Inside Myer Melbourne 1957/58.
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Inside Myer Melbourne 1957/58.
Produced by the State Film Centre.
Piano version of ‘All I Have to Do is Dream’ the Everly Brothers song by Neil Archer.
Footage source from the ACMI collection.
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Inside Myer Melbourne 1957/58.
Produced by the State Film Centre.
Piano version of ‘All I Have to Do is Dream’ the Everly Brothers song by Neil Archer.
Footage source from the ACMI collection.
My mum and I would go there when I was a kid. I remember everytime I went there I got a pie with a scoop of mashed potato and a milkshake. Oh the memories. Not like these days. If I could turn back time.
One thing that really stands out in this clip, No Fat Slobs in Trackies. 🤣🤣🤣
Only athletes wore “trackies” in those days.
@@Griffin_63 👌😉😊
They all dressed so beautifully too, I haven’t seen a woman in a dress for a while.
@@anonymousr1918 Well pointed out. The modern " Woman " has no idea about class and how to dress. They think fashion is getting around pushing shopping trollies in Active Wear, and it is not a good look.
I felt like I just went back in time and it’s me and mum. Unreal
The look of wonderment on that boy's eyes as he looks around is priceless.
The days when you dressed in a frock and hat to go to "town"
Fantastic memories!
Where women dressed as women...
No woman in her right mind would want to dress like that today.
"Womanliness" is not about how one dresses but is about confidence, intelligence and equality.
It was lovely to see. Women wearing gloves reminded me of my grandmother - you never went out without gloves.
Such fond memories of Myer. It was the only family friendly department store. The little restaurant, lining up for concert tickets hours before Myer opened. Those were the days.
A visit to Myer was for me as a kid born 1964 always a highlight. The toy department on the six floor.
I would have been around the same age as that boy. Things I remember most about Myers was the stink of the nut bar, trying to avoid the perfume bar, and the brilliant slot car circuit on the fifth ( ? ) floor of the Lonsdale Street store! That may have been a few years later. Oh, and of course the Christmas decorations in the window, especially in Bourke Street. It was a treat to drive in from Ivanhoe to see them. Not much traffic and no bloody Mall back then. The City used to be far more alive in the 50s and especially the 60s and 70s than it is today with all the "people friendly" stuff they have done.
Gee, must be getting grumpy....
The stink of the nut bar. I thought I was the only one! I couldn't stand it, had to hold my breath.
@@pbosustow Awful, wasn't it?
I recall as a little kid in the early 70s this very type of visit to Myer with my mum. We’d get on the train from Auburn Station and get off at Flinders to take the Degraves Street exit where at the top of the stairs was a man in a wheel chair selling papers, his head would sway about, obviously had some sort of condition but he was there through 70s at least. Then a walk to Burke street through the arcades. Melbourne was Melbourne then. Fond memories!
The Myer Bargain Basement had quite a different felling to the rest of the stores.
Was always taken there when we visited Myers.
I have seen an old photo with signwriting of Myers although they later went to Myer.
Geeze that kid could have been me. Brought tears to my eyes remembering wandreing around Myer's with me mum.
Thanks For this great footage. Brings back a lot of memories. Myers was such a instution in shopping in those days and still important in shopping. Good footage for the time. Nothing could beat the Myer Cafeteria.☕🥪
My Mum worked on the jewellery counter in those years , I’ll show her tomorrow , thanks for putting it up
My sister spent all her working life working for Myers from the fifties through to the early seventies. Myers staff back then were treated like family by management, when she got ill they could not do enough for her and kept her job till she was well enough to return. I remember her taking me to the Myers staff Christmas party in the early sixties at the Myer Music Bowl. Every kid got a present from Santa off the back of a Bedford truck and Sydney Baillieu who was Sydney Myers son came around and wished every staff member and their families Merry Christmas. It was an iconic Melbourne institution.
It wasn’t Xmas unless Mum took you to see Santa at MYER Chadstone. I also remember MYER’s rooftop Xmas rides in the city.
Was still a great store with so many departments well into the 1980’s. I still remember up on one of the levels of the Lonsdale St store was a post office, travel agent, Ticktek and optometrist amongst other things. And there was the cheaper cafeteria that was fun plus a fine dining restaurant just outside the Myer Mural hall. And the food hall was so great. All gone.
G'day Gazza I'm Joe I'm a Aussie Italian peace ✌️
Peace Joe👍
You are documenting Lost Melbourne.
Great stuff Gezza, you have done it yet again 👍👍👍
another great video, love the soundtrack. a long time ago in a place not so far away.. before our social and moral fabric was destroyed 👍🏻❤️🤠
I remember those stairs into Myer bargain basement. 😊
I remember when I used to go to Myers & Coles in the city - always busy, always bustling. Cut to 2023 & Myer are closing their department store in Frankston.
Goodness me I remember being there
Great vid
One went to Myers in the city to see the REAL Father Christmas.
The other ones were just helpers.
The cafeteria used to have the best iced chocolates. From a machine but it was so tasty. Probably as real milk and real ingredients.
Thank you Gazza...I truly think we have lost something l wonder if the wheel will turn please you could but anything in that place...well almost anything.
It was a huge thing when the ' bankcard ' arrived.
Memories of the past. My things have changed. Remember Lay by and cash payment and no credit cards.
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It didn't change much into the 70's.
Escalators haven't changed much!
The Myer Cafeteria!
My step mum would take me there to spend all dads money on her attire with the promise of lunch in food hall that took up the whole of the top story!
I so miss the aroma of the roasted nut bar with coffee being roasted in the Lonsdale St Store.. Somehow selling Genisis doesn't smell anywhere near as good!!
Myer looked like Dimmie’s
Back when families meant something real. And children were given a real education, not indoctrinated about how they can change their gender. What happened Australia?🇦🇺
We followed the USA too closely.
These are beautiful images, but... no offence guys... but, why would you want to go back to these times? Why?
I’d like to go back for a look, but not to stay.
Why would you want to go back in time to then you ask. No druggies in the streets. No homeless people begging for money. Very little unemployment. Conductors on trams so we could pay for our fares. Clean public toilets. The list goes on.
@@suzanneevans1522”Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days”. Not my quote. If you look at newspaper archives (State Library or online) from the time you’ll find any number of issues that concerned the people of the time. Most of which are still with us today. But the ones that aren’t (backyard abortion clinics, litter, polio, etc) are not missed.
@@Griffin_63 No time is perfect. However, the boy in this video would have been FAR safer if he had wandered off then than now ( I know, because I did ). The police were kind and friendly, and not the armed thugs they are today. I don't need newspaper archives. I was born in 1953. Newspapers were nearly as sensational then as news outlets are today, and I wouldn't take them as gospel. Polio was already pretty much a thing of the past in a city like Melbourne, I received the Salk vaccine at school, along with BCG for TB. Litter? MCC employed many people to deal with that, something that would be of use now. Homelessness was unheard of. You wouldn't find a body with a needle still in its arm in a toilet, like I did in 1987 in Flinders Street near Elizabeth, underground loo outside the station.
As a schoolboy I travelled into the city every day in the 60s. I always felt safe, whether I was in one of the many model/hobby shops, the electronics shops, the motorcycle shops at the top of Elizabeth Street, or any of the booth style cafés on Swanston.
"I always felt safe"... up until I got tangled up in the Moratorium march. A schoolboy in a Cadet uniform was NOT popular with that rabid mob. (.I was 16 and terrified. didn't matter to those halfwits. Vietnam was a war we probably shouldn't have entered, and conscription was reprehensible because of it. But none of that was my fault. Being a Cadet was compulsory.).Melbourne wasn't the same to me after that. A huge contrast with the protest I attended in November last year, which was peaceful and friendly, unless you ran into Dan's goons. In the 50s and 60s there was the "threat" of nuclear war, but nobody would have attempted to impose mask mandates or curfews, and nobody would have obeyed them if they did. So, sure, I'd go back. Giving up an iPhone would be no great hardship to have back the freedoms we enjoyed back then.
Until around 1990 all- repeat all- big shops in Victoria shut at 12:30 on Saturday and all day Sunday. If you had to buy anything you had to go to a "milk bar" which sold things at a vastly inflated price. All supermarkets were subject to this absurd and bizarre law. People born after that time won't believe it.