Signs You Grew Up in a Housing Commission Street - 1970s Australia

Every house on your street was one of four houses. The front door faced the wrong way. And once a fortnight your mother walked to an office with a small book and came home with a stamp in it. Eighteen signs you grew up in a Housing Commission street in 1970s Australia: the same house four doors down, the back door that was really the front, the rent book, the inspector, cyclone wire and the concrete path, everybody's mum, the same shift, the day the cameras came to Green Valley, cricket in the cul-de-sac, the one bus, the Melbourne towers, the house that came off a production line, the word you heard on the school bus, the fence that arrived thirty years late, the family that bought their house, what the sale did to the street, the day the word disappeared, and the last sign, the one that outlasts all the others. Every date here was checked against AHURI, Film Australia and the state housing archives. The folklore beats carry no dates on purpose. This is the corrected version. The first upload used pictures that made these homes look run down and dirty, and a lot of you who grew up in them told us so. You were right. Those houses were kept with pride. Every picture has been redone. The pictures in this video are AI-made reconstructions of the period, not photographs. ▶ WATCH NEXT 17 Things Every 1970s Australian Driver Did - Now ILLEGAL    • 17 Things Every 1970s Australian Driver Di...   Signs You Grew Up Working Class in 1970s Australia    • Signs You Grew Up Working Class in 1970s A...   17 Things That Were Normal in 1970s Australia - Now ILLEGAL    • 17 Things That Were Normal in 1970s Austra...   Most people watching this aren't subscribed. If you're on the telly the button is just under the video. CHAPTERS 0:00 Every house was one of four 0:33 The same house, four doors down 1:24 The back door was the front door 2:13 The rent book 3:03 The inspector 3:50 Cyclone wire and the concrete path 4:40 Everybody's mum was your mum 5:30 The same shift 6:19 The day the cameras came 7:09 Cricket in the cul-de-sac 8:00 The bus at the top of the estate 8:53 The street that went up instead of along 9:49 The house that came off a production line 10:39 The word 11:28 The fence that arrived thirty years late 12:18 The family that bought their house 13:05 What the sale did 13:52 The day the word disappeared 14:44 You still drive past 15:31 The street #AustralianNostalgia #GrowingUpAustralian #1970sAustralia #HousingCommission #AussieNostalgia #OldAustralia #RetroAustralia #Australia #1970s #Nostalgia