Launceston Mall 1975 - "A place for people"

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11 жыл бұрын

This is from the archives of the state library - not yet uploaded by TAHO. I found this in an online catalogue fron LINC and paid to have it transferred onto a DVD,then I ripped it down to MPEG ( 150 meg ) This film is still copyrighted to LINC and TAHO - Im sure you will agree that this film belongs somewhere to be viewed by us and not locked away in an archive! ENJOY !

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@arsenaldailytransfernews 7 жыл бұрын

Who else is watching after Birchalls has shut down! RIP Australias First, and best bookshop, you will be missed...

@80smusicfan90 4 ай бұрын

Man that shope was amazing I loved going there as a kid. Annoyed that it was shut down

@anorton17 11 жыл бұрын

Launceston looked cooler back then than it does now...

@betula2137 Жыл бұрын

Something about Americanisation

@naomiwivell7075 4 жыл бұрын

Loved playing on those alphabet blocks as a kid!

@chloedog47 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I played on them as a kid in the early eighties.

@lesleydee1752 8 жыл бұрын

This is so wonderful to see. I can remember the Mall being constructed. I loved this era in Launceston ... had the time of my life :-).

@leonkernan 5 жыл бұрын

And they did all that with people walking around, no huge barriers or high-viz. Yet somehow everyone survived.

@Robochop-vz3qm 2 жыл бұрын

All Nancys now

@scottclark1634 2 жыл бұрын

So vibrant back then, its completely dead now its really sad.

@yggdrasil9039 2 жыл бұрын

Well there is a little thing going on right now called a global pandemic. Parramatta in Sydney is also a ghost town at the moment.

@betula2137 Жыл бұрын

Since then, the increasing growth of car-dependence and Euclidean zoning has limited vibrance

@jollytas 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the upload. It is great to see how it used to be. It's a shame how it has become today.

@80smusicfan90 Жыл бұрын

No technology in people's hands! So greatful to see this! People were genuine and honest back then compared to today.

@nickdishonefive 5 жыл бұрын

Launceston CBD was busier back in 1975 than it is today.

@homebrandrules 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was nick. See you at the library. Alan.

@AdamCollings 11 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Love this window into the past.

@em1ly_r0se13 6 жыл бұрын

I live here and r.i.p Birchalls 😭

@bcgibson22 5 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭!!!!!!!

@MrJm1945 9 жыл бұрын

Good to see my brother Greg Cooper and his friend Shawn (Armstrong) part of the onlookers.

@vman7321 Жыл бұрын

I was 2 in 1975 and so glad I grew up in Lonny

@betula2137 Жыл бұрын

The first in Australia. Launnie's always been an innovator, but it's slowed in recent decades

@johnappleseed5742 10 жыл бұрын

Wow over 100,000 people in 1975. Today it's 106,000, no change!

@yoyobah1862 11 ай бұрын

So weird not seeing hi-vis and people just wandering through the site.

@Phantom-hy2ix 6 жыл бұрын

Sad it is that it closed permanently. Launceston needs another shop like it.

@Rellegen 11 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing! :D

@mobileheadsup 11 жыл бұрын

Hi TasSpyder - just shared this on Heads Up Launceston - on Facebook - many thanks, LOVE IT!

@archangel_josh Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1983 and raised in Launceston - I remember those play blocks being there as a kid and they were always gross and sticky from drinks and cigarette butts/litter were always inside them. Ah memories....haha.

@Tasmaniangeographic 11 жыл бұрын

Oh, this is brilliant!

@hebneh 4 жыл бұрын

Downtown malls were built in many American cities from the 1950s to the '70s. They started out just like this, seemingly filled with promise, and gradually the downtowns deteriorated regardless. Reading the other comments suggests that happened here too.

@Runningrampage25 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing video!

@yggdrasil9039 2 жыл бұрын

This idea only works if you also have medium to medium-high density housing close by, so that you don't need to build endless car parks. It also means you have customers and population density adjacent the mall right on-site. This and the park is one of the best places in Lonny, but the population is still too sparse to make it thrive.

@betula2137 Жыл бұрын

Launceston thrived in the late 1800's.

@Akaroa_Pilot 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks Cathryn, I will check the page out :)

@griefweed4254 5 жыл бұрын

If i had 1 wish it would be to own every car in this vid

@MartinChungHNIC 9 жыл бұрын

Luv the funky bleepy music.

@fredfungalspore 3 жыл бұрын

Love those 70s women's cork sole shoes They were very cool at least you would never drown...

@shellhonkytonk3140 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone remember Venture?.

@ghostrider9978 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah,we had one in Devonport 😀

@mariareed5238 2 жыл бұрын

I think there was also one in Burnie -

@paulcooper5748 2 жыл бұрын

I love the 70s.

@aemmonia1150 2 жыл бұрын

“eventually the entire city centre will be a series of malls and semi malls” 50 years later and thats still the only mall

@chloedog47 2 жыл бұрын

Umm Quadrent Mall, Centerway Arcade, Civic Square, Yorktown Square, am I missing something 🤔

@Frossti 10 жыл бұрын

I live here

@FancyPantsLand 5 жыл бұрын

cool bro

@nmcproductions5037 4 жыл бұрын

No one fucking asked

@homebrandrules 3 жыл бұрын

You live in the mall? Where? I,ll bring you some tucker !

@ReubenGamerz34 7 жыл бұрын

Birchalles is gone :(

@bcgibson22 5 жыл бұрын

Birchalls 😢😭😭😭😭😭!!!!!!!!

@not-pc6937 3 жыл бұрын

I have Sammy the seal who used to be outside birchalls for many years !! I often look at him and think of The thousands of kids that had a ride laughing and enjoying themselves

@Akaroa_Pilot 11 жыл бұрын

Not sure if this was the first mall ?

@_Chris_D_3004 8 жыл бұрын

0 bogans in the mall

@giggabyt78 11 жыл бұрын

god there is coles

@shellhonkytonk3140 3 жыл бұрын

It was Coles Fosseys, it was a good store, better than today's Coles, things were cheap in there.

@giggabyt78 3 жыл бұрын

@@shellhonkytonk3140 i know went in there alot

@grantreid8583 2 жыл бұрын

@@shellhonkytonk3140 I think it was called coles variety and became coles fossey later on there was also a coles cafeteria upstairs accesed by a staircase in the corner.

@chloedog47 2 жыл бұрын

Ate many a small cup of chips with sauce and frog in a pond in that cafeteria as a child☺️