Yes Coles Cafeteria 1st Floor Bourke Street store where you grab a tray and slide it along and pick what ever foods you like. A working-class smorgasboard.

Melbourne always has been a shithole and still is.

I do!! When we went into 'the city' as a family to have a special lunch and see a 'picture' we'd always end with a special treat visit to the store you're talking about. I LOVE these old archive films and old photos. I could look at old photos and old film for hours and not get bored. I also remember that amazing movie theatre with the domed ceiling painted in dark vibrant blue to give the illusion of a twilight time starry night sky. It felt really romantic and glamorous. I loved it as a kid. I love finding places that haven't been totally modernised. Remember the diner along Flinders Street (or was it Swanston Street, hmm?) that had the table top jukeboxes at each booth. You'd sit and flip through the options whilst waiting for your milkshake or banana split sundae and press B5 for a Beach Boys song that would never come on, ha!

Absolutely! The old lady next door used to get a box of Darrell Lea every Friday when her daughter came home, still wearing the very colourful outfit. Every Saturday, the lovely old lady secretly gave them to me. Her doctor had forbidden her to eat sweet stuff, but she didn't have the heart to tell her daughter. My Mum wouldn't let me eat any sort of lollies except Xmas Easter and birthdays, so this was heaven. I'd hide in my cubby house with a book, and wolf through the lot in one sitting, lol.

Yep, I remember that also

You my man... are a legend! Im saving up for my birth-car too, super jealous that your erra had better machines. - its a car lovers dream 🥰

The city is still as beautiful now, its the shit people our govermentt lets in now days

Those people we entrusted to regulate development to the present day have let us down.

Were some good restaurants there - specially The Club Grill

Me too. Sad isn't it? I also miss people dressing up nicely and behaving well at airports and on planes.

What about now with our world leading multicultural and diverse society that we have?

@@EliteURBX Well, not so much. Though I suppose in a way my family was part of all that.

Oh no! What happened to the Southern Cross hotel?! We used to go to their Palm Court restaurant for lunch as a family sometimes. What's there now I wonder?

@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Yes - Palm Court restaurant. There was another - The Club Grill.

@@wizzard5442 Do you know what's there now? Another commenter said the whole hotel was pulled down rather than just renovated and redesigned. Is that true?!

@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Yes it was pulled down and an office block with street level shops were built. Its called Southern Cross Towers. See wiki.

I just remember that it was never that crowded. Nowadays it feels suffocating. I think it's due to the invasion of a more existential non physical space via the internet too, it contributes to this awful claustrophobic suffocating feeling. I feel constantly pestered. Everybody's got their necks permanently wound into the business of strangers. And oh my what banal, painfully boring nonsense it all is.

I remember the banana splits - on 3rd floor cafeteria, right?

Australia doesn’t even exist let alone Melbourne

@@biggils8894 agreed, it’s been taken over.

Couldn’t agree more …. what happened to that truly beautiful city I grew up in ??

I arrived from the UK in 1966 also aged 9, lived in Moe initially, then Frankston; now back in the UK since 1973. Collingwood barracker since 1966, and still am! GO PIES!! 😊 My Son now lives north of Sydney in Mayfield and is marrying an Australian girl in March 2024. 🇦🇺🌏🦘🪃

Back when hard working people could actually afford to buy a nice three bedroom house with a garage, garden and room for a pool in the back garden. What in the hell's happened to the world?!

​​@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293its good stuff at the moment. Work away at an honest job for years and maybe youll get a mortgage in a decade if youre lucky, then have fun paying that for the next 30 years. Meanwhile i can either take off my clothes online and sell it, or make awful videos 'pranking' or just harassing people in public and potentially make unfathomable amounts of money through 'CoNtEnT cReAtIoN'. Society is fucked. Elite overproduction has begun just as mentioned in Peter Turchin's secular cycle theory. Next up, global conflict, a great reset and probably a new major world power.

funny, that scene also caught my attention.. I was also born a few later but recall ijn the 70's growing up that mum would always dress us up as immaculate as possible

Yep, it was always a big day when you went into town with Mum. Lunch at Woolies or Coles or maybe even DJ's

I love it too, but unfortunately people lost their personal standards at some point. Im only 28 ('96) and the current state of things makes me utterly miserable.

It’s back now

@@ianjenkins8114 indeed, it was a shell for much of the 20th century, but is great now

Too many Indians and Chinese now it's a crowded and no longer british anglo

@@Mac-zl4po karma is a bitch for the white anglos

I was a boy then. I remember adults were well dressed, well mannered, and friendly.

I remember coles cafeteria, but the sun was still as hot back then, you just had to avoid touching it.

Coles cafeteria - a square of green or red jelly with whipped cream on top. That's what I remember.

@@gail2500 me too, and “sarnies” as my mother used to call those dainty little trays of mixed sandwiches.

The wind-up parking meters were around for years.

Remember? Those Krishna's are still doing it. Their restaurant is on the street level now.

Do you remember this then. As you walk through life brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole! Cheers PS bloody auto correct

and is that a problem, we are after all in the Asiatic region.

@@shaun1900 we don’t have the resources for all these extra people, we can’t afford it. An extra half a million humans here in 12 months, we don’t have the hospitals, schools, houses, etc, etc. This means less quality of life for everyone here. If you need an ambulance for example, your waiting time is increased because they aren’t investing in more paramedics in line with immigration. Our economy and our society cannot cope with this level of immigration if we are not building the infrastructure. Not to mention young Australians being unable to buy a house due to wealthy immigrants pushing up the prices. Again, quality of life for the average Australian is affected. More young Australians have to stay with their parents for longer, or rent for longer (or forever).

@@stefanie.elinor you are pointing the finger at the wrong people, please at least try and do some research before commenting. You just sound daft otherwise. Simple fact is Australia needs immigration, we have an ageing population, decreasing birth rates and an economy and social welfare systems that wound not survive to pay your pension and provide the healthcare you need in old age. Please try harder.

@@stefanie.elinorplenty of investment in vehicles though! Five stationed in the town I live in, constantly parked up. Don’t think I’ve ever seen two out on the roads at the same time since they built their big new brick garage. So is that staff shortages or just lack of trained staff? And if it’s the latter, who commissioned for all those new ambulance vehicles if there isn’t a plethora of trained paramedics? Our ambo’s in Vic are screaming for higher wages and better resource’s, like the cops did several years ago, and like CFA&SES did for years - decades in fact - now we have made a huge capital investment in buildings and vehicles, but no-one wants to even pretend to be interested in actually working a shift, unless there are “perks” like tickets to motorsport events, or other sporting events?? How many of the resourcing decisions in emergency services management are made these days actually totally defies even my trained responders brain. Glad I got out of emergency services when I did, and grateful to still be capable of thinking strategically about organisational waste!

No. Asia is in Asia. We're in Australia. A totally different continent

Well of course you have to avoid such human interaction now, but before covid times it was all the same

@@vavacadoz haha no you don't

@@mr.jamster8414 What on earth are you on about?

@@vavacadoz are you still avoiding everyone? Still think you're gonna die? 🤦‍♂️🤣

Have you tried taking a tram or train in? It's definitely bustling nowadays

Better than now with the really diverse and multicultural society we have?

@@EliteURBX All the beautiful villages that lefty tourists coo over here in England are almost entirely populated by educated financially solvent hardworking old white people. They cannot seem to be honest and intelligent enough to do the simple sum of 2 + 2. They pooh-pooh snobbery, the idea of privilege and they pooh-pooh monocultures yet seek out beautiful clean villages filled with gentle, respectful white folks on their weekends and holidays. I wish people could just be more honest about things but they're forever deaf to the sound of pennies dropping. Oh dear.

Those days Melbourne and Adelaide was full of English pommes leaving the UK to Australia to invade.

That was the first thing that came to mind.

And not 2021 lockdown? Worse than china

Changed your mind yet???

@@stevewiles7132 ??????

Saying it doesn't make it true

Probably the only freeway in the world that ended at a set of traffic lights - Toorak Rd

no there isnt

​@@shaun1900Shaun the woke 🐑 trying your hardest to defend mass migration..it sucks and Australia is being destroyed because of fools like you

​@@shaun1900yes there is .stop with the denial ..things have never been worse ..especially with this current left globalist government

We all moved to Tas, mate.

And the Congo

@@ACDZ123 agree and Congo

@@cgas7344 terrible isn't it. Can't even feel safe walking around now with all the jungle savages and their machetes...politicians in Canberra don't have to live with them .they ok

All pommes and whinging ones leaving the UK for the longest to invade Australia 🦘

@@marthasheilds2446back in the day, they didn’t have to invade, the government paid them to come here.

Change isn’t necessarily good or bad. It’s naturally a part of life, and you just have to move on with it.

@@vavacadoz correct. I'm resisting the urge to plop a mini thesis on change and evolution in urban settlements

Too many Indians and Chinese now

@@Mac-zl4po You said the same thing above and are beginning to sound like a broken record

Yeah lol, used to have grouse architecture, now it's glass boxes.

The difference isn't so much architecture but due to our adoption of things like US zoning (which is obsolete...but we still have it) EG, Paris has La Defense, but by necessity we've built CBDs on centres due to those zoning restrictions making it that financially the easiest option

It was a British crown colony back then!… Things started to change during the 1990s.

It was beautiful now its the biggest shithole

Most of the English people left the UK and invaded Australia for a new life . Because the was miserable in the UK.

This footage has been lifted from Life in Australia: Melbourne - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iqlnd5iFxNPDXZ8.html

The WW1 generation were still up and about, they were great for formal dressing.

@@davehall44 yeah grandfathers

@@davehall44 yeah well today people are lazy and think dressimg up is uncool.

I first went to the footy in 73 withmy uncle and we both dressed casually, and yet watching footy from the 60s everyone looks to be wearing their Sunday Best....l wonder when and how it changed...

Actual pride....don't see that any more...

And I don't like it.

Karma is taking place Australia belongs to the Aborigines not the English and Irish invaders.

Check NFSA Melbourne to see where this came from but in full.

NFSA original : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iqlnd5iFxNPDXZ8.html

Lifted clips from the NFSA video without acknowledgment?

Still not as busy

😂

No it's not your speakers, it's archival footage that's visual only, no audio recorded.

@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 thank you for responding. ☺️ I later stumbled across a longer version with sound.

@@shanebriggs1039 😄

Yes, I remember how rare it was to see a fat person. Now every second person is so out of shape that I don't even register it anymore. Not even the morbidly obese in mobility scooters.

Yes, by 1976 Frazer had let half of Beirut in.

Yes. The good old days when Australia was Australia

@@Mac-zl4po Good old days before the white trash landed here

​@@Mac-zl4poAustralia belongs to the Aborigines before the English invaded Australia.

@marthasheilds2446 aboriginals lived like animals. Let's be real

Another good one to watch is the making of West lakes good 60s 70s footage.

Ha ha yep

before china and india invaded

even early 70s in some spots ...maybe even mid 70s from memory

Came to Australia in 1973 as a six year oldwith my family. In Camberwell I remember the horses and the manure they often left behind on the street.

I think the national museum has the last one from Essendon around 1986.

Correction. As late as 1987. Film of the last one and huge background: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrZoZq2HtcrSnHU.html

We used to live near a dairy in East Doncaster and a horse and cart was still delivering as late as 76...we'd put the milk bottles out and some notes in theneck of the bottle - l found it curious that they money was never stolen.

Yes! I've noticed this too. I made this observation to my husband the other month. I said it benignly, no offense intended at all. I just remember how rare it was to see fat, out of shape badly (or inappropriately) dressed people back when I was a kid and a teen. Now I'm oblivious to it, it's just so common. Strange isn't it? Why do you think this is?

That's what happens when you allow everyone to open 7 days a week 24 hours a day.

Like Ginza Tokyo does. Such a bustling yet respectful, glamorous peaceful atmosphere there on the pedestrian-only roads on special weekends in Ginza. It always reminds me of Melbourne as a kid. People dress up nicely in Ginza and conduct themselves respectfully and quietly, just like Melbourne once upon a time...oh how times have changed.

Wayne Hauser it was a country town

No one smothered Melbourne. It evolved. It's a global city on the planet Earth.

Pauline Hanson was right. We got invaded and lost our heritage and culture. This video reminds us

@@Mac-zl4po cry me a river!

@@HYITHO did I lie

Yes everyone speaks English in Australia