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Old Melbourne City in 1975 home movie

A trip down memory lane.

My father filmed the Melbourne CBD and surrounds in 1975 using a Super 8 film movie camera. I had the flim converted to digital format for uploading to YouTube.

Landmarks Location

Start - Flinders Street
0:03 - SEC building in Flinders St
0:11 - Fletcher Jones shop cnr Flinders & Queen Sts
0:18 - Cnr Flinders & Queen St - notice the lack of trees and shade
0:44 - Flinders St station precinct
0:52 - Federation Square site - notice the Gas & Fuel buildings
1:02 - Batman Av tram - Batman Av is now gone - part of Fed Sq.
1:18 - YMCA building on cnr Sturt St and City Rd South Melbourne - partially obscured on the left.
1:19 - Southbank site
1:19 - Mobil petrol office which is now 28 Southgate apartments and the APM building which is now Quay West hotel
1:36 - A. W. Allen Ltd factory with the famous "Allen's Sweets" sign
1:55 - view of Northbank and CBD - notice the absence of the Rialto building which dominates this view today
2:06 - Flinders St Station and Palm trees - both still there!
2:09 - Queen Victoria Gardens - St Kilda Rd
2:10 - Floral clock
2:38 - the skinny dork walking across the screen is yours truly (where has that black hair gone?)
2:58 - nice view of the floral clock
3:15 - St Kilda Rd looking south