A few views of Sydney, Australia in April 1992 (B), including train views, etc. Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon www5d.biglobe.n... / lylehsaxon tokyoartmusic.b...
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@peterkehoe481 Жыл бұрын
If Sydney stayed like that I doubt I'd ever have left when I did.
@lylehsaxon11 жыл бұрын
You know - I'm really glad I took my video camera on this trip - these are the only videos I have from outside Japan at that time and they help piece the era together for me now. In both Japan and Australia in 1992, there were still elements from the 50's, 60's and 70's in the cities... much less so now.
@tomspiers20874 жыл бұрын
You would barely recognize it now :-( by the way I love your videos of Tokyo pretty much may favorite city to visit and its really interesting seeing your point of view on my home town.
@billymack3332 жыл бұрын
You did a great job of capturing the time. This is the Sydney I Love and miss. I left in ‘99 to try break the funk I was in but always intended coming back. Unfortunately I’ve come to realise this Sydney is gone.
@davechristian75432 жыл бұрын
Your right, the 90s were the last of the old dayz sadly my-friend. #peace.
@davechristian75432 жыл бұрын
@@billymack333 so true.
@buda3d2007 Жыл бұрын
@@tomspiers2087 to many high rise apartments, sydney looks like a bowl of metallic and glass nachos now, its ugly and overcrowded, no sunlight on the streets :(
@jonkillings27474 жыл бұрын
I was 18 yrs old in sydney at this time. I really miss the 90s. These times we are in now are scary .
@jonathonhoney51584 жыл бұрын
Knew id find you on one of these 😀
@harleyguy7 Жыл бұрын
Ah back in the days when you actually felt like you're actually in Australia
@guyh999211 ай бұрын
Kings Cross was a genuine red light district. Now it has been gentrified with many apartment towers constructed over the last ten years to replace the tourist hotels and the boarding houses that provided inexpensive long term accommodation.
@artbydzynes89902 ай бұрын
This video is so nostalgic for me - 92 was the last year I lived in Sydney, before moving to QLD. I've always wanted to move back but I doubt I could ever afford it now.
@tanthamanАй бұрын
Nah Sydney is cooked now
@nathans5094Ай бұрын
I left Sydney in 2015 after 33 year's. It's now worse than ever. The people there now are shit.
@artbydzynes8990Ай бұрын
@@nathans5094 How are they shit?
@gogadev22 күн бұрын
@@artbydzynes8990 What he really means is more diversity.
@artbydzynes899022 күн бұрын
@gogadev yeah I had a feeling that's what he meant haha
@dexterplameras32493 ай бұрын
Wow the old Chatswood interchange. Chatswood has changed a lot since 1992.
@Nigel_noongar78 Жыл бұрын
gotta love all those falcon taxis
@homeintheuk224 жыл бұрын
Made me cry, such memories. I was a 21 year old on a working holiday. Lived in cheap digs Bayswater Road, Rushcutters Bay Dec 1991, I was working in Strand Arcade for The Body Shop. That park was my sunbathing spot 😁 on the 6th April 1992 I had returned from travelling, lived Rose Bay in house share and worked in Pitt Street for Select Appointments. Can still smell those trains 🙈 loved Grant Goldmans announcements at stations. Had a ball that year. I ended up living in Oz 1997 to 2004, became Australian Citizen. Lived here in UK since then. Can't believe it's nearly 30 years. I had seen lot of changes when I lived there 2nd time around and it's unrecognisable in many places. Thanks so much for sharing.
@nathans5094Ай бұрын
It's worse now.
@OTCHooly2 ай бұрын
I miss this Sydney
@gabriellehabib5645 Жыл бұрын
So peaceful and easy to go to Sydney I remember being 4 years old in 92 and driving into the city with my parents who just parked on a Side street and then took us to the powerhouse museum - then catching the train and monorail around the city with ease. So gorgeous to Sydney used to be
@quantumtrapz Жыл бұрын
I was 5 grew up in granville 😂
@tefllife20245 жыл бұрын
I was 17 in 1992 and this video felt like I was truly back in those days. Sydney was a great place and bizarre listening to those background conversations and old TV commercials. Me and my friends would hop on a train to the city after school, I remember having only $5 but could buy a few things compared to now Sydney has become so so expensive. We went to Brashs records on Pitt street, then hang out at McDonalds and walk around Pitt street mall. Nice seeing people without smart phones.
@CameraMan664 жыл бұрын
Agreed, HOYTS and Event Cinemas would have Aladdin (1992) cartoon, Home Alone 2, Sister Act, Ferngully The Last Rainforest, Alien 3 and many more in cinemas back then.
@petkez4 жыл бұрын
@@CameraMan66 No Event Cinemas in 1992. The George St movie strip was Village, Hoyts and Greater Union
@CameraMan664 жыл бұрын
@@petkez oh okay it was different back then
@tefllife20243 жыл бұрын
@Frank. T and we looked cool walking around with a Brashs plastic bag. Lol.
@billymack3334 жыл бұрын
This video really stirred memories for me.I was 19/20 and life had been pretty awesome since I arrived in Sydney 89.Little did I know my life was going to change forever.Some bad luck and a poor choice or two and things were beginning to spiral out of control.I can’t believe it’s almost 30 years gone by.I know I shouldn’t but I find myself wondering how different my life might have turned out if it wasn’t for a small succession of occurrences.Truth be known I have no doubt it would have been significantly happier.This encapsulates a beginning and an end of so much.
@MrSkeleton1312 жыл бұрын
Jesus that was depressing to read. Since you'd be in your late 40s/early 50s now, I hope you're doing better
@billymack3332 жыл бұрын
Cheers Warden Freeman. I’m Okay...still battling. Sometimes it’s hard though knowing that if I’d done things differently I’d be in my Harbourside mansion or wherever I wanted just chilling. Grateful to still be here.
@StuHutch2 жыл бұрын
@@billymack333 chin up my man!!
@billymack3332 жыл бұрын
@@StuHutch Thank you brother.
@davidcarr2649 Жыл бұрын
I was 23 and so many places in this video are familiar. You went to the top level of the QVB, why I never managed to do that astounds me. I walked through that building countless times. I went to the level below it (almost the top level) one Xmas around 1983/84 when they had a great Xmas display set up inside.
@StephenWestSyd9 ай бұрын
The closest thing to a time machine
@rubberonasphalt4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this video. Its strange... Sydney back in the 90's felt vibrant and exciting to me. I always felt like there was something to see and do in Sydney, which gave me a buzz of excitement. I don't feel the same way today about Sydney, but watching this video brought back that feeling somehow. Its probably nostalgia and a yearning to be young again, but I really do believe something about Sydney has been lost to time.
@lylehsaxon4 жыл бұрын
I think I know exactly what you mean. What it is, is that to communicate with people in 1992, to see what was going on, etc., you had to *go* somewhere. Now people give whatever is coming in on their smartphone top priority and so 1) they're never where they are - they're tuned into distant friends sending them things on their smartphones, and 2) Since they never really focus on anything other than their smartphones, there is no need to go out at all. People have become cyborgs. At the same time, offices have become vertical fortresses with stern guards looking suspiciously at people passing by, much of retail is done by delivery, etc. Actually, while I like technology basically, I think we are living in a pretty rotten era. Hopefully things will get better from here out.....
@Dickusification2 жыл бұрын
For sure Man. I was at Sydney Uni around this time. Pub rock was at its peak and the city was buzzing. Great times for sure
@rawdonwaller9 ай бұрын
I think you hit the nail on the head re: nostalgia and yearning to be young again. I doubt there are many people who, mental or physical trauma aside, don't yearn for their younger days. Neural connections are still developing rapidly in the late teens due to all the novel experiences. Whether it's 1892, or 2092, someone will always express a desire to return to the years when they were younger. Nothing inherently special about 1992, unless one happened to be growing up during this time. And how could there be? It's implausible to think that the 90s, or any epoch one cares to identify - is it 1985-1994? Or 1950-1959? Maybe it's 1897-1911? - could be special relative to all the others in which humans have lived.
@krombopulosmichael628026 күн бұрын
I think the 90s have a certain objective specialness. Technology had advanced to an exciting degree of personal freedom and access, and globalization was driving real quality of life improvements for many, but we hadn’t yet hit the fear, violence and distrust of the post-9/11 era, nor the soul-destroying proliferation of social media and mobile telephony.
@ALF78221 күн бұрын
My soon to be American born wife came to visit me in the summer of 1992 and she loved it, Sydney at its peak ,that was another reason she stayed. If she came in 2024 maybe not.
@amandajane8227 Жыл бұрын
Glad you caught footage of the huge holes in the ground. They are my abiding memory of Sydney back then and I am amazed by the immense size of the buildings that filled them. Also lovely to see some monorail footage. It was too early for it's time.
@OldAussieAds Жыл бұрын
I really miss the old train announcements of those days. There was something soothing about that guy's voice. He could have said a train was going to the depth of hell and I would have felt safe going there.
@lylehsaxon Жыл бұрын
Same thing here in Tokyo - before the recordings, when a human being was making the announcements, there was a feeling of the person making the announcement being on the same journey with you (which they were) which is completely absent with robot voice recordings (a kind of audio cut-and-paste way of lifelessly assembling words for the announcements).
@OldAussieAds Жыл бұрын
@@lylehsaxon I completely agree. However in this era it was all pre-recorded, but the male voice they used was the same guy they used for years and none of it sounded robotic like they do today. It sounded like your favourite uncle telling you the destinations. You can hear a good example at 1:35. While I have you, I just wanted to thank you for uploading this video. Us Sydneysiders wouldn't have taken a lot of "regular" footage like this because we saw it every day. But now it's so special to see. I hope I can get to Tokyo one of these days!
@lylehsaxon Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! At the time, people (in Japan) would often ask me why I was taking video in what they considered to be mundane areas. Thirty years on, the people who lived in those areas express interest in being able to see now what they didn't see any reason to record at the time, but now that that time is gone, the record is perceived as something valuable. I've always thought just about anywhere you go, there's something interesting to record, but I was laughed at a bit at the time. The footage I took in Australia is personally important to me for a variety of reasons. Sydney in particular reminded me in many ways of California (where I lived before coming to Japan). I took analog video from 1990 to 1993 and the only country other than Japan I took video in during that time is Australia. I was there for three weeks and have footage from the major cities on the east coast. About the announcements - what you say about the recordings reminds me of the buses here - where they have had recordings for a long time, but some human being read out each and every sentence, so the humanity is evident. The robot-voices they use now are obviously computer constructions of bits of recordings, so "The next station is" part is exactly the same recording, station after station, day after day, week after week, year after year. Probably torture is too strong of a word, but the announcements (the robot ones here in Tokyo) are intensely irritating to listen to. When a human being was making the announcements, it was comforting.
@louisafarmer23855 жыл бұрын
It's hard to realise that Sydney has changed so much!! Totally mind blowing!
@CameraMan664 жыл бұрын
Sydney in the 90s is my favourite decade that's my opinion just because classic disney films in theatres with Beauty and the Beast and more.
@harleyguy73 жыл бұрын
Changed for the worst sadly... Immigration in the old days was good not now
@CameraMan663 жыл бұрын
@@harleyguy7 I want to watch Beauty and the Beast cartoon in cinemas again!
@MrSkeleton1313 жыл бұрын
@@CameraMan66 bruh how many comments are you gonna make about Beauty and the Beast
@CameraMan663 жыл бұрын
@@MrSkeleton131 i'm not gonna mention anymore about it now.
@thinkingjohn20992 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe 30 years ago, I was driving a taxi in Sydney then so the video brings back bitter sweet memories of that era
@Dickusification2 жыл бұрын
This video should be in the national film archives. It captured Sydney very well. What you did was capture the sounds as well as the sights.
@luvghdАй бұрын
Thanks for sharing this, I live in Milsons Point so really cool to see what it was like in 90s.
@MrToryhere3 ай бұрын
This is where I’ve lived in Sydney all my life. A lot hasn’t changed that much, whilst a few things have completely altered.
@nathans5094Ай бұрын
A lot has changed. Even since I left in 2015. I can't stand it anymore
@thesweetlifeofsunaliandzeke4 жыл бұрын
This was filmed around the same time I was born in Sydney. Makes me appreciate the buildings, railway system, footpaths and roads I sometimes take for granted during my “boring” daily commute (back when we were commuting). Will be seeing Sydney CBD from a different lens next time I visit.
@trubyssot8 жыл бұрын
that was a great vid man i grew up in syd in the lte 80's and 90's the best time in syd was the early 90's
@lylehsaxon8 жыл бұрын
+adam murdock Thanks for the feedback! Most of the video I took with my Hi8 (analog) cameras was in Japan, but fortunately the cameras were still functioning when I visited Australia in 1992. By 1994 the cameras were dead and I didn't take any more video until 2006.
@MarcoCholo-iz9js2 ай бұрын
Mid 90s were the best
@mojo_joju2 ай бұрын
This was 2 years before i was born, and man it was a completely different time to be alive
@davegoldspink5354 Жыл бұрын
Great video thanks so much for sharing. Was in Sydney a couple of months ago and was amazed how much it’s changed in the 8 years since I left there. It’s even more unbelievable how much the place has changed since this film was made over 30 years ago. Great job once again you brought back a lot of memories from my trips there as a young fella 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@brendanbrumby5 жыл бұрын
A stunning and perfect video capturing the beauty of 1992 in wonderful Sydney.
@CameraMan664 жыл бұрын
Cause you've mentioned beauty, classic Beauty and the Beast was already out by then
@everfreebrumby83857 ай бұрын
An amazing piece of history. I was 10 when this was filmed.
@bennyboost5 жыл бұрын
Wow great footage. Some parts of Sydney still look exactly the same, other parts barely recognisable.
@musicunites3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video. I was just a young teenager when this was filmed but have memories of travelling to Sydney in the 90’s. So much has changed now almost 30 years passed. The monorail being gone is just one example. Thanks for sharing this. Inspired to film my own as a time capsule for the next generation. 🙂
@lylehsaxon3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for commenting! I've always felt more motivated to record images in cities, knowing how they keep changing. Looking back on my videos from 30 years ago (I took analog video from 1990-93 - mostly in Japan, with video from a three week trip to Australia my only footage of a country outside Japan), I'm always intrigued by the things I expected to stay the same and changed. For the things I recorded that I knew were going to change, it's just s simple feeling of "Glad I recorded that before it was gone" but for things I didn't expect to change, it's a more complicated feeling....
@jordankearin8344 ай бұрын
Amazing, about 32 years ago, It's crazy to think that everyone who was alive then has passed away now. It's like watching ghosts.
@FengWah7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for putting up such thorough video documentation of Sydney! We really enjoyed the nostalgia as Sydneysiders who grew up here. It was fun playing spot-that-landmark.
@lylehsaxon7 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Australia is the only country outside of Japan that I took video in back then, so these have a special meaning for me in another way. As different as Sydney is from Tokyo, there are definite similar elements of the era.
@wascho2 жыл бұрын
I needed some pictures & footage of Aussie cities in the 90's for reference for an art project and I'm so glad this video was recommended to me, because it's tremendously helpful. thank you so much for posting this, Lyle!
@jocybum Жыл бұрын
I left Australia in 2003 and haven't been back since. I want to visit, but at the same time I don't, because I have a perfect image in my mind, and a lot of good memories.
@aflaz17110 ай бұрын
Get rid of your memories and live! Memories hold people back, they're stupid!
@jonkillings27477 жыл бұрын
i lived on crown st surry hills was in a band like everybody else my age with grunge and all. I bloody miss the 90s man!
@jonkillings27476 жыл бұрын
tobagotb10 that's only a two minute walk from Surry Hills.
@jchm3804 жыл бұрын
That time Surry Hills wasn't hip at all, it was the post industrial area until the 2000's where its all the hip and affluent young people with ego problems...fake persona and bitchy attitude. F* the internet and dating apps
@SkyBlue-px1tc Жыл бұрын
Thank fark grunge died and the rave scene took over Sydney.
@Dharma_Bum19 күн бұрын
@@SkyBlue-px1tcWelcome 92 was one of the first raves I went to. 92/93 were nuts 🤪
@SPOOKSTR2 жыл бұрын
6/4/22 30 Years later to the day.
@jimstavrakis387011 ай бұрын
Not one iPhone in sight and people reading newspapers at the Train Station I think the olympics were announced the following year as well. ahhh the good old days 😭😭😭
@xelzaar3 ай бұрын
I worked there in 1992, a young married banker for the CBA. I wasn't thinking right in them days. I knew very little about my environment and I didn't ask any questions. I didn't want to know. Ignorance was bliss and I somewhat miss it. And then one of the big CBA managers told me a secret and it still didn't sink in. It went in one ear and out the other. Youth...what a waste.
@Dharma_Bum19 күн бұрын
What was the secret? 😂
@couldbebreakfast5854 Жыл бұрын
This is such a cool video! Thanks for sharing. I love it when we get a glimpse of the past like this. It's almost humbling to see how far we've come, but it's also a little sad to see that we'll never be able to return to such times... I think thee most important part of now is making the most of it, and preserving what we can for future generations to see as well.
@lylehsaxon Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! At the time I had a sense that things were changing quickly and it was important to record many things that were clearly not going to be around for much longer. Most of my footage is of Japan, primarily Tokyo, so the Australia footage is especially important to me now, since I now see the same-era similarities between early nineties Japan and early nineties Australia.
@requiem192 жыл бұрын
Sad to think that most of the elderly you see in this video have passed away
@lylehsaxon2 жыл бұрын
Video with sound records really make you ponder all aspects of time. It doesn't seem all that long ago when I took this video, but here I am getting old and looking back on the nearly 30 years ago me.... The word I keep coming back to regarding the forward progression of time is "relentless".
@johnturner1073 Жыл бұрын
I visited Sydney in 1996 for the final two nights of speedway at THE Sydney Showground. I stayed at the Thoroughbred Motel on Alison Road and would go to a little cafe called Argies for a good, cheap breakfast most days. It was on a road nearby, in like a small shopping mall. But when I returned in 2008, I could not find either Argies or the mall itself. Does anyone know this place to confirm I was not dreaming?!
@lycrags5 жыл бұрын
Wow I feel like I could almost smell the exhaust from all those old cars haha. Oh what memories
@evonsoulos42184 ай бұрын
My beautiful home ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@francoiseo45426 жыл бұрын
Sydney is one of my favourite places to visit - I was there most recently about a month ago and it's still beautiful. The earliest I got to it was 1997. The thing that I notice immediately with old footage from any city is the absence of smartphones among the crowds! Cool to see the old airplane interior at the end, with the one big movie screen at the front of the cabin. It's just great seeing this footage from 1992. Thanks so much for sharing!
@lylehsaxon6 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! The only early nineties video footage I have outside of Japan is from this trip to Australia. At the time, I thought Sydney was kind of similar to San Francisco in a way - culturally. As I used to live in San Francisco, I felt both the feeling of adventure in a foreign city and also as though I had come back home....
@bobbyb99077 ай бұрын
@@lylehsaxon that's so crazy to hear that... this video and one other like it is the only one i've seen of this time period. You have no idea how valuable this video is to everyone who lived during these times in Sydney, thank you so much for posting it.
@m.ahio36593 жыл бұрын
Good to see people walking around with no phone in sight.
@billbearback2591 Жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing ,we had great times thru the 80's and 90's in sydney ,everybody was hussling there was money everywhere eveyone was having a go at business or rapidly moving thru careers, soon the corporations took over with the aid of gov and we are stuck where we are today , under total control , living as a local we didnt think to video our own joint , we went all over the US for a year in 94 and then europe for another year video every thing as you did on your vist here ,transfered it all to CD as the tapes were getting a bit old , must have forty of em ,always thought itd be too boring to watch it all ,but you prove me wrong ,theres something interesting in every minute , the problem now i gotta get a bloody disc player to view them , this crap changes too quick for old guys to keep up , cheers brother
@lylehsaxon Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback! It's good that you've already crossed the analog to digital line with your video material from 1994-95. Probably getting the videos on the disks converted into video files that you can upload to KZfaq should be relatively easy. Getting analog tapes digitized now is becoming increasingly difficult since they don't make the hardware to play the tapes any more. Also, tapes degrade with time. In any case, I hope you post the material to KZfaq - it would be very interesting to see. (Come to think of it... maybe you were using digital tape by 94? My 90-93 material was all analog.)
@billbearback2591 Жыл бұрын
@@lylehsaxon i'm not very tech savvy , i recall it was called sony hi 8 tape ,i will have to search for the box thats full of old handy cams and film cameras , i guess the battery packs and all that stuff is well dead by now i had a cpl of cameras that took those 1 gb sticks when they dropped film ,i suppose that stuff should be fired up every few months or it all goes to sleep for good , i know all the kids old i pods and early junk never wakes again , i noticed you have heaps of vids , i couldn't read the lingo but i like the way you have so much documented ,it all changes so quickly and were left sayin "remember the old so and so building ", thanks for your kind reply cheers from down under,,,, i ,just came back to add, i think i meant DVD not CD or that would be music , you see i'm really not tech savvy , cheers
@Coastal6033 жыл бұрын
Sydney has always been a beautiful city and it still is to this day. 🇦🇺
@MarcoCholo-iz9js2 ай бұрын
Sydney vivid, more high rise and Sydney metro almost opening. Yes it's lost some of its charm but its also more lively than ever before
@sarahhelenharris3 ай бұрын
Watching this as somebody who wasn't alive then. I want to time travel back to the 90s, I'm so curious about how everyone lived then.
@Dharma_Bum19 күн бұрын
Not sure if it was because I was in my early twenties. But we felt like we were on the edge of something exciting. The world was changing. The Cold War was over. The threat of nuclear annihilation gone. The music was fantastic, electronic music was new and exciting, (plus grunge, triphop etc) and had real originality and power to it. Sydney had an awesome nightlife - Met a lot of people from different countries. Backpacked through SE Asia after meeting some of these people. Lazy days with not a care in the world. No electronic device in your pocket unless it was a Walkman or a small camera. No social media. No worries. No population pressure like there is now. I left Sydney in 95, go back now and then to visit family and for work (in the CBD). The population crush, the constant traffic drives me crazy.
@Sam-pn2kc3 жыл бұрын
Dam i was like 4 or 5 years old
@davidcarr2649 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for uploading this. This brought back so many memories, I hardly didn't know your exact locations right through the video. Everything was familiar! I was born in Sydney in 1968 and was 23 (about 4 month's off 24) when this was taken and was often in many locations in this. I love it! Strange trivia, I am mildly autistic and I occasionally get what I call flashback memories where I clearly smell things from my past (mainly childhood). These are imagined scents that seem completely random, they're not real (I have checked multiple times with others around), and I actually enjoy them. Sometimes music can stimulate them, or like just now a visual stimuli like the underground railway, I could clearly smell the distinct smell of train brakes. (If you're weird, like me, read on) For anyone curious, here's a quick list of things that I have imagined the smell of when there's no chance I actually did smell them at the time: My favourite and most frequent is the clear scent of cereal, not just any cereal, but nothing other than Fruit Loops! Diesel and hydraulic fluid are probably next frequently imagined, and they can be random or have visual stimuli, like watching a mechanical video. Honey and other nice smells like chocolate, cinnamon, even peanut butter. I imagine things like pepper, tomato or BBQ sauce, Vegemite. Other favourites are strawberry Quik (now Nesquik), apple and cinnamon (together) artificial banana like the lolly bananas, and there's things like the smell of someone ironing clothes, Aeroguard, salt and vinegar chips (not a favourite), train brakes, fresh stationary, and one time, even super glue! Googling this as symptoms is a worry. Might be a medical condition.
@lylehsaxon Жыл бұрын
The brain is a mysterious thing. I had a musician friend who could see colors when he heard sounds....
@starboy80s2 жыл бұрын
I really like the way you filmed it...great work
@lylehsaxon2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback - I appreciate it!
@mikeg68B106 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this trip down memory lane. I still live in Sydney and remember the early 90's here fondly. I wish a lot of it was still like that. Awesome footage.
@lylehsaxon6 жыл бұрын
This was part of a three-week visit I made to Australia. Really liked Sydney - it reminded me a little of San Francisco - nicer in a way. It seemed like it would be a great place to live. It's changed a lot then, has it?
@SJOBrien890614 күн бұрын
Such simpler times, can we go back?
@CameraMan664 жыл бұрын
I wish I could time travel here where I want to time travel in the 90s when I watch Beauty and the Beast in cinemas which would be a lot of fun!!!
@tasmaniancaptain77683 жыл бұрын
Superb memories miss those days
@sandkipper1 Жыл бұрын
21:21 This frame is quite significant because this area has been prodoundly transformed.
@davidlp30194 жыл бұрын
Wow the terminal was different back then.
@kwas1015 жыл бұрын
21:50 there is a (small) glimpse of the AML&F woolshed. Looks like it was still intact. Not sure if anyone remembers when it burnt down, that was some fire! I guess it was sometime in 93 or 94?
Thats the Sydney i remember moving back in a few years cant wait miss everything about it, especially bondi beach. You look familiar are you an actor?
@lylehsaxon Жыл бұрын
Not an actor, but some say I look like the "Back to the Future" guy Michael J Fox....
@Elturkadam6 жыл бұрын
Wow Australia has changed so much since 1992 it's even changed a lot since 2001 when I was born
@Marc-io8qm5 жыл бұрын
Adzy_Est _2001 you can thank the globalist elite mate. They kept lying to us diversity would make the West better. Read some Thomas Sowell quotes on diversity. It’s a lie along with multiculturalism being without fault. If a Korean wants to protect her people/culture from “diversity” she is OK. If an Aussie or American does h/she is “racist” “Nazi”. It’s just propaganda used to justify demographic displacement and high immigration to support a Ponzi housing bubble economy. If the politicians cared about Oz they would allow immigration but let us digest and protect Aussie culture. Very sad
@jamesfrench72992 жыл бұрын
Less diversity with more having dark hair and dark eyes and less blonde or ginger hair and bright eyes.
@rawdonwaller9 ай бұрын
Gordon station and the old antique shop on the corner. Haha.😀
@mornnb12 жыл бұрын
1992, middle of the recession we had to have, the countries greatest recession since the 1930s. Unemployment was as high as 10.80% this year! Yet the city still looks great, even with some big construction projects! Yet the recession is evident from some empty holes from cancelled projects too.
@lylehsaxon13 жыл бұрын
@gof22 I think so. It's been a long time. Some of the wine on the trip was complimentary and some I bought... - LHS
@johnmaddox44032 жыл бұрын
Nice vid. For train buffs, at 18:10 video evidence that k set train rostered on eastern suburbs line, very rare! Jm
@lylehsaxon2 жыл бұрын
I was there as a visitor, so didn't know what was what, but I enjoyed using the system. What I liked best was boarding a really old type train that ran with the doors open! I jumped on as the train began departing and really liked looking out the open door as the train went over the Harbor Bridge.
@Sydney_Mapz10 ай бұрын
R.I.P Monorail
@nickandrews20042 жыл бұрын
Great Video. You got to come back to Sydney. Still beautiful natural scenery with the harbour, the beaches, the landscape, the landmarks and suburbs. The traffic is pretty bad, very busy and high cost of living. And also the median house price is almost $1.5 million.
@tanichiroАй бұрын
i miss when George street was actually a street....
@gibbbb51636 жыл бұрын
90s-early 2000s Sydney the best city in the world by far.......i remember Melbournians were begging for people to come live in their city back then and jealous of Sydney LOL
@hitube166 жыл бұрын
Now sydney people running to Melbourne to find a roof
@gibbbb51636 жыл бұрын
true....
@michaelbradley5603 Жыл бұрын
Great footage! Thumbs up
@denisjovanovic77813 жыл бұрын
I was born 3 months before this
@Robbo7663 жыл бұрын
5:04 Sigrid Thornton on Midday with Ray Martin. Still looks the same today as she did back then.
@CameraMan662 жыл бұрын
6:32 - 6:42 Looks very similar to Per Gessie from Roxette which is so awesome!!! I guess back in the 80s and 90s the hair style was like that so yeah!
@ArcaneSurreal5 жыл бұрын
I protest to the inability of being able to be transported permanently back into this era. :(
@trinity11813 жыл бұрын
Feel the same way
@aust2474 жыл бұрын
God, I miss this time!
@bobbyb99077 ай бұрын
Man some of the streets and allys this guy was in around wooloomooloo were dodgy as back then and even now. Amazing he didnt get robbed with a camera there.
@lylehsaxon7 ай бұрын
I had no idea! I do remember noticing that every parked car I saw had one of those locks that locked the steering wheel to the brake pedal ("Cars must get stolen a lot here, I thought"). Also, a local friend I visited commented on his cheap VCR, "I had a better one, but it was stolen... so I've given up on buying anything expensive - it'll just get stolen."
@80sOGRE10 жыл бұрын
That was awesome ! you really made my day with that. some of that footage is priceless, i just wish you had kept going south from the Queen Victoria Building to the Cinema district. are you OK with me sharing this to FB group LOST SYDNEY, ? they would go nuts
@lylehsaxon10 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! Sure! Send them the link! I wish I'd covered the city in more detail, but I was only there for a fairly short time. (My main video focus is Tokyo.) The camera burned out that year (after being repaired several times) from overuse, but around 2007 I got a new playback deck and finally got the material digitized. This is "B" BTW, so there's also "A": "Sydney - April 1992 (A)" and "C": "Sydney - April 1992 (C)", as well as some other stuff, like: "1992 Sydney and Trip to Katoomba - (920415)", and "1992 Sydney (Trains, Nighttime Ferry) 920413", and some other stuff from other cities, etc. There's some overlap between the videos, but in any case, there's more than just this one.
@davechristian75432 жыл бұрын
When Sydney still had Ppl on its streets.
@MarcoCholo-iz9js2 ай бұрын
It still does, and more than ever before
@smiddysmidton83135 жыл бұрын
26:10 haha how fast is the old xf taxi going? Before excessive speed enforcement
@iyadoo84985 жыл бұрын
1:25 that train still in service till now 😁😁😁😁😁
@lylehsaxon11 жыл бұрын
Fundamentally, it wasn't a tour group trip, but on some parts of the trip I was part of a tour. Naw, just somebody in the train. I was trying to get an image of myself with the camera. The strange thing about that camera is how it was really obvious from the side, but not from head on.
@robbiebalboa5 жыл бұрын
1:21 I forgot the train announcement recording was a male. So many other things I remember about Sydney as a kid.
@thefatman19295 жыл бұрын
The guys name was Grant Goldman well known radio announcer.
@jchm3804 жыл бұрын
@@thefatman1929 He passed away in jan 2020
@mrmynameisedmund10 жыл бұрын
13:50: Kentucky Fried Chicken!!!
@lylehsaxon13 жыл бұрын
@grig60 Oh, I wouldn't say that. It's just the standard expression people have when they're out in public. As soon as they see a friend, they brighten up. - LHS
@gabriellehabib5645 Жыл бұрын
You could actually see the harbour bridge ! Wasn’t drowning in high rise buildings
@MarcoCholo-iz9js2 ай бұрын
Some can argue it looks better and more lived in now
@bigtux118 жыл бұрын
10:27 The monorail is long gone now, too.
@lylehsaxon8 жыл бұрын
Not having been there since 1992, I'll probably be a bit shocked at the changes the next time I visit.
@jamesharris25252 жыл бұрын
Hi there, is there a way to contact someone about using this footage in a video please?
@lylehsaxon2 жыл бұрын
That would be me... but generally I don't allow use of my material. What exactly do you want to use it for (and it's better to contact me via gmail).
@johnschannel449Ай бұрын
Back when there were still Australians in the city
@ryanbasilio95484 жыл бұрын
7:35. That's a rare sight now..a phonebox.😯😯😯 Young people born after 1992 are probably watching this thinking "What the hell are these?., rocket ships.😁😂😂
@lylehsaxon4 жыл бұрын
Shhhh!!!!! That's the time portal! I forgot to cloak it!
@sebastianmatarelli56022 жыл бұрын
Sydney still has phone boxes. Phone company wanted to get rid of them but I think the government didn't allow their removal.
@hincksmanАй бұрын
The demographics of Town Hall and Central train platforms have changed a bit since then.
@kenbaxter91714 жыл бұрын
No Social Distance Back in 1992
@alexdalrymple7 жыл бұрын
25 years and the area around Rushcutters Bay and Edgecliff has not changed at all.
@anaussie2136 жыл бұрын
How the easterners like it.
@sanctuaryism6 жыл бұрын
and women walking around parks late at night...
@MarcoCholo-iz9js2 ай бұрын
Nimbys saw to that. But eastern suburbs is changing alot now
@lylehsaxon13 жыл бұрын
@grig60 No, I wish I had, but I didn't make it out that way. I did visit Canes (sp?) though. - LHS
@ryanbasilio95484 жыл бұрын
Back on the days when you could get away with filming and no one would criticize you or question you.
@lylehsaxon4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I don't take much video now... it's bloody hard to do street videography now, unless you've got a hidden camera, and I don't want to do that it that way.
@jorgepeters7474Ай бұрын
Sydney was beautiful then, but now with all those stupid trams they put in, Sydney is ruined.
@jonkillings27474 жыл бұрын
I'm watching to see if i can see myself.
@gof2211 жыл бұрын
When you went to Sydney, Australia did you go with a tour group? Just curious but at 13:37 was that your daughter looking out the window?
@lylehsaxon13 жыл бұрын
@gof22 I'm not really sure of the types of spiders in Japan exactly, but I have seen some fairly large ones on seldom used trails in the mountains. In the city though, you hardly ever see them. The only one's I've ever seen in my apartment are little tiny ones. Actually - in the big cities in Australia, I don't recall seeing any spiders. Within large cities, I think you'd be okay. - LHS