It's crazy that despite how much Adelaide has changed since then, almost all of the places shown are totally recognisable and the character has remained.
I was born that year in Adelaide. This was like a romantic movie except for the smoking indoors lol. What a lovely era. Local products locally made, normal sized healthy people doing healthy activities, speaking to each other, manners, cleanliness, no boozing or drugs in the parks or being harassed. Normal families doing normal fun. People dressed immaculately with class and style. Omg society has gone downhill so fast in such a short time
Brought back memories of working in Adelaide and the old buildings Cox Foys, railway station, riding on the boat on the Torrens, lovely days, fashion, cars, scenery, restaurants...thankyou😊
I love as someone born in 2001 that I can recognise everything in this video. Adelaide just seems like it’s always had a certain charm to it. I don’t get why people bash on it so hard sometimes.
I’m living in Adelaide now. It’s amazing to see that I can still recognize different parts of the Adelaide CBD. They really kept those iconic buildings until today :)
Thank you so much. I was born in Adelaide, in 1966, and your film gave me the opportunity of seeing life through my mother's eyes. She and my father used to take long walks around the city when she was pregnant with me.
I remember living in Kilkenny around 1960 - 65 and hearing the sound of clip clop coming down the street every morning around 9am, it was a horse towing a bakers van (might have been Tip Top) delivering freshly made loaves of bread and a finger bun for me, not the crappy sliced stuff you get today. Also remembering to put out our empty glass milk bottles with coins for the milky to deliver fresh milk every morning, never had any one steal the money before the milky arrived, and the milk was milk, with an inch of cream at the top of the bottle. No video games or mobile phones, made our own fun playing marbles with the kids down the street, cricket out on the street, used a rubbish bin as a wicket and get off the road when a car came along, kicking an old bloated football, (never had a new one ) or flying a home made kite. Great days.
My family had only been living in Adelaide for three years in the year of 1966, when we came over from the U K. I haven't lived in S A for many years, but I remember every street, the River Torrens, the Botanical Gardens, Glenelg, the tram, Adelaide Zoo, and many of the suburbs, like it was yesterday. Life was much easier back then.
It brought back memories of visiting Adelaide in the 1960's. I was a 6 year old when this was filmed. My Granny lived at Parkside and I loved it all. I lived 200kms away on a farm and I just loved the buzz of the city the sights and sounds and smells.
my great great grandfather started that factory...one of the first Aussie cars...Richards and sons...then became Chrysler, then Mitsu....but I guess you knew all that
I was 13 during 1966. Began my first job as an, apprentice italian marble stonemason in 1969. Adelaide was different back then. People were more friendly. I feel as though, it was from about 1988 that attitudes changed. During the 60's and 70's employment was easier. You would approach, the foreman or boss of firm, with a relevant enquiry. The boss or his foreman, would set up an interview date. Then the employer, would notify you of a probationary period. Also there, would be a preliminary induction, on first day of employment. None of this , having to register with agencies. These days it is, very humiliating seeking employment. Just about feels like you are begging. The budget has to be, organised very carefully. No such thing as petrol allowance. This is what other, people on centrelink benefits, would experience also. The week you are not paid, by the government i refer to as " The quiet week ". Why?. Because i keep my meals very basic and simple. Can not afford to go visit friends, because of the petrol cost. Even with my four cylinder car, i have to be ever so frugal. Centrelink pay day, is on wednesday of the second week. I only get to spoil myself, to the extent of moderation. Moderation? LOL! Yes exactly. Counter meal at the pub. No chance of that. Far too extravagant, on the miserable pittance, this obviously corrupt government pays. The meals i spoil myself with, are chips with a nice butterfish. Yiros. Goulash with marinated chicken. But this is, only on a saturday or friday evening, of the centrelink payday week. Unemployed for two years so far!. LOL! So while having meal, at the fish & chips cafe, i feel a bit overwhelmed. I pretend i be at the restaurant somewhere. Because of my budget, i just can not tolerate food being wasted. When i see, what food people waste, it actually disgusts and angers me. Half of their dinner plate, still has an unfinished meal on it. For me their is no excuse for that. Unfortunately 90%, of adelaide people have money to burn. Selfish, arrogant, wasteful plus ignorant. Rude and very negative attitudes. About 95% of people, appear to be that way these days. The attitude and mentality, of adelaide citizens has definitely become severe. I agree with P. Nabsie. The 60's, 70's, and 80's were the decades, when employment was easier to achieve. At least back in those years, i was not begging for a job.
Pawel Lewis why 88 do you think pawel? very specific. Dont listen to fem chick, 'people these days have the highest standard of living?' Mmm not sure everyone would agree. Generally we all need to be a bit less generalistic haha dont you think? world is too big to be general. we need a more local approach.
Pawel Lewis hey buddy how are you......just curious where u worked as an apprentice? any chance is was on days rd ferryden pk? my dad died months before I was born....he worked as a marble polisher...he died in may 1970 when a few slabs he was moving fell on him....ive always wanted to talk to someone who may have been there that day for closure......thanks from peter
Gooday mate!. I began my memorial mason apprenticeship,with a firm on main north road at nailsworth. Their business name was " Neill & Shelton's ". They were exactly opposite, the radio rentals shop. Basically on the corner of, cemetery ave and main north road.When i began apprenticeship during 1969,The car dealership next to us on cemetery ave, was " Ken Eustice ". ## My condolences for your Dad. Thanks for replying.
This film was for me like the time machine! It's so nice when you can see the life style of individuals many years ago. Awsome. Friendly and beautiful peoples with smile on their faces. I have been lived there for three years, realy good peoples and good place to live!!! I think local peoples realy can proud with it.
As an American, I find Australia fascinating, and I've enjoyed this film series. There's so much I like stylistically about the 1960's, as opposed to the decade I was born in, the 1970's, in which good taste ran off the rails. I'm impressed with how each of these films captured the distinct qualities of the city or part of the country in question. I don't want to be the type of person who says, "Ah, the olden days, life was so much better back then," but thinking about how people interacted more in real life with each other, not by texting or through social media, makes me want to get out more and socialize that way as well.
We arrived from the UK in February 1966 aboard the Sitmar ship Fairsea. Lived initially at the migrant hostel at Finsbury and I went to Pennington Primary School, I was aged 8 at the time. Moved to Gippsland in Victoria (Moe) not long after and then Frankston. Parents decided to return to the UK in 1973 when I was 16, I have always wondered how life would have turned out if we’d stayed. My Son (31) is now a permanent resident and will be an Australian citizen in January 2023 and his Mum and I will be there to witness it; it’s strange how things turn out.🙂
This is exactly what it was like when we arrived in Adelaide from England in 1971. Swap the cab driving for a bus ànd the secretary for the process worker and that was my parents. My sister and I took dance class too 🤣💕I was a wonderful place to grow up. We moved further out to the southern suburbs as the city grew and raised my own kids here ☺️
I was born in 1962 and remember my town of Adelaide well. Everyone in your neighbourhood knew each other. I remember coming home on deadly treadly and my dad and our neighbours from both sides of our house at Glenelg north sitting on our front fence in summer, drinking beers after work. Ppl would be walking past with their dogs and they'd stop and chat and have a beer. My childhood was perfect when i look back on it. My kids are so unlucky nowadays, ppl don't even know their neighbours anymore
I remember all the landmarks and the clothes and hairstyles..i was 11 back then, i miss being a kid then..it was all good...long xmas holidays that lasted 8 weeks...and going to the movies in Rundle street...those were the days..the Actress is a lady called Judy Dick and she used to be in the Here's Humphrey Show....with that honey loving bear...Humphrey...🤗❤🤗
Love Adelaide, its situated in the middle of Australia. Whether you are from Perth or from Sydney, it doesn't take so long to travel. Beautiful city with blue skies all year round, and from beach to hills only half hour, so convenient. Definitely the best and most beautiful city in Oz.
@@hughmcinally907 The little girl and her mother was driving down the mountain and the car lost it's brakes and ran off the edge of the mountain and flipped over and over down the cliff with the little girl and her mother inside both of them were barefooted and wearing their bikini tops and bottoms
@Rodger Hodgson Don't get me wrong, I like Adelaide, but 'beautiful' is definitely not an adjective that springs to mind when I think about it. Most of Sydney is a shithole, but it is still far and away the most beautiful city in Australia.
I wouldn't say blue skies all year round, we get average of about 3-4 clear blue skies a week, but much less in the winter too. But I swear the weather looked better years old
Office worker and taxi driver living a life of luxury, wanting for nothing. How did we ruin this so badly? Why did we stop making the world a better place for our children?
I was doing some research for my work and stumbled upon this. As someone who just loved to Adelaide 2 years ago, it really didn’t change much. I was in Melbourne 15 years ago and went to visit last year I was astounded that I could barely recognise the city
I'm watching this now at 25, was life really that great back then? Honestly I watched the other video about life in Sydney. Back then people lived. You went to work to live, you didn't live to work. And back then you were either a superstar or you weren't. Nowadays there is so much expectation on kids, and we are all expected to be rocket scientists or brain surgeons. We spend all this time studying only to find ourselves in dead end jobs or living on benefits. And people knew how to live, you would leave the house and do things like dancing or going to the theatre and stuff. And apparently people didn't do these courses unless you were going to be a doctor or a lawyer. I wasn't alive back then of course but it seems like we're the first generation to not be better off than the one before us, depending who you ask. Was it really that great or is this just my rose colour glasses?
@@oldbloke204 Agree, i had one of those VC Valiants shown being built, not a new one, cost me around $1,000 in the late 70's and i wish i still had it today, worth a quite a bit now if it's in good nick.
Watching this is almost too much...I've lived all my life in Adelaide - my grandparents were 10 pound poms who brought their four kids out from England and settled in Salisbury (my Dad being one those four) - and even though this was filmed shortly before I was born, its exactly as I remember. I just adored my grandmother, who would take me into the city by train to go to stores like John Martins and Cox Foys, where we always took the lift up to the playground. It's just incredible to see it like this again, truly beyond words. To think that somewhere in this world my grandparents were still alive and living in their little two bedroom house, my parents were just about to meet and I was yet to be born. There really, really was this world already and waiting, with the past running its course (I know 100% that Nanna would've been in her kitchen baking and making pots of tea) and, unfurling as I watch, it is moving inexorably towards to the moment I was and am and will be. Mind blowing.
@@petemitchell3067 Since this original comment was 6yrs ago and yours is 2mths i am going for ever more recent. Apparently we did. Recently watched some old footage from the 70s in Whyalla. I was taken aback. What we would consider yobbo's actually spoke very proper. I was beside myself laughing. WOW
@pjdsa Spot on. Lot of well put together evil people out there. Some people do mistake someone looking clean cut as immediately trustworthy. But it aint so.
Keep in mind this was a promotional film for advertising adelaide as a city. Likely in order to attract immigrants. Of course they're gonna show it as more classy and sophisticated.
I remember this era. My father was stationed at RAAF Edinburgh Field as part of an RAF detachment. We lived in Elizabeth, a large and growing suburb not far from beautiful Adelaide, which we often took the train to. We loved the open sided wooden seated trains which travelled along with the cattle-truck style doors wide open! We visited the offices of a newspaper - I think it was "The Australian" where we were told they had a page all typeset and ready to go for when the bad news would come that the Queen had died. That page (no doubt long since digitized) would be about fifty years old now and no doubt periodically reviewed and amended, still in the safe! Adelaide was so pretty, set out in concentric belts of parkland and handsome buildings, with the statue of Colonel Light, its founder, overlooking the city on Light's Stand. Spectacular sunsets and great beauty. What a lovely place! I'll never forget it.
"We visited the offices of a newspaper - I think it was "The Australian" " . . . that would have been The Advertiser, still in print, but also online now. I guess that would have been the Queen Mothers death in 2002 ?
at 10:41...the ferris wheel and amusements on top of the old Cox Foys building, Rundle St (later Mall.) My mum used to take me up there when I was a little kid. I tell people now and they think I'm crazy but here's the proof!
My grand father and i went for a ride on that ferris wheel when it was positioned so that the carriages went past the edge ,or side of the building, you could look straight down to the foot path . Very scary for me as i was only 7.
Yes hi would dated around 1967 because of the Valiant cars on the production line and the taxi being used and also everything else around the place.Thanks to the person/s who put this clip on,very good.
I think early 1967, judging by the girls’s fashions and hairstyles. I used to work at Cox Foys in the school holidays and have ridden on that Ferris wheel. 🎡
time has changed slot.. I wish I could experience this kind of adelaide today,. now its so different feels like no one is as friendly as before. gotta love the old days
Interesting to note that Sorrento's Restaurant advertised (front window) a TELEPHONE (presumably a payphone) as one of its services. Ahhh for the days before mobile phones took over. Also interesting to note that the children's recreational activity on the River Torrens bank was to simply roll down the slope. No need to have the latest PS3, xBox, iPad, iPhone, &c &c &c as well.
Bright faces, jobs galore, humble clean living... isn't it just amazing how much much can be achieved by one race, one culture, one nation -all united!
I adore watching all these clips. I'm a time person and I'm always intrigued by the people in them , wondering how their futures turned out, how long they lived till and where they eventually ended up.
When I was there, Modbury Hospital hadn't been built and I lived just down the street from its location. My daughter was born there just after it opened. There were vineyards in Modbury then off Montague Road. Seems strange now. I haven't seen the place in over forty years.
It's pretty awesome to see Horses galloping round the racetrack at Vic Park... Should bring it back and get rid of Clipsal! Adelaide is a beautiful City. People can slag it off all they like. In my heart it's a beautiful city and the people are very friendly. The ones that are not friendly end up in a barrel.. and thats 'fair dinkum.' 'Mate.'
Great video thanks for sharing. Feeling a bit old after watching this as I was 3 when this was made. Was great remembering and seeing our once great car and manufacturing industries in action.
Wow 1966. We (Dad, Mum, 1 Son, 4 Daughters) arrived from the UK in February aboard the Sitmar ship Fairsea. Lived initially at the migrant hostel at Finsbury and I went to Pennington Primary School, I was aged 8 at the time. Moved to Gippsland in Victoria (Moe) not long after and then Frankston in 1969. Parents decided to return to the UK in 1973 when I was 16, I have always wondered how life would have turned out if we’d stayed. My Son (31) is now a permanent resident and will be an Australian citizen in January 2023, his Mum and I will be there to witness it; it’s strange how things turn out.🙂
How's that - Only just the other day my Father and I were driving through Mile End and my Father was telling me the story about when he worked at Perry Engineering Co Est 1916, (the taxi drives past it at 2:52mins). It's no longer there, (replaced by huge shopping centers), and I never got to see it because it closed down in 1969 ( I was born 1968), and wish I had. What a thrill to see it here! THANK YOU so much! Subscribed!!
@Isabeau Valentine Holy hell what a racist policy! I'm shocked. Also, have you considered for even a single second that the australian indigenous people aren't white??
@Isabeau Valentine They still lived on the same land though. Still part of Australia, as much as you want to deny it. And what backwards kind of logic determines that multiculturalism = a civil war?
@Isabeau Valentine You're the naive one if you believe that the only place different ideologies and opinions come from is multiculturalism. You're also contradicting yourself - you don't want conflicting ideologies, yet you say you don't want a totalitarian society? My friend, pick one or the other. The ignorant one here is you. Learn to become more open-minded and kind, or you and your beliefs will be lost to the dust of history.
I was born 1961. Growing up through the 60’s was the best. Didn’t have much but had lots of great outdoor fun, It was an adventure. Values were much more important than today. Can’t get anyone’s attention now, they’re so addicted to their zombie phones. Adelaide has never been rated by the Eastern states, no respect.Great lifestyle.
Well we didnt have all the terrible Chinese etc imports of 2nd grade ill fitting clothing.like we have to suffer today. Clothes were properly made back then, more tailor made, quality cotton etc. Now they fall to bits, stretch out of shape, go bally, slapped together and people so gulliblely buy clothes with holes in them that are somehow trendy, beuond comprehension. Sanity and commonsense prevailed back then. They were def uncomplicated good times, slow pace. Family was so important back then.Best of all no computers and mobile phones..
...and hardly anybody could afford a new one, including imports, thanks to the massive tariffs placed on them. Poorly made, low tech (even for the time), modestly equipped and expensive.
Back in the days when most of the cars (Holdens & Valiants), televisions and radios(Philips) were made in Adelaide. We're losing or have lost all those skills. If you don't use it you lose it!
Notice how everyone is SLIM, elegant and nicely dressed... and society has supposedly advanced? Isn’t it obvious the deterioration and just from this one video in one place
Adelaide in South Australia is a beautiful place to live. I saw all the other big cities in Australia and lived in Sydney, Brisbane and Alice Springs before my family and I moved to Adelaide. We have everything around us: the most beautiful beaches, deserts, National Parks like the Flinders Ranges, Coffin Bay National Park, Canunda National Park etc. If you like places with thousands of people, with many night clubs etc., then you should really go to Melbourne and Sydney.
Now it's Brisbane that's overrun with population and nightlife. Not to mention the Gold Coast. You did the right thing stopping in Adelaide. I cut my throat and left.
These productions are heavy stylized immigration propaganda. They look beautiful for viewing and are enticing for the right target audience but beyond that, they are just ridiculous in depiction.
Back then we had a smaller population and we made heaps of things here.. Now we've got a bigger city, but we don't make much of anything. Are we all going to end up serving coffees to each other in cafes? Would have been easier being a taxi driver too, as the city ended at bus stop 21! Now I live near bus stop 52, and the suburbs go way beyond. Excellent footage. I hope someone has done the same for each decade since...
I don't think they were done after that. Note the lack of any narration, these were probably designed for use in Europe to attract migrants to Australia rather than as a documentary of reality. All the features people seem to be actors...
Ahh the memories, of a time a lot less hectic and what not than what we have these days. Even though it would be two more years after this film was made, that would be born at the Stirling Hospital in the Adelaide Hills.
Omg!!! Hahaha... I was looking for my family somewhere in this film... the horses from Dinnies stables ... yes! Grew up in Morphettville. What a revisit experience this is... it's like looking at family vids we didnt shoot ourselves.. defs show this to my children.
The swimming pool at 19.12 is now filled in as a petanque terrain - I still play down there :), it is also the garden of decadent delights during "Mad March" - great little time souvenir !
Well that was just fantastic. Rundle street, Cox Foys, Flash Gelati, Popeye boat in the Torrens, Glenelg without the monstrous block of flats everywhere. I would have been 4 or 5 when this film was made. So glad I found this clip!
In 1966 it was still the "6 o'clock swill" in Adelaide, where the bars closed at 6pm. All the workers get out of work and drink as quick as they could before closing, resulting in rampant drunkenness. Then Donny Dunstan changed it to 10 pm closing and all calmed down. One other thing Donny did for South Australia was to be the first in Australia, and nearly everywhere else in the world to lower the age of voting, drinking, gambling and all else from 21 to 18. I can remember the exact date this came into effect. It was on April 15th, 1971. It was precisely on my 18th birthday and my boss took me to the pub for lunch and drinks...two pints and a schooner! I did not do a lot of work for the rest of that day!
Adelaide was so cool back then.. and everyone looks so dapper 🙏 i was born in 88 but wish i was born in this generation today in Adelaide people barely will wave and say hello all to distracted by technology its actually really sad.
I was stationed at RAAF Edinburgh Field with the RAF in 1962-64 ,Adelaide then was a delightful place to live . We lived at Kuralta pk on the Azac Highway . I remember Rundle St which was a lovely shopping street in the city ,and my wife worked at the Chrysler factory. I also remember the Torrens river which was just beautiful . Some of the most delightful memories I have of the city of churches .
One of the advantages of working in the service sector in Australia was that the best looking girls stayed clear away from manufacturing jobs. I remember my days of working in a temp agency in Sydney in the nineties. All the waitresses looked like fashion models, I kid you not. Apart from the Australians They came from all over the world. From England, France, Italy, Ireland etc. There was a hot number from Sweden as well. It was fun working in Australia and the hourly wage rate is the best in the world.
Would be funny watching someone pull a telephone out if their waistcoat pocket in 1966. A phone was about the size of a toaster and came with a cord and plug. XD
I was 5 yrs old when this film was produced,I remember the pool which is featured in this short movie near the end,it was in Rymill Pk. There are a lot of other things I remember also like the shacks along the suburban beachs. Thanks for putting this on TH-cam,its excellent (and peacefull).
great piece of history captured on film, I was 5 or 6 when this was produced. I remember the wading pool (near the end of the film) in the Parks on East Tce. I also remember watching people ski on the Patawalunga river at Glenelg. Adelaide was a different place back then more laid back & friendly. Lots has changed since the 60's some for the good some not so good,our public transport is very insufficient,we had a good city and country rail system ,now we have no country train services at all,as much as I love Adelaide it will always be a back water town because people here(majority) do not like progress.
Excellent observation, in context of adelaide Mark. I agree with you. Adelaide will continue, to be a backwater town. The technology i enjoy these days. Smartphones and computers. Have never regarded, adelaide as a city. Not large enough for that. More logically, it is a large country town. That is how, some american tourists see it as. This town could have achieved potential, but some citizens do not like development. A certain percentage of adelaide people, have a strange mindset. I shall never comprehend it. Even where i be in the country ranges, some people have an odd attitude. Not quite as severe, in comparison to those " Old Adelaide Town ", inhabitants. LOL! For example i once experimented, wearing a hat style, that dates back to the 16th and 15th centuries. This hat style was favoured, by comedians in england and europe. While being served, by a male supermarket employee, i felt very offended by his reaction. I have forgotten his name, but do posess an excellent memory of faces. He was tall with dark hair. Sort of a lanky build. Approximately in his 20's age group. This employee regarded me, as though i was an idiot. That facial expression of, " What is that silly old fart doing ?." For me he looked traumatic. Or possibly he, did not know what to think. There is a canadian actor, who has incredible facial expressions. I would like to have Jim Carreys skill. Love it when people look puzzled. Why do certain jobs, have an effect on people?. For example: Librarians tend to be conservative. Newsagency employees, seem a bit strait laced. Actually the only trades people, i feel comfortable with are butchers. Why is it, that all butchers have a good sense of humor?. Actually i have allways respected, plus admired butchers. Predominantly because of their humor. By the same token, they are polite and respectful. Most important, they enjoy their occupation. I wish my Grandma ( Oma ) and Dad, were still alive these days. Babcia and Tata would have laughed, upon seeing my 15th/16th century style comedians hat. My experiments are very random. To me it is a psychology test, to analyse human nature. The butchers in supermarket mall, showed a positive reaction and smiled. They also had a laugh, which i appreciated and expected. Newsagency employees, sort of looked baffled. They possibly smiled discreetly, but it did not look genuine. The supermarket employees, appeared to have mixed reactions. Most of them looked puzzled. That sort of " He is a crazy old dude " type facial expressions. It be obvious by now, that my parents are from europe. I was born in adelaide, but my heart will allways, belong to Europe. Mum (Mutter) and Dad ( Tata ) almost migrated to Canada. They did not know australia existed. WOW! Yes that is how it used, to be in certain nations of europe.
it's not a backwater because 'people don't like progress'. people here don't give a shit about heritage demolishing history. It is and always will remain a backwater due to it's parochial suburban mindset, it's small minded outlook, it's false boast of being 'cultured' and its willingness to put down the east coast cities in a (feeble) attempt to make itself feel better about all the lame things which dominate. It's a great place if you want children and suburbia or if you're chronically unimaginative, otherwise, get the hell out while you're young. The mindset is insidious and toxic.
colin carpenter how do I know what? That Adelaide doesn't care about its little remaining heritage or that it's a cultural backwater? Or that the mindset is toxic and insidious? Well, I'm fairly well qualified to understand this being as though I lived in Adelaide from 1980-83, again from 1987-92 and again now from 2011-. I've spent most of my life in big cities and see that the cloistered suburban wasteland is damaging for any inteelegent mind in the long term. Sure, it's a great 'lifestyle' if you're only interested in the new model BBQ TV or lawn mower but if you want to be a part of something bigger, realise where you are and expand your horizons. Adelaide encapsulates all that is selfish and insular in Australian society. Does this answer your very vague question/s?
walter kenyon The reason I'm here is nobody's business. Suffice to say that there's work and family to consider. Yeah, it's a rant but Adelaide needs a kick up the arse and no, I'm not some old fool going off on a tangent I just prefer other places and because I haven't been back here that long, I'm still irked by the inadequacies of the place. I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. If you like Adelaide then you're lucky to live there.
It's interesting to watch especially with some of the buildings that are still there. Where was the wading pool, never knew we had one. My dad had a FB wagon exactly the same as in the clip, same blue.
what a beautiful time to live in australia, our fore fathers were smart, we had strong manufacturing, we made everything that a country needed , high import tariffs protected our factories from the cheap slave labour from Asian countries , now we have free trade, our factories all gone, sidchrome, victa mowers, Stanley tools , holden, to name a few, all gone because of cheap Asian imports , now we are selling out to china, there buying our land, migrating in the tens of thousands, some Aussie suburbs look more like china, governments sold Australians out , RIP AUSTRALIA
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My name is Álvaro and I am the one playing the guitar at Il Bistro In Life in Australia: Adelaide. I lived ten years in that beautiful country!.
Alvaro Lecuona Hi Alvaro, wow thanks for letting us know. That is a good little feature you got in that film. Nice guitar playing.
Thanks for being so kind with me. This is wonderful!.
Il Bistro Rest. was at Hindley st.,
+Alvaro Lecuona That's brilliant! Wonderful guitar playing. :)
Thats sooooo cool lol
It's crazy that despite how much Adelaide has changed since then, almost all of the places shown are totally recognisable and the character has remained.
shit hole nowadays
It's just the people who have changed really.
I was born that year in Adelaide. This was like a romantic movie except for the smoking indoors lol. What a lovely era. Local products locally made, normal sized healthy people doing healthy activities, speaking to each other, manners, cleanliness, no boozing or drugs in the parks or being harassed. Normal families doing normal fun. People dressed immaculately with class and style.
Omg society has gone downhill so fast in such a short time
Brought back memories of working in Adelaide and the old buildings Cox Foys, railway station, riding on the boat on the Torrens, lovely days, fashion, cars, scenery, restaurants...thankyou😊
I love as someone born in 2001 that I can recognise everything in this video. Adelaide just seems like it’s always had a certain charm to it. I don’t get why people bash on it so hard sometimes.
Being 70 and living in Adelaide my whole life I recognised and remember it well . So nostalgic!
excellent stuff, really enjoyed it, I came to Adelaide in 1974.... aged 8 ... havent left.
It still is a beautiful city
The old Public B.B.Q. stocked with wood, no charge and no one would pinch the wood what a set up!!!! No vandals back in them days I must be dreaming.
That’s because everyone was white
@@Seánybruv that’s crazy, a comment about race left without abuse for a month
I’m living in Adelaide now. It’s amazing to see that I can still recognize different parts of the Adelaide CBD. They really kept those iconic buildings until today :)
Yeah, they call it 'Heritage Listing', even if it's an old tin shed, or a dilapidated barber shop. Only in Adelaide.
I saw you at Victoria square yesterday
@@dv2735 Fuck off you freak ahahhahaha
Thank you so much. I was born in Adelaide, in 1966, and your film gave me the opportunity of seeing life through my mother's eyes. She and my father used to take long walks around the city when she was pregnant with me.
I remember living in Kilkenny around 1960 - 65 and hearing the sound of clip clop coming down the street every morning around 9am, it was a horse towing a bakers van (might have been Tip Top) delivering freshly made loaves of bread and a finger bun for me, not the crappy sliced stuff you get today. Also remembering to put out our empty glass milk bottles with coins for the milky to deliver fresh milk every morning, never had any one steal the money before the milky arrived, and the milk was milk, with an inch of cream at the top of the bottle.
No video games or mobile phones, made our own fun playing marbles with the kids down the street, cricket out on the street, used a rubbish bin as a wicket and get off the road when a car came along, kicking an old bloated football, (never had a new one ) or flying a home made kite.
Great days.
I love the jazzy sound tracks to these films. Ahh, those were the days, and even musicians had work!
very true. before the dark times...
My family had only been living in Adelaide for three years in the year of 1966, when we came over from the U K. I haven't lived in S A for many years, but I remember every street, the River Torrens, the Botanical Gardens, Glenelg, the tram, Adelaide Zoo, and many of the suburbs, like it was yesterday. Life was much easier back then.
Please take me back to that time.
2021....Australia has gone down the tubes.
Can confirm.
Hate comments like this
Have you seen the rest of the world?
yeah... even more down the tubes... @@pepper419
It brought back memories of visiting Adelaide in the 1960's. I was a 6 year old when this was filmed. My Granny lived at Parkside and I loved it all. I lived 200kms away on a farm and I just loved the buzz of the city the sights and sounds and smells.
Footage of the Chrysler factory is awesome, some great cars built there. These were the days Australia made things, now we make nothing.
my great great grandfather started that factory...one of the first Aussie cars...Richards and sons...then became Chrysler, then Mitsu....but I guess you knew all that
You are so correct, how depressing
satan corporation has fool3d most good people. blessed are the car makers.
I learnt to drive in a Chrysler lol
John Howard happened
Nice guitar skills Alvaro! We very much enjoyed your part in this film. Thank you for letting us know you're out there! Health & long life to you!!
I was 13 during 1966.
Began my first job as an, apprentice italian marble stonemason in 1969.
Adelaide was different back then.
People were more friendly.
I feel as though, it was from about 1988 that attitudes changed.
During the 60's and 70's employment was easier.
You would approach, the foreman or boss of firm, with a relevant enquiry.
The boss or his foreman, would set up an interview date.
Then the employer, would notify you of a probationary period.
Also there, would be a preliminary induction, on first day of employment.
None of this , having to register with agencies.
These days it is, very humiliating seeking employment.
Just about feels like you are begging.
The budget has to be, organised very carefully.
No such thing as petrol allowance.
This is what other, people on centrelink benefits, would experience also.
The week you are not paid, by the government i refer to as " The quiet week ".
Why?. Because i keep my meals very basic and simple.
Can not afford to go visit friends, because of the petrol cost.
Even with my four cylinder car, i have to be ever so frugal.
Centrelink pay day, is on wednesday of the second week.
I only get to spoil myself, to the extent of moderation.
Moderation? LOL! Yes exactly.
Counter meal at the pub. No chance of that.
Far too extravagant, on the miserable pittance, this obviously corrupt government pays.
The meals i spoil myself with, are chips with a nice butterfish.
Yiros. Goulash with marinated chicken.
But this is, only on a saturday or friday evening, of the centrelink payday week.
Unemployed for two years so far!. LOL!
So while having meal, at the fish & chips cafe, i feel a bit overwhelmed.
I pretend i be at the restaurant somewhere.
Because of my budget, i just can not tolerate food being wasted.
When i see, what food people waste, it actually disgusts and angers me.
Half of their dinner plate, still has an unfinished meal on it.
For me their is no excuse for that.
Unfortunately 90%, of adelaide people have money to burn.
Selfish, arrogant, wasteful plus ignorant.
Rude and very negative attitudes.
About 95% of people, appear to be that way these days.
The attitude and mentality, of adelaide citizens has definitely become severe.
I agree with P. Nabsie.
The 60's, 70's, and 80's were the decades, when employment was easier to achieve.
At least back in those years, i was not begging for a job.
Pawel Lewis why 88 do you think pawel? very specific. Dont listen to fem chick, 'people these days have the highest standard of living?' Mmm not sure everyone would agree. Generally we all need to be a bit less generalistic haha dont you think? world is too big to be general. we need a more local approach.
Pawel Lewis hey buddy how are you......just curious where u worked as an apprentice? any chance is was on days rd ferryden pk? my dad died months before I was born....he worked as a marble polisher...he died in may 1970 when a few slabs he was moving fell on him....ive always wanted to talk to someone who may have been there that day for closure......thanks from peter
Gooday mate!.
I began my memorial mason apprenticeship,with a firm on main north road at nailsworth.
Their business name was " Neill & Shelton's ".
They were exactly opposite, the radio rentals shop. Basically on the corner of, cemetery ave and main north road.When i began apprenticeship during 1969,The car dealership next to us on cemetery ave, was " Ken Eustice ".
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My condolences for your Dad.
Thanks for replying.
thank u so much for responding ill find closure one day im sure of it...thank you for your condolences....and wow ken eustice...that takes me back
You doing alright mate?
This film was for me like the time machine! It's so nice when you can see the life style of individuals many years ago. Awsome. Friendly and beautiful peoples with smile on their faces. I have been lived there for three years, realy good peoples and good place to live!!! I think local peoples realy can proud with it.
As an American, I find Australia fascinating, and I've enjoyed this film series. There's so much I like stylistically about the 1960's, as opposed to the decade I was born in, the 1970's, in which good taste ran off the rails. I'm impressed with how each of these films captured the distinct qualities of the city or part of the country in question. I don't want to be the type of person who says, "Ah, the olden days, life was so much better back then," but thinking about how people interacted more in real life with each other, not by texting or through social media, makes me want to get out more and socialize that way as well.
Thanks for your comments Dehmitz
It convinced my parents and 48 years later we're all still here and proud Aussies!
My parents made a great decision to come here in 1970.
We arrived from the UK in February 1966 aboard the Sitmar ship Fairsea. Lived initially at the migrant hostel at Finsbury and I went to Pennington Primary School, I was aged 8 at the time. Moved to Gippsland in Victoria (Moe) not long after and then Frankston. Parents decided to return to the UK in 1973 when I was 16, I have always wondered how life would have turned out if we’d stayed. My Son (31) is now a permanent resident and will be an Australian citizen in January 2023 and his Mum and I will be there to witness it; it’s strange how things turn out.🙂
This is exactly what it was like when we arrived in Adelaide from England in 1971. Swap the cab driving for a bus ànd the secretary for the process worker and that was my parents. My sister and I took dance class too 🤣💕I was a wonderful place to grow up. We moved further out to the southern suburbs as the city grew and raised my own kids here ☺️
I was born in 1962 and remember my town of Adelaide well. Everyone in your neighbourhood knew each other. I remember coming home on deadly treadly and my dad and our neighbours from both sides of our house at Glenelg north sitting on our front fence in summer, drinking beers after work. Ppl would be walking past with their dogs and they'd stop and chat and have a beer. My childhood was perfect when i look back on it. My kids are so unlucky nowadays, ppl don't even know their neighbours anymore
Adelaide, Australias best kept secret
Hope it stays that way
@Deb only boring people get bored, as my grandma used to say.
Just drown yourself Deb. That would be a good escape. You sound like a batxxxx boring thing yourself.
@Deb did you just do a wordy version of "No, you!"? LOLWOW
Shhh!🤫
I remember all the landmarks and the clothes and hairstyles..i was 11 back then, i miss being a kid then..it was all good...long xmas holidays that lasted 8 weeks...and going to the movies in Rundle street...those were the days..the Actress is a lady called Judy Dick and she used to be in the Here's Humphrey Show....with that honey loving bear...Humphrey...🤗❤🤗
I was wondering who she was... can't find much on her though.
Love Adelaide, its situated in the middle of Australia. Whether you are from Perth or from Sydney, it doesn't take so long to travel. Beautiful city with blue skies all year round, and from beach to hills only half hour, so convenient. Definitely the best and most beautiful city in Oz.
2500km from Perth, 1400km from Sydney. Not really that close. And hardly our most beautiful city, despite it's charms.
@@hughmcinally907 The little girl and her mother was driving down the mountain and the car lost it's brakes and ran off the edge of the mountain and flipped over and over down the cliff with the little girl and her mother inside both of them were barefooted and wearing their bikini tops and bottoms
@Rodger Hodgson Don't get me wrong, I like Adelaide, but 'beautiful' is definitely not an adjective that springs to mind when I think about it. Most of Sydney is a shithole, but it is still far and away the most beautiful city in Australia.
I wouldn't say blue skies all year round, we get average of about 3-4 clear blue skies a week, but much less in the winter too. But I swear the weather looked better years old
I remember the canteen on the top floor of Cox Foys - with the blue & white tiled floor & those large aluminium trays to serve your food on!!
What a great insight 😍 I wish I experienced that 70s life. Adelaide remains as pretty as ever of course
I remember going on the Cox Foys ferris wheel in 1971, that vision bought back memories of times past
Not gonna lie I love ❤️ Australia and Adelaide been here since I was 16 and I love it ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Same here... Adelaide has been my hometown since I was 12 and my good old memories will mostly be with it. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺❤️❤️❤️
Office worker and taxi driver living a life of luxury, wanting for nothing. How did we ruin this so badly? Why did we stop making the world a better place for our children?
I was doing some research for my work and stumbled upon this. As someone who just loved to Adelaide 2 years ago, it really didn’t change much. I was in Melbourne 15 years ago and went to visit last year I was astounded that I could barely recognise the city
At a time when we made stuff, weren't the nanny state and could get a job anywhere anytime. Cars, electronics, and good public transport.
legendary comment.
Adelaide never has been a nanny state thankyou. Theres nothing wrong with adelaide. A nice small town with everything one needs.
I'm watching this now at 25, was life really that great back then? Honestly I watched the other video about life in Sydney. Back then people lived. You went to work to live, you didn't live to work.
And back then you were either a superstar or you weren't. Nowadays there is so much expectation on kids, and we are all expected to be rocket scientists or brain surgeons. We spend all this time studying only to find ourselves in dead end jobs or living on benefits.
And people knew how to live, you would leave the house and do things like dancing or going to the theatre and stuff.
And apparently people didn't do these courses unless you were going to be a doctor or a lawyer.
I wasn't alive back then of course but it seems like we're the first generation to not be better off than the one before us, depending who you ask.
Was it really that great or is this just my rose colour glasses?
@J K And how much are those crap cars worth now?
@@oldbloke204 Agree, i had one of those VC Valiants shown being built, not a new one, cost me around $1,000 in the late 70's and i wish i still had it today, worth a quite a bit now if it's in good nick.
Watching this is almost too much...I've lived all my life in Adelaide - my grandparents were 10 pound poms who brought their four kids out from England and settled in Salisbury (my Dad being one those four) - and even though this was filmed shortly before I was born, its exactly as I remember. I just adored my grandmother, who would take me into the city by train to go to stores like John Martins and Cox Foys, where we always took the lift up to the playground. It's just incredible to see it like this again, truly beyond words. To think that somewhere in this world my grandparents were still alive and living in their little two bedroom house, my parents were just about to meet and I was yet to be born. There really, really was this world already and waiting, with the past running its course (I know 100% that Nanna would've been in her kitchen baking and making pots of tea) and, unfurling as I watch, it is moving inexorably towards to the moment I was and am and will be.
Mind blowing.
People seemed to have a lot of class back then.
V Pham Australians?Class?🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@petemitchell3067 Since this original comment was 6yrs ago and yours is 2mths i am going for ever more recent. Apparently we did. Recently watched some old footage from the 70s in Whyalla. I was taken aback. What we would consider yobbo's actually spoke very proper. I was beside myself laughing. WOW
@pjdsa Spot on. Lot of well put together evil people out there. Some people do mistake someone looking clean cut as immediately trustworthy. But it aint so.
Keep in mind this was a promotional film for advertising adelaide as a city. Likely in order to attract immigrants. Of course they're gonna show it as more classy and sophisticated.
High standards, social manners and respect
I remember this era. My father was stationed at RAAF Edinburgh Field as part of an RAF detachment. We lived in Elizabeth, a large and growing suburb not far from beautiful Adelaide, which we often took the train to. We loved the open sided wooden seated trains which travelled along with the cattle-truck style doors wide open! We visited the offices of a newspaper - I think it was "The Australian" where we were told they had a page all typeset and ready to go for when the bad news would come that the Queen had died. That page (no doubt long since digitized) would be about fifty years old now and no doubt periodically reviewed and amended, still in the safe! Adelaide was so pretty, set out in concentric belts of parkland and handsome buildings, with the statue of Colonel Light, its founder, overlooking the city on Light's Stand. Spectacular sunsets and great beauty. What a lovely place! I'll never forget it.
"We visited the offices of a newspaper - I think it was "The Australian" " . . . that would have been The Advertiser, still in print, but also online now.
I guess that would have been the Queen Mothers death in 2002 ?
Still all those things
this is a great snap shot of days gone bye Thanks for posting
I'm only 17 years old, but the 60s looked awesome. I've always thought I was born in the wrong time.
26 now lol
Would look the same if the globalists didn't leave their ugly mark on it
at 10:41...the ferris wheel and amusements on top of the old Cox Foys building, Rundle St (later Mall.) My mum used to take me up there when I was a little kid. I tell people now and they think I'm crazy but here's the proof!
+killerbunyip Would have been great fun.
Yeah, I remember the ferris wheel, it was scary for a little kid .
Same here lived in Adelaide all my life ... The cafe in the Coles building with those red spinning stools :) the old MTT buses :)
My grand father and i went for a ride on that ferris wheel when it was positioned so that the carriages went past the edge ,or side of the building, you could look straight down to the foot path . Very scary for me as i was only 7.
Those are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
J.Lennon
Yes hi would dated around 1967 because of the Valiant cars on the production line and the taxi being used and also everything else around the place.Thanks to the person/s who put this clip on,very good.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
I think early 1967, judging by the girls’s fashions and hairstyles. I used to work at Cox Foys in the school holidays and have ridden on that Ferris wheel. 🎡
I was living in the Adelaide hills as a 6 year old when this was made :)
time has changed slot.. I wish I could experience this kind of adelaide today,.
now its so different feels like no one is as friendly as before. gotta love the old days
Interesting to note that Sorrento's Restaurant advertised (front window) a TELEPHONE (presumably a payphone) as one of its services. Ahhh for the days before mobile phones took over.
Also interesting to note that the children's recreational activity on the River Torrens bank was to simply roll down the slope. No need to have the latest PS3, xBox, iPad, iPhone, &c &c &c as well.
Bright faces, jobs galore, humble clean living... isn't it just amazing how much much can be achieved by one race, one culture, one nation -all united!
You do realise these were government propaganda films? Still plenty of battlers struggling to make ends meet, they just don't look so good on film.
I adore watching all these clips. I'm a time person and I'm always intrigued by the people in them , wondering how their futures turned out, how long they lived till and where they eventually ended up.
I feel exactly the same way!! :)
most of them think they're living upsidedown like fruitbats. it's horrible to witness. water at rest always forms a level surface. everytime.
When I was there, Modbury Hospital hadn't been built and I lived just down the street from its location. My daughter was born there just after it opened. There were vineyards in Modbury then off Montague Road. Seems strange now. I haven't seen the place in over forty years.
Was born in '62 in Adelaide, lived at Woodville, Henley Beach and Col. Light gdns., & foothills up ......still love Adelaide.
It's pretty awesome to see Horses galloping round the racetrack at Vic Park... Should bring it back and get rid of Clipsal! Adelaide is a beautiful City. People can slag it off all they like. In my heart it's a beautiful city and the people are very friendly. The ones that are not friendly end up in a barrel.. and thats 'fair dinkum.' 'Mate.'
Great video thanks for sharing. Feeling a bit old after watching this as I was 3 when this was made. Was great remembering and seeing our once great car and manufacturing industries in action.
Our pleasure!
My god, how nice were these times, when cars were still classy and people properly dressed.
Wow 1966. We (Dad, Mum, 1 Son, 4 Daughters) arrived from the UK in February aboard the Sitmar ship Fairsea. Lived initially at the migrant hostel at Finsbury and I went to Pennington Primary School, I was aged 8 at the time. Moved to Gippsland in Victoria (Moe) not long after and then Frankston in 1969. Parents decided to return to the UK in 1973 when I was 16, I have always wondered how life would have turned out if we’d stayed. My Son (31) is now a permanent resident and will be an Australian citizen in January 2023, his Mum and I will be there to witness it; it’s strange how things turn out.🙂
It's a pretty big thing leaving your homeland and family behind, I understand people moving back home.
Have a great time in Oz with your son.
Love Adelaide it’s beautiful. I wish I could visit more often
How's that - Only just the other day my Father and I were driving through Mile End and my Father was telling me the story about when he worked at Perry Engineering Co Est 1916, (the taxi drives past it at 2:52mins). It's no longer there, (replaced by huge shopping centers), and I never got to see it because it closed down in 1969 ( I was born 1968), and wish I had. What a thrill to see it here! THANK YOU so much! Subscribed!!
Great, thanks for the feedback and welcome aboard.
makes me want to cry , they had the best life the world ever had to offer !
As long as you're white and rich...
@Isabeau Valentine Holy hell what a racist policy! I'm shocked. Also, have you considered for even a single second that the australian indigenous people aren't white??
@Isabeau Valentine They still lived on the same land though. Still part of Australia, as much as you want to deny it. And what backwards kind of logic determines that multiculturalism = a civil war?
@Isabeau Valentine I'm multicultural myself, not exactly planning to start fighting people??
@Isabeau Valentine You're the naive one if you believe that the only place different ideologies and opinions come from is multiculturalism.
You're also contradicting yourself - you don't want conflicting ideologies, yet you say you don't want a totalitarian society? My friend, pick one or the other.
The ignorant one here is you. Learn to become more open-minded and kind, or you and your beliefs will be lost to the dust of history.
I was born 1961. Growing up through the 60’s was the best. Didn’t have much but had lots of great outdoor fun, It was an adventure. Values were much more important than today. Can’t get anyone’s attention now, they’re so addicted to their zombie phones. Adelaide has never been rated by the Eastern states, no respect.Great lifestyle.
Quality is so good, must of been good times, things were slowly improving and happening for Adelaide
Everyone dressed so stylish in these times
our women model themselves on transgendered males such as marilyn monroe and everyone in hollyweird
Ok boomer
@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 that says so much more about your own personal desperation.
@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 You seem obsessed with attacking transgenders? Are you projecting a little there buddy
Well we didnt have all the terrible Chinese etc imports of 2nd grade ill fitting clothing.like we have to suffer today. Clothes were properly made back then, more tailor made, quality cotton etc. Now they fall to bits, stretch out of shape, go bally, slapped together and people so gulliblely buy clothes with holes in them that are somehow trendy, beuond comprehension. Sanity and commonsense prevailed back then. They were def uncomplicated good times, slow pace. Family was so important back then.Best of all no computers and mobile phones..
Back in the day ... When we used to build our cars.
+Giles Fulton And radios.
...and hardly anybody could afford a new one, including imports, thanks to the massive tariffs placed on them. Poorly made, low tech (even for the time), modestly equipped and expensive.
@ big yin. are you a stealth transgendered person like donald trump?
Ok boomer
We made and exported back then now we import everything including people. It was better back then.
Back in the days when most of the cars (Holdens & Valiants), televisions and radios(Philips) were made in Adelaide. We're losing or have lost all those skills. If you don't use it you lose it!
It was eventually sent overseas because it became the cheaper option unfortunately.
@@PlasmaMongoose Unfortunately true, and eventually it will come back if not already to bite us.
@@PlasmaMongoose No, not really cheaper, lot of hidden costs, like privatization, it's a scam
There are no words, no dialogue, no talking and no narration voice in it.
Notice how everyone is SLIM, elegant and nicely dressed... and society has supposedly advanced? Isn’t it obvious the deterioration and just from this one video in one place
Adelaide in South Australia is a beautiful place to live. I saw all the other big cities in Australia and lived in Sydney, Brisbane and Alice Springs before my family and I moved to Adelaide. We have everything around us: the most beautiful beaches, deserts, National Parks like the Flinders Ranges, Coffin Bay National Park, Canunda National Park etc. If you like places with thousands of people, with many night clubs etc., then you should really go to Melbourne and Sydney.
Now it's Brisbane that's overrun with population and nightlife. Not to mention the Gold Coast. You did the right thing stopping in Adelaide. I cut my throat and left.
Life is portrayed as one big dreamy affair.
I.e, you agree with my comment that this video isn't realistic.
These productions are heavy stylized immigration propaganda. They look beautiful for viewing and are enticing for the right target audience but beyond that, they are just ridiculous in depiction.
Simplicity and innocence!!!
What an amazing epoch
Back then we had a smaller population and we made heaps of things here.. Now we've got a bigger city, but we don't make much of anything. Are we all going to end up serving coffees to each other in cafes? Would have been easier being a taxi driver too, as the city ended at bus stop 21! Now I live near bus stop 52, and the suburbs go way beyond.
Excellent footage. I hope someone has done the same for each decade since...
Omg so true
Ha ha ha.... yeah I wonder myself.... are we just gonna end up selling each other coffe and cake.... so ridiculous isnt it.
Lol.
I don't think they were done after that. Note the lack of any narration, these were probably designed for use in Europe to attract migrants to Australia rather than as a documentary of reality. All the features people seem to be actors...
Ok boomer
10:41 OMGosh I remember the ferris wheel up on Cox Foys from when I was a child and the Coles restaurant.
@Padeo17 Glad you liked it. We do have more films about "old" Adelaide and will be posting soon. Stay tuned!
absolutely enchanting brilliant thank you so much
Wonderful nostalgia. I landed in Adelaide from Scotland in 1965 at 14 and my father worked for Holdens
Holden is down, Sadly.
me too....at the woodville plant in '63---i put in rear windows----adelaide used to have 2 pie-carts----great pea soup
@@casscumerford5886 I remember the (balfours?) pie cart that used to sit out the front of the casino on north tce. Better times.
Ahh the memories, of a time a lot less hectic and what not than what we have these days. Even though it would be two more years after this film was made, that would be born at the Stirling Hospital in the Adelaide Hills.
Omg!!! Hahaha... I was looking for my family somewhere in this film... the horses from Dinnies stables ... yes! Grew up in Morphettville. What a revisit experience this is... it's like looking at family vids we didnt shoot ourselves.. defs show this to my children.
I'M your family 😊
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this I like watching old real footage
A fantastic piece of history, i enjoyed that
Fascinating stuff
I lived there from '73 to'77 ,loved every minute,went back last year for a wedding,hated it.
Interesting. Do tell!!
I hate weddings too.
Adelaide is amazing even back then!
The swimming pool at 19.12 is now filled in as a petanque terrain - I still play down there :), it is also the garden of decadent delights during "Mad March" - great little time souvenir !
SA used to have a lot of manufacturing, the only thing manufactured now is meth
I take it you're a resident?
Well that was just fantastic.
Rundle street, Cox Foys, Flash Gelati, Popeye boat in the Torrens, Glenelg without the monstrous block of flats everywhere.
I would have been 4 or 5 when this film was made.
So glad I found this clip!
In 1966 it was still the "6 o'clock swill" in Adelaide, where the bars closed at 6pm. All the workers get out of work and drink as quick as they could before closing, resulting in rampant drunkenness. Then Donny Dunstan changed it to 10 pm closing and all calmed down. One other thing Donny did for South Australia was to be the first in Australia, and nearly everywhere else in the world to lower the age of voting, drinking, gambling and all else from 21 to 18. I can remember the exact date this came into effect. It was on April 15th, 1971. It was precisely on my 18th birthday and my boss took me to the pub for lunch and drinks...two pints and a schooner! I did not do a lot of work for the rest of that day!
@pjdsa Yeah they'd normally grab two long necks in a brown paper bag before the bar closed for further drinking at home.
What a wonderful time it was bring back the 60 any time
The sixties look a whole lot less hectic I’d love to go back in time ❤️🇦🇺
so interesting watching this as a adelaidean, places have changed so much, but alot still i recognise
Adelaide was so cool back then.. and everyone looks so dapper 🙏 i was born in 88 but wish i was born in this generation today in Adelaide people barely will wave and say hello all to distracted by technology its actually really sad.
I was stationed at RAAF Edinburgh Field with the RAF in 1962-64 ,Adelaide then was a delightful place to live . We lived at Kuralta pk on the Azac Highway . I remember Rundle St which was a lovely shopping street in the city ,and my wife worked at the Chrysler factory. I also remember the Torrens river which was just beautiful . Some of the most delightful memories I have of the city of churches .
Love it 😊 when times seemed so much simpler and you did things with others and had family time and kids actually played outside
One of the advantages of working in the service sector in Australia was that the best looking girls stayed clear away from manufacturing jobs. I remember my days of working in a temp agency in Sydney in the nineties. All the waitresses looked like fashion models, I kid you not. Apart from the Australians They came from all over the world. From England, France, Italy, Ireland etc. There was a hot number from Sweden as well. It was fun working in Australia and the hourly wage rate is the best in the world.
Adelaide has changed dramatically, but there is a nice feeling about living in this town
That is one of the nicest things I've read so far. Thank you.
I was 10 at the time, and I recall it exactly like this!
Man those old trams where cool bring back old Adelaide and living standards!
haha can you imagine people just stepping off a tram straight into traffic now days?
1966, back when people didn't pull their phones out at the dinner table or in restaurants....
And when Holdens were gaining height in production.
+T.J. Not in this country. But don't worry, I know of countries where you can find exactly what it is you're looking for today!
I remember people read newspapers or magazines at the table back then...
Would be funny watching someone pull a telephone out if their waistcoat pocket in 1966. A phone was about the size of a toaster and came with a cord and plug. XD
when people didn't say Awsome every 5 seconds
and didn't dress like rejects
The painting class - is that in the Schultz building? Now part of Adelaide Uni, but at the time would have been part of the Teachers College
I was 5 yrs old when this film was produced,I remember the pool which is featured in this short movie near the end,it was in Rymill Pk. There are a lot of other things I remember also like the shacks along the suburban beachs.
Thanks for putting this on TH-cam,its excellent (and peacefull).
The Pat when people used to be able to swim in it...and the Ferris whell on top of Cox Foys...I remember it well :)
OMG the Cox Foys rooftop amusements, I rode on those as a kid
great piece of history captured on film, I was 5 or 6 when this was produced. I remember the wading pool (near the end of the film) in the Parks on East Tce. I also remember watching people ski on the Patawalunga river at Glenelg. Adelaide was a different place back then more laid back & friendly. Lots has changed since the 60's some for the good some not so good,our public transport is very insufficient,we had a good city and country rail system ,now we have no country train services at all,as much as I love Adelaide it will always be a back water town because people here(majority) do not like progress.
Excellent observation, in context of adelaide Mark.
I agree with you.
Adelaide will continue, to be a backwater town.
The technology i enjoy these days.
Smartphones and computers.
Have never regarded, adelaide as a city.
Not large enough for that.
More logically, it is a large country town.
That is how, some american tourists see it as.
This town could have achieved potential, but some citizens do not like development.
A certain percentage of adelaide people, have a strange mindset.
I shall never comprehend it.
Even where i be in the country ranges, some people have an odd attitude.
Not quite as severe, in comparison to those " Old Adelaide Town ", inhabitants. LOL!
For example i once experimented, wearing a hat style, that dates back to the 16th and 15th centuries.
This hat style was favoured, by comedians in england and europe.
While being served, by a male supermarket employee, i felt very offended by his reaction.
I have forgotten his name, but do posess an excellent memory of faces.
He was tall with dark hair.
Sort of a lanky build.
Approximately in his 20's age group.
This employee regarded me, as though i was an idiot.
That facial expression of, " What is that silly old fart doing ?."
For me he looked traumatic.
Or possibly he, did not know what to think.
There is a canadian actor, who has incredible facial expressions.
I would like to have Jim Carreys skill.
Love it when people look puzzled.
Why do certain jobs, have an effect on people?.
For example: Librarians tend to be conservative.
Newsagency employees, seem a bit strait laced.
Actually the only trades people, i feel comfortable with are butchers.
Why is it, that all butchers have a good sense of humor?.
Actually i have allways respected, plus admired butchers.
Predominantly because of their humor.
By the same token, they are polite and respectful.
Most important, they enjoy their occupation.
I wish my Grandma ( Oma ) and Dad, were still alive these days.
Babcia and Tata would have laughed, upon seeing my 15th/16th century style comedians hat.
My experiments are very random.
To me it is a psychology test, to analyse human nature.
The butchers in supermarket mall, showed a positive reaction and smiled.
They also had a laugh, which i appreciated and expected.
Newsagency employees, sort of looked baffled.
They possibly smiled discreetly, but it did not look genuine.
The supermarket employees, appeared to have mixed reactions.
Most of them looked puzzled.
That sort of " He is a crazy old dude " type facial expressions.
It be obvious by now, that my parents are from europe.
I was born in adelaide, but my heart will allways, belong to Europe.
Mum (Mutter) and Dad ( Tata ) almost migrated to Canada.
They did not know australia existed.
WOW! Yes that is how it used, to be in certain nations of europe.
it's not a backwater because 'people don't like progress'. people here don't give a shit about heritage demolishing history. It is and always will remain a backwater due to it's parochial suburban mindset, it's small minded outlook, it's false boast of being 'cultured' and its willingness to put down the east coast cities in a (feeble) attempt to make itself feel better about all the lame things which dominate. It's a great place if you want children and suburbia or if you're chronically unimaginative, otherwise, get the hell out while you're young. The mindset is insidious and toxic.
walter kenyon and u know this how
colin carpenter how do I know what? That Adelaide doesn't care about its little remaining heritage or that it's a cultural backwater? Or that the mindset is toxic and insidious? Well, I'm fairly well qualified to understand this being as though I lived in Adelaide from 1980-83, again from 1987-92 and again now from 2011-. I've spent most of my life in big cities and see that the cloistered suburban wasteland is damaging for any inteelegent mind in the long term. Sure, it's a great 'lifestyle' if you're only interested in the new model BBQ TV or lawn mower but if you want to be a part of something bigger, realise where you are and expand your horizons. Adelaide encapsulates all that is selfish and insular in Australian society. Does this answer your very vague question/s?
walter kenyon The reason I'm here is nobody's business. Suffice to say that there's work and family to consider. Yeah, it's a rant but Adelaide needs a kick up the arse and no, I'm not some old fool going off on a tangent I just prefer other places and because I haven't been back here that long, I'm still irked by the inadequacies of the place. I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. If you like Adelaide then you're lucky to live there.
It's interesting to watch especially with some of the buildings that are still there. Where was the wading pool, never knew we had one. My dad had a FB wagon exactly the same as in the clip, same blue.
what a beautiful time to live in australia, our fore fathers were smart, we had strong manufacturing, we made everything that a country needed , high import tariffs protected our factories from the cheap slave labour from Asian countries , now we have free trade, our factories all gone, sidchrome, victa mowers, Stanley tools , holden, to name a few, all gone because of cheap Asian imports , now we are selling out to china, there buying our land, migrating in the tens of thousands, some Aussie suburbs look more like china, governments sold Australians out , RIP AUSTRALIA
I'm American and last went to Australia in 2009, but regrettably, I never had the chance to see Adelaide. What's the city like nowadays?