Oh how i miss the old walnut tree the apricot,lemon,peach and plum trees in our old back yard The big old trees to climb and the big back yard to run wild .Life was so simple. Thankyou for bringing back so many cherished memories .
I'm in Wagga this week(Nov 2021). It's now over double it's 1966 size. Both sides of Lake Albert is now residential. Wagga has done exactly what country towns should be doing........ growing! When all the major retailers are in town, that's a good sign. Some streets are very leafy and the parks are beautiful. I rode my bike right around Lake Albert.......one of my most enjoyable rides ever! We should never complain about city people or overseas people moving to a town. Without them, these places just die. I took a day trip to my childhood town of Barellan yesterday....... it's just a dying no man's land. Nobody was around. Nothing was happening. There was this sense of nothingness about it. My childhood house now looks like a junkyard with piles of old cars and rubbish everywhere. There were sheets of rusty corrugated iron strown everywhere. Houses that were new when I left are now in disrepair. I drove back to Wagga totally depressed about my former hometown. The coastal big cities can't absorb all of Australia's population growth. These inland regional towns need to play their part and grow, to take some of pressure off the coastal cities. Most millennials will never own property on the coast..........but they could if they moved inland. Properties are about 1/3 the coastal city price when you compare apples with apples.
Wagga Wagga, beautiful city.. Right I am a Korean guy in Korea.. Almost 20 years ago, I studied there.. I miss and hope to visit with my little daughter someday.
I was in Wagga between 1965 until August 1967 I enlisted as an RAAF Apprentice 19 Course. I made many a life long friend in Wagga and spent many a Saturday at the bowling alley and water skiing at Lake Albert.
It's amazing that I lived there for four whole years, as someone born somewhere on the other side of the globe. Driving there is much more relaxing and enjoyable than in Sydney where a huge number of people seem moody all the time.
Very interesting looking back at how it used to be, but the producers missed out a few bits. People who live, or have lived in Wagga would tell you about two military bases...one on each side of the city. Regardless of how the local folk view them, they have been a significant part of of the local economy for many years. I was stationed at the RAAF base in 1964 and later on in 1968, so the lifestyle you see depicted in this film is very familiar to me. Some years later, I changed services and experienced Wagga from an Army viewpoint...things had changed a fair bit, but it was still a very pleasant place to spend my leisure hours. It saddens me to read so many negative comments...I could counter them with just as many positive ones of my own, but I won't. The older residents will know what I'm talking about, especially the pretty young lady who had the nickname "Ben Casey".
At 2:07, that television station for guys you didn’t know about it Wagga Wagga, was where PRIME Television used to live way back in 1964 when the stations real name was RVN-2.
1966, I was 6 years old in Wagga Wagga, living at Gumly Gumly from around 1963 to 1975, then moving the family moved to Trail Street, where my father ran his own business. So much has changed since then.
Despite the interesting comments below of what Wagga Wagga is like today (!), this is just another example of Australia that we'll never see again, and more's the pity. It would be interesting to do a present day film (not video, folks) comparing the scenic shots of town and country with what is there now. Clothing factory? Even interviewing the kids from then, and see if they are still there, or anywhere for that matter if they haven't expired!! My grandparents lived in an apartment above the shops on the main street. My late grandfather worked as a salesman for Douglas Body Co, sellers of Mercedes Benz.
@Bessie Hillum I have no idea what you are talking about! Who want's us too think? Please put a link to your information to verify your statement claim.
I like how the announcer's accent is still not fully Aussie yet and still sounds very British. There should be a documentary on the evolution of the Australian accent.
Many broadcasters used faux British accents as there was still a strong cultural cringe in australia at the time, the virtues of being a British outpost was flaunted at the expense of much of our individual character and identity
i liked the bare hills around the lake, the fact there were factories that used to make things here in Wagga, the good old days when kids played around propellers of running outboard motors. Good old Wagga. Imagine making a similar film now!!
Nah, a lot of places, little corner shops mostly, didn't get their signs changed for years. The one's actually painted on a building were the last to go. 20 cents was called ''two bob'' well into the 70's before it faded and disappeared from the local vernacular. The 70's saw lots of change and lots of growth. Kooringal, where I grew up, had about 6 streets with houses when I first went to Sacred Heart in '65. One day the scrapers and graders showed up and the cow paddock over my back fence got turned into 40 streets and 8,000 people.
If this was 1977, the dance halls in Wagga Wagga would be playing disco. 1988, Aussie's Bicentennial, would crank up house, especially Kylie Minogue hits.
wow - even though I moved here in 2015 and am amazed by the recognisable buildings. I'm most surprised that they used to make clothes here! I don't think Aus even makes clothes anymore thanks to China 😬
Dunlops clothing factory made clothes for several manufacturers... no particular brand... any young girls who worked there were commonly thought of as tarts... The TV interviewer is now big in ABC world news... I was 15 and lived in Junee... used to come to Wagga Wagga for the "pictures"... movies...
That was very interesting. Ah they had style back then as well as respect for themselves and each other. If you could somehow show them what the nightlife in Wagga is like these days, I'm sure they would be quite shocked. It used to be that adults behaved like adults and kids behaved like kids. But now we have adults behaving like kids, and kids behaving like adults.
Sadly Wagga Wagga has been in the news a lot for the wrong reasons, violence has increased, kidnappings, attempt kidnappings, murder; society has changed with Technology and technology is expensive, mobile + rate; computer + internet + rate; Technology is going ahead when some of us can't keep up because of the cost and so crime goes up too.
The good old bowling alley and now it's a centrelink office how appropriate. I do like the uniting church in the middle of the paddock that we now know as Kooringal. Does anyone know anyone in the film? Does anyone know what brand of clothes were produced in wagga in the 60's?
Yep, born and bred. Carted hay for Bob Brunskill, looked like his workman, Peter Schiller who climbed over the cattle yards. The old semi looked like the Dodge Power Giant that Bob's brother, Tom (T.V.) Brunskill had. My dad worked for him for many years.
You know, I looked up the whole "Life In Australia" series, and there is sadly not one for The Gold Coast. How come they never made a episode of that Australian city?
Hi Raptormon. We don't know but it's possible that the series was never finished or government priorities changed. There are other notable exceptions too like Newcastle, Woollongong and Darwin. The cities that are highlighted, especially the regional centres, were probably chosen as the the need for workers from overseas was at the forefront of government planning.
@@NFSAFilms I see. And I guess since the Gold Coast was just a small surfing city of 64,000 people during 1966, compared to the 700,000+ today, it would have been no bigger than Wagga Wagga, and the other smaller cities they showed, and was not as popular or in high demand for overseas workers yet. Which makes me wonder what it would be like if they remade the "Life In Australia" series, only they did a comparison to our cities from 1966, to 2020. That would be interesting to see.
@@Raptormon132 That would be great to see. The government doesn't make documentaries anymore so over to the private sector to take that one up. Thanks for your comments.
Some young guy rocked into the Wagga Wagga Department of Social Security in early 1979 to reluctantly put in for the dole. He explained his circumstances as simply hanging out in some local hovel for months on end living simply on totally nothing. Didn't need an income. Food would come to him, probably per means of friends and relatives. Didn't take in money, didn't spend any money. Probably in some abandoned dwelling with vines all over it offering still sufficient shelter to someone of modest means. Didn't seem to bother him. The female counter stuff were gobsmacked, in ' duty of care ' mode, going, " WTH ! What ? How did you exist ? ". And he just shrugs and goes, " Nothing to it. Had a bite to eat each day, and just hung around there. I dunno. ". Calm advice from others finally convinced him to go into town and maybe get back in the system. He could have carried on with it ad infinitum.
I recently visited Wagga and loved it. My favourite restaurant is " Thyme Out". Check my video, if anyone wants to see it. The restaurant is downstairs of an old house/mansion once owned by Dr Burgess in 1929. It has lovely food, excellent chefs, you may see Gabriel Gate' there!
in 2013 WWCC sponsored a film that was also made in Wagga...it's good to see they had the vision needed to realise the benefits it would bring to this city.
What his exact words CW were " largest above-ground cemetery in the world". He also mentioned it was a good town to commit suicide. Took the towns folk a while to understand the quirky sense of humor of old Spike. But they did and even named a bridge after him. I'm a Woy Woy gal, but lived in Wagga 1970's.
Now you can't even let your dog in the lake Albert lake!, and crime and corruption is unfixable (but that's Australia wide). This old clip was very well put together 👍
@@kmorrow982 A lot of the time cannabis is difficult to find or is of such indifferent quality one does without it. But you can always hunt up some Ice and oxy or MS Contin is everywhere. Have you seen Pomigalana Reserve lately? These mad geniuses roped off the entrances and locked them to keep out trail bike riders who are prohibited from using the reserve even though the track they used to use (in a corner where the contour banks provided jumps for them) was confined to a small area. Now they have a pushbike track that meanders over every part of that reserve and goes a foot deep in most spots. It's a very clearly defined and maintained track which sees daily use. It has also made an eyesore of the place with damage by pushbikes exceeding motorcycle damage by many times over. A product of the Green council we have, dangerous city loons who like to tell country people how to manage the bush. Ray Goodlass - a disgrace; Mary Kidson, no better - an ultra left wing climate nutter and a woman with secrets (and she'd like to see me dead because I know what those secrets are). It's an incestuous little town if you've lived here long enough.
@@marknovak8471 I grew up here and I remember pomegalarna as infested with snakes - they could and should make it a proper dirt and push bike track, there's enough room and no other places available I'm aware of. And yes the council are an interesting bunch - one thing I've noticed is the vast amount of gardens and roads workers on heavy drugs longterm - and managment should be held accountable as I've seen some of them promoted, or moved cause they are related or friends with the right person (or wrong person) and because they are reliably dodgy. I think the inner issues spread as far as long term management in many areas or departments jointly, and possibly as far as Sydney even ACT, when it comes to overseeing Wagga - they must either be benifiting or ignorant.
@@kmorrow982 Pomigalarna is still infested with snakes. Last time I was there (6 months ago) someone had strung up a dead brown snake on the gate on the west side. I photographed a 6 footer on the south boundary while I was harvesting someone's poppy crop. Lots of poppies up there now. In fact there's poppy crops all over the place these days. I harvested 4 shopping bags worth from the one at the old cemetery. I found another one along the river bank downstream from Gobba bridge and yet another in the reserve at Lake Albert. Prescribed opioids are all over the place now and Ice seems to be easy to get if you're looking for it. They've already made a permanent push bike track up there which is an obscenity and an eyesore. Get onto Google Earth and have a look - you'll see what I mean. What you can't see is any damage done by trail bikes, the stated reason for closing it off, but the damage from this bike track is impossible to miss since it meanders the length and breadth of the reserve. There's an ugly structure that looks like the starting gate at a horse track and various signs to add to the visual and physical pollution caused by these people and their activities. There's a beautiful view to be had from the lookout on top of Pomigalarna, but if you can't walk up that hill or ride a pushy you'll never see it. I've had lunch up there with my now deceased wife dozens of times but will never see it again because I have a fractured spine and can't walk 2 kms uphill to save my own life, much less to go have lunch with someone's ghost. I have occasionally thought to go out there with a generator and an angle grinder and just cut the bastard every time I want to use the place, but I had my spine fractured by cops the last time they arrested me. Out there no-one can hear you scream. And I don't have the money to take them on in a court battle. i worked for the public service three times. It was a closed shop then and it's worse now. It really does have it's own culture and I left when it dawned on me that I could trust absolutely nobody with information about myself or indeed about anybody else either. I had to think about virtually everything I said to my fellow workers because they all dob you in for the tiniest transgression. Sure, the CC is full of druggies - there's fuck-all else to do in Wagga after you go home from work. One either drinks or one takes drugs or one does both. But the real evil is the creation of ''The Bronx,'' 3 whole suburbs and parts of three more that are just soaked in drugs, booze, crime of every type up to and including murder, and 30 years ago getting mugged for your Nikes was a joke but it can happen to you in The Bronx now. Some streets have a third less houses because the others got torched, and a stolen, smashed and burned car isn't confined to the bushland adjacent to Burkelands anymore - they burn them on one of the maany vacant blocks because they don't have to walk as far to go home. They blew up Hampden Bridge. I damn near cried at that act of cultural vandalism. I had lunch under or sometimes on that bridge hundreds of times over the years and always lamented the lack of maintenance. They were going to turn it into a giant bird cage which would have made a great tourist attraction but they figured it was cheaper and easier to just destroy it forever. And, last but not least is the name given to Wagga Wagga by every criminal in the system - ''Dogga Dogga.'' According to the former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Shane Stone, said of this place: ''The worst criminals in Wagga are the cops - this is where they send bent cops to rehabilitate them...'' Says it all, doesn't it?
A wonderful document of simpler, cleaner, more decent times. We have killed the dream in Australia with biased unwanted immigration policies, a dysfunctional duopoly economy, useless paranoid government run by self-serving special interest groups. They have destroyed all that was once good for systemic greed, myopic complacency and a celebrity obsessed mindless social idiocracy.
If only everything sold in Australia were actually *built* in Australia. With most products being made in other countries, is anything made *in* Australia anymore?
AUFF I agree. How is it possible to transport fruits and vegetables from the USA clear to Australia? What I've never liked is products made in China and sold in places like the USA and Canada, made in China and sold to Australia. Why the hell is that? That doesn't make any sense. Don't we know how to build products for ourselves anymore?!
+ttcmummyoftwo Peat And the same incompetent criminals who worked in the old building will work in the new one. Nothing will change except the furniture. It's still the worst hospital in the southern hemisphere.
Yep. They turned 3 suburbs into a giant ghetto we call The Bronx. They filled it with the enemies of the state in the War on Australians, aka The War on Drugs. I'm too old to go there anymore. It was a wild place in the 80's and 90's.
@@danrobinson572 Yes, Australia tends to copy all the crap the US thinks up. BLM, the war on people who use drugs, virtue signalling, hypocrisy - y'know, all the really inane lefty bullshit. It stems from the fact that Australia is such a homogenous unit it's dull - race issues have to be drummed up by the press, shit like that. The Bronx here in Wagga? A natural by-product of the war on stoners. Lord knows there's fuck all to do in Wagga except drink and/or take drugs and the lower end of the human scale is the dole/pension/Housing Commission crowd who are herded together in Housing Commission ''estates'' which are now all old and in need of burning down so nobody comments on it too much. The HC doesn't rebuild a house that's been torched. It stays an empty block and soon gets filled with junk and maybe a stolen car or two. Zeigler Ave and Edney Streets have had their days as the drug capital of Wagga and has faded into obscurity as most of the people are the older crowd who have been around for a while. I could name 40 people I knew since 1980 who are now dead, and all but 3 of them died from overdoses or the consequences of 30 or 40 years of self abuse. Two of my cousins died from Fentanyl OD's, and a lot of the others did too. A couple from heroin and 5 suicides that I know of, my de facto partner one of them. It ain't remotely like it used to be. It's really sad that most of Wagga's problems stem either from government policies or local government mediocrity and incompetence. It could be such a great place. They blew up Hampden Bridge, that grand old structure I had lunch under or fished under hundreds of times. Blew it up rather than spend the same money every 10 years to restore it and turn it into a giant bird cage. Too fuckin' difficult for these fools.
Australia was truly a lucky country, its because of nonsense like this I moved here. Nonsense I say because that is all gone. Gone like the wind or my youth.
+Trousersnake Pliskin +ExRhodesian You blokes must be the toughest whitest pair of yokel sooks this side of the nut house. Wagga Wagga has been inhabited by sooks with shit for brains. Immigration is a blessing. But it won’t up your IQ any. Lets have a hug.
+ExRhodesian Mate, don't be a SOOK! listen to yourself. Grow some , and make up your own mind. You do know Australia is the #2 country on the human development index again this year, & the last 68 years . If you would move from a country with the highest standard of Living in the known world because of immigration, or because you believe what you obviously read via mass media, then I think you would validate my point on upping your IQ. You could go to the # 1 HDI country, in the Nordic region. But you'ed still be a massive fool on the grounds of the whether there. Stay here matey, there is still time. Peace.
David Donaldson I am only commenting here whites are second class citizens, 3 Asian fruit pickers kill an aborigine at Griffith why no charges, nothing home they go. The aborigine was outside having stolen an electrical item from the house the Asians were renting. An aborigine breaks into a house the white home owner restrains the thug who dies and a murder charge. Two laws one for whites the other for?
I planned to download the series to see what it's like living in Australia. What's the point, the individual segments showcase what the country used to be like (or what the authorities wanted to portray) almost 60 years ago. There's no point in reminiscing about the past. I don't live in Australia but was lucky enough to have grown up in a country where I could walk free, hike alone, our houses were open to the street etc. 20 years later it's the exact opposite. I can dream about the past but it won't change the present or the future.
Franklin Uroda its grown a lot since then we have new suburbs , more parks , 64000 people in 2016 , a lot of buildings have changed , a.new bomen road being built on Olympic highway and much more by the way we still have lots of farmers
Lived there for the past 10 years, it has gone downhill. Lots of drugs and crime. No more big factories. It’s now farmers and people that can’t afford a house anywhere else
It isn't remotely like this. It wasn't back then and it's worse now. Wagga is the suicide capital of the southern hemisphere and nobody who lives in this shit-hole is surprised. The Wagga City Council has demolished or otherwise destroyed everything you see in this video. This is history, but it isn't fact.
i live in wagga born and raised and still here! its turned into the biggest pist infested place and has NO morals nothing to what it use to have anyway like this video..people in the "social pist,one nighters eyes" have rewned wagga and a lot of everything today!
Respond to this video... I have no doubt he mentioned these towns. My comment was just an aside, thats all. I was only trying to make you smile , ya frickin psycho . O.K . let me explain . Spike Milligan was a comedian right . And this was a joke ...right . And he made the joke because Woy Woy is really boring . Nothing happens at Woy Woy . Soooo , just as nothing happens in Woy Woy , nothing happens in a cemetery, and ....ya know what? Forget it .
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Oh how i miss the old walnut tree the apricot,lemon,peach and plum trees in our old back yard The big old trees to climb and the big back yard to run wild .Life was so simple. Thankyou for bringing back so many cherished memories .
dont get to excited its all over lol
I'm in Wagga this week(Nov 2021). It's now over double it's 1966 size. Both sides of Lake Albert is now residential. Wagga has done exactly what country towns should be doing........ growing! When all the major retailers are in town, that's a good sign. Some streets are very leafy and the parks are beautiful. I rode my bike right around Lake Albert.......one of my most enjoyable rides ever!
We should never complain about city people or overseas people moving to a town. Without them, these places just die.
I took a day trip to my childhood town of Barellan yesterday....... it's just a dying no man's land. Nobody was around. Nothing was happening. There was this sense of nothingness about it. My childhood house now looks like a junkyard with piles of old cars and rubbish everywhere. There were sheets of rusty corrugated iron strown everywhere. Houses that were new when I left are now in disrepair. I drove back to Wagga totally depressed about my former hometown.
The coastal big cities can't absorb all of Australia's population growth. These inland regional towns need to play their part and grow, to take some of pressure off the coastal cities.
Most millennials will never own property on the coast..........but they could if they moved inland. Properties are about 1/3 the coastal city price when you compare apples with apples.
Wagga Wagga, beautiful city.. Right
I am a Korean guy in Korea.. Almost 20 years ago, I studied there.. I miss and hope to visit with my little daughter someday.
They shouldn’t grow too much!
well said, while the city people need to respect the way of life in smaller towns, these towns need energy and manpower from the city folks too
I was in Wagga between 1965 until August 1967 I enlisted as an RAAF Apprentice 19 Course. I made many a life long friend in Wagga and spent many a Saturday at the bowling alley and water skiing at Lake Albert.
It's amazing that I lived there for four whole years, as someone born somewhere on the other side of the globe. Driving there is much more relaxing and enjoyable than in Sydney where a huge number of people seem moody all the time.
Wagga born and bred. Fascinating to watch the life of the city a few years before I was born.
Very interesting looking back at how it used to be, but the producers missed out a few bits. People who live, or have lived in Wagga would tell you about two military bases...one on each side of the city. Regardless of how the local folk view them, they have been a significant part of of the local economy for many years. I was stationed at the RAAF base in 1964 and later on in 1968, so the lifestyle you see depicted in this film is very familiar to me. Some years later, I changed services and experienced Wagga from an Army viewpoint...things had changed a fair bit, but it was still a very pleasant place to spend my leisure hours.
It saddens me to read so many negative comments...I could counter them with just as many positive ones of my own, but I won't. The older residents will know what I'm talking about, especially the pretty young lady who had the nickname "Ben Casey".
At 2:07, that television station for guys you didn’t know about it Wagga Wagga, was where PRIME Television used to live way back in 1964 when the stations real name was RVN-2.
And Isabell Angel was a presenter. She was my first crush. It was 1968ish and I was 7ish.
1966, I was 6 years old in Wagga Wagga, living at Gumly Gumly from around 1963 to 1975, then moving the family moved to Trail Street, where my father ran his own business. So much has changed since then.
OMG this is classic.....love it....go Wagga Wagga :D
A lot has changed in Wagga Wagga in over 50 years.
Tell me more? I am currently looking at living there and working there? Is it still country town with said values? I am over Sydney.
@@tkx86 look at the recent youtube video of bread gang in wagga wagga, might give you an idea.
1966 was a good year in Wagga Wagga.
I was 5. Mary Kidson was my kindergarten teacher. She doesn't much like me. I know the real story concerning her son, John's, death.
9:35 My grandfather on the drums there, he passed away before I was born but I'm told he could really play.
Wow I seen that. Wow man. He looks young therd
Now look at Wagga grown so much look at the lake Albert in the 60s no houses around it
@6:15 - "How did this happen, son ?" "Well there's this guy I know called Neville.."
It looks just like Southern California except for 1) driving on the left and 2) the cars actually yield to pedestrians.
Despite the interesting comments below of what Wagga Wagga is like today (!), this is just another example of Australia that we'll never see again, and more's the pity. It would be interesting to do a present day film (not video, folks) comparing the scenic shots of town and country with what is there now. Clothing factory? Even interviewing the kids from then, and see if they are still there, or anywhere for that matter if they haven't expired!! My grandparents lived in an apartment above the shops on the main street. My late grandfather worked as a salesman for Douglas Body Co, sellers of Mercedes Benz.
@Bessie Hillum I have no idea what you are talking about! Who want's us too think? Please put a link to your information to verify your statement claim.
@Bessie Hillum I have no idea what you are talking about but good luck with what you hope.
Australia seemed a happier and more cohesive place in those days.
fordlandau Arr! the days when you could by diazepam from the corner shop
@@andrewcarr4256 And Bex ...
I like how the announcer's accent is still not fully Aussie yet and still sounds very British. There should be a documentary on the evolution of the Australian accent.
Many broadcasters used faux British accents as there was still a strong cultural cringe in australia at the time, the virtues of being a British outpost was flaunted at the expense of much of our individual character and identity
the devolution..
i liked the bare hills around the lake, the fact there were factories that used to make things here in Wagga, the good old days when kids played around propellers of running outboard motors. Good old Wagga. Imagine making a similar film now!!
Obviously filmed in 1965 or very early 1966 as the shop hadn't changed to decimal currency yet which came in February 1966
Nah, a lot of places, little corner shops mostly, didn't get their signs changed for years. The one's actually painted on a building were the last to go. 20 cents was called ''two bob'' well into the 70's before it faded and disappeared from the local vernacular. The 70's saw lots of change and lots of growth. Kooringal, where I grew up, had about 6 streets with houses when I first went to Sacred Heart in '65. One day the scrapers and graders showed up and the cow paddock over my back fence got turned into 40 streets and 8,000 people.
yeah... let's not ;)
10:30. The good old days with kids playing with leaded paint
If this was 1977, the dance halls in Wagga Wagga would be playing disco. 1988, Aussie's Bicentennial, would crank up house, especially Kylie Minogue hits.
60s after 66.
great video
Young Margaret was quite the biscuit back in the day!
wow - even though I moved here in 2015 and am amazed by the recognisable buildings. I'm most surprised that they used to make clothes here! I don't think Aus even makes clothes anymore thanks to China 😬
Used to be a very common job for mother's in poorer families in the 60s. My grandma worked in the Ipswich Wool mills
You mean thanks to the bosses who wanted better profits for themselves.
Rhonda Small and Richard Mason, two talented people assigned to a very routine job here it seems.
Dunlops clothing factory made clothes for several manufacturers... no particular brand... any young girls who worked there were commonly thought of as tarts...
The TV interviewer is now big in ABC world news...
I was 15 and lived in Junee... used to come to Wagga Wagga for the "pictures"... movies...
Yep I lived in gummly gummly in 1980 for a short time had my mini van stolen out of the yard the one time I left it to go away working. Not happy
Lovely :)
Wagga Wagga the home of Lex Marinos (Bruno, Kingswood Country)
excellent segues
In 1960 Wagga Wagga City Council had vision....arrrrr, they were the days.......
Haha haha haha 🤣
No more vision
Omg how Wagga has changed
That was very interesting. Ah they had style back then as well as respect for themselves and each other. If you could somehow show them what the nightlife in Wagga is like these days, I'm sure they would be quite shocked. It used to be that adults behaved like adults and kids behaved like kids. But now we have adults behaving like kids, and kids behaving like adults.
Well they didn't have much respect for our Indigenous Australian's who have been here over 60 thousand years....
@@scribblezz8992 Fair point. I agree, and it's a terrible shame. I have nothing but love and respect for the original people of this land.
Sadly Wagga Wagga has been in the news a lot for the wrong reasons, violence has increased, kidnappings, attempt kidnappings, murder; society has changed with Technology and technology is expensive, mobile + rate; computer + internet + rate; Technology is going ahead when some of us can't keep up because of the cost and so crime goes up too.
The good old bowling alley and now it's a centrelink office how appropriate. I do like the uniting church in the middle of the paddock that we now know as Kooringal.
Does anyone know anyone in the film?
Does anyone know what brand of clothes were produced in wagga in the 60's?
Yep, born and bred. Carted hay for Bob Brunskill, looked like his workman, Peter Schiller who climbed over the cattle yards. The old semi looked like the Dodge Power Giant that Bob's brother, Tom (T.V.) Brunskill had. My dad worked for him for many years.
You know, I looked up the whole "Life In Australia" series, and there is sadly not one for The Gold Coast. How come they never made a episode of that Australian city?
Hi Raptormon. We don't know but it's possible that the series was never finished or government priorities changed. There are other notable exceptions too like Newcastle, Woollongong and Darwin.
The cities that are highlighted, especially the regional centres, were probably chosen as the the need for workers from overseas was at the forefront of government planning.
@@NFSAFilms
I see. And I guess since the Gold Coast was just a small surfing city of 64,000 people during 1966, compared to the 700,000+ today, it would have been no bigger than Wagga Wagga, and the other smaller cities they showed, and was not as popular or in high demand for overseas workers yet.
Which makes me wonder what it would be like if they remade the "Life In Australia" series, only they did a comparison to our cities from 1966, to 2020. That would be interesting to see.
@@Raptormon132 That would be great to see. The government doesn't make documentaries anymore so over to the private sector to take that one up. Thanks for your comments.
@@NFSAFilms Wollongong*
Some young guy rocked into the Wagga Wagga Department of Social Security in early 1979 to reluctantly put in for the dole. He explained his circumstances as simply hanging out in some local hovel for months on end living simply on totally nothing. Didn't need an income. Food would come to him, probably per means of friends and relatives. Didn't take in money, didn't spend any money. Probably in some abandoned dwelling with vines all over it offering still sufficient shelter to someone of modest means. Didn't seem to bother him. The female counter stuff were gobsmacked, in ' duty of care ' mode, going, " WTH ! What ? How did you exist ? ". And he just shrugs and goes, " Nothing to it. Had a bite to eat each day, and just hung around there. I dunno. ". Calm advice from others finally convinced him to go into town and maybe get back in the system. He could have carried on with it ad infinitum.
I recently visited Wagga and loved it.
My favourite restaurant is " Thyme Out". Check my video, if anyone wants to see it. The restaurant is downstairs of an old house/mansion once owned by Dr Burgess in 1929. It has lovely food, excellent chefs, you may see Gabriel Gate' there!
in 2013 WWCC sponsored a film that was also made in Wagga...it's good to see they had the vision needed to realise the benefits it would bring to this city.
Fkn hell Wagga tafe still looked like that when it did my trade - finishing in 2000 🤣🤣🤣
Busted arse bahahaha
i was looking for a song and found this... the song is so amazing theres a town named after it :D
@Seattlecarnut Spike Milligan, a sometime resident of Woy Woy described it as the worlds first above ground cemetery .
What his exact words CW were " largest above-ground cemetery in the world". He also mentioned it was a good town to commit suicide. Took the towns folk a while to understand the quirky sense of humor of old Spike. But they did and even named a bridge after him. I'm a Woy Woy gal, but lived in Wagga 1970's.
At least he didn`t use "awesome" in every sentence :)
Now you can't even let your dog in the lake Albert lake!, and crime and corruption is unfixable (but that's Australia wide). This old clip was very well put together 👍
It's the oxycontin/Ice capital of inland NSW.
@@marknovak8471 so true /the police and government should be ashamed
@@kmorrow982 A lot of the time cannabis is difficult to find or is of such indifferent quality one does without it. But you can always hunt up some Ice and oxy or MS Contin is everywhere.
Have you seen Pomigalana Reserve lately? These mad geniuses roped off the entrances and locked them to keep out trail bike riders who are prohibited from using the reserve even though the track they used to use (in a corner where the contour banks provided jumps for them) was confined to a small area. Now they have a pushbike track that meanders over every part of that reserve and goes a foot deep in most spots. It's a very clearly defined and maintained track which sees daily use. It has also made an eyesore of the place with damage by pushbikes exceeding motorcycle damage by many times over. A product of the Green council we have, dangerous city loons who like to tell country people how to manage the bush. Ray Goodlass - a disgrace; Mary Kidson, no better - an ultra left wing climate nutter and a woman with secrets (and she'd like to see me dead because I know what those secrets are). It's an incestuous little town if you've lived here long enough.
@@marknovak8471 I grew up here and I remember pomegalarna as infested with snakes - they could and should make it a proper dirt and push bike track, there's enough room and no other places available I'm aware of.
And yes the council are an interesting bunch - one thing I've noticed is the vast amount of gardens and roads workers on heavy drugs longterm - and managment should be held accountable as I've seen some of them promoted, or moved cause they are related or friends with the right person (or wrong person) and because they are reliably dodgy. I think the inner issues spread as far as long term management in many areas or departments jointly, and possibly as far as Sydney even ACT, when it comes to overseeing Wagga - they must either be benifiting or ignorant.
@@kmorrow982 Pomigalarna is still infested with snakes. Last time I was there (6 months ago) someone had strung up a dead brown snake on the gate on the west side. I photographed a 6 footer on the south boundary while I was harvesting someone's poppy crop. Lots of poppies up there now. In fact there's poppy crops all over the place these days. I harvested 4 shopping bags worth from the one at the old cemetery. I found another one along the river bank downstream from Gobba bridge and yet another in the reserve at Lake Albert. Prescribed opioids are all over the place now and Ice seems to be easy to get if you're looking for it.
They've already made a permanent push bike track up there which is an obscenity and an eyesore. Get onto Google Earth and have a look - you'll see what I mean. What you can't see is any damage done by trail bikes, the stated reason for closing it off, but the damage from this bike track is impossible to miss since it meanders the length and breadth of the reserve. There's an ugly structure that looks like the starting gate at a horse track and various signs to add to the visual and physical pollution caused by these people and their activities.
There's a beautiful view to be had from the lookout on top of Pomigalarna, but if you can't walk up that hill or ride a pushy you'll never see it. I've had lunch up there with my now deceased wife dozens of times but will never see it again because I have a fractured spine and can't walk 2 kms uphill to save my own life, much less to go have lunch with someone's ghost. I have occasionally thought to go out there with a generator and an angle grinder and just cut the bastard every time I want to use the place, but I had my spine fractured by cops the last time they arrested me. Out there no-one can hear you scream. And I don't have the money to take them on in a court battle.
i worked for the public service three times. It was a closed shop then and it's worse now. It really does have it's own culture and I left when it dawned on me that I could trust absolutely nobody with information about myself or indeed about anybody else either. I had to think about virtually everything I said to my fellow workers because they all dob you in for the tiniest transgression.
Sure, the CC is full of druggies - there's fuck-all else to do in Wagga after you go home from work. One either drinks or one takes drugs or one does both. But the real evil is the creation of ''The Bronx,'' 3 whole suburbs and parts of three more that are just soaked in drugs, booze, crime of every type up to and including murder, and 30 years ago getting mugged for your Nikes was a joke but it can happen to you in The Bronx now. Some streets have a third less houses because the others got torched, and a stolen, smashed and burned car isn't confined to the bushland adjacent to Burkelands anymore - they burn them on one of the maany vacant blocks because they don't have to walk as far to go home.
They blew up Hampden Bridge. I damn near cried at that act of cultural vandalism. I had lunch under or sometimes on that bridge hundreds of times over the years and always lamented the lack of maintenance. They were going to turn it into a giant bird cage which would have made a great tourist attraction but they figured it was cheaper and easier to just destroy it forever.
And, last but not least is the name given to Wagga Wagga by every criminal in the system - ''Dogga Dogga.'' According to the former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Shane Stone, said of this place: ''The worst criminals in Wagga are the cops - this is where they send bent cops to rehabilitate them...'' Says it all, doesn't it?
I live in Cootamundra!!
Cootamundra hell hole. Bradman said he regretted being born there.
***** I live in coota....
*****
I saw you in Copland st getting supplies.
@@ExRhodesian who is bradman
@@versnellingspookie Don Bradman was Australia's greatest cricketer who was born in Cootamundra.
I'm in a Wagga Wagga state of mind.
I bet the clothing factory is long gone.
In which year this film was made?
1966.
A wonderful document of simpler, cleaner, more decent times. We have killed the dream in Australia with biased unwanted immigration policies, a dysfunctional duopoly economy, useless paranoid government run by self-serving special interest groups. They have destroyed all that was once good for systemic greed, myopic complacency and a celebrity obsessed mindless social idiocracy.
fantastic..all thats changed is glenfield has a 24hr maccas
Well now you have the the Oporto’s and Aldi store there...
And they created The Bronx, a drug soaked area covering 3 suburbs and parts of three more.
Likely everyone is this film no longer exists. But really, did they ever. It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
If only everything sold in Australia were actually *built* in Australia. With most products being made in other countries, is anything made *in* Australia anymore?
Not much anymore. I've noticed my oranges are now coming from California. Sad.
AUFF I agree. How is it possible to transport fruits and vegetables from the USA clear to Australia? What I've never liked is products made in China and sold in places like the USA and Canada, made in China and sold to Australia. Why the hell is that? That doesn't make any sense. Don't we know how to build products for ourselves anymore?!
Jason Carpp Yeah, it's a damn shame. I try to buy Australian as much as I can, but it's difficult when so much of what's on offer is sent from Asia.
AUFF It's worse than a damn shame. It's unforgivable. :(
Jason Carpp Yep. Sad state of affairs at the moment.
Yes my nana lives in bourkelands it's full now
wagga wagga
I live there
@5:09 - "Come on son, you can do better than that ! Hit me as hard as you can !" >SMACK!!< oO "Sorry, Neville. Neville ?..."
I wonder how old Neville was ar the time? Probably younger than you might imagine.
Notice not a single First Nation person in the whole video. 🤷🏽♂️
That's what i was thinking.
There wasn't that many blackfellas around back then. Not like now.
So?
@@Thepigfromthepot It would have been nice to see at least some mention of wiradjuri culture in this, but of course there wasn't because racism.
now 50 year later wagga base is now getting knocked down soon and no longer in use..and a new hospital with a complete new name.
+ttcmummyoftwo Peat And the same incompetent criminals who worked in the old building will work in the new one. Nothing will change except the furniture. It's still the worst hospital in the southern hemisphere.
Hey you I will tell you a friend went there and got a case of Golden Staph, for free mind you. Yes poor guy almost died.
ExRhodesian golden staph is in ALL hospitals...
Fuque Yu how are thy criminals?there doctors nurses not god...it happens my sister inlaw works there and was warded nurse of the year in 2016
Sarah Peat
I'd rather fly to Europe and pay cash for an operation than use Wagga Wagga Hospital.
This place really looks nice to live there. Has it changed since this video was made?
Yep. They turned 3 suburbs into a giant ghetto we call The Bronx. They filled it with the enemies of the state in the War on Australians, aka The War on Drugs. I'm too old to go there anymore. It was a wild place in the 80's and 90's.
@@marknovak8471 wow just sounds like what the government does over here in America 🇺🇸
@@danrobinson572 Yes, Australia tends to copy all the crap the US thinks up. BLM, the war on people who use drugs, virtue signalling, hypocrisy - y'know, all the really inane lefty bullshit. It stems from the fact that Australia is such a homogenous unit it's dull - race issues have to be drummed up by the press, shit like that. The Bronx here in Wagga? A natural by-product of the war on stoners. Lord knows there's fuck all to do in Wagga except drink and/or take drugs and the lower end of the human scale is the dole/pension/Housing Commission crowd who are herded together in Housing Commission ''estates'' which are now all old and in need of burning down so nobody comments on it too much. The HC doesn't rebuild a house that's been torched. It stays an empty block and soon gets filled with junk and maybe a stolen car or two. Zeigler Ave and Edney Streets have had their days as the drug capital of Wagga and has faded into obscurity as most of the people are the older crowd who have been around for a while. I could name 40 people I knew since 1980 who are now dead, and all but 3 of them died from overdoses or the consequences of 30 or 40 years of self abuse. Two of my cousins died from Fentanyl OD's, and a lot of the others did too. A couple from heroin and 5 suicides that I know of, my de facto partner one of them.
It ain't remotely like it used to be. It's really sad that most of Wagga's problems stem either from government policies or local government mediocrity and incompetence. It could be such a great place. They blew up Hampden Bridge, that grand old structure I had lunch under or fished under hundreds of times. Blew it up rather than spend the same money every 10 years to restore it and turn it into a giant bird cage. Too fuckin' difficult for these fools.
@@marknovak8471 okay 👍
Australia was truly a lucky country, its because of nonsense like this I moved here. Nonsense I say because that is all gone. Gone like the wind or my youth.
+Trousersnake Pliskin +ExRhodesian You blokes must be the toughest whitest pair of yokel sooks this side of the nut house. Wagga Wagga has been inhabited by sooks with shit for brains. Immigration is a blessing. But it won’t up your IQ any. Lets have a hug.
+ExRhodesian Mate, don't be a SOOK! listen to yourself. Grow some , and make up your own mind. You do know Australia is the #2 country on the human development index again this year, & the last 68 years . If you would move from a country with the highest standard of Living in the known world because of immigration, or because you believe what you obviously read via mass media, then I think you would validate my point on upping your IQ. You could go to the # 1 HDI country, in the Nordic region. But you'ed still be a massive fool on the grounds of the whether there. Stay here matey, there is still time. Peace.
+Lookout Smithers What is it about Rhodesians and South Africans, highly affluent when they migrate and such whingers.
David Donaldson
I am only commenting here whites are second class citizens, 3 Asian fruit pickers kill an aborigine at Griffith why no charges, nothing home they go. The aborigine was outside having stolen an electrical item from the house the Asians were renting. An aborigine breaks into a house the white home owner restrains the thug who dies and a murder charge. Two laws one for whites the other for?
+ExRhodesian It ain't that bad. Not all us blackfellas are actually black.
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That music at 11.50 is that the music from the Late Show shitscared segments?
That boxing ring is still there and hasn't changed a bit i trained there myself and i'm only 27
now 35... still training? Im 52 started at 48 ;)
I planned to download the series to see what it's like living in Australia. What's the point, the individual segments showcase what the country used to be like (or what the authorities wanted to portray) almost 60 years ago. There's no point in reminiscing about the past. I don't live in Australia but was lucky enough to have grown up in a country where I could walk free, hike alone, our houses were open to the street etc. 20 years later it's the exact opposite. I can dream about the past but it won't change the present or the future.
1:59 is that 'new' church still there today?
Yes that’s St Albans Kooringal part of South Wagga Anglican Church Parish - it’s now the more senior congregation.
Not a 4x4 duel cab ute in site. Even the farmer drove a sedan.
Why does this exist? I grew up in wagga. I know that town like the back of my hand and it''s kinda a shit hole
It's been close to 50 years since this video was made. Has Wagga Wagga grown or declined since the video was made?
Franklin Uroda its grown a lot since then we have new suburbs , more parks , 64000 people in 2016 , a lot of buildings have changed , a.new bomen road being built on Olympic highway and much more by the way we still have lots of farmers
Tell us what your really think Mark
+Andrew Hopkinson If I did that they'd lock me up.
wonder what its like to live in wagga wagga these days?
Lived there for the past 10 years, it has gone downhill. Lots of drugs and crime. No more big factories. It’s now farmers and people that can’t afford a house anywhere else
If you live in The Bronx it's a real shithole. I'm on 21 acres outside of Lake Albert towards the airport - paradise.
It isn't remotely like this. It wasn't back then and it's worse now. Wagga is the suicide capital of the southern hemisphere and nobody who lives in this shit-hole is surprised. The Wagga City Council has demolished or otherwise destroyed everything you see in this video. This is history, but it isn't fact.
i live in wagga born and raised and still here! its turned into the biggest pist infested place and has NO morals nothing to what it use to have anyway like this video..people in the "social pist,one nighters eyes" have rewned wagga and a lot of everything today!
They evidently didn't teach you to spell in those Wagga Wagga schools, either..
@dreadly101 Really, that's the only error you found. and - btw who cares.
Hunter's on the hill and Spiers around the corner!!
Gees - it's like a long advertisement for the white Australia policy.
LMAO !
Wagga wagga nice pity about the people
Respond to this video... I have no doubt he mentioned these towns. My comment was just an aside, thats all. I was only trying to make you smile , ya frickin psycho . O.K . let me explain . Spike Milligan was a comedian right . And this was a joke ...right . And he made the joke because Woy Woy is really boring . Nothing happens at Woy Woy . Soooo , just as nothing happens in Woy Woy , nothing happens in a cemetery, and ....ya know what? Forget it .
Sounds like a nice place for dogs ..🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩💩
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