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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Queen Street and Customs Street in 1986, recorded by my uncle. These were the days before mobile phones, so I don't know if it was actually legal to drive with one hand on the wheel, the other holding a massive VHS recorder.
I was 20 and worked at The ASB Bank head office 300 Queen Street. Those were the best days to be alive. No mobile phones, lots of privacy, no silly PC rubbish and plenty of great times!
Staff parties at the staff Cafe were a real piss up and everything went on!
Awesome... 1986 was the year me and some mates snuck into Mid-City Cinemas to watch Top Gun after playing spacies all day and catching the yellow ARA buses into town and back from Kelston. Love the soundtrack too 😁
spacie parlours heaps around town back then...funcity was the name of one....because of technology all those fun places are gone....mid city was awsome it was fairly new back in the 80s compared to the older cinemas on queen st....good memories tho
Such a cool historical record. Thanks for filming!
Queen St was great in the 80s-- remember going to the newly opened Mid City cinema,seeing so many people out on Fri n Sat nights having a good time,wish it was still that way
Awesome video! “Stuck with you” playing on the radio, the old cars & buildings makes it soo nostalgic.
This is a trip.
I was in a flat in john st ponsonby,maybe $60 a week rent.
Worked as a test pilot for budget rent a car in beach rd.
Queen st never looked so good.
And cook st market.
Watching this is like travelling back,so cool
absolutely love watching this video..noted the Newmans bus coach which I used to travel on all the time..family all worked at the civic theatre when it was a movie theatre and i used to spend alot of time in the city..thank you for sharing it was a real time travel experience.
i used to play games outside st james theatre wow haha
Wow!!
Roads look spacious! Queen st looks CLEAN & refreshing. Amazing video
As for *Year 2020* none of thee above
What if we can bring them all back?
Even got the music to go with it! Man and those half white and yellow buses- that brings back some fond memories!
This is awesome. I was on Queen St today, watching contractors continue to choke the street to death reducing it to two lanes, watching tourists wander around with nothing to do and nothing to look at besides the dreary grey pavements and bedraggled shrubs, wandering past vacant shops, fighting my way around the endless pointless construction and fortresses of orange cones, and generally feeling despondent at the utter arrogance and neglect displayed by local and central governments in trying to dictate the city's function according to their own ideologies, rather than allowing it to serve those of us who live, work and visit it.
well said mate........ and sadly, you are spot on. Quay Street now reduced to 1 lane each way is a joke (let alone a travesty!) and trying to get across town takes upwards of 45 minutes. Back in the day from Orakei to the GPO along Tamaki Drive was under 6 minutes!
Huey Lewis nd the News playing on the car radio..definitely 80's alright😊
When Queens Street was a great place to hang out. No more.
When it was a great and fun space for families too. Wouldn't get caught there now.
Miss the yellow bus! Wow what a step back in to time.
.................haha, and what about the smelly old smoky Daimlers before the yellow Mercedes? At 12 and 13 years old in the 70's (and well into the 80's too..) were the days when you and your mates at the weekend / school holidays etc.- could disappear into the City all day with nothing but a bus fare and a few dollars in your pocket, safely returning back to home, Mum and Dad, and a roast dinner! Can't really remember what we actually did, as on a Saturday, most of the City was shut! - Friday nights were late night and a bit more exciting.
Great video. I was working on the Steinlager bottling plant expansion in 86 in Newmarket. I was the first labourer on the Aotea Centre and then up to the Mainstreet nightclub redevelopment. Went over seas and came home to work on the Auckland Club redevelopment in Fort St. Friday nights was spent doing the pub crawl in all the inner city pubs, Good days, now I'm old.
Hauraki with Kevin Black, John Hawkesby and Loosehead Len (aka Phil Gifford) was the best start to any weekday, with the great Fred Botica doing drive-time. Auckland at all times of the day and night was safe, the rowdiest event of the week was giving the poor old Hari Krishna's cheek (but without malice) from the other side of Queen St on a Friday night! The 70's into the 80's growing up in NZ were the very best, wish we could all go back..............
When Auckland was actually a good place to live
Then it TRUN still good
Still is.
True that
Are you alive?
Thanks for sharing. Brought back many memories from that time. Cruising Queen St in the 80s was great, especially Friday & Saturday nights!
Got a love the driver is also the cameraman 👏Great camera for 1986.Very high end.
Very clear for 80s and cam - This is awesome you filmed my favourite strip from the theatres to custom - hugely nostalgic THANK YOU
Boy, has it changed 😮! Love the song❤!!
The older we get, the more we miss our youth.
Those were the days my friend......I thought they would never end.
......well said, and me too.
Thank you for the time travel! Missing Auckland in the 80s :)
I remember as young kid catching bus into the city to go see a movie or two.....picture theatres like
the civic,st james, west end, odeon, & I saw the original star wars movie at the cinerama when it first came out but that was late 70’s....those movie theatres were the best....miss it.
Do you remember the panthers eyes that used to light up at the Civic theatre?
@@pillred5974 yes panthers on both sides....definitely.....and the stars on the ceiling.....an enormous picture theatre by todays standards.....the seats i remember werent that comfortable unlike theatrees today but id love to go back in time and do it all again....goodtimes
Wow thx a lot for the video,,, that was the year I first came to Auckland.. Miss it a lot...
That Mainzeal Construction Site, I worked on that as an Apprentice Carpenter, looked forward to the Beers on Fridays then off to the Wyndham Tavern to carry it on with the Bros, LoL
1986 was my favourite year. Going to town was fun. Now it's just a shadow of it's former warm self.
Sadly full of druggies now and antisocial behaviour - Queen Street especially 😢
Huey lewis and the news - stuck with you. This must have been late 86 as the song was releaed in august that year
Filmed in December probably. "the Christmas money mountain"
Beautiful. . Before we GOT FULL
Nice to see the old Yellow A.R.A. Mercedes buses. Classic 1980s Auckland.
...ahh yes, and do you remember the old smokey gutless Daimlers with the synchro clutches before them? - as a kid, you always had time to finish your toast before they finally ground their way up Rukutai Street into Kurauhapo Street to the bus stop in Kupe St when I was going to Orakei school. lol.....
Queen st in those days was loved, today it is a dump.
Ah... Old Zealand. Love it. And before they absolutely wrecked Queen Street.
Loved the cruise down Queen Street.
Miss these days... the place has been taken over now so sad
Auckland will resemble
down town Mumbai in a few more years
@@mrinout5512 Mumbai's andehri streets are 10 times more viberant than what Queens street has become toiday.. Its woke whities to blame.
@@mrinout5512cool.. hope it does .. Shanghai
I remember seeing jaws 3d at a cinema there on queen st and a bunch of other films back in the 80s
Lol this reminds me when my mum told me how she use to work in McDonald's on Queens street back in the 1980's 😅 Thanks for the video 😊
We used to drive around the city alot in the 80s and 90s but 86 was a great year..saw Dire Straits at Mt Smart Brothers in Arms I think..and Bob Dylan's Infidels was playing alot
Queen St was beautiful back then Not the same now
Classic I was brought up in Auckland.....this all looks so familiar even after all these years.
Thanks for posting - who had a video camera back then? I knew no one with one. The opening shot - Rutland? Wakefield facing the town hall. Remember circling the block trying to park by the library. Finally finding one (SCORE!) and then coming back to a parking ticket and chucking it in the rubbish as though that was the end of that. 80's, 90's and noughts same story...
Wish i bought a house then
I lived for couple of years in New Zealand and it was good.
This is gold mate. The good old days
Bias opinion being an 80s baby, but that was a great time to be a kid in Auckland. Went to see the Goonies for my birthday at I believe it was Mid City, and then had the birthday party in the Pizza Hut that used to be down the stairs. Those were good times.
Radio Hauraki is still going :)
You could probably fit 30 iPhones in the size of that video camera eh... hahah
it is quite interesting to see how buildings have changed but the roads are just same.
Now that would of been a time I would of liked to explore Auckland.
I reckon the Mystery money intersection is at Lincoln Road and universal for $500. I remember I just got my licence cruising down Queen in my flash mark 2 Cortina gt good times
You'll never see queen street that empty today
In 2020 due to Covid 19 the streets are empty.
Those days were some of the best moments of my life, wow I was 9 years old back then... damn those days were good....
looks genuinely "vibrant" . I don't think today's planners know or understand what that word actually means, although they use it a lot. BTW this could almost be my footage ! I too videod Queen Street with a hired tube VHS-C camera. Still got the footage somewhere.
Please find it and upload it. I love this stuff.
thanks for reminding us how negotiable that Queen Street was. It is a hell hole now.
Awesome video I was just 1 years old in 1986 oh how time flies 😳
I was 6.
I still remember getting a radio controlled tank and a bucket of plastic soldiers for my birthday that year. Good times.
I was 13 and remember the time well :)
Wow.. nice clip.. I was only 16 then.
Fuck me days that'd be 37 years ago
That song playing was so 1986!!! Lol
I get weird feelings from seeing this.
Me too
Yeah, coz its like.....wow, things have gotten so bad!
Queen St, Huey Lewis ah man sorted. My son pointed there is a love heart in the sky at 0:25 lol
I just love Archives
This is so cool! Thanks for uploading this :D
Not one mobile phone in sight
The first 2 seconds, that building is still there but everything else looks different
thanks for this reminicing
bring back the yellow buses! ....and Buck!
Bring back buck … and less traffic , less people
Looks good back then. I can’t afford to go there now very much
Such good quality video if it wasn't for the cars looks like it was filmed yesterday. I'm 40 years old I would of been 3years old back then cool
This is how Auckland - NZ was when I arrived in 1990 👍👍 The city is almost the same now
but, with different crowd. From European to Asian/Indian/Arab and Persian crowd, which I run
away from. Where to go from here now? And, I was born in Iran.
Then and Now, in 2050 people will share the video that we shoot now and say then and now.... YOLO make the most of it.
Looks much better then then today’s Bombay India
Mark Smith on Hauraki!
Could I please use this footage in a documentary Im producing for my uni project about copyright in NZ?
Absolutely. Help yourself to use whatever footage you like.
@@bored1980 Thanks sir
cool video thanks for uploading
Imagine watching this and hearing u voice on radio
Mad footage. #AKL09
Wonder if that 500 is still up for grabs
St james. Mid city.
Hi, we're from the NZ Herald. Would we be able to run your uncle's video on our site? We can give you an on-screen credit as well.
Sure. My name is Gavin Shoebridge and the actual recorder of the video is Patrick Walsh. He said "Go right ahead" in terms of sharing it, so please be my guest.
Awesome, thanks very much. Just to clarify, we'll be putting your video in our player and it might go along with our own video to compare Queen Street then and now.
No worries. I look forward to it. :)
Please do so. Been going through a phase of how Auckland city is evolving right in front of us but we are to busy to see it.
@@jordanritchie8018 😂what a blues guy in their convo😂
News Talk ZB?
Liam Mao it’s Radio Hauraki that’s playing
The yellow and cream ARA buses.
space world,whats that other arcade place just up from it?
I was 1 years old
I wan minus 10 years old
Make ya feel Young
You didn't pay quite enough attention in school.
"1 years"?
Urgh.
oh man...brongs back memories
Love da 80s
All them lanes on Queen's.
i remember the newmans buses!
I was a teen back then and remember driving up to Auckland from Pukekohe in my xa Falcon parking at Civic. Played spacies across at St James and drank in the London bar listening to jaz. Was a good city back then. NZ needed population in the 90's for economic growth but it's paying the price now for loose immigration policies with certain demographics over represented.
Loose?
You will always need migrants. Your people don't like to educate themselves
Same here-I grew up in Pukekohe and also remember driving up to Auckland in 86 in my Falcon XT having a good night out Sat evenings
You're right some parts of Auckland and the North shore feel like downtown (pick any Asian city) and it's meant ordinary Kiwi couples will never be able to own their own home due to sky rocketing prices over the last 10 years.
@@bryanpalmer9660 That's cool Bryan, we might have crossed paths back then who knows, I was at Puke High from 83-86!
@@pillred5974 Or Johannesburg even for that matter, allot of Pakeha's are heading South, Dunedin's taking off - too cold for allot of immigrant types.
How were they able to record this?!
Great to see the buses. You’d get assaulted if you take a bus now, either on it or at the interchange
1986 I was 12 lol
If you weren't there you missed out big time on the real NZ. Minimal Migration No Crime.
It was full of pedophilia and incestous child production fac tory.
I remember use ride on yellow bus
Send me back please 🙏
And now look at queen st ! After nearly forty years of “ progress “ it’s a s…hole. Lucky not to get mugged now days. No dossers in the doorways and not taken over by migrants . Take me back please. 1986 I’d just got my drivers license and drove a green morris minor with a 89FM sticker on the back
0305mercs and a couple peanuts on custom st, to cool. (yellow buses)
Back then u didn't have to say "don't own rights to music"
all these kids now thinking they invented tik tok ay 🤣🤣🤣
Everything was clean and tidy back then and now its just ugly with a lot of things especially with all the constructions
The yellow bus was Gangs hhhah lol🤣😂 I'm only in my 30s
Yellow buses
China I mean Melbourne's cbd is bland, drab and has no soul. These 80s and 90s were the best.