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Yes I agree and it's the same for each generation, the nostalgia is so enchanting.

Brad, you and I are the same age. I can't imagine where all the years have gone. The 80s seem like last week. So much has changed, both in physical ways and or culture. I really miss our accent - it's like a mix of imitation British and American now. 😢

Oh *No!* _Who'd_ want to be 10 again?!

If you have had a good childhood you don't want it to end, not everyone is so lucky.

Reminiscing is lovely..that's why the collectables shops are so popular..

Yep I am a 1961 baby also; sadly Australia will never be that tranquil again

DISGUSTING, AIN'T IT! Our Current female Lord Mayor, 'Andy' C, sorry, Sally Capp, We need to THROW HER OUT. She does not even acknowledge AUSTRALIA DAY. Last few yrs, she's dressed herself, in a theatrical Black Bag, called the photographic media, AND Called Australia Day, "Invasion Day". Now, the City is FILTHY. She's a traitor. Throw her out.

Zapper 💖💖💖

Ok boomer

@@harryb3456 lol, but I agree with Zapper

@@harryb3456 cringe

me too

So was I Susan Keech and like you, I feel nostalgic. Worked in Melbourne for 18 months from age of 16 and always went to the Pineapple Spot in Swanston Street for lunch. Was floored to see it still there in 2007!

Good time to be alive.

I take issue with the statement about 'handing over to foreign cultures'. Much of Melbourne's city culture was built with the work of Italians, Greeks and Chinese. It's frankly horrific to recall that we had a White Australia policy until as recently as 1973. So as someone who grew up with friends of many cultures, let's not romanticize a politically racist past. At the same time, it's incumbent upon immigrants to understand and integrate into local culture, not create their own contentious and antagonistic pockets of their own.

@@raksh9 How can you take issue,to something you have no knowledge of,I afraid to tell you Melbourne was not built by the Italians or Greeks,most of them came here during the 1950's and as for the Chinese,they occupied small pockets of the city in dwelling built by mainly migrants from the British Isle who come here a very long time before Italian and the Greeks and the Chinese.And why are you horrified that we had a WHITE ONLY POLICY,HAVE YOU EVER LIVED IN A COUNTRY WITH A WHITE ONLY POLICY.Do you know what it is to live in a community of mostly whites? How do you imagine it was to live in a mostly white community,One it was not a divided community,we never had pockets of different races,we did not have different religions,was color a problem,no because it was never issue,starting to sound a little like paradise? That one of the reason we where known as the lucky country.Today I have to contend with all these issues,which I did not wished upon myself. I and a many Australians where quite happy in our little cocoon.

Born in 1949 and you have summed it all up perfectly.

I was also born in 1952, though I grew up in Sydney. My first visit to Melbourne was in January 1967 with my dad. My wife and I later moved to Melbourne in mid 1981. Since even then, the city has grown quite a lot.

@@raksh9 You can piss off. Italians and Greeks aren't a foreign culture, and Chinese impact was minimal in comparison. What we have now is cultures that are truly foreign, don't want to integrate or assimilate, want to jump the queue and want more "rights" than those who actually built the country (and we can include Chinese in the latter). It was obvious what was going to happen - and it did. So please review my opening statement.

Yeah having one now.Cheers !!!

I returned to Melbourne after working there in the seventies. I reminded me of any third world city. I was glad to leave. Sad.

I no longer live in Victoria but I used go back and visit...until my best friend died. I haven’t been back since. I have no desire to return....unless I could go back in time as well.

Where did you move?

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Same Nick. I was fretting. See this picture I have here, it's a photo of the Glaciarium ice rink where my father was a skater and the Aspro company, right next door where my mother worked and that's how they met. The picture that I have now means the world to me. lol people assume because it has cars outside that I'm male but it's actually about the buildings, not the cars. I'm actually female.

Please find attached my updated CV for your kind information I will I just wanted I just wanted I just wanted I just wanted I just wanted I you u

Red rattlers. Loved em

Absolutely agree with you. The 70’s were magical. I was 5 years old in 1970. I feel very emotional thinking of those day’s. So peaceful and so reassuringly safe. I’d give anything just to go back to the 70’s for just 1 day! Enjoy the moment people. Time travel doesn’t exist. 😬

Seeing all those Holdens and Valiants was enough for me. I'm amazed Hearnes Hobbies is still in Flinders St.Everything changes,but sometimes you just see it all one day.🕜

Why do people look at the past through rose coloured glasses? There was more violence and bigotry then but your parents were good enough to hide you from them.

@@EZ-viewing. Time travel certainly does exist. You are travelling forward in time every moment of your existence.

@@millertas More violence? How many home invasions and carjackings were there? And drugs, And etc etc. And bigotry? Piss off with that bullshit.

Cheers mate, I thought it well to😁👍

satan corp in full effect.

It’s not just technology. Everything the government or corporations touch they ruin. Ive often asked others why, in the name of simplicity are things made ever more complex? Almost like someone wanted to make things difficult..

sure has

I couldn't agree more.

@@frankboff1260 It's technology too Frank. I do agree with you though, it's a few people at the top who are destroying everything. However, even if they didn't exist and technology did, people would still have their heads and minds in the fantasy world known as phones. Technology needs to die.

2020: it’s even worse now

Like a sardine can now ,gridlocked dump and nobody knows how to drive their new ugly imported junk of today.

same

Same too

Remm great to read, cheers Gezza

Mick Man same here. You must’ve lived down south I’m guessing.

I long for the days when the city was peaceful and quiet on Sunday. The only way that happens now is very early in the morning, or during lockdown when you can't go to the city, anyway.

Back in 1967, when I first visited Melbourne from Sydney where I lived in those days, I remember at midday on Saturdays, the city would suddenly become quiet, apart from the sound of a distant tram. On Sundays, the city was so quiet that you could almost hear a pin drop. Very different from Sydney, where even then, Sydney was far more noisy and busy with traffic.

I think it might have been 76, I remember my first ride, it was on a school excursion and everyone was talking about it.

Back in the late 1930's, my dad actually visited Melbourne and rode a cable tram to Collingwood. that certainly must have been an interesting experience.

hot chips from myers cafe, yum

Brad Williams Yeah! Used to eat there with the old pensioners when I was a kid in the 80s - pie and chips on a plate with a milkshake in them old school stainless steel cups.

Yes...my mum took me there for lunch many times,great memories 👍🙂

i remember my nan taking me there alot when i was little.(born 77) what about the Myers rooftop at xmas time?Awsm memories 💜

Sir Spencer yum!

I use to go to Space Age Books and The Technical Bookshop too. I also remember all the small import record shops too.

I am not Australian, but did lived in Ozz a short while. Visited Melbourne too. What You say as in ,,All Open 24/7,, is World-Wide in evry Major or Little City. Here in Netherlands too.... Making my Birthgrounds from nice and easy, into a Rat-Race. Such a shame , Its all about Economy and Big Money which has to ,,Grow,, You know , not Satisfied with 10 Million Profit a Year .... HAS to be 20 the Next.....

m.g.w. Good one👍

Expo,s

@@larrywalker6105 Congrats on the Hall, champ!

Ok boomer

@@harryb3456 eat it groomer.

I remember the policemen directing traffic, which was still in vogue when we moved here from Sydney in 1981. I also used to like the old GPO in the city and the excellent customer service there when positing letters and buying stamps.

Foreigners yeah right, the place is FULL of Indians & Asians there are NO Aussies anymore, it’s like Mumbai

@Brad Williams , cheers mate! It's not too late with the way things are going now via the world?! Isolationism might be back sooner than we think?! Never give up on this footage here!

Deeply true. It’s bigger, it’s making much more money. But everything is imported. It’s cost us home-ownership, a sense of community, connection, rituals and simple pleasures. Living in Melbourne is a life for robots. I quit Melbourne 3 years ago, having spent my first 40 years there. My children have the opportunity to live a similar childhood as I did, growing up in a much smaller city. Like the old Melbourne, people here hurry less, and you see people you know out & about, and meet people who are no more than one or two degrees of separation. And it’s easier to find things made locally. It’s comforting and reassuring.

Absolutely the best burgers..... 🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔

Cheers Hannah, great memories 👍

Wasif cheers

At 2:22, it's Harry Price with moustache, sideburns and trombone playing on a semi-trailer stage for FEIP.

Mick Gatz cheers 👍

Cheers Pisstin Pete👍

Most would have fallen to bits by now.

Gee I should have kept my old chariot then 😂