1974 Royal Melbourne Show.

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  • Footage of the 1974 Royal Melbourne Show.
    Production by the Education Department of Victoria, photography by Ivan Gaal and Frank Sheeran, recording David Hughes, excerpt sourced from the short film Round and Around courtesy of the ACMI collection.
    Editing by Gezza1967.
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  • @Gezza1967
    @Gezza1967  2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Production by the Education Department of Victoria, photography by Ivan Gaal and Frank Sheeran, recording David Hughes, excerpt sourced from the short film Round and Around courtesy of the ACMI collection. I just did the editing.

  • @frankpalermo3882
    @frankpalermo3882 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It's good to see videos like this ,a more pleasurable time of life compared to the unpleasant times of today.

  • @MrAtlas40
    @MrAtlas40 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Miller shirts and the Holden Driving Team! Great days!

    • @MrButtonpresser
      @MrButtonpresser ปีที่แล้ว

      You just HAD to have a Miller Shirt back then! 😂

  • @johnclifford1537
    @johnclifford1537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    There are probably not many under 40 watching this, but if you are it may surprise you to know that the Thursday ( 2 days before Grand Final ) was the Royal Show Day public holiday. It was abolished under Jeff Kennett and the last one was 1993. It was a mean and petty decision as the day was very much for family and friends.

    • @brendanengland8385
      @brendanengland8385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Kennett was and still is a scumbag.
      Sold off All the good stuff

    • @QIKUGAMES-QIKU
      @QIKUGAMES-QIKU 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another damn Freemason Scum just like these Traitors Killing us now ! GOVERNOR GENERAL ISSUED ARREST WARRANTS TWICE SINCE MAY 1st 2020 FOR ALL LOCKDOWN POLITICIANS IN AUSTRALIA INCLUDING SCOTT MORRISON ! Google it and see the Video's and proof of Dan Andrews on the Run when the Police were hiding him and suddenly he "went to Hospital" remember ? That's the exact time

    • @andyrob3259
      @andyrob3259 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Totally agree. The old ‘business lost money’ argument which of course totally ignores that everyone on holiday usual spend money on meals, cinema and other leisure time this that made up for it. I see he didn’t get rid of the establishment holiday, Cup Day. He also got rid of Easter Tuesday.

    • @johnclifford1537
      @johnclifford1537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@andyrob3259 It was a personal slap in the face to me Andy. Every year on the Wednesday night my company went to the Mitre Tavern and gave out the footy tipping prizes which was half the total collected. The other half went on the bar. It was a great night - attended by big bosses, young ,/ old, girls who knew nothing about footy and a lot of people often said it was their Work social highlight of the year, better than the Xmas Party. I still have great memories of the night even 30 years after the forces of darkness ended it 30 years ago

    • @debbieanne7962
      @debbieanne7962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kennett closed my sons school. He couldn't settle at another high school. Sold off all the states assets

  • @davidmartin1015
    @davidmartin1015 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This was around the time a lot of country people gave up on the Melbourne show and instead started to attend agricultural field days instead. What we noticed was that every year there would be a few less truly rural sites and that the show was slowly becoming a city-centric carnival . Some of us just wanted to see things that rural people could relate to. Davox.

  • @catwic
    @catwic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Miller shirts galore!

    • @NewFalconerRecords
      @NewFalconerRecords 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The nighttime crowd would've been more Conti Cardigans, I'd imagine.

    • @debbieanne7962
      @debbieanne7962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That was the first thing I noticed

  • @TheCleaner76
    @TheCleaner76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Back when people watched the entertainment and not on their phones

  • @derek5168
    @derek5168 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Back then it was a once a year treat and privilege to go to the royal Melbourne show and go on a few rides and a couple of showbags

  • @blakeadam8168
    @blakeadam8168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Miller’s shirts were popular that year.

    • @danrobinson572
      @danrobinson572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How about cardigans

    • @garynewton1263
      @garynewton1263 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes and what about those sandals with the rubber tyre treads, I think they called them 'Treads'?

  • @KM-qd4kf
    @KM-qd4kf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A few years before this I saw Max Merritt & the meteors. They turned me on to the Blues which has been a lifelong love

  • @deancooper6300
    @deancooper6300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    1974, the year i was born, but i definitely remember those trains in the late 70's👍🇦🇺

    • @TheCleaner76
      @TheCleaner76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Notice the smoking carriage at the start

  • @Kynrin22
    @Kynrin22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mum always bought me a " fairy on a stick" lovely memories.

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh yeah, I remember them and the old Cupie dolls, too. 😄

  • @gelignite664
    @gelignite664 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great clip mate. Back before the show grew commercialized. I still recall show bags being free samples of products. Good times 😁😁😁

    • @Circlotron
      @Circlotron 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was plenty commercialized even back then. I'm the same age as those kids getting off the train at the start.

  • @nhilltiger
    @nhilltiger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved the Show in the 60s/70s, just the greatest day it, but be careful not get lost and separated from your parents!

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      We always made plans, if any of us got lost, to meet back up at the big 😜old 4 and Twenty pie stand.

  • @nordic2112
    @nordic2112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've never seen so many Miller shirts in one film

  • @raybrookevisnorris346
    @raybrookevisnorris346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Everyone skinny there.

  • @Borella309
    @Borella309 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Miller Shirts! (I had a deep yellow shirt with golden thread through it).

  • @vinorob
    @vinorob 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Look at all those Miller shirts

  • @woodstock69girl55
    @woodstock69girl55 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wished people could of filmed geelong.

  • @darylcumming7119
    @darylcumming7119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks.

  • @andyrob3259
    @andyrob3259 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Used to be taken to the CWA tea rooms for lunch, around the cake comp displays (which actually were quite interesting). Great days.

    • @KingFahtah
      @KingFahtah ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CWA scones were the best scones in the world.

  • @austingreenough6396
    @austingreenough6396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Brings back memories.
    Thanks for your video

  • @mce_AU
    @mce_AU 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That video contained a lot of Bull.

  • @leecontarino5465
    @leecontarino5465 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ahh the year I was born,take me back..

  • @corymotta17
    @corymotta17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the memories, felt fantastic, cheers from Melbourne

  • @nicethings2070
    @nicethings2070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Born in 74. Was at the show in 80 to get a Chips TV Show bag. Complete with fake plastic gun and handcuffs. Photographic memory.

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I was born the year after.
      But I also vividly remember going in 1980 and getting a Wonder Woman showbag, and my brother getting Spiderman. 😜

  • @danrobinson572
    @danrobinson572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good 👍 video

  • @supercededman
    @supercededman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow. Fond memories. Thankyou.

  • @leongt1954
    @leongt1954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My mum use to take up to the show and we had to sit and watch the boring parades of all the cows and stuff like in the vid before we got to go on any rides

    • @billsmith281
      @billsmith281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought it was only my mum who made us do that!

    • @hanajinks1044
      @hanajinks1044 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Lolll,...so true!!

  • @QIKUGAMES-QIKU
    @QIKUGAMES-QIKU 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Feeling Old... And no way we were this Dorky ! 😂🤣

  • @jadug3305
    @jadug3305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Each HQ is now worth a packet!

    • @garynewton1263
      @garynewton1263 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't know why though, very ugly. HZs were nice.

  • @daniellebcooper7160
    @daniellebcooper7160 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:11 LOL Who didn't have a Miller shirt back then?.

  • @garynewton1263
    @garynewton1263 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Grouse. I went with family or friends from.around 1976.
    I remember when we went in 77 and it was a saturday and my team Collingwood drew with Nth Melb in the GF.
    I loved the Showgrounds train.
    I always looked out for the Bertie Beetle showbag and the Magic show bag too.

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My Mum chucked a massive wobbly in 1980 when Collingwood lost the GF that year, and she said, "That's it, we're going home".
      I started to cry because I wanted to stay on go on at least one more ride, but Mum grabbed me and my brother by the hand and we were outta there. 😂

  • @stephen6279
    @stephen6279 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gazza, my hero

  • @jumbo6009
    @jumbo6009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    wonderful times....what happened????

  • @TheNomad2727
    @TheNomad2727 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    lol a man with a cigarette in his mouth handing out baloons to the kids

    • @TheCleaner76
      @TheCleaner76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Typical Carni 😂

    • @thespamdance311
      @thespamdance311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kings among men!

    • @ChaserHoon
      @ChaserHoon 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The good ole days

  • @kerrykelaher2607
    @kerrykelaher2607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    " what about the show bags for the kiddies ( glory days to enjoy not like todays " royal fuck up" )

  • @grahambibby8446
    @grahambibby8446 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back when you could actually move around and enjoy the Show…

  • @johnpro2847
    @johnpro2847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    side shows were a bit more ' edgy'' in the 1960's with Jimmy shaman's boxing troupe and the half man half woman and ring of death motor bike cage.
    There was also La Vessa the undresser ..who the young teens used to love.
    All the 'good stuff' was banned in later years as the show became 'more proper'

    • @cudgee7144
      @cudgee7144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The funniest one i remember was the tent with the " Man Eating Fish ". We could not get out money out quick enough, all cash in them days, and when you got inside there was a bloke sitting on a stool on the stage eating a piece of flake. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Those old show men were just too clever.🤡

    • @mvnorsel6354
      @mvnorsel6354 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The half man/woman has been normalised since this film. Lol

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I think many of the country folk were not happy about all the other entertainment that was put on in the arena, too.
      They wanted the centre arena kept mostly for themselves and showing off their animals.

  • @darkangel2347
    @darkangel2347 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you know that since the early 1970's over 97% of theme parks have vanished for good? Only corporate run places (ie Disneyland, Universal, etc) and metropolitan and country shows (state fairs in the USA) exist now.

    • @hanajinks1044
      @hanajinks1044 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Very interesting comment, and also very sad to hear.

  • @Circlotron
    @Circlotron 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely HATED getting dragged through those smelly animal pavilions by my parents.

    • @ChaserHoon
      @ChaserHoon 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't you like the smell of piss and shit

    • @hanajinks1044
      @hanajinks1044 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I love your comment - so true!!

  • @jackstorm9080
    @jackstorm9080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great to c only white aussies

  • @dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173
    @dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Everyone is skinny.

  • @billsmith281
    @billsmith281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back k in the day before they reduced the arena size to a 20 cent piece!

  • @nkelly.9
    @nkelly.9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Amazing stuff Gezza. Where do ya come up with this gold from?

  • @derhampaul2182
    @derhampaul2182 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When show bags were 10 cents

    • @hanajinks1044
      @hanajinks1044 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I remember going to the Show in the 70s and it felt like we were getting a good deal with a Showbag..

  • @angiefav1847
    @angiefav1847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The show bags were full of goodies in those days it was a day for the family and kids sadly greed crept in all you got for your money at the end was adds paper some comics.in those show bag after all that was the high light of the day. We all stop going it got to expensive

    • @billsmith281
      @billsmith281 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah I remember the cans of drink youd get in showbags were usually rejects without any pull tab to open them.

  • @philhudson...5017
    @philhudson...5017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah keeping things real, great times, meet u next to the big M.....

    • @billsmith281
      @billsmith281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or next to the giant pie!

    • @philhudson...5017
      @philhudson...5017 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@billsmith281 Good day's Bill.... 👌 🇦🇨

  • @hanajinks1044
    @hanajinks1044 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lol, l think 1974 might actually have been the Fist year l went to the Show - or perhaps 1975, can't exactly remember

  • @glenncrane1651
    @glenncrane1651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Blue trains big upgrade from red rattelers

    • @billsmith281
      @billsmith281 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah lots of extra asbestos!

  • @jackmag4056
    @jackmag4056 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:08 uncle Arthur 😂😂😂😂

  • @harleyguy7
    @harleyguy7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Oh wow no one from the third world committing crimes Ah the Australia we used to love and enjoy 😁

    • @bernardmolan2976
      @bernardmolan2976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You'd be hard up finding many Australians in a crowd in Australia these days. We are indeed a dying breed because most of us are now single and we no longer want to have children. It's all hard work and 99% joyless.

    • @thespamdance311
      @thespamdance311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There was more crime back then than there is now.

    • @andyrob3259
      @andyrob3259 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thespamdance311 no. There was different crime. I can guarantee things do not get reported - I have friends within the police and there’s are dodgy things done with statistics these days. Underreporting; playing down crimes by certain groups to prevent outcries. We have big issues under the surface. Of course it’s not necessarily in every suburb and some are far better than others.

    • @jillsommerville7828
      @jillsommerville7828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thespamdance311 bullshit spam man

    • @mabiorcholappreciationpage
      @mabiorcholappreciationpage 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Back then it was just people of Western European descent committing crimes

  • @brandonlee1330
    @brandonlee1330 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Where the mad mouse 🤣😂

    • @jillsommerville7828
      @jillsommerville7828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah! Use to love that ride, scary! Memories

    • @johnd8892
      @johnd8892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Film of that on this channel.

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's what I was waiting to see in the video.
      Perhaps it came along in later years. It was certainly there by the late 70's.

  • @kings7man
    @kings7man ปีที่แล้ว

    the show now is not a patch on what it was back then

  • @bernardmolan2976
    @bernardmolan2976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think people who feel or say that the past were "the good old days" have extremely selective memories and have difficulty facing life as an adult and without being cared for by their parents.

    • @danrobinson572
      @danrobinson572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No my parents were awesome 👏 and always stuck by me as a little handful as a teenager. But my comment isn’t on anymore for some reason. I was born in 1973. And going up in America 🇺🇸 yeah we had problems I heard my parents talk about them. From gas prices and racial issues etc. watching the video and seeing the look on the kid’s faces and no cellphone just brings back good times. Don’t know how old you are but hopefully you had good times back than

    • @jillsommerville7828
      @jillsommerville7828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bernie your a stick in the mud

    • @danrobinson572
      @danrobinson572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jillsommerville7828 hahaha 🤣

    • @KM-qd4kf
      @KM-qd4kf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There was good & bad but I wouldn’t call them the best years of my life

    • @danrobinson572
      @danrobinson572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@KM-qd4kf well that’s was your life for me they were.

  • @katateo328
    @katateo328 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ag visa??

  • @leopoldonotarianni8663
    @leopoldonotarianni8663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What month

    • @odyssey814
      @odyssey814 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      September

    • @johnclifford1537
      @johnclifford1537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      For many years the Show finished on Grand Final Day.

    • @odyssey814
      @odyssey814 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnclifford1537 USED TO GET A PUBLIC HOLIDAY FOR SHOW TOO ,BUT CANT REMEMBEWR WHAT DAY IT WAS

    • @Ash1959
      @Ash1959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@odyssey814 Ran for 11-days with the holiday on the final Thursday.

  • @mvnorsel6354
    @mvnorsel6354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why hasn't anyone invented ' sugar free ' fairy floss ?

    • @billsmith281
      @billsmith281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Coz it tastes shit, lol

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@billsmith281
      🤣🤣🤣 Agree.
      Like most of the other so-called "sugar free" alternatives around nowadays.

  • @gregpies1649
    @gregpies1649 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    People walking around in t shirts and kids in shorts. This is in September so what happened to global warming considering September is pretty crappy the past few years.

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Bits and pieces of footage from just ONE single day in September 1974, and that's apparently enough to entirely dismiss what hundreds of scientists have been saying, along with farmers, coastal dwellers and so on, that are actually living with the effects of it. 🤦‍♀

  • @bucephulus4600
    @bucephulus4600 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dan Andrews was only 2, too young to stuff up this once great state.

    • @mabiorcholappreciationpage
      @mabiorcholappreciationpage 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kennett was just under 20 years away from fucking over Victoria for good

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Gawd, can't even read some great comments about people reminiscing on their young days at the show, without SOMEONE having to ALWAYS mention him.

  • @advanceaustralia3321
    @advanceaustralia3321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not a Chindian to be seen.

  • @dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173
    @dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Grouse.

  • @krakajak67
    @krakajak67 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I see fat cattle, but no fat people. What happened?

    • @mebeme007
      @mebeme007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Too many people eating all the fat cattle in burgers, kebabs, etc? 😜