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  • These blokes at the pub discuss the rising prices of beer and spirits in 1975. #RetroFocus
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  • @MuscleBandit
    @MuscleBandit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Fascinating. As a 36yr old bloke in the UK in 2022 I can say that we wouldn't have any issues relating with these guys. Imagine explaining today's hyperinflation to them and how the cost of living is extortionate all the while sinking as many pints as you can!

  • @AusFeral23
    @AusFeral23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    Bring back the 33 cents a schooner BLOODY OUTSTANDING 🍺🇦🇺👍

  • @abhisekroy6430
    @abhisekroy6430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Aussies are the best simple humble humors uncomplicated people Very Gentlemenly 💚 we would probably never get back this Class nowadays.

  • @cronulla70
    @cronulla70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    They tried to charge me just over $10 for a schooner on Easter Sunday with public Holliday surcharges factored in, absolute disgrace & the service isn’t nearly as good as it once was

  • @FunnyCatVidzz
    @FunnyCatVidzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The first bloke said he only drinks schooners and he’s holding a can

  • @williammohan9784
    @williammohan9784 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    you just gotta love the Aussies, bless them all

  • @ruairijoseph
    @ruairijoseph 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great to have nothing else to worry about

  • @paulgilson2347
    @paulgilson2347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Gotta love the Aussies

  • @nathanfoster2679
    @nathanfoster2679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Whinging about beer prices then me in 2021 hold my beer :D

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It was so obvious that Australia and New Zealand where new countries. I don't mean that in any negative way. From a western way of living to a way that was alien to us, like accents and words and sayings, and certin values. A lot of similarities and some differences .

  • @absoluteb22
    @absoluteb22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Could be wrong, but that looks like Wooloomooloo.

  • @phillipr1334
    @phillipr1334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    29 cents Christi can remember $2 $8.70 now for a South Aussie pint

  • @darylcumming7119
    @darylcumming7119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A different time.

  • @AndrewSmart1960
    @AndrewSmart1960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow there are some real rocket scientists here lol

  • @duncanpill
    @duncanpill 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Seeing these guys explains a few things ha ha

  • @AB-sv5rf
    @AB-sv5rf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool bananas

  • @belcher2484
    @belcher2484 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This reporter was a bit clumsy.

  • @Ishidanfarded2370
    @Ishidanfarded2370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Labor voters complaining about grog prices going up..

  • @deanwitt7903
    @deanwitt7903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Very likely all those guys have passed now . I hope they had good lives and enjoyed there time at the pubs back when life was more simple .

  • @RobB-vz2vo
    @RobB-vz2vo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    This is outside the Tilbury Hotel in Wooloomooloo. Glimpses of the Finger Wharf can be seen in the background. There were many wharfies and tradesmen from the nearby wharves and Naval Dockyards rehydrating after a hard day's work. As a 10 -11-year-old paperboy, I used to sell newspapers in the four pubs in the area in 1972-73 (Dockyard, pubs, the roadway, home deliveries. The drunks used to help me sell my papers in the pub to the rowdy patrons. They didn't spare the tips neither. In 1973 I got around $5 in tips per day and $15 from commission per week from paper/magazine sales working seven days {4 hrs morning and 4 hrs afternoon). $50 earnings per week back then is equivalent to $500, factoring in inflation. Not bad earnings, but I was ripped off, seeing that I worked 56 hrs for it. My brother earned similarly

    • @lloydchristmas2326
      @lloydchristmas2326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thanks for sharing that enjoyed the read, I myself am from Sydney too

    • @brendanmaloney8487
      @brendanmaloney8487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was wondering where it was thanks .

    • @midnightspares
      @midnightspares 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Great historical comment Robert. Love to read comments like yours. You were selling papers when l was born mate. When l was in my teens, l use to do the local paper and catalog rounds while my mate sold the newspaper down the local pub. It was a great time.

  • @nidzdotnet76
    @nidzdotnet76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Ask some pissed Aussies if they like paying more for beer... Ok then...

  • @Pete-z6e
    @Pete-z6e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Dish these boys up a craft beer and stand well back.

  • @gusgould4420
    @gusgould4420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I think the work experience kid was on the camera duty

  • @simeonorive145
    @simeonorive145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Imagine teleporting these blokes to 2021 interview them after a couple of hours acclimatizing themselves.

  • @DrDavelope
    @DrDavelope ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Interesting choice to interview these gents 10 schooners in!

  • @danieltruman3501
    @danieltruman3501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Omg how times change 29c for a middy 2021 nearly ten bucks for a beer haha

  • @philipthomson7460
    @philipthomson7460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Wonder how many of those blokes drove home later on....?

    • @deandannoun8100
      @deandannoun8100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Looks like a city pub , trams buses prob , ahem cough cough

  • @howlinblues
    @howlinblues 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The Older Blokes would be X World War 2 guys

  • @billymack333
    @billymack333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I arrived in Oz in 89...a schooner was 1.70 to 1.90 fast forward 32 years you’re looking at $7-10...these blokes really didn’t know how lucky they were...and old Mr Cigarettes...he’d have been paying about 60c a packet of 20s for a decent Australian grown and made cigarette...nowadays 2021 +35 a pack and rising 12% every 6 months for the foreseeable future.
    Let’s do some math : 1975 10 schooners and 10 smokes = 3.30 + 30 = 3.60
    2021 10 schooners and 10 smokes = 80.00 + 17.50 = 97.50
    SORRY BOYS...YOU REALLY DON’T NO HOW LUCKY YOU ARE !!

  • @controloz3310
    @controloz3310 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    “My names John Downey, whaddya want to know?” *fixes him with what he thinks is a challenging stare* Ah the belligerence of someone who has had a few too many.

  • @pedlerde7
    @pedlerde7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    They’re all pissed! 🙃

  • @buddyrojek9417
    @buddyrojek9417 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All those men drinking and getting things off their chest. Now men they sit at home alone and smoke meth .

  • @sreach93
    @sreach93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Shooting fish in a barrel....a sober ABC employee interviewing semi drunk patrons.

  • @lughlamhfada2523
    @lughlamhfada2523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Whoa whoa whoa, you can be a beer baron? My high school guidance counselor never told me that.

  • @shaneo5436
    @shaneo5436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The old steel KB cans! From another world

  • @chrisF351
    @chrisF351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    They all sound abit tipsy🤣.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    29c for a beer sounds pretty reasonable to me, even for 1975.

  • @simon_patterson
    @simon_patterson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Looks like tv reporting hasn't got any better or worse for a very long time. Clearly it's always been crap.

  • @deandannoun8100
    @deandannoun8100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Ahh those were the days empty schooner glasses on the sidewalk , was very normal back then lol

  • @rosshitchen-ij6en
    @rosshitchen-ij6en 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When Australia was great.The 80's were awsome as well.

  • @willr1820
    @willr1820 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    now they charge 12-15 bucks for a pint at standard pubs, even more at some fancy places

  • @trianglehat6994
    @trianglehat6994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "I'll get you beer baron". Homer: "no, you won't".

  • @RobertFlynn-i4h
    @RobertFlynn-i4h 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I started to go to the pub in 1975, it was a great way of life, beer was cheap, i remember it going up from 27 cents, to 33 cents a schooner, you could go to the pub with $2 and drink 6 schooners here on the south coast nsw, the best i can get a schooner for is $5.90 but the average in the clubs is $7.20 with a members discount, the greedy government puts the price up on beer every six months, what a bloody disgrace

  • @ronanrogers4127
    @ronanrogers4127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    33 cents a schooner...my local charges $12 a pint nowadays.

  • @miyagitonto
    @miyagitonto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These old buggers don't know how good they had it. In my day, 33cents gets you bugger all.

  • @6364ize
    @6364ize 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Interesting ....but probably some of the worst interviews I've ever seen.

  • @karlcx
    @karlcx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    irony is i bet you cant get a beer in the woolloomooloo area now for less than $10 for a schooner.

  • @Brittanys_Baby
    @Brittanys_Baby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The good old days !

  • @tomlendr3875
    @tomlendr3875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    drunks were asked if raising beer prices is a good thing, while they had a beer in their hand.

  • @ronhitler-barassi2624
    @ronhitler-barassi2624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    John Downey had it all figured out, where is he now?

  • @bretthogan333
    @bretthogan333 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the older guys sound like grandpa simpson

  • @43scout74
    @43scout74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This whole video has sweaty palm energy

  • @13infbatt
    @13infbatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    John Howard ,increasing the cost of grog and taking away guns, bloody wet blanket...

  • @stephen6279
    @stephen6279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Fascinating demographic. Do you know what time of day this was taken?

  • @Allnewsweb
    @Allnewsweb 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Back then I was a child. I remember passing pubs with these men drinking there and finding them terrifying. I can see now why. They were indeed rough as guts.

  • @capitainebonhomme1609
    @capitainebonhomme1609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Agree 29c for a middy is too much

  • @the.parks.of.no.return
    @the.parks.of.no.return 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    They had no idea what was coming

  • @jamielehn6926
    @jamielehn6926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Woolloomooloo! Finger wharf in the background

  • @adeh503
    @adeh503 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I reckon the first bloke would last about 5 minutes in a British pub

  • @ripme6616
    @ripme6616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Not on your life'🍻this hasn't aged well

  • @pauliejay4161
    @pauliejay4161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:28 - damn - he's at a pub an drinking out of a can...?

  • @trevorbourke3627
    @trevorbourke3627 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    the cost of grog in our beautiful drunk soked country is to high just to wet the whistle . i payed $50 bux for a sixer of jim beam can's this year in Newcastle i nearly fell over in shoke, and dont get me started about happy hourdo you know just how much they make in that short time its ridiculous. they take advantage of the hard working ozzy puting pubs on just about every corner. at first they sell it cheaply then once they have a hold on you they put the prices up, who do you think payed for most of the sport we watch, back in the mid 80's. wich wasnt a good look for sport so they stoped getting sponsorship for it and they had to withdraw all alcohol payed events, witch didnt go down well with the alcohol drinker's.

  • @panarba9485
    @panarba9485 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Labor government now charges you $12 for a schooner in 2024 , how's everyone feeling about that?
    $6 for a loaf of bread and 199.5 for petrol.

  • @howlinblues
    @howlinblues 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Resches Beer ....Tooheys Flag Ale Beer....DA Beer...KB Beer...Courage Beer....

  • @watleythewizard2381
    @watleythewizard2381 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    29cents for a middie!

  • @the_tersorium
    @the_tersorium 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mr Downing has had a couple of schooeys, I'd suggest.

  • @adamkane5205
    @adamkane5205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The peer pressure to conform.

  • @musco71
    @musco71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It would be nice if the location could be included in the description!

  • @damianmcwilliams2371
    @damianmcwilliams2371 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looks like They still think the pubs gonna shut at 6pm

  • @tasmaniancaptain7768
    @tasmaniancaptain7768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeh looks like Woolloomooloo where Harry's cafe is

  • @SoundAsleepSpace
    @SoundAsleepSpace 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    these guys are clueless about economics lol

  • @edwardstroud8245
    @edwardstroud8245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hugh Jackman’s Dad 😆

  • @gnarlythetoyotacoasterbusa4089
    @gnarlythetoyotacoasterbusa4089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The bar tenders don’t get enough to put up with this mob

  • @jockmctodger
    @jockmctodger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Old mate's got the knowin'

  • @TheEarthHistorysConfusing
    @TheEarthHistorysConfusing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0.29 cents for a middie. What's the cost now?.

  • @WILDSTYLEVOLATILE
    @WILDSTYLEVOLATILE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bloke at 2:37 is earl from my name is earl

  • @howlinblues
    @howlinblues 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cowper Wharf Road The Loo...Worked there myself at 5a Cowper Wharf Rd worked for Hogan Strang Wool Dumps there today a parking Station for cars opposite was Commonwealth Government Car Hire Fleets behind it The Stair Well from Victoria St to Cowper Wharf Rd...up the Road Frisco Hotel early opener 5am opens

  • @davidfenton9813
    @davidfenton9813 ปีที่แล้ว

    Use to work there Wool Dumps 1975 Cowper Wharf Road Right next to the Stairwell from Victoria St to Cowper Wharf Rd opposite Commonwealth Car Fleet Government Fleet Hire Cars

  • @noonespecial4171
    @noonespecial4171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crikey .. Aussie men

  • @abc-ke2yq
    @abc-ke2yq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cheer's

  • @forwhatitsworth364
    @forwhatitsworth364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Back in the day when people trusted the government. *Wake up Australia!*

  • @sambriggs2159
    @sambriggs2159 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Most probably drove home afterwards

  • @robertcameron2808
    @robertcameron2808 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A good 👍 little video.

  • @megamindtvsydney3967
    @megamindtvsydney3967 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    They didn’t fight hard enough.

  • @steveboy7302
    @steveboy7302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    first

  • @barrygiddey9139
    @barrygiddey9139 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Classic video 🍺

  • @tamabrightwell4536
    @tamabrightwell4536 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Arh the patriotism...🤣

  • @msnadiak
    @msnadiak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What pub was this filmed at?

    • @Noticeofintentto
      @Noticeofintentto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      That is the Tilbury Hotel at Woolloomooloo. You can see Finger Wharf in the background. Its now some of Sydney's most expensive real estate and restraunts. By '75 the area was in decline as a working dock, but there was still industry in the area and working class people. They are pretty much both gone now. The pub still exists as a bit of a gastro-pub, kind of please these blokes wouldn't be seen dead in.

  • @erikskywalker5331
    @erikskywalker5331 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Moustaches are damn cool.

  • @stephenmorris3696
    @stephenmorris3696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    why couldn't people speak back then?

  • @flamencoprof
    @flamencoprof 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back then I was a young man with long hair who avoided these types like the plague. They were narrow-minded and ignorant, quick to rubbish anyone who didn't share their limited world-view, and probably a danger to themselves and others on their way home.

  • @dt-ip8gf
    @dt-ip8gf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Nonsense talk from Alcoholism