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

@19king14

Жыл бұрын

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.

It's so odd to see the skyline without the Sears Tower (I'll *never* call it Willis Tower).

@69eddieD

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@carstarsarstenstesenn

3 жыл бұрын

yes but at least it has the hancock which was completed in 69

@Not_You_2

3 жыл бұрын

@@69eddieD I'm not even from Chicago, and I refuse to call it anything but the Sears Tower.

@bren8151

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@ItIsJustJudy

2 жыл бұрын

To me, it’ll always be the Sears Tower, the John Hancock, and Lake Shore Drive. 👍🏻

"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!"

@19king14

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent observation, so true and funny to top it off! This is "pinned" to remain the top comment, and indeed, it is! :)

@goldpet66

2 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelprosperity3420

2 жыл бұрын

Missed the Chimney off the Kennedy with Dads Rootbeer painted on it.

@donovandustin929

2 жыл бұрын

instablaster...

@deancarpenter5569

2 жыл бұрын

O[[

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

5 жыл бұрын

Tribb Legals lies

@MickiRom55

5 жыл бұрын

@@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... :-)

@youngchristian4540

5 жыл бұрын

M Rom oh I didn’t see old part

@roadrunner7218

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. I was 12. That year was the first and worst time the Cubs broke my heart.

@kingtyon4223

5 жыл бұрын

I was 2 Years Old April 22 1967

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 ❤️

@renl-rated2883

7 ай бұрын

🖤

@rmp7400

3 ай бұрын

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.

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..

@zirconia717

2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said 👏🏾

@TheHardTruth315

2 жыл бұрын

@@zirconia717 Thank you. 💓

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.

Nice to see that people drove like idiots on the Dan Ryan 50+ years ago. Some things are truly timeless.

@sweetjune2010

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr..😂..some things never change..

@rmp7400

2 жыл бұрын

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...)+

@jonburrows2684

2 жыл бұрын

@@sweetjune2010 nice to see how Chicago looked before Liberals and "stronger with diversity" took over.

@thepoorkid6004

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonburrows2684 What’s wrong with diversity tho?

@jonburrows2684

2 жыл бұрын

@@thepoorkid6004 um, you can't see the difference when it wasn't being pushed? If not, you're blind as a bat

Man! There will Never be another one like CHICAGO.. and now the days grow short, she's in the Autumn of her years..🎶

@wendellthomas179

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's true!!! Every Major American city has a unique charm...✌🏾🎶🎵💨🌟💫😜😁

@lfh1973

2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully stated, ma’am :)

@maxi-me

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79

4 ай бұрын

She’s in the prime of her life, do you see how much downtown’s skyline has changed since 1969.

KZread is about as close as we're going to ever come to an actual "Time Machine"!

@icecreamforcrowhurst

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@InspectorCallahan.44

2 жыл бұрын

I time travel every night in my dreams, interdimensional sometimes.

@rmp7400

2 жыл бұрын

The way KZread 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)!

@rmp7400

2 жыл бұрын

@@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...⚰️

@thornyturtleranch6152

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

@MoeBaly

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@serverrunner

8 жыл бұрын

+19king14 Thanks for posting this and all your work!

@boblane7562

6 жыл бұрын

19king14 Film2Video Services

@jbaustralia2915

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@jmw708

5 жыл бұрын

Have you been able to get here (Chicago) since posting this comment? For the bad reputation the city gets, it truly is beautiful

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.

@tomg.8904

2 жыл бұрын

I can only imagine BJ

@skelly4998

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomg.8904 Meet me on Pulaski and Jackson

@JesusRodriguez-zv4pk

2 жыл бұрын

@Alana Greig police have always made the city worst

@JesusRodriguez-zv4pk

2 жыл бұрын

@Alana Greig the police are the criminals lol

@JesusRodriguez-zv4pk

2 жыл бұрын

@Alana Greig it's fine your old fart generation is on their way out thank god

Time to start watching the old Bob Newhart reruns.

@sriddle3569

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, good Chicago scenes

@ghostofreagan3181

2 жыл бұрын

I'm still in love with Emily.

@peopleskarmasquad1042

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghostofreagan3181 Oh yes!😍

would love to go to 1969 and tell everyone what their car would be worth in 50 years

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

Makes me want to go back into time!!! I miss those days

@cjordan1161

2 жыл бұрын

We all do !

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.

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.

@sludge4125

2 жыл бұрын

And the rush hour went one way. 🤪🤪

@aficianado100

2 жыл бұрын

Take me back to Chicago…🎶

God, the good old days I miss before we got overpopulated When it was quiet at night

@ge2623

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Now all Chicago is known for is the ridiculous amount of gun violence. Sad and embarrassing what's happened.

@gokartbuyer

2 жыл бұрын

@@ge2623 gang*

@Donnoha

2 жыл бұрын

ocsrc and dark

@magicman5318

2 жыл бұрын

@@gokartbuyer No, it's gun violence 🤡

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.

@matthewobrien3527

2 жыл бұрын

H-U-S-K-I-E-S GOOOO HUSKIES!!!

@monkeywkeys3916

2 жыл бұрын

Did you and some guys from school have a band and try real hard? Jimmy quit, Jodi got married?

@SustainableEnslavementAgenda

2 жыл бұрын

@@monkeywkeys3916 Were those the best days of your life?

@monkeywkeys3916

2 жыл бұрын

@@SustainableEnslavementAgenda Oh yeah...

@matthewobrien3527

2 жыл бұрын

@@monkeywkeys3916 Brian Adams? He's Canadian. Take off you hoser. 😁🇨🇦

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.

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👪👪👪❤❤❤❤❤❤💪💪

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!

@MyButtercup

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, Oak Park.

@carolcaponigro

9 ай бұрын

My family from grand and oakley.

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.❤❤

@alfx5432

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for telling us. Are there more videos

This was when Chicago was on the rise and super fresh. No better time to be living as an adult in the city.

@kylebollmeier154

2 жыл бұрын

“Super fresh”??? Anyone Notice the thick smog. Must have been before unleaded gas and emissions standards.

@johantrenier1685

2 жыл бұрын

Steel mills were still a thing. Going full blast.

@RRG95

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ericjsmoczynski4374

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylebollmeier154 Also notice the lack of traffic!

@stephenkammerling9479

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylebollmeier154 While enjoying this nostalgic video, I noticed the the smog. There weren't any, or very few emissions laws back then, no catalytic converters to burn off poisonous carbon monoxide for example. All those regulations began in the 70's and increased over time to where we are today. With all the expense and regulations emissions controls required, the air should be cleaner today than in the past. I think most people back then accepted air pollution and smokey rooms( most people smoked back then it seemed) as part of life. Though not a smoker, I never thought twice about going into a room with smokers and I also took the outdoor pollution as part of life. So a few things today are better than the past, but I miss those days.

I remember when the Prudential building was the tallest skyscraper on the Chgo skyline. Love these old films.

@kimosabbe50

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@fnihp30

3 жыл бұрын

kimosabbe50 LOL

@kemosabe5648

2 жыл бұрын

@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 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.

@skelly4998

2 жыл бұрын

Meet me on Pulaski and Jackson

@biggspeed46

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 79' and I agree!

@keelerhastings7109

2 жыл бұрын

@@skelly4998 Jackson and Pulaski ain't like that no more , over by there

@skelly4998

2 жыл бұрын

@@keelerhastings7109 wasn't saying it was like anything, just saying meet me there

@justincaldero5174

2 жыл бұрын

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 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.

@Kelly-nm4kw

2 жыл бұрын

Hello 👋 , How are you doing?

@jamesm.3967

2 жыл бұрын

Went to my first baseball game at Wrigley July 1969. Thanks mom n dad😎

@AugustusAsgeir

2 жыл бұрын

A fantastic city??🤣🤣🤣wtf u must have money then I escaped from that warzone at 17 only go back for funerals mostly

@koleyw932

2 жыл бұрын

@@AugustusAsgeir I left in 1980, too cold for me. I still love it though

@magicman5318

2 жыл бұрын

@@AugustusAsgeir Exactly, good point

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!!

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.

@shawnee1895

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome.

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 drive school buses downtown , and I Always imagine how the city looked back in the 60's and 70s . With the old cars , clothes and hairdos lol

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.

I love these old reels, makes me nostalgic for a time that I don't recall existing in, but who knows

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.

Would give anything for Chicago to be great again like this!

@MOTHATALKS

2 жыл бұрын

Get rid of n

@PRHILL9696

2 жыл бұрын

@@MOTHATALKS true

@slowsti0535

2 жыл бұрын

It really is a beautiful city.. just ruined by violence

@PRHILL9696

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@slowsti0535

2 жыл бұрын

@@PRHILL9696 not really.. the expressway shootings have gotten out of control.. even attacks on the mag mile

"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.

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.

@LenHummelChannel

5 жыл бұрын

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}

@LenHummelChannel

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@janupczak1643

2 жыл бұрын

Back when DeKalb was a great town too...💔😕

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!

We moved away when I was eight, in the middle of '65. My dad retired and we moved to Florida. I still miss Chicago, but I don't miss what my old neighborhood has become. I lived only about a mile or two west of where all the killing is happening, these days; 66th St and Kedzie Avenue, near Marquette Park.

@ge2623

2 жыл бұрын

It's shameful and embarrassing. I find myself hoping people don't ask me where I'm from.

Back when America was a great nation

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.

@brianglade848

5 жыл бұрын

My dad drank his share of beer, and spent most of 1975 wearing fake mustaches and looking for cigarette butts....what an asswipe

@jeromewysocki8809

5 жыл бұрын

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.)

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!

Daing those were the good old days beautiful skies without any chem trails. Remember when the sky used to look like that?

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.

@janupczak1643

2 жыл бұрын

Old Town was the best!❤👍

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!

@kimosabbe50

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@daniellinehan63

3 жыл бұрын

The soulless millenials have no nostalgia- just the now

@ritaroad

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@mikegalvin9801

2 жыл бұрын

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."

@mikegalvin9801

2 жыл бұрын

Views obviously, sorry stupid spellchecker

Great film. Love seeing all the long gone buildings and especially the cars. So much we thought was eternal back then now just memories.

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.

@Mark.G475

2 жыл бұрын

What Suburb? I lived in La grange and Hinsdale as a kid. I was born in 1965.

I was a teenager through most of that time. Love to go back. A lot of great cars.

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.

@fnihp30

3 жыл бұрын

No longer Englewood/Howard. Now it’s Englewood/Harlem (or the “green line”).

@AB-fm2zn

2 жыл бұрын

I believe Kirby Puckett and Mr T are from these projects.

@axucaroso

2 жыл бұрын

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,

@bingefox4056

2 жыл бұрын

R..I.H.

Awesome taking a trip back! No one on cell phones, men wearing suits and hats, women properly dressed. Sweet home Chicago!

I was born in 1948, NYC. I used to love to shop along the Main Street downtown Brooklyn and look at shoes in the windows of the shoe shops. There were several. The least expensive shoes were in the front…..$2.99 usually. The middle displays were shoes $4.99 to $7.99. The really nice ones were high on the back displays $9.99. I loved them of course. No malls, back then, just nice shops, department stores.

Although many changes, a lot of those places are still recognizable today!

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...

I’m from 1992 and I’m fascinated of this history ☺️

It was a Different city back then. More Pleasant!

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!

@fernandobaldazo3104

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@scotwirth6228

2 жыл бұрын

@@fernandobaldazo3104, there was also one along the Eisenhower.

@winninglane3671

2 жыл бұрын

@@scotwirth6228 on Cicero ....then 87th Dan Ryan.

@robertpreston2220

2 жыл бұрын

sad to see the bright theater district long gone

Chicago of my childhood when the S curve tested your driving skills.

@scottfergsuon3975

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah...the old S curve.

@jmichna1

2 жыл бұрын

As HS kids just getting our license, we'd hop on down to LSD and see how fast we could take the S turn... if you could manage going through at 40 mph you were doing pretty damn good!

@robertkollaritsch5842

2 жыл бұрын

I crashed on the s- curve

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.

I was born Chicago,Ill.on December 31,1969.It's Great to have discovered this,someone's home movie film of Chicago in that period!

This is a gem! Thank you for the work it must have taken to make a 8mm film into a KZread video. Also thanks to original unknown cinematographer

@PiecesOfJenus

4 жыл бұрын

Amen!

That is the Chicago of my childhood and teen years. Thanks for posting. Brought back a lot of memories.

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!!

Chicago is truly an iconic American city.

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!

WOW!!!! Marshall Fields!! Carson Pirie Scot (remember the Christmas displays), Lakeshore Drive!! The old Trailways Bus Station!! The Movie Theaters!!! I could go on...When Chicago was Chicago!!

@jmichna1

2 жыл бұрын

As kids, we'd take the bus and then the subway and go downtown the day after Thanksgiving, just to see the all the Christmas window displays at Carson's and Field's and all the other stores. Was a great time!

@rochellegivens5245

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmichna1 It was like a small Disney. The displays were So FESTIVE, they were the talk. It would be on the news. Streets smelled of different foods..mmm!! Marshall Fields, (Beautiful) Carson Pirie Scott, Wiebolts Woolworths 🤦🏿‍♀️😂🤣NOTHING like that now 😂. Memories 😊😁🧚🏿‍♀️

Life was MUCH BETTER in Chicago in 1969 than is the case today.

This brought back so many nice memories. Born in 1958 and lived in area called Garfield Ridge on SW side of city until 1972. Live downstate in Champaign Urbana since then. Went to Our Lady of the Snows grade school. My late Dad worked downtown on Wacker at a financial brokerage firm. So nice to watch this and remember driving downtown to Carson Pirie Scott and Marshall Field's to look at store windows back then at Christmas TY to whomever uploaded this. 😊❤👍

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!!!!

HEY, HEY HOLY MACKEREL NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. THE CUBS ARE GONNA WIN TODAY!!!!!!!! The anthem of 1969 Chicago.

@brianglade848

5 жыл бұрын

In 1975, my dad traded a pack of cigarettes for a makarel, he opened the fish up and it was stuffed with fake beards, way to go Dad.....asswipe

@daniellinehan63

3 жыл бұрын

12 that yr- in 1st til sept.10th- 2016 was fabulous !

@shawngregory1429

2 жыл бұрын

The 69 Cubs blew a 9 game lead in the last month of the season. LOL. Go Sox!

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 '85 but I still remember a lot of this stuff. Nostalgia chills.

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.

@brianglade848

5 жыл бұрын

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

@schrodingerspet15

2 жыл бұрын

Wendella boats???

@phoebecatgirl933

2 жыл бұрын

@@schrodingerspet15 A kind of water taxi we rode to N. Michigan Ave.

@schrodingerspet15

2 жыл бұрын

@@phoebecatgirl933 that’s so cool! I’ve never heard of those before.

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.)

1969 Chicago. I lived on the north side around Belmont & Central. My grandparents & extended family all within walking distance. Living my best "Norman Rockwell" life & hanging upside down on the monkey bars at the park. Getting ready to start kindergarten in the fall. It's like it was yesterday. I think of it all the time so fondly.

My favourite city in the States....I first went there in 2014 and loved it so much I went back 2 more times... Can't wait to go again...Thanks for showing us your family trip so long ago💚💜💚

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!

@katherinechase3674

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, same hospital in 1970. I lived in Oak Park until 1976. Great childhood memories there- :)

@ramonestubblefield758

2 жыл бұрын

@Veronica A. rush university medical center ( Illinois medical district)

@ramonestubblefield758

2 жыл бұрын

@Veronica A. stroger hospital too and UIC hospital as well

This brings back great memories for me.

@giz9895

5 жыл бұрын

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

Incredible seeing 90/94 without traffic

Wow, seeing the old "bumblebee" Metra trains brought back memories.

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.

@flaggerjohn-scca8270

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Love this city ❤️ no music makes this so very peaceful.

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

great 'CUDA at :37

@chriskelleher349

2 жыл бұрын

It was new , too.

@andye2687

2 жыл бұрын

Yes the whole video I was looking for awesome vehicles..😎✌️

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.

I was born after this in 89 but I love my city and some of it still looks the same. I wish I could spend a day in the 60’s. Just one day.

I love seeing the old cars on road.

Wow, so that's what my city looked like in the late 60s. It was still beautiful ❤️

I can just imagine someone going back in time: "In the future this will be on KZread!" "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?"

@roadrunner7218

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@AlejandroP1980s

4 жыл бұрын

@Ron Banks or like me time traveller have a hologram phone better than shitty iphone cx series

@vegas1a

2 жыл бұрын

@@cactusjackNV And being forced to provide PRIVATE medical information on demand every place you visit!

@johnleja6272

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jpetes9046

2 жыл бұрын

@UCNXouBwXvyBXtIiV3MvPVcg and it was ignorant dipshits like you that brought America to it’s knees with his TDS.

I was born in Chicago in 1967, and wasn't quite two years old when this footage was taken. Some of my earliest memories look just like this.

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

Notice the bottom of the Woods Theatre marquee where it says " fight pay tv". In 1969 cable tv was new and it made theatre owners nervous if one could pay to view a first run movie at home.

@kimosabbe50

4 жыл бұрын

Do you remember "Channel Extra"? It was kind of a precursor to cable in the 70s.

@bethdibartolomeo2042

4 жыл бұрын

They'd be surprised to know that home videos were just a decade or so away, and two generations later those massive computers in their office would bring movies into the home.

Thank you for posting beautiful memories of Chicago.

I was born here in 1997 and have lived here my whole life, seeing Chicago like this is very cool and shocking considering the size of the city. This is very cool

I grew up in a small far Western suburb of Chicago, lived in Chicago for sixteen years. To best describe Chicago from my perspective is to remember the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." That was Chicago.

This is extremely cool...seeing things like the Sun Times building again, and the Wrigley Building literally standing alone.

The footage at the end of this video beginning with the SOHIO gas station was filmed at exit 15 of the Ohio Turnpike which served old Ohio SR 18 / Mahoning Avenue in the Youngstown area. The exit was closed after the opening of a new exit 15 at the turnpike interchange with I 76/I 80 once those roads were completed sometime shortly after this film was produced. The footage goes on to show old SR 18 / Mahoning Avenue where it leads to and then crosses the Meander Reservoir west of Youngstown in the Austintown suburb. I think there was a Wonder Boy Restaurant at the intersection of Mahoning Ave. and route 46 in Austintown. The bridge at the end was the old Tappan Zee Bridge up in Sleepy Hollow, NY that was replaced in 2018.

@richardmorris7063

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, in 68 I moved from Girard Ohio ( Youngstown) to Hanover park(Chicago).I thought I was tripping!

@temp2inhou

2 жыл бұрын

Westside Drive In was in Austintown, OH (Youngstown area) and the blue bridge very near The End spans the Ohio river on I-376 from Youngstown to Pittsburgh.

@marden2275

2 жыл бұрын

@@temp2inhou Well, there's just a few things to consider about the I-376 bridge and how it compares with the bridge at the end of the film. The I-376 bridge has only 2 lanes going either direction whereas the bridge in the film has 3 lanes. The bridge at the end of the film has a much longer span than the I-376 bridge and is a much taller structure. Also, the river that the bridge in the film crosses is much wider than the Ohio at the point where 376 crosses it.

@fernandobaldazo3104

2 жыл бұрын

That steel bridge at the end looks like the Chicago Skyway bridge ....I had to replay it a few times to see that it was not it....but looks like it down to the 3 lanes on each side.

I was 9 and grew up there loved watching this it was so nice back then great memories