Thank you, Franco. This was my childhood. I am 66 and walking slowly down the road cancer travels, Your video put a big smile on my face. Life was better then. Grew up on Wrightwood Avenue, along the parkway by Kelvin Park. Fullerton and Cicero, by Saint Genevieve parish where I graduated grade school in 1969. Those were the days, my friend.

@jamesnoyes6316

2 жыл бұрын

This doc is more about 1920’s-1940’s chicago, but it’s cool how we are all connected from it, young and old

@paulgurnig3778

Жыл бұрын

Best wishes to you!

I was born on the westside in 1956 this is Chicago of my mother's generation and older things did change a lot before my time

As a kid my grandfather who lived on the Westside in Garfield park got hit by a street car and jumped up and ran quick before the operator could take him to the hospital, because his Italian parents would be angry idk why lol

I ADORED this! Absolutely wonderful to hear the story told by people who were there. Such wonderful people, too! An unrepeatable era, perhaps the best ever. Thank you for making this available.

@E180TEKNO

2 жыл бұрын

i agree

First date with my girl in 66 was Riverview. 1st ride was the The Parachute. A couple of the Riverview rides are in Wisconsin Dells. Studs Terkel is one of my hero's and after college he actually rode in my Cab quite a few times. He lived around Lawrence near the lake. Always went to the airport and always early in the day. Imagine being in a cab a couple times a week with a legend who, I believe, never got the recognition he deserved. Although he did get the Pulitzer.

@dbeaus

3 жыл бұрын

Studs was a storyteller and he told me some stories, most of which I unfortunately forgot, and the others I couldn't print.

@dbeaus

3 жыл бұрын

@GPAGE I still have my original copy of "Working", though it has seen better days. I remember the street where he lived. It was called Margate Terrace and was sort of an oddball street. Large, old, once fashionable houses surrounded by really low income buildings. Another person is Mike Royko, former Sun-Times writer and author of "Boss". I believe Royko's book is the truest and most informative of all the books about the Daley years. He was Daley's chief protagonist and I believe kept the boys in line sometimes. Loved by the masses, hated by City Hall. I remember seeing Royko many times in Billy Goats famous tavern on lower Wacker drive having a drink. He was always alone. Although my sister worked with him, I never talked to him. Royko wasn't exactly approachable.

@jeromewysocki8809

2 жыл бұрын

Daniel Batitsas , yes, you got that one right. Mike Royko was indeed liked by the masses and hated by the Daley administration. A play was written, based on his book, "Boss." It was performed in 1973 at the Candlelight Forum, a dinner playhouse at 57th and Harlem Ave., in Summit, IL, literally right across the street from the city limit of Chicago. Daley' s cronies staged a protest demonstration in front of the Candlelight Forum, but had no influence to stop the show, because it was not performed in Chicago proper, and they had no power to do anything there. Then one night, one of Daley's most influential aldermen got mugged while walking on a street near his home. He got pissed, and introduced a bill in city hall for police to get tough on street thugs. The neighborhood people were begging for something to get done about the local crime problem for years. So Mike Royko had some fun mocking the alderman in one of his editorials. The repeating them in that piece is "We must make streets safe for aldermen. And people, too." 🙂

@jeromewysocki8809

2 жыл бұрын

Daniel Batitsas , for many years, Studs had a radio show on WFMT (98.7 FM) in Chicago. I'd love to hear reruns of his shows, if they ever play them.

@dbeaus

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeromewysocki8809 Man, I forgot about that although I listened to it often. Age is a problem, you forget things. There are people today that have his honesty and integrity, but they are getting hard to find. I remember how he ended his show with the phrase, something like, "take it anyway you can, but take it." I wish I could relate some of the stories Studs told me, but it would be my last day on You Tube I think.

It was safe then. Really. I want to go back.

I enjoyed watching this! My family lived in Chicago and this gave me an insightful review of their lives during those times. Those days were incredible. Enjoy.

My great great grandfather came to Chicago in 1850 and I was born in Jackson Park hospital. My great grandmother came from Indiana and lived in Inglewood and grandmother lived on Wentworth I was born in Jackson Park hospital. You could walk down the street at night and not be robbed.

@tamikaruskin2345

7 ай бұрын

Englewood!!!

Sweet. Never seen or heard of so many happy people.

Wow! Wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing!

WONDERFUL STREAM OF REMINISCING. THOSE PLEASANT DAYS.

What a trip! Thank you, Franco. It's sad to read so many negative comments. Just enjoy the journey! I can't forget the Rotor. I always felt I was going to slide into the floor.

My grandfather used to take me to Ted's red hots on North ave.He played cards in the back room and I would help prep the french fries.

This was great! Thanks for sharing it.

We played Kick the can .. I lived by Galesburg, Illinois💜💜💜

@dbeaus

3 жыл бұрын

That's a long kick from Chicago. We played Kick the can on 100th street on the southside.

@briandavidson1946

2 жыл бұрын

That's ur problem

Wow. What a different time. We’ve definitely lost many things that represented a rewarding urban life. Everyday use of street cars, local businesses, street vendors, theaters, drug stores on every block. The life on the porches and streets. I’m not sure social media has done a great job of replacing all those needs.

@jayskeleton3227

2 жыл бұрын

Well at least mob presence is down...slightly

@jamesnoyes6316

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks capitalism/globalization

@GTSN38

2 жыл бұрын

@@jayskeleton3227 yeah but shooting and killing is way up

@charlesandrews2360

Жыл бұрын

I was born in Chicago in 1958. This was the Chicago of my parents childhood. I went to Riverview, rode the chutes when I was 6. One of my earliest memories is seeing the Sparks coming off the electric power lines for the buses down on State Street when my parents would take us downtown. What changed is that the suburbs mushroomed. I started commuting to the city from the suburbs in the '70s. By that time people generally didn't go into the loop in the evenings. A lot of the theaters closed down and it was a very difficult time because we were in a serious recession. But things have come full circle. All those things you mentioned are still here in the city. Now everyone rides buses and L trains. The local businesses are all upscale trendy Boutique shops and restaurants mixed in with the super popular fast food restaurants and chain stores. Street vendors are now food trucks, theaters are in malls and there are still pharmacies on every corner. Right across the street from the Starbucks on every corner. Admittedly, life in the neighborhoods and on the porches is fast disappearing as working class families are being pushed out. The city has had several major transformations since these more innocent days of our parents and grandparents. The modernity of the late 50s and 60s was fading fast when I began working in the city 45 years ago. I think it would have been nice growing up in Chicago during the 30s and 40s if your family had some income even if small. But the best time to live in Chicago as a young adult was easily the mid-70s through the '80s. Now it cost 12 bucks to have a decent sandwich in one of Chicago's famed shops free parking on the streets is non-existent and parking in the garage cost $40. A decent one bedroom apartment in a decent neighborhood is 1500 a month. You have to have a really good income to live in the city. In a way it's a shame that Chicago is such an awesome City. That's really not user friendly anymore unless you have boatload of cash.

@harperwelch5147

Жыл бұрын

@@charlesandrews2360 All our great cities are evaporating and deteriorating. I moved to Seattle with my family in 1962. It has changed so much that I hardly recognize anymore. Any “non-historic” and many historic buildings have been lost. The architectural character of the city is gone. It’s happening to London, and almost all great cities. Very sad.

Thank you for posting another gem about Chicago.

I love this I have watched this 10 times now!

I was born in the 80s so I didnt see any of this stuff. But I always wonder if I was to find myself in 1920's chicago, how crazy it would be to still be able to find my way around, even find my apartment building, but still not know anything abt the city.

@bundevsawhney7578

Жыл бұрын

Crazy to think about exactly this from the perspective that Chicago has pretty much the exact same population now that it did back then, just distributed way differently.

I love this!💜

The documentary is specific to Chicago, but you can imagine it is relevant to all America. Those wonderful days are gone forever, because we let them go.

My family started with my grandparents at the turn of the century. Now we are all gone.

TODAY. CHICAGO STREETS ARE OVERRUN WITH THE GRAND CHILDREN, AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN OF THE "CIVILIZED" PEOPLE YOU SAW IN THIS GREAT VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very cool. Phil Holdman was my great uncle. he was a remarkable guy

It’s one thing to be a resident somewhere, it’s an entirely different experience creating and making a lasting impact in the community. We’re not all the same! Chinatown since the Capone era. Chicago is near and dear to my family and especially to me. Still here, not going anywhere. Southside Chicago

The dixieland music reminds me of my mother "s time She was a flapper in the 20' s in Chicago

*"My Kinda Town!"* My Grandmother was in Chicago in the 1920' s, Mom was born in 1928, me in December of 58, Edgewater Hospital. To imagine how it was back in the 20's - 50's. Chicago really changed, as much of the USA did, in the late 1960's. It was when the younger generation realized the "elite-game", the Corporatism. Funny, Media washed that reality away, now its like a Dark Ages running across our visual and audio space. It is truly a view of the Lower-Mind being humans can be w/o a mature minded emotional development, with Conscious Application of Thought using the Higher Mind. The Lower Mind is easily Manipulated by the 1% of the 1% and It is ulgy. I love Chicago and Chicagoans! North Side, Irish, Catholic, Cubbie Lovin, Chicago Girl - Always! GO CUBS - GO !!!!!!!!! World Champs 2016! 🎈🎈🎈 Riverview, Bozo, and WLS! (my era)

@neilgin1

4 жыл бұрын

hey Beth, i was born in 59, lived at 6334 Sheridan, right next to the curve, went to George B. Swift grade school, Thorndale and Winthrop....did you live in the neighborhood?....i remember i always went to Thorndale Beach....remember 1967, when all the alewife fish died, those huge stinky piles, i remember watching Mayor Daley on tv screaming at the press guys, it made me laugh...in fact you remember the Big Snow of 67?......AND, i remember the Collapse of the Cubs in 1969......thats when i was DONE with them, no offense.....i'd dance down memory lane with you more, but i dont know if we were in the precise neighborhood, you might have gone to Goudy, i dont know...well, nice watching this with you, be blessed, stay safe, n

Loved watching this! Thanks

So cool to hear somebody from St Gabe's on here, that's how many south siders identified where we were from. Not sure if the north siders used parishes to identify their nabe....

Why did they have to feature mostly prominent people from Chicago's north shore to comment on this show? They all have fancy schmancy homes with candlesticks and gold guilded picture frames, etc. It would have been more interesting to see everyday people who lived back then, not just people from Wilmette.

@bethbartlett5692

4 жыл бұрын

They worked all their lives to get their personal home items. They are just regular North Side Chicagoans. I would know, was born there too. Melrose Street by Lincoln Park - Chicago. Parents owned restaurant on Belmont at Western Ave, across from Riverview, back when it was still open. Regular Folks.

@MultiSanchez1995

3 жыл бұрын

Other people grew up in Chicago and had experiences too, it’s interesting to hear how close and friendly their childhood memories are

@psychologicalsigma9917

3 жыл бұрын

The rich have better doctors. U do the math 😉

@juliogomez2749

2 жыл бұрын

That one guy is talking about Garfield and independence so idk bud

@jamesnoyes6316

2 жыл бұрын

The farthest north ty they went was edgewater so idk what you’re talking about. And most of the north side was wealthy

I,,,BORN IN CHICAGO, 8/21/1938 LIVED THROUGH MUCH OF WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN HERE. TOO BAD ""SWEET HOME CHICAGO"" HAS BECOME AN ACCURSED HELL HOLE GANGS & THE GANGLAND MENTALITY HAS DESTROYED A ONCE CIVILIZED CITY

Nice piece.

My uncle, red Saunders, jazz, drummer /band leader and my uncle Earl “the ghost” Washington played there.

My parents moved California in 1940 but every 3-4 years we would head back to Chicago, Roseland, Oak Park, Ada St. I loved Chicago!

@GTSN38

2 жыл бұрын

If I moved out of Chicago I would still visit. I hate this city now, but I'm stuck here 😫

Chicago is still the best city 💯

@homersimpson7713

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it is 😍

These folks are talking about a time period when Chicago was on top of the world.

I lived off of Byron and Lockwood in Portage Park, we did a lot of our shopping over at Sears on 6 corners

This was really great. Surprised the Uptown theater wasn’t mentioned during their references to the ballrooms.

@charlesandrews2360

Жыл бұрын

I saw The Grateful Dead there many times in the 70's. They played 8 shows there in 1978 alone.

I love this documentary

My friend Dolores grew up in Humboldt Park on Hamlin Ave. She was within touching distance of Our Lady of the Angels Church. She went to Our Lady of the Angels School. She had the most dreaded nun, Sr. Mary Albia. She was goofing off in class while sister had her back to her, writing on the chalkboard. She turned, caught her giggling, and picked up a heavy book, and threw it at her! Dolores ducked and the book hit the girl behind her in the face! I don't know what the endup was. Sr. Mary Albia did not hold back, but then if you crossed a teacher in those days, you would get it in school and then when you got home.

@boataxe4605

5 ай бұрын

I wonder if she was one of the nuns who during the fire told her students to stay in the classroom and leave it in god’s hands.

@mjbaz1

5 ай бұрын

No, she was not in any of the north wing classrooms.

Meet Judge Strayhorn, watched him in court. Quite a man.

I went to River View Amusement park many times as a kid. "The Bobs" was the scary rollercoaster there.

@dc10fomin65

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I went to Lane Tech next to riverview, used to cut classes and go there with my buddies, until they closed the place in 66, I graduated in 68!

@babbarr77

2 жыл бұрын

@@dc10fomin65 ´67

There was also the rumboogie and club Delisa… which was bigger than most places that had the big band that actors in entertainers would be at.

Bruh that lady was like “when u get sick, the conductor would just put more sand in the box..” lady number 2 “so kids played in the box” Im deceased 😂💀

“Riverview is a place where you can laugh your troubles away!”

It was a Chicago that was safe.....till decades later when certain people ruined it for the rest of us.

This film/video is Priceless! 💛 I Love Chicago! Media promotes the fears that creates the negative experiences. (This is actually a Science Fact, the "Universal Law of Attraction" Quantum Physics Science defined. It is actually the 🔑 to all of our Life Journey Experiences, "We create the Frequency that attracts like Energies Frequency" It's: "Thoughts + Feelings X Beliefs" That's how we do it ... The #1 Fact that ✨ "all should know", yet it is obvious in the absence of the Public being taught this Most Important "Need-to-Know".

such fond memories

@11:00 Born in '52. One of my first jobs was as a bus boy at Buffalo Ice Cream. We had the dubious task of hand whipping the heavy cream for the whipped cream.

And a Savoy outstanding!

I love American people.

Them were the good old days

It was also a husband and wife team called salt and pepper.. that dressed up like clowns

@fleurmartin

Ай бұрын

Maybe thats where Salt n Pepa came from. They were colorful too.

Much poorer time, but less crime. Why?

@St63420

9 ай бұрын

Respect for others.

@user-vh2pk6bd3g

8 ай бұрын

Because you didn't act a fool when you were in public

✌✌..

oh, Alright.😂 My mother wasn't thought of yet.

everybody happy

My mom is good friends with the My mom is good friends with the Frigo family. So it was nice to see Johnny in this.

@GTSN38

2 жыл бұрын

Okay Tommy 2 times 😆

It was in 1997 when this aired.how many of the interviewees on this show are still alive?

well everybody miss be young

Most of the big band clubs with copy off of these clubs club De Lisa and the rumboogie !

Lived on the far south side in roseland a great neighborhood to bad it's a shit hole now

Maxwell street was called Jew town in my days

@donvergaz938

Жыл бұрын

Was until it was redeveloped by UIC

@fleurmartin

Ай бұрын

Yes. I was about 30 when they became politically correct. Now its all upacale university buildings with crime still happening. I wonder if Jewish people were offended by the term.

My Dad was right his time was Better WOW!

safe? what part of Chicago was this. lol Bernie Mac grew up in Chicago, Illinois and he says it was a tough neighborhood growing up as it is now.

@jvonfurstle7025

8 жыл бұрын

+lovinglife “zee” beautifulmelodies 1920's

@brendons.5374

3 жыл бұрын

Yes tough neighborhood, and there are 77 neighborhoods in Chicago, soon to be 78. So out of those 77, probably close to 50 would be considered safe.

@dbeaus

3 жыл бұрын

Bernie graduated form my high School, CVS, and so did Dick Butkus. I grew up on the far south side in the 50's and 60's and it was safe. When you cut the grass, you left the mower on the lawn so the next time you knew where it was. We lived in a house where the garage door lock was broken for 12 years. Never got it fixed. We were a little past the sleep in the park days. People respected each other and the other persons property. It was frowned upon to steal and you minded your own business. There was a collective mentality that, although we had our differences, we were all in this together. And for the racist comments, it was not the Black or Hispanic peoples who made the decisions that led to the deterioration of the major cities. It was the Hedge Fund and banker whites who did that.

The environment these people describe, in terms how well people got along, is very much the same as what it was like for immigrants in the old country, but sad to say, these peoples ancestors made immigrants feel unwelcome and unwanted, and history is repeating itself today in 2017.

@metrocust424

4 жыл бұрын

Just run into this history story nice but, only one side of the whole truth.they are telling what it was like for them.show how it really was for most.then and now not to much change , because I read a whole lot of history and crime was then and still now more.but I guess we make it work.

Lol George Berbett: you knew the grandmother of your boyfriend err.. I mean your girlfriend.” Hahaha (Freudian slip)

Yeah I'm thinking Illinois had a death penalty back then

thoose were the times.

I knew a dog at a bar that would take money and bring back what you want

The video says in the first 6 mins how safe Chicago was, how you could go sleep in the park without worry...............What happened?

@souljah11b

8 жыл бұрын

+D Rizzo WW2 happened and people moved north from the deep south because there was a lot of work. Their great great grand kids run the city now.

@drizzo4669

8 жыл бұрын

+Byron Benguche' speaking as a black man and a human being, I recognize I am capable of violence but don't need to resort to it. If you read the comment I was replying to you might think what he said is exactly what I said but I wrote it plainly. I wanted to be sure he meant what it seems like he is saying.

@aloehawk582

7 жыл бұрын

racist like Brown test and the systematic white supremacy is what creates crime mild distributing resources and giving children false history. Reperration is owed too black Americans.Those great great great grandchildren are picking up the economics of their great great great grandparents and just remember no loans were Alotted,but white your white great great great grandparents received all that in then some🤔 men lie woman lie great great grandchildren don't 😉

@aloehawk582

7 жыл бұрын

white recessive weak link are in the position they are because of discrimination and holding blacks in economic crisis. America great because of free labor and the systematic control of devil's,which leaves a huge gap between black and white people in America

@mariocisneros911

5 жыл бұрын

It's true . My mom told me stories about her brothers , sisters , and parents going to the park on hot weekends and spending the night sleeping there. This was around 1938-1941. No one had air condition and if course my mom came from a very LG. Family , of 9 kids . They were safe

Is it really true that WTTW stands for "Winnetka talking to Wilmette" ?

@lcypher5579

7 ай бұрын

WTTW= Window To The World

@nathancoleman7235

7 ай бұрын

@@lcypher5579 I know sir.but there was once a joke that WTTW stood for "Winnetka talking to Wilmette"do you know?

*sigh*

Then Reaganomics came in and destroyed the working class’ mills, plants, and union halls.

@skubz81

Жыл бұрын

Reaganomics?.....

im going now to south side pick up some shiet lol

@pilsudski36

5 жыл бұрын

I went to CPS grammar schools and High School with Blacks in the Fifties and Sixties. Back people were decent then; not like now with massive crime. Why? Because every Black classmate I knew lived with their father and mother who were MARRIED. This is the truth.

@jeromewysocki8809

2 жыл бұрын

pilsudski36 , you got that one right. All ethnic groups do far better when they grow up under the influence and guiding discipline of a loving father and mother. We certainly don't have much of that anymore, and our nation is suffering deeply because of this.

IN 2016 IGNORANCE STILL PREVAILS .. #COMEDIC #CHITOWN #OURTOWN #IGNORANCEISNOTBLISS #FOUNDEDBYABLACKMAN #LOL..

wait wtf, what about al capone, the mobs, and all that violence in the 20s

@mboneajr68

4 жыл бұрын

Blixk just like today that nonsense only happens on the south and west side. North side has always been safe except we have more Taco restaurants now

@brendons.5374

3 жыл бұрын

You’re comment is nonsense.

@jeromewysocki8809

2 жыл бұрын

Santeria, that lawlessness primarily affected those who dealt with the mobs. I was told that, pretty much, if people didn't associate with them, they left you alone.

@John-qt9bi

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeromewysocki8809 That’s exactly what my grandma said. She grew up on south side 1920’s.

@frankpeletz1818

2 жыл бұрын

@@John-qt9bi Same story my mother told me , she grew up in back of the yards....My boy scout leader took the troop to a lake in Wisconsin for a weekend . Just happed to be Capones hideaway. His goons brought my scout master up to him to find out what was going on. Once my scout master explained scouting and what was going on ,Capone said it was a good thing and pulled out a wad of money to give to scouting.

The immigration act of 1964, hispanic immigration, and the black migration northwards ruined Chicago.

@brendons.5374

3 жыл бұрын

You really are a dumbass huh

@ChristopherSackett

2 жыл бұрын

You've, clearly, never heard of segregation.

@skubz81

Жыл бұрын

Facts.

i love how these racist peoples' old ways of life are romanticized... oh we used to sit on our porch with everybody from the neighborhood! YEA UNLESS THEY WERE BLACK OR LATINO! i always think of these things in retrospect... these images mean NOTHING to me.