Fantastic City. Been to Chicago twice. Detroit twice too. I also have been to New York City and Los Angeles. Both three times. Chicago and Detroit are much better and have much more than what they are negatively stereotyped from the media to be.
Long was a popular TV personality in Chicago in the 70's...she became the spokesperson for a furniture store there, and continued doing their commercials even after CHEERS became a hit.
Outstanding. It’s somewhat rare to see 70s footage of Chicago since New York gets more attention. Amazing how a lot of the city looks basically the same.
Barely the same!!! The ‘skyscrapers’ shown here in ‘70 are now being dwarfed and/or are completely hidden by all of the what’s been built in the last 54 years!
@@chooch1995 my Dad remembered that the Prudential Building was the tallest building in Chicago when he was a young man - now it's not even the tallest building on its block
Thanks. That was much more entertaining than I thought it might be. I was expecting a dull travelogue, but fortunately this has more of the leftover psychedelic feel of the era, which leads to some good moments. I especially enjoyed them running around the museum. You can already see here what a natural comedian Shelley was.
Shelley Long was TV personality in Chicago in the 1970s, Then, She played Diane Chambers in Cheers in the 1980s, and she appeared in many films like The Money Pit, The Brady Bunch movie, and The very Brady Sequel.
Her most notable role was Ron Howard's first film Night Shift with Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler. Also, she earned her acting, comedy chops at Chicago's famed Second City, along with Cheer's costar George Wendt.
6:16 "Hair" playing at the Schubert Theatre - I came to Chicago in March of 1969 and remember seeing the marquee. Enough familiar scenes for me! Thanks for posting
Interesting and beautiful footage, especially of Shelley! This pre-dates her earliest TV or film credits by 5 years. Her bio says she quit college to pursue modeling, so I assume she was picked for this on the basis of her modeling work. She would've been about 20 years old here. The film gets very Austin Powers-y near the end. 😂
LOL, dude. Chicago is still great, according to all major travel publications. Voted the best big city eight years in a row by Condé Nast Readers Awards. But go ahead and bask in the alternate realities created by Fox News and conservatives wishing their little unremarkable town would be like Chicago is
Cool video -- a bit before my time, but a lot of these sights were still there when I would "head downtown" from the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s and 1980s. And even without her voice, you get a feel for Shelley Long's sense of humor that she would bring to future acting roles. And her beauty certainly didn't hurt United's promo film any!
skyline sure looks empty! lots of buildings have gone up in the last 50 years, some of them beautiful, some of them duds. For every building that went up, at least one came down - lots of lost history.
Shelley was only about 21 when she stared in the Chicago tourism promotion production. The last time I saw her was on Modern Family. I hope she's doing well.
CREDITS AT END: A presentation of United Airlines MCMLXX Produced by Sarra, Inc. Chicago, Illinois Couple Shelley Long Spencer Milligan Screen play Michael Birch Directors BIll Newton Jack Conrad Marvin Balley Buddy Gaines Assistant Director Dodie Fawley Music Sonart Productions inc. Hans Wurman Chuck Lishon Executive Producer John P. Grember With the cooperation of The Mayor's Office, City of Chicago Chicago Park District The Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Field Museum of Natural History “Jazz at Noon" Businessmen's Group David LeWinter Orchestra-Pump Room The Man at Base The Chicago Picasso
Most likely yes! I only know her from The Music Man, but I've been to the Pump Room at the Ambassador East on State Parkway, (across from the original Playboy Manse) and know it's lore. Every celeb was there. Fun fact. Phil Collins album "No Jacket Required" was a snub to the Pump Room who refused to seat him because of their strict dress code.
@@bungalowlogic7676 all those jackets only places had spare jackets to lend to hicks like Phil who would show up without one - he musta had his feewings hurt that they didn't bow to his great celebrity
@@martyrobinson6379 Thanks for supporting my claim with statistics. Listen, I assume you're old and just looking through rose-colored glasses, but Chicago's murder rate hovered around or above 1,000 deaths a year in the 1970s. So this was paradise? Was this safe?
@@adamcarston7278 You’re right. I am old. And 1970 was a poor example. I should have gone back further in my years to 1960, when the murder/homicide rate was 10.3 per 100,000, or 1950 when it was 7.9, or 1940 when it was 7.1, as compared to 28 per 100,000 in 2020.
While visiting Chicago with my family in 1970, I passed out from lousy air quality at the Adler Planetarium. Never got to see the show. I was fourteen that year. Gee, looking at this footage, I think Chicago should have stopped building skyscrapers with those of the pre WWII era. They're much more interesting than the needlessly tall, glass boxes that followed. It's difficult to see the older ones.
ahaha! you were that one pimple faced kid in every class who always fainted and had to find something to blame it on (planetarium air quality of a hall-of-famer!) and now you're the dyspeptic senior citizen pining for an era you never even lived in - what a sad life you've lived, gramps!
Fantastic City. Been to Chicago twice. Detroit twice too. I also have been to New York City and Los Angeles. Both three times. Chicago and Detroit are much better and have much more than what they are negatively stereotyped from the media to be.
Love Chicago now.. But there is so much from the 70s sadly that is gone!
My dream is to visit CHICAGO & DETROIT...
Shelley Long what a beauty she was
Long was a popular TV personality in Chicago in the 70's...she became the spokesperson for a furniture store there, and continued doing their commercials even after CHEERS became a hit.
Didn't know that!
"John M Smythe, good furniture at low prices".
I remember her co-hosting the magazine show, "Sorting It Out."
@@mcmanwichThat's where I remember seeing her first
Outstanding. It’s somewhat rare to see 70s footage of Chicago since New York gets more attention. Amazing how a lot of the city looks basically the same.
Thank you!
Barely the same!!! The ‘skyscrapers’ shown here in ‘70 are now being dwarfed and/or are completely hidden by all of the what’s been built in the last 54 years!
@@chooch1995 yes. But fundamentally the same and recognizable.. Of course if you were to closely really look at it, it can be totally different
@@chooch1995 my Dad remembered that the Prudential Building was the tallest building in Chicago when he was a young man - now it's not even the tallest building on its block
I'm here because Wesley Eure (Land of the Lost) shared this on his Facebook page.
Thanks. That was much more entertaining than I thought it might be. I was expecting a dull travelogue, but fortunately this has more of the leftover psychedelic feel of the era, which leads to some good moments. I especially enjoyed them running around the museum. You can already see here what a natural comedian Shelley was.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Shelley Long was TV personality in Chicago in the 1970s, Then, She played Diane Chambers in Cheers in the 1980s, and she appeared in many films like The Money Pit, The Brady Bunch movie, and The very Brady Sequel.
Her most notable role was Ron Howard's first film Night Shift with Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler. Also, she earned her acting, comedy chops at Chicago's famed Second City, along with Cheer's costar George Wendt.
6:16 "Hair" playing at the Schubert Theatre - I came to Chicago in March of 1969 and remember seeing the marquee. Enough familiar scenes for me! Thanks for posting
You're welcome.
Interesting and beautiful footage, especially of Shelley! This pre-dates her earliest TV or film credits by 5 years. Her bio says she quit college to pursue modeling, so I assume she was picked for this on the basis of her modeling work. She would've been about 20 years old here. The film gets very Austin Powers-y near the end. 😂
I just love going to Old Town as a child there was so much to see , to do and have loads of fun.
RIP Chicago. You were once so great. Thank you Daley family.
LOL, dude. Chicago is still great, according to all major travel publications. Voted the best big city eight years in a row by Condé Nast Readers Awards.
But go ahead and bask in the alternate realities created by Fox News and conservatives wishing their little unremarkable town would be like Chicago is
Yeah, thanks for selling off the parking meters, bone heads
September, 1969. Shelley Long was so adorable, I can't stand it.
So great, thanks for sharing two people from my childhood and wonderful tribute to the city where I grew up.
Our pleasure!
One of my post-prom dinners was at Kon Tiki Ports. I didn't get that kind of service, if I recall..
Spencer Milligan played the dad, Rick Marshall, on "Land of the Lost". He passed away in June 2024.
Cool video -- a bit before my time, but a lot of these sights were still there when I would "head downtown" from the Chicago suburbs in the 1970s and 1980s. And even without her voice, you get a feel for Shelley Long's sense of humor that she would bring to future acting roles. And her beauty certainly didn't hurt United's promo film any!
You could see Shelly was going to be a rising star!
Hermione Gingold sitting regally in Booth One and the Pump Room is a nice touch!
skyline sure looks empty! lots of buildings have gone up in the last 50 years, some of them beautiful, some of them duds. For every building that went up, at least one came down - lots of lost history.
A little strange seeing the marina towers with those antennas.
Spencer Milligan and Shelley Long
Shelley was only about 21 when she stared in the Chicago tourism promotion production. The last time I saw her was on Modern Family. I hope she's doing well.
The song that plays at 6:20 is a BOP. Its called "Madelein" by Jacques Brel
CREDITS AT END:
A presentation of United Airlines
MCMLXX
Produced by
Sarra, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
Couple
Shelley Long
Spencer Milligan
Screen play
Michael Birch
Directors
BIll Newton
Jack Conrad
Marvin Balley
Buddy Gaines
Assistant Director
Dodie Fawley
Music
Sonart Productions inc.
Hans Wurman
Chuck Lishon
Executive Producer
John P. Grember
With the cooperation of
The Mayor's Office, City of Chicago
Chicago Park District
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art
Field Museum of Natural History
“Jazz at Noon" Businessmen's Group
David LeWinter Orchestra-Pump Room
The Man at Base
The Chicago Picasso
It's Rick Marshall/Spencer Milligan!
R.I.P.
This is an excellent 14 minutes.
The Pearson Hotel came down when the Water Tower went up
6:40 Is that Hermoine Gingold in the Pump Room with Uncle Oscar?
Most likely yes! I only know her from The Music Man, but I've been to the Pump Room at the Ambassador East on State Parkway, (across from the original Playboy Manse) and know it's lore. Every celeb was there.
Fun fact. Phil Collins album "No Jacket Required" was a snub to the Pump Room who refused to seat him because of their strict dress code.
@@bungalowlogic7676 all those jackets only places had spare jackets to lend to hicks like Phil who would show up without one - he musta had his feewings hurt that they didn't bow to his great celebrity
Where is the original audio? Did you edit this video to put music in the background? I could have swore I remember hearing them talk
Nope, no editing on the audio. The way you see it is the way it was released. No talking in this one.
@@MoviecraftInc gotcha, thank you!
This appears to have been filmed in 1969, judging by the dates on the Wrigley Field marquee.
Cool!
Spencer Milligan!!
I wish they'd gone to see "Hair" instead 06:13
Once upon a time in America, Chicago was a safe and lovely city. No more.
Chicago murder total 1970 = 831
Dude, the crime rate was through the roof in 1970. Reality check.
@@adamcarston7278 Here's your reality check: home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1971-Annual-Report.pdf
@@martyrobinson6379 Thanks for supporting my claim with statistics. Listen, I assume you're old and just looking through rose-colored glasses, but Chicago's murder rate hovered around or above 1,000 deaths a year in the 1970s. So this was paradise? Was this safe?
@@adamcarston7278 You’re right. I am old. And 1970 was a poor example. I should have gone back further in my years to 1960, when the murder/homicide rate was 10.3 per 100,000, or 1950 when it was 7.9, or 1940 when it was 7.1, as compared to 28 per 100,000 in 2020.
Back then, you could walk down a street in Chicago.
still can, dearie ... but you've never even been here, have you?
The music is fantastic! Any idea of who the composer is?
No Idea...any music researchers out there?
@@MoviecraftInc That's okay, just curious. Probably very hard to identify or track down without info in the credits.
Hans Wurman and Chuck Leshon/Sonart Studio (see end credits at 13:20)
@@stevenh2500 Thank you very much! It would have been practically impossible for me to find out.
Why didn’t they go to the Playboy Club ?
Did United do this for other cities?
I'm not sure if United did this for other cities. Maybe someone will shed light on this in the comments.
Yes i have found some for California and Hawaii also by looking up "united airlines vintage travelogues"
United is based in Chicago
While visiting Chicago with my family in 1970, I passed out from lousy air quality at the Adler Planetarium. Never got to see the show. I was fourteen that year.
Gee, looking at this footage, I think Chicago should have stopped building skyscrapers with those of the pre WWII era. They're much more interesting than the needlessly tall, glass boxes that followed. It's difficult to see the older ones.
ahaha! you were that one pimple faced kid in every class who always fainted and had to find something to blame it on (planetarium air quality of a hall-of-famer!) and now you're the dyspeptic senior citizen pining for an era you never even lived in - what a sad life you've lived, gramps!
05:28
Who was taking acid when they made this?
This video smells like cigarettes
Excellent footage paired up with absolutely atrocious music!!! Turn down the volume & enjoy!!
Thanks, will do!
It's not "chi-cah-go." It's "chi-caw-go."
You would think they would know that in 1970!