The Silver Age of Australia - The 1960s in Pictures

I will, there isn't a lot though. Its taken me a fair while to scan and edit the pics so when I get around to it.

Meanwhile, here's some 1960s boat persons arriving...

 

I was brought up near Hyde Park in the 50's so saw a lot of the buildings come down. I use to frolick in the Domain and the Botanic Gardens only to see it ripped in half for the Cahill Expressway.

 

The Adelaide video I posted a link to, shows car and electronics manufacturing, things of the past.

 

Shiney,

Interesting report to MI, which I think may have been 'Military Intelligence'. It is dated August 1941, yet it talks of the "Japs are moving South"

I think they have the year wrong, as in 1942 it really was the very WORST days of WW2 for Australia.


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Is that Mt Wellington in Hobart in the pic of the docks?

 

To be brutally honest though, some of these old buildings have been knocked down simply because they were derelict shitholes.

Our old place in Melbourne - Alkira House on Queen Street - has a heritage listed facade which is one of the great examples of Jazz Moderne Art Deco. It was totally gutted and rebuilt about 15-20 years ago and converted to residential keeping just the facade because it was a piece of ageing, leaking crap. Personally we love the facade (particularly the glass bricks when inside the building) but that's about all (about the old structure - the new bits were bloody awesome). The windows are antique frickin pains-in-the-bum that are impossible to open and close properly that leak when the rain came from the wrong direction.





It's one thing preserving our history, it's another thing forcing people to own/live in a depreciating mouldering dump that is impossibly expensive to maintain (ask the average Venetian). Rant over

 

Spot on.

 

Hey bordsilver, do you know is this place still around?

 

Have they built any new buildings in Hobart since that pic was taken?


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EM,


Nice pic of the "New Australians" arriving by boat. Not allowed to call then New Australians any more, VERY non-PC. The dole was a rarity then and I doubt they qualified anyway, or would bother asking.

That lot would have been the second wave after the WW2 lot that went straight up to the Snowy Mountains and worked like slaves to support the family and buy that home they dreamed of.

Times have changed.


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It doesn't look familiar at all. If it used to be on Queen Street then almost certain it's no longer there.

 

I mean in Canberra. You the only poor bugger I know that goes there.

 

Oh der

Yes. It is still there as are the other two big buildings in the background. It is currently the Uni Pub (and has been for at least the last 15 years) on London Circuit (opposite the Reserve Bank and Police station).

Edit: Actually on second look, the bigger building on the left with the flagpoles looks to have been renovated since the picture.

 

Just found this thread.
Thanks for the memories..................



Mid 70's

 

AUSTRALIAN PANORAMA

Text from page 1.

"Australia today is a rapidly developing land. Founded less than 180 years ago, it is the home of more than 11,000,000 people who are completing the transformation of a hitherto almost wholly agrarian country to one whose economy is now broadly based as much on the products of its technology as of its farms and mines. By 1988, two centuries after its foundation, Australia's population is expected to reach 18,000,000.

Social and political stability have favoured the nation's steady development. So has the faith put in it by the overseas investor who, in the past two decades, has directed to Australia $A4,000,000,000 of private capital. More than half this investment has come from Britain and most of the remainder from the United States of America, countries with which Australia has substantial trade and strong ties of defence. But by far the greatest portion of the capital being devoted to the nation's development comes from domestic sources.

Australia was once an introspective country with little interest in the outside world except England, Scotland and Ireland, from where most of its early settlers came. Today it has taken its position in the mainstream of world affairs. As one of the world's great trading nations, it sends the output of its farms, mines, pasturelands and factories to every quarter of the globe. In its external relations, Australia is pursuing policies designed to promote security and is playing an active part in fostering economic and social development, particularly in the Asian region."

 

#1, My backyard!




#2. Matric, Exhibition Building, Melbourne??

 

Building of Parliament House Canberra perhaps?

 

#1 could be the early stages of the Big Pit in Kalgoorlie.