1969 - A drive around Sydney, Australia

[averyhse]

At the time the film took, Australians still use Imperial system of measurement like mile and pound. The nation start to convert to metric nation.

[Terrilliser]

Wonderful.

[conditionfulterms]

Sydney is even better now, such a beautiful city

[rawson1a]

In 40 years time they will look at footage of us and wonder what happened to us all..

I remember the place then, how lovely it was like most world cities now Sydney is just a crazy expensive human termite mound.

[mollybella1000]

Your father didn't mind filming the chicks along the way

[internezzo]

there were 60s people everywhere then. of course they're all dead now, without ever having heard of Justin Bieber.

[MrZorba289]

well done ..any more footage

[newcastlerabbit1]

Absolutely fantastic.

[apm285285]

Man that is awesome i want to see more footage like this please

[MyCityOfSYDNEY]

love this....

just a loving suggestion though....how about some music for the background?

preferably something from 1969.

up to you though.

[BetterMusicVariety]

@MyCityOfSYDNEY Nah that'd just give the YouTube Copyright boffins a reason to pull down this great video.

[MyCityOfSYDNEY]

@BetterMusicVariety

very true.

[taipan342]

what a great video!

[ildayne]

fantastic video thanks for sharing

[jmoul59]

The car rego sticker invokes as much nostalgia as the rest of the scenery.

[cherton]

Believe it or not but i used to live on Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth bay, where this video ends. I moved away from there only in 2009. Thanks for this video!

[kwaka72]

This video has some terrific footage of the city I have lived in all my life. I was wondering however if you might have mixed your timeline of 1969, as the Operahouse construction was completed in 1973. In the Video, I can see construction cranes around the Opera house, but it looks very close to completeion. So I'm thinking it may be closer to 1972 than 1969?

[kwaka72]

I can correct myself here! I just saw a video of Sydney in 1968, and the exterior shell of the opera house was just about complete in that video, so this one must in fact be filmes in 1968. My apologies!!

I understimated how much work must have gone into the interior of that magnificent building, as it took another 4 years to finish!

[daveozk]

notice there is no asians australia was a good country "was"

[winterystorm]

a world full of daveozk......how exciting! me? I'd rather rice paper rolls, sushi, red curry paste, vermicelli, eggplant, basil, oregano, cous cous etc etc etc You can stick with your chops and overstewed carrots!

[tubularmonkeymaniac]

This probably sounds ridiculous, but this reminds me of growing up in Sydney in the mid 80's...honestly a lot of Bondi was still working class around that time.

[Aussiegirl265]

I should show this video to my parents! They'd love it.

[ViceroyCDR]

Some people here speak of how great Sydney was at that time. I've never been there. What regrettable changes have taken place up to now? How is Sydney presently?

[haggidubious]

@ViceroyCDR Huge, sprawling suburbs. Less efficient public transport. 2.5 million more people. Outrageous real estate prices. People still like it though; it is still beautiful in a lot of ways, but I could never live there again.

[mornnb]

@ViceroyCDR Sydney's got bigger and wealthier. More people, more fast paced less relaxed. But I love a bustling large city and think this is a positive change.

[AussieNewsViews]

So many memories from seeing those cars and old Government Buses.

Thank you so much for posting this.

[ScottJackson117]

I looked at 1:47 and I took a photo of sydney in the same postion........Oh to look 40 years on and see a beautiful city. :)

[ornitorrinco01]

It's nice to be reminded that once upon a time Sydney was actually an attractive, clean and pleasant city, oh how times have changed.

[flyerboy1963]

thank you for that film clip....not much of Sydney has changed only Bondi Juction with the recent...Westfields up grade...and of cause the old double decker buses how we love them when i was a kid are long gone ...if could only go back in time ...just for the day....

[Seattlecarnut]

Fascinating video. Thank you for posting. 

[horationelson57]

Thank you for sharing!

[OZSYDNEY]

Draft Time ...... Vietnam

[AccordionManiac]

Good on your father for filming and you for sharing!

[MoilAndToil]

Very interesting, the front of the Grace bros building at Bondi Junction looks a bit like the front of Peter Jones in Sloan Square. 0:13

Park Regis looks great in that shot. 0:30 Missing (obscured) in the 1:43 shot

No Gainsborough in that Kirribilli shot.

2:38 Roslyn Gardens terrace the grey one or the blue one, was A$60,000 for sale in the mid seventies; subject to rent control tenancies.

Thanks for posting; a real trip!

Cheers,

from,

del-boy

[casanoc]

Absolutely brilliant! Almost made me teary eyed

[pbrownaus]

That was superb. It took me back 40 years. What a pity it's so tacky now.

Your father did a great job and it looks as though the weather favoured him.

[ToiletGreece]

amazing. Thank you so much!

[rob262]

FANTASTIC vid mate !! 5 star rated.

i was born 'n bred in Sydney and was 17 at the time. memories come flooding back watching this.....especially catching those old double decker buses lol

at 2:18 i wonder what those people are doing now, what lives they had....

thanks for showing :)

[AccordionManiac]

Fantastic history, well done

[Roni571968]

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL !!!

[DarkCityFilmNoir]

wow,beautiful piece of history!

[birdie2219]

HI I love the footage - i remember all of this - I lived in Surry Hills and would walk or catch those old green buses to town...ahh those were the days - our Sydney had a soul!

[lijman]

Between 0:50 and 0:54 the black car in the lane to their right seems to drive through the tollgate without paying the toll.

[rob262]

@ lijman

i think that was Bob Menzies......he would have had an E-Tag ;)

[MoilAndToil]

@lijman Dear lijm., Hey man, you is right ! That dude just drove rite-on-thru. . In the ninteen-sixties, the Sydney Harbour Bridge toll was introduced as payable one way only, the toll was doubled from ten cents each way to twenty cents payable when going to the city from the north. This was to cut the cost of collection by the city; it coincied with automated coin collecting baskets, which took silver coins to the value of twenty cents. . Cheers. from, del-boy .

[TheTVCLady]

It's embarrassing how little has changed!

[themacboy]

I love at 2.30 how your Dad is focusing on the babe crossing the road :)

[rob262]

@ themacboy

LOL

[bradaurisch]

Fascinating to see Sydney all those years ago, the national archive has a bunch of footage from the era online too, but this is all the more impressive for thinking about your dad holding that camera!

I remember those rego stickers, they stunk of lead paint/ink.