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Wasn’t there a wild life safari park near dreamworld in the late 70s/ealry 80s?

What about the big cow north of gympie ???

Great video! I went to almost all of those places. Tops was amazing! I think it was $12 and you could go on all of the rides all day. My Mum has mentioned a mini zoo within the Brisbane Botanical gardens many years back.

Ahh Amazons. Those were the days.

Loved Tops when I was a kid! The dragon coaster and a jungle theme playground was always a highlight of going into Queen St

And the ekka

Samford Grass Ski Park used the name Adventureland, but was NOT ĺocated at Mt O'Reilly Road - it was just off Eaton's Crossing Road north of Samford Village. It did not adopt the name until well after the original Adventureland closed.

Thanks for doing this . Quite nostalgic . Went to Adventureland a few times in my school days .

Remember the rollercoaster in the roof of Queen st Mall?

Nice work mate

koala town???

I'm surprised no mention was made of The Plantation at Capalaba West (now part of Chandler).

Warrego water park was awesome

The Ferny Grove Waterslides were called ‘Rainbow Valley’. The Woolshed was built later adjacent to Rainbow Valley. Originally Rainbow Valley had two slides. The first was pretty slow but the 2nd had a steep incline and was briefly the fastest waterslide in the southern hemisphere. They later added the third slide which had the habit of spitting people out on a particular corner (I still have the scars).

I worked as a ride attendant during expo 88. It was a dream job.

Would love to see one covering the old video arcades like Playtime & Timezone in a similar fashion.

I remember Wild Waters at Logan had awesome slides . We would arch our backs so only our shoulders, elbow and ankles would touch the slide and we would absolutely fly down!

I really enjoyed that. I love how much history our city has

Thanks again for another fantastic trip down memory lane, and also for some education!😊

Brilliant video mate. Been a SEQ resident my whole life and have always loved theme parks. Never knew half of these places you showed existed! I look forward to the next video, and look forward to the inevitable coverage of magic Mountain on the Gold Coast. Never got to go there, but I did go on the chairlift.... after it was relocated to dreamworld after it's closure!. Keep up the excellent work!

The Woolshed always seemed like a fever dream to be. I was once when I was in primary school, remember having to go down the slides in my school clothes because we weren't told there were slides. I got a sandwich bag of freshly shaved wool to take home and I had it for a couple of years until I had to throw it out. I could rarely find any information about the place when googling and whenever I asked someone about the place, they remember it existing and maybe even visiting but couldn't remember anything other than that.

I remember the Warrego Waterslide in Haigslea. The big tube slides were a stand-out feature from the Warrego Highway.

Any parks we've forgotten? Where was somewhere in Brisbane (or surrounds) you used to visit during the summertime when you were growing up?

A small part of Ferny Groves Woolshed waterslides is set up in a backyard on Lilley Rd Cashmere. Loved the Amazons footage. Thanks for the great info and Merry Christmas to you!!

I'd totally for gotten about Scarborough Fun Fair until I saw the photos.

Great video! Bunya Park was a smaller wildlife park on the Northside. It had koalas, dingoes, emus, wombats, kangaroos etc... plus a maze near the carpark. Kumbartcho Sanctuary & Nursery is now in its place.

Great video.

Awesome Mate, Takes me back..The woolshed at ferny grove was cool as well.

What a great flash back have a great xmas!

Good flashbacks. Have a lovely Christmas mate!👍

👍 good reporting

Well put together, thank you. :)

2 of my slides are at the 9.28 & 9.43 marks. Good to see an acknowledgement in the end titles.

good stuff

How interesting.

Brisbane needs a subway train system. The geology of Brisbane is suitable. I have travelled on subways in London, Tokyo, Taipei, and Singapore. These are very efficient public transport systems.

One extra piece that survives today... The building that was the Queensland Pavilion was relocated to Mackenzie on the southside of Brisbane and repurposed to the Gateway Baptist Church. You can still make out some of the original graphics that were on the outside of the Pavilion, albeit extremely faded now.

Me and my twin sister had a birthday party here. It was so fun. Even the purple bear came out on stage and sang us happy birthday 🎉❤😂 another video topic you might want to cover is the old south bank with the rivers and mini ferries maybe...

According to my friend the Brisbane metro has harder seats than on buses and also the onboard voiceover thingy mabob is voiced by the mum from bluey

Woombye and Gympie are only about an hour’s drive apart. That part of River Road in Gympie was known more by it’s other name (the Bruce Highway) until recently when the Gympie bypass was opened. Having been lucky enough to have been in both pineapples I would say the Woombye pineapple was more spacious and had easier access to the good views from the top. It was sad to see the Gympie pineapple go though. Do you know there once was a big cow beside the highway in between the pineapples as well? 😂

Loved the guinness in a bucket!!!

I seen kyle & donovan sing especially for you , johnny sang your the voice , sadie & others. The rollarcoaster was popular everyone went there. It was closed cause the wanted to sell the land & sell off the goods.

Community TV needs to come back. Stupid Turdbull ruined it.

I miss Community TV here in Sydney. When I heard Malcolm Turdbull announcing he was shutting it down, I was pissed. I hope it comes back.

Thank you for making the video. It is lovely to know more about Brisbane's history. I visit Nudgee very often and never knew there was an old suburb nearby.