I remember all of those attractions in 1977. Comiskey Park had its fireworks, while Wrigley Field had a non-electric scoreboard and ivy. Soldier Field looked like the Pantheon in Greece for some reason. I rode on the Rock Island trains to Chicago's downtown on school field trips since I was 7 at that time. Sadly the film did not show the Beverly neighborhood, which was a up-and-coming "Village in the City". I went to Great America Santa Clara in 1979 in California, and I did go to Gurnee's Great America in the mid-1980s. And those skyscrapers - Standard Oil Building, John Hancock, Sears Tower, First National Bank Building, CNA Plaza, Prudential, Dirksen Federal Building, City Hall, Richard J. Daley Plaza, the Art Institute, and of course, magnificent State Street and Michigan Ave. All great. And as for the Calder statue - that red sculpture - it is actually called "Untitled."
Yes. I used to work at Saks on Michigan Ave. The Avenue still had a sense of class in the early 80s. With I.Magnin, Bonwit Teller, and Stanley Korshak still operating. Marshall Fields had not been bought out by Macy's, which was not on the same level.
We moved just outside the city this year, and will always have fond memories in the early 80s with field trips to the Museum of Art and Industry, Art Institute, Shed Aquarium, Cubs games, Navy Pier and eats like White Castle, Berghoff's, Chicago-style hot dogs, and deep dish pizza! I live on the west coast now, but try and go back every year to visit my best friend, and sometimes our old house.
I love Chicago now as the other poster does. Yes, parking sucks and expensive, but it is still a fun feel good city. I love the loop and the north side of the city. So much to do and love the architecture. Still, stay out of the south side though and the west. Every city has a side or two that must be avoided. In Philly its the north and west side. In NYC I only go to manhattan and brooklyn. Chicago is my favorite city. It's the cleanest and doesn't smell like the other two and the people either just keep to themselves or are very friendly. They say "excuse me" in Chicago and you don't get knocked over from people having to get to a place yesterday. I was born and raise on the east coast and frequented NYC and Philly often but moving to Chicago was the best decision I ever made.
@USF...that’s a interesting perspective as NYC area native who lived in Chicago I see your point. But for me it was a little slow and not quite as cosmopolitan as NYC. I was a little surprised because as soon as you left Chitown I was driving through cornfields in Indiana. But living there was a interesting experience.
I was born and raised in Chicago. I was born in 1960. My family eventually moved to Puerto Rico. Where I am currently living. Moved here three years ago and don't regret it. Chicago winters are too brutal. But I'll probably go and visit someday. In the summer or spring.
this is looking positively archaic. its got more in common with the 30's than it does with today. very strange to know i was alive back when this was being made..
We used to go into Chicago once a year during summer weather, and my aunt always had something lined up for us to do. Also visited during Christmas to shop at Water Tower Place in 1983 or 1984. Wonderful memories of "that toddlin' town!" 😊
Our lakefront is unmistakably beautiful but a lot of the luster on Michigan Ave has disappeared. It's sad to say once the 70's and 80's gone so was the ambiance of Michigan Ave.❤
Live in New York City now, but greatly miss Chicago dogs, and Italian beef sandwiches. After being here in New York for 13 years, the craving for these treats has never gone away.
All those museums used to be free back at this time. Remember my dad taking us to them every summer. Spent the night in Boy Scouts on that sub at Navy Pier. USS Silverside, sadly the city let it go, now located in Michigan.
Chicago did a lot of stupid things from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. It allowed the wanton destruction of its architectural patrimony. People carp on about how glorious Chicago architecture is, but one can only imagine how far more rich and magnificent the city would have been if they had not given the go to destroy its many treasures. One cannot look at the Rookery Building on LaSalle, without bemoaning the fact that Louis Sullivans masterpiece; the Stock Exchange Building was torn down and replaced with a mediocre, bland, cheap aluminum and glass box. This beautiful expression of American creativity was given the heave ho in the name of greed and stupidity. People wax poetic about Mies Van Der Rohes Federal Plaza, but its a series of metal and glass boxes set in a cold and uninviting plaza with an average piece of art by Alexander Calder. All this ho hum replaced the Federal Court House, which was an imposing Beaux Arte composition that gave Chicago the civic dignity and gravitas of a city that demanded respect. The court rooms inside the edifice looked like true courts of law, not just another lecture room in another banal office building. The city tore down so much of its heritage and beauty, that I decided to pull up stakes and move to New York. New York has had its share of grossly stupid blunders as well, but so much more remains from its former greatness.
So do I. I step into Macy's a lot here in New York, and in no way could it compare with Marshall Fields. The distinctive clock on State & Randolph Street, made famous by Norman Rockwell.The beautiful space on the first floor with the soaring, fluted columns. The atrium crowned by a domed ceiling designed by Louis Tiffany. The Walnut Room during Christmas, with its huge festive and decorated tree standing in the center of the room. The beautiful furniture section and who can forget Frango Mints!!! Marshall Fields was Chicago. The city was never the same without its signature store.
CHICAGO WAS!!.. I lived in the cabrini green era and I met so many celebrities I met Oprah Winfrey twice..i met jim rice on division and state street.asking me where the happy medium night club is...i met bill Bixby at morrie mages sport's.i met gray Mathews at Kentucky fried. chicken on state street off division. Met Gary fencik twice on the lake front while he was riding his bike..met Harry carry twice once on division street then on rush street he was cool..i shaked his hand twice ..i met so many more I can't name them all Chicago was it ain't no more it was a black mans Chicago 2
It is a great vintage film about Chicago, and I was 6 or 7 years old when it was released. I did not know if this film was on any of the Chicago TV channels. The film would have been better if it showed shots of the Chicago White Sox in action and fireworks from the team's exploding scoreboard, and also Evergreen Plaza, Ford City, Washington Park, and the Edgewater apartment that looked pink. I understand the film-maker tried to censor anything in the film that could cover any of the tenement slums, tenement apartments, or ghettos in Chicago, such as the Robert Taylor Homes, or any of the slums on the West Side or South Side, because this would mar highly the purpose of tourism in Chicago. I understand the filmmaker's wishes.
Correction: I saw some still pictures of Chicago White Sox baseball action in the film - so I am sorry about that, even though most of the Chicago baseball mention focuses on the Chicago Cubs.
It wasn't no damn slums in Chicago in 1977, maybe low income areas like it is in every big city. I was born and raised on the southside in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
Still tracking down the band and singers who did the background music for that 1977 Chicago film. I can remember when I saw shots of the Lakefront Festival and Great America theme park, the band played "The Easy Winners", originally a piano ragtime piece by Scott Joplin. I actually read that piano rag sheet music from "American Songbook" - in 1977 in Chicago!!! The Chicago Symphony Orchestra - I know that orchestra. They played excerpts from the 2nd movement and the final movement of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony in this vintage film. It is very sad that both Ravinia and the Chicago Symphony had their concerts halted in 2020 for some time due to the COVID-19 Pandemic that hit Chicago - my town - when it was not supposed to!!!!
This film documents the little known fact that Chicago was until 1980 the largest all-white city in the United States - NOT. I was born and raised in Chicago and a teen in the city in the mid-1970s. So I love these nostalgic images of places I remember fondly. But, contrary to what you would think from this film, Chicago was not Salt Lake City's sister city. If you took a shot every time you saw people of color in this film you might get a light buzz.
Chicago was always a black city. My grandparents said that it used to be more black people back in the day than now... Nevertheless black people out number whites in Chicago to this day... Almost all the white people that claim to be from Chicago live in the suburbs...
You can see signs for U.S. 14 on Michigan Avenue. U.S. 14 goes from Yellowstone to Chicago, but no longer comes down Michigan Avenue. It ends in Edgewater, up north.
@@unclepauly2959 Not that good to be honest. Its not the same at all since the mayor let terrorsists destroy the city several times this year. Plus all the places that have closed as well because of that and because of the politicians shutting everything down all the time. I am afraid the Chicago we all loved is gone and never coming back. Plus as usual the cost of living and taxes keep driving people out. LA surpassed us in the 80s in population and soon Houston will as well. Everyone said lightfoot would turn Chicago into the next detroit and I am afraid they were right
Yes! The old train stations! Northwestern, Dearborn stations. Remember the LaSalle Street Station before it was demolished to make way for another trading floor. All these buildings gave Chicago a mystique which is sorely missed. Modern buildings may be more practical, utilitarian, and efficient, but very few of them have soul, character or warmth.
Also made a special trip in 1977 to see King Tut exhibit with my other aunt then a year later when visiting my aunt who lived in Chi town, we all went to see the Pompeii Exhibit.
i loved the boat scene. the boat sailing around what looked to be a beached oil tank sticking out of the water the boat turning last second even the air looked cleaner back then it dont seem to long ago but wow life was way more basic even just back in 77 looks like the early 60s still just in color film
+Marie Miller It wasn't. Chicago in this exact period was undergoing massive race riots and the crime and murder rate was twice what it is now. Notice how there isn't a single minority group mentioned in this film. It's a tourists white wash of the city. The pollution was also much worse due to the heavy industries surrounding the city, especially coming from Gary. The EPA was in it's infancy, so the air was much more toxic back then.
yep i remember 1977 pretty well first hand my first kid was born in 77. do not recall any riots that year 67,68 had some ruff spots.last time i drove through chicago guys jumped on the back of my truck and tried to unhook my traylor going down the road about 50 what a bunch of nut jobs made up my mind if they got it unhooked and i had to stop i was going to shoot as many of them as i could
Yeah, that and a fair amount of T&A in the beach scenes and the belly dancer hoochy koochy. Compare with 1948 promo film about Chicago to see the moral decline in 30 years lol
I am still trying to find the unnamed orchestra during this 16-17 minute presentation. Can you find that name? I am not talking about the Chicago Symphony that was already mentioned. Out of luck, but I can tell you some of the pieces they played.....In the beginning, middle, and end of the presentation, the unidentified orchestra played a song called "Chicago is Something That You Got To See For Yourself", also known as "Chicago Is...."There was audio footage of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing these excerpts - Opening of the 2nd movement of the "New World Symphony" by Dvorak, the famous Largo itself (aka "Going Home"), when the narrator said "Opera, Ballet, and the...Chicago Symphony". Then, as the narrator said "Ravinia....summer home of the famed Chicago Symphony", that orchestra played the final bars of the final movement of that famous "New World Symphony" by Dvorak. It is a great symphony. I had seen the Chicago Symphony 6 times in my lifetime. They are great.Then the unidentified orchestra played "The Easy Winners", their version of the famous Scott Joplin ragtime number usually for piano only, during the part of the film that mentions the "Lakefront Festival" - and of course, Marriott's Great America theme park.That's all I know.
Not the same AT ALL. Actually, a new decade used to be more of a change than it is now. But many things overlap and though it may have sounded normal or on the way out, it sounds much older than it is now. Just like Family Guy was normal ten years ago. And so was Myspace. But now one seems much more out of the past than the other. But in 30 years we might see a Family Guy from 2019 and think it's from 2000.
Compare this with a 1948 promo film about Chicago on 'Da tube. The color is all washed out on this one as compared to the vibrant technicolor film from '48. I remember the dioramas in the Art Institute (or was it Sci and Industry?) The city had plenty of problems that you'd never guess from this film-- kinda funny to see this now. Our civilization is in it's last days., a la ancient Rome. this promo film for all it's slick veneer is like something from a different planet.
The discotheque featured when the voice-over said "swinging discotheques" with those moving lights - I have to investigate further what discotheque in Chicago had that shot. I can only guess that this was probably The Happy Medium discotheque on Rush Street. I can only guess because I was too young to dance in any discotheques in Chicago, but the giveaway on that disco venue was likely the famous marquee of The Happy Medium that they showed just near the end of the film.
Keenly, for Chicago disco lovers, disco was hot in 1977 - even though the genre called disco began around 1973. I also know that WDAI - a Chicago radio station that once did a rock music format, changed its format to disco later on, causing Steve Dahl to leave that station for good. 1977 was the good year for disco in Chicago before Disco Demolition in 1979 put a definite end to disco in Chicago.
@@charlessmith263 You are exactly right sir and the Disco Demolition started the House Music Movement on the southside of Chicago and the rest of the story is history. I know because I was there and part of the movement that's all over the world now. And about 300 miles from Chicago some guys that look like the guys from the southside of Chicago was inspired by the music coming from the southside of Chicago and created their own sound called Techno in Detroit.
@@charlessmith263 Disco was receding in the late 70s, but it was revived by the movie and the music score of Saturday Night Fever. The clothing styles and the hair dos,had already had they halcyon period a few years back, whern the movie was released in 1977. Punk/New Wave, Reggae, and Hip Hop, were making waves in the music industry during this time period, and became a cultural force in the next decade. Chicago was certainly not impervious to those trends. Dahls Disco Demolition night at Comiskeys was largely a symbolic mercy killing of a genre facing a lingering death.
I won't speak to how it "looks" but can attest that Water Tower Place (2:16, with Marshall Field's signature logo on the building face) was spankin' new when I was there in the spring of '76
I visited Chicago in 1977 as a 19-year-old. Had a fine time. This video is rather inane and plays to a lot of prejudices. The real Chicago isn’t done justice by it.
You mean by equally qualified white women, by far the greatest group that benefited from affirmative action? Things really have gone to hell with them taking over!
*fewer, and in actual fact, there were many more both here and all over the country (and you wouldn't have gone to a soccer match in Britain in those days without an expectation of mayhem). The prevalence of leaded gasoline correlates strongly with violent crime rates across the industrialized world --look it up.
I was born and raised here and I am so not liking this video. So according to this....Chicago is The Loop, The Mag Mile and the North Side. Hey, I don't mind, I like living on Lake Shore Drive. But this video....man, I don't even know.
Sadly I have a question where are all the African Americans, Latinos and other minorities who lived , worked , shopped , dined and supported the local Chicago economy back then.
This video was made in the late 70s?.. and Chicago seems suspiciously segregated.... I do however see some asians blended in the white crowds though., ironically... but what was going on in Chicago through out this time...,in this is era.. Nashville, louisville, Cincinnati., etc... wasn't this Whitley segregated around this time and their smaller!.. the narrator says its diverse from young and old... so! .. I'm not trying to come off as a snowflake here but Milwaukee, Birmingham", Indianapolis.,etc.. still wasn't ready for true segregation yet at this time.. North America was still somewhat of a mix bag still.. not to mention the outer communities away from that middle America.. like Boston, Brooklyn, Phoenix.. etc.. as although Manhattan, surrounding LA area, Seattle, etc. Was the most diverse..
I agree I grew up in the NYC area(Jersey side) and lived in Chitown for two years and found it a little limited. Not a 24hour city and very cosmopolitan.
Good Lord. Is that all you see in this video? I am sure other races were doing their own fun things and making great memories. I am sure no one was sitting around waiting to mix with each other. I am sure if you ask those people today, they'd have great memories too.
Diversity has become a dirty word. It is now becoming the euphemism for no white folks. Let's see how great this country becomes if those lunatic lefties reach their goal.
so? do they have to be everywhere? it's quite refreshing really. Plus it shows what a bunch of crap those claims about blacks always being everywhere all the time (even in medieval Europe acording to hollywood) and yet you can hardly find any in the middle of US in the 70s xD
These types of comments are so annoying. I guess I am the only AA that understands that this country was mostly white..before everyone and their mothers were allowed to invade it.
Where are All the Black People, why were they Shoved Under the Carpet when doing this Clip? Half the City was Black at the Time, Now the Latinos Are the Major Minority 41 Years Later!
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I was a visitor to this beautiful city in 77 aged 21,and was lucky enough to see a white Sox game and I saw the band Chicago in concert,great memories
I love Chicago back then.
I love it now too.
What an amazing 1977 Chicago video !!! I love filming in Chicago !!!
The 70s and 80s were Beautiful in Chicago.
I remember all of those attractions in 1977. Comiskey Park had its fireworks, while Wrigley Field had a non-electric scoreboard and ivy. Soldier Field looked like the Pantheon in Greece for some reason. I rode on the Rock Island trains to Chicago's downtown on school field trips since I was 7 at that time. Sadly the film did not show the Beverly neighborhood, which was a up-and-coming "Village in the City". I went to Great America Santa Clara in 1979 in California, and I did go to Gurnee's Great America in the mid-1980s. And those skyscrapers - Standard Oil Building, John Hancock, Sears Tower, First National Bank Building, CNA Plaza, Prudential, Dirksen Federal Building, City Hall, Richard J. Daley Plaza, the Art Institute, and of course, magnificent State Street and Michigan Ave. All great. And as for the Calder statue - that red sculpture - it is actually called "Untitled."
Yes. I used to work at Saks on Michigan Ave. The Avenue still had a sense of class in the early 80s. With I.Magnin, Bonwit Teller, and Stanley Korshak still operating. Marshall Fields had not been bought out by Macy's, which was not on the same level.
I was 18 in 1977 and miss that I.Magnin on Michigan Ave. My sister and I loved shopping there.
I love Chicago 💕 I was born in 1977 thanks for the video 😀👍
We moved just outside the city this year, and will always have fond memories in the early 80s with field trips to the Museum of Art and Industry, Art Institute, Shed Aquarium, Cubs games, Navy Pier and eats like White Castle, Berghoff's, Chicago-style hot dogs, and deep dish pizza! I live on the west coast now, but try and go back every year to visit my best friend, and sometimes our old house.
Awesome and nostalgic. How time flies
Back in the 70's and 80's was great. I really loved Chicago in those good ole days.
Me too but i still love it now too
I love Chicago now as the other poster does. Yes, parking sucks and expensive, but it is still a fun feel good city. I love the loop and the north side of the city. So much to do and love the architecture. Still, stay out of the south side though and the west. Every city has a side or two that must be avoided. In Philly its the north and west side. In NYC I only go to manhattan and brooklyn. Chicago is my favorite city. It's the cleanest and doesn't smell like the other two and the people either just keep to themselves or are very friendly. They say "excuse me" in Chicago and you don't get knocked over from people having to get to a place yesterday. I was born and raise on the east coast and frequented NYC and Philly often but moving to Chicago was the best decision I ever made.
@@usfanlovesjiwoo1978 Excuse me! I live on the south side.
@USF...that’s a interesting perspective as NYC area native who lived in Chicago I see your point. But for me it was a little slow and not quite as cosmopolitan as NYC. I was a little surprised because as soon as you left Chitown I was driving through cornfields in Indiana. But living there was a interesting experience.
I remember the bars on Rush and Division back then, the urinals were filled with pubes
I was born and raised there and only have great memories of a clean working city....
I live in Chicago. It's interesting how so many of the sites still exist today, 40 years later.
Sadly many things are gone now especially the old Chicago Northwestern terminal
I love this city. It was great seeing how it looked in the 70's. Thank you for sharing :-)
I love the city now but I loved how it was then too. I miss some things especially the old Chicago Northwestern terminal
The Lutz Pastry shop it's still there. Don't miss out on those pastries.
Lived there in the 90s loved it
This brought back some great memories for me. I was around 5 or 6 when this was filmed.
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Same here
I was born and raised in Chicago. I was born in 1960. My family eventually moved to Puerto Rico. Where I am currently living. Moved here three years ago and don't regret it. Chicago winters are too brutal. But I'll probably go and visit someday. In the summer or spring.
this is looking positively archaic. its got more in common with the 30's than it does with today. very strange to know i was alive back when this was being made..
We used to go into Chicago once a year during summer weather, and my aunt always had something lined up for us to do. Also visited during Christmas to shop at Water Tower Place in 1983 or 1984. Wonderful memories of "that toddlin' town!" 😊
My dad was attending the university of chicago during this exact time (‘76-80), im so jealous lol
Our lakefront is unmistakably beautiful but a lot of the luster on Michigan Ave has disappeared. It's sad to say once the 70's and 80's gone so was the ambiance of Michigan Ave.❤
One thing to note though. No mention of Italian Beef Sandwich's?!?! WTF!!!
Ricobene's "USED" to make a good one on 26th & Wentworth. The kids took over and it sux.
Live in New York City now, but greatly miss Chicago dogs, and Italian beef sandwiches. After being here in New York for 13 years, the craving for these treats has never gone away.
jajajajaja.........
Love from Philadelphia Chicago ♥️🤗
All those museums used to be free back at this time. Remember my dad taking us to them every summer.
Spent the night in Boy Scouts on that sub at Navy Pier. USS Silverside, sadly the city let it go, now located in Michigan.
I got to stay a night there too but I can't remember if it was at Navy Pier still or up in Michigan already. Too young.
Chicago did a lot of stupid things from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. It allowed the wanton destruction of its architectural patrimony. People carp on about how glorious Chicago architecture is, but one can only imagine how far more rich and magnificent the city would have been if they had not given the go to destroy its many treasures. One cannot look at the Rookery Building on LaSalle, without bemoaning the fact that Louis Sullivans masterpiece; the Stock Exchange Building was torn down and replaced with a mediocre, bland, cheap aluminum and glass box. This beautiful expression of American creativity was given the heave ho in the name of greed and stupidity. People wax poetic about Mies Van Der Rohes Federal Plaza, but its a series of metal and glass boxes set in a cold and uninviting plaza with an average piece of art by Alexander Calder. All this ho hum replaced the Federal Court House, which was an imposing Beaux Arte composition that gave Chicago the civic dignity and gravitas of a city that demanded respect. The court rooms inside the edifice looked like true courts of law, not just another lecture room in another banal office building. The city tore down so much of its heritage and beauty, that I decided to pull up stakes and move to New York. New York has had its share of grossly stupid blunders as well, but so much more remains from its former greatness.
I really miss Marshall Field's!
We all miss it!
Yes, my mom worked there in late 60s,took my kids to Macy's downtown Thanksgiving Eve, sogn is still there tho
Me too!!!!
So do I. I step into Macy's a lot here in New York, and in no way could it compare with Marshall Fields. The distinctive clock on State & Randolph Street, made famous by Norman Rockwell.The beautiful space on the first floor with the soaring, fluted columns. The atrium crowned by a domed ceiling designed by Louis Tiffany. The Walnut Room during Christmas, with its huge festive and decorated tree standing in the center of the room. The beautiful furniture section and who can forget Frango Mints!!! Marshall Fields was Chicago. The city was never the same without its signature store.
CHICAGO WAS!!.. I lived in the cabrini green era and I met so many celebrities I met Oprah Winfrey twice..i met jim rice on division and state street.asking me where the happy medium night club is...i met bill Bixby at morrie mages sport's.i met gray Mathews at Kentucky fried. chicken on state street off division. Met Gary fencik twice on the lake front while he was riding his bike..met Harry carry twice once on division street then on rush street he was cool..i shaked his hand twice ..i met so many more I can't name them all Chicago was it ain't no more it was a black mans Chicago 2
Chicago is!
I need to dig out my old 3 piece disco suit and get back to Rush Street.
Remember all the pubes in the bar bathrooms down Rush and Division, always clogged the urinals
Dead disco known for its disco scene.
I wanna sample this😚 Old school Chicago looked so cool
I love the city now but I loved how it was then too. I miss some things especially the old Chicago Northwestern terminal
Go to any bar down Division, fill urinal with pubes....that was the 70s
@@brianglade848 People don't have pubes anymore?
It is a great vintage film about Chicago, and I was 6 or 7 years old when it was released. I did not know if this film was on any of the Chicago TV channels. The film would have been better if it showed shots of the Chicago White Sox in action and fireworks from the team's exploding scoreboard, and also Evergreen Plaza, Ford City, Washington Park, and the Edgewater apartment that looked pink. I understand the film-maker tried to censor anything in the film that could cover any of the tenement slums, tenement apartments, or ghettos in Chicago, such as the Robert Taylor Homes, or any of the slums on the West Side or South Side, because this would mar highly the purpose of tourism in Chicago. I understand the filmmaker's wishes.
Correction: I saw some still pictures of Chicago White Sox baseball action in the film - so I am sorry about that, even though most of the Chicago baseball mention focuses on the Chicago Cubs.
It wasn't no damn slums in Chicago in 1977, maybe low income areas like it is in every big city. I was born and raised on the southside in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
Still tracking down the band and singers who did the background music for that 1977 Chicago film. I can remember when I saw shots of the Lakefront Festival and Great America theme park, the band played "The Easy Winners", originally a piano ragtime piece by Scott Joplin. I actually read that piano rag sheet music from "American Songbook" - in 1977 in Chicago!!!
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra - I know that orchestra. They played excerpts from the 2nd movement and the final movement of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony in this vintage film. It is very sad that both Ravinia and the Chicago Symphony had their concerts halted in 2020 for some time due to the COVID-19 Pandemic that hit Chicago - my town - when it was not supposed to!!!!
I Love to Chicago IL
I like how they highlighted Rush Street. They even included a shot of a Wendy's restaraunt. WOW. Classy!
This film documents the little known fact that Chicago was until 1980 the largest all-white city in the United States - NOT. I was born and raised in Chicago and a teen in the city in the mid-1970s. So I love these nostalgic images of places I remember fondly. But, contrary to what you would think from this film, Chicago was not Salt Lake City's sister city. If you took a shot every time you saw people of color in this film you might get a light buzz.
Chicago was always a black city. My grandparents said that it used to be more black people back in the day than now... Nevertheless black people out number whites in Chicago to this day... Almost all the white people that claim to be from Chicago live in the suburbs...
You can see signs for U.S. 14 on Michigan Avenue.
U.S. 14 goes from Yellowstone to Chicago, but no longer comes down Michigan Avenue. It ends in Edgewater, up north.
After the eighties Chicago went downhill bad.
I was born in Chicago. I sometimes miss it but I miss my family who lived there so long ago now.
I wish it was still like this, probably wouldn't have moved. I almost want to cry knowing how bad it has gotten.
The city was great then but is even better now
It was just as bad then. The great White flight started in the 60's
@@robertpreston2220 LOL!!!!! You do small clubs? Love to hire you!
I love the city now but I loved how it was then too. I miss some things especially the old Chicago Northwestern terminal
How do you feel about our city today. December 2020?
@@unclepauly2959 Not that good to be honest. Its not the same at all since the mayor let terrorsists destroy the city several times this year. Plus all the places that have closed as well because of that and because of the politicians shutting everything down all the time. I am afraid the Chicago we all loved is gone and never coming back. Plus as usual the cost of living and taxes keep driving people out. LA surpassed us in the 80s in population and soon Houston will as well. Everyone said lightfoot would turn Chicago into the next detroit and I am afraid they were right
Yes! The old train stations! Northwestern, Dearborn stations. Remember the LaSalle Street Station before it was demolished to make way for another trading floor. All these buildings gave Chicago a mystique which is sorely missed. Modern buildings may be more practical, utilitarian, and efficient, but very few of them have soul, character or warmth.
@@luissantiago8446 Very well said
I can tell it was filmed in 1976 because "St. Ives" was released that year.
Some shots in this film of the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, which is in that great world class city of......oh, Rosemont. :/
Very cool video!! Thanks for sharing
RIP Chicago
R.I.P Chicago.
Also made a special trip in 1977 to see King Tut exhibit with my other aunt then a year later when visiting my aunt who lived in Chi town, we all went to see the Pompeii Exhibit.
The Best from Chicago is soul train 🌸 😘 👻
And deep dish pizza!
i loved the boat scene. the boat sailing around what looked to be a beached oil tank sticking out of the water the boat turning last second even the air looked cleaner back then it dont seem to long ago but wow life was way more basic even just back in 77 looks like the early 60s still just in color film
+Marie Miller It wasn't. Chicago in this exact period was undergoing massive race riots and the crime and murder rate was twice what it is now. Notice how there isn't a single minority group mentioned in this film. It's a tourists white wash of the city. The pollution was also much worse due to the heavy industries surrounding the city, especially coming from Gary. The EPA was in it's infancy, so the air was much more toxic back then.
yep i remember 1977 pretty well first hand my first kid was born in 77. do not recall any riots that year 67,68 had some ruff spots.last time i drove through chicago guys jumped on the back of my truck and tried to unhook my traylor going down the road about 50 what a bunch of nut jobs made up my mind if they got it unhooked and i had to stop i was going to shoot as many of them as i could
Chicago issssss...........Looting
As a lifelong Chicagoan, I gotta say this is a real cornball flick.
Ken Kunz True. Very of its time but really cool to see how Chicago looked in the past!
Is it because the the crime rate and slums weren't mentioned ?
@@tias.6675No, the corny music.
Waited in line in an insane electrical storm to get to see King Tut on opening day.
State Street was A Great Street so was lesser 47th Street during Christmas and Passover Easter. 1950s-1970s...Yeah...Yeah...Yeah...
This film makes Chicago look as if it was still stuck in the 1960s.
No, not really.
It was
The 1950s are lot better than now!
The 60s weren't that long ago..
1:37 feels like the 5th dimension, up up and away
I forgot about Portillo's and white castle
interesting that the city used the "gentleman's " clubs on a promotional travel film.
Yeah, that and a fair amount of T&A in the beach scenes and the belly dancer hoochy koochy. Compare with 1948 promo film about Chicago to see the moral decline in 30 years lol
so? it is a need to be met like any other :)
I am still trying to find the unnamed orchestra during this 16-17 minute presentation. Can you find that name? I am not talking about the Chicago Symphony that was already mentioned. Out of luck, but I can tell you some of the pieces they played.....In the beginning, middle, and end of the presentation, the unidentified orchestra played a song called "Chicago is Something That You Got To See For Yourself", also known as "Chicago Is...."There was audio footage of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing these excerpts - Opening of the 2nd movement of the "New World Symphony" by Dvorak, the famous Largo itself (aka "Going Home"), when the narrator said "Opera, Ballet, and the...Chicago Symphony". Then, as the narrator said "Ravinia....summer home of the famed Chicago Symphony", that orchestra played the final bars of the final movement of that famous "New World Symphony" by Dvorak. It is a great symphony. I had seen the Chicago Symphony 6 times in my lifetime. They are great.Then the unidentified orchestra played "The Easy Winners", their version of the famous Scott Joplin ragtime number usually for piano only, during the part of the film that mentions the "Lakefront Festival" - and of course, Marriott's Great America theme park.That's all I know.
2;12 Michigan ave. without the looters and boarded up windows. Sick.
Allot of those building still standing
3:34 That font for the word 'COMPUTER'.
Chicago is the internet, bitches!
So why is Twitter in San Francisco & Facebook is in Menlo Park, CA? 🤨
never realized the elephants at the field where that old.
Sure looking different then today...the moderator sounds like he is from the 1950"s or were the 50"s, 60"s and 70"s and 80:s all sort of the same?
Not the same AT ALL. Actually, a new decade used to be more of a change than it is now. But many things overlap and though it may have sounded normal or on the way out, it sounds much older than it is now. Just like Family Guy was normal ten years ago. And so was Myspace. But now one seems much more out of the past than the other. But in 30 years we might see a Family Guy from 2019 and think it's from 2000.
Bill Kurtis he's an icon
Chicago was.
Imagine this is how Chicago looked when Star Wars was released
Processed Cheese for The Ages. Comedy is where you find it.
OK, so Chicago's no Monaco but it does have that certain cachet no other Midwestern city could match.
Wish I could back and buy tons of real estate along Michigan Ave
Compare this with a 1948 promo film about Chicago on 'Da tube. The color is all washed out on this one as compared to the vibrant technicolor film from '48. I remember the dioramas in the Art Institute (or was it Sci and Industry?) The city had plenty of problems that you'd never guess from this film-- kinda funny to see this now. Our civilization is in it's last days., a la ancient Rome. this promo film for all it's slick veneer is like something from a different planet.
Real cheese flavor!
The discotheque featured when the voice-over said "swinging discotheques" with those moving lights - I have to investigate further what discotheque in Chicago had that shot. I can only guess that this was probably The Happy Medium discotheque on Rush Street. I can only guess because I was too young to dance in any discotheques in Chicago, but the giveaway on that disco venue was likely the famous marquee of The Happy Medium that they showed just near the end of the film.
Keenly, for Chicago disco lovers, disco was hot in 1977 - even though the genre called disco began around 1973. I also know that WDAI - a Chicago radio station that once did a rock music format, changed its format to disco later on, causing Steve Dahl to leave that station for good. 1977 was the good year for disco in Chicago before Disco Demolition in 1979 put a definite end to disco in Chicago.
Could have been Zorine's.
@@charlessmith263
You are exactly right sir and the Disco Demolition started the House Music Movement on the southside of Chicago and the rest of the story is history. I know because I was there and part of the movement that's all over the world now. And about 300 miles from Chicago some guys that look like the guys from the southside of Chicago was inspired by the music coming from the southside of Chicago and created their own sound called Techno in Detroit.
@@charlessmith263 Disco was receding in the late 70s, but it was revived by the movie and the music score of Saturday Night Fever. The clothing styles and the hair dos,had already had they halcyon period a few years back, whern the movie was released in 1977. Punk/New Wave, Reggae, and Hip Hop, were making waves in the music industry during this time period, and became a cultural force in the next decade. Chicago was certainly not impervious to those trends. Dahls Disco Demolition night at Comiskeys was largely a symbolic mercy killing of a genre facing a lingering death.
This looks more like the late 60's or early 70's.
Are you not aware of the fact The Hancock Center was finished in 69 and the Standard Oil about 1973-1974?
...and the Sears Tower opened up in 1974. Also, you can see some of the movies that were premiering.
I won't speak to how it "looks" but can attest that Water Tower Place (2:16, with Marshall Field's signature logo on the building face) was spankin' new when I was there in the spring of '76
No, the skyline wasn’t as developed in the 60s as it was in the late 70s.
I visited Chicago in 1977 as a 19-year-old. Had a fine time. This video is rather inane and plays to a lot of prejudices. The real Chicago isn’t done justice by it.
1977: Tall buildings, skinny, well dressed people, orderly and somewhat clean. Whatthehellhappened????
🫂Chicago🫂
Just saw my dad ripping down Balbo in his 75 wagon....what an ass
The editing could have been better at the beginning otherwise not bad.
Everyone is a fucking critic. Just enjoy the video and shut the hell up!
I lived there then...
Terry Murphy
before affirmative action, do you remember the overtake in the 70s.
You mean by equally qualified white women, by far the greatest group that benefited from affirmative action? Things really have gone to hell with them taking over!
Um, no.
Racist prick
Poor sammie I know it must be tough to see black folks get ahead in life?
Is that Bill Kurtis narrating?
No. It's clearly not him.
maxangst Should have been him
***** -- Sounds nothing like Kurtis. I don't recognize the voice, though.
+MaryEllen Schneider That is totally who I think it is, too.
Sure sounds like him I thought the same thing.
Less murders back then
Actually in 1977, there were 823 murders. Last year there were 488. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago
Must be using Trump Math
@FN97 LS76 alot of them were white gangs too.
Not really
*fewer, and in actual fact, there were many more both here and all over the country (and you wouldn't have gone to a soccer match in Britain in those days without an expectation of mayhem). The prevalence of leaded gasoline correlates strongly with violent crime rates across the industrialized world --look it up.
Hi would like to know how old is the Sear's Tower Thank you!
It's 43 years old.
Google
It's now Willis Tower.
Anyone else watch this and wonder how many people in this video are still alive?
that girl is beautiful at 4:56
Burdan mustafa hocaya selamlar mrb hocam bayramınız mübarek olsun...
FWIW, Turkish
6:10 bottom right is not a stereotypical chef.... not at all...
Kanye should sample that intro tune
I was born and raised here and I am so not liking this video. So according to this....Chicago is The Loop, The Mag Mile and the North Side. Hey, I don't mind, I like living on Lake Shore Drive. But this video....man, I don't even know.
Sadly I have a question where are all the African Americans, Latinos and other minorities who lived , worked , shopped , dined and supported the local Chicago economy back then.
This video was made in the late 70s?.. and Chicago seems suspiciously segregated.... I do however see some asians blended in the white crowds though., ironically... but what was going on in Chicago through out this time...,in this is era.. Nashville, louisville, Cincinnati., etc... wasn't this Whitley segregated around this time and their smaller!.. the narrator says its diverse from young and old... so! .. I'm not trying to come off as a snowflake here but Milwaukee, Birmingham", Indianapolis.,etc.. still wasn't ready for true segregation yet at this time.. North America was still somewhat of a mix bag still.. not to mention the outer communities away from that middle America.. like Boston, Brooklyn, Phoenix.. etc.. as although Manhattan, surrounding LA area, Seattle, etc. Was the most diverse..
I agree I grew up in the NYC area(Jersey side) and lived in Chitown for two years and found it a little limited. Not a 24hour city and very cosmopolitan.
When was that and please explain about not being a 24 hour city because NY is not that much different than Chicago.
Good Lord. Is that all you see in this video? I am sure other races were doing their own fun things and making great memories. I am sure no one was sitting around waiting to mix with each other. I am sure if you ask those people today, they'd have great memories too.
Diversity has become a dirty word. It is now becoming the euphemism for no white folks. Let's see how great this country becomes if those lunatic lefties reach their goal.
There's 4-5 black people total in this video, that may be generous.
so? do they have to be everywhere? it's quite refreshing really. Plus it shows what a bunch of crap those claims about blacks always being everywhere all the time (even in medieval Europe acording to hollywood) and yet you can hardly find any in the middle of US in the 70s xD
Who gives a shit!
These types of comments are so annoying. I guess I am the only AA that understands that this country was mostly white..before everyone and their mothers were allowed to invade it.
@tias You are really mixed up about who did the invading in this country.
Where are All the Black People, why were they Shoved Under the Carpet when doing this Clip? Half the City was Black at the Time, Now the Latinos Are the Major Minority 41 Years Later!
I was wondering the same thing! I was there during this time.
We make our first appearance in a parade around the 9:20 mark. LOL
if only they would be shoved out then this city would be safe
Fuck you, Robert
The town that Lori light foot shut down.
Aren't those statues racist now?😁😁😁😁
Not anymore , a toilet in disguise
That's everywhere
@@fenian123 try down town Aurora , great views , I love it here. Reminds me of old Chicago.
I didnt see not one black person so I stopped watching
Me too. Im done. Especially when some idiot made negative comments about the south and west side. I live on the south side.
Daley senior was Mayor. It was before Chicago had to include African Americans. I DID see a black guy beating a drum...
Well, most of this seems filmed during working hours in the business district.
Cry baby.
Chicago is... The place where I was jumped and attacked by three Chicanos in 1977.
Maybe if you hadn't insulted their mother, that wouldn't have happened.
In Chicago in 1977, I was served food in restaurants by many Chicanos during a trip to Chicago.
Is that Bill Kurtis narrating?