Life In Australia: Adelaide

[sizzleinthekiss]

My people, and how we roll!

[thatstheone87]

i dont reckon an awful lot has changed

[bobob4477]

This almost is a modern day version. All we need to do is update fashion and music. Nothing else in Adelaide has changed all that much..

[mikesj101]

How much fun would it be to re-create this, a modern day version?

[conman62]

Well that was just fantastic.

Rundle street, Cox Foys, Flash Gelati, Popeye boat in the Torrens, Glenelg without the monstrous block of flats everywhere.

I would have been 4 or 5 when this film was made.

So glad I found this clip!

[CescSoler]

it was weird seeing Rundle Mall before it was, you know, a mall.

[mandythepcgirl]

As a Radelaidian, I can honestly say that not much has changed!

[peetee99]

@mandythepcgirl oh there are still paddocks on south road? unsealed roads in the parklands? did you actually WATCH the film?

[R34GTRR35]

So much better than Melbourne

[R34GTRR35]

Yeah Radelaide Yo

[kukkaFeatures]

@iltas5150 yes! In Adelaide we do eat Soylent Green (old people), they are our biggest resource

[chavrons1]

Some of the cars maybe yes but some of those pics look much early. I grew up in the fifties and sixties and people were always much more friendlier and courteous, not selfish like today. I'm happy that i was brought up in a much quiet city, where everyone knew each other by passing in the city and their was never any traffic hold ups. You could get around much more quicker to where ever you wanted to go. I never saw it as backwater.

[iltas5150]

I have a sudden urge for Soylent Green.

[krazynite]

Nothing has changed .....lol

[danielaciao1]

i wonder where the restaurant was at 12.56..or the name of it ??

[BCSimm1978]

i lived in melbourne for 5 years, europe for 3 years and the states for 2 years.. for lifestyle, Adelaide wins hands down, no contest. I do love Melbourne, London and New York but... too busy!

[meimidget]

amazing how barely anything has changed..

[hobogoblin123]

Very enjoyable, it's like a time capsule to me

[Norocmorth]

And this is when they were scared of a nuclear war - the end of the world.

[brettgrocock]

Are you sure it ye olde worlde Adelaide, looks pretty much the same to me as it did last week. Have a look around 1:42, she looks thrilled to be at work... ooooh yeah!

[ManicMindTrick]

´Damn many of those dancing girls where really hot. I guess they are milfs now.

[kinggee02]

I think we had sound back in the 60s

[chavrons1]

@kinggee02 It looks much older than the sixties.

[MrBubby666]

@chavrons1 No, it's definitely the 60s some of those cars weren't made until then. Having grown up in Adelaide in the 70s, I can now see why people from interstate and overseas thought of Adelaide as a backwater.

[ariana07100]

How i wish i can visit adelaide

[HotZingers]

@ariana07100 i live here and its shit. believe me, i bet its a lot better where your from

[1CaptainAustralia1]

@HotZingers I've lived in a few Aus capitals and wouldn't even consider settling down anywhere else, except maybe Perth depending on employment.

[tedcrampos]

@HotZingers when you're as sad as you are, anywhere is going to be shit. its too easy to blame your circumstances

[Valkyriepure]

Polluted shithole

[Valkyriepure]

Adelaide is fast becoming a high density polluted shithole. Last two times I decided to drive in the 3 pm rush hour it took 45 mins to drive less than 15km. Lifestyle is fast turning to shit with cost of living and we are still waiting for modern smokeless fuel laws for the thousands of wood burners that help the soaring asthma and respiratory disease rates every winter.

[Burlesque1268]

@Valkyriepure Stop bagging Adelaide - maybe if you have travelled abroad you would be thankful at how lucky you are to live in Adelaide, and how close we are to everything!!!! 45min in peak hour traffic is nothing, you should go live in New York, then you would know what real RUSH HOUR IS......

[ilikeradiohead]

Where's Don Draper?

[MrMontrose1967]

I like the dinner table, husband sitting down wife cooking. "there you go dear"....."whats this slop ...slap" ahhh yes those were the days.

[goran2009]

Is it just me, or aussies were much classy back in 60's... Today is all thongs ugg and housing trust

[goran2009]

I love Adelaide, its easy to get around, plenty of places to run, work and get wasted. If i really need bigger weekend, melbournevis 1haway:)

[rbflowin]

only the factories have all gone to china.lol

[kidihhwie]

omg, it was not a indian taxi driver

[KRiS66446]

im 18 and love the 60s would love to be around in that time looks sweet!! i need a time machine haha

[geckoexpress]

Nothing has changed i see

[Esoparagon]

@geckoexpress Yep. It's still a hole.

[ThewarriorJatt]

16:00 watch out for cops

[sarahluvshp]

Adelaide Station at 2:14 :D

[TheGeeksftw]

0:34 Are those trams ? I only thought there's trams in Melbourne

[MrGoblin60]

When the pound was worth a pound, the louts knew their places and the queers were still in the closet. Mr Menzies saw to all that.

[jenksaus]

Where is/was the pool at 19:03 ?

[inspirationalcinema]

@jenksaus hazelwood park and it is still there

[Chic1110]

@jenksaus I'm dying to know too!

[MasKistershi]

@jenksaus looks to me like the splash pool in the eastern park lands. but no water for many yrs i think.

[Jader7777]

Wow it's still exactly the same.

[clofts]

Whats the name of the place, in the video, where they go downstairs to have a coffee? Is that place there any more in any form?

[ozehartz]

Looks like Adelaide 2011 ,just the way Adelaide City Council likes it , was the Le Cornu site in Nt Adelaide vacant then as well?

[TreCoolness]

A better time... A simple easy going time

[Treblaine]

They seem reluctant to actually let you ever hear any of the inhabitants speak.

Are they worried their Aussie accents will somehow ruin the impression?

[MrRABBITonSPEED]

Great Video , shame it didn't have narration.

[TheDannii2011]

it is ssoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­o much different now

[N3ptuNe01]

No amusement parks, Theme Parks, No alcohol served after 10:30 @ drive thru, No loud Music in the CITY after 12:00am! No activity for the youth, No Cinema in the city! Only art house “Marion the VMAX and Gold class” after 7pm! Play Grease and Andreas, Expensive groceries, NO Farm fresh food, free range meats, in supermarket, Grocery, butcher all from frozen warehouses. Everyone drives in the right and left hand lane no opportunity to overtake, the people are Narcissist

Don’t go to Adelaide!

[catey62]

@N3ptuNe01 Do you live in Adelaide? because everything you said is wrong...go to the markets..there's farm fresh food...plenty of cinemas in and around Adelaide...free range meat can be found in the supermarkets too..and lot's of niche market butchers around,the drivers are now worse than anywhere Ive been,drive throughs are open till 12-00 am fri and sat nites.and the people are friendly and welcoming.I know,I've lived here all my life !!

[peetee99]

@N3ptuNe01 um this was 50 years ago! Perhgaps you're too dumb to read that

[ionicllama]

ah the non-convict state. it's secretly the best! One day i'll go back to A-town, hopefully it still looks like this .... :)

[Mark6911]

Back when North Terrace had 3 sets of traffic lights.. not 16...

I'm only 21 but still.. looks so relaxing and nice.

[Kognito72]

These are scenes from a movie, right? What movie is it?

[FILMAUSTRALIA]

@Kognito72 Not a movie. Real life 1960's Adelaide - or a version of real life anyway.

[patmorac]

this video depicts Adelaide in 2011 perfectly!!!

[evvia]

@patmorac

Oops...they spelt ur name wrong on the last 2 letters....

[plover139]

It is great to see my old home town as I remember it. It is still a top place to live and has it all over the Eastern cities. I think I saw my old FB Holden and what's worse I think I saw my ex-wife!!

[Seattlecarnut]

I love these Life in Australia videos. It shows what life in was like various cities and towns in Australia.

[ss3cleric]

all these tired cliches about how 'backward' Adelade is getting a bit old guys

[Chic1110]

It's weird to see Elder Park and the River Torrens without the Festival Centre!

[scottclements78]

Life in Adelaide, no that cant be right?

[ss3cleric]

@scottclements78 hardy fucin har

[KenanVideos]

@scottclements78 HAHAHAHAHA!!!

[oscarhollywood]

"welcome to adelaide.... please turn your clocks back 30years"

[calandelsa]

hahahaha back then we actually had factories.

[jasonfish07]

This was filmed last week.

[ss3cleric]

Seeing Marion Road look so undeveloped; wow, big paddocks around the Chrylser assembly plant which was all developed. being born in 72 few years after this. We lived in Osullivans Beach which was still almost village like in the early years!

[lauralovesnintendo]

I'm only 17 years old, but the 60s looked awesome. I've always thought I was born in the wrong time.

[Esoparagon]

@lauralovesnintendo It sucked. It's just the way they make films look so great.

[elSargent93]

Wow, very similar - only now its dirtier, full of fat ugly people that are unable to put on a tie and plenty of shady looking migrants that refuse to socialise with the grumpy white people. ugh...

[iamleml]

Adelaide is amazing even back then!

[MerchantofTarshish]

Wow I didn't realise that Oz was so developed back in the 60s

[KenanVideos]

@MerchantofTarshish Neither did I, not Adelaide anyway

[LASTCARDMANILA]

I absolutely loved this and i knew Bev harrell. She lived on Sturt Road across from Marion Shopping Centre.. This brings back so many fond memories for me too.. Thanks ever so much.. Loved it !!!

[SuperLegless]

@LASTCARDMANILA it is pam western

[tommywm24]

Looks like they could get progress back in 1966. Nothing much has changed really.

[Fobie20]

just goes to show how much adelaide HASN'T changed.

[kismicallychal]

What a beautiful state Adelaide is. Nothing much has changed because it was beautiful then, has been maintained and is still beautiful now! Wouldn't change Adelaide for the world...'cept maybe add a Dreamworld ;P

[SMOUSEofficial]

at 13:37.... she questions him on her arousing suspicion of her being a "Kyle"

[russelljenkins69]

This is amazing!

[BarneyMcFly]

Would be good to see bits of written text up on the film to indicate where the various places in the film are..

[BarneyMcFly]

Really enjoyed looking at that. I suspect one of the shopping areas was Rundle Street, i'm no old enough to remember pre Mall days. I'm curious as to whether those featured were actors or every day people part of a documentary. I also wonder whether or not they've seen it since its gone onto Youtube.  And one final thing, that i'm most curious about is which office was featured, i'm guessing it was a Federal Govt dept office.

[isfckingevil]

The blue Patawalonga is an interesting one. Is this film colourised?

[FILMAUSTRALIA]

@isfckingevil No not colourised - it's the real deal.

[MUPPETAU]

@isfckingevil lol.....black water and rotten egg gas is all I have ever known of the patawalonga.

[Olebrucanism]

Which Australian city is better? Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth?

[DPK641]

These were the days when people were civilized and polite and when driving a cab was a decent paying job. Now days people are rude and obnoxious and you are lucky to make 5 bucks a day cab driving.

[guitarofvelocity]

Nothing at all has changed! Except we have no overtaking lanes or at least people drive slow in the right.

Replace the "A" from Adelaidee to become Delaide! cant wait to leave this retardation place.

[evvia]

@guitarofvelocity

We wont miss you...if this is a place to make "retardation"...its worked on you......love ur work Radelaide

[carmelanneor]

~~ ' Thanks For The Memories' ~~ the 1960's were Great!

[MrIzzydye]

Wow, is that a bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermatige on that dinner table? How lucky were they back then? No one could afford that now.

[GOLDHK]

Love this film, and the classic cars in it.

[HolaDeco]

Sadly, hardly anything has changed

[CateINherCAVE]

7.17 the Hotel Adelaide?

[CateINherCAVE]

shorts on the factory line???

[mattyo30]

thx for these awesome

[Alilrebelchick]

This is soooo cool

[lucythedogus]

Seems that a cab fare back then was a cigar? 7:11

[lucythedogus]

Seems that a cab fare back then was a cigar? 7:00

[Xubono]

Gotta love how the tram stopped to let passengers step off into oncoming traffic!!!

[99heysenave]

Superb! My boss had us all watching it at work - nothing got done for the last hour Friday afteroon!.

[Padeo17]

Great memories. I was 6 years old then and it just took me back to those days. I never thought I would ever see the ferris wheel above Cox Foys ever again and the old popeye's. I remember the trams that colour.

I wish there was more. If anybody has old home movies of Adelaide please post them on here.

[FILMAUSTRALIA]

@Padeo17 Glad you liked it. We do have more films about "old" Adelaide and will be posting soon. Stay tuned!

[Olebrucanism]

@FILMAUSTRALIA Which Australian city is better? Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth?

[DGreen133]

Love it! Where are these actors now??

[LTK333]

12.38 - where is that?

[angusjmp]

10:45 is now Rundle Mall, and the building in the distance with the dome was the Grand Central Hotel, it is now the Hungry Jacks carpark.

[xertia1]

Lol, some of those buses are still in commission aren't they? :)

[plusplusplusplusp]

@xertia1

Don't think so. They were up until about the year 2000.

[tone167]

Hahaha I had my wedding reception in that restaurant @ 7:26!! (Hotel Adelaide)!! True!

[TheJimzo]

ew! people swimming in the River Torrens .... that is the most unhygienic thing you could do now days : /

[Basil1976]

Adelaide was busier , more lively and active then than it is now !

[LadyJoanella]

Typewriters and those hairdos with plenty of hair spray.

Windows down on the cars - rare to have an air conditioner.

Some of those men used hair oil, hair so shiny and in place.

Trannies of course. Briquette heater in the living room.

Still had a wood bbq in the park too.

[ba552k]

awesome car radio

[MarkSDrechsler]

Is it just me, or has the CBD really not changed that much in 45 years? I'd love to hear thoughts from someone well travelled enough (and old enough) to comment on how the various cities have changed in this series and whether Radelaide really is, relatively speaking, a city 'frozen in time'.

[lysurgis23]

Interesting to note that Sorrento's Restaurant advertised (front window) a TELEPHONE (presumably a payphone) as one of its services. Ahhh for the days before mobile phones took over.

Also interesting to note that the children's recreational activity on the River Torrens bank was to simply roll down the slope. No need to have the latest PS3, xBox, iPad, iPhone, &c &c &c as well.

[IamCathieT]

And second that it was Decca's. It's written on one of the menus - the barrels on the wall!

[IamCathieT]

Think the restaurant with the glass doors would have been The Hotel Adelaide - O'Connell street.

[sooty12321]

can tell the vintage by the vehicles being shown !

and the cloths & hair styles

[sooty12321]

can tell the vintage by the vehicles being shown ! 

[adddelay]

To answer some questions, I've found out:

- The greek restaurant, where the guy steals a grape, was apparently on Whitmore Square. (Although it may be Decca's Place on Melbourne St, according to digdeeper101)

- The dress shop was on Melbourne St.

- The car line is at Tonsley (The Mitsubishi plant orginally being Chrysler).

- Sorrento restaurant which they walk past was on Hindley St.

- The underground cafe/bar towards the end may be The Catacombs, in the basement of Romilly House

[V8DOMIN8]

@adddelay hi there i think you will find the car plant chrysler where they are assembling VC valiants could be the le-cornu building..i used to work at mitsubishi tonsley and before chrysler was there they were at le-cornu building...i just wonder how if its original 1966 footage which o dont doubt it is how is it such clear clarity and quality..?colour to..

[TheCutsack]

@V8DOMIN8 The Tonsley plant opened in 1964 and is where all models were assembled from the AP onwards. So the footage of the VC (1966 model) assembly is from the Tonsley plant.

[letsbeone]

Been to had her laid, lovely place. This is so cool! I don't remember people walking THAT fast though. She's a bit of all right, int she. That dance teacher. Phwoaaa.

[RockTillYerShit]

Unbelievable. I remember a lot of this. And how's those cars? Awesome! Life was better then....

[debangelcake]

Does anyone know where/what the outdoor restaurant was and if it still exists. It looked somewhat familiar.

[digdeeper101]

@debangelcake - the restaurant was Decca's Place on Melbourne Street, owned by Derek Jolly.

[debangelcake]

There was a foreign looking family on the beach.

[debangelcake]

responding to seattlecarnut, another major difference is the climate! It rarely rains in Adelaide!

[anomolyrox]

wow, nothing has changed in 45 years..... except the taxi driver is Caucasian and he seems to know where he`s going!

[Olebrucanism]

@anomolyrox Which Australian city is better? Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth?

[leebouldog]

@anomolyrox clubs are just as shit.

[Guruver]

absolutely amazing !!!

[grapet]

Two years before I was born. Life was a different pace back then... Great film.

[3uckwheat]

I live in Adelaide I noticed they show no ethnics or aboriginal people in the entire film, it makes us look like a backwards town even if it was the 60s it upsets me, but have things really changed, they would probably do the same thing if they shot the film now.

[thisthoughtofmine]

@3uckwheat, that's because Australia labored under the 'White Australia Policy' of 1901 until it was repealed by the Whitlam Government in 1973. So the multicultural metropolis you know today has only existed for the last 30 some years. Sad but true.

[BLU747]

@3uckwheat Would you want to show aboriginals heckling people passing by the park lands in a video like this?

[hejustdid]

this is brilliant

[Misterclicky]

Well I live in Adelaide and it looks very similar NOW. The only obvious differences are the cars ;-) Really!

[Seattlecarnut]

This is one of the places in Australia I'd really like to visit. Adelaide. This place reminds me of Seattle, Washington during the 1960s. I've seen videos of Seattle during this time and they look very similar. The only obvious differences are the cars. 

[3uckwheat]

Just a much much hotter climate

[Seattlecarnut]

@3uckwheat Exactly! 

[letsbeone]

@Seattlecarnut Yeah, the Ozzie ones are better!

[Seattlecarnut]

@letsbeone It's what makes Australia the "Lucky Country".