IT was a time of change, flares, hippies, leather bikinis, and big hair. Here’s what life looked like in Adelaide and South Australia in the 1970s.
1/53Anti-Vietnam War protesters march down King William St, 1972.
2/53A man is arrested during an anti-Vietnam War march in 1971.
3/53Donald Duck terrifies or speaks to a young boy during the John Martin’s Christmas Pageant,1977.
4/53The Saturday morning markets in Melbourne Street, North Adelaide, 1976.
5/53Uni students hang an FJ Holden from the Adelaide University footbridge, as a Prosh Week prank in 1971.
7/53Max James flies over the pack during the SANFL grandfinal between Port and Glenelg, 1977. Port won, by 8 points, 113 to 105.
8/53Magarey Medal votes are counted at the Adelaide Town Hall in 1970. North Adelaide’s Barrie Robran won – his second of three.
9/53If you remember this, you’re not new – once a common site on Adelaide’s CBD streets, this is a newspaper stand in Pirie St, in 1970. Looks like there were street protests.
10/53Beverley Bryant and Carol Aamodt collect money for the 5AD-Channel 7 Good Friday Appeal in 1970, from a driver who stopped at the lights on King William St..
11/53Sharon Power, Annie Coleman and Vicki Wilson eat ice cream at the Sunday Club circa 1970 .at the Dale Street Church
12/53Norwood footballers Rod Pope, Michael Gregg, Neil Craig, Mike Olsen, Phil Gallagher, Rod Seekamp and Greg Turbill celebrate their win over Glenelg in the 1975 SANFL grand final. The Legs won 64 to 52.
13/53It’s 1975, and Adelaide Art Engravers workers Neville Weaver and Bruce Collett using Dirates etching baths to make a newspaper page.
14/53This is Football Park under construction in January, 1974.
15/53Circa the early 1970s, and caravans came right down on the steps to the beach at the Port Vincent caravan park.
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16/53Politicians and authorities watch as fluoride is added to the water purification plant at the Kangaroo Creek reservoir for the first time, in 1971.
17/53Cadet police officer Chris Hotchkiss teaches Mitchell Park Infant School students abour road safety at Thebarton in1970.
18/53A crowded Brighton beach, kiosk on the jetty intact, where the temperature was still 33C at 7.30pm on a hot February in 1971.
19/53Famed SA model Janet Edwards in the 1970s.
20/53Leigh St Luggage shop proprietor Julie Barnes (l) as a flight attendant at Adelaide Airport in 1972. 1970s air hostess uni form
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21/53Construction on the Adelaide Festival Centre and Theatre continues, circa 1970s. Exact year unknown.
22/53Norwood coach Bob Hammond raises his arms in triumph after his team beats Sturt in the SANFL Grand Final, held at Footy Park 1978.
23/53A massive crowd of protesters swarm North Tce in 1970, in a rally for the end of the Vietnam War.
24/53Adelaide Zoological Gardens. Largs North girl Tammy Biela, 4, riding Galapogos tortoise at Adelaide Zoo 10 Jan 1972. Two new tortoises arrived at the zoo from San Diego Zoo, California, USA. (Pic by staff photographer Horwood)
25/53Vietnamese refugees arrive at a migrant hostel in Pennington, in 1978.
26/53A crowd of Christmas shoppers and traffic on Rundle Street in 1970.
27/53Dinner at the Tattersalls Club in Adelaide, during its centenary year in 1979, and not a woman in sight.
28/53Fay Maslen of Elizabeth Vale breaks free of the police cordon as the Bay City Rollers arrive at 5AD’s offices in 1975.
29/53Ah, the old mud baths of 1970s footy. This is a qualifying match between Sturt andf North Adelaide in 1973.
30/53The bauxite carrier ship ‘Clutha Capricorn’ nuder construction at the Whyalla shipyards, 1972.
31/53Little Nicole van Oevelen stands in the rain and clutches her showbags at the Royal Adelaide Show in 1974.
32/53A newsboy sells copies of The News in 1972.
33/53Your trusty local butcher Wally Matson in North Adelaide, 1973.
34/53A YMCA camping trip for girls to Kangaroo Island camp in 1975.
36/531970, and pedestrians watch for cars as they cross a busy Rundle Street, before this part became the Mall.
37/53Remember these? Fruit and vegetable stands in Rundle Mall in 1976.
38/53A 1970s ad for the Mazda 1300. These are oddly expensive on gumtree.
39/53ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus, complete with overalls, signs autographs in Adelaide, 1977.
40/53Champagne bubbles from the fountain as former SA Premier Don Dunstan opens Rundle Mall in 1976.
41/53Crowds of fans on oval before Sturt vs Port Adelaide 1976 SANFL grand final football match. 1970s history /Football/SANFL Picture: Supplied
42/53Students watch a career film at the Careers Reference Centre in Gawler Place, 1977.
43/53Model Debbie Mead, 16, hands 12-year-old David Buhagiar a KESAB rubbish bag in a campaign to pick up litter in 1977.
44/53A warm, crowded Glenelg beach at 6pm on a February night in 1970.
45/53Rivals Barrie Robran and Neville Roberts during a North vs West Torrens match at Thebarton Oval, 1974.
46/53Youth at an unknown pop music festival in South Australia in 1970.
47/53Allegedly, a crowd of 76,000 people streamed into Footy Park for the SANFL grand final between Sturt and Port Adelaide in 1976, even sitting on the boundary when there was no seats left.
48/53In the 1970s, this was how you presented the weather on TV – Sue Caldwell, Channl 9’s weather presenter, uses the transparent map.
49/53A paddlesteamer race at Murray Bridge in the 1970s.
50/53Motorcycle police line up in Currie St in 1970, as protests rally for the end of the Vietnam War.
51/53“Young weekend drinkers” outside the Lord Melbourne Hotel in Melbourne Street, North Adelaide, in 1971.
52/53As the crowd huddles against the rain, a fight breaks out during the Port vs Glenelg semi-final at Football Park in 1977.
53/53Music lovers at the 1971 Myponga Pop Festival in the summer of 1971. A copy of Lord of the Rings was a prerequisite for entry, probably.
