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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ต.ค. 2010
- Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1972. Directed by Greg Reading. Jim McKenzie is a taxi driver from Perth in Western Australia. He owns his own cab and has been in business about four years. Jim likes his work, but it is an odd sort of job: the hours are long but you meet all sorts of people. But a man is his own boss: for blokes like him, that's important.
See a production still from this film here:
www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/873... - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
They were the good olds days, time went slower and people had a lot more respect.
yeh im from perth amazing how different it looks
I remember these type of taxis and their radios. It was aall very friendly except when the driver smoked while you were in the car.
A classic... Smoking in the car, not wearing seatbelts, no child seat... what a time to be alive. Progress has obvious benefits, but we've become such a nanny society.
Maybe a "time to be alive" but not for very long with habits like those!
Driving home pissed from the pub
@@NFSAFilms Over regulation has knocked the guts out of Australian culture. Better of dead than hanging around listening to all the bullshit these neurotic people peddle these days. What was wrong with a couple of beers? They were far better than being drowned in a sea of crap.
I really enjoyed watching this video ! thanks for sharing this. I always wondered how it would have been to drive a taxi in the old days. I have been driving for 4 years now and its great to be a taxi driver, esp when you are young.
Back in those pre-Uber times.
No drinks at the end of the shift for Jim nowadays, either......zero BAC for cabbies.
gyspy taxi's were illegal back then. still are if you know what colour the australian flag is.
I was watching this video as I love old Aussie vids from 60's and 70's, saw the taxi driver, thought god, "Big Jim" looks familiar, realised he was my boss in my first job (I was a cadet car salesman at Skipper Chrysler, 1980), fabulous times! (And NFSA Films is a firm fave).
Wow! Thanks for letting us know.
Fantastic video, and thanks for uploading. Brings back fabulous memories of early 70's Perth, as a teenager. Amazingly, not a bus in sight! Cabbies certainly had thier work cut out back then. So much has changed since then.
I owned an XY panel van paid $2500 for it in 1970 sold it 4 years later for $2200, later on made money on other cars, everything held its value well.
yuri Lemming ... except the Australian dollar was worth a lot less due to early 70s runaway inflation. In 1974 you would need $3550 to have the same spending power that $2500 afforded you in 1970. So at $2200 in 1974 the Falcon had depreciated 38% in real terms.
If ya'd hung onto it until 1977 ya may have made your profit - Panel Van Fever! (Blokes were sinking vast sums of money into their vans...$15k for one that I saw in an old TV item.)
@@saxongreen78 and now its the Vanlifers like myself who were born in 70s tellin ya that if its rockin ya better not come knockin eh haha pmsl
The first time i went to perth, i was on holidays with my mum, i ws about 12 so 1978. We stayed in some ancient hotel in St George's Terrace, not sure the name but it had a pool table, pokey little rooms and squeeky floors.
Then i came back in 1984 for 6 weeks to do my block release college at Mount Lawley tech. I was an apprentice instrument fitter from Darwin. Its now a training college for nurses. Great times. I had to do college twice a year for 3 years, lots of growing up. I remember Pinochios in the city, Fast Eddies, watching The Jets at The Generator in Morley.
I stayed in a few different places, my favourite was just 200 metres from the college, The Pacific Motel, in Harold street. We nearly got kicked out so many times, it was a dive but cheap and convenient. Its long gone now.
5:30 - The quintessential Australian "corner shop".
5:23 - The quintessential Australian "what was that lump?" look at the meat pie.
Wit a larder driving by 'by the looks of it anyway.
@@mabamabam it's called 'Grissle mate 'wat does that scare you my friend haha as every single pie had it back then 'well wat i no of lol
Love the old Perth videos, thanks for posting this
Its not Sydney is it .
@@steveone well it better not be as Perth is at the end of the world lol
This is a great film
Thanks Neil.
This movie is played in my grandparents house.
What wonderful days
Totally agree wit you there Sir.
I was admiring the hot brides maids while at the same time trying to forget that they're now in their 70's, Um or dead!!
The coffee these days has been replaced by a hit of ice
Love these videos,
THE BEST TAXI DRIVER IN PERTH.❤
When Perth had style and class.. great video!
good show.
I bought a Ford XY panel van in 1971 cost $2500 sold it 3 years later for $2200, still drive fords, they made reliable cars. Cab driving was a lazy job to my thinking, but always had a good yabber with cabbies.
Drives the customer 50km. $1.50......
Was miles in those days.
@@hughmcinally907 this would be the equivalent of $15-16 bucks now :)
@@43scout74 ya n you would only make on average around $72 a week so work it out my friend 'ya that's right they were still expensive as my parents would never ever have got in a Taxi n would rather walk the 10 k's to save that money like most others also unless you didn't no how to handle money but then again mum n dads were German immigrants n new how to look after there money just like most Germans still to this day.
Ha ha the kwinana fwy @2.17. Only 2 lanes each way in front of the pagoda.. It's like 10 lanes across now
Amazing hair, Jim!
Ya well trust me that style will also come but just like for example the 1920's under cut we have now which looks so ridiculously poxie my child.
Predates Martin Scorsese's film by about 5 years...somewhat less violent and gritty, though. 😁
He had to get the idea from somewhere.
@@NFSAFilms Heheheh! Classic.
No one puts their smokes there anymore - just under the windscreen :)
@H HOUR HOTEL Good point, anything on the dashboard these days goes out your drivers window on your first left turn.
10:00 Legs eleven ..the mini has never returned after 50 years
Why oh why was i Born in 1996 :/ Era of UGH Goth and Trippe jays rap music,
And who forgets SUVS and Even worse Driverless,,,,
Nah i will watch theses videos and dream of my mum and dads Era i think :)
God 72. The XA was just out and am only 4 minutes in. I saw a sweet HQ 2 door base model,
I bet scraped in the 1980s/90s to make a Corolla. In winch scraped to make a UGH SUV
( Ok some SUVS i do like. )
But nothing like Aussie and German cars :) ( and any classic )
Wow, taxi drivers sure went above & beyond back then. Lifting wheelchair customers into the cab, waiting for customers to take in the sights and taking their photo, dressing himself and his car up to take the bridal party to the church, and waiting for the service to end so they can drive them elsewhere.
"Every" day is finished at the pub? Yikes. But what a sweet ending!
Hard to imagine that could happen now. :(
Back when men were men. I noticed she didn't have dinner ready tho for him... hmmmm
@@frankmat yes she did! You were not looking hard enough!
before the U.N. Lima Declaration 1975
Don't believe what you see .
See that beautiful hq monaro at 2:58..
It’s the shiny new Peugeot 504 at 8:52 that does it for me!
I drove a taxi 33 years and in the 80s I would wear tshirt and shorts. Then over the years everything changed to Uniforms , Computers No Smoking and Seat Belts were mandated , how boring it became.
Back when taxis were Aussie cars and Aussie drivers
Had a drink or two in the Broken Hill hotel in Vic Park myself,gone all yuppie these days
Head up the street to the Vic Park Hotel. Nicer pub and way better crowd
Decent people. Way better life than our society now.
Today the smoking police would arrest him then throw him in jail for at least 5 years.
For the dolly on the front of the taxi for the wedding did he get that from on top of the toilet?
I would have thought that would be in contravention to Parth's Taxi licensing regulations!
@@sanchoodell6789 and many of the comments are just as interesting ya but i will say the 80's were the best n up until around 1997 n when 2000 came along everything went to the s house sadly n sydney lost its charm ''i no that much not to mention Cabra n the Cross dyed in the bum.
Notice the taxi phone on the street at 1.32
2:42 $1.50 for a cab fare-- how times have changed.
They were the best days. Today's standards are crap.seen my old house in Rivervale.
Is this car a XY or XW
XY
plays lawn bowls
Jim lives in Bentley
Where my mama lives now
What's he doing now?
he'd be in a wheelchair now with a broken back, lifting people like that
He's still in 1972 Perth and nothing's changed in The Twilight Zone.
Plays lawn bowls
Died of lung cancer
Poor bastard is probably trying to scratch a living from Über.
Wish I could ban those buggers.
1:10 all taxi must be Smelly that time.....
They booked "taxis" for their wedding? Um.....
Oliver M Well, if it only costs a $1.50, why not?
The equivalent of $17.50 today.
I reckon it's beaut...my kinda wedding!
@@jamesmcgowen1769 Ya well they must of been well of i can tell u that or it being a special occasion as my dad was a fitter n turner at Port Kembla steel works in lets say around 1970 he was bringing home no more than about $79 or at most $89 dollars a week so i can assure u that taxis were not cheep at all my child n my parents would dare to take a taxi anywhere trust me but then again as i said before that they were German immigrants n im sure a-lot better wit there money than most Australia's just like today Germans are still people who save money don't use plastic n also never get credit which is totally the opposite to most Australian no offence n even most of the western world but Aussies have been known to be shocking money managers just ask anyone who knows as even im sure Google will tell you all about it lol.
Yuk ciggy pong.
Loved perth back then, don't like it today.
How rude, that old guy smoking a pipe at the back of a taxi.
Back then nearly everyone smoked and you could smoke everywhere. Wasn't an issue
I owned an XY panel van paid $2500 for it in 1970 sold it 4 years later for $2200, later on made money on other cars, everything held its value well.