Nest Sydney. (The option was for HD and enhancement). They did a good job including the sound transfer. Further work on stabilisation and removal of scratches/marks was done using the editing software Davinci Resolve. Also I had a professional film colourist Tim Wreyford do the colour correction. I changed the transferred film to full aspect so you don't have the black vertical bars on each end. The negative with doing this is you loose some quality as the film has been zoomed in but the plus is you can move the scene up or down to hid the film gate which can be seen sometimes between scenes. Also with the editing software I removed 2-3 frames either side of a lot of the original join splicers to stop the judder where the projector jumps over these physical splices which where originally overlapped and glued together.
Wow love your work
@@adambooth600 Thanks for your kind comment 🙂
wow amazing footage of syd in the 80's😮
Thanks for your kind comment.
it looks so different today. thanks for the upload sir
So true. Thanks for your comments🙂
i was 11 y.o in 1985....sad to see Australia now looks like baghdad
You have obviously never been to Baghdad...
you obviously havent been to auburn/bankstown/fairfield/liverpool/...to name a few,Australia is becoming Arabised?
@@slyonmeshut up. Australia was anglicised when we turned up on boats and raped and pillaged. Who are you to decide who lives here?
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@@slyonme Lived in Liverpool (close to miller) 81-85, not many there then; went back to do a asbestos removal course, didn't recognize the place (though the house is still there, barely changed); I thought the place was really nice (minus the socio-economic issues)...
So much nicer to have Sydney Harbour Bridge without the flags spoiling the lines of the arch.
Interesting comment, got me thinking.
I remember those days. International Roast was our coffee. Chinese braised chicken was the heights of exotic cuisine. For the less adventurous there was always Red Rooster or a Chiko Roll from the corner shop. Wine came in cardboard boxes, and VB beer was everywhere. Men dressed in king gees or polyester suits, and women wore Katies or Best and Less. The sweet scent of Winfield Reds permeated the city. A root in a panel van was a classy date. And the Daily Telegraph was our window to the world. Our golden age indeed before multiculturalism.
Thanks for highlighting some of the norms back then.
You wouldn’t have a doctor without multiculturalism.
LOL - spot on!!! Laid back, Anglo-Celtic Australia has all but disappeared. Many of the old diggers would be devastated at how we've sold ourselves out and are being replaced.
@@embracedmadness
This is because the universities deliberately limit med school intakes - it's cheaper to import foreign fully trained doctors. Super bright Aussie students with 98 score ATARS across double maths, physics, chemistry, still can't get into medicine - it's deplorable.
Well you dont know shit, because my grandparents came over from Poland in 1948, my grandad help build the snowy mountains hydro electric scheme with about 65,000 other migrants from over 30 nations.. so immigration helped you have all those wonderful things you enjoyed..
1979, I was 17 from holland on holiday in Dee Why and learning to surf at North Cur Curl. O yes on the greyhound bus doing east/ middle australia, big times 😎😎🤗🤗🤩🤩
Good one Hans, Hope Sydney treated you well. Thanks for your comment😄
Thanks Greg, it was the best of times. I have been to Aussie 3 times during my life and in 2027 i will retire( they say🤣😎) and hope to come more often to Sydney and spend a few months every year, for as long as possible. eeeehhh reading the other comments: we in europa have similar problems like Sydney. looks like 'western created problems' and general technical progress and just history taking its toil. Love to read some feedback.
@@Hans-mg5nf Sounds like you have a plan. All the best for your future retirement and hope you enjoy your visits back to Sydney.
I have a cunning plan 😂😂🤣🤣😎😎
Funny world, i used to live in Dee Why and Curl Curl (up the hill), Manly etc too many places really, it's all a blur now.
Great video, Kiwi whom lived in Coogee for 2 years at this time. Loved the City, great Pubs Selina's Cooggee Bay Hotel saw so many great Aussie and Kiwi Bands.
Nice to hear you have some good memories. Thanks for your comments.
Still Centrepoint Tower to me... & Bondi in the 80's... I remember was a very relaxed place 😜
Have to agree with you. Thanks for your comment👍
@@gregpetterson I was staying with my dad in 1983 in a penthouse in Bondi Junction & then he looked after a friends place with a private beach nearby
@@Slashkamr Wow! living the life with a private beach. Sounds like great memories. Thanks for sharing.
In the late 70's on sunday 3-4pm almost no cars in many areas, even on the Bridge...
Those where the days my friend we thought they would never end weed sing and dance the hole day through , great time and song if you remember 😮👀😳🫣
So true 😊
In my early 60’s and living in Sydney in the 70’s and 80’s was absolutely awesome…. Smoke in the pubs, live music, no bloody tolls ( except harbour bridge and F3… 60 cents) plenty of affordable housing and east to get around.
No more:(…. Best thing about it now is seeing Hornsby in my rear view mirror heading home up the coast
Good memories and good laugh about Hornsby🤣. Thanks for commenting.
They definitely had stronger accents back then compared to now!
Intersting observation 👍
There are other people mentioning this. A gentrification is erasing regional accents in the UK.
great era from 70s right up until around 2000... then the internet really took over, then social media, then smart phones... people have all the entertainment they need in their one hand.
Agree with you, sure has been big changes in technology in the past 40 years.
This was a nicely edited short doco and good little glimpse back to the mid-80s.
Thanks for your kind comments 🙂
Great vid. These were the days even as a 1st generation kid born here from asian parents, you'd still feel the aussie cultural influence. I was 8 yrs old in 85. Growing up in the 80s was a lot better than now.
Nice to hear it sounds like you enjoyed growing up in the 80's. Thanks for commenting.
When Australia was full of the people who built, and fought for this country. Unlike now days !
I was 9 and living in Bondi beach at the time, such good memories of my redstone skateboard and morey boogie board.
Nice to hear the film brought back some good memories for you🙂
Was there in the late 70's, over over the place, mostly near the beaches (Manly, curl curl, Dee Why etc), in 81 moved to Liverpool, now in Qld...
The young lady worrying about a nuclear accident destroying Sydney didn’t see that eventually politicians would destroy Sydney by cramming millions more people into our city. Higher rise everywhere and crazy property prices. It’s awful. The Australian way of life is gone. And seeing fellow white Australians is becoming a rarity.
You're not alone in that thought mate. I'm the only white person on my bus to work each day. No one is reading or watching English content on their phones during their commute, only foreign. They don't need to integrate because they are the Australian population now. We're the immigrants. I was born here but I don't consider myself Australian anymore.
Interesting observation. Thanks for commenting.
@@ferrarikangaroo9271 I agree, when I travel on the train it is much the same. The Sydney of 1985 has long gone in many suburbs along with the uniqueness of the Australians from that period. I was not born in Australia but even I miss the Australian characters from that time. Thanks for commenting.
Andrew 'the boy wonder', aka Denton, assisting Doug Mulray on 2MMM - what a way to begin! I was flatting in East Sydney while at Kenso Kindy. What a time. Pumped fuel at Rosebay on weekend - watched the seaplanes or the 18 footers. Life was simple and good.
Good memories. thanks for sharing👍
I was born in Liverpool hospital in 1984. A lot has changed since then .
Your right, thanks for taking the time to comment👍
Was 15 at the time, Close to Miller (Busby High School...), the house i lived in is still there, almost no change; Went back in the mid 90's, didn't recognize the place; I thought it was a beautiful place; School was rough though...
I was a child at that harbour peace rally. My Grandfather was the Uniting Church Reverend Rex Mathews from Paddington & inner city congressional archdiocese of greater Sydney. The 80s , in eastern Sydney was the best most inspiring place i could wish to be.
The eastern suburbs is a great place to be anytime, but during the 80's it must have been even better. Thanks for commenting🙂.
Sydney 1985, what a year, what a decade. Babylon. Best time of my life.
Definitely agree with you 👍
100%
I grew up in the 90s and 2000s. The 80s and 70s must of been goldern times.
Very true, it was a golden period. Thanks for commenting.
It's hard to describe, how much is nostalgia/Youth, i've thought about it alot, they were really good times.
i was a teenager then, catching the train into Central from fairfield for $1, i would then free range around town, man the things i got up to, all harmless of course but amazing nonetheless
"Original film type Kodachrome 40 (Super 8 sound film) restored and enhanced to HD. " I remember growing up in the 90's and being intrigued by the photos in old magazines from the 80's at the dentist and doctor's waiting room. The colours made it look like another planet, especially since fashion seemed to have changed a lot too by then.
Side note: the narration by Morag McArthur sounds like just like a present day Laura Tingle.
I think your right, Morag does sound a little like Laura Tingle 👍Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Before they sold this place out. Now it’s “multicultural” which equals one big mess and overpriced in every aspect.
Your right about overpriced, thanks for commenting.
I left the Sutherland Shire in 1987 ... I could see the changes happening and they weren't good. I went back in 2009 and saw the changes. Absolutely deplorable.
It would be interesting to predict what it will be like in another 40 years. Thanks for commenting.
Can anybody identify the women at 5:18 interviewed at the Nuclear protest on Sydney harbour? and the guy in the middle at 7:35 interviewed on Bondi Beach? (the old boys lifeguards). So the film credits can be updated in the future.🙂Also thanks to some viewers who have pointed out a very important incorrect date in the narration. The narration at the start of the film has the first fleet dropping anchor in Sydney Cove on 28th of January 1788 when it should be 26th this will also be updated in the future.
I was an old Bondi lad and those old fellas look like Icebergers. Bondi Icebergs used to be the rock pool on South Bondi.
@@anthonyraymond5718 Thanks for your comment. With the help of The Bondi Loop FACEBOOK Group and the Bondi Historian Lawrie Williams we have identified Frank Hurley on the left (Australian heavyweight wrestling champion 1949. Was taken prisoner by the Germans in WW2 on the Greek Island of Crete and spent the war years in a prison camp in Germany) and Gordon Cassidy on the right but we are STILL TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE GUY IN THE MIDDLE?.🤔 I have been informed these guys were all original old boy lifeguards.
She seems an inner west type
@@fergspan5727 Could be, well thats a start. Thanks for your comment👍
I wonder where those protesters are today, how their living their lives, how important, concerning, this is subject is for them 40 years later.
I love my city of Sydney I was only a child in the 80’s but I remember how it was.
Nice one, thanks for your comment.
It's mad how popular and common topless sunbathing was in the '80s. Feel sort-of sorry for people these days, as we didn't bat an eyelid about it back then but you rarely see it now. Well, I guess those people have the internet now! But anyway, still sailing and surfing in Sydney. Despite all it's problems and expense of living here, it still stacks up as a great place to be.
Totally agree, its still a great place to live but sad that many struggle with the expenses living in Sydney today. Thanks for taking the time to comment🙂
Love the bronze whalers and white tipped pointers.
There was a beach you could go (Shelly's ? ), go further back (away from the beach front), and you'd bump into people doing the deed, quiet traumatic for a 6-7 year old...
Flew with Qantas and noticed how things changed seat capacity wise when Hoge’s did the shrimp on the barbie commercials in the US, no more 60 plus passengers but not long after full 747’s first to SF then eventually to LAX as the main hub. Australia in the 70’s and 80’s was
our most original and creative era,music,movies,television even the commercials were creative and almost enjoyable.We were so young and
positive.I still love Sydney how could you not?
Great memories🙂.Yes agree some iconic commercials made back then. You may know the answer to the question, was flying to Europe 40 years ago quicker than it is today? Just did a trip to Europe and the flight seemed even longer🤔
I was doing a course at Gymea TAFE in 1985 definitely the best of times. A lot more common sense back then.
Thanks for your comment, always interesting to hear what people were doing back then. Agree it was a great time.👍
NO such thing nor mindset of common sense exists, Stupid.
Define it if you Retarted-ly think so 😐🤐
This short Docu-film is a ripper. Cheers for sharin' it, mate!
Bloody bonza gettin' a squiz at Sydney back in the '80s and gettin' a feel for the times. The sound added a fair, and them Super8 film shots, mint quality, mate! Classic as, but top-notch shootin' and editin' there. Bauer S175XL wasn't just for dinkum amateurs, ey? Proper professional Super8 gear, fair dinkum.
Cheers 🇦🇺❤
Thanks for taking the time to comment, super nice kind words thank you🙂
Totally laughing! I finished HSC in 1985 and had joined North Bondi Surf Life saving Club for the following 3 years. Those old Guys were there most days. Lots of other characters, too.
The sewage only came with certain currents. Was gross though.
Great to hear you new the old guys. With the help of the Bondi Local loop Facebook group and the Bondi Historian, I was able to identify Frank Hurley and Gordon Cassidy. The guy in the middle many know him but unable to name him. Would you know?
@@gregpetterson sorry, I can't help Greg. I think they were a regular part of the furniture that the younger Men would joke with and be respectful of. They would swim across the bondi bay, then sit and tan. What they said was correct. It is a perfect Bathers beach. Australia is spoilt. Sydney is spoilt for various beaches.
Nth Bondi club was considered a more family club, as opposed to Bondi and I remember a lot of really cool, but nice clubbies. I've watched the Bondi rescue a few times, and some of the teens, young adults of my time are on it.
I was only in the Eastern suburbs from 85-93 , and had an amazing experience, just as it was going' 'yuppy'. I had wanted to cross over from stillwater swimming to surf swimming, but did not quite have the style or desire. I was at the age where I quickly more interested in being social and getting a career going.
If you are into the older history of Bondi beach, I have quite a personal family history. My Grandmother was born and grew up where the pavillion now is. Her father was the manager of the then 'Bondi Change Rooms' which were built in the early 1900's. You would know they used to have the formal change room system. Their home was built above the change rooms.
Great Grandfather and Mother would go out their side gate and walk up to the Bondi Hotel for dinner often, when it was becoming fashionable in the decades to come.
My Grandmother was born on June 18th, 1912 during a well known quite damaging 4 day storm. When the storm abated, the long wooden dive in platform had been ripped from its moorings at the icebergs pool and was washing up against the frontdoor of the changerooms. The beach still had sand dunes etc, so nothing to stop it, and were really badly damaged. And the big boulders off the north bondi cliffs had been pushed up to their current positions, signifying the power of the storm. It was really quite an event at the time and the council had mermaids placed on the boulders with a date of the storm.
No one officially knew when the rocks came up, but my family always said it was most likely the 19th, possibly 20th. Grandma was born during the storm, but in at Paddos Womens hospital, and couldn't return till storm settled.
I believe the mermaids were stolen a little while back. Sad.
My Grandmother was an absolute fish or mermaid as they would say, and was bodysurfing at age 5. She said she just spent her days with her little dog running around the beach and swimming. At that time there were not many doing so, but I think there were enough good young men doing similar to watch out for her.
She had an extensive pressclippings book to prove it all.
She bacame an incedibly successful swimming in the ladies club, being basically the champ by age 12.
I would bodysurf on her back up until age 8 or so. She was almost as natural as dolphin in the water. Never lost it.
She had an early professional framed photo as I looked at a lot as I was growing up. It was of her, age 6 and 4 other bodysurfers catching a beautiful big wave at the south end.
The had been 6 or them bodysurfing the southend together and one missed the wave.
Sadly this man was taken by a shark. I believe this was the first known attack at Bondi. I think I have that story correct. It was engraved in my brain as a kid. Freaky!
I don't know what happened to the photo when she passed. Another sister has the pressclippings book, so I can't check the details that were in the papers.
Sadly her Dad died when she was 14 and they moved to Paddington, which was quite poor at the time. She became a secretary during the depression and made money for the family.
Around that time the changerooms and their home were knocked down and made way for the fancy new Pavillion, and the rest is history.
Keep up the good work, is fun to see older stuff!
The only thing I notice with the older filming is it doesn't pick up the colour well. The harbour and beaches are so much more vibrant in real life and I think the bright sun washes out the camera catching that vibrancy.
@@em945 Wow! such a great history and memories. Thank you so much for taking the time to share them🙂
@@gregpetterson thanks, Greg. by the way, the long somewhat boring story about the storm and dates was on my mind to tell someone after hearing a history reporter talking about it on ABC radio. I had not realised how big an event it was....a number of shops etc were washed away, and it meant the council had to replan the streets. Prior to that, it was just a dramatic family story. He said It had been a mystery too for detail people, as to what the actual date of the rocks had come up.
I would like to have told him my family thought the 19th.
Take care.
@@em945 Great history, I'm sure the Bondi Historian Lawrie Williams would be interested in this story also.👍
80's was a glorious time period all across the world.. The planet was more pristine and hence was the society 🙏
It was a great time living in Australia I agree. I'm sure some parts of the world were doing it tough though. Thanks for commenting.
No Indians. WONDERFUL!!!!
White Australia, the way it should of been kept.
Great video!
I read your bio and see that you enjoy documenting for historical and future reasons! 😊 Our family has an hour or so worth of film, and much of the film is/was recorded from my grandfather's airplane, back when he owned and flew a small commercial airplane just after WW2 (He was in the RAAF and flew in a light bomber during the war, i suppose thats where he learned to fly).
Im not sure if you want Australian film like that, but if you do, i can go find the DVD, set it up on my laptop and send you a copy. Wether you use it or not, thats upto you, maybe you'll simply enjoy viewing some footage of rural Australia from a birds eye perspective. 🙂
Either way mate, have a good one 👍🏻
Oh, i nearly forgot to say -- the film is from the mid 50s).
Its family/home footage of my mothers side of the family.
Wow! sounds great, would love to see a copy of it. For my email details please click on the 'About' section of my UA-cam channel page. 🙂
I hate Sydney these days. Been here my whole life over 50 years. After the olympics it changed for the worse. Every man and his dog came here and it went downhill in many ways. Ridiculously unaffordable these days. Gentrification has pushed people out. I rented a two bedroom unit in the city for $80/week in 1990. Now you’re lucky to get a shoebox for $500/week. They promised us that all the technology would make life easier but people are working harder and longer with fewer benefits than ever before. Apparently if you have a multi million dollar mortgage that you’ll never pay off you’re considered lucky.
I have with agree with you on some of your points. Yes they did promise that technology would give us an easier life with more free time. I never did believe it would happen. Your right, more young people are working longer and harder than ever just to live in Sydney.
@@gregpetterson I’m leaving to south east Asia next year. I can live there and have a very nice lifestyle without working and save money and travel. In Sydney all I do is work to pay bills and get nowhere.
One of the problems of housing affordability was here already in 1985, illustrated by the attitude of that guy on the boat in the video. Get your life down to working 2 or 3 days a week and spend the rest of your time sailing on the harbour, hey? Only the well-off could do that, and then they bought up all the real estate and got richer by jacking up the prices and rents. Now they are richer, and so many have to suffer because of it...
@@papasmurfette007 but you can't really blame them for investing. Blame the politicians. They are the ones who have failed to implement policies to stop the rampant greed. Most likely because they too have property portfolios and are making a lot of money from it
when I came to Sydney 1989, it was so beautiful. There were not any tall buildings either in Darling Barbour nor at Opera House
Interesting observation. Thanks for commenting.