We moved to Vic from Qld in 1969. I was 10 in 1972. I remember mum taking us to the movies in Melbourne on school holidays. Always a crowd. Left Vic in 1992. Have been back on a few occasions. Not the place it used to be. Too crowded. And I felt like a stranger in my own country
Thanks for the memories, the Melbourne I knew as a country lad spending school holidays in the city with relatives. The trams, red rattler and blue trains, picnics in the city parks, day trips to Lilydale and Belgrave, less people and a more relaxed pace and a great vibe, not like today.
Melbourne In 1972. This is amazing. I was 6 years old in 72. I remember those Sunday drives to the Dandenongs where you could buy a bag of apples from the apple orchards where suburbs stand today. My father would do the short drive to Port Melbourne where we’d see what ships were in port. First year of school at Auburn Primary...how things have changed.
Gezza, you are a champ. Lets ride that nostalgia train forever. All the cars were Aussie built, no fat kids or adults for that matter. Jumped up and down the Yarra a bit. Was up there last week in my boat , went all the way to the Abbotsford convent. Its like another world up there, Found out after you are not supposed to go up higher than Johnston St bridge in a motor boat. Oh well no harm done. Jets skis are banned from the Yarra. Thats a Godsend.On parts of the river you could imagine yourself up on the Murray. Just trees and shrubs right down to the rivers edge. Thanks for your posts. Offer still stands for that Melbourne Bitter longneck and son=me dimmies on the riverbank at Scotch College or the girls school a bit higher up. Cheers
If only we could go back to those times. I actually shed a tear or two remembering what things were like. I grieve for the 70’s and 80’s. Thanks for the great vid.
The 1960s & 70s. What different times they were. I had my own property in the suburb of Kensington. In the late 70s, I moved north. During some of my recent visits to Melbourne, I cant help feeling a sense of loss. It seems to be way over populated ... or is that just due to my old age?
I was also born in 1980 and grew up in Melbourne. I left in 2020. It's an entirely different place now, and for me, words cannot describe the colossal change - not only tangibly but intangibly too. It's bittersweet to visit - there's a persistent undercurrent of nostalgia & loss.
At 3:15 good to see the not often filmed Williamstown City Council run Short Road Ferry before the change in the terminals broke the chain it used to keep it on course. Then a sinking and the opening of the West Gate Bridge sealed its fate. Watching the chains used to pull it along was always a point of interest in my youth but seldom filmed.
Sad end for the old girl. Like everything else of any historic value in Melbourne it gets burned before you can asseemble a restoration group. Used that ferry a lot as a kid in the mid 60s. Cost 5 cents if you were on a bike. Never had tha much money when I was 12 and the ticket guy would let us ride for free.
My Grandad and namesake, Stephen Farmer, was it's captain...straight from the war up until 1958 when he dropped dead due to a heart attack, probably caused by continued exertion.
The visual scale of the city back then was so much nicer than today. The buildings had a more human scale with most high rise buildings being under 25 stories.
Here's the thing, I'm struck by how familiar it all still is. Almost all the river scenes except the Westgate precinct of course are instantly recognizable.
Great to see my home town in the year I was born. It was ever more interesting since I took my family kayaking down the same parts of the Yarra last weekend👍
From a state government department documentary promotion. So it would be rare to be shot in anything less than 16mm. 8mm regarded then as an amateurs film size.
Talk about seeing things through rose coloured glasses.Melbourne 1972 was a grubby lifeless s….hole.I worked in the city all through that year.Love Melbourne now
We don't have to have been to Melbourne to love this stuff. The Melbourne locals here commenting about how they MISS the "way things were" ought to consider how EVERY CITY of distinction Has LOST what we once had And how *patrimonie* for architecture and other material heritage is a major shame no matter your home town I would say however... some are more dynamic than others while at the SAME time maintaining their STATIC elements London is different a YEAR after you left it... but you go back and nothing is there but then in so many cases there they are... London wall eg ... just a bit diff Vancouver COMPLETELY CHANGES like every decade... they have heart break coz a famous old historic restaurant has had to close after 9 years... Etc etc We mourn the days of a manufacturing sector but forget how much just about everyone hated working in a factory. We mourn the loss of those classic cars... but if yer like me... lived in a dense city served by public transport--for over 25 years no car--you get to see how car culture HELPED RUIN much of that you miss And how the dynamic of living in single family homes has ravaged the unified sense of belonging that those who know what a close knit walkable town can feel like... to the point Australia is still primarily a car culture society and this aspect has far more impact on our social identity than who made the car or how we make cash. Love your vids!
Cheers Jonathan, I remember hearing Tony the cabbie from 7Up stating how London had changed for the worst in the late 90s, that started to make me think what other cities around the world had locals thinking the same.
High density living has destroyed Melbourne. Governments have a lot to answer for. the situation with cars has been made far worse by idiotic planning decisions trying to force everyone to live within a ‘walkable’ neighbourhood.
Very idyllic - though the city has grown since then, it has held itself much better than most other cities in the world. And that is the reason Melbourne ranks in the top 10 cities in most global rankings.
The Melbourne of my youth - the people's Melbourne.1 year before they sold us off to the globalists. 2024, Melbournians traumatized for generations into the future and still no-one held to account for the crimes against it's beautiful people and this beautiful city.😢
@@robertlanz3124 Right. He closed all the tech schools, primary schools , let the developers run rampant . Fostered the breakout of multi unit developments on former single blocks of land. Sold Docklands to developers for $300 an acre. They built that horrible death valley horror of a bleak wind blown future slum which still doesnt function . Allowed the foorball ground in the most beautiful dock view location. Yeah he did such a great job, lost the absolutely safe blue ribbon liberal seat of Ashburton to labor thats how much he was loved. I could swear but my mum told me if you have nothing good to say. Tried to give that most iconic site in Australia , Point Gellibrand in Williamstown to the developers for housing. Lucky he got flicked and it didnt go ahead.Also tried that with the Truganina Explosives site in Altona but got stopped there by his massive fail in the next election.
@@robertlanz3124 No argument there . But he made significant and utterly disastrous changes to the planning process . He also tried to gag the Auditor General. I was working in both television news and talk back radio around that time and had dealings with Jeff.On a personal level I didn't mi nd him.And, yes, he inherited a mess. But he also got up to things.
@@romandybala Lol...widespread School closures begun under Kirner... in 1991 mine closed, quite rightly as there were only about 27 kids in Yr. 11 and 12 combined ....tech schools?...The ALP took away the need for tech schools by signing up to Agenda 21 in the 1970's, their focus always being the destruction of the manufacturing industry "it facillitates the arms race!!" Oh they built a football ground!! All those unwashed people congregating so near the CBD!! "Why couldn't it have an art gallery or Safe Space for Indetermined-Gendered Marginalised Vegans ?" And anyway, the closeness of developers to the ALP in the past 20 years dwarfs anything from the Kennett-era...gotta keep Setka and his gangsters happy...someone will write about it one day, although you'd have to look hard given 99% of media are ALP/Green stooges
Every building block begun by Kennett has been subsequently supported, endorsed and built-on by two decades of Labor. The AGP, rampant development, privatisation (99 year lease in the Port of Melbourne) The ALP only has a radical cultural agenda separating themselves from the LNP. What would you have accepted at the Gas site? Mock Victoriana or mock Georgian piles you see at Point Cook, with pencil pines and a mid-level German sedan out the front?
I cant understand many of these nostalgic comments. Australia was still fighting then in Vietnam with a conscript army. All big shops in Vic closed at 12:30 on Saturday and all day Sunday, including all supermarkets. If you ran out of something you hoped it was in a Milk Bar (at twice the price) There were no atm bank machines. Few houses had air conditioning. No internet, iphones, google, facebook etc etc. If you went back to 1972 you'd be lost.
Lets take an alternate view: Milk bars didn't charge twice, maybe 10 or 20% more, they also delivered, you forget the weekend markets were always an interesting place to shop on weekends if that was your thing, Vic Market and many others had you covered :) People got paid in 'cash', you didn't need ATMs, because the banks didn't have your money! Every other street had a well staffed bank branch, deposits and withdrawals only took moments. That's right, the banks had to earn your money, they didn't get your money automatically like they do now, they had to pay you interest and your savings book had your balance and transactions in it.. decades before mobile apps displayed the same information... If you wanted Air Con, you could have it, and heating too. No social media... this is bad ... because? If you finished work at 5:00pm on a Friday, your week was done, go and enjoy weekend, no hassling via mobile, insta messaging from boss asking you to pull yet another weekender for no pay. Wanted to speak to someone... catch up with them or call them on the phone!! :) Also.. there were computer networks, early Bulletin board software was a thing back then.
Australia was a great country in its hey day Australia is still a good country but the people have changed for the worse drugs and money and technology and mobile phones not much left.
I was only 1 but I remember maybe around 6-7 mama taking us all to the botanical park as well as Melbourne city me looking up at the skyscrapers 🏙 I can’t help but feel an intense sadness because everything has changed GONE ARE THE DAYS 😢 people are different, society’s changed love , kindness a sense of friendliness everything for me has regressed corruption is widespread the warmth is gone 😢😭😰
so many great memories of days gone by.. thanks again Gezza … I worked at that old G&F building/s in the late 80s and remember so many birdman rallies and waterskiing shows (Moomba) in the 70s.. great times when things were simpler… 🙏🏼🦘🦘🇦🇺
When life was normal and happy !!
No mobile phones or social media , what a truly beautiful city Melbourne once was .
Such beauty
It will never be the same
I want to go back...I want to go back forever!!!!
You can't go back Marty McFly.
@@alansimmonds9030 I know. Just miss it so much thats all.
Me too
We moved to Vic from Qld in 1969. I was 10 in 1972. I remember mum taking us to the movies in Melbourne on school holidays. Always a crowd. Left Vic in 1992. Have been back on a few occasions. Not the place it used to be. Too crowded. And I felt like a stranger in my own country
Yep. Labor want to flood us with another 1.5 million over the next few years ..they are insane ..vote NO to save Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks for the memories, the Melbourne I knew as a country lad spending school holidays in the city with relatives. The trams, red rattler and blue trains, picnics in the city parks, day trips to Lilydale and Belgrave, less people and a more relaxed pace and a great vibe, not like today.
Better looking than today.
Yep anarchic global capitalism, no sense of style and destroying of the beautiful old buikdings
@@andrewreed1329 yes, exactly.
@@JohnJohn-zn8ib th-cam.com/video/kvsuyFTZd7A/w-d-xo.html
Take me back.
Nice, I was a lad of 11 living out in the Dandenongs so did not get into Melbourne much. That was a journey back then.
When life was simple,the good old days
Thanks for the memories ❤
R.i.p melbourne and everything that was beautiful.Gone forever!
What do you think destroyed it.?
I still love Melbourne
Nice playing of Fire and Rain. Thanks Dan. Fantastic memories.
Looks so clean, green and peaceful :)
WOW..at 208 min.commonwealth aircraft factory and a baby west gate bridge happerning...thanks GEZZA luv ya work..
Melbourne In 1972. This is amazing. I was 6 years old in 72. I remember those Sunday drives to the Dandenongs where you could buy a bag of apples from the apple orchards where suburbs stand today. My father would do the short drive to Port Melbourne where we’d see what ships were in port. First year of school at Auburn Primary...how things have changed.
Gezza, you are a champ. Lets ride that nostalgia train forever. All the cars were Aussie built, no fat kids or adults for that matter. Jumped up and down the Yarra a bit. Was up there last week in my boat , went all the way to the Abbotsford convent. Its like another world up there, Found out after you are not supposed to go up higher than Johnston St bridge in a motor boat. Oh well no harm done. Jets skis are banned from the Yarra. Thats a Godsend.On parts of the river you could imagine yourself up on the Murray. Just trees and shrubs right down to the rivers edge.
Thanks for your posts. Offer still stands for that Melbourne Bitter longneck and son=me dimmies on the riverbank at Scotch College or the girls school a bit higher up. Cheers
Stop posting these videos I can't stand to see what I have lost. Just kidding, keep posting them they bring back good memories.
Gone! Its finished.Life will never be the same in melbourne again
I remember this summer. We were just about out of Vietnam and the sixties were over. Simple uncomplicated times. And the summers were hotter.
Thanks again for rekindling my youth growing up in a Melbourne that I remember fondly, not what it has become.
If only we could go back to those times. I actually shed a tear or two remembering what things were like. I grieve for the 70’s and 80’s. Thanks for the great vid.
The good old days!!
Beautiful old footage, I remember 1972 very well. Melbourne is a grand old lady 😊
Yes she was. Feel she has changed too much for this old boy
And as much as I love Melbourne - now she's become just another world weary shithole. Pity.
Was.... It's not like this no more and never again
How nice it was around the Yarra River 😢
3:22 A disappearing site...an old school cargo ship. With cranes and holds, the last of a dying breed before containerization.
Studley Park, Kane’s Bridge, yet another wonderful trip down memory lane. Thanks Gezza 👍
Oh, to be able to go back & live out my life there.
I left Melbourne in 73,never forget when the Williamstown Ferry broke the upriver side chain,thought we was going to be washed out into the bay.
aarrr yeerrr love the music as well...sweet
Those were the days my friend.
And they call what we've done progress. If that's so then nothing good comes from progress
Thank you for uploading these
The only docco I’ve seen of Melbourne without Melbourne trams anywhere haha
The 1960s & 70s. What different times they were. I had my own property in the suburb of Kensington. In the late 70s, I moved north. During some of my recent visits to Melbourne, I cant help feeling a sense of loss. It seems to be way over populated ... or is that just due to my old age?
No your right. I was born in 1980 and I had seen the massive changes to Melbourne. I'm lucky to have seen the lovely city it once was.
No it’s subdivisions and developers building high rises in suburbs! 😞
I was also born in 1980 and grew up in Melbourne. I left in 2020. It's an entirely different place now, and for me, words cannot describe the colossal change - not only tangibly but intangibly too. It's bittersweet to visit - there's a persistent undercurrent of nostalgia & loss.
Thank you 💕 for sharing this video of marvellous Melbourne in 1972 !
Love the guitar accompanying the video.❤
Wow outstanding fine and share 👏
I remember the ferry , great times 👍😊
At 3:15 good to see the not often filmed Williamstown City Council run Short Road Ferry before the change in the terminals broke the chain it used to keep it on course. Then a sinking and the opening of the West Gate Bridge sealed its fate.
Watching the chains used to pull it along was always a point of interest in my youth but seldom filmed.
Sad end for the old girl. Like everything else of any historic value in Melbourne it gets burned before you can asseemble a restoration group. Used that ferry a lot as a kid in the mid 60s. Cost 5 cents if you were on a bike. Never had tha much money when I was 12 and the ticket guy would let us ride for free.
My Grandad and namesake, Stephen Farmer, was it's captain...straight from the war up until 1958 when he dropped dead due to a heart attack, probably caused by continued exertion.
Loved the old ferry,
Some other rare coverage of the ferry :
th-cam.com/video/WMwQ0sWVsAQ/w-d-xo.html
And wow, the Westgate under construction in the background. That's a brilliant clip.
Nice film. Brings back memories of fun times around the Yarra.
The visual scale of the city back then was so much nicer than today. The buildings had a more human scale with most high rise buildings being under 25 stories.
Here's the thing, I'm struck by how familiar it all still is. Almost all the river scenes except the Westgate precinct of course are instantly recognizable.
1:55 BHP building, the tallest in Melbourne at the time.
Great memories nice footage ✌️
Good valuable film. Good knowledgeable comments. You've got something good going on here Gezza.
Great to see my home town in the year I was born. It was ever more interesting since I took my family kayaking down the same parts of the Yarra last weekend👍
Loved every part
Just found your channel by chance yesterday Gezza. Amazing footage and brilliant memories.
Excellent quality, thanks for posting.
Paradise 😌
Don’t quote me but I have a feeling the rural roads are the end are going over the Black Spur outside Healesville. Sort of looks similar.
Oddly enough as soon as I saw that same footage I thought it was on Mt Dand Tourist Rd on way to Olinda ?
@@pauldixon1766 yeah, top of the hill between Sassafras and Olinda, driven it a thousand times, live here, knew it straight away
I thought it was between Belgrave and Kallista.
@@sonycans yeah, same road
This is the same year my parents first met at Luna Park as teenagers
Really enjoying watching these videos.
Know exactly where that rope swing was, jumped off it more times than I can count.
The good old day's
Thank you gezza. . ..
Where did those 52 years go? They just flew by.
me too
Just Love #Melbourne - Full Stop!!
another stroke of Gezza genius
Wow. Why do i know this track. I remember 😢 it. But i forget how
@@Tanyushinki Fire and Rain 👍
Well done Gezza
Gentler, and dare I say better, days. 1972 was the year I joined the Army.
I was 11 and practising my ' Hey Charger '.
Days gone by
wow, was this shot on 16mm? lovely to see this archival footage
I’d like to know too
From a state government department documentary promotion.
So it would be rare to be shot in anything less than 16mm.
8mm regarded then as an amateurs film size.
Talk about seeing things through rose coloured glasses.Melbourne 1972 was a grubby lifeless s….hole.I worked in the city all through that year.Love Melbourne now
Those glasses will always be handy then.
Where every car is worth 10X its purchase price. Who would have thought?
How’s the west gate under construction
#melbourne
Sadly this would be only or less than 2 years after collapse.
@@andyrob3259
Prior to collapse?
@@dalediamond after,collapsed on the 15th of October 1970 i believe,i know it was October,the Chief Engineer who was English went down with it too
@@dalediamond no after. 1970.
Thought I saw Dan Andrews as a kid in that boat. He was making rude gestures.
can you do us all a favour and go back in time and sink the frigging boat?
We don't have to have been to Melbourne to love this stuff.
The Melbourne locals here commenting about how they MISS the "way things were" ought to consider how
EVERY CITY
of distinction
Has LOST what we once had
And how *patrimonie* for architecture and other material heritage is a major shame no matter your home town
I would say however... some are more dynamic than others while at the SAME time maintaining their STATIC elements
London is different a YEAR after you left it... but you go back and nothing is there but then in so many cases there they are... London wall eg ... just a bit diff
Vancouver COMPLETELY CHANGES like every decade... they have heart break coz a famous old historic restaurant has had to close after 9 years...
Etc etc
We mourn the days of a manufacturing sector but forget how much just about everyone hated working in a factory.
We mourn the loss of those classic cars... but if yer like me... lived in a dense city served by public transport--for over 25 years no car--you get to see how car culture HELPED RUIN much of that you miss
And how the dynamic of living in single family homes has ravaged the unified sense of belonging that those who know what a close knit walkable town can feel like... to the point Australia is still primarily a car culture society and this aspect has far more impact on our social identity than who made the car or how we make cash.
Love your vids!
Cheers Jonathan, I remember hearing Tony the cabbie from 7Up stating how London had changed for the worst in the late 90s, that started to make me think what other cities around the world had locals thinking the same.
High density living has destroyed Melbourne. Governments have a lot to answer for. the situation with cars has been made far worse by idiotic planning decisions trying to force everyone to live within a ‘walkable’ neighbourhood.
Very idyllic - though the city has grown since then, it has held itself much better than most other cities in the world. And that is the reason Melbourne ranks in the top 10 cities in most global rankings.
Pre Chindian Australia
And pre Arab
Nostalgia is rarely a reliable predictor of actuality.
Absolutely - rose-coloured glasses tend to distort the view.
I ran away from home and came here
The Melbourne of my youth - the people's Melbourne.1 year before they sold us off to the globalists. 2024, Melbournians traumatized for generations into the future and still no-one held to account for the crimes against it's beautiful people and this beautiful city.😢
Time machine please!
Before Kennett green lighted the developers to wreck it
@@robertlanz3124 Right. He closed all the tech schools, primary schools , let the developers run rampant . Fostered the breakout of multi unit developments on former single blocks of land. Sold Docklands to developers for $300 an acre. They built that horrible death valley horror of a bleak wind blown future slum which still doesnt function . Allowed the foorball ground in the most beautiful dock view location. Yeah he did such a great job, lost the absolutely safe blue ribbon liberal seat of Ashburton to labor thats how much he was loved. I could swear but my mum told me if you have nothing good to say. Tried to give that most iconic site in Australia , Point Gellibrand in Williamstown to the developers for housing. Lucky he got flicked and it didnt go ahead.Also tried that with the Truganina Explosives site in Altona but got stopped there by his massive fail in the next election.
@@robertlanz3124 No argument there . But he made significant and utterly disastrous changes to the planning process . He also tried to gag the Auditor General. I was working in both television news and talk back radio around that time and had dealings with Jeff.On a personal level I didn't mi nd him.And, yes, he inherited a mess. But he also got up to things.
@@romandybala Lol...widespread School closures begun under Kirner... in 1991 mine closed, quite rightly as there were only about 27 kids in Yr. 11 and 12 combined ....tech schools?...The ALP took away the need for tech schools by signing up to Agenda 21 in the 1970's, their focus always being the destruction of the manufacturing industry "it facillitates the arms race!!" Oh they built a football ground!! All those unwashed people congregating so near the CBD!! "Why couldn't it have an art gallery or Safe Space for Indetermined-Gendered Marginalised Vegans ?" And anyway, the closeness of developers to the ALP in the past 20 years dwarfs anything from the Kennett-era...gotta keep Setka and his gangsters happy...someone will write about it one day, although you'd have to look hard given 99% of media are ALP/Green stooges
The Gas and Fuel building was ugly,but that pile of Rubbish there now is a Eyesore. Kennett started all that. Thanks Gezza 67.
Every building block begun by Kennett has been subsequently supported, endorsed and built-on by two decades of Labor. The AGP, rampant development, privatisation (99 year lease in the Port of Melbourne) The ALP only has a radical cultural agenda separating themselves from the LNP. What would you have accepted at the Gas site? Mock Victoriana or mock Georgian piles you see at Point Cook, with pencil pines and a mid-level German sedan out the front?
Melbournes population in 1962 was just 1 million 950,000 compared to 5 million now
I cant understand many of these nostalgic comments. Australia was still fighting then in Vietnam with a conscript army. All big shops in Vic closed at 12:30 on Saturday and all day Sunday, including all supermarkets. If you ran out of something you hoped it was in a Milk Bar (at twice the price) There were no atm bank machines. Few houses had air conditioning. No internet, iphones, google, facebook etc etc. If you went back to 1972 you'd be lost.
Lets take an alternate view:
Milk bars didn't charge twice, maybe 10 or 20% more, they also delivered, you forget the weekend markets were always an interesting place to shop on weekends if that was your thing, Vic Market and many others had you covered :)
People got paid in 'cash', you didn't need ATMs, because the banks didn't have your money!
Every other street had a well staffed bank branch, deposits and withdrawals only took moments. That's right, the banks had to earn your money, they didn't get your money automatically like they do now, they had to pay you interest and your savings book had your balance and transactions in it.. decades before mobile apps displayed the same information...
If you wanted Air Con, you could have it, and heating too.
No social media... this is bad ... because?
If you finished work at 5:00pm on a Friday, your week was done, go and enjoy weekend, no hassling via mobile, insta messaging from boss asking you to pull yet another weekender for no pay.
Wanted to speak to someone... catch up with them or call them on the phone!! :)
Also.. there were computer networks, early Bulletin board software was a thing back then.
hey Jezza this looks part of a longer video?
actually i see it was
See description courtesy of ACMI collection 👍
@@Gezza1967 thank you
Stop it mate. You are making a grown man weep for his youth. Were do you get this footage?
What went wrong?
Sold out to the globalists.
Sad to see the destruction of Batman Avenue.
And then there was greed
All I see is jobs jobs jobs.
Yep, full employment and a chicken in every pot 👍.
😏🧐
Australia was a great country in its hey day Australia is still a good country but the people have changed for the worse drugs and money and technology and mobile phones not much left.
The waterfront is more beautiful now, especially Southbank
Driving in from Tullamarine now looks like South East Asian City.
Because thats who Queen Lizzie and King Turd sold us out too.
The Communist Chinese.
Ruined forever.
I was only 1 but I remember maybe around 6-7 mama taking us all to the botanical park as well as Melbourne city me looking up at the skyscrapers 🏙 I can’t help but feel an intense sadness because everything has changed GONE ARE THE DAYS 😢 people are different, society’s changed love , kindness a sense of friendliness everything for me has regressed corruption is widespread the warmth is gone 😢😭😰
so many great memories of days gone by.. thanks again Gezza … I worked at that old G&F building/s in the late 80s and remember so many birdman rallies and waterskiing shows (Moomba) in the 70s.. great times when things were simpler… 🙏🏼🦘🦘🇦🇺