Thank you to whoever posted this. It was a trip back in time to the old Sydney I knew & loved. It was more livable for the working class back then & life wasn't so bloody complicated & scary back then. I was only 1 year old in 1967 & was lucky enough to experience this lovely sunny optimistic city thanks to my wonderful parents, grandparents, extended family & friends. We lived in the bush & used to come to the big smoke to stay with my grandparents who had lived here for many years. I have so many wonderful memories such as Taronga Zoo, Manly Fun Pier, Luna Park, The Museum & many more places. It might be bigger & flasher now but much of it's soul has been eroded by rampant greed, political & corporate corruption. I miss you & so many of the beautiful people of my childhood. Thanks for the memories old Sydney. 🧡❤️💛💚
Australia was heaven on Earth back in the 60’s, lots of well paid jobs, affordable housing and arguably the best standard of living anywhere in the world. Now in 2021, it’s all turning to sh.it.
Going into the City in school holidays was the thing and taking the lift to the top of the AMP building was a must. The building had automatic doors on the ground floor and it made young teens feel like the Jetsons, when the doors would open magically, when one appropriated.
This film brings great pleasure to myself and a lot of other people who appreciate quality in the way they live. What a place in its day. Wonderful. Thank you.
I sailed away on SS CANBERRA in May '64, planning to return four years later....never did, other than two quickie visits in '68 and '78. OH ! How I miss much...but I "had a good run" in the late 40s and 50s and a little of the early 60s....so I get the feeling I lived the good life in those years. The accompanying music says it all....gentle...sweet....syrupy....and a tad boring...and quiet, with bustle that was alive, not crazy.....and I always had a smile on my face in those years. I have had many GREAT adventures since leaving....and would NOT have had, if I stayed....but I genuinely liked my years , in the suburbs and in downtown Sydney.
I left Sydney to come to UK in '67. It was March. I do believe the Opera House was still under construction. I wasn't too impressed with UK. I missed the outdoor life, the beaches & warmer weather. My mother told me how wonderful snow was. I was so excited when I experienced my 1st snowfall. I went off to school & my oh my, it wasn't all all as I expected. I had never suffered such cold numb feet. I hated snow & to this day still dislike it. I miss Sydney. No doubt it's changed quite a bit over the years as has everywhere.
The sight of a sun filled street in the middle of the city, a time when Sydney was liveable and beautiful. Destroyed now and turned into dark canyons by the State government of the day. I grieve for this lost city of Sydney.
I really miss the city of Sydney I grew up in. Today it's absolutely unrecognisable thanks to Greedy developers and pathetic self interested politicians lining their pockets over the last 50 years. Needless to say I left 10 years ago.😭😭😭
The beautiful Swedish America line ship Kungsholm berthed at Circular Quay on 6/2/1967. She later became a regular visitor to Sydney as Sea Princess,Great to see the old Holden cars. Thanks for posting this great trip down memory lane.
It was a beautiful, human sized city then, although it had pretensions of being Los Angeles. Melbourne was more like San Francisco. Strange, since Physically, Sydney is more like SF and Melbourne, L.A.
Sydney Was A Gloriously Laid Back, And Happy Place To Live In Those Days!! Now, It's Just Another Overcrowded, Overpriced And Alien Ghetto!! The Magic Is Gone!!
@@christinelawrence4315 True, Take Singapore. Or Bangkok.The native cultures have been gutted , replaced by the commodification of everything. The people who cop it first are the working people. For them, nationality is more critical than for the upwardly mobile/flexible class who are central to engineering the changes. But the latter's turn will come.
Beautiful Sydney at its most liveable period. Pure, innocent, maybe slightly dull, a little scruffy around the edges - it never had this peak of charm after about 1975. Destroyed by 'multiculturalism' now acknowledged to be a failed experiment.
Australia has always been multicultural. Remember the Aboriginals? Australia is a far more interesting place thanks to multiculturalism, not just a colonial backwater, Sydney now is a modern international city.
So Aboriginal culture is the same as English culture? Australia has multiple ethnicities and many cultural backgrounds in its people. Cancer? Fuck off.
Jeff Bertucen I hear the aboriginals were in Australia first, then the English came. now other races are arriving and "some" English people are complaining? it just sounds a little hypocritical right? or Am I wrong,
@@HorstReichhart I have a photo taken in Oct 1967 when we were in Sydney on the SS Southern Cross on our way to NZ it shows cranes but looked nearly finished, why did it take so long to finish? looking at it at the time I would have thought another 6 months at most yet it was 6 years before it opened.
First hydrofoil entered service 7 January 1965-I know because that was the same day my family arrived in Australia from England,we travelled on it and I still have the ticket.
Too many English ,Irish,Welsh and Scottish in this film . Where are the Chinese,the Arabs,the Indians ,the Africans that we have today? We are living in a golden era now people so enjoy it.
That's what it was like then: sliced white bread. Very dull. I remember it only too well. Thank God I grew up in Wollongong which even though it was a "God foresaken" place at least had people from all over Europe.
Your a banana if you think it's better now. You could OWN your own HOUSE within ten years of hard work back in the 60s/70s in prime locations in Sydney. I know this couple who worked hard and they own their house after 3yrs in Bondi. So from 1972 till now they enjoy a good life debt free. They would not be able to achieve this now as unskilled workers particularly living in Bondi. Good luck being a slave to the BIG4 Bank's.
i openly despise mass immigration of large ethnic groups like lebanese, Chines & Indians. I d not consider that Racist. I have no problem with any group in smaller numbers.
@@trisblackshaw1640 i wouldn't be worried about that comment being called racist, if you think my objection to 'Mass ' immigration is racist. *Mass* immigration is too disruptive to a culture & native population (even if that native population already has some ethnic %) So my answer is..don't worry about 'Mild Racism' when talking about demographics etc a similar example would be admonishing someone for 'swearing' "Fuck!" after they cut their toe on a shard of glass at the beach carpark.
Sydney is pretty but let's face it 98 percent of it is faceless suburbia Cool and cute to have a picturesque harbour and some architectural icons but they do not dispell the fact it is in a country celebrated for it back garden barbecues everybody took a car to get to I married an aussie and visited first in 89 just after the bicentennial stag fest Sorry but yeah the highlight of my journey was going from one family members back garden in a soulless suburb to another. Then all the men would isolate and I'd have to convince them I am not homosexual for liking football, played like in England. They are proud of their city but nobody wants to admit it's a tree falling in a forest miles away from NYC and London and one of the great authentic preserves of 20 year old street fashion found anywhere on the planet
To each his own. But you're not from the soil of Australia. Just a blow-in and could only look at things superficially. My people, my oldest ancestry, have been here over 230 years. My most recent in the 1850's. That's a large amount of shared history, from the convict and pioneering days on. The great port of Sydney was at the centre of it.
@@christinelawrence4315 Thankyou. I dislike superficiality. Some of the English who have already effectively lost London and other large cities that once had well earned international identities, amazingly still have an imperious attitude to "the Colonies". In the Post-War period, Germans, Balts, Poles and Dutch who had less of this attitude, were often more easily assimilated. Suburbia is what it is, often luxurious by European urban standards, but if you go beneath the surface, it contains our history, all of it, in microcosm. Were the clock of people's lives, ancestry, rolled backwards, he'd be contemptuous of their plebeian/proletarian/rustic/rural, ways.
Barry Humphries once said " Maybe one day they will get better" LOL. They are not normal but Sydney normalizes these people. Sydney normalizes all minorities and i lived in the best suburbs in Sydney for 25 years. Best move i ever made selling everything and moving north
Thank you to whoever posted this. It was a trip back in time to the old Sydney I knew & loved. It was more livable for the working class back then & life wasn't so bloody complicated & scary back then. I was only 1 year old in 1967 & was lucky enough to experience this lovely sunny optimistic city thanks to my wonderful parents, grandparents, extended family & friends. We lived in the bush & used to come to the big smoke to stay with my grandparents who had lived here for many years. I have so many wonderful memories such as Taronga Zoo, Manly Fun Pier, Luna Park, The Museum & many more places. It might be bigger & flasher now but much of it's soul has been eroded by rampant greed, political & corporate corruption. I miss you & so many of the beautiful people of my childhood. Thanks for the memories old Sydney. 🧡❤️💛💚
I love the 60's music that really compliments this time period and film!! #SydneyGirl68
Australia was heaven on Earth back in the 60’s, lots of well paid jobs, affordable housing and arguably the best standard of living anywhere in the world.
Now in 2021, it’s all turning to sh.it.
yep. only the envious whine about australia.
2 years before I was born but what a beautiful city. I worked most of my career in the CBD & loved it
Going into the City in school holidays was the thing and taking the lift to the top of the AMP building was a must. The building had automatic doors on the ground floor and it made young teens feel like the Jetsons, when the doors would open magically, when one appropriated.
Everything looked so good back then
So many memories!
This film brings great pleasure to myself and a lot of other people who appreciate quality in the way they live. What a place in its day. Wonderful. Thank you.
I sailed away on SS CANBERRA in May '64, planning to return four years later....never did, other than two quickie visits in '68 and '78. OH ! How I miss much...but I "had a good run" in the late 40s and 50s and a little of the early 60s....so I get the feeling I lived the good life in those years. The accompanying music says it all....gentle...sweet....syrupy....and a tad boring...and quiet, with bustle that was alive, not crazy.....and I always had a smile on my face in those years. I have had many GREAT adventures since leaving....and would NOT have had, if I stayed....but I genuinely liked my years , in the suburbs and in downtown Sydney.
I left Sydney to come to UK in '67. It was March. I do believe the Opera House was still under construction. I wasn't too impressed with UK. I missed the outdoor life, the beaches & warmer weather. My mother told me how wonderful snow was. I was so excited when I experienced my 1st snowfall. I went off to school & my oh my, it wasn't all all as I expected. I had never suffered such cold numb feet. I hated snow & to this day still dislike it. I miss Sydney. No doubt it's changed quite a bit over the years as has everywhere.
A harbour city,one the greatest cities in the world even today.The opposite of melbourne in every way
Right on 👍
Yeah mate , what a dump !!
The sight of a sun filled street in the middle of the city, a time when Sydney was liveable and beautiful. Destroyed now and turned into dark canyons by the State government of the day. I grieve for this lost city of Sydney.
This comment was 2 years ago, as i write...er...let's not tell Peter about the Lockdowns and border closures.
australia was still in its paradise stage then...
A different place back then 😌
I was 10 years old and I don’t think I had ever been to the city then, but I recognise many of those places
I really miss the city of Sydney I grew up in. Today it's absolutely unrecognisable thanks to Greedy developers and pathetic self interested politicians lining their pockets over the last 50 years. Needless to say I left 10 years ago.😭😭😭
I’m still stuck here, but cannot wait to leave
Brilliant mate. Thank you.
Peace to all,
Mark🇦🇺
The good old days 👍
Great work Horst! - I have share this with a Sydney history group - I'm sure it will be much appreciated
omg the old hydrofoil !!
The beautiful Swedish America line ship Kungsholm berthed at Circular Quay on 6/2/1967. She later became a regular visitor to Sydney as Sea Princess,Great to see the old Holden cars. Thanks for posting this great trip down memory lane.
Thank you for confirming the ship's name. Yes, a beauty indeed
A time when people had real conversations unlike these days every one staring into their damn phones smh
@@sg-yq8pm lol why you mad?😂🤣🖕
Thanks for posting, I was 6 years old at the time. How innocent and uncomplicated life appeared back then.
seapilot64 I was 25 then. Oh for those days again. Life was better then.
Tony McCarthy I wish I could be there for a day in that year, I missed some good years
The good old days seems like yesterday wish i could go back in time
Beautiful Sydney ❤👍🏻
This is how I remember it when my family moved from Perth. "Dad, why is Australia Square round?" Thanks for putting this up.
Now you'd be mad to not move back to Perth..Sydney is done unfortunately
It looked so modern at the time.
I came from the US in 1963 and it didn't look modern to me. I thought I'd arrived in the 1950's all over again.
0:20 in -- I could've sworn the Opera House was nowhere near that finished in 1967. If that was a Saturday, I could've well been on that ferry.
20 October 1973
I dont think it was a saturday....looks like the end of a working day🤔🤔
It was still under construction in 1970 for sure.
The "Sails" were competed then, the interior took years longer.
Ah!
looks like it was a nice place back then
It was a beautiful, human sized city then, although it had pretensions of being Los Angeles. Melbourne was more like San Francisco. Strange, since Physically, Sydney is more like SF and Melbourne, L.A.
This piece of lounge music is RATHER 1967! Thanks for uploading - it was great seeing my old office when it was one year old @ 71 Macquarie St.
They demolished some substantial buildings near the Opera House to replace them with the "Toaster" eyesores
Sydney Was A Gloriously Laid Back, And Happy Place To Live In Those Days!! Now, It's Just Another Overcrowded, Overpriced And Alien Ghetto!! The Magic Is Gone!!
Lucien Leech... The magic has gone in most places globally not just Sydney!!
@@christinelawrence4315 True, Take Singapore. Or Bangkok.The native cultures have been gutted , replaced by the commodification of everything. The people who cop it first are the working people. For them, nationality is more critical than for the upwardly mobile/flexible class who are central to engineering the changes. But the latter's turn will come.
Yep 🎉
Yes major cities the world over have become bland compared to 1987 but Sydney suffers the most from blandification. I saw it from the early 1990s.
Its still so modern!
🔹️ Was only just a baby back then, about four years before kinderfarten
Opera House was built in 1973... Still, very nice! George St packed as always! :)
Sydney Opera House was officially opened in 1973 but the construction was started in 1959.
Wow exact same time I started Kindi Feb 67
Fantastic,many thanks.
Ah, the days of the Mineral Boom, and when we had little international competition for our exported wheat, wool and beef.
Wow, the skyline looked so empty back then. It's changed enormously in 50 years.
And even more soon
thx for the clip...awesome!! the red building at 1:33 still look the same nowadays
I'm just imagining the nightlife full of gogo dancers and doing the stomp.
Beautiful Sydney at its most liveable period. Pure, innocent, maybe slightly dull, a little scruffy around the edges - it never had this peak of charm after about 1975. Destroyed by 'multiculturalism' now acknowledged to be a failed experiment.
Australia has always been multicultural. Remember the Aboriginals? Australia is a far more interesting place thanks to multiculturalism, not just a colonial backwater, Sydney now is a modern international city.
No ...its "multi-ethnic"....."multiculture" is a cancer
So Aboriginal culture is the same as English culture? Australia has multiple ethnicities and many cultural backgrounds in its people. Cancer? Fuck off.
Some people call multicultural "genocide'
Jeff Bertucen I hear the aboriginals were in Australia first, then the English came.
now other races are arriving and "some" English people are complaining? it just sounds a little hypocritical right? or Am I wrong,
How come the Australia square tower had some incomplete levels visible?Wasn't it opened in 1963?Priceless footage BTW. Thank you.
Opened 1968.....I think....
Opened in 1967.... Just google it... SIMPLE.
I think the music is perfectly retro for this vid.
what song is this
Goldfields House and the State Office block are gone now.
HMAS Vendetta prior its half-life modernization...
What a pretty city Sydney is
Boring as hell. go to the Oaks for a beer. Great
Be nice
Alfa Won hello
Was.
Was*
Sydney was meant to be a solar city. What happened?
0:21 The opera house in 1967 ?
The Sydney Opera House opened in 1973. Although construction started in 1959.
Opened October 1973 by Queen Lizzie of Pommy Land
I was born in that yr 1967, but later in early July. Lol😊
I was only 4 years and 2 months old.
That's no way 1967..opera house wasn't completed till 1974
If you look closely you can see cranes around the building under construction.
Take a look at Google.
@@HorstReichhart I do see it now.. Sorry my mistake..
@@HorstReichhart I have a photo taken in Oct 1967 when we were in Sydney on the SS Southern Cross on our way to NZ it shows cranes but looked nearly finished, why did it take so long to finish? looking at it at the time I would have thought another 6 months at most yet it was 6 years before it opened.
Under construction
@@pillred5974 I think it was tile problems. And amendments.
Black and yellow (ipec) van ..ha,
Harold Holt had ten months to live.
Richie Graham He should never have gone swimming in Port Phillip bay that day.
Tony McCarthy ain’t that the truth
And I could've sworn the Hydrofoil wasn't around that early.
I think they went into service in 1965.
Very true..first hydrofoil was the manly..about mid 1965..followed by the fairlight about a year later🤔🤔
Yes, the first hydrofoil survived into the mid 1980s.
First hydrofoil entered service 7 January 1965-I know because that was the same day my family arrived in Australia from England,we travelled on it and I still have the ticket.
Beautiful lady without a soul.
Like an old prostitute now ..worn out . Perth is the best city with a bigger future if they stay un affected from mass migration like the east coast
Life before the sum took control.
There where no Yalah yalah's yet during that time.....
no, it was demolished in the 80's
Too many English ,Irish,Welsh and Scottish in this film . Where are the Chinese,the Arabs,the Indians ,the Africans that we have today? We are living in a golden era now people so enjoy it.
That's what it was like then: sliced white bread. Very dull. I remember it only too well. Thank God I grew up in Wollongong which even though it was a "God foresaken" place at least had people from all over Europe.
I take it you weren’t there.
Your a banana if you think it's better now. You could OWN your own HOUSE within ten years of hard work back in the 60s/70s in prime locations in Sydney. I know this couple who worked hard and they own their house after 3yrs in Bondi. So from 1972 till now they enjoy a good life debt free. They would not be able to achieve this now as unskilled workers particularly living in Bondi. Good luck being a slave to the BIG4 Bank's.
Whatever you do, don’t dare mention the Eora people who predate all the migrants.
@@rskb1957 At least meat and petrol, not to mention housing were very affordable then!
Now a Asian city.
So sad 😞
Which was unasked for, imposed and you will damned well love it (publicly).
Only bad thing about these videos is they bring out the racists in the comments section.
And the people who are obsessed with calling out anything they consider the slightest bit racist at the moment
i openly despise mass immigration of large ethnic groups like lebanese, Chines & Indians. I d not consider that Racist. I have no problem with any group in smaller numbers.
@@Dave.S.TT600 Really? On reflection, nothing about that statement you've made appears even mildly racist to you?
@@trisblackshaw1640 i wouldn't be worried about that comment being called racist, if you think my objection to 'Mass ' immigration is racist. *Mass* immigration is too disruptive to a culture & native population (even if that native population already has some ethnic %) So my answer is..don't worry about 'Mild Racism' when talking about demographics etc a similar example would be admonishing someone for 'swearing' "Fuck!" after they cut their toe on a shard of glass at the beach carpark.
@@Dave.S.TT600 Ummm ok. Wow, the crazy train clearly left the station on this one.
Very narce to see.
Narce? Interesting concept. Let's see now: I better not fall into the narce hole ahead.
Back before is Islamification.
Sydney is pretty but let's face it 98 percent of it is faceless suburbia
Cool and cute to have a picturesque harbour and some architectural icons but they do not dispell the fact it is in a country celebrated for it back garden barbecues everybody took a car to get to
I married an aussie and visited first in 89 just after the bicentennial stag fest
Sorry but yeah the highlight of my journey was going from one family members back garden in a soulless suburb to another. Then all the men would isolate and I'd have to convince them I am not homosexual for liking football, played like in England.
They are proud of their city but nobody wants to admit it's a tree falling in a forest miles away from NYC and London and one of the great authentic preserves of 20 year old street fashion found anywhere on the planet
To each his own. But you're not from the soil of Australia. Just a blow-in and could only look at things superficially. My people, my oldest ancestry, have been here over 230 years. My most recent in the 1850's. That's a large amount of shared history, from the convict and pioneering days on. The great port of Sydney was at the centre of it.
@@trackdusty Love your response!!!
@@christinelawrence4315 Thankyou. I dislike superficiality. Some of the English who have already effectively lost London and other large cities that once had well earned international identities, amazingly still have an imperious attitude to "the Colonies". In the Post-War period, Germans, Balts, Poles and Dutch who had less of this attitude, were often more easily assimilated. Suburbia is what it is, often luxurious by European urban standards, but if you go beneath the surface, it contains our history, all of it, in microcosm. Were the clock of people's lives, ancestry, rolled backwards, he'd be contemptuous of their plebeian/proletarian/rustic/rural, ways.
Funny enough there is a community there with the regulars at the coffee shop etc..
What a shame you are an irrelevant pommy whinging f'wit. good lock f'wit
The WOKE capital of the world
Yes look everywhere gay posters
I remember that last time I was there
Barry Humphries once said " Maybe one day they will get better" LOL. They are not normal but Sydney normalizes these people. Sydney normalizes all minorities and i lived in the best suburbs in Sydney for 25 years. Best move i ever made selling everything and moving north
melbourne trumps sydney for 'most woke'...