See Brisbane as it was in the swinging 60s

WHAT was Brisbane like in the Swinging Sixties? A suitcase of old photos has been turned into a book which gives us a stroll down memory lane.

Beachgoers at Coolangatta in the 1960s from Those Were The Days by Ron and Elizabeth Morrison

IT WAS the era of moon landings, meter maids and Mini Mokes. The 1960s changed Australia's cultural landscape but a long-lost suitcase of photographs has opened a window to the past when protest marches, miniskirts and hippies dominated a decade.

Former press photographer Ron Morrison and his wife Elizabeth, a former journalist, discovered more than 600 negatives, transparencies and silver gelatine prints - shot all over the nation through the 1960s - when they moved house in 2009.

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News_Image_File: Looking up the Brisbane River from New Farm toward the CBD. The MMI building is the tallest and you can still make out City Hall's tower. Photo: Ron and Elizabeth Morrison

The Newcastle couple had stored the photographs in a suitcase since 1975.

"They were in really good condition so we thought we'd do a book with them,'' Mr Morrison said.

"I think there's a real sense of nostalgia for that time. The 1960s were incredible - we had the assassination of JFK, the first man on the Moon, a prime minister who went missing and lots more.''

News_Image_File: Brisbane commuters at Anzac Square in the 1960s. Photo: Ron and Elizabeth Morrison

News_Image_File: Tram 534 to Dutton Park in Brisbane in the 1960s. Photo: Ron and Elizabeth Morrison

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Mr Morrison, 80, and his wife, 79, ran a press photography agency from 1959 to 1970, snapping moments in Australian history and cultural life from one end of the country to the other.

In Those Were the Days, they capture trams rattling down busy Brisbane streets, paperboys selling wares on street corners and people at nightclubs when they first became popular after-dark venues.

News_Image_File: Brisbane partyers at a nightclub in the 1960s. Photo: Ron and Elizabeth Morrison

News_Image_File: Nightclub patrons at a Brisbane club in the 1960s. Note the airfare price in the poster behind them. Photo: Ron and Elizabeth Morrison News_Image_File: Ripping up the dancefloor, 1960s style. Photo: Ron and Elizabeth Morrison It was a time when Surfers Paradise had one beachfront high-rise, Coles opened its first supermarket and the first Ford rolled off the production line to give Holden some competition.

Those Were The Days, by Ron and Elizabeth Morrison, Exisle Publishing, $40

News_Image_File: Aerial view of Brisbane in the 1960s from Those Where The Days by Ron and Elizabeth Morrison News_Image_File: Surfers Paradise in the 1960s from Those Were The Days by Ron and Elizabeth Morrison News_Image_File: Cover of the book Those Were The Days, Australia in The Sixties by Ron and Elizabeth Morrison