Chicago 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Street scenes in Chicago, Illinois 1942, You can see what's happening on the sidewalks, classic cars, streetcars, storefronts, and billboards of the time.
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Internet Archive
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Would You Like to Live in the 1940s???
I did.
Yes but not possible!… Almost all the cities today in America have been turned into 3rd world dumps.
I did too. When I was going on seven, my dad bought his first house in 1944 for $ 6,500 (now listed for $ 90,000 on Zillow).
@@donaldwilson7717 only 90k? You mean 900,000.
NO. Lol
People are watching where they’re going, which is no longer the case with mobile phones. The definition is beautiful. Another beautiful moment in the time machine. A huge thank you!
The clothing, the billboards, the vehicles, and the characters....the fat kid with the yo-yo and the little girl coaxing her mother into the ice cream shop...the elevated train and the people all seeming to have a sense of going somewhere significant...the Kress store with its iconic 5-10-25 cent boast...the grocery store and price of food and the sheer life of the city in every form. Thank you for another excellent restoration.
thank you very much ;))
The five & dime was the period Dollar 🌲 Tree.
I believe Kresge was the founder of K-Mart
Were those cars capable to work out to drive them from East to west coast?
@@gustavoperez5480Oh sure. Ever read On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Many people made the journey from the dust bowl states in the thirties out to California. You just needed to change the oil a lot more as most of these cars didn't have oil filters. And they really pumped out some fumes. Great looking though. My favourite period for cars 🛺
My parents were born and raised on the North side. They would have been kids in middle school. They were the most loving, giving, and honest people I have ever known. I lost them 4 months apart in 2017. They couldn’t understand how the world turned into what a mess it is today and the last 7 years even worse. Thank you so much for these videos. Miss and love you mon and dad.
Where...my folks were from Rodgers Park...
@@christinacarey465 Armitage Ave. Old Town & Lincoln Park. Mom gave birth to me at St. Luke’s and I was raised at Irving Park and Pulaski. Different days then. How about you.
@rockerdowns6051 Well my grandparents came over from the Ukraine...Ashkenazi Jews..off of Harding in Rodgers Park. I was raised in Aurora.
I can't understand it either. I very much understand your missing your wonderful parents...I miss mine too. 💔
All the best for you❣
God Bless you and your parents. Greetings from Wales, UK.
I've seen a similar film. It was produced by a billboard company. That's why there are so many shots of billboards in this. But the dead giveaway is near the end when we see an employee of the billboard company counting people or cars going by the board. Professionally shot which makes it so much easier to watch than home movies
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Thank you for sending us on another stunning trip to the past! What a delightful video this is, Chicago at its best, so clean, so pristine! I love your work, and thank you always for allowing us all to be a part of what you do….❤
Hi!! Thank you!!
You dirty liar
A Walgreens on every corner and kids dragging moms into the soda fountains..priceless. Your work on these resto films is exceptional....but I wonder who the guy with the clipboard was? Traffic engineer? FBI? Reporter? Data resource gatherer for the Mob? Cameraman's brother in law? Some mysteries are buried in the past. Thx again NASS...keep em coming!
I would guess it was a traffic counter for that billboard.
Ça semble être un contrôleur du trafic bus...
Thank you
I thought mob, mebbe Frank Nitti
And no pillagers too.
Everything at once immediately recognizable as Chicago but yet...everything looks different, Thanks for sharing my hometown 20 years before I was born.
NASS........you just keep out doing yourself. I enjoyed that film very much. The resolution, color and frame rate are superb.
You bring so many hours of enjoyment\education to so many people. Seems like saying "Thank you" just isnt enough.
Please know when I do say "Thank you" it is with the most heartfelt sincerity and complete admiration for you and your work.
So........Thank You NASS!!!! Thank you x1000.
Thank you ;))!
Shopping was so efficient. There's a Sears next to a Krogers grocery store which was probably next to a hardware shop then a shoe repair place and then a drugstore. You could walk down a city block and get all your errands done.
The problem was parking and traffic. You'd be lucky to find a space nearby and then face backing out of diagonal spaces and if the approaching driver wasn't courteous , you'd be fiddling with the clutch and accelerator pedal and brake, all three of your feet. In the street cars you'd be faced with being packed like sardines, stale cigar smoke and sweaty armpits. Congested downtown shopping gave rise to shopping centers on the outskirts of most big cities.
You mean it was more efficient than shopping from your couch using an iPhone?
And there's always the chance meeting up with friends and neighbors or meeting someone new. The automobile, the television, and the internet all destroyed all that.
Beautiful footage...
Streets are clean, + everyone is dressed so beautifully....
Would love to go back in time...
The cars were so sturdy back then...
Looks like I could jump in there.
Thanks for posting this on
You Tube..
🤗
My grandma told me about the streetcars in chicago. So cool to finally see them. Thank you 🙏
They were still around in the mid 60's I remember them. Sadly "progress " got rid of them.
As a baby in 1946 Chicago in my mother's arms, a cement truck ran head-on into our streetcar. Of course, the streetcar couldn't turn. The window by our seat shattered glass that cut my mother's arm that was protecting me. The streetcar driver lost his legs. When I was a little older, we would ride the streetcar southeast on Clark Street to get to Wrigley Field.
Thanks to Chicago’s awful neglect of our city streets, you can still see exposed train tracks in some parts of the city that have never been fully covered up. I lived in Woodlawn for about 11 years until we moved in 2912 and I remember seeing tracks on 63rd and King Drive in this alleyway. I believe they may have been covered up since then. But it was interesting to see them and kind of visualize where the streetcars most likely went based on what I already knew about the history of it.
In a few of the shots L Fish furniture store is visible, that is Chicago’s west side, Madison St. just west of Crawford Ave. called Pulaski Rd. now.
I remember a L Fish store around North Ave and Rockwell St, in the same pic I see a MADIGANS store, I remember their big store in Melrose Park in the Winston Park shopping plaza, on North Avenue as well!
I love these videos, because they show what absolute slobs we have become.
I'm 78 & was alive for part of the 40's ,but would you really want to go back to a time
where you had to get dressed up, even to go to a darkened movie? Men had to wear
suits & women dresses, that they couldn't afford, to go to jobs that paid too low salaries!
@@rongendron8705Melhor é o DESLEIXO então ??? E com 78 anos vc nasceu em 1946 ...4 anos após esse vídeo ...era um bebê .Crinaça nos anos 50 ,logo Não sabe o que está dizendo.
Men wearing suits, ties and hats. Women in dresses, stockinged, some hats. Really not a one that isn't thin and walking strong. Oh yeah, one old guy taking his time. I'm fat so don't think I'm bias.
@@rongendron8705 We've gone way too far the other way. People don't even dress up for church or funerals. Gents with sandals on an airplane. People used to dress with self-respect and respect for others.
We live in a world where you have to get undressed in the airport in order to be let on the plane - so what if people wear sandals??
It's great seeing the various car models.
I've been thinking lately that with all the SUV's on the road, we've gone back to the old shape of cars. Everything old is new again.
This video DEMANDS at least one million views.
I have no illusions about that era as there was a war going on and we just recovered from the Great Depression. Add to this is the fact that there was too much racial/ethnic discrimination going on. Despite all, I'd still love to have a TARDIS just to visit, for at least a little while.
Thanks for making this highly entertaining production.
Anyone remember the Simon&Garfunkel lyric from the song America. “So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies”. Pretty cool in 2024 watching a video from 1940 and reminded of a song lyric from 1970.
Yes, the only place I'd heard of those pies was in that song. Now I know they were singing about a popular brand of pies, not woman they knew named Wagner.
That lyric came into my head when I saw the billboard
Great video nass, incredible footage,so beautiful, great work 👌😀👍
Any one of those bobby-soxers at 0:45 could represent my mother at that age at that time.
So near and yet so far.
Fantastic work as always.
thank you very much
American heritage and culture . What a great time capsule. Great work my friend. I didn't see a single bum/hobo.
Thank you!! ^^
Incredible Time Machine you got going! Great work as always!
Thank you! ^^
1942......The year rationing started in the USA. This must be just before it started in 1942 as I see no gasoline ration stickers on car windshields and there is still enough gasoline to fill the streets with cars. No war effort posters and signs in store windows or billboards either. The rationing got pretty extensive after this. My late mother who died at 92 years old told me a humorous story about "ration stamps". She was with her younger sister in a store to buy something. She (the younger sister) dropped some of her ration stamps on the floor. Just as she went to quickly pick them up a big man grabbed them away from her. This kid actually jumped on the mans back and pounded her fists against his head and ears till he dropped the stamps and ran out of the store.
I reckon you're right there - looks like January or February - billboards inviting you to buy a brand new beautiful Chrysler; plenty of traffic, no evident gas restrictions etc. Roads and sidewalks smooth, clean and tidy, everyone well dressed, no vagabonds, beggars, drug addicts and undesirables hanging around; no traffic jams; no empty, crumbling shops and buildings; no filthy graffitti evevrywhere ... we know things weren't prfect even then, but heck, where did it go all wrong in later decades?
@@sightsounds9453 Well, I think a lot of things contributed to emotional, financial disillusionment and the decay of society. Too many to list. Not that I am a religious person but the decline of being taught rudimentary ethics and morals, The death of JFK ushering in complete distrust of a government clearly hiding something, malls and the internet that gutted small town commerce, children who face no consequences for their actions, The Viet Nam War, the computer era eliminating good blue collar jobs, even secretarial jobs, moving our manufacturing base out of the USA creating situations like the great midwestern "rust belt" etc. I know I am leaving out at least 50 more things....and supposed "progress". It comes at a cost.
My parents were children in 1942, in Chicago. South shore for my dad. Roseland for my mom. They used to tell us stories about growing up in Chicago. Another time.
I was born in Roseland, 1959
Did they ever go to raceway Park at 127th and Ashland?
@@wayneadams7829 I don’t know. Heard of raceway park
Think it was open when I was growing up. Never been
These are unfortunately tiny clips strung together. Would love to see the full footages of this magnificent city! BTW, loved the dress styles, and virtually everyone is fit and trim. That doesn’t exist anymore.
go back in time and film a longer video
@@corneliusthecrowtamer1937 Yes, that would be nice.
Another great video restoration - a piece of time. Thanks!
Thank you ;))!!
This was at the beginning for WW2. My mother might have been in the downtown footage... ps.. i wish you would have put the streets in as with the exception of downtown... no idea where this was taken... if you have anymore of Chicago.. would love to see them.
Agreed. Even the names of the nearest intersections would help.
Love these videos. It's interesting to see how people interacted on the streets years before my time.
Everything is so clean and well kept, and the people were dressed to the nines! Most of the shops were mom and pops or small chains. This country has changed completely and not necessarily for the better.
Except those old exhausts and lord knows what else is pumping into the air. Wasn't asbestos in the cereal? I think you're judging a book by its cover, no offense. It just feels like the new popular thing to romanticize this or that and take the moment for granted. (Yes, big corpo aside.) I think you need to go to Chicago sometime and see how beautiful it is thanks in part to those who came before us.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication to restore this video.
Nice seeing all the red Chicago Surface Lines (CSL), vintage streetcars and the newer PCC type ones as well. Back when it cost 7 cents to ride on them. Thanks for sharing!
Hii! Thank you!! ^^
How nice,peaceful and calm city at that time. And now😳😾🥲As I always say : historical footages.
Thanks!
;))
Growing up in a Chicago suburb , and loving this city, of course I recognize so much of the place I used to love. Michigan Ave, Downtown, Lake Shore Drive. So much history. We just went to a wedding at the church shown here, it’s beautiful! Now the city I love is so far from the wholesomeness you see here and when I grew up. Be careful taking parts of it in. It’s been ruined unfortunately.
This is an excellent video, it looks to me like this video is related to the advertisement boards, they show a guy counting people walking by maybe looking at the advertisement? The funny thing is I saw people doing that here in Seattle, next to advertisement sign also with a hand counter, I guess that has not changed in 80 years, pretty funny. I love the old store fronts for Walgreens, Kroger, Sears and the others. Walgreen Drug changed their name in 1948 to Walgreen's as it is today.
Thanks for telling me what that guy was doing! I couldn’t figure out what he was counting.
My mom was born in 1923. She always talked about the streetcars, the Loop, how dressed up they would get just to go shopping. How relatable this made those stories. I felt totally immersed in that time. Brilliant work!
thank you very much
Nass, Great video. Love all your videos, especially New York, Chicago, and San Francisco in the 1930's and 40's. I just love the men's dress and the cars of the period. At 1:31 for a second, I thought man at far right was going to flip a coin up and down like Hollywood Gangster George Raft in the movie Scarface in 1932. LOL. I like the big billboard signs too! Oh Uh, At 1:55 Mother and daughter differences of where they want to go! LOL. Cute scene though! Thanks for the upload.
Hi!! Thank you
McCormick building at 01:13 is still there. 300 block of south Michigan ave
Thanks for another fabulous video
Thank you
I remember the A&P mart.(Atlantic & Pacific Grocery).
Used to be one next to a Scott’s Dime Store, which was on the Northwest corner on Cermak Rd.(22nd St) and California Ave.
Really magnificent footage! So much fun to watch!!
Thank you
1:55 I like how the kid forces her mother or big sister into the store.😁
Great video. I wish more time was spent for each clip. I recognize Madison Street on the West side where I use to live, but I wish I could see more of it.
I also noticed in all the videos I watch whether it be New York Chicago, London in those days everybody was dressed up nice compared to today.
Absolutely incredible video!
My parents were 10 and 6 at the time and they are still around. My father lived in Melrose Park and my mother in Oak Park at the time of this video.
Another trip in the NASS time machine......thanks NASS
thank you very much
6:51
I love how The Wrigley Building and the drawbridge shelter thing in the background on the left are the exact same look up Michigan Ave to this day!
That’s pretty incredible!
Watching these videos before sleeping. Such a soothing feeling.
I'm amazed at how people used to dress so elegantly back then.
Office workers and shoppers usually dressed to go downtown. My parents did.
Outstanding job with your editing. My grandparents met in April of 41 and married in November of 42. This was the timeframe they were together in Chicago. We really did used to have a civilized society at one time.
Thank you
Everyone in the comments is fawning over how "civilized" everyone was back then. I just wish we still had an extensive streetcar network.
Cars were the worst thing to happen to cities.
Please, people, this channel gives us great clips, and 100% people litter the comments with DEPRESSING things, which they would realize are not “it” if they took a moment to think it thru. Do not comment, “all of these people would be dead now” or how much better, cleaner, nicer those times were. It was extremely rough for all marginalized communities. So, no, not a universal thought or very nice. Do not be too sentimental for dead loved ones in the comments; it is depressing and not nice to us. We worry about your mental health. If the current times are not amazing for you, go make it better! Meet some friends! You can do it.
What a depressing comment.😒
Thanks for your videos man! It's a time machine to let you see what the world in the past looked like
278 views 13 minutes after posting. Not bad.
i wish i had a time machine so i wood go back to the 1940s and leave the year 2024 any one want to go with me
shotgun!
I was just thinking how cool it would be to wake up in 1940, just to spend one day-that would be enough for me.
Not for good, unless I am old enough to retire. I am sure I could find a paradise there
😂@@candyapple7445
@rowdyjr2318 I would love to change history. Sign me up.
This is amazing. Definitely subscribing.
Great video 👍🇺🇸
Incredible! Love this video. Always glad to see something new from you!
Thank you
Amazing how many people jaywalked and how beautiful they dressed!
It wasn't considered "jaywalking" at the time.
My home town! And I don't see anyone out in their pajamas and slippers like you see today.
To go back in time would be amazing. Nice clothes, kind people, family owned businesses, you name it!
Back when everyone dressed nice and people could afford to wear shirts with stuff like buttons , a collar , sleeves , ... Well people could afford to wear a real shirt ...... Back when pretty much everyone was smart enough to know what a real shirt was .... That kinda sums it up .... Back when ,,,,,, well things were just a lot better back then when it came to the clothes .
Yeah I know what you mean but on the other hand people were very up-tight and society was very formal, even too formal I would say. If you were to transport back to that time, maybe you would actually miss our less informal world of today, would you not? Having to dress in heavy clothing to go anywhere might get tired after a while, I wear Khakis and short sleeve T shirt all year even in winter but I do agree that seeing people like with nasty Tattoos or just ugly flimsy clothing or exposed people is not very civil but at least here in Seattle most of the year it's raining out so people tend to dress heavier clothing which makes everyone look more dressed up than say in Texas or Florida or California that's for sure.
@@drscopeify I wear bluejeans , a khaki Red Kap workshirt with a collar , chest pockets with flaps , sleeve cuffs that button and a white t-shirt under it everyday with either nike air monarchs or carolina journeyman work boots . I own a small real estate investment company and I'm a Landlord Partner with a rapid rehousing program for the homeless . I've had to wear suits but everyone knows me by my khaki workshirts I wear that go way back . I get mistaken for a homeless person all the time because I'm always dirty and in the same places like thrift stores where all the homeless people are . I love old work clothes Oh and my everyday jacket is a black Red Kap panel jacket from the late 50's early 60's and it has chest pockets on it for cigarettes . They don't make em like that anymore . The people working at Famous Barr noticed . Told me I'd be killed in Tokyo for it .
@@drscopeify don't confuse being formal with contemporary fashion and conformity. None of those people were dress formally, they were just wearing casual attire of the period. Dime store dress shirts were 39¢. Sears and higher quality shirts were over $2.99. clothes were better cared for and lasted longer because many people used professional laundries. A nickel had a shirt laundered and a dime got that plus had it folded and wrapped.
Today it's a zombie apocalypse! Tea shirts, shorts, jeans with large holes, sneakers. pajamas worn in public, etc.!
It's not like clothes were proportionally cheaper. It was just simply what you had to do to be part of society. Lots of people only had one or two outfits and washed by hand daily.
The Madison & Pulaski business district, shown is the Marbro theatre (dome above its roof), the Madigan's store and the Kresge's store.
The longcoat was essential attire of the time. Heavy and durable, but they were pricey. Some second hand stores sell them now, the real McCoy.
Yes, those coats were de-riguer! Also in the 1950’s. I think that in Ireland they were called “Crombies”.
Parts of the film were shot with a wide angle lens, but this is beyond cool 😎
Looking very nice!!😊
Very nice footage. Thanks for sharing. One question, if you don't mind: where did you get those images from.?. Thanks again.
Good to see the streamliner streetcars which had entered service a few years earlier. Ridership increased because of their superior riding qualities and speed. Chicago had plans to buy many more, but sadly wartime shortages and the rush to encourage car ownership meant these would be withdrawn by the 1950s.
We've all been there, Mom. Some things never change. 1:56
lol.....happens again with another mom @4:12 😁
good natured mothers, this is cute
Pulaski (Crawford) and Madison Street
Fantastic, I Love ❤️ It 😊!!
Thank you
no fear walking down the streets and the mass of people, no malls in the suburbs.
I would most definitely love living back then. I didn't know that they had A&P foods all the way back then. I did not know Walgreens had been around that long. You could barely recognize Chicago back then.
thanks nass love all ur work ! never miss an old school history lesson.
thank you very much!!
Not going to pretend these are the 'good old days', but you really notice how slim EVERYBODY is! And such formal clothing - really is a different time.
was good o days only thing better now is tech
@@onlythewise1 🤣
Not 'formal', just regular business attire.
@@gengebhardt6066 what?? formal compared with today, obviously...🤨
What I noticed right away was hardly or no, overweight people in this video. People walked a lot, no fast food, ate healthier meals at home, no cell phones or computers, and very few TVs to sit in front of for hours like we do now. Also, that people had more self respect to dress up when they went out and about. We have a lot better medicines, equality of the sexes, respect for other races, than they had then, but there are also a lot of things that were better during those years. Too bad we can’t seem to have all of it now.
What do you think changed all that?...accepting all those people and things you pointed out. We used to shun them for a reason. We were warned and look what happened?
These clips are culled from another RUclips video, To Market, To Market (1942). It's black and white, with a narration explaining the strategy for placing outdoor billboards around Chicago. That's why these clips have so many billboards.
Some clips I recognize as being Madison and Crawford now Madison and polaski since they change the name of Crawford Some clips are of the loop and I would suspect state and Madison because at that time it was considered the world's busiest intersection
I miss the aunt Jemima buckwheat pancake mix. It was my favorite not only that I miss aunt Jemima. What the heck?
Love the video! ❤ happy it just popped up in my feed
Thx!!
Beautiful real street life ! Better colours and sound design. A survey inquiry about billboards ?
Thank you!! ^^
NASS! Thank you for posting.
thanks bro!
These films were obviously made by and for the outdoor advertising people. Great street car and bus shots.
Good editing job.
Thank you ;))
We've evolved. You can tell by the way we dress now as opposed to then. Er...wait, no we haven't.
I miss when you could actually go down town and shop or go to the movies, or stop off and have a hot fudge sundae. I was hoping to see Ma and Pa Kettle driving by. 😮😅
So interesting to see those buildings that are still standing, in their newer version!!! Wow! The southside was very different back then. 😮
I like the aerial shots taken with drones and the popularity of the cell phones back then.
Had to be difficult finding your car in a parking lot back then
"Hey buddy, what's the big idea cuttin' into my lane?"
"Well, on accounta ya movin' too slow."
The road rage was outta control back then.
This is wonderful footage! A different world!
Very interesting footage. However, the scenes were only a few seconds each. Which is too brief to observe everything in the frame and capture the period.
Jeez. Traffic was bad even back then! But looked like it was moving. Unlike Lake Shore Dr at 5pm today.
3:04 Cigarette ad next to Aunt Jemima buckwheat packcake ad. Nope, it ain't 2024. 😂
So clean
@1:11 still the same- 3449 w. Cermak facing east, google street view, still a billboard.
Such simpler times thanks. Does anyone else have a slightly purple hue to the color balance when playing these videos? I saw one car change from pink to yellow but everything else is slightly purple. Was just curious. These days we can’t even watch a black and white movie without being offered a colorized version. Back then I think it kept everyone’s imagination running when they watched TV or went to the movies. Thanks for these video clips. Do you know why they were taken in the first place and if the sound is original?
That fella doing market research, counting the number of people that take time to look at each different billboard.
Amazing
It just posted, you haven't watched it yet.
@@JSFGuyvi todo el video.
@@emirarrab translate to English
From beautiful Chicago back then to horrible Chicongo today.
Shitcago
Order, productivity, common courtesy, no crime, no litter, no graffiti, no gangs and no diversity.