You more or less just described my experience growing up in Sydney (minus the trams and plus another decade). I first visited Melbourne in the early 80s and it was a lovely city back then.

@@KingFahtah It's so good to have those memories 😊

Yeah dan some how god got it wrong ,should been Melbournen in the 70,s

I think a lot started to change with Kennett. Shops opening longer saw the city become less quiet on weekends etc.

This!

Ahh yes opposite St Paul’s. Remember it well. Became McDonald’s. 🙄

A taller body double for the late Karl Malden American Express actor

I worked near the corner and Flinders and Swanston street, just down from Young & Jackson Hotel from 1977 to early 80's.. I agree i looked to see if i recognised anyone. It, upon reflection, was a very stable time in Melbourne.

@@harkie1878 yes, hadn’t thought of that, quite stable indeed, never scared, even with when friends we’d would go into the city on a Saturday night for a movie or a live show and The Pancake Parlour 🥞😁. Great safe days.

@@harkie1878 u worked right in the centre of it all. I worked in 2 places in the city, one was in the office at Brashs, great discounts, still have all my vinyl. And in office at Collins, Hill of Content bookstore, my other favourite thing, reading - so more work discounts again 😊👍

Yes i did.. smack bang in the middle...Flinders street station was literally the hub of the city. the amount of Herald Newspapers being sold from the stand at the front of the station.!!!!..Good to hear your jobs rewarded you... People were much calmer and less stressed then, the CBD as we know it now, had a little mystery and excitement about it. G8 to remember :)

I was thinkn the very same thing Steeles I no the building trying think what it become ,,something kill bit time looking up

Well maybe the odd greek or itie...but we know what you mean

Well spotted John, yes definitely‘Magpies Drop….THOMMO? Did Len get dropped for any senior game in 1975?

In round 19, 1975 The Age newspaper team line up showed vice captain Len been dropped against Essendon and he returned the following week.

and matching brown hat

That made me laugh lol, I remember my dad saying, as a joke, “ never trust a man in a brown suit.” I never did ask him why lol

I was referring to ABCs late show in the nineties.They did a comic voiceover to an old Homicide and that line featured heavily.Perhaps that was linked to your dads old joke.Cant beat a good dad joke!

@@pisstinpete4700 my first thought, the man in brown suit look like a police man lol Must have been memories of Homicide lol. Oh yes, my darling dad had a saying for everything. My great aunt was worse, she was so deadpan funny, her mother was Irish and she’d come out with everything her mother used to say, so funny. Good old memories of growing up in Melbourne. My nan lived in Carlton. We loved staying over as she’d go into town every weekend we sleep over, we had to have it in turns though lol

I’ll make the next one way more snappy DD, I promise.😅

@@Gezza1967 it’s crazy how nobody got a cellphone in there 🤚. Boy sometimes I wish the cellphone was never invented.

@@Gezza1967 this was awesome 👏 on how you did it. Especially in slow motion. You can see stuff better.

@@danrobinson572 cheers, that was the aim.👍

We used to say that all the time.