The Edgewater Beach Hotel. As a child in my bed I would count the number of times the red light atop the highest point would blink, clearly visible from my bedroom window on Hollywood street until I fell asleep. I loved that beautiful place.
@dbeaus
10 күн бұрын
Great video. I remember the Southtown Theater on 63rd. The lobby looked like many in this video with one exception. They had a pool in the lobby and in that pool they had live swans. We lived around 100th & Halsted and walked to the Southtown. 44 blocks each way. We didn't think anything of it. Bus fare was 2 cokes,so you walked. You had real friends in those days, if one couldn't go, none of us went.
@andreamerlin223
24 күн бұрын
My grandfather used to take us to the stockyards to pet the cows and watch them go up the chutes. Or we'd park by Midway airport just to watch the planes so low to the ground. We would have Rainbow cones on Sunday afternoon.
@TimRobinson-hc7mt
Ай бұрын
Lots of great memories here I grew up AROUND Chicago in the BURBS Wheeling Arlington Hts. Mt Prospect love the whole series of remembering Chicago tell my friends here in Iowa about growing up in the 60's as a kid thanks for posting😁😁😁
@beatricemccoy2288
2 ай бұрын
Even during my time in Chicago growing up, it was always fun being with your neighborhood friends. ❤
@PROULDAMERICAN
4 ай бұрын
My Dad was right his time was Better WOW!
@tombaxter2879
4 ай бұрын
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.
@billtsirtsis7060
4 ай бұрын
They are destroying beautiful Chicago!
@AlmightyLatinKing
5 ай бұрын
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
@jamesanonymous2343
5 ай бұрын
TODAY. CHICAGO STREETS ARE OVERRUN WITH THE GRAND CHILDREN, AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN OF THE "CIVILIZED" PEOPLE YOU SAW IN THIS GREAT VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@peters1127
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the memory's.
@GINGERALERR
6 ай бұрын
It was a Chicago that was safe.....till decades later when certain people ruined it for the rest of us.
@feverspell
22 күн бұрын
Oh look, detritus from Truth Social. If you want to talk about how you feel minorities ruined your life, go somewhere else and do it. No one cares about your racism, your ignorance, or your utter lack of good taste.
@F_ckAllTrumpVoters
12 күн бұрын
Italians after all are part African.
@TomTobin67
9 ай бұрын
In the 70s, mom sent away for bozo tickets. It took 7 years to get those things in the mail and when they did arrive, I was doing my first week in the marines.
@bethbartlett5692
9 ай бұрын
58'! Edgewater Hospital 😘
@bethbartlett5692
9 ай бұрын
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".
@harnekkallah2656
9 ай бұрын
Great set of documentaries. Thank you
@PARALEECulbert-kz6qv
9 ай бұрын
Ok Chicago has changed a little with advanced technology but the real change are the People.
@geraldinepetress3766
10 ай бұрын
Us girls in public grade school ( Chicago public) we had to wear skirts or dresses no pants or shorts. No nylons socks only. People black or white no one bothered any one. We had our own neighborhood. No one broke in our homes. We had a full screen door with a little latch to lock. Hahaha Now you have to lock and bolt your doors and windows. So many memories.
@geraldinepetress3766
10 ай бұрын
My daddy was a little boy during World war 2, he told me stories about him and his brother going to the train tracks to pick up coal from the box cars to heat the house. But daddy did serve in the Navy during the Korean conflict . I grew up in the Humboldt park neighborhood then the Austin neighborhood, we eventually moved to Berwyn town next door to Cicero Illinois. It was a wonderful city at one time. I don't live there anymore. I moved south away from gangs. I'm older now and can't take the cold and too much snow anymore but I have really fond memories of my family there growing up. Family is all gone now so sad. If you were born before 1960 like me Chicago was a beautiful city. I miss the old times.
@lcypher5579
11 ай бұрын
@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.
@MrCoursair77
11 ай бұрын
And a Savoy outstanding!
@MrCoursair77
11 ай бұрын
Most of the big band clubs with copy off of these clubs club De Lisa and the rumboogie !
@MrCoursair77
11 ай бұрын
It was also a husband and wife team called salt and pepper.. that dressed up like clowns
@fleurmartin
5 ай бұрын
Maybe thats where Salt n Pepa came from. They were colorful too.
@MrCoursair77
11 ай бұрын
My uncle, red Saunders, jazz, drummer /band leader and my uncle Earl “the ghost” Washington played there.
@MrCoursair77
11 ай бұрын
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.
@JamesSmith-mz9ec
11 ай бұрын
Born 1956, lived at 4716 w. Grace St. went to Gray School, St. Barts for services and scouts, Lane Tech class of 74, Chicago was still this way in the early to mid 60's great time to be a kid in Chicago!
@geraldinepetress3766
10 ай бұрын
I remember Lane Tech all boys. I went to all girls Catholic school Notre Dame.
@JamesSmith-mz9ec
10 ай бұрын
Dated a girl from Notre Dame in the early 70's, she would have been in the class of 74, had a good female friend that lived directly across the street on Marmora.@@geraldinepetress3766
@nathancoleman7235
11 ай бұрын
It was in 1997 when this aired.how many of the interviewees on this show are still alive?
@nathancoleman7235
11 ай бұрын
Is it really true that WTTW stands for "Winnetka talking to Wilmette" ?
@lcypher5579
11 ай бұрын
WTTW= Window To The World
@nathancoleman7235
11 ай бұрын
@@lcypher5579 I know sir.but there was once a joke that WTTW stood for "Winnetka talking to Wilmette"do you know?
@Nancy-y8q1n
Жыл бұрын
I lived off of Byron and Lockwood in Portage Park, we did a lot of our shopping over at Sears on 6 corners
@interstellarhardrive
Жыл бұрын
Bizarre bizarre and the pickle barrel with the acid laden pickles
@iheard6888
Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing the presidential parade and it was great. We lived on Loomis Ave then W. Jackson Blvd, the happiest days of my life. Went to Skinner school. I can't locate any pictures from those areas. I am aged 72 now and never forgot Chicago.
@barbstarkey9840
Жыл бұрын
Love these videos / documentaries, but don't understand the one lady's comment about "being unaware of Catholics until she saw them on American Bandstand trying to cover up their uniforms with sweaters" when American Bandstand wasn't taped or filmed in Chicago.
@luisnavarro9307
Жыл бұрын
l really, really enjoyed the boomer years, l was born in 1945 in Chicago . This brought back a lot of memories for me, no matter where l have gone to live in my life , l am always a Chicagoan and proud of it. I missed the 1967 blizzard because l was in Vie Nam. my mother sent me newspaper clippings of the blizzard. Thank you for the boomer years.
@Joseph-wp7ru
Жыл бұрын
This is a fantastic documentary, quite a tribute to our service men and women , and citizens , at that time. My Uncle was killed in the skies over Germany in this war , fighting to keep this great country free 🇺🇸
@raymondhummel5211
Жыл бұрын
Through this well produced video we are all filled with new insights as to what really has happened in the history of Chicago. Its diversified life styles, what moved the hearts of it's people, trends at the time and much more! Truly an amazing city back then and of course now!
@peterlafayette5595
Жыл бұрын
Cheap puppets.
@darnellveal5078
Жыл бұрын
I love this documentary
@maureencora1
Жыл бұрын
I Wish I Had a Time Machine 1950s,60s,70s,80,90s Friday & Saturday Nights Club Scene.
@Da_Fonz
Жыл бұрын
Much poorer time, but less crime. Why?
@St63420
Жыл бұрын
Respect for others.
@Nancy-y8q1n
Жыл бұрын
Because you didn't act a fool when you were in public
@MxK589
Ай бұрын
Less drugs
@mikerico5568
Жыл бұрын
Richard J Daley = "top politician in the world" = biggest crook, no?
@dustee
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing, In the fifties, I was a kid in Chicago. Those were carefree days for me when all relatives were still here. It brings a tear into my eyes. :)
@mexton
Жыл бұрын
Great Program Great Memories.❤
@jasoncotal1696
Жыл бұрын
i use to live in the city when i was a kid until i was 15 now been in the nothwest subs for over 25 years
@autumnlheureux4231
Жыл бұрын
Grandpa Jim USNR wwii cook, hometown, Chicago. Enlisted 1943. Missed his high school graduation due to being in training. His dad was caretaker at Edgewater Presbyterian church. Grandpa’s parents were both Swedish immigrants, American citizens by wwii. Very proud of their son in the navy. I have all of their letters from the war. They talked about many things from their Chicago home….
@jasonsmith7262
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate all of your comments, those who lived thru these times. Made this thing even cooler.
@chicagorhtours
Жыл бұрын
Sigh. Must have been great to be in Chicago and most of the USA in the post war 40s, 50s. Such great music - everybody danced, pretty much everyone shared a common culture, a common sense of what regular people should do - get married, get a decent job, have children, be a good American. Everything came apart in ~ 1966. And we've never recovered. I disgusted with American popular culture, movies, violent music, porn - organized mass looting and nobody even punished. Sigh. It must have been nice.
@leeatterberry1239
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm thinking Illinois had a death penalty back then
@mjbaz1
2 жыл бұрын
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
8 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
8 ай бұрын
No, she was not in any of the north wing classrooms.
@pacoceja4659
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@3rdeye914
2 жыл бұрын
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.
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