I love this!! Someone just sent it to me….my first car was a ‘59 chevy convertible and I grew up in Park Ridge and I remember Maine South had parades….I went to a girls school in Des Plaines St Pats. ‘69..Been here in Palatine since ‘80 whoever shot this video thank you ! I am on historical society and beautification commission and this is fabulous! Pat Moore Fluhler
@jimmycricket5366
Жыл бұрын
Wow Was that a Chevy Belaire or Impala?
@kingarthur9157
Ай бұрын
Hi AUNTIE TRISH!!! LOVE YOU!!!
@TechnozSki
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload my parents and my brother are in this video watching the parade. Amazing find
@518hs
Жыл бұрын
I remember this homecoming parade - especially the float with the pirate ship. I think the boat they used for the ship belonged to the Beagle family. Neat memory.
@WB9DKY
2 жыл бұрын
Love this video ... I visited Palatine with farmers who had a farm on Dundee Rd in the 1950's.
@n.brucenelson5920
2 жыл бұрын
This is the town where I grew up. I was around 12 when this was filmed. The day the Ben Franklin burned much later was a city tragedy.
@galechicago325
2 жыл бұрын
Bruce, only someone who grew up in Palatine during the time of this video could understand how much of a tragedy it was. The Shoppe’s fire was also sad. But the day the Ben burned down was the day Palatine died. We lost 3 firemen, one of which was Mr. Wilson, the beloved owner of the Ben. I got off the Northwestern train from the city that evening, saw the fire, stood on the train platform and wept. Our home town was never the same after that.
@n.brucenelson5920
2 жыл бұрын
@@galechicago325 Indeed.
@es5886
2 жыл бұрын
It appears that the whole line of buildings where the parade was filmed passing has been razed, and is now a parking lot. A quick shot of Slade St. shows most of those buildings still standing. I grew up in Bensenville, and we lost a couple blocks of our downtown to “modernization” in the 1980s. Sad.
@WAL_DC-6B
7 ай бұрын
In what year did the Ben Franklin burn down? Nobody seems to know. I lived in Palatine for nearly 31 years starting in the early 1990s. I always thought the downtown area was a bit lacking in terms of older buildings in comparison to the downtown of Park Ridge where I grew up. Perhaps that fire and the buildings it destroyed partly helps explain this.
@n.brucenelson5920
7 ай бұрын
Three volunteer firefighters from the Palatine Fire Department were killed on February 23, 1973, while trying to extinguish the blaze at the Ben Franklin Variety Store downtown Palatine. What a loss it was. I was serving in Iran in the Peace Corps when it happened and got the news there. I was in the first Wm. Fremd graduating class in 1968.
@robertgeary7520
2 жыл бұрын
Great video thank's 👍
@horseyhorselips3501
2 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of the Maid of the Mist Parade’s here in Niagara Falls NY in the 1960’s and summer of 1968 I was in that years Maid of Mist Parade with my Boy Scout Troop 836 from St. Joseph’s Church ⛪️ 14th Street (Tranalone Street now) & Pine Avenue I still remember our Troop Song 🎶 We are the Boy’s from Troop 36 You bring the Whiskey 🥃 We’ll bring the Chick’s 🐣 🐣 Send the Tenderfoot out for Beer 🍻 and don’t let the sober Scout Master In !!!! That’s all Folk’s
@miketype1each
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, someone seemed very much interested in the brunette who drove the black Buick... so much so that they risked driving while operating an 8mm camera. I assume it was an 8mm, as so many of them were. I remember at least one shirt box full of reels at my house.
@19king14
2 жыл бұрын
Might you still have those reels of films?
@miketype1each
2 жыл бұрын
@@19king14 No, I wouldn't think they'd still exist. However, if they do and I'm able to return there someday to have a rummage around, I'll know where to send them.
@19king14
2 жыл бұрын
@@miketype1each Thanks. I hope you can find them!
@mppetrikas4919
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, creepy enough to follow her home. But it is not weird in the 1960s
@miketype1each
2 жыл бұрын
@@mppetrikas4919 It may be that the brunette was known to the camera operator. I'm assuming that's the case.
@Not_You_2
2 жыл бұрын
Stalking your favorite lady
@quentinkirk3870
2 жыл бұрын
Why were all these people Camera shy? They were All Handsome and Pretty
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