Melbourne 1896 to 1978
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- A collection of historical clips of Melbourne, all the way from the very first film shot in Melbourne, the 1896 Melbourne Cup, to the long haired 1970s. Enjoy the trip.
Acknowledgements:
Living Melbourne
Living Hawthorn
Marvellous Melbourne
Melbourne Today
Commuting by Cable
Country Roads Board, Great Ocean Road
The Wedding Belle
The Melbourne Rendezvous
Christmas in Australia
Joyful and Triumphant
Life in Australia
Melbourne 1978, ABC
The Walk, Alan Silvestri (Soundtrack)
As a kid in 1978 I dreamed of being a tram driver….in 1990 I became a tram driver 😊
Cool!
I HATE trams. Never use them. They just ruin traffic flow. Trams stop in the middle of the road; buses pull over.
Lucky you. The dream comes true
You still driving?
I know few drivers been on the job 30 plus yrs...
i love melbourne and it's trams. so do my children. we lost our trams here in brisbane.
My grandmother was born in Melbourne 1885. Lived in Carlton. We often went to the city when I slept at nana. Nan passed away in 1978, 2 years after I had my first child. She would have seen all of that.
My great aunt was the family storyteller, she was born in 1900, passed in 1992, her mother was Irish, we drove her crazy begging her to tell us the same funny stories over and over lol. My parents lived great long happy lives with stories told. Dad passed 89 in his own bed in his sleep. But we knew he made up half off the stories 😂. Mum passed aged 95, only one hour in hospital, true stories from mum lol. I know I got the best parents and grandparents who were all wonderful story tellers of their past 💞
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When Australia was young and free.
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The music it self was a emotional journey
So beautiful but it makes me so sad. I miss those days. I don't like the world we live in today and each year it just gets worse.☹️
Don't be sad. Hold onto your past memories.
Remember everything the media feeds into your mind is designed to make you believe its getting worse. It's not getting worse, turn off your TV and stop reading newspapers and very quickly the joy will return.
complaining about it won't do any good - do something about it.
@@Harkeilla if I alone could do something to change it I would but unfortunately it's not only up to me. I was more nostalgic than complaining. I don't understand why how I feel bothers you.
@@Harkeilla get off the lounge chair and get a job, stop scrounging off the taxpayers who are doing something worthwhile with their lives Hark!. You obviously don't understand Australia at all. Get out and help people instead of trying to stir up garbage all day long. What a party life you must follow
You miss the days when aboriginal people had no rights, child mortality was much higher than now, and Melbourne had literal slums?
It is amazing the way that ordinary everyday footage, when set to certain music, can make you feel so much
That was the idea. Glad you enjoyed it.
All gone.Foys, George's, Archie and Jugheads, Tim the Toyman, the Tivoli, the grand old cinemas, the flea shops, Basement Discs
You know there was a really poignant eeriness of the first couple of minutes when you realise literally every single person in the film is no longer living. You see them going about their lives not knowing the world would shortly be upended by two world wars. This is why history is so important. It’s not just then… it’s also now.
Beautiful and wise words, thank you
Great footage. The images combined with the music make me very nostalgic and a bit sad being the last survivor in my family. Great memories of Melbourne in the 60’s come flooding back.
I was thinking exactly the same just then. The young in these collections of film will be forever young.
there was no Australian draft in ww1
Yes, we ll what waits for us over the next couple of years? We have no idea.
8:04 Frenchman Alain Mimoun winner of the 1956 Olympic Marathon buying a newspaper!
He was a legend
Thanks .. extra fine comment.
Wow
@@wian4946 thank you for the info.
Merci ! J'ai songé à ma propre grand -mère, née en 1896 et décédée en 1987... Française ( Reims) dont la famille avait traversé les deux Guerres Mondiales, que de transformations techniques, artistiques, politiques, d'habitudes ou d'habitat en une seule génération !
Wish we could back to that time when life was simple. So much I remember. Great "You Tube" Post GT
Thank you
Wonderful, thank you! I emigrated to Melbourne from USA in 1980. So it was interesting to see the footage of all the years from before I arrived. ❤
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it
some great old footage thanks for posting.
i was born in melbourne in 1949 and lived there until
1987 when i moved to cairns, where i still live.
born there 1975 ....... been in cairns for 10 years now .........happy up here but this brings in some nostalgia for old times thats for sure ;)
its been all downhill for melbourne since
What's it like in Cairns now without the tourist dollars
@@genesis6604 Plenty of tourists escaping the south :)
@@genesis6604 hey there craig it certainly has been a struggle for many businesses up here. no real certainty from one week to the next re possible tourists. sadly there are quite a lot of vacant shops even in our cbd. we are all looking forward to improved fortunes sooner than later.
We are passing through history. This is history.
Born in Melbourne at the Queen Victoria Hospital, 1967. Proudly raised here. ❤ What a fabulous video. Well done!
I wish I could live through the old days. It seems so peaceful.
Because it was homogeneous.
@@Harold_Fliteit was just a simpler time and with less importance on wealth and more on lifestyle
@@arisl2370 yes, the lifestyle our homogeneous ancestors built and left us to enjoy....not anymore thanks to mass immigration.
Why is that so hard to comprehend.
You're living in somebody's old days.
@@Harold_Flite
Ya mean white?
Loved growing up in Melbourne.
Such clear footage - great someone had the foresight to record these scenes. Back when Melbourne was classy.
It's actually something I try to encourage my friends to do as much as possible... and to somehow pass it on...
Sure, the 'special events' are important... but it's the everyday that will be more significant to more people down the track, when what we consider 'normal' is gone.. which is already happening, in a lot of ways...
To those who can remember: Children swinging from a Hills hoist in the back yard.. when we used to play marbles around the drain points in a playground.. watching Mum & Dad almost breaking their backs digging in the Melbourne clays to build that fence that they couldn't afford to have someone build... when we used to climb trees and play with 'tins on strings' (as 'stilts' or a 'telephone')... the joy we felt when we finally heard that radio station broadcasting from Equador on the old kitchen radio that could pick-up shortwave...
Tech is great... but it's the history that gives context to where we are now.. and where we're headed...
Very true.
you mean when there were no ethnics?
@@hodeesy Nah, just when there was no Dan Andrews. It was a much better place.
@@hodeesy There were plenty you racist drongo.
There is something special about Melbourne. I always love to visit.
its satisfying, watching your home city evolve
Or devolve, as the case may be.
The music goes so well with the video.
the extremely depressing music?
Well I don’t think it’s depressing at all. Each to their own.
Proud to be borne in Melbourne 1968.
What a magnificent city .
Like all great cities of the world it changes and evolves constantly. But each one of us holds special their own piece of time in our own memory, as that Never changes. .
It’s eternal.
Beautifully put... so much better than some of the negative comments.
@Bruce nah, you've just got a chip on your shoulder.
Go back in time and ask every single one of those people if they think things have changed for the better.
I also was born that year - it is sh*it hole now - if you can even afford to live there.
Superb music choice. 17 at the time it ended. Great city to have lived in
Thank you, a haunting piece.
Look how much light and sunshine used to reach the steets and footpaths!
Trees are so over rated.
Absolutely wonderful plus the music is so fitting.thanks for this
Thank you for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it.
Innocence of simpler years gone by. How nostalgic. It’s amazing how the streets seem almost deserted, due to low population of the times. A sadly missed time when honesty, dignity, civility and respect truely held their meaning. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more.
The honest, dignified and civil respect that kept the indigenous population out of the electorate and covered for member of the clergy who were sexual abusing minors. Oh if only you could still beat you spouse and children but been seen as a good bloke because you played footy well enough to almost go professional.
@@Tasmantor Are you OK?
Yes there were problems, as there always are , but without doubt the prevalence of mental illness and crime has greatly increased ( look it up )
@@Tasmantor You really think things are better today? The number of kids abused in state care dwarfs whatever happened in the church - but it is all hushed up - still going on I am sure.
Priceless thanks 😊
Wonderful set right here right up to the year I was born (1978). Sadly Melbourne/Victoria will never be known for these historic elements anymore via 2020 beyond if you get my drift sigh...
I’m more upbeat about the future.
@@GlowingTube , that's great in spite with what's happening with the world right now. Nothing wrong with it. Hope never hurt anybody here.
@@TheAxelay Funnily enough I was also born in 1978, and I was just thinking the exact opposite thing: it's amazing how well many of these historic landmarks have been preserved and how recognisable so much of it is. I guess it's just a glass half full/empty situation.
@@seansingh8862 , great timeline year births think alike?! Well maybe just this once?! The glass is always open to interpretation by whomever until it's smashed! Cheers etc.
Totally agree…
I loved the horse and carriages .😊
Thank you for assembling this seemingly timeless journey through the heart of Melbourne. Beautifully edited and assembled and I loved your choice of music too.
Thank you for the kind words
Id like to echo Doc Martin here, thank you. Very well done, and surprisingly moving.
Yes. This is a great look at Melbourne over the years. The fashions,cars,buildings and city itself changing decade by decade,from slow to much quicker. Nice music as well. 😊🇦🇺
BLOODY AWESOME GUYS, NOW I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES, THANK YOU!!!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
The most noticeable change isn’t the city or the technological advancements.. it’s the people. Just look at how EVERYONE used to dress so classy. It shows a society that took itself seriously, where everyone had self-respect. Even by 1978 you can already see the change, never mind now in 2023.
People did dress up back then. I also like modern fashion too.
You cab wear grbby old clothes and get lost in Simpson desert. No one will miss you.
Wonderful footage. Thankyou
Gone forever!
This is sheer beauty to me. I was born in Melbourne in 1958 and fret for the days that once were.. Thank you so much for the video.
My pleasure
What was the party scene like in your prime years?
@@TomMathesonColes Probably no different to today's, we just had a crazy way of dressing then.
Thanks for putting this together. It was great to take a walk down memory lane. I was born in Melbourne in the late 60's, and it is amazing to see all the changes. This film is a real gem.
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazingly beautiful Melbourne
how i missed melbourne so much.this place will always be in my heart. 😥
This is the aprox dates of when my grandmother was born and when she died. Its amazing to see the world she lived in and how it changed throughout the years.
Lovely film, i worked in Bourke Street 1967, when i was fifteen to about 1974, after a few job changes i i was back in the city in 1980 working for Vicrail as a train guard till about 85.
Thank you for sharing your story
Really enjoyed watching melbourne over the years
very well made film...it was the Australia I loved. I almost cried. I do not know the Australia of today.
Have you thought of moving to Victorian desert. Lot of crawling creatures like ya
Very well put together, basically as my memory.
Wow, so magical going on that journey through the decades. Thanks
I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
I was born in Melbourne in 1967 next to Epworth Hospital & have lived here ever since.
It's amazing to see buildings in Melbourne still standing as the Brits have built on tried n tested architecture. Over the decades, seeing fashion change n population growth with transport from horse n cart to cars. Myers a must shop for fashion & of course the famous trams still running. A most liveable city, you gotta love it. Thanks for uploading.
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the city with no skyscrapers in the 50's was really cool, the city feels so dark all the time now
Loved watching this. Very well produced, thanks to all involved. ❤
Thank you. It’s just me doing the selection of material , editing and music selection. Glad you enjoyed it.
108 years from first fleet landing to a bustling city so much achieved in such a short time
That is a very short period of time.
Australia is a very, very young country
And now it smells like New Dheli...
i wouldn't refer to it as achievement because of the iniquities towards the indigenous aussies
How has nobody called you out. Lol 108 years. Noooooooooooo
I was born and have lived in Perth since 1957 but I tell you this made me cry as I thought of all my relatives who were born and passed in australia during these years, beautiful touching music choice.
How easy going were people back then and respectful what a shame that’s all gone, people have more than ever now yet treat others like they don’t matter ❤❤❤
Taxis making U turns in front of oncoming traffic is, apparently, timeless...
I come from South America and I have been living in Victoria for 21 years. Melbourne was and still is a beautiful city. Change is part of everything. Beautiful footage, I love it! Thank You.
Muchas gracias or if you are from Brazil, Muito obrigado
@@GlowingTube ☺From Colombia, but Australia is my country too💚💛
@@catalinagomez924true and it is a universal country made for the world 🎉❤
Stunning music choice GT. Absolutely sublime. For someone like me who was born in 1952, the images bring back fond memories of a more gentler time. The chaos of the modern world would do well to revisit older times from a global perspective as well. I sincerely thank you for opportunity to revisit this era.
Blessings.
I’m glad you enjoyed it
Fabulous footage from 1964 when I used to walk every week day to and from Flinders Street up to A.H.Enticott, Photo engravers in Little Lonsdale Street. Thankyou.
Fabulous stuff. The NFSA is a treasure trove.
Brilliant!
1956 olympic games = tv just introduced in australia !
Lovely
Wow, back then it was so nice, and good thing is it continued today.
Arrived in Melbourne in 1980. Enjoyed this video.
My home, l remember you like this.
Adored that Melbourne - not anymore.
Australia you had a beautiful city. Such a great shame that Melbourne wasnt preserved with the same reverence that this movie here has reflected to us.
Diversity sucks
@@nsrfreakconvicts suck
@@An-lv9vwas soon as they landed in Australia… they were free. You joke. That was the deal. Move to Australia free
@@christina7215 hence we welcome all in Oz
A wonderful video of my favourite city. Thank you for uploading. I'm surprised by how many cars there already were by the 1930s.
Born at St Vincent's Fitzroy 1975, raised in Williamstown.
Thanks for the memories, awesome footage.
We kids used to love the front seat upstairs on the Bourke Street double-deck buses.
All wonderful scenes and memories.
The biggest stick out part for me as others pointed out is how classy people dressed back then. I work in the city now, you still have the large crowds etc. When we think of the past we always romance it because of nostalgia etc and one day in 50 years time other will be romancing 2021, even tho its been a horrible year. Memory tends to favor the positive.
PS: Well done on the video, i loved the music too!
Thank you
History will remember 2021 Victoria in a VERY, VERY different way. And it certainly won’t be romantic.
nobody will ever romance these days
Even now I'm shocked by how well people in the city attire themselves. I used to live on the Gold Coast 6-7 years ago when I was studying and I recently had to travel back for a day to pick up car parts. I had to stop into the shops while I was there and I was surprised by how well people were dressed just out and about at the shops. It wasn't just some people, but it seemed everybody was dressed to the nines; I felt very underdressed wearing a t-shirt and shorts.
Only the rich were filmed, they wouldn't spend expensive film.on eevery day ordinary Joe Blog' s life.
Although there are films of British workers coming out of factories.
But there's mostly "events" for high society that got filmed.
I am a migrant to Melbourne and have been living here for the past 13 years. Lovely too see how the past looks like. Thanks.
Thank you and welcome
That made me homesick. Cheers mate.
dont be; its a socialist $hithole now
Yeah, me too.
Australia is like a home from home for me, 21 visits so far, I love St Kilda, Melbourne, such an awesome country.
Beautiful beautiful. I love how elegant everyone was up util the 70s 😂if only people had class these days
My dad was born in 1956 just outside of Melbourne. I was born in 2004. Its crazy to me what the world was like when he was born compared to how it was when i was born
Me too, 2004
Melbourne is special. After traveling I always know I'm truely home when I first see a Yarra Tram. I don't know what it is about them. I'm in the skybus, I see the city skyline that we all know so well. Travel up Spencer Street still not feeling it. Get off the bus walk through the station still not feeling it. Step out in the street, see the 109 tram swing past and suddenly I feel safe. I feel relaxed. I know I'm home. I will never understand that.
Thank you, this shows me the Melbourne my family knew. From my Great Great Grandparents time (they arrived between 1850 and 1880) through to mine. Wonderful 😀
Really enjoyed this wonderful compilation ... Thank you for uploading. 👍😇
I'm glad you enjoyed it
its amazing to see how men and women always dresss properly back in the days. amazing video
Melbourne in the 60s a d 70s was such a nicer place than now.
Cars were less as well as people. More of a large country town.
No graffiti, no drugs, no obesity just clean living folks.
Of course there were the underbelly but not visible .
Good bye marvellous Melbourne.😔
That's bloody fantastic! I hope you have more to upload👍
Working on a few more... stay tuned
Beautifully done.
Thanks for such quality editing.
Great choice of music!
Its so weird to live in age where you can watch footage in which every single person in that video has died. Its like watching ghosts
The city was beautiful without the skyscrapers
Melbourne coffee palace and fish markets were two lovely buildings they destroyed
@@jdg2921 Is that now called the Federal Coffee Palace?
@@planetX15 yes
Thank you for showing the Timeline of Melbourne I live there thanks bro.
I was born in Melbourne in March 1970 but I moved to SA at very short notice in January 1974. I still live in SA to this day. Since July 2019 I’ve been to Melbourne as a visitor 5 times with the last one in May 2023. I knew in those 5 visits I was never going to get to see the place in its pre 1974 glory but in a weird modern way. This extended to playing very modern music being played. By me.
1978 the year I joined the army. They were the best years of my life. I so remember Melbourne just as shown.
Melbourne...... I love it! My Brother is in for a shock, sighted him at Flinder Street Station......... That is one bad haircut!!!!!!!!
1964 = 9 yo and my mum had a milkbar she knew tram drivers they would get sandwiches and milkshakes and i could go on a tram ride into the city with the driver keeping an eye on me in a front seal ! wow i do remember coles lunch cafe and pies at 10 yo with friends skinny arnold and simmo !
A wonderful memory
What a great memory when people had more trust in others. Life was so close to nature
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, THANK YOU FOR SHARING! :)
Incredible footage, wow!
Beautiful Melbourne ❤️
Music is perfect
Thank you
I saw my dad!!! and uncle, I screenshot it- my son looks just like him 😊 I love Melbourne, always will. Generations of my ancestors made Melbourne home ❤
That is so amazing! What time into the video was it?
Now Very unliveable
Magnificent.. Thankyou
Love how the city landscape partially remains unchanged after so many years.
Preparation for the 1956 olympics saw the greatest destruction of a city that would today, had it been left intact, would have rivalled Paris. Greed is eternal and is allowed too much influence in a our shared management of our planet.
Thank you
Also fun fact, we're about as far away from Australia federating as a nation in 1901 to how 1901 was from the first settlers in 1788.
First genocidal convicts
@@LHRTW Complaining about something that happened 200 years ago is like Serbians constantly complaining about the Turkish that waged war on them in the 1600's and using that to justify their brutality today. *People who are alive today have nothing to do with anything and if you think they do just because of their skin colour, then that is racism.* Get that through your head already. No one's going back.
@@TopFix I’m white and I believe no one is going back but I’m for open borders get that into your head. And acknowledging the Nazi past of Australia doesn’t make one a racist.
@@LHRTW I don't have to answer for what people did in the past just because they _looked_ like me. If you think I do, then that is racist. And, if you think you're somehow more special than I am because of your genetics, then that is supremacism. CHECK YOURSELF
@@LHRTW Anyone who is for open borders is for their nation becoming a third world hell hole. No, thanks. Also, Australia doesn't have a Nazi past, Germany does.
A terrific video to watch. Very enjoyable, I am also grateful for the exceptional music played throughout. So glad it wasn't a conglomerate of mismatched 'modern' pieces. Thankyou xxxx
Love Melbourne in 19th and the early stage of 20 century. Very relaxing and slow pace of western life.
And we had Xmas tree decoration in CBD back then.
Now the city features remain not much change, the human faces, walking speed and even the numbers of police increase hundred times. Can imagine that life at that time.
It is really touching to see the OLD Mebourne like any big city in the US without violence, protesting propaganda group marching or sprawling on the street and no epidemic scene in the video.
I wish I could Back to the Past at that time and old days.
Surprisingly moving
Amazing footage!
Amazing footage, thank you!