Description Brisbane Trams in the City from different angles before the Queen St. Mall closed Queen Street. Journey is from the City to South Brisbane Station
People had and showed respect and consideration of others back then. I miss that so much. As children we were taught and expected to behave with consideration and manners.
They were fantastic Kristine. As a child in the 60's I loved them. 3d per ride was pretty much passage to anywhere. No suburban pools in those days, let alone Adventure Parks. At 7 years of age I used to catch the tram by myself to the old Qld Museum stop from where I'd walk to the Centenary pool. Very different days.
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing. unfortunately, I missed riding on the Brisbane tram and trolleybus systems completely. My first visit to Brisbane was in August 1973.
My dad Mel the Yank used to drive Trams, Trolleys and then buses. We used to go on Picnics and take the Crippled Children from Montrose Home to Redcliffe for the Annual Trammies and Bus Drivers Picnic Day out. My brother had his photo taken on one occasion (we still have that photo) it was in the Sunday Truth (I think) newspaper. We kids used to go along to help the nuns and the crippled children. We had to help look after those special children and looked forward to the Annual Picnic. I have quite a few tales I could tell about the advantages of being a "Trammies child". Free fares ( not sure this was legal) but I sure took advantage of the free book of Tickets required just in case an Inspector boarded the bus. We just seemed to know when they were coming!! Inside information, and always look after your mates seemed to be tram courtesy! Tickets please meant jump in with dad and hide that is if all else failed.
Thank goodness I had tram rides’ the whole of my school years’. Lived at a Section, which was cool, then tram to school’s gate. After that, caught trains’ to work. Hated busses’, still do. They’re a bloomin’ nuisance to car traffic, & horrible to ride in. At least the trams’ were in the middle of the road, which allowed cars’ to get past them easily.
@@nancyhobson9710 Sure did. I liked Sir Joh, but the demolition of Cloudland was a sad affair if understandable. Unfortunately, the era and the style of dancing Cloudland had been built for had passed rendering it commercially unviable. I attended several dances there, the last as recently as 1974.
You can always upgrade the system but you can't downgrade or close a multi million dollar public asset that ' Works ' . The trams helped to calm the traffic ............. now the roads are like a racetrack and car drivers are wasting hours of 'TH-cam' time behind the wheel.
A quest for all brisbane tram enthusiasts: wikipedia says that brill and single trucker(not baby dreadnoughs) cars survived into the 50s. Is this real? Does somebody have testimoniances about it?
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I'm a tram and I approve this video! Ding ding!
Everyone is so nicely dressed
KMMI77 And well mannered! By the looks of it 👍
That's really what it was like
People had and showed respect and consideration of others back then. I miss that so much. As children we were taught and expected to behave with consideration and manners.
Just wished they kept the trams. My grandfather used to drive them
They were fantastic Kristine. As a child in the 60's I loved them. 3d per ride was pretty much passage to anywhere. No suburban pools in those days, let alone Adventure Parks. At 7 years of age I used to catch the tram by myself to the old Qld Museum stop from where I'd walk to the Centenary pool. Very different days.
This is so cool if Brisbane got trams and trolley buses back
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing. unfortunately, I missed riding on the Brisbane tram and trolleybus systems completely. My first visit to Brisbane was in August 1973.
1964 and 1967 Holdens in that pic.
Thanks for sharing
My dad Mel the Yank used to drive Trams, Trolleys and then buses. We used to go on Picnics and take the Crippled Children from Montrose Home to Redcliffe for the Annual Trammies and Bus Drivers Picnic Day out. My brother had his photo taken on one occasion (we still have that photo) it was in the Sunday Truth (I think) newspaper. We kids used to go along to help the nuns and the crippled children. We had to help look after those special children and looked forward to the Annual Picnic.
I have quite a few tales I could tell about the advantages of being a "Trammies child". Free fares ( not sure this was legal) but I sure took advantage of the free book of Tickets required just in case an Inspector boarded the bus. We just seemed to know when they were coming!! Inside information, and always look after your mates seemed to be tram courtesy! Tickets please meant jump in with dad and hide that is if all else failed.
YES, the ads for Vincent's pills and all on the side of the trams. Think they were painkillers, or were they laxatives?
used these till i was 9
Thank goodness I had tram rides’ the whole of my school years’. Lived at a Section, which was cool, then tram to school’s gate. After that, caught trains’ to work. Hated busses’, still do. They’re a bloomin’ nuisance to car traffic, & horrible to ride in. At least the trams’ were in the middle of the road, which allowed cars’ to get past them easily.
brisbane looks so open and airy ,not any longer
Remember the ads on the trams, and Cloudland. Had the best spring floor in the southern hemisphere
@@nancyhobson9710 Sure did. I liked Sir Joh, but the demolition of Cloudland was a sad affair if understandable. Unfortunately, the era and the style of dancing Cloudland had been built for had passed rendering it commercially unviable. I attended several dances there, the last as recently as 1974.
You can always upgrade the system but you can't downgrade or close a multi million dollar public asset that ' Works ' . The trams helped to calm the traffic ............. now the roads are like a racetrack and car drivers are wasting hours of 'TH-cam' time behind the wheel.
Vincents and Bex destroyed many kidneys👊🏿
If Sydney can bring back its trams, why not Brisbane?
isn't that Rob Brough narrating?
I'd say so
A quest for all brisbane tram enthusiasts: wikipedia says that brill and single trucker(not baby dreadnoughs) cars survived into the 50s.
Is this real? Does somebody have testimoniances about it?