The maker of this film should give it to the sound and film archive in Canberra. It is a true and perfect example of a day in the life of a major Australian city in the middle of the 1970's. I was a 9 yr old from Wollongong often visiting my relatives in Sydney. Wow the cars have changed so much. I love historical films like these.
Thank you for sharing your home movie. I was 20 in 1975, working at the Bank of NSW. The streets, cars, fashion and footy - all Aussie. Before everything became globali$ed.
This is seriously a historically important film, its really well done (plus I love the look of Super 8!). I can remember as a little kid that this is what Sydney was like in the 70s!
This is absolutely wonderful. Very nostalgic, very creative, and Donna Summers is a great choice. No ugly high rises in sight. Oxford Street looks half decent. A lot more open parkland along the Moore Park area. A happy, vibrant city.
Lol, it was a violent city, full of corruption and with a disgustingly corrupt police force. It was also, as you can clearly see in the video, completely dominated by cars. It's a much more attractive and safer city today. Not much to get that nostalgic about.
A few people have mentioned the speed of this video. In the early 70's I purchased my first Super 8 movie camera & I spent several weeks trying to figure out all the features it had. Normal filming speed was 24fps but this camera also had a time lapse setting of 9 fps. I wondered one day what would happen if I went into the city & did some timelapse filming & I also mounted the camera in my car for the trip home. It was all for a bit of fun & you can see the result. I almost threw the film out several years ago but I'm glad I decided not to.
Glad you didn't. I've lived in the UK for thirty years now. Got married and stayed. But this is the only way I get to see the old Australia I knew growing up. Especially the cars as they really were and not restored at a classic show. Cheers.
Brilliant, thanks for sharing! This is so nicely edited, it's perfect! I can imagine at the time ... "why do you want to waste film driving around Sydney?" ... 50 years later ... "THANK YOU SO MUCH for filming something as mundane as city traffic ... the roads, the buildings, the AUSSIE MADE CARS!"
Emigrated to Sydney from Scotland in Dec 1974 so 1975 was my first full year here. I'm back living here after 30 years in Perth. I now call it S.I.N.O. (Sydney in name only). Sung to the tune of 'Where have all the flowers gone'?..."Where have all the Aussie's gone?"...so sad!
We call it World Soup. Most, or at least a pretty fair majority of caucasian Australian born people have packed up and left Sydney. Too big, too crowded, too expensive and too many foreign people there now all committing crimes and taking over suburbs. To be fair though, this has been going this way since the early 80s.
Thank you ross myers for not tossing this out. What you thought would an interesting experiment is now a historic slice of life in Sydney in the mid 70's. It is often the mundane things that are often not recorded that become fascinating with time. I have often thought of doing something similar where I live.
How things have changed....Sydney is so massive. So much construction going on with so many apartments. Even the suburbs are becoming concrete jungles.
I’m in my late 20s, lived here all my life and I hardly recognised any streets or buildings from the footage. Totally unrecognisable. Sydney has become so over developed and not in any good way
I can still recall that distinctive smell of old Sydney suburbs area's milk bars in the early 70's & hunting around for coke bottles to take back for a refund
@@benwinter2420 Wonderful money earning opps back then. Cashing in soft drink bottles. Looking for golf balls and selling them at the pro shop. Caddying. Caddied for the Fiji PM back in about 1972 at Pennant Hills Golf Course. Worked for the local milko in about 1970, hanging off the back of the truck delivering milk at age 12. In the workforce by 1974. There was no such thing as unemployment back then. Settled into a job for life. My biggest mistake back then? I should have been 100% focused on buying as much property as I could.
The amount of vacant or little occupied land blows me away,such a small population back then.20 cents for an empty bottle of Tarax Creamy soda,Lemonade back then at the milk bar and that 20 cents went into a pinball machine and with your mates would last for hours.Sly Cigarettes that cost $1 or just over a Pack.Full color Cigarette Ads in the Paper,Paul Hogan Was king of Comedy and Don Lane King of Late Night T.V Fantastic and simple times I lived as a kid
It was so strange to see parts of Sydney I've lived, especially when you turned onto Flinders St, I lived with my now wife on the right hand side after the service station where the building with the first arch is. It all looks very similar to when we lived there in '96, but very different but same to now. Great video!
Very compelling footage, thank you for uploading. I live in Western Canada now, but spent 20 years in East Sydney and Woolloomooloo - made me ‘homesick’. One interesting fact a lot of people don’t know is that many major Sydney streets were built on and follow the original Aboriginal tracks, in particular South Dowling, Bourke Street down to Woolloomooloo and Botany Road is another one.
Yeah, I live in California now. Grew up in Homebush. Also spent many years in the Eastern suburbs especially while at the UNSW. Left Sydney on Christmas Day 1975. This video is pretty much as I remembered Sydney. Miss it so much.
That bloody Liverpool St/College St/Oxford St intersection: still a mongrel! Thank you very much for taking time to re-format and upload this Mr/Mrs/Ms Ramdarook!
I was 6 years back in 1975, what great memories. Good to see Easts (that's what I still call them and support them) have the same amount of fans today as they had back then 😆🤭
You should do the same routes today and film it then put the two videos side by side, would be great to compare the changes. Seen this done elsewhere and it looks great.
I say politicians of the time particularly Neville Wran and Robert Hawke have a lot to answer for! Their poor decision making and planning is a major factor to what has lead us to the path we are currently at!
Yes a bright future was what most people saw and a happy life.No idea of the amount of our productive Country going overseas to buy what we made and grew here.Good times indeed
Pierre Pinson yes but London Cars stopped as soon a water touched them ironically, Lucas Prince of Darkness was the catch cry for their Electrics hahaha
Love it. Thank you. Great to see all the old, cars, roads and buildings at a time before social media and all the critics out there. A time when people would say good morning with a smile and not the intent to rob you. Cheers.
This is so weird. It was a violent and dangerous city then. Don't you remember what the police were like? That's just one example. It's much more attractive and safe now.
I liked the scene going down South Dowling Street past the old Resch's brewery and the old ACI glass factory . I was booked by a cop down that short stretch of freeway going to the airport one morning going to work on my Yamaha RD400 . Doing 120 in an 80 zone . Bright sunny morning just before Christmas 1980 . He was a nice bloke . He lowered my speed on the ticket . Great memories .
I remember playing golf at Moore Park in the '80's with a mate, when he mis-hit a ball ( badly) and it bounced across Sth Dowling St and up the ICI driveway.
@@peterpiper831 I used to play at Moore Park in the late 70's and mishit a shot which bounced on Southern Cross drive and bounced over the wall of Resch's Brewery. Was very lucky no car was hit. :)
@@stefanbach7652 Greetings from England. I came over in 1996 to watch the last two speedway meetings ever held at THE Sydney Showground. What a stadium! It was the pilgrimage of a lifetime and took me years to pay off - but I would not have missed it for the world. Loved Sydney and Australia.
Thanks this is fantastic. I was 13 in 1975. I had so much fun in this city a few years later I'm surprised they had Southern Cross Drive then but I checked and it was built in 1969
Was in Sydney in 1976 made some great mates I lived Manly and had lots of fun. I then returned home to Brisbane but I’ve never forgotten those memories love Sydney ❤❤
He's going from Oxford st Paddington down South Dowling st onto Southern Cross drive towards the airport. How the buildings have been knocked down and high rises put up recently
@@paulfuller8985 It's the old Resch's brewery façade still standing now surrounded by hundreds of apartments. There used to be a glass bottle factory adjacent, now gone.
A really good video! The time lapse parts gave me flashbacks to Cold Chisel's Saturday Night video. And was great to see a time when Australian-made cars were on our roads! Full points!!
@@angusseletto1511 not really try, 2010 post era with fat acceptance complete lunacy. that is when it really took off as in regards to what we see now.
Just great...... brought back a lot of memories seeing all the old buildings, streets,people rushing around everywhere that there appointment is more important than yours hahaha that was a top video thanks....
Love the footage and the editing and soundtrack. I never knew about the Paris Theatre on the corner of Liverpool St and Wentworth Ave until seeing this. And I never knew following a Ford Escort along South Dowling Street could be so dynamic and mesmerising.
For the driving part of the video, I'm not sure where the first part is taken, but once it cuts to being in the city, I'm fairly sure it's as follows: -Travelling west on Park Street (Hyde Park to left and right) -Turns left onto Elizabeth Street, going south (Hyde Park on left) -Goes south down Elizabeth Street two blocks, past Bathurst Street -Turns left onto Liverpool Street, going east (the two-lane slip lane is still there today and very recognizable) -Continues east down Liverpool Street for three blocks, past Nithsdale and Commonwealth Streets -Turns right onto Oxford Street, going east (now this would be going straight on as Liverpool Street further on is inaccessible from this alignment) -Continues down Oxford Street until Taylor Square, turns right onto Flinders Street going south -Continues down Flinders Street, eventually turns right on S Dowling Street, going south -Continues down S Dowling Street (this route is now the Eastern Distributor, but it wasn't built until the 90s so it's just a road) -S Dowling eventually turns into Southern Cross Drive (built 1969) -Southern Cross Drive and video ends at Wentworth Avenue, Eastlakes - wasn't extended to connect with the airport tunnel until 1988.
Not that many Japanese cars hey? Holdens and Fords everywhere. You should be thanked for capturing theses moments. It’s is a real treasure. I’m nearly sixty and I am stunned at how horrible Sydney has become.
James French it's really terrible. If you lose your car industry you lose most industries. A lot of Arnotts plant for biscuit making actually came from automotive industry.
Ben Payne this is a major loss that will be felt forever and Australians couldn't care less and just keep buying their Korean imports as though it's life as usual. We are so apathetic in this joint.
Ben Payne Donald Trump would be horrified. How ironic that Lima agreement b.s. occurred during this film. Why are our leaders so determined to hold back this country's potential. They seem single minded to please overseas interests ahead of our own.
If I recall that's how dick Smith got his start down there , started up his own business repairing taxi CB radio's after working for a while for a company that did the same .
I bought a IH truck in Sydney back in 77' and bumped into 6 dockshands for the ships in the harbour. We drank many a round as one shouted then the other then by the time it got to me I had to.Got very shit faced and i had the world record for time as in pissing in Sydney harbour.They were impressed.Great people great country.Especially the outback.
Alfa Won Except everyone and their attitudes.And no disrespect it has really changed a lot.I send to visit my cousins in St Ives in the early 70 s and now it's totally different especially the races of people,I don't have a problem with it just an observation.They were fun times as a kid
My first thought was "why would you choose to wreck historical footage by playing this at high speed?", but Ramdarook has explained this. Good historical footage when played at 25% tempo. I note some late 70's Valiants here. Martin Place still had two-way traffic. Thanks for posting. .
Fancy doing it right after the halfway point of the year. I wonder what the significance of that is? The consensus in the comments going by the cars is the traffic footage is 1972. The football match is 1980. All they had to do on the road limit sign was put a diagonal stroke though the 5. It's amazing how similar the infrastructure was so long ago like the painted road markings and those freeway dots that go brrrmp brrrmp brrrmp on the tyres, replaced by rumble strips now. I like the dots more. They looked more modern.
Wow , no food poisoning , no hex debts , no violent home invasions ,no meth epedemic , people had jobs and time to relax on the weekend and after work , people lined for things , cops would give directions and the buildings looked like they belonged there .
A crossing on South Dowling St. Hilarious! And it was 3 lanes!!! I remember that and Sydney's population was less than half of what it is today. Now it is funnelled into one lane. That's intelligent planning. This was filmed before Sydney was ruined by too much development trying to house a population it cannot support. Also remember those traffic lights at Link Rd which my friends don't believe were ever there but there is the evidence. Thanks!
Deano our was better that way. I remember fondly when Crown St was the north bound carriageway to the Cahill expressway then later the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, and Bourke St the northbound carriageway via a short tunnel in Woolloomoolloo.
When bookmakers bet nearly every race to 96%. Heaven. In 1979 there were 52 bookmakers at Wentworth Park dogs. Plus about 16 in Ledger betting to losing figures on most races. You could get on to win 10k with any of the big bookmakers. Now there would be lucky to be four. What happened. Best time in Australia 70's and early eighties. Heaven
This is great footage but personally, i would've liked it set wholly to Aussie music to give it a real home grown flavour that gives all those memories more vibrance. Good work mate.
For a split second at 4:13, you can see a silver Datsun 240C in the right hand lane. I have one of these, I bought in Sydney. It's now resprayed light blue, but the aftermarket towbar is the same as the one in the film, could be the same car.
Back when football team names were their locality and really had a sense of belonging, before corporatisation replaced them with miscellaneous animal names so they would have more 'portability' when teams were sold to other cities.
Yeah I wish they'd brought in the English system with promotion and relegation to the top league. That has so much drama and passion for local communities. Instead boring billionaires wanted boring advertising and teams are interchangeable billboards.
3.12 in and on the right it’s the EPL lift test tower where I worked,also the old Paris theatre where I saw my mates in the band called “ subversion “ play around 75/76 great days
Its wasted on her, though. Even had they the sexual anatomy of adults, which some of youse basically near did, they'd lack the adult physiques to meet the function of vigor.
@@freeagent8225 Mine's a bit surreal. All I've done is switch it around. We had our " Mrs Montgomery " in 4th class, brunette, tall, leggy, totally short skirt. Strange name - Miss Wooky. But she was definitely all there.
I was living and working in Sydney back in 1975. I remember all this well. Excellent video. From memory the red/blue colour taxi cabs were run by Legion. In those days, I worked in the State Office block, better known as "the black stump". Even that has disappeared in recent years along with all the green and blue old double deck buses.
Red and blue taxi colours were RSL. I should know as my dad drove them in the early 80s. 1980-82 HZ Kingswood, 1983 -84 VH Valiant and 84 -85 XD Falcon, all in the RSL livery.
Hi James, that is very interesting information. Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware about red and blue taxis being around in Sydney during the 1980's, as we moved to Melbourne in 1981. The Legion red and blue taxis were around in the 1950's and early 1960's. I even have an old Legion taxi phone card, which includes a photo of a red and blue taxi displayed on the card. I do remember that red and blue taxis were quite a common sight in Sydney back in the 1950's and 1960's. Some of these may have been RSL as well as Legion. All the very best. Robert.
RGC198 tagger RSL cabs red and blue livery endured until the mid 1990s when Labor's Bob Carr thought it would be a great leap forward to mandate all over white for Sydney's taxi fleets. I remember seeing EB Falcons carry the treatment as well as the old Deluxe Cabs colours of red and black with cream roof, later used by its successor Taxis Combined Services. Sydney has lost it's character thanks to meddlesome governments.
Just by coincidence, Jeff Kennet here did the same here in Melbourne and made all our taxi's yellow. They are similar to the colour of NYC taxis, but a slightly different shade of yellow.
RGC198 yeah I know the yellow. More pastel as though a tiny bit of green was mixed in. Bob Carr got the idea from Jeff Kennet's yellow. Had to copy the Americans. We had a good tradition of different company liveries. People had no trouble spotting cabs before. They just have to make their mark. The different colours crept back in here in NSW .
The maker of this film should give it to the sound and film archive in Canberra. It is a true and perfect example of a day in the life of a major Australian city in the middle of the 1970's. I was a 9 yr old from Wollongong often visiting my relatives in Sydney. Wow the cars have changed so much. I love historical films like these.
Thank you for sharing your home movie.
I was 20 in 1975, working at the Bank of NSW.
The streets, cars, fashion and footy - all Aussie.
Before everything became globali$ed.
I just saw 48 years of my life flash by!
This is seriously a historically important film, its really well done (plus I love the look of Super 8!). I can remember as a little kid that this is what Sydney was like in the 70s!
Nearly every car in this was made not only in Australia but in Sydney. Page wood for Holden, Homebush for Ford and Rosebery for Morris.
Wasn't the P76 about that time?
@@deanpd3402 following year 1973.
Back when made in Australia was on just about everything, including the people.
Lol
After 50 years, still in Sydney. I remember those days. Cars back then had character.
I Agree , they looks suppository since 2 decades ...
Now Sydney is one big shithole dumping ground for the rest of the world.
Sydney, how i want to remember it! Thankyou for posting.
man every car is a classic .
Where did this wowderful footage, turn up from
Great 1975...alive.
This is the real speed of Sydney 2019.
what great memories and so many Australian made cars...
This is absolutely wonderful. Very nostalgic, very creative, and Donna Summers is a great choice.
No ugly high rises in sight. Oxford Street looks half decent. A lot more open parkland along the Moore Park area. A happy, vibrant city.
White as heaven.
Lol, it was a violent city, full of corruption and with a disgustingly corrupt police force. It was also, as you can clearly see in the video, completely dominated by cars. It's a much more attractive and safer city today.
Not much to get that nostalgic about.
A few people have mentioned the speed of this video. In the early 70's I purchased my first Super 8 movie camera & I spent several weeks trying to figure out all the features it had. Normal filming speed was 24fps but this camera also had a time lapse setting of 9 fps. I wondered one day what would happen if I went into the city & did some timelapse filming & I also mounted the camera in my car for the trip home. It was all for a bit of fun & you can see the result. I almost threw the film out several years ago but I'm glad I decided not to.
Another minute and I would have been home
Glad you didn't. I've lived in the UK for thirty years now. Got married and stayed. But this is the only way I get to see the old Australia I knew growing up. Especially the cars as they really were and not restored at a classic show. Cheers.
Loved it ! U were ahead of your time ! Thanks for sharing this ! Dash cam 75 👌
Today's ordinary is tomorrow's extra ordinary. Well done. ua-cam.com/video/14LTlQhDPI4/v-deo.html Here, see if you think this is 1979 or 2019.:-)
Honestly one of the coolest bits of footage I'v seen for a while , did't hurt that I knocked around down there at the time .
Brilliant, thanks for sharing! This is so nicely edited, it's perfect! I can imagine at the time ... "why do you want to waste film driving around Sydney?" ... 50 years later ... "THANK YOU SO MUCH for filming something as mundane as city traffic ... the roads, the buildings, the AUSSIE MADE CARS!"
My first year at School & how magical I thought Sydney was as a small boy
Emigrated to Sydney from Scotland in Dec 1974 so 1975 was my first full year here. I'm back living here after 30 years in Perth. I now call it S.I.N.O. (Sydney in name only). Sung to the tune of 'Where have all the flowers gone'?..."Where have all the Aussie's gone?"...so sad!
We call it World Soup. Most, or at least a pretty fair majority of caucasian Australian born people have packed up and left Sydney.
Too big, too crowded, too expensive and too many foreign people there now all committing crimes and taking over suburbs.
To be fair though, this has been going this way since the early 80s.
@@Igloo3471 yes but he's from scotland, he's not aussie
Lol was thinking the same @@-OnTheRun-
Hard not to be nostalgic over this old Sydney! I was at that game with my Dad,we are from Bondi. I thank you & Cheers!
Thank you ross myers for not tossing this out. What you thought would an interesting experiment is now a historic slice of life in Sydney in the mid 70's. It is often the mundane things that are often not recorded that become fascinating with time. I have often thought of doing something similar where I live.
How things have changed....Sydney is so massive. So much construction going on with so many apartments. Even the suburbs are becoming concrete jungles.
i know. i'm only 24 and I hate it!
I’m in my late 20s, lived here all my life and I hardly recognised any streets or buildings from the footage. Totally unrecognisable. Sydney has become so over developed and not in any good way
yep especially when freeways run through them these days. beverly hills comes to mind.
Was there for 50 years and moved to Wollongong what a breath of fresh ❤
I was 8yrs old Oh how i miss the look of those days so much ..we had a better life back then..luv the 70's.& the cars back then
I can still recall that distinctive smell of old Sydney suburbs area's milk bars in the early 70's & hunting around for coke bottles to take back for a refund
@@benwinter2420 Wonderful money earning opps back then. Cashing in soft drink bottles. Looking for golf balls and selling them at the pro shop. Caddying. Caddied for the Fiji PM back in about 1972 at Pennant Hills Golf Course. Worked for the local milko in about 1970, hanging off the back of the truck delivering milk at age 12. In the workforce by 1974. There was no such thing as unemployment back then. Settled into a job for life. My biggest mistake back then? I should have been 100% focused on buying as much property as I could.
The amount of vacant or little occupied land blows me away,such a small population back then.20 cents for an empty bottle of Tarax Creamy soda,Lemonade back then at the milk bar and that 20 cents went into a pinball machine and with your mates would last for hours.Sly Cigarettes that cost $1 or just over a Pack.Full color Cigarette Ads in the Paper,Paul Hogan Was king of Comedy and Don Lane King of Late Night T.V Fantastic and simple times I lived as a kid
It was so strange to see parts of Sydney I've lived, especially when you turned onto Flinders St, I lived with my now wife on the right hand side after the service station where the building with the first arch is. It all looks very similar to when we lived there in '96, but very different but same to now.
Great video!
I’m glad you didn’t throw it out too. And the sound track is perfect!
Very compelling footage, thank you for uploading. I live in Western Canada now, but spent 20 years in East Sydney and Woolloomooloo - made me ‘homesick’. One interesting fact a lot of people don’t know is that many major Sydney streets were built on and follow the original Aboriginal tracks, in particular South Dowling, Bourke Street down to Woolloomooloo and Botany Road is another one.
Yeah, I live in California now. Grew up in Homebush. Also spent many years in the Eastern suburbs especially while at the UNSW. Left Sydney on Christmas Day 1975. This video is pretty much as I remembered Sydney. Miss it so much.
That's really interesting, didn't know that. It took a Canadian to educate me.
Life was so much better back then
Especially in the 1980s
i dont agree with that , the 80 s is when the total destruction of australia started !
@@upyours1256 hardly mate.
Whitlam was 70s and I wouldn't call it that
Why? Because you were young?
Sydney was often a violent and dangerous place back then.
Beautiful Sydney ❤👍🏻
Was in the 70's not now.
That bloody Liverpool St/College St/Oxford St intersection: still a mongrel! Thank you very much for taking time to re-format and upload this Mr/Mrs/Ms Ramdarook!
I was 6 years back in 1975, what great memories.
Good to see Easts (that's what I still call them and support them) have the same amount of fans today as they had back then 😆🤭
The old Sydney sports ground
You should do the same routes today and film it then put the two videos side by side, would be great to compare the changes. Seen this done elsewhere and it looks great.
Thanks for making, keeping and uploading this film for the future history! well done, Mate
3: 36 Wow - Southern Cross Drive with actual flowing traffic. The M5 has a lot to answer for...
M5 sux
I say politicians of the time particularly Neville Wran and Robert Hawke have a lot to answer for!
Their poor decision making and planning is a major factor to what has lead us to the path we are currently at!
@@StephenWestSyd and that prick Whitlam
fascinating footage when 'Made in Australia' was the norm and opportunity knocked.
Shhh! while you were working your pollies ( MR speaker people) were off to the Lima Convention (no wonder it's been kept quiet)
Yes a bright future was what most people saw and a happy life.No idea of the amount of our productive Country going overseas to buy what we made and grew here.Good times indeed
🇦🇺WOW! A plenty of beautiful big cars ....🕊🕊Sydney was a mix of LONDON and NEW YORK. Thanks for sharing🦋🦋🦋.
Pierre Pinson yes but London Cars stopped as soon a water touched them ironically, Lucas Prince of Darkness was the catch cry for their Electrics hahaha
LA also.
Love it. Thank you. Great to see all the old, cars, roads and buildings at a time before social media and all the critics out there. A time when people would say good morning with a smile and not the intent to rob you. Cheers.
And before those confounded head-sets. People used to actually nod or talk to each other when waiting to cross the road, standing in queues etc.
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People's hearts at that time were filled with mercy and good intentions, not like these days.😔
This is so weird. It was a violent and dangerous city then. Don't you remember what the police were like? That's just one example.
It's much more attractive and safe now.
I liked the scene going down South Dowling Street past the old Resch's brewery and
the old ACI glass factory . I was booked by a cop down that short stretch of freeway
going to the airport one morning going to work on my Yamaha RD400 . Doing 120
in an 80 zone . Bright sunny morning just before Christmas 1980 . He was a nice bloke .
He lowered my speed on the ticket . Great memories .
I remember ICI's flashing sign while waiting for the lights
'ICI - Good things come in glass'
I was 7 when this was made lol
I remember playing golf at Moore Park in the '80's with a mate, when he mis-hit a ball ( badly) and it bounced across Sth Dowling St and up the ICI driveway.
@@peterpiper831 I used to play at Moore Park in the late 70's and mishit a shot which bounced on Southern Cross drive and bounced over the wall of Resch's Brewery. Was very lucky no car was hit. :)
@@stefanbach7652 Greetings from England. I came over in 1996 to watch the last two speedway meetings ever held at THE Sydney Showground. What a stadium! It was the pilgrimage of a lifetime and took me years to pay off - but I would not have missed it for the world. Loved Sydney and Australia.
Thanks this is fantastic. I was 13 in 1975. I had so much fun in this city a few years later
I'm surprised they had Southern Cross Drive then but I checked and it was built in 1969
Wish there was such a thing as a time machine....I'd buy a one way ticket. Great video..cheers.
Was in Sydney in 1976 made some great mates I lived Manly and had lots of fun. I then returned home to Brisbane but I’ve never forgotten those memories love Sydney ❤❤
Awesome, thanks for the trip back in time 👍👍
I visited Sydney in 1975....went with my grandparents to see my great grandmother in Balmain...i was 17/18
He's going from Oxford st Paddington down South Dowling st onto Southern Cross drive towards the airport. How the buildings have been knocked down and high rises put up recently
I remember seeing a flashing sign everytime i came back from Bondi as soon as we hit sth dowling street...
'Good things come in glass'
I can't remember whether its the brewery or ACI , but one of them still has the old facade in
front of the apartments within .
@@paulfuller8985 It's the old Resch's brewery façade still standing now surrounded by hundreds of apartments. There used to be a glass bottle factory adjacent, now gone.
Ahh the days when you could actually drive (and turn right!!!) around Sydney...
Now you can actually walk comfortably through the city. Back then it was horribly dominated by cars.
I can already feel the respect for this video
A really good video! The time lapse parts gave me flashbacks to Cold Chisel's Saturday Night video. And was great to see a time when Australian-made cars were on our roads! Full points!!
Awesome...takes me back...right past my student house in Surry Hills 1975
Back When about 80% of the cars on the road were Australian
Yeah and they broke down if it was too hot, too cold, or too wet.
@@albertbatfinder5240 Not the fords or Holdens or Chryslers the pommy euro shit did
And not an overweight person in sight. I wonder what year that started to change.
lmccism yep and I'm betting early 80 s with the fat arse food revolution sadly,Maccas Pizza Hut, Red Rooster etc etc
@@angusseletto1511 not really try, 2010 post era with fat acceptance complete lunacy. that is when it really took off as in regards to what we see now.
@@sanctuaryism Yes I think you are correct: post-2010 the fat revolution took hold.
@@googleuser2609 women were still somewhat humble pre 2010.
I would love to see some of the original non-sped up footage especially the first parts from Sydney City going into Flinders Street!
vlc player can slow it to regular speed
Or you can play UA-cam at 25% speed.
Awesome video. Totally enjoyable
Just great...... brought back a lot of memories seeing all the old buildings, streets,people rushing around everywhere that there appointment is more important than yours hahaha that was a top video thanks....
Love the footage and the editing and soundtrack. I never knew about the Paris Theatre on the corner of Liverpool St and Wentworth Ave until seeing this. And I never knew following a Ford Escort along South Dowling Street could be so dynamic and mesmerising.
Perfect!
Great work.
For the driving part of the video, I'm not sure where the first part is taken, but once it cuts to being in the city, I'm fairly sure it's as follows:
-Travelling west on Park Street (Hyde Park to left and right)
-Turns left onto Elizabeth Street, going south (Hyde Park on left)
-Goes south down Elizabeth Street two blocks, past Bathurst Street
-Turns left onto Liverpool Street, going east (the two-lane slip lane is still there today and very recognizable)
-Continues east down Liverpool Street for three blocks, past Nithsdale and Commonwealth Streets
-Turns right onto Oxford Street, going east (now this would be going straight on as Liverpool Street further on is inaccessible from this alignment)
-Continues down Oxford Street until Taylor Square, turns right onto Flinders Street going south
-Continues down Flinders Street, eventually turns right on S Dowling Street, going south
-Continues down S Dowling Street (this route is now the Eastern Distributor, but it wasn't built until the 90s so it's just a road)
-S Dowling eventually turns into Southern Cross Drive (built 1969)
-Southern Cross Drive and video ends at Wentworth Avenue, Eastlakes - wasn't extended to connect with the airport tunnel until 1988.
How I remember Sydney when I first came here it was such a beautiful city a nice place to live & to get about..💜
Amazing. It's exactly the same, but different.
What a classic...not to mention the cars....I for one am glad you did not throw out the film....Al
This is why they’re called “The good old days”.
Sydney will never ever be the same again 😞
Sad but true
Your just made me sad(der) with that comment. That's bleak.
Sydney used to be full of character. Each passing decade it changes too much.
@@jamesfrench7299 I'm sure people were saying the same thing in the 70s. It's a city. It changes. Some good, some bad.
I was born on Oct 4, 1975. Taipei City, Taiwan.
Good on you Ross, epic footage
You could get from one side of Sydney to the other in the blink of an eye!
Not that many Japanese cars hey? Holdens and Fords everywhere. You should be thanked for capturing theses moments. It’s is a real treasure. I’m nearly sixty and I am stunned at how horrible Sydney has become.
Back when nearly every vehicle you see on the road was made in Australia or at least had significant local input into it's manufacture.
James French it's really terrible. If you lose your car industry you lose most industries. A lot of Arnotts plant for biscuit making actually came from automotive industry.
Ben Payne this is a major loss that will be felt forever and Australians couldn't care less and just keep buying their Korean imports as though it's life as usual. We are so apathetic in this joint.
James French I don't believe everyone is apathetic. This all began with the Lima Accord in the 70s. Both governments. We had no say in the matter.
Ben Payne Donald Trump would be horrified. How ironic that Lima agreement b.s. occurred during this film.
Why are our leaders so determined to hold back this country's potential. They seem single minded to please overseas interests ahead of our own.
tobagotb10 all part of the same agenda I'm afraid
Unreal. I didn't know they had street-cams and dash-cams back then. Great time. I was 19 then.
I was 10 years off being born lol. you are the same age as my uncle.
I remember those cabs with cb radios and those rickety old buses & trains. It wasn't until the 80's that modernization became more evident
If I recall that's how dick Smith got his start down there , started up his own business repairing taxi CB radio's after working for a while for a company that did the same .
They were VHF radios not CB!
Thank you so much
Love it! Making me homesick here in sweaty Singapore. Sin City all day
nothing left to be home sick about , its an absolute shit hole now !
I bought a IH truck in Sydney back in 77' and bumped into 6 dockshands for the ships in the harbour. We drank many a round as one shouted then the other then by the time it got to me I had to.Got very shit faced and i had the world record for time as in pissing in Sydney harbour.They were impressed.Great people great country.Especially the outback.
I love looking at that Monaro on this made me regret not buying one. Great video
Wow thank you😍
Incredible. So much of Sydney hasnt changed that much.
Alfa Won Except everyone and their attitudes.And no disrespect it has really changed a lot.I send to visit my cousins in St Ives in the early 70 s and now it's totally different especially the races of people,I don't have a problem with it just an observation.They were fun times as a kid
@@angusseletto1511 races?
@@angusseletto1511 Yeah but you walk through the suburbs now and no one speaks english!
Unasked for immigrants and we are expected to love it.
I arrived in Sydney 1982 this is how it was back then.
My first thought was "why would you choose to wreck historical footage by playing this at high speed?", but Ramdarook has explained this. Good historical footage when played at 25% tempo.
I note some late 70's Valiants here. Martin Place still had two-way traffic.
Thanks for posting.
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I saw a VH Valiant nothing later .
@@moparmadman1134 what I was thinking. Same body shell but an early one here.
At 3:31 the footage shows a speed limit 50 (mph) sign. This would suggest the footage is earlier than 1975. Australian roads went metric in July 1974.
Fancy doing it right after the halfway point of the year. I wonder what the significance of that is?
The consensus in the comments going by the cars is the traffic footage is 1972. The football match is 1980.
All they had to do on the road limit sign was put a diagonal stroke though the 5.
It's amazing how similar the infrastructure was so long ago like the painted road markings and those freeway dots that go brrrmp brrrmp brrrmp on the tyres, replaced by rumble strips now. I like the dots more. They looked more modern.
Wish we still had those funky buses
Love this.. ❤️
Wow , no food poisoning , no hex debts , no violent home invasions ,no meth epedemic , people had jobs and time to relax on the weekend and after work , people lined for things , cops would give directions and the buildings looked like they belonged there .
A crossing on South Dowling St. Hilarious! And it was 3 lanes!!! I remember that and Sydney's population was less than half of what it is today. Now it is funnelled into one lane. That's intelligent planning. This was filmed before Sydney was ruined by too much development trying to house a population it cannot support. Also remember those traffic lights at Link Rd which my friends don't believe were ever there but there is the evidence. Thanks!
yep before a few tunnels had been put in when this was shot. you had to drive above ground then and around the streets still.
Deano our was better that way. I remember fondly when Crown St was the north bound carriageway to the Cahill expressway then later the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, and Bourke St the northbound carriageway via a short tunnel in Woolloomoolloo.
There are still a couple of crossings (pedestrian crossings, not intersections) on South Dowling, but the have lights now.
@@jamesfrench7299 - Bourke St southbound, you mean. I remember too.
Oh yeah south's what I meant 😑.
I miss pre 2000 Sydney.
amazing, the buildings look familiar!
That was really good.
When bookmakers bet nearly every race to 96%. Heaven. In 1979 there were 52 bookmakers at Wentworth Park dogs. Plus about 16 in Ledger betting to losing figures on most races. You could get on to win 10k with any of the big bookmakers. Now there would be lucky to be four. What happened. Best time in Australia 70's and early eighties. Heaven
RIP Sydney.
This is great footage but personally, i would've liked it set wholly to Aussie music to give it a real home grown flavour that gives all those memories more vibrance. Good work mate.
I thought the song was a great match.
For a split second at 4:13, you can see a silver Datsun 240C in the right hand lane. I have one of these, I bought in Sydney. It's now resprayed light blue, but the aftermarket towbar is the same as the one in the film, could be the same car.
I remember the last bit of the jingle for the datsun 120Y, which ironically sang
'Datsun 120Y eye eye'
probably because they played them nonstop lol
Looks strange seeing traffic flow southbound at Taylor square
Our lives functioned quite well 1975 without internet
blast from the past....lived in Sydney fom 1980-1991
In a 1980 episode of Torque Peter Wherrett drives in Sydney's CBD in the daytime. The retail looks fantastic.
Fantastic. Heaps of buildings I remember which are now gone
This is G R E A T footage!!! Have you got any more?
done that trip a few times ...heading back south after a day in the city....Roosters old ground Sydney Sports ground, two stadiums ago😂😂😂
Great video, perfect music
Wholly Geez, South Dowling street was a 6 lane highway! and traffic flowed!
Yeah, look at the shit hole mess it is now...especially south bound as it goes into one bloody lane for the bloody tunnel!!!
North bound is a nightmare since only one lane is to go straight while the other 2 go for the tunnel so ur pretty much screwed the whole way up
*points* "Oh look, children, look!.
Here is Sydney with actual Australians in it before they all disappeared!"
Australians haven't disappeared you racist.
@@robcarl7782 Shhhhh, go fix your manbun.
INcredible driving footage. One thing very noticed was the absence of trees!! Streetscapes were quite barren
That tool Bob Carr forced trees onto us, greenie dog, made it you cannot cut down trees. Typical pollie, only interested in himself
Pat Morac all true though.
Everything from the old days had meaning and value.👍🌹
Back when football team names were their locality and really had a sense of belonging, before corporatisation replaced them with miscellaneous animal names so they would have more 'portability' when teams were sold to other cities.
Yeah I wish they'd brought in the English system with promotion and relegation to the top league. That has so much drama and passion for local communities. Instead boring billionaires wanted boring advertising and teams are interchangeable billboards.
3.12 in and on the right it’s the EPL lift test tower where I worked,also the old Paris theatre where I saw my mates in the band called “ subversion “ play around 75/76 great days
Back in the day. I was six years old in first class with Mrs Montgomery, her mini skirts weren't wasted on a pack of six year old boys though.
Its true even at that age we look.
Its wasted on her, though. Even had they the sexual anatomy of adults, which some of youse basically near did, they'd lack the adult physiques to meet the function of vigor.
@@jonglewongle3438 Your comment ruined my fantasy. Lol
@@freeagent8225 Mine's a bit surreal. All I've done is switch it around. We had our " Mrs Montgomery " in 4th class, brunette, tall, leggy, totally short skirt. Strange name - Miss Wooky. But she was definitely all there.
No mini skirt is ever wasted! Even for six year old boys!
I was living and working in Sydney back in 1975. I remember all this well. Excellent video. From memory the red/blue colour taxi cabs were run by Legion. In those days, I worked in the State Office block, better known as "the black stump". Even that has disappeared in recent years along with all the green and blue old double deck buses.
Red and blue taxi colours were RSL. I should know as my dad drove them in the early 80s. 1980-82 HZ Kingswood, 1983 -84 VH Valiant and 84 -85 XD Falcon, all in the RSL livery.
Hi James, that is very interesting information. Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware about red and blue taxis being around in Sydney during the 1980's, as we moved to Melbourne in 1981. The Legion red and blue taxis were around in the 1950's and early 1960's. I even have an old Legion taxi phone card, which includes a photo of a red and blue taxi displayed on the card. I do remember that red and blue taxis were quite a common sight in Sydney back in the 1950's and 1960's. Some of these may have been RSL as well as Legion. All the very best. Robert.
RGC198 tagger RSL cabs red and blue livery endured until the mid 1990s when Labor's Bob Carr thought it would be a great leap forward to mandate all over white for Sydney's taxi fleets. I remember seeing EB Falcons carry the treatment as well as the old Deluxe Cabs colours of red and black with cream roof, later used by its successor Taxis Combined Services. Sydney has lost it's character thanks to meddlesome governments.
Just by coincidence, Jeff Kennet here did the same here in Melbourne and made all our taxi's yellow. They are similar to the colour of NYC taxis, but a slightly different shade of yellow.
RGC198 yeah I know the yellow. More pastel as though a tiny bit of green was mixed in.
Bob Carr got the idea from Jeff Kennet's yellow. Had to copy the Americans. We had a good tradition of different company liveries. People had no trouble spotting cabs before. They just have to make their mark. The different colours crept back in here in NSW .
wow. Great choice of track.
great video