I doubt that Mentone bowling alley was there back then and it certainly isn't now. I reckon that half the houses you see made way for the Mentone Hub hotel.
@@davidbrayshaw3529At time of filiming it was a timber yard, Mentone bowl wasn't built until 1963...owner died in 2000 & family sold to developers in 2008..closed in December 2013 after building permits finally got approved.
@@billsmith281 Thankyou very much Bill. I actually stayed in the Mentone Hub Motel 4 or 5 years ago and I could barely recognise where I was if it wasn't for the Shell servo. The bowling alley is now trashy "apartments" that look like they're about to fall apart.
It was better in 47, wish I could go back to the Melbourne of those days. We were a close knit, staunch society then. Occasionally I weep when I think about what has happened to Australia in just my lifetime
Thanks for that video... just live off Warrigal rd in Oakleigh South! Take a look at the old Ventura Bus at 0:36 crossing Nepean and heading North on Warrigal rd
That's a good video of Warrigal Rd. My Parents had the Milk Bar opposite Oakleigh Tech in the Sixties and Not far to Chadstone shops.Myer himself opened the Second store their in 66 and Helen Shapiro appeared there after her English tour with the Beatles. It was a great shopping centre in its time and so convenient for bus and car.📺
Ah yes, I remember it well. I'm pretty sure the blue Bedford Ventura bus on Warrigal Road in the opening scenes is the one driven by my favourite bus driver 'Jock', who transported me daily from Haig Street, Burwood to Oakleigh State School, from 1950 to 1952. I remember particularly the bus's modern 'cab over' design and the 'crash' manual gearbox, requiring quite some driving skill. It was always a good start to the day when it was Jock's bus that arrived at the morning stop.
I remember old "Jock" the driver, he used to take us from Box Hill South to Box Hill to go to the movies or to catch a train into the city. I'd forgotten about him until you mentioned his name and then his smiling face came straight back into my memory.
Not much line marking anywhere. Just drive where you like. Waiting to see some pre 1955 right hand turns. That was when every right hand turn in the state had to be done as a hook turn from the left lane. The change was quite a hot topic in the newspapers of the time. Part of Bolte getting elected was his promise not to just talk about turning right from the centre of the road but make it the law.
Interesting...and so i know Bolte was premier of Victoria in late 60s when i started to become aware of political stuff ..Had he been premier since the 1950s then ?
@@michaelcorbidge7914 yes . Henry Edward Bolte The 38th Premier of Victoria from, 7 Jun 1955 to 23 Aug 1972. So 6288 days in office before he retired. I think a record that still stands. Stayed in office after a serious road crash severely injuring another driver, but his alcohol blood sample mysteriously disappeared amongst other controversies.
@@ReddThreee yes all right hand turns were hook turns. Performed by pulling off to the left of the road until there was a safe gap in both streams of traffic. Not just the city ones with traffic lights. I had heard that from speaking to older drivers thirty years ago. Then I confirmed it by reading the newspaper reports on it developing as an election issues by searching the newspapers using Trove. Also reported how there was successful pressure by the Tramways Board to keep hook turns in five city intersections so that trams would not be delayed by vehicles turning right from the centre of the road.
Hi Geoff, See my note re Jock my favourite driver on the Ventura bus line in the early 1950s. Funnily enough I live now near the intersection of Warrigal and Canterbury Roads, that I seem to recall as the old Ventura Bus depot - now what I think might be the 'Old Kingdom' Chinese restaurant - but surely that can't be right. Can it?
Used to live 2 minutes walk from Mentone junction. It looked nothing like it does in this vid obviously, but I only moved away in 2011 and it's barely the same now.
Interesting to note that at this time of the vid the national debt post WW2 was about 110ish % of GDP. Today the $1 trillion debt is only about 30% of GDP. It just came to me that LOL.
The inner suburban congestion dramatised in this from the same era by the mmbw board of works : ua-cam.com/video/t1lcdWvwTvE/v-deo.html A lot more PT use but still chaos.
A vpn might disguise your IP but if you are logged into UA-cam (and you commented so you must be) then they know exactly who you are and what you like.
FFS it was the Recording teams they had very shitty equipment back then so they had to speak very loud and like that so their voices didn't sound like a mumble!
Where Do-You Dig-UP These Old-FOSSILS-From Gez ... What ... [R]-Shed-@-The-'End'-of-The-GARDEN ... With-An Actual 'Tin'-ROOF!!!??? >(*U^)< (Joke) *Wink*
It's in Mentone. Warrigal Road begins at Beach Rd Mentone and runs north over the Nepean Hwy in Mentone and Princes Hwy in Oakleigh and many other major roads.
![Melbourne, Australia 1930s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/--c--eu7d2E/mqdefault.jpg)
Classic footage… love seeing the old cars from my childhood ..👍
Great vid of Mentone, the Shell servo is still there to this day only slightly larger!!!
I remember filling my old VW up at that servo back in the very early '70s in my younger days in Mentone.
I doubt that Mentone bowling alley was there back then and it certainly isn't now. I reckon that half the houses you see made way for the Mentone Hub hotel.
@@stevep1941 I remember filling up my old VW up at that servo back in the late '80's.
I'm guessing that you're in your mid sixties. I'm 51.
@@davidbrayshaw3529At time of filiming it was a timber yard, Mentone bowl wasn't built until 1963...owner died in 2000 & family sold to developers in 2008..closed in December 2013 after building permits finally got approved.
@@billsmith281 Thankyou very much Bill. I actually stayed in the Mentone Hub Motel 4 or 5 years ago and I could barely recognise where I was if it wasn't for the Shell servo.
The bowling alley is now trashy "apartments" that look like they're about to fall apart.
1:06 top left corner black car, speed camera for sure...😎
Love the Ford 10-10 bakers Van of “Granny Davis” Bread at .24
Looks similar to if not the same as an E83W. Another one at 1:12 My grandfather had one back in the day.
I've often wondered what the intersection looked like in the past. Thanks for the great videos.
Oh heaven, hardly any traffic. Terrific old vid 👍
Considering it was 1947 it actually has quite a lot of traffic on it.
It was better in 47, wish I could go back to the Melbourne of those days.
We were a close knit, staunch society then.
Occasionally I weep when I think about what has happened to Australia in just my lifetime
Go back to a time when the road toll was in the thousands and large stretches of the Hume Highway were still dirt and flood prone, no thanks !
Me too when Australia was Australian and Australians where Australia no matter from where you came from
The Lima Convention didn't help our little community of Australia.
I wish I could go back to 2019. Things were great back then before Covid.
@@fractalign and people treated each other with kindness and not contempt.
holy crap, that's my old neighbourhood, what a trip seeing it like that
So interesting to see the transformation from then to now.
Thanks for that video... just live off Warrigal rd in Oakleigh South!
Take a look at the old Ventura Bus at 0:36 crossing Nepean and heading North on Warrigal rd
@@rajivmurkejee7498 not really actually, it's Kinetic (previously Transdev) who does the Warrigal Road section now
@@rajivmurkejee7498 all good, hopefully you can come back one day
That's a good video of Warrigal Rd. My Parents had the Milk Bar opposite Oakleigh Tech in the Sixties and Not far to Chadstone shops.Myer himself opened the Second store their in 66 and Helen Shapiro appeared there after her English tour with the Beatles. It was a great shopping centre in its time and so convenient for bus and car.📺
Loved the look of that old bus
Ah yes, I remember it well.
I'm pretty sure the blue Bedford Ventura bus on Warrigal Road in the opening scenes is the one driven by my favourite bus driver 'Jock', who transported me daily from Haig Street, Burwood to Oakleigh State School, from 1950 to 1952.
I remember particularly the bus's modern 'cab over' design and the 'crash' manual gearbox, requiring quite some driving skill.
It was always a good start to the day when it was Jock's bus that arrived at the morning stop.
I remember old "Jock" the driver, he used to take us from Box Hill South to Box Hill to go to the movies or to catch a train into the city. I'd forgotten about him until you mentioned his name and then his smiling face came straight back into my memory.
YOU HAVE A GOOD MEMORY,
the house on the noth east corner is still there!!
It's great to see my backyard instead of everyone elses.
I imagine the Waarugal Road 'dip' at 1:08 is approx where the Monash freeway now charges through along the valley.
Awesome video , thanks for sharing.
I love these old clips !
Not much line marking anywhere. Just drive where you like.
Waiting to see some pre 1955 right hand turns. That was when every right hand turn in the state had to be done as a hook turn from the left lane.
The change was quite a hot topic in the newspapers of the time. Part of Bolte getting elected was his promise not to just talk about turning right from the centre of the road but make it the law.
Interesting...and so i know Bolte was premier of Victoria in late 60s when i started to become aware of political stuff ..Had he been premier since the 1950s then ?
@@michaelcorbidge7914 yes . Henry Edward Bolte The 38th Premier of Victoria from, 7 Jun 1955 to 23 Aug 1972. So 6288 days in office before he retired. I think a record that still stands. Stayed in office after a serious road crash severely injuring another driver, but his alcohol blood sample mysteriously disappeared amongst other controversies.
So ALL right-hand turns were hook turns? In all of Victoria?
@@ReddThreee yes all right hand turns were hook turns. Performed by pulling off to the left of the road until there was a safe gap in both streams of traffic. Not just the city ones with traffic lights.
I had heard that from speaking to older drivers thirty years ago. Then I confirmed it by reading the newspaper reports on it developing as an election issues by searching the newspapers using Trove. Also reported how there was successful pressure by the Tramways Board to keep hook turns in five city intersections so that trams would not be delayed by vehicles turning right from the centre of the road.
@@johnd8892 This is news to me because I'm a boomer, born and bred in Victoria, been driving since 1971 and never knew.
Great old time film , Love it many thanks !
The company my grandfather worked for as a mechanic was swingbridge motors, its makes sense now
A long lived major Holden dealer on the Melbourne side of the bridge. Remember it in the sixties as a kid.
Great 👍 video Gezza!!
Same as Springvale junction it shod have been a huge Roundabout from the Very Beginning.
More great stuff Gezza 👍👍
saw the Ventura bus they used to get me to school
Hi Geoff, See my note re Jock my favourite driver on the Ventura bus line in the early 1950s. Funnily enough I live now near the intersection of Warrigal and Canterbury Roads, that I seem to recall as the old Ventura Bus depot - now what I think might be the 'Old Kingdom' Chinese restaurant - but surely that can't be right. Can it?
Amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing! Any more from little known bridges from Melbourne would be awesome!
what a gem.
Gezza . Intriguing how this vid is going viral.
So good choice or lucky choice.
Great footage, thank you.
Wow that’s fantastic 👌
If only we could go back life was so much better
My desire is to win the lottery jackpot & relive those wonderful days
Need a proper reset to realise your dream
I must make a time machine
Hey Gezza,wow l love this video, keep them coming please x
LOVE IT
Used to live 2 minutes walk from Mentone junction. It looked nothing like it does in this vid obviously, but I only moved away in 2011 and it's barely the same now.
Thank you, amazing . Where are the traffic lights?
it's 1947, no one wanted them
Interesting to note that at this time of the vid the national debt post WW2 was about 110ish % of GDP. Today the $1 trillion debt is only about 30% of GDP. It just came to me that LOL.
I've often wondered what peak hour looked like in the past. 😆
The inner suburban congestion dramatised in this from the same era by the mmbw board of works :
ua-cam.com/video/t1lcdWvwTvE/v-deo.html
A lot more PT use but still chaos.
Ah 1947 - the year I arrived
Im always wondering just when Nepean was constructed.
How’s the horse 🐎 at 20 secs
It's close to the old Mentone Racecourse
pretty sure the shots of Mentone would have been from the old cinema that was on the corner. Long gone now.
wow 🤩
You can see the change, just.
THE HOUSE ON THE CORNER IS STILL THERE,PROB COST 1000 THEN,NOW PROB 1500000
Wow!!✌🏻👍🏻
Yes pleSE BEAM ME BACK TO 1954 sCOTTY.
The music sounds like it came from a 78 record.
Swing bridge at Footscray ... where Ballarat Rd ?
Connecting New Footscray Rd and Napier St over the river.
wow...
More and more specialised ! But we never fixed the problem!
Not a traffic light in sight and hence no traffic jams. I know!
2022
SHOULD I MAKE A VIDEO NOW FOR 2065
Where are all the cars?
Rarer for people to afford cars then and much lower population.
Very good . I'm trying to figure out how google knows this stuff would be of interest to me when I'm using a VPN and I'm routed via Britain.
A vpn might disguise your IP but if you are logged into UA-cam (and you commented so you must be) then they know exactly who you are and what you like.
Wot.......no traffic lights !!!!!
And no traffic!
How come all broadcasters in those days had posh accents?
Still better the listen to the the sensationalistic tone all commercial news readers use nowadays. But easier to get better sources of news nowadays.
FFS it was the Recording teams they had very shitty equipment back then so they had to speak very loud and like that so their voices didn't sound like a mumble!
Lots of explanations on UA-cam of how received English was valued around the world.
@@johnd8892 Yes Very plus horrendous Equipment.
Seems they didn't really believe in lane marking and weaved all over the road....
Yeah back in the days of the wild wild Australia!
....and everybody getting along just fine without traffic lights. Realistically though, with today's traffic volume that wouldn't work.
The people make a difference as well..
@@zakofrx Indeed, we are seeing dysgenics now especially with the low intelligence imports
Where Do-You Dig-UP These Old-FOSSILS-From Gez ... What ... [R]-Shed-@-The-'End'-of-The-GARDEN ... With-An Actual 'Tin'-ROOF!!!??? >(*U^)< (Joke) *Wink*
nothing much has changed since 47
A LOT has changed, Everything has become a lot more restrictive!
@Jayden Loader Maybe it hasn't changed for you but it has for everyone else.
blokes on bikes at 34 & 40 secs,no high vis or helmets!!!
Couldn't quite make it out. Were they wearing Lycra?
@@davidbrayshaw3529 yes
@@dalediamond !!!
they are driving like maniacs!
We're going backwards, not forwards.
...& then we discovered roundabouts & traffic lights & have been gridlocked ever since.
How good was Victoria. Dogsville now.
How good was ALL of Australia total arsescraps now!
Just in future you put the suburb which the road is in in this issue won’t happen again
People will watch anything on here 😂
It is incorrect there's no Nepean Highway and Warrigal Road You mean Princes Highway and Warrigal Road Oakleigh Victoria
goo.gl/maps/MjvSc753SDE3TGUEA
Its the beginning of Warrigul Road between Mentone and Cheltenham
It's in Mentone. Warrigal Road begins at Beach Rd Mentone and runs north over the Nepean Hwy in Mentone and Princes Hwy in Oakleigh and many other major roads.
Gus Driving In Australia Yes you’re right I used to live near the corner of Centre Dandenong Road and Nepean Highway Cheltenham Thanks
The next intersection up in the view (the top where the trees are) are where the small Thrift Park shopping centre is now.
Before the turd worlders that dont know which side of the road to drive on
If only the Victorian governments had of kept investing is safe roads ahead of traffic growth!
Try searching induced demand, you might be surprised
Did they have discrimination allowing all the Engineers be Engineers, solely because they happened to be Black?
Ermm... What?
Dont laugh .. dictator Dan Andrews is still building the m1 after 21 years
Ah yes SATAN Andrews and sleazy Albanese, and their band of Commie fucking halfwits that were voted in by all the sheep women we have in Australia!
Has since been completely butchered.
I've seen skateboarders 🛹 go faster than those old jalopies.