@johnnytheprick It's gold @6:24. Hollywood anyone?

Do u no why Aussies who come from Melbourne look different than if they come from Sydney, would it be the weather do u think my friend.

@@davechristian7543 Really? If that were the case, then Sydneysiders would look more wet, since Sydney receives more annual rain than Melbourne does.

0:58. Vale Tommy Dysart. "Is Don, is good". "G-O G-G-O".

WHICH MOVIE OF THIS SCENE

@johnnytheprick Had all of those in 1979

@johnnytheprick Not me but anyone who had a fully loaded XA/XB GT, XC GXL, XD Fairmont Ghia, LTD, Landau, Monaro, Statesman just to name a few would have had AC, Power steering and electric windows and maybe even electric sunroof

Agreed! That would be awesome👍

If only!

except reminiscing wouldn't be this fun. and things that stay the same get boring

Yeah, not to mention White Australia!! The best times.

@@thebunker489 Didn't take long to come across the first racist comment. I'm sure you're proud of it, too.

@@thebunker489 I agree. All we have now are memories and these old clips.

​@@thebunker489Nazi Australia

@@thebunker489 ABSOLUTELY!!!! ... White Australians and Europeans. Before the Rice invasion who ruined Melbourne!

Exactly right. So when people started to not take responsibility for their own actions, and decided to blame others for their own stupidity, we ended up with auto closing doors on trains and trams, (although we were way behind the rest of the world with that), speed and red light cameras, and 40 kph zones to make idiots slow down in densely populated areas and school zones. A lot of these rules were the result of population increases, but you are right, what a time to be alive and we took responsibility for our actions. If a train door was open on a hot day for example, we stayed away from it, or closed it. Common sense. If driving near a school we slowed down and watched for kids and drove to suit conditions, still a requirement of driving today, but sadly many do not get that so they have to be "mothered" or threatened by signs everywhere, and back in the day kids were also instructed to watch out for cars and use proper crossings. Not rocket science. Common sense today is not very common.

Miss some things, but like some changes for tram safety and 40 km zone in side streets.

Fuel as not cheap nor cars as per wages.

Great music, no high density living.

Studies over recent decades have shown that, after the introduction of 40 km speed zones around schools, casualties have significantly decreased.

I was 5 years then living elsewhere.. But I can for sure say that the world and nature in general was more sweet at that time.. Corporate greed had eaten off the society as much as that is today... The earth was more beautiful, and the people were simpler back then...

I really wish I'd kept my XC.

You could retire a multimillionaire as well 🙌

And 😥one shot was at the start was seeing "SUPER " @ 27.9.GONE ARE THE DAYS.

Cop Shop - bad show, great days.

@@bradwilliams1691 Opinions are like .........

@@beano1eye And some people are like.......too.

Spot on 👍

​@@stuartmcquade3407says a convict

You are 100% correct, that is Armstrong St. The hardware store there was on the corner of Armstrong and Richardson St. Well spotted

I got my licence in auto, only because the RTA dropped the manual/auto distinction for a cuppla years.

My first car in 1987 - 4 on the floor - Chrysler Galant … still drive a manual now (albeit 6 gears!)

@@bodhi9464 My dream car is the 380 had to get auto as manual too low geared, wish they came with a 6 speed as I would join you.

I remember how easy it was to get a licence back then too compared to nowadays...I just did a pretty short once around the block near Vicroads Ferntree Gully in the 80's while my instructor and the Vicroads inspector talked about the upcoming VFL games that weeken

@@AJ73 got my licence with a copper in the passenger seat, once around the block, no worries 😆great times I'd go back anyday

Thanks very much, 🤗good to read your enjoy the old Melbourne stuff👍

I remember early 80’s when I first started work I could make a tank of petrol last two weeks. Mind you I only drive to work and back and shops. Not much else

I remember I bought my first house in Port Melbourne in 1979 (Graham street opposite the primary school) a single fronted Victorian cottage cost $9,800…

@@northseabrent so petrol is about 6 times the cost and houses now are about 60 times the cost compared to back then

I remember when $2 filled the car...., AND they checked the tyres and cleaned the windscreen.

I can remember the out rage in the 60's when petrol hit 10c a gallon yes a gallon not a liter but Potato scallops were 2cents and a can odf coke was 14 cents.

Yessss 😂

🤣

Yep, then sometimes getting in line.👍

And when you found one it was out of order or vandalised 🔨

Yep same. Played plenty of asteroids there. 😆

I can remember when Chaddy was a cow paddock.

Hi to Bronwyn who used to work in the cafe at Chaddy Bowl. I always loved you!

no one bowled, we all were there for the "video games" "tarzan" clocked it after 6 weeks, thought how cool am I. was very sad when it all changed and was gone.

I think so to! The brick home at 1.48 looks the same... not the other houses around it as they look too slick and too new....

I was thinking maybe Altona

I think go John d as he never been wrong so far ,so play odds agree John

@@vaughanvandabilt6709 I do go to Williamstown often during the summer too so I agree with John too lol ;)

100% swimming pool in the background, I learnt to swim there in ~1965

Nhill just up the road from horsham :)

Instead, they were just posers with their hotted up Falcons, Monaro's and Valiants, back then. All trying to brag about how much faster their car was, how big their engines were and all the rest of it.

Chasing a Suzuki Waterbottle as if they would have ever got a second look at it.

@@somedumbozzie1539 Yes, the Suz "waterbottle" .... Wawnt that called GT-750 triple ?

Yep, with steering, brakes and suspension straight off an 1850s Cobb & Co mail coach. A car ain't handlin' til she gets down on one knee and bounces around a corner!

I'm glad the second one worked out for you

If the first ended in divorce then the "second" is illegitimate.

Ahaha good one Gary but thing is it ain’t yours and nobody gives a flying fuck bout ur shopping centres only reason yous took over is coz u had guns no guns = whites Eliminated always was always will be

Texas lol. I think WA is the Texas of Australia..they got the big trains,trucks etc .Victoria is a tiny little state

Me too. I can't put my finger on it but there was something about that year.

@@YourLittleDeath The best team won the granny and the most memorable songs (as heard during this clip).

1979 was a good year for me as well. To name one I met the spunkiest girl ever. I wish we were still together. Always had fun with heaps of friends on the St Albans train out of Flinders Street.

Must be why Smashing Pumpkins did a song about it...#goodoldays😢

My nephew was showing me a while back, a list he found on the internet of bands that played there back in the 70's to mid 80's. So many great bands, like AC/DC, The Angels, etc. Back when you could go down to your local to check out all the great bands about once a month or so and have a great night.

being a car guy even back then i only remember seeing one or two.

@@meggalavk3ktt I saw three yesterday, but to be fair, they were actually in my garage.

Yeah, comfortable but 😀

after ten years living in Elwood, my family moved to Chadstone, I was only ten at the time, but remember most of this footage.Lots of TV and a couple of films were made in this place/ era. What really worries me, is I am almost certain that I personally know that Vic Police valiant. I am sure that it was on loan from Elwood police station to the tv studio. As a broad-minded 6YO, I was "going out" with the local ,police sergeants daughter (Susan). I do remember getting a tour of that car, but not moving, just in front of the police station. Of course everything has changed since, not just "Chaddy", but also Elwood. No longer any Police station there anymore.

@@michaelpowell6023 It’s still possible that same Valiant may still exist somewhere today unless it’s been scrapped since then! :)

Yes, I remember it too, it was the Downyflake Donut Ship. Could watch it all day.

Not totally sure if my mother was sleeping with the manager, but some how we always got freebies...@@YourLittleDeath

Except on Sundays. Then it was empty...

The area shown has been completely rebuilt and there is now a multi level carpark there. To make it easier there are lights to show empty and occupied spaces. I personally have not been to Chadstone for years - too big now.

Correct, and the wall of the Kew cemetery is in the background.

"groose" not Bruce

@@dickwilliam3793 I thought it was 'pruss' - a bit like 'pompetus of love' in _The Joker_ by Steve Miller (a made up word that sounded good.) Jon Anderson from Yes reckoned he never cared much about what the words meant as long as they sounded sexy. ☺

You sure like the rosea, Crime is much much lower today.