We had a manufacturing industry in those days! Interesting to see the construction workers without any regard to safety - would never happen today. The identity of the man in the taxi and library bugged me, but I've looked him up - it was Kit Taylor.
@@neil2402 Yes, no hard hats or vest or harness walking along planks of wood with a ciggie. What attracted you about the man in the taxi? How did you find out who he was? When watching documentaries like this of this age I can't help but think and gauge if the people would still be alive today. I would say about 70% would be dead most people over 20 years of age in the doco would be dead. sounds grim but likely true. The amazing thing is that the video quality is so clear it's like they are with us in the present.
@@SydneyHistory The face looked familiar. With a lot of hard thinking(!), I realised it was the actor that played the dentist in Don's Party, so found the name from there. As to the video quality, it is an NFSA transfer so they've probably done some restoration.
its like looking at a completely different country, different people, different demographics, different value, different culture, different world. so sad we lost it forever...
In 1964 I started working in Sydney (I lived at Arncliffe) as an apprentice electrician in the lift (elevator) industry. Every building, every location, and probably every bus and train in this doco, is familiar to me. Watching the construction of the AMP building, seeing it grow week after week, is one of the powerful memories I have of this period in my life.
That is what I am lamenting more than anything also, I was just saying today “we produce nothing anymore”… Sydney looks so beautiful in this video. I’m 48, caught the tail end of this growing up. Sydney has changed and not for the better. The people have changed and as the narrator says, the people make the city.
blame no one. The cost of labour was one of the highest in the world. And nowadays anyone is just in the trades and construction, they are still paid as one of the highest in the world.
My dad used to tell me when he was a young man, before I was born, there were so many factories and so much work you could leave one job in the morning and be working on another one in the afternoon. The pay was good too.
@@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 Yes it was like that moment in time where the birth of modern Sydney had just begun and some sights have become a victim of their own success and popularity. 😀
I was born in Sydney in 1969. I don't miss it at all! Having a great time in Perth with my family enjoying the fact that there are no toll roads, no pokies, easier living and less stress here.
I got so emotional watching this, I'm not really sure why. The Sydney I just saw in this video seemed so future-focussed, classy and respectable. I hate to say it but it feels like the entire world has regressed.
Yes, it was and some might say fortunately. Sydney Living Museums currently has an exhibition called "Unrealised Sydney" where this Rocks scheme features. In the 1960s there was heavy pressure to knock things down and build new. The QVB almost suffered a similar fate, but was also saved. The Rock was probably at it's lowest point in the 1960s, run down housing commission barely an business in the area and it was not appreciated for its historical value at the time. But it was prime real estate making it most vulnerable when it came to eager developers. The closest they got was the building of the Sirius apartment complex for the department of housing, but that was in 1978 some 10 or 15 years after the time in this video.
My dad worked for an engineering firm based in the Argyle Centre in The Rocks in the 70s and 80s. And later I had great times at The Glenmore and The Lord Nelson pubs. The Rocks has a wonderful atmosphere - it's the only place in Sydney with a deep connection to history. Skyscrapers are a dime a dozen but that's unique.
The Builders & Labourers Federation (BLF) union led by Jack Munday vehemently opposed the redevelopment and won. It is a famous case of the worker over the developer. Clearly the heritage value of The Rocks played its card and won.
In 1955 my Dad was promoted to a new role in Sydney from his hometown Perth and took up a new office in Unilever House located at 1 Macquarie St. Its the very tall building next to where the Opera House was built. I wasn't born yet but Dad came home from his first day and told Mum how his new office was on the 10th floor looking at the Harbour Bridge !! Dad was aged 27yo. and was the Australian Sales Manager of Rexona Ltd a Unilever company. In 1970 I was 10yo and the 200year anniversary of Capt Cook meant a huge firework night on the harbour. My family watched it from within Unilever House.
And now Sydney is just a desperately over crowded, over priced dump. It's just sad to see a video like this and to think what a wonderful place it could have been.
Right next to that tall AMP tower is (still) the Customs House - when it was the centre for Customs Department officers and their work around the wharves of the time (and the airport). In 1965, my first such work was at 2/3 Walsh Bay - now either apartments or restaurants. Though that building still retains that office and its sign "HM Customs". With the advent of containerised cargo in the 1970s, the ships docked elsewhere at Port Botany and those wharves at Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, Walsh Bay and Cowper Wharves, Wolloomoolloo became derelict. Though most were subsequently turned into rather expensive apartments. As were most of the cargo warehouses in The Rocks, formerly used for storing imported cargo still under Customs control (as it had not been duty-paid, while on the import wharf). I had many delightful walk up through The Rocks, to examine such cargo in those warehouses - smelling wonderfully of a century of stored goods.
My parents arrived in Sydney as immigrants from Ireland in 1964, so this is the very city that would have greeted them back then! Wasn't much different really to me as a kid exploring the city with my dad in the mid 70's, albeit with a few more of those projects featured in the film such as Australia Square & the Opera House having just been newly completed. Very different city now though, for better and for worse...
I went up to the top of the AMP building at circular quay that year when it was the tallest building in Sydney - I felt like I was on the top of the world! It was beaten as tallest building a year or two later when the state office block (shown under construction in the video) made it to the top spot for a while after which Australia Square took the title.
One thing I noticed was the exceedingly large number of new cars one could see in every clip. EH Holdens & Pursuit Falcons abounded. We were a wealthy country then as we are now
True, I guess if it did happen, developers would be ready to pull it all down at start again. Just look at the only high rise Sirius getting redeveloped.
It's a good thing it wasn't. I was there earlier and remember thinking "damn this city's weird. The city centre looks so modern but the rocks looks like the 1930s".
THANK YOU JACK MUNDEY for saving The Rocks for us ALL to enjoy not the greedy Capitalist class with their high rise sky scrapers (and "they" reckon Communists are bad people, what was Jack Mundey)
My Grandfather's both built much of sydney. one was a field engineering on the Avon, cataract and caudaux dam's on the south side and my other GF built many many of the old factory chimneys that existed around the inner west out to five dock.. All long gone now.
Wow, that's some contributions your grandfathers made to Sydney. Imagine the chimneys were similar to St Peters where the old brick works used to be and if I'm not mistaken I think John Bradfield was also involved with the Cataract dam project.
@@Lokkodog Looking through rose coloured glasses? In 1964 Shops didn't open Saturday arvo, or Sunday, pubs closed at 6.00pm and no trading on Sunday.. No takeaway meals apart shitty fish and chips. Sydney is so much better now than then and this comment comes from a 72 year ago who he was living the dream in 1964.
How nostalgic, so many familiar places. Great to see Harry Seidler's Australia Square at the foundation stage. 6 years later, it was part of the opening scenes in the film Walkabout.
And it was shown new in “Skippy”. Jerry was taking the helicopter to Mascot and took Sonny for a ride. Jerry pointed out the just finished Australia Square and Sonny asked “Why is it called a square when it’s clearly round?” 😆
Finds me recalling coming into the City from the Western Suburbs with a school mate when I was sixteen. The old AMP building had electronic doors, which was a novelty at the time. A touch of the Jetsons. Next we would take the lift up to the top of the AMP building to have a look around.
@@petersinclair3997 Another novelty to me in the AMP building was that the toilets at the rooftop lookout had a flushing mechanism operated by a pedal protruding from the wall . Very hygienic ! Also , my mother used to say that you could buy a pie from the kiosk there for..... five cents , or probably sixpence . Hard to believe now as it would be more like five dollars these days !
I remenber commuting in the red rattler train. Never forget the friction on iron and leather smell I loved it. I would watch the stock board at Sydney stock exchange live I could feel the dynamic ecomomy
Wenn das Land am Boden ist und helfende Hände an allen Ecken und Enden braucht, gehen sie nach Australien. Ist es jetzt besser in der Britischen Kronkolonie? Zum Glück ist nicht jeder Deutsche ein Verräter, ansonsten wäre das Land nicht da, wo es heutzutage ist…
Only because the Builders Labourers Federation imposed greenbans refusing to work on it's demolition. Various areas of Sydney would be a whole lot uglier if it wasn't for the Union.
my Mum hadn't even met my Dad!, until the Next Year?, i don't Remember Dad!, he past 10 years later!, Cyclone Tracy 1974!, Darwin NT, was only 2, but, I remember Grandad taking us kids, to the Top of Sydney's Tallest Building, Australia Square, around 1977!, GO AUSTRALIA.
During the transition from pounds, schillings and pence to dollars and cents comes odd phraseology such as "a million and a half in money" Director: Don't hit 'em with the word 'dollar' too soon but slowly coax them into it!"
No electric banking,no computers,no radars,no cameras,no mobile phones,locally made goods,neatly dressed people,no junkies,better politicians with a clear direction, no gst,I wish😢
And now a super expensive s-hole, unliveable, murderous traffic, with most homes owned by external investors. Most shopping centres are owned by same including Queen Victoria building
Great to see the old northern entrance to the Cahill expressway, which was formerly a tram track. So glad that horrid vision for The Rocks never came to fruition. It was quite common for women to do factory work in those days. Much of it menial. Skilled but very repetitive.
Yes, it was. For me it was probably one of the biggest loses from a transportation perspective. One of the hardest barriers for the Northern beaches rail link was a harbour crossing and there it was done. All it needed was a successive government to finish it. Yes that 70s looking version of the Rocks would have dated fast. It would have been a water front suburb that looked like the UTS building at Ultimo.
The days when it was possible to get many jobs in a day, no resumes or ID. Then we could pick which one we wanted, and the paymaster would come around on pay day, we would check our money and sign for it.
@SydneyHistory I'm kinda glad a Northern Beaches railway was never built. A light rail following the original tramway to Manly then al9ng Pittwater Rd to Newport or even Palm Beach would be a better option
The endless list of things Sydney no longer makes. Once Sydney was a long distance meaning self sifficiency was required. . Now its a commute to anywhere in the world within a day.
Well paid jobs for everyone , affordable nice house for $20,000 anyone could afford and no mulitculturism , l guess it was paradise then compared to these days
I remember standing near the open doors and people jumping off before they stopped completely to get to the exit first to avoid the bottleneck where I think people had to hand their tickets to the attendant even though he never checked them
But remember that this was right when Second Wave Feminism was just beginning. So I wouldn't be talking too highly of this particular generation in the vid. As it was essentially these people that started the decline.
Yes everyone had the same culture and language in those days - we are now told that is not desirable but I was there and it felt much more like we were all on the same team and not just living in the same city in different communities
@@robman2095 I never have and never will fall for that brainwashing garbage of ''Diversity is our strength.'' It fractures, splinters and divides every society it infects.
Yes true. Our appreciation for heritage buildings has changed. There was a period where we lost some great architecture. I'm glad we protect them more these days.
Yes it was better. There wasn’t as much wealth displayed in our lifestyle and technology but it didn’t matter. We also felt like we looked up to USA and UK more than we do now - at least in film and lifestyle. Of course at that time US culture really was living the dream that people in many cases wanted to have here but we were very content in our Australian lifestyle nevertheless. Children were not educated to be ashamed of their history and culture and this affected attitudes to life throughout our society.
Worst Designed city of ever been to, Redfern like the poverty of Asia, small over price petty blocks of concrete, Roading is a nightmare, Traffic lights are screwed to hold you up while lanes to tolls remain empty so to push for the use of tolls, plus the poor quality of patches and potholes, Lack of signs so you know what road goes where
The incomprehensible destruction of history in regards to Sydney Australia when we do not heritage list any building from all those who have worked so hard to create that error of fashion now all wait for us in the grave how to destroy your tourism and future income including your culture for your grandchildren all destroyed by this word progress there wasn’t any progress. It went backwards destroying the very aspect of who we are as a culture in this country. Australia it is is anybody, who reads this item? Would you please please write down the name of a person who has written law in this country? Australia? I have.
What aspect of this documentary struck a cord with you? I was surprised to see so many woman working in manufacturing in 1964.
We had a manufacturing industry in those days! Interesting to see the construction workers without any regard to safety - would never happen today. The identity of the man in the taxi and library bugged me, but I've looked him up - it was Kit Taylor.
@@neil2402 Yes, no hard hats or vest or harness walking along planks of wood with a ciggie. What attracted you about the man in the taxi? How did you find out who he was?
When watching documentaries like this of this age I can't help but think and gauge if the people would still be alive today. I would say about 70% would be dead most people over 20 years of age in the doco would be dead. sounds grim but likely true. The amazing thing is that the video quality is so clear it's like they are with us in the present.
@@SydneyHistory The face looked familiar. With a lot of hard thinking(!), I realised it was the actor that played the dentist in Don's Party, so found the name from there. As to the video quality, it is an NFSA transfer so they've probably done some restoration.
@@neil2402 yes indeed, amazing investigative work, Neil. I guess I was a bit naïve and thought they were all natural scenes.
@@SydneyHistory I suspect most of them are, they just decided to use actors for a few scenes.
The EH Holden taxi! Back when Australia was the lucky country. My mum and dad were from this era. RIP mum and dad.
its like looking at a completely different country, different people, different demographics, different value, different culture, different world. so sad we lost it forever...
Yeah times have certainly changed.
Thanks to Jack Mundey "The Rocks" was never "swept away to make way for "modern buildings" again thank you Jack Mundey.
I'm pleased they didn't , it's where I live.
In 1964 I started working in Sydney (I lived at Arncliffe) as an apprentice electrician in the lift (elevator) industry.
Every building, every location, and probably every bus and train in this doco, is familiar to me. Watching the construction of the AMP building, seeing it grow week after week, is one of the powerful memories I have of this period in my life.
It made me sad to see how much manufacturing we have lost 😞
That is what I am lamenting more than anything also, I was just saying today “we produce nothing anymore”… Sydney looks so beautiful in this video. I’m 48, caught the tail end of this growing up. Sydney has changed and not for the better. The people have changed and as the narrator says, the people make the city.
additionally the vision and focus on the present and future. No vision these days.
blame no one. The cost of labour was one of the highest in the world. And nowadays anyone is just in the trades and construction, they are still paid as one of the highest in the world.
We can blame Gough Whitlam for that. He removed tariffs on imported goods so we could buy things cheaper.
My dad used to tell me when he was a young man, before I was born, there were so many factories and so much work you could leave one job in the morning and be working on another one in the afternoon. The pay was good too.
That's the Sydney I remember. Where has it gone? I miss it.
Yeah, it seems to change faster and faster each year. I wonder what we'll think watching a 4k video of Sydney 50 years from now.
omg the opera house wasnt even built then ! but much better then than the crowded competittive place it is now
@@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393 Yes it was like that moment in time where the birth of modern Sydney had just begun and some sights have become a victim of their own success and popularity. 😀
@@SydneyHistory and non existent uraban planning/government response !
I was born in Sydney in 1969. I don't miss it at all! Having a great time in Perth with my family enjoying the fact that there are no toll roads, no pokies, easier living and less stress here.
I got so emotional watching this, I'm not really sure why. The Sydney I just saw in this video seemed so future-focussed, classy and respectable. I hate to say it but it feels like the entire world has regressed.
People were proud australians then not brought up to hate their own culture.
14:51 I guess that plan was shelved? can't remember seeing skyscrapers in the Rocks area
Yes, it was and some might say fortunately. Sydney Living Museums currently has an exhibition called "Unrealised Sydney" where this Rocks scheme features. In the 1960s there was heavy pressure to knock things down and build new. The QVB almost suffered a similar fate, but was also saved.
The Rock was probably at it's lowest point in the 1960s, run down housing commission barely an business in the area and it was not appreciated for its historical value at the time. But it was prime real estate making it most vulnerable when it came to eager developers.
The closest they got was the building of the Sirius apartment complex for the department of housing, but that was in 1978 some 10 or 15 years after the time in this video.
My dad worked for an engineering firm based in the Argyle Centre in The Rocks in the 70s and 80s. And later I had great times at The Glenmore and The Lord Nelson pubs. The Rocks has a wonderful atmosphere - it's the only place in Sydney with a deep connection to history. Skyscrapers are a dime a dozen but that's unique.
Many thanks to Jack Mundie and the BLF green bans it was preserved.
The Builders & Labourers Federation (BLF) union led by Jack Munday vehemently opposed the redevelopment and won. It is a famous case of the worker over the developer. Clearly the heritage value of The Rocks played its card and won.
In 1955 my Dad was promoted to a new role in Sydney from his hometown Perth and took up a new office in Unilever House located at 1 Macquarie St. Its the very tall building next to where the Opera House was built. I wasn't born yet but Dad came home from his first day and told Mum how his new office was on the 10th floor looking at the Harbour Bridge !! Dad was aged 27yo. and was the Australian Sales Manager of Rexona Ltd a Unilever company. In 1970 I was 10yo and the 200year anniversary of Capt Cook meant a huge firework night on the harbour. My family watched it from within Unilever House.
Wow that would have been a prestigious role! I've worked on the advertising end of many Unilever brands. This video is pike a time machine.
And now Sydney is just a desperately over crowded, over priced dump. It's just sad to see a video like this and to think what a wonderful place it could have been.
@@DavidPetersen-n8o There’s always someone isn’t there!
The Sydney of my childhood ❤️
Right next to that tall AMP tower is (still) the Customs House - when it was the centre for Customs Department officers and their work around the wharves of the time (and the airport). In 1965, my first such work was at 2/3 Walsh Bay - now either apartments or restaurants. Though that building still retains that office and its sign "HM Customs". With the advent of containerised cargo in the 1970s, the ships docked elsewhere at Port Botany and those wharves at Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, Walsh Bay and Cowper Wharves, Wolloomoolloo became derelict.
Though most were subsequently turned into rather expensive apartments. As were most of the cargo warehouses in The Rocks, formerly used for storing imported cargo still under Customs control (as it had not been duty-paid, while on the import wharf). I had many delightful walk up through The Rocks, to examine such cargo in those warehouses - smelling wonderfully of a century of stored goods.
As a person who was born in Sydney its so great to look back on childhood memories.
Nice to remember the old days in Sydney .I Love it.❤
Yeah it was a time when Sydney took it to the next level in building construction.
Take me back to this era please.
My parents arrived in Sydney as immigrants from Ireland in 1964, so this is the very city that would have greeted them back then! Wasn't much different really to me as a kid exploring the city with my dad in the mid 70's, albeit with a few more of those projects featured in the film such as Australia Square & the Opera House having just been newly completed. Very different city now though, for better and for worse...
I went up to the top of the AMP building at circular quay that year when it was the tallest building in Sydney - I felt like I was on the top of the world! It was beaten as tallest building a year or two later when the state office block (shown under construction in the video) made it to the top spot for a while after which Australia Square took the title.
Wow! I was living in Sydney when this was made. I was 12 years old at the time and attending primary school.
Wow I'm sure you've seen a lot of change in this great city. Thanks for watching.
The drone footage from 1964 is amazing
They were a bit big and a bit loud but yeah amazing.
I heard the battery life wasn't as good as these days. 🤣
drown ?DRONE ? there were no drones in 1964 HA HA
That noise at the start of this video sounded more like a helicopter .
One thing I noticed was the exceedingly large number of new cars one could see in every clip. EH Holdens & Pursuit Falcons abounded. We were a wealthy country then as we are now
179 badges were targeted by vandals wanting belt buckles.
crazy to think the rocks was going to be redeveloped like that! i cant imagine it
True, I guess if it did happen, developers would be ready to pull it all down at start again. Just look at the only high rise Sirius getting redeveloped.
@@SydneyHistory yeah, such a shame that the sirius is being redone, i loved how it looked before ):
It's a good thing it wasn't. I was there earlier and remember thinking "damn this city's weird. The city centre looks so modern but the rocks looks like the 1930s".
THANK YOU JACK MUNDEY for saving The Rocks for us ALL to enjoy not the greedy Capitalist class with their high rise sky scrapers (and "they" reckon Communists are bad people, what was Jack Mundey)
1964, I was 5y.o korean boy
Seoul sth korea
Now, I am 65y old Australian
Sydney Australia
Long cultural journey
Congratulations! Glad to have you here!
Good on you mate😊
My Grandfather's both built much of sydney. one was a field engineering on the Avon, cataract and caudaux dam's on the south side and my other GF built many many of the old factory chimneys that existed around the inner west out to five dock.. All long gone now.
Wow, that's some contributions your grandfathers made to Sydney. Imagine the chimneys were similar to St Peters where the old brick works used to be and if I'm not mistaken I think John Bradfield was also involved with the Cataract dam project.
Always good to be reminded how far down the toilet we've gone !
Spot on mate
@@Lokkodog Looking through rose coloured glasses? In 1964 Shops didn't open Saturday arvo, or Sunday, pubs closed at 6.00pm and no trading on Sunday.. No takeaway meals apart shitty fish and chips. Sydney is so much better now than then and this comment comes from a 72 year ago who he was living the dream in 1964.
Statistics say otherwise.
How nostalgic, so many familiar places. Great to see Harry Seidler's Australia Square at the foundation stage. 6 years later, it was part of the opening scenes in the film Walkabout.
And it was shown new in “Skippy”. Jerry was taking the helicopter to Mascot and took Sonny for a ride. Jerry pointed out the just finished Australia Square and Sonny asked “Why is it called a square when it’s clearly round?” 😆
Finds me recalling coming into the City from the Western Suburbs with a school mate when I was sixteen. The old AMP building had electronic doors, which was a novelty at the time. A touch of the Jetsons. Next we would take the lift up to the top of the AMP building to have a look around.
@@petersinclair3997 Another novelty to me in the AMP building was that the toilets at the rooftop lookout had a flushing mechanism operated by a pedal protruding from the wall . Very hygienic ! Also , my mother used to say that you could buy a pie from the kiosk there for..... five cents , or probably sixpence . Hard to believe now as it would be more like five dollars these days !
I remenber commuting in the red rattler train. Never forget the friction on iron and leather smell I loved it. I would watch the stock board at Sydney stock exchange live I could feel the dynamic ecomomy
Me too, they got that smell out of them. I remember hanging out the open doors when I was about 10-11 going to school at Wiley Park.
2:30 "NSW The senior state." Get your hand off it grandpa!
Love from Western Australia 😊
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" Love from Western Australia" doesan't sound like too much love to me HaHa
Lucky it's on film we that remember are almost gone ,
Yes it's great to have our history on film to remember what it was like.
I came from Germany and arrived in Sydney in 1970, but it was very similar.
Wenn das Land am Boden ist und helfende Hände an allen Ecken und Enden braucht, gehen sie nach Australien.
Ist es jetzt besser in der Britischen Kronkolonie? Zum Glück ist nicht jeder Deutsche ein Verräter, ansonsten wäre das Land nicht da, wo es heutzutage ist…
Glad that The Rocks wasn’t completely replaced, as it mentions in the video 2/3 way through
Only because the Builders Labourers Federation imposed greenbans refusing to work on it's demolition. Various areas of Sydney would be a whole lot uglier if it wasn't for the Union.
the commo Jack Mundey saved the rocks and in this case he was correct.
People were so Modernist in the 1960s (and well into the 70s and 80s too). Very simplistic in how they saw 'progress'.
Worksafe watching the construction workers in disbelief 😂😂😂. Respect though the men worked really hard with no fear amazing
Yes it's amazing they could do all that with a bunger hanging out of their mouth.
More than a few people hurt themselves. My grandma used to tell me how many of her uncles died doing their jobs
@@Secretlyanothername sorry to hear but yeah construction is a tough gig
I think most Dogmen died on the job. Incredibly dangerous job.
Thankfully there's a bit more of a safety focus now days.
I used to ride the trains and buses just to see how Sydney looked , I was 8 years old when I started.
factory work is honorable work for anyone, The Lima agreement sent these jobs to Asia
That was our emerald city, beautiful, affordable, liveable.
Wow when they demolished the rocks in 5 seconds
The biggest thing we have lost since the 60s is this progressive attitude to progress and ambition to be better.
Ya got true blue Aussie accent there mate 😉
Thanks mate.
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where was the amp building ?...
Alfred Street Circular Quay.
bring back our manufacturing!
my Mum hadn't even met my Dad!, until the Next Year?, i don't Remember Dad!, he past 10 years later!, Cyclone Tracy 1974!, Darwin NT, was only 2, but, I remember Grandad taking us kids, to the Top of Sydney's Tallest Building, Australia Square, around 1977!, GO AUSTRALIA.
During the transition from pounds, schillings and pence to dollars and cents comes odd phraseology such as "a million and a half in money" Director: Don't hit 'em with the word 'dollar' too soon but slowly coax them into it!"
Good pick-up. It didn't occur to me.
Saying pounds would make film seem dated in only year or two
shillings
Now it’s new Shanghai
we have come along way with workers safety thats for sure
No electric banking,no computers,no radars,no cameras,no mobile phones,locally made goods,neatly dressed people,no junkies,better politicians with a clear direction, no gst,I wish😢
And now a super expensive s-hole, unliveable, murderous traffic, with most homes owned by external investors. Most shopping centres are owned by same including Queen Victoria building
Ya right y'know ---well said
I didn't know that the City of Sydney was an external investor, thanks for that update.
And foreign owned pubs that have banned Australia Day celebrations.
Make Sydney great again
looks much better now
Great to see the old northern entrance to the Cahill expressway, which was formerly a tram track.
So glad that horrid vision for The Rocks never came to fruition.
It was quite common for women to do factory work in those days. Much of it menial. Skilled but very repetitive.
Yes, it was. For me it was probably one of the biggest loses from a transportation perspective. One of the hardest barriers for the Northern beaches rail link was a harbour crossing and there it was done. All it needed was a successive government to finish it.
Yes that 70s looking version of the Rocks would have dated fast. It would have been a water front suburb that looked like the UTS building at Ultimo.
The days when it was possible to get many jobs in a day, no resumes or ID. Then we could pick which one we wanted, and the paymaster would come around on pay day, we would check our money and sign for it.
@SydneyHistory I'm kinda glad a Northern Beaches railway was never built. A light rail following the original tramway to Manly then al9ng Pittwater Rd to Newport or even Palm Beach would be a better option
Bring back the bench seat.
The endless list of things Sydney no longer makes. Once Sydney was a long distance meaning self sifficiency was required. . Now its a commute to anywhere in the world within a day.
Well paid jobs for everyone , affordable nice house for $20,000 anyone could afford and no mulitculturism , l guess it was paradise then compared to these days
ok but ,,60 years from now they will be referring to 2024 as 'the good old days
I paid $32,000 in 1972 for a 2 bedroom house in the outer suburbs, $20,000 would have been grand.
The ol red rattlers💪🏻
I remember standing near the open doors and people jumping off before they stopped completely to get to the exit first to avoid the bottleneck where I think people had to hand their tickets to the attendant even though he never checked them
You could tell the difference between men and women in those days
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But remember that this was right when Second Wave Feminism was just beginning. So I wouldn't be talking too highly of this particular generation in the vid. As it was essentially these people that started the decline.
Yes women had beehive hairdo
Well there were only two choices so a bit easier 😂
The Luck Country it was, but successive Australian governments had other plans.
No need to play '' Spot the Aussie'' here.
Yes everyone had the same culture and language in those days - we are now told that is not desirable but I was there and it felt much more like we were all on the same team and not just living in the same city in different communities
@@robman2095 I never have and never will fall for that brainwashing garbage of ''Diversity is our strength.''
It fractures, splinters and divides every society it infects.
Poncy narrator not surprisingly double-barreled name
Millionaires place now
Any video that advocates the destruction of heritage is to be questioned.
Yes true. Our appreciation for heritage buildings has changed. There was a period where we lost some great architecture. I'm glad we protect them more these days.
THe faces of the people on the street sure has changed
What the hell happened! God I was born in the wrong time.
Yes it was better. There wasn’t as much wealth displayed in our lifestyle and technology but it didn’t matter. We also felt like we looked up to USA and UK more than we do now - at least in film and lifestyle. Of course at that time US culture really was living the dream that people in many cases wanted to have here but we were very content in our Australian lifestyle nevertheless. Children were not educated to be ashamed of their history and culture and this affected attitudes to life throughout our society.
"NSW senior state" or the dirty old man of Aus
🤣
OH come on you'd love to be able to afford to live in Australia's greatest City "MY City of Sydney " :-))
Now we look like the slums of Calcutta.
What happened to our booming country? Greed.
Worst Designed city of ever been to, Redfern like the poverty of Asia, small over price petty blocks of concrete, Roading is a nightmare,
Traffic lights are screwed to hold you up while lanes to tolls remain empty so to push for the use of tolls, plus the poor quality of patches and potholes,
Lack of signs so you know what road goes where
The evil bstrds were going to knock down the rocks and build their horrid tacky office buildings. But thank god they, the people, saved it.
All the 'unhealthy, non-OH&S practices' goings on AND how lucky we were to have Jack Munday🤞back then 😊
*"Mundey"
Yeh...OH&S Has now gone way too far causing everyone stress and crippling the economy.
Praise Murdoch ❤
Went to Sydney just last month!
A shit hole now
Not impressed
It's horrible!
Not a habib in sight
The narrator is WAY too absorbed in philosophizing that it comes off pretentious and cringy.
Thank God it wasn't my voice. 😬
YES who was that git ?
Sydney is 🤢
The incomprehensible destruction of history in regards to Sydney Australia when we do not heritage list any building from all those who have worked so hard to create that error of fashion now all wait for us in the grave how to destroy your tourism and future income including your culture for your grandchildren all destroyed by this word progress there wasn’t any progress. It went backwards destroying the very aspect of who we are as a culture in this country. Australia it is is anybody, who reads this item? Would you please please write down the name of a person who has written law in this country? Australia? I have.