One of the commenters generously did the time stamps -- is there anyway you can include it up at the top? (see below) "thpass 9 months ago (edited) Huge Thank you to @19king14 Film2Video Memories & Services for posting this video. Much of the film footage shows structures which are either gone or changed in the current Chicago cityscape. Here are some highlights with timestamps: 0:48-0:55 Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens housing projects. These were demolished in 2005-07 1:04 A view of the skyline from the Dan Ryan with the First National Bank building (now Chase) and the Hancock tower as the only prominent skyscrapers. The black train bridge crossing over the river at 21st remains largely the same. 2:30 view from the UP North Western tracks at Park Ridge overlooking Main street headed south 2:50 -3:04 Museum of Science and Industry from 57th st with closeups of the caryatid statue columns from the lawn 3:59 the Travel Lodge in the background during cab ride is now a best western near 49th and Lake Shore drive 4:10 Soldier Field as seen from the east section of northbound Lake Shore drive before the merge of the lanes west of museum campus 4:37 view of Buckingham fountain with Hilton and Blackstone hotels in the background. Torco sign was prominent for years before Columbia College moved into building 4:44 the Geodesic dome at 400 east Randolph is still there. Shown here near the start of the old "S-curve" on Lake Shore Drive. The interior is a swimming pool as seen in the 1969 film Medium Cool 4:50-5:16 views of the Hancock, Time Life bldg and Wrigley bldg from the old S-curve. This area has changed drastically since the new s-curve was built in 1985 5:45-6:00 views of Marshall Field store (now Macy's) from Randolph and Wabash. note the old Trailways bus depot across street(gone 1988). The service driveway thru Fields is now blocked off from Randolph 6:15 nice views of a 6000-series CTA train car turning toward Lake street The green and white cars were in service thru the late 1980s 6:50 Marina towers in the freshly completed state. Renovations followed in the 90s and mid 2000s 7:10 The old Sun-times (and Daily News) bldg near the Wrigley bldg and Tribune tower. The suntimes moved out early 2000s, Trump tower sits where this once stood 7:35 Carbide and Carbon building detail. Antennas were removed from the top of the tower in the 70s and the gold leaf restoration completed the art deco look. 8:05 The Playboy tower (Palmolive bldg) had a high powered rotating light which operated thru the early 1980s 8:26 the old, huge Mandel bldg (demolished in the 90s) and the new construction for Wacker drive east of Michigan ave 9:15 The Roosevelt theater on State between Washington and Randolph currently Block 37 9:25 The United Artists and Woods theaters (demolished late 80s). Marquees were lit up even during the day. 10:24 the view southwest from the rotating restaurant Pinnacle Lounge atop the Holiday Inn (now W Chicago)at Ontario and LSD. a view of the old Mandel bldg, Equitable and newly constructed Time Life bldgs 11:00 The gothic style tower is part of Northwestern University Abbott hall 11:13 old Navy Pier was in a dormant stage after U.I.C. moved into the new near west side campus. Footage of Navy Pier in the early 70s is seen in the movie Cooley High. Ramps leading into building were removed in the 1980s. 11:51 -13:45 Excellent night time footage of the neon signage and marquees from downtown Chicago. The Cadillac sign was near the S-curve. The Theater marquees were lit up brilliantly with thousands of light bulbs for the United Artists and Woods theaters at Dearborn and Randolph. Movies shown at the time were Midnight Cowboy and Castle Keep. This part of downtown has completely changed. Block 37 shops sit where United Artists once was. 13:00 Chicago theater is the only theater remaining of all of these. Showing Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (June 1969) 13:05 State Lake theater is now ABC7 news studios 13:12 the notorious magazine shop and cocktail restaurant with the creepy swing goer, next door to Flo's on Randolph. 13:27 McVickers theater on Madison near Dearborn demolished in 1985 13:54 old Magikist lips sign from the Kennedy expressway. One of 3. There was another on I-290
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The Magikist and Budweiser sign, the theater district with the Woods, State-Lake and Roosevelt Theaters showing "The Wild Bunch" at one and "Castle Keep" with Burt Lancaster and Peter Falk playing at another. The London House, Oxford House, squat and chubby Yellow and Checker cabs and the latticed-glass dome covering the condo swimming pool on the old LSD. AND the classic midcentury neon Holiday Inn sign. All gone forever. I can see it, hear it and smell the great, gritty odor of old Chicago as if I was back there with my family. Oh, the persistence of memory. Thanks for sharing this gem.
I have to admit, I became VERY emotional watching this. I was 11 years old in 1969, growing up in Chicago, and while the city has changed a great deal since then, it's still very much the same, as well. I saw sights in this video that I distantly remembered, and I want to say a heart-felt thank you for posting this. You've made an old man very, very happy today.
@@youngchristian4540 The only thing he lied about was that he inferred he was "old" and if you read what he wrote he is only 60-61 years old. THAT's not OLD! Speaking as a person who was 13 in 1969... :-)
I know the person who filmed this, and the many other super 8s with the lady in yellow. I know her too. She has her fiancé's large print plaid leisure jacket, folded over her arm. I was her flower girl, all her bridal party wore pastel yellow satin with embroidered white daisy chain straight down the front. The couple gave me my first paperback, it was Peanuts cartoons. They both are photographers. So happy people love this video.❤❤
As a millennial and my mom a boomer(I born ‘91and she in ‘54). She drove a cab for many years so I was able to learn most of the city at a pretty young age. Can’t believe I was able to watch a video 50+ years old and recognize almost every landmark through the city. Wish I could’ve been around to see it lit up at night with all the neon signs. Through the good, the bad, and the ugly I am absolutely in love with this city. Went away to train to become a flight attendant for a couple months. And when I came back as soon as the skyline touched my eyes I cried like a baby I was so happy to be home . Chicago …. What a city ❤️
When a Chicagoan hears "Willis" they think of the "Willis wagons" that were installed on CPS sites to keep the schools racially segregated. Instead of allowing blacks to enroll in all white schools, they made them attend classes in trailers. The name "Willis" applied to real estate has very racist and negative connotations. It's amazing to me that the stupid corporate eggheads missed this when renaming the iconic Sears Tower. No true Chicagoan will EVER call the Sears Tower ANYTHING but the Sears Tower. Suck it, corporate knob slobbers. Do some basic research, you bumbling oafs. It's the Sears Tower, now and forever.
I was 13 in 69 that year my father got a new 442 Oldsmobile! In 79 I drove it to Prescott Arizona for my last year of college then back in August of 80. Drove my girl to Chicago in 1984 so she could go to U of C law school. Thanks!!
For those that requested background informatiom; I wish I had some... I have an 8mm film scanner. This was a reel I found somewhere in my flea-marketing. I enjoy it and was never even in Chicago - it is an excellent time capsual. I do believe the rather irritated woman is the wife of the camera owner. The night scenes were a challange to the scanner and myself as monitoring and improving what I could, but I was able to bring it out surprisingly well for old home-movie film. I'm glad so many others are enjoying this and am happy to see so many favorable comments and memories! I'm surprised you-tube doesn't block the music.
Wow did this bring back memories, thank you so much, the music was perfect! When I was 11 and 12 my dad was in the Veteran's Hospital downtown Chicago so we went to see him twice a week for two years, it was at this same time frame as this video. Like stepping back in time.
Thanks so much for posting this movie, it's great work. I'd love to blend some of these shots with a short music clip I'm making, if ok by you. It adds the look I'm searching for.
Not so!!!! In city traffic, motorists did always stop for pedestrians!!! Chicago was known as a city of courteous drivers - and, since many were WWII vets - they were indeed heroic hearts! These days Chicagoans drive like old time " Angelenos", i.e. residents of Los Angeles, who could turn a jaywalker into road kill! But guess what - today many living in Chicago are NOT the longtime citizens native to Chicago... (Most of those have moved away....or passed on...)+
"Hey, let me show you some film from our trip to Chicago!" August 1969, family and friends: "Um, we really need to be going, Stan." August 2021, 162,000 random strangers: "Yes please!"
Isn't that the truth :) I was one of those weirdos who loved watching other people's home movies. My dad would be dozing off on the couch and I'd be fascinated
Unbelievable that Chicago was like this in 1969. Way ahead of its time. Very nice video. I was vacationing in Chicago in 2014 with my wife and daughter. (We are from India) and we loved Chicago compared to other US cities. Really amazing to know that much of what we saw in Chicago in 2014 was so there in 1969 itself. Thanks for sharing.
There’s still time for you to step into a real time machine by visiting your nearest mall. But don’t wait because the opportunity is fast disappearing!
The way RUclips is practicing Revisionism...would not be so sure about the total authenticity of the entire experience they are building... However, With the many advances not only in science but also in depth awareness of the Mysteries of this Creation: would not be so sure that those "who control the powers, principalities and perception" of Creation will perpetually be able to keep their experiences of actual Time Travel to themselves; After all - life was not created exclusively for the 0.0001percenters--- (though they like to imagine it is)!
@@InspectorCallahan.44 Yes, this can be a satisfying and inspiring experience sometimes...especially Lucid Dreams! However, take care with "Remote Viewing" exercises...extended separations of consciousness from one's physical presence can occasionally go awry...⚰️
Im not so sure about that. The more i learn about this universe i realize there is something very interesting about it. Time is linear here on earth to us but there is a link to other times through other dimensions, "heaven" is just another dimension, the (or one) dimension where there is no matter only energy and in that dimension there is no linear time. Supposedly all of time is occuring roughly now though appears linear on earth. I am quite certain many intelligent beings from around the universe can travel in space and time. It may be a long time for us but maybe not.
I grew up on the west side of Chicago back in the 1960's. Your video brings back a lot of memories of the city for me. Thank you very much for posting!
The city was clean and vibrant. State Street was illuminated with marquees of shows and performers such as Diomme Warwick. I remember the Magikist sign. So much nostalgia. Every man was in a suit or slacks and a shirt and women wore dresses. The city looked healthy with a pulse. Unfortunately, things have gotten so bad. I was three years old in 1969. I worked for the Chicago Tribunne over 35 years ago and I enjoyed being downtown. Hopefully, in the coming years it will be resuscitated. It is slowly dieing. So much vacant real estate, crime, shootings, and vagrancy. Chicago was once one of the greatest cities in the world. Thank you for posting!
Beautifully poetic description but I'm not giving up on her. She's outshined and thrived amid her fallen 19th century, so called_rust belt_rivals of Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cleveland etc. Still great cities but none have percervered with magnificence like Chicago!
Great video. The thing most noticeable to me was the size of those cars and the fact that there was not one foreign car on the road. WellI did see a couple of Volkswagen’s but that’s it.
1969, I was 15 and that rarest of birds, a west suburban White Sox fan. All my friends were Cubs fans and in 1969 I had the last laugh. Long time ago. Loved Chicago.
That's neat that you got the last laugh as a fan of the South siders in baseball because I wasn't aware at that time there was pennant fever in Chicago with the Cubs.
I was 23 years old in the summer of 1969 attending NIU in DeKalb. I made two trips to Chicago that summer. The first was to watch the parade for astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins. I had never before (or since) seen TONS of confetti fall from hundreds of windows. That memory has been etched in my mind ever since. As is, moments later, when Richard Daley, in making an introduction speech, forgot the name of one of the astronauts. The other trip was a week or so later to see the Cubs start their heart-breaking decline out of first place giving that honor the the Mets. I took some pictures during both of those visits but it was with my then-girlfriend's camera-- who is now as much gone from my life as so much of the wonderful Chicago of 1969.
This is a real treat! I was born in October, 1969 at Swedish Covenant Hospital and spent the next 48 years in Chicago on the northwest side before moving to the western suburbs. Lane Tech alum!
Remember when Wrigley Field first got lights in 1988? Most of the houses in Wrigleyville had signs on their windows saying " No lights". I remember most of the games started at 11:15 or 1:15,because the later games would sometimes get postponed because of " darkness ". You could tell it was getting near that time when Steve Stone or Harry Carray started talking about shadows on the field. That was way before the parking garage too. We'd get their really early to park in that little lot on Grace St. If you didn't get there in time, you'd have to drive all over, looking for private parking, 3 times the amount. We'd get there early for the 11:15 games and eat breakfast at McDonald's, then watch all of the players drive up to the different gates, dropping their cars off
"The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces." Incredible film quality! And no g-d awful background music! Thank you for sharing.
Browsing classic cars lead me here, and I'm glad. This is home. Born in 81, so it's crazy to see all the missing skyscrapers that surround "Willis Tower" (Sears Tower always in my heart). And was dude stalking the lady in the shorts? Hope they were together 🤷🏾♂️
The sheer amount of people who have traversed those routes, walked along those buildings, and saw those very same sights back then. Most are gone, their memories not much unlike the ones we get watching this now.. Who were they? What were they thinking? Feeling? Life is so short my brothers and sisters, so short. Try to enjoy it while we have the chance..
Im from 69 growing up in Chicago it has changed alot for many years but would never give up my city I grew up memories that I will cherish for life Amen
One of my favorite hobbies is finding the actual locations that appear in TV shows and movies on Google's Street View. I had a BLAST with this video. Surprisingly I was able to identify and find most of the locations in this video...I am surprised how much of Chicago is still there more than 50-years on.
That's my hometown I got family up there they been up there for decades my father used to own the store their hell I was raised their 1967 how many you all remember that store that you go down in the basement and go out the other end yeah that's was my place Chicago I come up there every 3 years to visit just like coming back home much love to my hometown the Windy City👪👪👪❤❤❤❤❤❤💪💪
One of the biggest changes over the past 50 years is the amount of traffic in Chicago. There really was a rush hour (one hour) of peak traffic in the morning and evening commute by car. The highways were empty compared to today even though the population was higher back in those days. The film brings back a lot of memories for me. Wish I could go back.
Talk about memory lane... the now iconic images were part of my everyday reality living in Lake Point Tower at age 15 in 1969. I also noticed how light the traffic was, and all the taxis. We walked for miles on Michigan, State, Randolph etc. so the sense of stoic, monolithic high-rise buildings was everyday scenery. We'll never know how this footage ended up in a flea market. Lots of people do not have a drop of nostalgia in them. Thank goodness for youtube!
Kind of sad actually, that this wonderful home movie ended up in a flea market. That couple did a nice job of getting great shots, without zooming too much, or panning the camera too quickly. They captured footage that gives a nice overview of what Chicago "felt like" in the day. Such a nice job, I wish we were able to know more about them and what life had in store in the decades after.
There are so many photographs we own. I think I have 3,000 on my phone. They will disappear from my cloud. I have a medium bin of photos, some taken with a Brownie, others with a Polaroid. A small bin holds small Fuji instant photographs. The day will come when they will wind up at a flea market or landfill.
Turned 14 in July, 69, Fenwick HS. Remember many of these places. My dad's friend from work was newly divorced, shocking in those days, and had moved into Lake Point Tower. How we oohed and awwed at the fews from his "pad."
Wow this is cool! Those buildings at:55 is the old Robert Taylor Homes right off the Dan Ryan expressway and the overhead railroad tracks is the Englewood/Howard line.
My family lived in the Robert Taylor Homes for a few years around '65. I remember looking out of the window and reading the railroad names on the sides of boxcars.Walking across the ditch that was was paved to become the Dan Ryan,
This brings back memories from '69..I was there to celebrate Christmas with my girlfriend and her family. We had dinner at the Top of the Rock atop the Preudential Building then went to see the just released movie "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" with Redford & Newman. Seeing the cars in this film felt like old times. Enjoyed it!
Great video. So many things are different and yet so many things are the same. Somewhere in that city at that time my mother was. Maybe even walking down the sidewalls going shopping as you drove or walked by. Thank you for shearing.
That was therapy for my Chicago-grown soul. In the downtown theater scene, one of marquees brought to my memory that I saw that movie, with my best friend in 1969. Thank you!!!!
When my sister was born in Chicago in this same year, my parents didn't have much money and they would take her in a stroller to Buckingham Fountain and just spend their weekend nights there. I also had a great-aunt who lived in the Corn-Cob apartments at 7:49 . and the Picaso Statue at 9:26 is where my dad proposed to my mom. Life sure was simpler back then.
The old Budweiser sign on the outbound Kennedy! It was still there until about the mid nineties or even later perhaps. Always knew my exit at Western Ave was getting close when I saw it.
I was born in 78’ but throughout my childhood, Chicago still looked very much like this. Hell, the neighborhood I lived in still looks like this today. Very nostalgic.
I was showing a young woman the sights in the early 2000s. When I pointed to the Prudential building and told her it was the tallest building in Chicago when I was a kid, she looked at me like I was Methuselah.
@WheelsAlwaysTurning Started in Summer of 1970 and completed in May 1973. Later Sears sold it and they renamed it Willis tower but to Chgo people, it will always be Sears tower.
Omigosh, the magazine store! And Flo's restaurant! And all the theaters making State Street Chicago's great white way! Now THIS was a real theater district! Oooh ... the Magikist sign on the Kennedy! And going back to the start: Park Ridge (at 2:22) before "modernization", and then the MSI when you could just park out in front. At about 3:20 what appears to be a large display of the first walk on the moon, which must have just happened. This video is wonderful!
The Magikist sign is actually from the corner of State and Randolph (NW corner)....it was there until the mid 1990s.....there was one where you said too.
This is a treasure. Thank you. I was so amazed by downtown Chicago at night. Once upon a time Chicago was a wonder. .(These scenes leave a lump in my throat.)
Wonderful to see this! Brings back lots of memories of how it looked downtown, and of growing up here. My father worked at 620 N Michigan Ave (original building long gone now) and he used to sometimes take me along to work. We'd take the Chicago & Northwestern train, then ride one of the Wendella boats on the Chicago River and get off right by the Wrigley Building.
When my dad took me to "work", all I remember is him putting on a fake mustache and him telling me to let him know when I see a cigarette butt.....he spent the later part of 1975 picking up cigarette butts and smoking them.... The asswipe
For those, like me, who grew up in Chicago (I was 10 years old when this was filmed), this brings back fond memories. In those days Chicago was a great and exciting city to live in. It will always be dear to my heart. Thank you for sharing this!
I live in the San Francisco bay area and was born here. In '79 my girlfriend and I flew to Chicago for her older brothers wedding. After being picked up at O'hare by the bride's relatives who were lifelong residents of Chicago, they asked if I wanted to get something to eat. Alright I thought. I'm gonna have some Chicago style food, deep dish pizza maybe. No! They stopped at a friggin McDonald's!
Yep. Reminds me a lot of trips I took into Chicago between 1962 and 1970. Mostly from Polo and DeKalb and Freeport in northern Illinois. Chicago was much more safe and beautiful back then.
State Street, Michigan Avenue, Adler Planetarium, the Museum of Science & Industry, the Natural History Museum, the theaters, ... and, of course, Wrigley Field. {I was a big Cubs fan back then} ... Chicago was always a real trip. The Adler Planetarium is a public museum dedicated to the study of astronomy and astrophysics. It was founded in 1930 by Chicago business leader Max Adler. {I visited there as a ranking member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenonmena}
Starting at 6:30 ... Quick note: Wasn't Francis Sinatra THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME ? of course. Just reminding everybody here. he was a truly amazing performer.
I went to boot camp at Great Lakes NTC from Oct to Dec 69 and then "A" school from Jan to April 1970. We used to go to Chicago and Milwaukee on the weekends. Great times...
shortly into the vid..the sign says we welcome Apollo Crew. they had their ticker tape parade on August 13, 1969...the day I was born in Chicago...this could very well be my birthday
Hi, King. Thanks for sharing this with us. I was born in Chicago at what was then Cook County Hospital in 1969 and have always wondered what life was like back then. Now, I have seen first-hand. My sincerest appreciation for posting this video. Two thumbs up on a presentation well done!
I can just imagine someone going back in time: "In the future this will be on RUclips!" "What the hell's that?" "It's a thing that lets you watch videos. You can even watch them on your phone!" "My phone?" "Yeah, your handheld phone, that the government will be using to spy on you." "Okay, now I know you're crazy! They wouldn't do that! Whaddya think this is, Soviet Russia?"
And the. You can tell them that the former president was oranage, bragged about grabbing pussy,, got aid from Russia to win the election, tried to start an insurrection, and was a douchebag.
Oh man.... I can never forget the sight of the old Dads Root Beer bottling plant lit up at night. Every time I pass it on the Kennedy I picture it in all its neon glory.
I remember that old "Dads Root Beer" sign on the Kennedy. Sometime around 1975, two of the letters in the sign were not working, for at least a year or so. Instead of reading "Dads Root Beer" it read "Dads oot Beep". I laughed so hard I almost had an accident! Hilarious memory from the past 😀😀😀! (I don't recall when they finally fixed that sign.)
Great views and thank you. Reminds me so much of the car trips my Mom used to take us on as a child. Always loved seeing the new place that seemed a world away...
I was born in Chicago at Jackson Park hospital when it was a good neighborhood. My grandpa who use to work on the trolley was put in a bus to drive when the first came out, crashed the bus and quit cta working for the Chicago school system till he retired. My grandma was born 1912 in Chicago and lived on Wentworth ,her family came from Pennsylvania in 1850 and settled in Chicago.
Was at naval training center Great Lakes in 72. Many of the sights bring back memories. After boot camp I spent 5 days with my aunt at her lake shore drive apartment and saw a lot of Chicago including the navy pier. That was in November
I was just up in the Hancock tower a month or so ago, it’s so sad the restaurant is gone. Now it’s just a bunch of people walking around in flip-flops and shorts.
Even better at the time, you could take the express elevator to the 95th Restaurant, then go up one more floor to the bar for free. You could walk around to look out the windows and have a couple of drinks. They weren't cheap, but they were still less expensive than waiting in line and paying to go up to the observatory that was only two floors higher.
Thank you for posting this. I was 14 in 1969 and my dad and I went through Chicago a few times in the late 60s. It would take me about one second to feel completely at home and comfortable there if I was suddenly transported into that world at that time.
Born in Chicago at Northwestern University Passavant Memorial Hospital (downtown in the Streeterville neighborhood at Superior & Fairbanks st, near the John Hancock Tower) in 1968 where my dad did his internship and residency in internal medicine in the late 60s. Parents first lived at Intern Housing at Northwestern's Worcester House on Pearson St. near NU's Medical School, then they moved to a third-floor walk-up on the Northside near Lincoln Ave. and Montrose Ave (Berteau & Oakley Ave). Interesting to see what the city looked like back then. Actually, not much has changed.
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One of the commenters generously did the time stamps -- is there anyway you can include it up at the top?
(see below)
"thpass
9 months ago (edited)
Huge Thank you to @19king14 Film2Video Memories & Services for posting this video. Much of the film footage shows structures which are either gone or changed in the current Chicago cityscape. Here are some highlights with timestamps:
0:48-0:55 Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens housing projects. These were demolished in 2005-07
1:04 A view of the skyline from the Dan Ryan with the First National Bank building (now Chase) and the Hancock tower as the only prominent skyscrapers. The black train bridge crossing over the river at 21st remains largely the same.
2:30 view from the UP North Western tracks at Park Ridge overlooking Main street headed south
2:50 -3:04 Museum of Science and Industry from 57th st with closeups of the caryatid statue columns from the lawn
3:59 the Travel Lodge in the background during cab ride is now a best western near 49th and Lake Shore drive
4:10 Soldier Field as seen from the east section of northbound Lake Shore drive before the merge of the lanes west of museum campus
4:37 view of Buckingham fountain with Hilton and Blackstone hotels in the background. Torco sign was prominent for years before Columbia College moved into building
4:44 the Geodesic dome at 400 east Randolph is still there. Shown here near the start of the old "S-curve" on Lake Shore Drive. The interior is a swimming pool as seen in the 1969 film Medium Cool
4:50-5:16 views of the Hancock, Time Life bldg and Wrigley bldg from the old S-curve. This area has changed drastically since the new s-curve was built in 1985
5:45-6:00 views of Marshall Field store (now Macy's) from Randolph and Wabash. note the old Trailways bus depot across street(gone 1988). The service driveway thru Fields is now blocked off from Randolph
6:15 nice views of a 6000-series CTA train car turning toward Lake street The green and white cars were in service thru the late 1980s
6:50 Marina towers in the freshly completed state. Renovations followed in the 90s and mid 2000s
7:10 The old Sun-times (and Daily News) bldg near the Wrigley bldg and Tribune tower. The suntimes moved out early 2000s, Trump tower sits where this once stood
7:35 Carbide and Carbon building detail. Antennas were removed from the top of the tower in the 70s and the gold leaf restoration completed the art deco look.
8:05 The Playboy tower (Palmolive bldg) had a high powered rotating light which operated thru the early 1980s
8:26 the old, huge Mandel bldg (demolished in the 90s) and the new construction for Wacker drive east of Michigan ave
9:15 The Roosevelt theater on State between Washington and Randolph currently Block 37
9:25 The United Artists and Woods theaters (demolished late 80s). Marquees were lit up even during the day.
10:24 the view southwest from the rotating restaurant Pinnacle Lounge atop the Holiday Inn (now W Chicago)at Ontario and LSD. a view of the old Mandel bldg, Equitable and newly constructed Time Life bldgs
11:00 The gothic style tower is part of Northwestern University Abbott hall
11:13 old Navy Pier was in a dormant stage after U.I.C. moved into the new near west side campus. Footage of Navy Pier in the early 70s is seen in the movie Cooley High. Ramps leading into building were removed in the 1980s.
11:51 -13:45 Excellent night time footage of the neon signage and marquees from downtown Chicago. The Cadillac sign was near the S-curve. The Theater marquees were lit up brilliantly with thousands of light bulbs for the United Artists and Woods theaters at Dearborn and Randolph. Movies shown at the time were Midnight Cowboy and Castle Keep. This part of downtown has completely changed. Block 37 shops sit where United Artists once was.
13:00 Chicago theater is the only theater remaining of all of these. Showing Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (June 1969)
13:05 State Lake theater is now ABC7 news studios
13:12 the notorious magazine shop and cocktail restaurant with the creepy swing goer, next door to Flo's on Randolph.
13:27 McVickers theater on Madison near Dearborn demolished in 1985
13:54 old Magikist lips sign from the Kennedy expressway. One of 3. There was another on I-290
Thanks for the advice. I just now "pinned" your comment to always be at the top for others to see. Thanks again. If you wish you can edit or remove your first few lines to the time is at the beginning of the comment.
The Magikist and Budweiser sign, the theater district with the Woods, State-Lake and Roosevelt Theaters showing "The Wild Bunch" at one and "Castle Keep" with Burt Lancaster and Peter Falk playing at another. The London House, Oxford House, squat and chubby Yellow and Checker cabs and the latticed-glass dome covering the condo swimming pool on the old LSD. AND the classic midcentury neon Holiday Inn sign. All gone forever. I can see it, hear it and smell the great, gritty odor of old Chicago as if I was back there with my family. Oh, the persistence of memory. Thanks for sharing this gem.
I have to admit, I became VERY emotional watching this. I was 11 years old in 1969, growing up in Chicago, and while the city has changed a great deal since then, it's still very much the same, as well. I saw sights in this video that I distantly remembered, and I want to say a heart-felt thank you for posting this. You've made an old man very, very happy today.
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@@youngchristian4540 The only thing he lied about was that he inferred he was "old" and if you read what he wrote he is only 60-61 years old. THAT's not OLD! Speaking as a person who was 13 in 1969... :-)
M Rom oh I didn’t see old part
I agree. I was 12.
That year was the first and worst time the Cubs broke my heart.
I was 2 Years Old April 22 1967
I know the person who filmed this, and the many other super 8s with the lady in yellow. I know her too. She has her fiancé's large print plaid leisure jacket, folded over her arm. I was her flower girl, all her bridal party wore pastel yellow satin with embroidered white daisy chain straight down the front. The couple gave me my first paperback, it was Peanuts cartoons. They both are photographers. So happy people love this video.❤❤
Thank you for telling us. Are there more videos
As a millennial and my mom a boomer(I born ‘91and she in ‘54). She drove a cab for many years so I was able to learn most of the city at a pretty young age. Can’t believe I was able to watch a video 50+ years old and recognize almost every landmark through the city. Wish I could’ve been around to see it lit up at night with all the neon signs. Through the good, the bad, and the ugly I am absolutely in love with this city. Went away to train to become a flight attendant for a couple months. And when I came back as soon as the skyline touched my eyes I cried like a baby I was so happy to be home . Chicago …. What a city ❤️
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Cabbies of that era were citizens, they knew the city and provided an outstanding service at an affordable price❤
Who in their right mind would give this a thumbs down?!? 119 so far. Not one boring second. Need more home movies from the 60s and 70s.
It's so odd to see the skyline without the Sears Tower (I'll *never* call it Willis Tower).
When a Chicagoan hears "Willis" they think of the "Willis wagons" that were installed on CPS sites to keep the schools racially segregated. Instead of allowing blacks to enroll in all white schools, they made them attend classes in trailers.
The name "Willis" applied to real estate has very racist and negative connotations. It's amazing to me that the stupid corporate eggheads missed this when renaming the iconic Sears Tower.
No true Chicagoan will EVER call the Sears Tower ANYTHING but the Sears Tower. Suck it, corporate knob slobbers. Do some basic research, you bumbling oafs. It's the Sears Tower, now and forever.
yes but at least it has the hancock which was completed in 69
@@69eddieD I'm not even from Chicago, and I refuse to call it anything but the Sears Tower.
Me too
To me, it’ll always be the Sears Tower, the John Hancock, and Lake Shore Drive. 👍🏻
I was 13 in 69 that year my father got a new 442 Oldsmobile! In 79 I drove it to Prescott Arizona for my last year of college then back in August of 80. Drove my girl to Chicago in 1984 so she could go to U of C law school. Thanks!!
For those that requested background informatiom; I wish I had some... I have an 8mm film scanner. This was a reel I found somewhere in my flea-marketing. I enjoy it and was never even in Chicago - it is an excellent time capsual. I do believe the rather irritated woman is the wife of the camera owner. The night scenes were a challange to the scanner and myself as monitoring and improving what I could, but I was able to bring it out surprisingly well for old home-movie film. I'm glad so many others are enjoying this and am happy to see so many favorable comments and memories! I'm surprised you-tube doesn't block the music.
Wow did this bring back memories, thank you so much, the music was perfect! When I was 11 and 12 my dad was in the Veteran's Hospital downtown Chicago so we went to see him twice a week for two years, it was at this same time frame as this video. Like stepping back in time.
+19king14 Thanks for posting this and all your work!
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Thanks so much for posting this movie, it's great work. I'd love to blend some of these shots with a short music clip I'm making, if ok by you. It adds the look I'm searching for.
Have you been able to get here (Chicago) since posting this comment? For the bad reputation the city gets, it truly is beautiful
60s baby here born in 1965 I remember bits and parts of 1969 I was ONLY 4 years old.
Nice to see that people drove like idiots on the Dan Ryan 50+ years ago. Some things are truly timeless.
Ikr..😂..some things never change..
Not so!!!! In city traffic, motorists did always stop for pedestrians!!! Chicago was known as a city of courteous drivers - and, since many were WWII vets - they were indeed heroic hearts!
These days Chicagoans drive like old time " Angelenos", i.e. residents of Los Angeles, who could turn a jaywalker into road kill! But guess what - today many living in Chicago are NOT the longtime citizens native to Chicago... (Most of those have moved away....or passed on...)+
@@sjtalksandlife nice to see how Chicago looked before Liberals and "stronger with diversity" took over.
@@jonburrows2684 What’s wrong with diversity tho?
@@thepoorkid6004 um, you can't see the difference when it wasn't being pushed? If not, you're blind as a bat
"Hey, let me show you some film from our trip to Chicago!"
August 1969, family and friends: "Um, we really need to be going, Stan."
August 2021, 162,000 random strangers: "Yes please!"
Excellent observation, so true and funny to top it off! This is "pinned" to remain the top comment, and indeed, it is! :)
Isn't that the truth :) I was one of those weirdos who loved watching other people's home movies. My dad would be dozing off on the couch and I'd be fascinated
Missed the Chimney off the Kennedy with Dads Rootbeer painted on it.
instablaster...
O[[
It was a Different city back then. More Pleasant!
Unbelievable that Chicago was like this in 1969. Way ahead of its time. Very nice video. I was vacationing in Chicago in 2014 with my wife and daughter. (We are from India) and we loved Chicago compared to other US cities. Really amazing to know that much of what we saw in Chicago in 2014 was so there in 1969 itself. Thanks for sharing.
Yes thank you for taking ys back to a time when Life was Beautiful!!! How I miss the Wonderful People I met and great places I worked at! 🌺
RUclips is about as close as we're going to ever come to an actual "Time Machine"!
There’s still time for you to step into a real time machine by visiting your nearest mall. But don’t wait because the opportunity is fast disappearing!
I time travel every night in my dreams, interdimensional sometimes.
The way RUclips is practicing Revisionism...would not be so sure about the total authenticity of the entire experience they are building...
However,
With the many advances not only in science but also in depth awareness of the Mysteries of this Creation: would not be so sure that those "who control the powers, principalities and perception" of Creation will perpetually be able to keep their experiences of actual Time Travel to themselves; After all - life was not created exclusively for the 0.0001percenters--- (though they like to imagine it is)!
@@InspectorCallahan.44 Yes, this can be a satisfying and inspiring experience sometimes...especially Lucid Dreams!
However, take care with "Remote Viewing" exercises...extended separations of consciousness from one's physical presence can occasionally go awry...⚰️
Im not so sure about that. The more i learn about this universe i realize there is something very interesting about it. Time is linear here on earth to us but there is a link to other times through other dimensions, "heaven" is just another dimension, the (or one) dimension where there is no matter only energy and in that dimension there is no linear time. Supposedly all of time is occuring roughly now though appears linear on earth. I am quite certain many intelligent beings from around the universe can travel in space and time. It may be a long time for us but maybe not.
I just got back from a trip to Chicago & never get tired of looking back at the memories of it, & a different world than compared to today.
I grew up on the west side of Chicago back in the 1960's. Your video brings back a lot of memories of the city for me. Thank you very much for posting!
Me too, Oak Park.
My family from grand and oakley.
The city was clean and vibrant. State Street was illuminated with marquees of shows and performers such as Diomme Warwick. I remember the Magikist sign. So much nostalgia. Every man was in a suit or slacks and a shirt and women wore dresses. The city looked healthy with a pulse. Unfortunately, things have gotten so bad. I was three years old in 1969. I worked for the Chicago Tribunne over 35 years ago and I enjoyed being downtown. Hopefully, in the coming years it will be resuscitated. It is slowly dieing. So much vacant real estate, crime, shootings, and vagrancy. Chicago was once one of the greatest cities in the world. Thank you for posting!
No. It was filthy back then. It's pretty clean now.
Man! There will Never be another one like CHICAGO.. and now the days grow short, she's in the Autumn of her years..🎶
Yeah that's true!!! Every Major American city has a unique charm...✌🏾🎶🎵💨🌟💫😜😁
Beautifully stated, ma’am :)
Beautifully poetic description but I'm not giving up on her.
She's outshined and thrived amid her fallen 19th century, so called_rust belt_rivals of Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cleveland etc.
Still great cities but none have percervered with magnificence like Chicago!
She’s in the prime of her life, do you see how much downtown’s skyline has changed since 1969.
Great video. The thing most noticeable to me was the size of those cars and the fact that there was not one foreign car on the road. WellI did see a couple of Volkswagen’s but that’s it.
I was born & raised in Chicago in 1970! What awesome footage .. great memories from the age of 5yrs. old. You have truly documented great history!!
1969, I was 15 and that rarest of birds, a west suburban White Sox fan. All my friends were Cubs fans and in 1969 I had the last laugh. Long time ago. Loved Chicago.
What Suburb? I lived in La grange and Hinsdale as a kid. I was born in 1965.
That's neat that you got the last laugh as a fan of the South siders in baseball because I wasn't aware at that time there was pennant fever in Chicago with the Cubs.
Makes me want to go back into time!!! I miss those days
We all do !
I was 23 years old in the summer of 1969 attending NIU in DeKalb. I made two trips to Chicago that summer. The first was to watch the parade for astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins. I had never before (or since) seen TONS of confetti fall from hundreds of windows. That memory has been etched in my mind ever since. As is, moments later, when Richard Daley, in making an introduction speech, forgot the name of one of the astronauts.
The other trip was a week or so later to see the Cubs start their heart-breaking decline out of first place giving that honor the the Mets.
I took some pictures during both of those visits but it was with my then-girlfriend's camera-- who is now as much gone from my life as so much of the wonderful Chicago of 1969.
H-U-S-K-I-E-S GOOOO HUSKIES!!!
Did you and some guys from school have a band and try real hard? Jimmy quit, Jodi got married?
@@monkeywkeys3916 Were those the best days of your life?
@@SustainableEnslavementAgenda
Oh yeah...
@@monkeywkeys3916 Brian Adams? He's Canadian. Take off you hoser. 😁🇨🇦
I love these old reels, makes me nostalgic for a time that I don't recall existing in, but who knows
This is a real treat!
I was born in October, 1969 at Swedish Covenant Hospital and spent the next 48 years in Chicago on the northwest side before moving to the western suburbs. Lane Tech alum!
would love to go to 1969 and tell everyone what their car would be worth in 50 years
Remember when Wrigley Field first got lights in 1988? Most of the houses in Wrigleyville had signs on their windows saying " No lights". I remember most of the games started at 11:15 or 1:15,because the later games would sometimes get postponed because of " darkness ".
You could tell it was getting near that time when Steve Stone or Harry Carray started talking about shadows on the field.
That was way before the parking garage too.
We'd get their really early to park in that little lot on Grace St. If you didn't get there in time, you'd have to drive all over, looking for private parking, 3 times the amount.
We'd get there early for the 11:15 games and eat breakfast at McDonald's, then watch all of the players drive up to the different gates, dropping their cars off
"The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces." Incredible film quality! And no g-d awful background music! Thank you for sharing.
Browsing classic cars lead me here, and I'm glad. This is home. Born in 81, so it's crazy to see all the missing skyscrapers that surround "Willis Tower" (Sears Tower always in my heart). And was dude stalking the lady in the shorts? Hope they were together 🤷🏾♂️
The sheer amount of people who have traversed those routes, walked along those buildings, and saw those very same sights back then. Most are gone, their memories not much unlike the ones we get watching this now.. Who were they? What were they thinking? Feeling?
Life is so short my brothers and sisters, so short. Try to enjoy it while we have the chance..
Beautifully said 👏🏾
@@zirconia717 Thank you. 💓
Im from 69 growing up in Chicago it has changed alot for many years but would never give up my city I grew up memories that I will cherish for life Amen
One of my favorite hobbies is finding the actual locations that appear in TV shows and movies on Google's Street View. I had a BLAST with this video. Surprisingly I was able to identify and find most of the locations in this video...I am surprised how much of Chicago is still there more than 50-years on.
Awesome.
Spring of '69,,,, downtown swedish covenant hospital,,,, this guy right here came into this world
This is amazing. Jut stumbled on this. I live in the UK but I just love the feel of these films fromover 50 years ago. The cars are outrageous.
Im 24. Grew up in Chicago from 2000-2021 had to leave. Too much violence. Sad to see what it used to be.
That's my hometown I got family up there they been up there for decades my father used to own the store their hell I was raised their 1967 how many you all remember that store that you go down in the basement and go out the other end yeah that's was my place Chicago I come up there every 3 years to visit just like coming back home much love to my hometown the Windy City👪👪👪❤❤❤❤❤❤💪💪
Classic cars everywhere!!!
One of the biggest changes over the past 50 years is the amount of traffic in Chicago. There really was a rush hour (one hour) of peak traffic in the morning and evening commute by car. The highways were empty compared to today even though the population was higher back in those days.
The film brings back a lot of memories for me. Wish I could go back.
And the rush hour went one way. 🤪🤪
Take me back to Chicago…🎶
Talk about memory lane... the now iconic images were part of my everyday reality living in Lake Point Tower at age 15 in 1969. I also noticed how light the traffic was, and all the taxis. We walked for miles on Michigan, State, Randolph etc. so the sense of stoic, monolithic high-rise buildings was everyday scenery. We'll never know how this footage ended up in a flea market. Lots of people do not have a drop of nostalgia in them. Thank goodness for youtube!
Kind of sad actually, that this wonderful home movie ended up in a flea market. That couple did a nice job of getting great shots, without zooming too much, or panning the camera too quickly. They captured footage that gives a nice overview of what Chicago "felt like" in the day. Such a nice job, I wish we were able to know more about them and what life had in store in the decades after.
The soulless millenials have no nostalgia- just the now
There are so many photographs we own. I think I have 3,000 on my phone. They will disappear from my cloud. I have a medium bin of photos, some taken with a Brownie, others with a Polaroid. A small bin holds small Fuji instant photographs. The day will come when they will wind up at a flea market or landfill.
Turned 14 in July, 69, Fenwick HS. Remember many of these places. My dad's friend from work was newly divorced, shocking in those days, and had moved into Lake Point Tower. How we oohed and awwed at the fews from his "pad."
Views obviously, sorry stupid spellchecker
This is a gem! Thank you for the work it must have taken to make a 8mm film into a RUclips video. Also thanks to original unknown cinematographer
Amen!
Dam near better quality than my dam $800 Samsung or I phone...excellent job on this film
I miss living there at that time. It was so much to do and can hang out in the parks without getting robbed or shot.
I can only imagine BJ
@@tomg.8904 Meet me on Pulaski and Jackson
@Alana Greig police have always made the city worst
@Alana Greig the police are the criminals lol
@Alana Greig it's fine your old fart generation is on their way out thank god
Daing those were the good old days beautiful skies without any chem trails. Remember when the sky used to look like that?
Wow this is cool! Those buildings at:55 is the old Robert Taylor Homes right off the Dan Ryan expressway and the overhead railroad tracks is the Englewood/Howard line.
No longer Englewood/Howard. Now it’s Englewood/Harlem (or the “green line”).
I believe Kirby Puckett and Mr T are from these projects.
My family lived in the Robert Taylor Homes for a few years around '65. I remember looking out of the window and reading the railroad names on the sides of boxcars.Walking across the ditch that was was paved to become the Dan Ryan,
R..I.H.
😢😂
I remember that magakist sign and the Budweiser sign alongside the expressway before hitting Fullerton
I visited Chicago for the first time in 1969. I fell in love, moved there when I turned 20 with a plan. So glad I did, Chicago is a fantastic city.
Hello 👋 , How are you doing?
Went to my first baseball game at Wrigley July 1969. Thanks mom n dad😎
A fantastic city??🤣🤣🤣wtf u must have money then I escaped from that warzone at 17 only go back for funerals mostly
@@AugustusAsgeir I left in 1980, too cold for me. I still love it though
@@AugustusAsgeir Exactly, good point
This brings back memories from '69..I was there to celebrate Christmas with my girlfriend and her family. We had dinner at the Top of the Rock atop the Preudential Building then went to see the just released movie "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" with Redford & Newman. Seeing the cars in this film felt like old times. Enjoyed it!
I was a teenager through most of that time. Love to go back. A lot of great cars.
Great video. So many things are different and yet so many things are the same. Somewhere in that city at that time my mother was. Maybe even walking down the sidewalls going shopping as you drove or walked by. Thank you for shearing.
Time to start watching the old Bob Newhart reruns.
Yep, good Chicago scenes
I'm still in love with Emily.
@@ghostofreagan3181 Oh yes!😍
Wow State Street doesn't look the same anymore 😥. Watching this in 2021. Thanks for posting
That was therapy for my Chicago-grown soul. In the downtown theater scene, one of marquees brought to my memory that I saw that movie, with my best friend in 1969. Thank you!!!!
Great film. Love seeing all the long gone buildings and especially the cars. So much we thought was eternal back then now just memories.
When my sister was born in Chicago in this same year, my parents didn't have much money and they would take her in a stroller to Buckingham Fountain and just spend their weekend nights there. I also had a great-aunt who lived in the Corn-Cob apartments at 7:49 . and the Picaso Statue at 9:26 is where my dad proposed to my mom. Life sure was simpler back then.
The old Budweiser sign on the outbound Kennedy! It was still there until about the mid nineties or even later perhaps. Always knew my exit at Western Ave was getting close when I saw it.
I was born in 78’ but throughout my childhood, Chicago still looked very much like this.
Hell, the neighborhood I lived in still looks like this today.
Very nostalgic.
Meet me on Pulaski and Jackson
I was born in 79' and I agree!
@@skelly4998 Jackson and Pulaski ain't like that no more , over by there
@@keelerhastings7109 wasn't saying it was like anything, just saying meet me there
what neighborhood did you grow up in? I lived in bucktown till I was 2 then we moved by the brickyard. I'm 26
I used to miss going to those old movie theaters downtown back in the day eat at McDonald's & play video games at The Treasure Chest
I remember when the Prudential building was the tallest skyscraper on the Chgo skyline. Love these old films.
I was showing a young woman the sights in the early 2000s. When I pointed to the Prudential building and told her it was the tallest building in Chicago when I was a kid, she looked at me like I was Methuselah.
kimosabbe50 LOL
@WheelsAlwaysTurning Started in Summer of 1970 and completed in May 1973. Later Sears sold it and they renamed it Willis tower but to Chgo people, it will always be Sears tower.
I was born in Chicago in May of 1970. Some of my earliest memories were taking the Northwestern in to the Loop to see my father.
July 61. Chicago was a blast
This is extremely cool...seeing things like the Sun Times building again, and the Wrigley Building literally standing alone.
Thank you for posting beautiful memories of Chicago.
Omigosh, the magazine store! And Flo's restaurant! And all the theaters making State Street Chicago's great white way! Now THIS was a real theater district! Oooh ... the Magikist sign on the Kennedy! And going back to the start: Park Ridge (at 2:22) before "modernization", and then the MSI when you could just park out in front. At about 3:20 what appears to be a large display of the first walk on the moon, which must have just happened. This video is wonderful!
The Magikist sign is actually from the corner of State and Randolph (NW corner)....it was there until the mid 1990s.....there was one where you said too.
@@fernandobaldazo3104, there was also one along the Eisenhower.
@@scotwirth6228 on Cicero ....then 87th Dan Ryan.
sad to see the bright theater district long gone
Thank you😊
That is the Chicago of my childhood and teen years. Thanks for posting. Brought back a lot of memories.
I saw a shot of The Congress Hotel…. I’ve stayed there. It was old and worn. I’ll bet she was a jewel in ‘69.
This is a treasure. Thank you. I was so amazed by downtown Chicago at night. Once upon a time Chicago was a wonder. .(These scenes leave a lump in my throat.)
Although many changes, a lot of those places are still recognizable today!
This was when Chicago was on the rise and super fresh. No better time to be living as an adult in the city.
“Super fresh”??? Anyone Notice the thick smog. Must have been before unleaded gas and emissions standards.
“fresh”?
Steel mills were still a thing. Going full blast.
I feel like the city is way more”fresh” now. Even in the last two years, the skyline has changed a lot and there’s a focus on improving air quality.
@@kylebollmeier154 Also notice the lack of traffic!
Wonderful to see this! Brings back lots of memories of how it looked downtown, and of growing up here. My father worked at 620 N Michigan Ave (original building long gone now) and he used to sometimes take me along to work. We'd take the Chicago & Northwestern train, then ride one of the Wendella boats on the Chicago River and get off right by the Wrigley Building.
When my dad took me to "work", all I remember is him putting on a fake mustache and him telling me to let him know when I see a cigarette butt.....he spent the later part of 1975 picking up cigarette butts and smoking them.... The asswipe
Wendella boats???
@@schrodingerspet15 A kind of water taxi we rode to N. Michigan Ave.
@@phoebecatgirl933 that’s so cool! I’ve never heard of those before.
For those, like me, who grew up in Chicago (I was 10 years old when this was filmed), this brings back fond memories. In those days Chicago was a great and exciting city to live in. It will always be dear to my heart. Thank you for sharing this!
I live in the San Francisco bay area and was born here. In '79 my girlfriend and I flew to Chicago for her older brothers wedding. After being picked up at O'hare by the bride's relatives who were lifelong residents of Chicago, they asked if I wanted to get something to eat. Alright I thought. I'm gonna have some Chicago style food, deep dish pizza maybe. No! They stopped at a friggin McDonald's!
Fond memories. Those were the days of Rush Street bars, Old Town and Second City. What a great time to be had in the 60's.
Old Town was the best!❤👍
I’m from 1992 and I’m fascinated of this history ☺️
Yep. Reminds me a lot of trips I took into Chicago between 1962 and 1970. Mostly from Polo and DeKalb and Freeport in northern Illinois. Chicago was much more safe and beautiful back then.
State Street, Michigan Avenue, Adler Planetarium, the Museum of Science & Industry, the Natural History Museum, the theaters, ... and, of course, Wrigley Field. {I was a big Cubs fan back then} ... Chicago was always a real trip. The Adler Planetarium is a public museum dedicated to the study of astronomy and astrophysics. It was founded in 1930 by Chicago business leader Max Adler. {I visited there as a ranking member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenonmena}
Starting at 6:30 ... Quick note: Wasn't Francis Sinatra THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME ? of course. Just reminding everybody here. he was a truly amazing performer.
Back when DeKalb was a great town too...💔😕
I can tell while filming in the car, you are in a vw bug because of the flower on the dash and the “courtesy” shot to the fellow beetle driver
I went to boot camp at Great Lakes NTC from Oct to Dec 69 and then "A" school from Jan to April 1970. We used to go to Chicago and Milwaukee on the weekends. Great times...
Amazing camera quality 👌
WOW! This just incredible. My childhood brought back to life. Thanks for posting!
shortly into the vid..the sign says we welcome Apollo Crew. they had their ticker tape parade on August 13, 1969...the day I was born in Chicago...this could very well be my birthday
Hi, King. Thanks for sharing this with us. I was born in Chicago at what was then Cook County Hospital in 1969 and have always wondered what life was like back then. Now, I have seen first-hand. My sincerest appreciation for posting this video. Two thumbs up on a presentation well done!
Me too, same hospital in 1970. I lived in Oak Park until 1976. Great childhood memories there- :)
@Veronica A. rush university medical center ( Illinois medical district)
@Veronica A. stroger hospital too and UIC hospital as well
Those words are good all days and Juan too much danger and nighttime right now I miss those 60s
I can just imagine someone going back in time: "In the future this will be on RUclips!" "What the hell's that?"
"It's a thing that lets you watch videos. You can even watch them on your phone!"
"My phone?"
"Yeah, your handheld phone, that the government will be using to spy on you."
"Okay, now I know you're crazy! They wouldn't do that! Whaddya think this is, Soviet Russia?"
and then you could tell them that one political party is constantly saying the other party's President worked with the Russians. What a country.
@Ron Banks or like me time traveller have a hologram phone better than shitty iphone cx series
@@cactusjackNV And being forced to provide PRIVATE medical information on demand every place you visit!
And the. You can tell them that the former president was oranage, bragged about grabbing pussy,, got aid from Russia to win the election, tried to start an insurrection, and was a douchebag.
@UCNXouBwXvyBXtIiV3MvPVcg and it was ignorant dipshits like you that brought America to it’s knees with his TDS.
.....old cars are a work of art.
Oh man....
I can never forget the sight of the old Dads Root Beer bottling plant lit up at night.
Every time I pass it on the Kennedy I picture it in all its neon glory.
My dad drank his share of beer, and spent most of 1975 wearing fake mustaches and looking for cigarette butts....what an asswipe
I remember that old "Dads Root Beer" sign on the Kennedy. Sometime around 1975, two of the letters in the sign were not working, for at least a year or so. Instead of reading "Dads Root Beer" it read "Dads oot Beep". I laughed so hard I almost had an accident! Hilarious memory from the past 😀😀😀! (I don't recall when they finally fixed that sign.)
Great views and thank you. Reminds me so much of the car trips my Mom used to take us on as a child. Always loved seeing the new place that seemed a world away...
Would give anything for Chicago to be great again like this!
Get rid of n
@@MOTHATALKS true
It really is a beautiful city.. just ruined by violence
@@slowsti0535 The violence really is kept to just certain parts of the city like any city. But it does seem to be spreading more than it used to do
@@PRHILL9696 not really.. the expressway shootings have gotten out of control.. even attacks on the mag mile
Chicago has impressive Architecture!
This brings back great memories for me.
I'm glad I am so fascinated about this I have always wanted to experience Chicago in the 1900s but I was born is the 2000s
I was born in Chicago at Jackson Park hospital when it was a good neighborhood. My grandpa who use to work on the trolley was put in a bus to drive when the first came out, crashed the bus and quit cta working for the Chicago school system till he retired. My grandma was born 1912 in Chicago and lived on Wentworth ,her family came from Pennsylvania in 1850 and settled in Chicago.
Excellent video.... I'm familiar with these scenes, places, automobiles, time, etc....It takes me back to memory lane...
Was at naval training center Great Lakes in 72. Many of the sights bring back memories. After boot camp I spent 5 days with my aunt at her lake shore drive apartment and saw a lot of Chicago including the navy pier. That was in November
I was just up in the Hancock tower a month or so ago, it’s so sad the restaurant is gone. Now it’s just a bunch of people walking around in flip-flops and shorts.
Even better at the time, you could take the express elevator to the 95th Restaurant, then go up one more floor to the bar for free. You could walk around to look out the windows and have a couple of drinks. They weren't cheap, but they were still less expensive than waiting in line and paying to go up to the observatory that was only two floors higher.
Thank you for posting this. I was 14 in 1969 and my dad and I went through Chicago a few times in the late 60s. It would take me about one second to feel completely at home and comfortable there if I was suddenly transported into that world at that time.
Born in Chicago at Northwestern University Passavant Memorial Hospital (downtown in the Streeterville neighborhood at Superior & Fairbanks st, near the John Hancock Tower) in 1968 where my dad did his internship and residency in internal medicine in the late 60s. Parents first lived at Intern Housing at Northwestern's Worcester House on Pearson St. near NU's Medical School, then they moved to a third-floor walk-up on the Northside near Lincoln Ave. and Montrose Ave (Berteau & Oakley Ave). Interesting to see what the city looked like back then. Actually, not much has changed.
The old Loop movie theatres were plenty and all full of Splendor: Chicago, State-Lake, McVickers, Woods, Oriental, and Marina City, modern motif.
Thanks for upload! I grew up in Chicago. In 1969 was out of the US Army one year. It's great to see your quality film.
I was 10 yrs old in 1969, I'm still here. I remember all this very well. My mom took us downtown regularly to go shopping.
God, the good old days
I miss before we got overpopulated
When it was quiet at night
Me too. Now all Chicago is known for is the ridiculous amount of gun violence. Sad and embarrassing what's happened.
@@ge2623 gang*
ocsrc
and dark
@@gokartbuyer No, it's gun violence 🤡