Gold Coast Highway (Surfers Paradise to Coolangatta) - February 1997

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  • @Slazmoservicing4209
    @Slazmoservicing4209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    How quiet are the road in comparison to today's mad rush... Beautiful time to be around early 2000's - last of the normal years.

  • @94vrcommodore
    @94vrcommodore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good video. I remember driving along the Gold Coast highway when I first moved down in 2000. Just gives me memories seeing all those VR/VS Holdens and EA Fords. Nowadays seeing too many development and SUVs.

  • @cheriebaker7454
    @cheriebaker7454 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you for this video, brought back many memories! I was 16 in 1997 and this year was the first time I visited the Gold Coast and I moved up there a year later. Happy times. :)

  • @gregd1961
    @gregd1961 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video. Some areas are completely different now, and some areas are exactly the same now. Notice the lack of 4wd's and SUV's.

  • @Shan-zv9qh
    @Shan-zv9qh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So cool to see this! I was living in Helensvale during the time when this was filmed in 1997. Such a great time in my life. Remember going to Surfers every Friday night with friends, season pass for Dreamworld and Wet n Wild, Australia Fair and Pacific Fair malls, Carrara markets.... Moved away the following year and have never ever been back sadly. Be cool to one day, to have a look around again for a wander down memory lane.... I can imagine its changed a lot now.

    • @GavwasInn
      @GavwasInn  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's changed a bit since then, more high-rise buildings. It's moved with the times. Pac Fair has been extended and renovated. Aus Fair is still there. The theme parks are still here. Carrara Markets still exists. A lot of new businesses in the suburbs along the beach. There's a light rail service from the new hospital near Parkwood (old Southport Hospital was demolished) to Pac Fair now with stops all along the way. It's still a great city.

    • @Shan-zv9qh
      @Shan-zv9qh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GavwasInn Thanks for the reply and info! Must have a look again there

  • @peterkirgan6850
    @peterkirgan6850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Brings back memories had some great times here ! This place was lovely till it got destroyed by developers & gccc!!!

  • @planetfonz
    @planetfonz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    great mermaid beach footage.. exactly how I remember it and was probably at maccas working that day ha

  • @bowenfulwood-griffiths2482
    @bowenfulwood-griffiths2482 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Even the fuel price on the 7 eleven board was 70 cents

  • @strauchanside
    @strauchanside 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I drove a lot of this road last week and it’s notable that the route through Surfers is different and the highway was classed as Alt 1.

  • @Inaworldoflove
    @Inaworldoflove ปีที่แล้ว

    90s hits different.

  • @noah.creative
    @noah.creative 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    wow surfers paradise didnt realise they had 3 lanes going both directions thats insane the trams ruined everything

  • @jfaust
    @jfaust 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That drive would take you over an hour now. Especially with the light rail works.

  • @william.weir2023
    @william.weir2023 ปีที่แล้ว

    the last sizzler,s has closed now. played putt putt only 2 weeks ago. great fun.

  • @creatureofleisure6360
    @creatureofleisure6360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    dirty ol xf falcons everywhere. i love it

    • @davidbusch8912
      @davidbusch8912 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      CREATUREofLEISURE Yes! I owned two; not many left

    • @peterkirgan6850
      @peterkirgan6850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey u forgot sigmas & Toyotas too

    • @94vrcommodore
      @94vrcommodore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Felt like going into nostalgia seeing all those sedans on the roads, unlike today too many SUVs. Good cars those XF Fords. Good seeing those VR/VS Holdens as well.

  • @stephanhoffmeister7586
    @stephanhoffmeister7586 ปีที่แล้ว

    best time in my life .....

  • @biggils8894
    @biggils8894 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They have absolutely killed the Gold Coast and surfers with the light railway. Surfers was so vibrant bcse the locals made up half the demographic. You could always get a park and driving to Broadbeach to surfers literally took 2 minutes with 4 lanes and two sets of lights. Now for lease signs everywhere and shoddy business that sell absolutely nothing, no parking and traffic lights every 30 meters that are all designed to be red to slow the one lane traffic all the way to nsw

  • @mike04574
    @mike04574 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    any videos of nsw highway in the 90s?

    • @GavwasInn
      @GavwasInn  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wish I did have some of that - as a New South Welshman myself. Unfortunately I don't.

  • @howieb71
    @howieb71 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Haha 12:20 64.9 for petrol.

    • @tidakadaide
      @tidakadaide 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheap as, but that was pretty dear for then too... I remember paying 57c around 97 for leaded sth side bris.