Sydney is so unrecognisable now compared to 1977. I was only 12 then and never ventured down to Darling Harbour until the new retail development opened up in the late eighties.
Schoolmates went to work for Sydney Rail ,also Chullora Workshop's ,many mates that worked on Sydney Rail formed Bands in the 70s ,seeing this Vid bought back a heap of great memories from that Era was a joy to watch .thanks for sharing
I frequently went to this rail yard in 1977 - 79 loading up the rail wagons with produce to be sent to parts of NSW. I probably bumped into some of these guys! The area has certainly changed!
Where the 'shunters' paid well at the time ('77), to compensate for the dangerous work of the day? Did they get superannuation through the railways? 1:25 Shunter job training back then: 3 weeks training! Congrats here's your gloves, you're a Shunter! 8:59 The scene where the safety officer (Union regulated work safety?) was the only thing complaining about riding on something, got laughed at by the Shunters. Watch them running sideways and backwards over rails and sleepers and trackside switches without looking! Equally interesting, Darling Harbour 1960's Although no movie stars in this one: th-cam.com/video/SS-f7mj0p6g/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared And Steam on the Harbour (1960's) th-cam.com/video/S0izTlCTHJc/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Re the opening scene in the Pay Office: I worked in various offices in Sydney from 1974 on, even as late as the 1980s we were paid like this. Looking back, it hardly seems real. The cash was packaged offsite in a top-secret high-security warehouse premises (in Redfern I think) and was glue-sealed into pay envelopes, which had your name and details printed Gestetner-like on the outside. The envelopes were delivered every Thursday fortnight by armoured vehicle to the pay office; our pay office was locked, with security bars everywhere, you couldn't just walk in and out. In the film at least 2 people are supervising the distribution - as there always had to be a witness, and each envelope is signed out. You can see a worker holding a ripped-open envelope at 0:16, he is checking the contents against the amount printed on the outside. My envelopes often contained coins as well as notes. The bummer with being paid in cash was, you had to get to the bank in your lunch hour and queue (along with all the wage-earners of Sydney) as you didn't want to risk carrying a fortnight's wages in your pocket all the time. You might lose it, for starters. You probably were trying to save up anyway. You had to judge how much cash to hang onto for your fortnightly expenses, and if you were going out on the weekend, you might have to dash to the bank on Friday lunchtime to withdraw some more -- as there were no ATMs, so no cash available on the weekend. This is why many people kept a stash of cash in their homes. Which meant that break-ins were more prevalent in those days; robbers knew that homes had cash. I have lost YEARS of my life, including untold lunch-hours, standing in queues at banks - and at counters paying for my electricity, water gas, phone, rent etc. I don' miss the stress of the old cash economy one bit.
Yes, minus the millions of lawless, lazy welfare recipients// 'aka' -- evil, problematic imports..With archaic, dangerous beliefs..I miss my beautiful, peaceful, thriving Australia, from decades ago..We are now very unlucky indeed..
Here is a little information about the opening scene which is something you will never see again. The guys are lining up to be paid . . . . . in cash. Plastic cards and ATMs did not exist in them thar days.
A few years after this was shot, as a kid, I visited Sydney from the country on a family trip. Due to Mum's dodgy map reading, we wound up at the helipad at Pyrmont Pt, where Pirrama Park is now. My sister and I begged and pleaded and my parents paid the grand sum of $25 each for us to have a scenic flight over the CBD (a very large sum for us in those days). It must have been after 1981 as we hovered in amazement next to Centerpoint Tower. I can still remember that event and now after living in Sydney for almost 40 years, have witnessed some immense change. Thank you for the great footage! Much appreciated. Cheers - Dave
Aberdeen Grain fed beef on the side of the containers, I live only a few hundred metres from the old Aberdeen Meat works, it was the main employer back then.
I very much remember the rail goods yard at Darling Harbour. I also remember the virtually permanent oil slick on the water. Unloading ships into barges, then floating cargo around Sydney Harbour to the relevant wharves. The trucks coming and going.Hearing Marxist rhetoric from wharfies at the waterfront. I was a watchman on a ship moored down there.
@@R0d_1984 I live in eternal hope that I become the first human to crack the 200yo barrier, and full expect to be around for the next 10 to 20 years, at least. I wonder, however, how well the people in the video have weathered the storms. Some won't be with us any more sadly.
They were better times and people worked hard and got on with each other..There's too many dangerous, defective imports now..That don't work or contribute..We're no longer the lucky country, the politicians have allowed this chaos and destruction..
What a joy for this video to be tossed up. Spent hours sketching the locomotives & industrial landscapes in the late 60 ‘s & 70’s in Darling Harbour & Pyrmont.Sydney was much smaller infused with character & filled with Aussies not afraid to celebrate Australia Day.
It's not that I don't want to celebrate Australia. But I want aboriginal Australians to be able to celebrate as well. And the date is associated with devastation for them. You have to recognise that. So changing the date is really very trivial and acknowledging of the genocide that Aboriginals suffered and are continuing to struggle with. I wanted to reply directly so you can at least hear from one person what the mindset is.
To the rose coloured glasses wearers: This was also when people drove drunk and without seatbelts, and cigarette smoke and car exhaust was everywhere, and no one cared about domestic violence, and priests/teachers were pedophiles without a care, and immigrants and gays were treated like jokes.
Blue collar heros! Amazing how manual tasks have now been automated. Thought that Sheila with the blond hear hair had some nice legs… 🙈😂 Work, health and safety bureaucrats must be having a heart attack watching this! 😂😂
Did my aircraft engineering apprenticeship at ultimo college, we used to explore the Darling harbour area in our lunch break viewing the early 1980s transformation construction, when it was first converted to an entertainment area in the mid 1980s all us boy's used to come in from the suburbs on a Friday/Saturday night, those thunderbolt beers at the pump house were potent!! still it was a safe area with good times to be had. Australia/Sydney has changed in so many ways from this video, wish I could say for all the better.
Well, times change and we have become very "multicultural". In many ways it's a good thing but there are certainly numerous ugly sides (that noone is allowed to mention). Personally, I find it sad to see parts of our "Aussie" culture being eroded.
@@deldridg Being of the same period as you, I'm really not sure what parts of the 'Aussie' culture you're talking about. You must mean the stuff that was handed and altered from Britain, because the only 'culture' Australia ever had, was being lethargic, laidback, uncultured, smokers, sexist, racist and being extremely reactive towards anything untraditional. Egalitarianism could be said, but that's only if you were a traditional, white and male. Australia is far more accepting and knowledgeable than it used to be and I for one am glad of it
Just got back from traveling around Japan I ended up feeling really bad for Australia as in every town or city and every port or harbour in Japan there is factories and heavy industry and cities full of companies of commerce.yes I know there economic issues are there but those the infrastructure just waiting for the good times to return let’s hope they have the population to run there massive industrial infrastructure. Where we have very little anything and what we do have is resources and we are giving them away to the rest of the world at next to nothing.
How many of these men reached retirement age with a full complement of limbs, toes, and fingers?
Gezzus OHS would shit em selves if they saw that today.
Sydney is so unrecognisable now compared to 1977. I was only 12 then and never ventured down to Darling Harbour until the new retail development opened up in the late eighties.
Amazing
Build it and they will come.
Before boomers fucked this country.
Schoolmates went to work for Sydney Rail ,also Chullora Workshop's ,many mates that worked on Sydney Rail formed Bands in the 70s ,seeing this Vid bought back a heap of great memories from that Era was a joy to watch .thanks for sharing
WOW! Thank you for sharing this absolute gem! But seriously, IS NO ONE GOING TALK ABOUT ALL OF THOSE SHORT SHORTS….. I MEAN REALLY GUYS 😂
Your comment is hilarious.. Yess, those naughty men wore stubbies that were 'mardi gras' short..😆☮️
I frequently went to this rail yard in 1977 - 79 loading up the rail wagons with produce to be sent to parts of NSW. I probably bumped into some of these guys! The area has certainly changed!
Australia before politicians ruined it.
I didnt know walking around in undies as as shorts is such a honour tradition
Back when the working class had control of the country. And now look how band it is now the investment bankers have control
The first voice you hear is a scouser 😂 I wonder what happened to him?
Where the 'shunters' paid well at the time ('77), to compensate for the dangerous work of the day? Did they get superannuation through the railways? 1:25 Shunter job training back then: 3 weeks training! Congrats here's your gloves, you're a Shunter! 8:59 The scene where the safety officer (Union regulated work safety?) was the only thing complaining about riding on something, got laughed at by the Shunters. Watch them running sideways and backwards over rails and sleepers and trackside switches without looking! Equally interesting, Darling Harbour 1960's Although no movie stars in this one: th-cam.com/video/SS-f7mj0p6g/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared And Steam on the Harbour (1960's) th-cam.com/video/S0izTlCTHJc/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Not a high viz jacket in sight! Put me on that job and I'd be track pizza inside 24 hours.
Not a uniform or high Vis in sight! Love it!
Re the opening scene in the Pay Office: I worked in various offices in Sydney from 1974 on, even as late as the 1980s we were paid like this. Looking back, it hardly seems real. The cash was packaged offsite in a top-secret high-security warehouse premises (in Redfern I think) and was glue-sealed into pay envelopes, which had your name and details printed Gestetner-like on the outside. The envelopes were delivered every Thursday fortnight by armoured vehicle to the pay office; our pay office was locked, with security bars everywhere, you couldn't just walk in and out. In the film at least 2 people are supervising the distribution - as there always had to be a witness, and each envelope is signed out. You can see a worker holding a ripped-open envelope at 0:16, he is checking the contents against the amount printed on the outside. My envelopes often contained coins as well as notes. The bummer with being paid in cash was, you had to get to the bank in your lunch hour and queue (along with all the wage-earners of Sydney) as you didn't want to risk carrying a fortnight's wages in your pocket all the time. You might lose it, for starters. You probably were trying to save up anyway. You had to judge how much cash to hang onto for your fortnightly expenses, and if you were going out on the weekend, you might have to dash to the bank on Friday lunchtime to withdraw some more -- as there were no ATMs, so no cash available on the weekend. This is why many people kept a stash of cash in their homes. Which meant that break-ins were more prevalent in those days; robbers knew that homes had cash. I have lost YEARS of my life, including untold lunch-hours, standing in queues at banks - and at counters paying for my electricity, water gas, phone, rent etc. I don' miss the stress of the old cash economy one bit.
As a young guy living in Sydney at this time, I was not an Aussie, but really enjoyed the place, this is gold.
When Australia was still Australian.
Yes, minus the millions of lawless, lazy welfare recipients// 'aka' -- evil, problematic imports..With archaic, dangerous beliefs..I miss my beautiful, peaceful, thriving Australia, from decades ago..We are now very unlucky indeed..
I shunted at darling harbour, 1980-1982, day & night,in the rain. Damn dangerous. dangerour
Shunters were the band of the brave.
*Darling Harbour sure looks nothing like that these days*
Here is a little information about the opening scene which is something you will never see again. The guys are lining up to be paid . . . . . in cash. Plastic cards and ATMs did not exist in them thar days.
Um, yes, i remember it well...
A few years after this was shot, as a kid, I visited Sydney from the country on a family trip. Due to Mum's dodgy map reading, we wound up at the helipad at Pyrmont Pt, where Pirrama Park is now. My sister and I begged and pleaded and my parents paid the grand sum of $25 each for us to have a scenic flight over the CBD (a very large sum for us in those days). It must have been after 1981 as we hovered in amazement next to Centerpoint Tower. I can still remember that event and now after living in Sydney for almost 40 years, have witnessed some immense change. Thank you for the great footage! Much appreciated. Cheers - Dave
Aberdeen Grain fed beef on the side of the containers, I live only a few hundred metres from the old Aberdeen Meat works, it was the main employer back then.
Glad your still with us cobber, you have a fantastic year.
NSW Railways where a world of their own , lots of characters, surprised someone filmed this😊
Worked there in 1983, quite an experience
Cool we push pull shunt and 2 way radios
I very much remember the rail goods yard at Darling Harbour. I also remember the virtually permanent oil slick on the water. Unloading ships into barges, then floating cargo around Sydney Harbour to the relevant wharves. The trucks coming and going.Hearing Marxist rhetoric from wharfies at the waterfront. I was a watchman on a ship moored down there.
glad you're still with us cobber, have a fantastic year.
@@R0d_1984 I live in eternal hope that I become the first human to crack the 200yo barrier, and full expect to be around for the next 10 to 20 years, at least. I wonder, however, how well the people in the video have weathered the storms. Some won't be with us any more sadly.
All scottish ACDC😂😂😂
I bet they are not even wearing sunscreen.
sunscreen is toxic, those chemical aren't good for you. I spent most of my life at the beach, worse sunscreen 3-4 times in my life.
So many misguided “good old days “ comments and so many xenophobic comments as well. Australia is a much better place now.
I think that what’s happens when you get old mate
They were better times and people worked hard and got on with each other..There's too many dangerous, defective imports now..That don't work or contribute..We're no longer the lucky country, the politicians have allowed this chaos and destruction..
@@nicolelillis2077 thank you for proving my point.
@@StephenJohnson-jb7xe You've proved what I already suspected of you 👉💩🧠..Loss through apathy and denial will be richly deserved..Reap what you sow..
@@StephenJohnson-jb7xe Unfortunately, you have proved what I suspected of you ➡️💩🧠....
What a joy for this video to be tossed up. Spent hours sketching the locomotives & industrial landscapes in the late 60 ‘s & 70’s in Darling Harbour & Pyrmont.Sydney was much smaller infused with character & filled with Aussies not afraid to celebrate Australia Day.
Australia was indescribably awesome back then; then one day you wake up and it's fucked.
@@R0d_1984 So true!
It's not that I don't want to celebrate Australia. But I want aboriginal Australians to be able to celebrate as well. And the date is associated with devastation for them. You have to recognise that. So changing the date is really very trivial and acknowledging of the genocide that Aboriginals suffered and are continuing to struggle with. I wanted to reply directly so you can at least hear from one person what the mindset is.
@@mrdavidurquhart I don't care.
They all went on to be AC/DC roadies in 1979...
Workplace seems stacked with British accents!!!
I wonder why.... sheesh mate.
These guys look and sound like the guys from ACDC
Needs more diversity
To the rose coloured glasses wearers: This was also when people drove drunk and without seatbelts, and cigarette smoke and car exhaust was everywhere, and no one cared about domestic violence, and priests/teachers were pedophiles without a care, and immigrants and gays were treated like jokes.
No permits to work back then. Nowadays you can have a shit in the workplace without getting a permit. Glad I’m 2 years away from retirement
No ppe, no hi vis ..
Just brain cells are needed most of the time....
Blue collar heros! Amazing how manual tasks have now been automated. Thought that Sheila with the blond hear hair had some nice legs… 🙈😂 Work, health and safety bureaucrats must be having a heart attack watching this! 😂😂
NASA obviously had first pick
I have to say I have heard such thick Aussie accents like that in the wild in years.
SAFETY lol
Did my aircraft engineering apprenticeship at ultimo college, we used to explore the Darling harbour area in our lunch break viewing the early 1980s transformation construction, when it was first converted to an entertainment area in the mid 1980s all us boy's used to come in from the suburbs on a Friday/Saturday night, those thunderbolt beers at the pump house were potent!! still it was a safe area with good times to be had. Australia/Sydney has changed in so many ways from this video, wish I could say for all the better.
Very rare for bad shit to happen, you'd really have to fvck someone off to get smashed.
The young girls today think they invented the short short look. Ha😂😂😂😂
Beautiful. Not a single fucking tourist in sight!
And not a beautiful tourist sight to see...hahaha.
Hasn't changed a bit!
sarcasm
nice to see actual Australians again.
Do you mean aboriginals? I didn't see many in this documentary.
Well, times change and we have become very "multicultural". In many ways it's a good thing but there are certainly numerous ugly sides (that noone is allowed to mention). Personally, I find it sad to see parts of our "Aussie" culture being eroded.
@@deldridg Being of the same period as you, I'm really not sure what parts of the 'Aussie' culture you're talking about. You must mean the stuff that was handed and altered from Britain, because the only 'culture' Australia ever had, was being lethargic, laidback, uncultured, smokers, sexist, racist and being extremely reactive towards anything untraditional. Egalitarianism could be said, but that's only if you were a traditional, white and male. Australia is far more accepting and knowledgeable than it used to be and I for one am glad of it
we'd see Australian aboriginals if they were working there
@@freeman10000 Hahahaha, BOOM!!!
You could buy a house in sydney working these jobs and pay it off quick. Before the globalists got there dirty fingers on sydney.
Just got back from traveling around Japan I ended up feeling really bad for Australia as in every town or city and every port or harbour in Japan there is factories and heavy industry and cities full of companies of commerce.yes I know there economic issues are there but those the infrastructure just waiting for the good times to return let’s hope they have the population to run there massive industrial infrastructure. Where we have very little anything and what we do have is resources and we are giving them away to the rest of the world at next to nothing.
Yep, commies, fabian socialist and freemasons is the cause...