YESSS!!! When Chicago WAS Chicago!! Movie theaters downtown, the S curve on Lakeshore Drive, the Howard Johnson on 294, Ronnie's Steakhouse, Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) AND there were only two train lines, an A train and a B train that took you all over the city!! Super transfers on Sunday for $1.50 you could ride all day anywhere!! That's the Chicago I grew up in!!
@@josefkay5013 ...Yes I know. I just started working in the federal building down the street from MCC. The inmates still wave at you from the top of the building.
That you for posting this! I was 23 years old in the summer of 1978. Sadly, I moved to Los Angeles 1 year later in 1979. This brings back a flood of wonderful memories! L.A. can't hold a candle to the endless class, culture and vibrancy of Chicago.
@@robertpreston2220 Man, do people even go to actual LA? Whenever I go to "LA" it's always the surrounding areas, like Hollywood, or Venice Beach, Pasadena, even Anaheim, etc haha
In 1978, I lived at McClurg Court Center and worked at the Playboy Building. Shopped at Marshall Fields and Carson’s. Went to all the bars on Rush and Division Streets. Took cabs everywhere. It was a swanky life for a girl just out of college!
Now, this is the REAL 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'! I was 17 and graduating H.S. in Palatine in 1978 when this was filmed. This is the Chicago I truly remember and not the faster paced version of today. Thanks SO much for posting this and sharing. "Sherman, set the WABAC Machine for the year: 1978. "Sure thing, Mr Peabody"
Chicago in 1978 was the second largest city in the USA after New York...both cities look alike with the very tallest buildings in the world at that time which lasted in the 90s..before Asian cities and Dubai took over today...chicago is my all time favorite city skyline...i love you Chicago.
The city has grown a lot since those years. I miss the neon that used to be downtown and is really needed today. It's like it grew and got more and more buildings but lost it's nightlife. Rush street was also bright back then and now nothing.
I was born in '75 at Christ Memorial in Oak Lawn. This video is by far the best yet that Ive seen. I think I saw my grandma's car. I saw the Howard Johnson's where I took photos in the photo booth with my dad. Oh my goodness the memories!! Thank you so much you made my day!
This was and still is the most wonderful year of my life: 78 I used in my 📧 and on my password. I used to work on The Gaslight Club inside the Palmer House at the Fifth Floor. Ahhh wonderful memories!
In 1974 and for a short while I worked at the Knickerbocker Restaurant in the basement of The Conrad Hilton. Later on, at Chez Jovan Restaurant across the Gaslight Club on E. Huron St. The simple and beautiful memories of these times still linger on my mind. Thank you for posting.
When I was in &th grade my social studies teacher asked us what did we think we’d be doing when we grew up. I said I would live in Chicago one day. I was fascinated by the fact that Ebony/Jet magazines ,, Afro Sheen and Soul Train originated there. I was there for over two years and loved it. Brutal winter and messed up political system. But I’m glad I experienced it...
I was 20 years old living in NW Indiana. Though the year began in the worst snowstorm which snow lasted for almost 2 months in some areas, the Spring and Summer were Gorgeous . Worked at supermarket and Newspaper Circulation . 'What's Happening ' on ABC was my favorite show. Family went out to western Nebraska and South Dakota to visit relatives and went to Rushmore and Black Hills Passion Play in Spearfish. Got involved with Circle K that year. Went on some great canoe trips near Turkey Run Indiana. The miniseries 'Centennial' was on NBC. I was top of my game, . 2nd Best year of my life. 1978 !!
This bring back so many memories. I was seven years old when this was filmed and my mom worked at the Continental Plaza now the Westin Hotel on 909 N. Michigan and she use to take me and my uncle to the Water Tower movie theaters and take us to Gino's East or Gino's on Rush st. I saw Ronny's Steak House on Randolph & State st. and it's still their today. The movie theaters United Artist and Oriental Theaters on Randolph st. I'll will always love that city. The wife and I moved away in 2013 for Tampa but we go back once a year to see family and friends and to visit our favorite restaurants.
Any one remember Stuart Brent's bookstore on Michigan Avenue a bit south of the Water Tower? Not sure if it was around as early as '78; may have opened up a few years later in the early 80's.
Thank you for posting this!! (Love the music, too!) This footage is priceless. I was in my early teens in 1978 and I remember going downtown back them.
1978 was the year I left college and got my first job downtown, so this film is just how I remember it. I took my daughter downtown just the other day to see the Bean, then we walked up Michigan Avenue to Water Tower Place, which I used to go to all the time back then. When I met my wife in 1981 we had many dates at WTP, going to a movie there and then up to D.B. Kaplan's on the 7th floor for a great sandwich and a beer. It seems kind of junky now, with a crowded food court on the small mezzanine level. I didn't see a single store I'd bother to go into. (We still miss Kroch's & Brentano's.) It made me sad.
There was a Kroch's on Randolph east of Wabash, across from the Chicago Public Library that is now the Cultural Center. It closed sometime in the 70s but there was another Kroch's on Wabash a few blocks south. Great stores. I worked in the Hancock throughout the 80s, then in the highrise behind Neiman Marcus, so I went to WTP all the time. Kaplan's was the best. I don't visit Michigan Ave anymore, it's changed too much since I worked there from the mid 70s to mid 90s and it's kind of scary these days. But my memories of Chicago's 70s heart and soul still shine.
Wonderful cinematography! Love the jazz music too! Fits the film perfectly! Great to see people capturing this great city at all different times of its growth! It's wonderful that people like you have these wonderful films to capture Chicago's history!
I worked in the building that comes into view at the right at 2:08..the Monadnock Building..from 1975-1979. The south end of it was on Van Buren, which was pretty seedy in spots at the time as it was right under the el tracks. Very different these days! What memories of downtown!
I was a guest for a good minute at the MCC you see at 1:44 , kitty-corner from the Monadnock. The view of the Monadnock from across the street and 17 storeys up is permanently printed on my retinas.
Awesome video! As a kid around this era, my grandmother used to take me on the CTA bus up from 84th and Pulaski to Archer, transfer, and we'd go to the Loop.. Remember watching the cars parking in the Marina Towers and walking around by the river. Great days..
I began working in downtown Chicago in February 1978 and did so for 11 years. One thing which played out in the 1980s were the disappearance of those large Marathon Cab vehicles along with many of the classic theaters; Steak houses and prominent stores downtown. The city made a walking mall out of State Street in 1978 which I believe hastened the process.
I was 22 years old and working at Travelers Aid Immigration at 327 South LaSalle Street. I used to take either the Jackson Park "L" or the Illinois Central Electric (now Metra) trains from the southside to get to work in the morning. Now, I am in my retirement home town in Southern Arizona; been there ever since July 1996.
Chicago is one of my favorite places!This captured so much of its 70s charm! The Howard Johnson's at the beginning,caught my attention,that was my first job as a kid😊 Thanks for the memories❤️!
Those Pintos and similar Vegas just corroded away rapidly from the road salt. Same with the Datsuns. But the big V-8 engined GM cars lasted somewhat better in that environment. Ford and Chrysler big V-8s didn't last as long. Lots of Chryslers due to there being an Illinois Chrysler factory. My much older cousin had a big Imperial sedan. In college a guy had a 1970 Oldsmobile 98 sedan we rode in on LSD(Lake Shore Drive). Six people in plenty of comfort with the split front bench seat.
I was 10-years old in 1978. I grew up in the North Shore, but was born in the downtown area -- at Northwestern's Passavant Memorial Hospital -- and my parents always took us into the Loop as much as possible, especially for Gino's East Pizza at their original location just across the street from Passavant and a block down from the Hancock Tower. This is exactly Chicago as I remembered it. Except for the traffic and a lot more retail space, it really hasn't changed that much, either.
I was 20 in '78. We had a grey stone near Humboldt Park. My best memory from this year was David Bowie playing the Arie Crown Theater for 3 nights and I went to all the shows being the huge fan I am. On the last night I was able to get next to the stage and hand deliver a letter and artwork I made for him. My sister took a great picture of him reaching out to me.
I don't know how great it was. I was a south suburban kid in 72, my Communist German teacher took us to see a Communist Bertolt Brecht play in what looked, felt and smelt like a garage. Then we walked around a little, there was a red light district like Amsterdam or Thailand. Prostitutes in windows. Somewhere in the same hood, Royko was probably slapping one around. It was seedy and disgusting. But fascinating for a 15 year old.
Although I Moved to L.A. in September of 69, I have Fond Memories of Chicago when I was A Child, as Well as Negative Memories, but it Still My Kind Of Town, & I Hate the Politics, & Weather, & The Ghettoes of Chicago, Love the El, The Loop, Hyde Park, O'Hare Airport, Lake Shore Drive, & the Old Days of Channel 2 News with Then Bill Kurtis, & his Sidekick Walter Jacobson, & over at ABC 7 (WLS), the Late Fahey Flynn, Showing his Irish on the T.V. News, Wearing his Famous Bow Tie.
Thats the Chicago I remember I was 21 then what a beautiful skyline now all of that great architecture is being obscured and over shadowed by ugly towering slabs of glass.
I remember billboards back then for cigarettes that has the arm of a man holding a light and his arm moved to his lips and the it would light up as if lighting the cig then the arm would move away and smoke would come out of his mouth.
Remember Beaver cleaver (leave it to Beaver TV show) went up into the billboard to see if the soup was really steaming or not? And the old days they had billboards that had smoke and steam coming from them..
Yup, that's a Tollway Oasis, which still exist today, though a couple have been demolished. Now you will find McDonald's, Dairy Queen, Auntie Anne's, and KFC there instead of Howard Johnson's.
Look at all that Detroit iron roaming the streets! This is the image I remember of Chicago. 1978 was about the time I left that city for Los Angeles. Looking forward to visiting this week. And please tell us the name of that awesome jazz tune!
VERY cool. 1978....A nothing year really, but a year before the blizzard, a couple years after the bi-centenial. Boom boxes. The big old yellow checker cabs. That Standard gas station on Clark(?) and something. Smoking in elevators. Afros. The busses and Els still used 1920's tokens. Bums on Wells St. AMC Gremlins. State St BEFORE the mall....What a time.
+Paul Gronemeier I was 22yrs old, working at Traveler's Aid Society at 327 South LaSalle Street in 1978. Yeah, alive, young and healthy. But, little did I realize how short-lived my young adulthood would be as I am now staring my early sixties in the face........AND THEY'RE STARING BACK AT ME every time I look in the mirror!!! However, it's all good as I am enjoying my later years living in Arizona.
Michael Bilandic was finishing Richard J Daleys term who died in December of 1976. Bilandic was mayor in 1978 until his defeat in the 1979 primary to Jane Bryne. Today we Brandon Johnson as Mayor of Chicago and he's much worse than Lori Lightfoot.
In 1978 I lived on N. Magnolia Street--a two block walk to Wrigley Field. Both living in the neighborhood and attending a Cubs game were very affordable then. (And the number of night games was still zero.)
In 1978 I was a 16 yo living on the corner of Waveland and Pine Grove, only 3 blocks from Wrigley, past LeMoyne public school, where the Latin Eagles hung out all the time. Long ago in a galaxy far away.
It's crazy in Wrigleyville now, when the Cubs are in town it seems like some kind of Mardi Gras bacchanal going on there; worry about being trampled by raucous drunks.
It all depended on the time of day and the day of the week. At the proper meeting of rush hours with thunderstorms you crawled on LSD. IF there were Grant Park, Soldiers Field, Art Institute, or Museum of Science and Industry events LSD was packed.
The actual Super-8 film has seen better days. Either many views, too much handling, improper storage, maybe not always kept in the can. Still wonderful to see!
Of course it was common. Cigarettes were around a dollar a pack then and if you didn't have a smoke, all you had to do is ask someone if you could bum one and there was no shame in doing so, people were like, of course you can. I'm a smoker who's sick of this politically correct era which condemns smokers.
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YESSS!!! When Chicago WAS Chicago!! Movie theaters downtown, the S curve on Lakeshore Drive, the Howard Johnson on 294, Ronnie's Steakhouse, Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) AND there were only two train lines, an A train and a B train that took you all over the city!! Super transfers on Sunday for $1.50 you could ride all day anywhere!! That's the Chicago I grew up in!!
When Carmichaels closed down it was all over for me 😢
Lmfao it hasn't been REAL Chicago since 1951. You kids these days don't know what it was truly like back before the 60s when it was completely ruined.
The MCC is still there. Trust me.
@@josefkay5013 ...Yes I know. I just started working in the federal building down the street from MCC. The inmates still wave at you from the top of the building.
$2.99 steaks....ate there many times!
That you for posting this! I was 23 years old in the summer of 1978. Sadly, I moved to Los Angeles 1 year later in 1979. This brings back a flood of wonderful memories! L.A. can't hold a candle to the endless class, culture and vibrancy of Chicago.
>L.A. can't hold a candle to the endless class, culture and vibrancy of Chicago.
So true, is LA even a city? hahahaha
@@kensven5308 LA is just an over crowded suburb. At least that is what people from there have told me
@@kensven5308 Chicago with nicer weather year round would CURB STOMP L.A. to the ground, period.
@@robertpreston2220 Man, do people even go to actual LA? Whenever I go to "LA" it's always the surrounding areas, like Hollywood, or Venice Beach, Pasadena, even Anaheim, etc haha
@@trustysteeringwheeltray7392 Chicago anytime of year curb stomps LA, no matter the weather.
In 1978, I lived at McClurg Court Center and worked at the Playboy Building. Shopped at Marshall Fields and Carson’s. Went to all the bars on Rush and Division Streets. Took cabs everywhere. It was a swanky life for a girl just out of college!
Now, this is the REAL 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'! I was 17 and graduating H.S. in Palatine in 1978 when this was filmed. This is the Chicago I truly remember and not the faster paced version of today. Thanks SO much for posting this and sharing. "Sherman, set the WABAC Machine for the year: 1978. "Sure thing, Mr Peabody"
Chicago in 1978 was the second largest city in the USA after New York...both cities look alike with the very tallest buildings in the world at that time which lasted in the 90s..before Asian cities and Dubai took over today...chicago is my all time favorite city skyline...i love you Chicago.
The city has grown a lot since those years. I miss the neon that used to be downtown and is really needed today. It's like it grew and got more and more buildings but lost it's nightlife. Rush street was also bright back then and now nothing.
Watching this home movies remind me of great times growing up in Chicago in the 70's.Thanks for posting this
I was born in '75 at Christ Memorial in Oak Lawn. This video is by far the best yet that Ive seen. I think I saw my grandma's car. I saw the Howard Johnson's where I took photos in the photo booth with my dad. Oh my goodness the memories!! Thank you so much you made my day!
This was and still is the most wonderful year of my life: 78
I used in my 📧 and on my password.
I used to work on The Gaslight Club inside the Palmer House at the Fifth Floor.
Ahhh wonderful memories!
In 1974 and for a short while I worked at the Knickerbocker Restaurant in the basement of The Conrad Hilton. Later on, at Chez Jovan Restaurant across the Gaslight Club on E. Huron St. The simple and beautiful memories of these times still linger on my mind. Thank you for posting.
The United Artists Theatre and Oriental Theatre marquees footage beginning at the 2:46 mark was shot November 17-December 21 1978.
I remember the Howard Johnson restaurants above the highway by O'Hare. Neat video.
When I was in &th grade my social studies teacher asked us what did we think we’d be doing when we grew up. I said I would live in Chicago one day. I was fascinated by the fact that Ebony/Jet magazines ,, Afro Sheen and Soul Train originated there. I was there for over two years and loved it. Brutal winter and messed up political system. But I’m glad I experienced it...
I was born in June 1978 Evanston, Chicago!
I was 20 years old living in NW Indiana. Though the year began in the worst snowstorm which snow lasted for almost 2 months in some areas, the Spring and Summer were Gorgeous . Worked at supermarket and Newspaper Circulation . 'What's Happening ' on ABC was my favorite show. Family went out to western Nebraska and South Dakota to visit relatives and went to Rushmore and Black Hills Passion Play in Spearfish. Got involved with Circle K that year. Went on some great canoe trips near Turkey Run Indiana. The miniseries 'Centennial' was on NBC. I was top of my game, . 2nd Best year of my life. 1978 !!
This bring back so many memories. I was seven years old when this was filmed and my mom worked at the Continental Plaza now the Westin Hotel on 909 N. Michigan and she use to take me and my uncle to the Water Tower movie theaters and take us to Gino's East or Gino's on Rush st. I saw Ronny's Steak House on Randolph & State st. and it's still their today. The movie theaters United Artist and Oriental Theaters on Randolph st. I'll will always love that city. The wife and I moved away in 2013 for Tampa but we go back once a year to see family and friends and to visit our favorite restaurants.
I was born n raised on the Northside, so thanks for posting this great video!!
Any one remember Stuart Brent's bookstore on Michigan Avenue a bit south of the Water Tower? Not sure if it was around as early as '78; may have opened up a few years later in the early 80's.
Yep, it and all the others (Kroch's, etc.,) are gone now.
Thank you for posting this!! (Love the music, too!) This footage is priceless. I was in my early teens in 1978 and I remember going downtown back them.
1978 was the year I left college and got my first job downtown, so this film is just how I remember it. I took my daughter downtown just the other day to see the Bean, then we walked up Michigan Avenue to Water Tower Place, which I used to go to all the time back then. When I met my wife in 1981 we had many dates at WTP, going to a movie there and then up to D.B. Kaplan's on the 7th floor for a great sandwich and a beer. It seems kind of junky now, with a crowded food court on the small mezzanine level. I didn't see a single store I'd bother to go into. (We still miss Kroch's & Brentano's.) It made me sad.
Laughing Gravy. I bet she still had a great 70s bush
There was a Kroch's on Randolph east of Wabash, across from the Chicago Public Library that is now the Cultural Center. It closed sometime in the 70s but there was another Kroch's on Wabash a few blocks south. Great stores. I worked in the Hancock throughout the 80s, then in the highrise behind Neiman Marcus, so I went to WTP all the time. Kaplan's was the best. I don't visit Michigan Ave anymore, it's changed too much since I worked there from the mid 70s to mid 90s and it's kind of scary these days. But my memories of Chicago's 70s heart and soul still shine.
Wonderful cinematography! Love the jazz music too! Fits the film perfectly! Great to see people capturing this great city at all different times of its growth! It's wonderful that people like you have these wonderful films to capture Chicago's history!
I was at work every day in 1978 in the Monadnock building which was shown!
I love that building. Even now walking into it feels like you are going into a 40s film noir.
Visited Chicago in the Summer of 78. Had a great time.
I worked in the building that comes into view at the right at 2:08..the Monadnock Building..from 1975-1979. The south end of it was on Van Buren, which was pretty seedy in spots at the time as it was right under the el tracks. Very different these days! What memories of downtown!
yep. and that's right near where Jake and Elwood stayed in the Blues Brothers!
I was a guest for a good minute at the MCC you see at 1:44 , kitty-corner from the Monadnock. The view of the Monadnock from across the street and 17 storeys up is permanently printed on my retinas.
Now that's some smooth smooth jazzzz...
Awesome video! As a kid around this era, my grandmother used to take me on the CTA bus up from 84th and Pulaski to Archer, transfer, and we'd go to the Loop.. Remember watching the cars parking in the Marina Towers and walking around by the river. Great days..
I attended Bogan HS on 79th & Pulaski in the 80's and lived on 84th & Hoyne by the Dan Ryan Forest Preserve.
The Marina Towers is the ugliest building downtown. And the apartments suck too, they are round and ugly..
@@djbhe Tommy More! I grew up in St.Gabes but know Ashburn well.. Some nice houses where you were at
I began working in downtown Chicago in February 1978 and did so for 11 years. One thing which played out in the 1980s were the disappearance of those large Marathon Cab vehicles along with many of the classic theaters; Steak houses and prominent stores downtown. The city made a walking mall out of State Street in 1978 which I believe hastened the process.
my mom was pregnant with me in 78. kinda cool to look back at what was ...thank you for the post!
Thank you, I love you Chicago always have and always will!!!
I went there in 1979 for a friend's wedding. The view from the observation floor of the Sears Tower was the most memorable.
I was 22 years old and working at Travelers Aid Immigration at 327 South LaSalle Street. I used to take either the Jackson Park "L" or the Illinois Central Electric (now Metra) trains from the southside to get to work in the morning. Now, I am in my retirement home town in Southern Arizona; been there ever since July 1996.
Keep your videos! Street scenes that seem mundane today will be fascinating to people in 50 years, and priceless historical documents in 100 years.
I loved life then, I’m stuck in the 70’s
I am too.
Maybe you miss your youthful days.
Thank you very much for posting this. It brings back memories. I was in my early teens.
Great City, Great Jazz Music!!! Thanks
Chicago is one of my favorite places!This captured so much of its 70s charm! The Howard Johnson's at the beginning,caught my attention,that was my first job as a kid😊 Thanks for the memories❤️!
I Just Love The 'Ol Skool Rydes. From the Caddys to the Pintos. Great Video, Great Music 👌
Those Pintos and similar Vegas just corroded away rapidly from the road salt. Same with the Datsuns.
But the big V-8 engined GM cars lasted somewhat better in that environment. Ford and Chrysler big V-8s didn't last as long. Lots of Chryslers due to there being an Illinois Chrysler factory. My much older cousin had a big Imperial sedan. In college a guy had a 1970 Oldsmobile 98 sedan we rode in on LSD(Lake Shore Drive). Six people in plenty of comfort with the split front bench seat.
I'm from the southside born in 1971. I still have my mom's 1979 Ford Thunderbird with the T-Tops my dad bought her in 79 paid in full no car note.
Greatest city then and now!
Exactly
@Chet Hail Satin!
Sadly not I’m afraid because of certain people
I was 10-years old in 1978. I grew up in the North Shore, but was born in the downtown area -- at Northwestern's Passavant Memorial Hospital -- and my parents always took us into the Loop as much as possible, especially for Gino's East Pizza at their original location just across the street from Passavant and a block down from the Hancock Tower. This is exactly Chicago as I remembered it. Except for the traffic and a lot more retail space, it really hasn't changed that much, either.
I was 20 in '78. We had a grey stone near Humboldt Park. My best memory from this year was David Bowie playing the Arie Crown Theater for 3 nights and I went to all the shows being the huge fan I am. On the last night I was able to get next to the stage and hand deliver a letter and artwork I made for him. My sister took a great picture of him reaching out to me.
Wow I’m from 1992 and Chicago still is beautiful
Wow. That was like a walk back in time.
When my children first visited as grade schoolers, thought Lake Michigan looked like an ocean.
Thank you for this. I was 8 years old and grew up listening to my father's jazz so this is a perfect flashback for me.💖
Absolutely fascinating...!!! I was born in '79
Love these. I'd love to see Wells street in Old Town and Rush street in the 1960s to early 1980s
It was great back then!
I don't know how great it was. I was a south suburban kid in 72, my Communist German teacher took us to see a Communist Bertolt Brecht play in what looked, felt and smelt like a garage. Then we walked around a little, there was a red light district like Amsterdam or Thailand. Prostitutes in windows. Somewhere in the same hood, Royko was probably slapping one around.
It was seedy and disgusting. But fascinating for a 15 year old.
Although I Moved to L.A. in September of 69, I have Fond Memories of Chicago when I was A Child, as Well as Negative Memories, but it Still My Kind Of Town, & I Hate the Politics, & Weather, & The Ghettoes of Chicago, Love the El, The Loop, Hyde Park, O'Hare Airport, Lake Shore Drive, & the Old Days of Channel 2 News with Then Bill Kurtis, & his Sidekick Walter Jacobson, & over at ABC 7 (WLS), the Late Fahey Flynn, Showing his Irish on the T.V. News, Wearing his Famous Bow Tie.
Thats the Chicago I remember I was 21 then what a beautiful skyline now all of that great architecture is being obscured and over shadowed by ugly towering slabs of glass.
Great video i worked downtown in the 70s
Some of the best years of my life while growing up in Lawndale
I was 16 1/2 because it was winter, can't believe I grew up in Chicago.
I was 16 in Chicago that same year. I CAN believe I grew up there. I can't believe it took me 60 years to get out.
Do my eyes deceive me or was that billboard ACTUALLY steaming? Chicago was and still is so awesome
I think the billboard company might have rerouted an existing steam or vent stack through the billboard.
I remember that billboard fondly!!
I remember billboards back then for cigarettes that has the arm of a man holding a light and his arm moved to his lips and the it would light up as if lighting the cig then the arm would move away and smoke would come out of his mouth.
@@robertpreston2220 yep I remember that 👍
Remember Beaver cleaver (leave it to Beaver TV show) went up into the billboard to see if the soup was really steaming or not? And the old days they had billboards that had smoke and steam coming from them..
In 1978 I was eleven years old. I'm probably not in these pictures, but I could have been.
Just place yourself there
Howard Johnson's over I294 at 0:56. Schweet.
Yup, that's a Tollway Oasis, which still exist today, though a couple have been demolished. Now you will find McDonald's, Dairy Queen, Auntie Anne's, and KFC there instead of Howard Johnson's.
Chicago was beautiful then and now a lot of buildings are going up in the city.
Nice jazz.
My goodness!!
Jeez I swear I saw my dad coming outta the Prudential Building
Don’t you hate him?
@@tonyrome655 ?
Look at all that Detroit iron roaming the streets! This is the image I remember of Chicago. 1978 was about the time I left that city for Los Angeles. Looking forward to visiting this week. And please tell us the name of that awesome jazz tune!
Now it's all a bunch of cheap imported junk from Japan with the hybrids and shit looking like Humpty Dumpty. LOL!
smithraymond09029 it's called SoulMuzic
For a moment I thought the guy at 6:26 was a homeless man until I saw him holding a camera.
My dad is somewhere in that city as a young college student, crazy to think about...
My first ADULT job...Chicago Sun Times 1978😌!...
What a treat, Thank You for posting.
VERY cool. 1978....A nothing year really, but a year before the blizzard, a couple years after the bi-centenial. Boom boxes. The big old yellow checker cabs. That Standard gas station on Clark(?) and something. Smoking in elevators. Afros. The busses and Els still used 1920's tokens. Bums on Wells St. AMC Gremlins. State St BEFORE the mall....What a time.
+Paul Gronemeier
I was 22yrs old, working at Traveler's Aid Society at 327 South LaSalle Street in 1978. Yeah, alive, young and healthy. But, little did I realize how short-lived my young adulthood would be as I am now staring my early sixties in the face........AND THEY'RE STARING BACK AT ME every time I look in the mirror!!! However, it's all good as I am enjoying my later years living in Arizona.
Michael Bilandic was finishing Richard J Daleys term who died in December of 1976. Bilandic was mayor in 1978 until his defeat in the 1979 primary to Jane Bryne. Today we Brandon Johnson as Mayor of Chicago and he's much worse than Lori Lightfoot.
You get what you vote for.
The Mr. Roger's Neighborhood music is kinda nice in my opinion.
Thank you for sharing.
In 1978 I lived on N. Magnolia Street--a two block walk to Wrigley Field. Both living in the neighborhood and attending a Cubs game were very affordable then. (And the number of night games was still zero.)
In 1978 I was a 16 yo living on the corner of Waveland and Pine Grove, only 3 blocks from Wrigley, past LeMoyne public school, where the Latin Eagles hung out all the time. Long ago in a galaxy far away.
1978 I lived in West summerdale avenue.. Guess who else did live there?
@@BEhistoricStudios Please, just tell us already. Cheers!
It's crazy in Wrigleyville now, when the Cubs are in town it seems like some kind of Mardi Gras bacchanal going on there; worry about being trampled by raucous drunks.
The year I was born✌️❤️
Great footage .Great music.
more green in those days then today. I came to America late 1978 and landed in Chicago.
You could even take a bus at 1 o clock in the morning in Chicago
Saludos cordiales desde Ecuador 🇪🇨
Perfect.
THX!
My Daughter was born at Northwestern Hospital downtown in 1978
My God, almost NO traffic on LSD!
It all depended on the time of day and the day of the week. At the proper meeting of rush hours with thunderstorms you crawled on LSD. IF there were Grant Park, Soldiers Field, Art Institute, or Museum of Science and Industry events LSD was packed.
Better dressing taste and style then compare to today
Tampa Red was still alive around this time.
Good video, great jazz!
That looks like an amazing video you have there.
The actual Super-8 film has seen better days. Either many views, too much handling, improper storage, maybe not always kept in the can. Still wonderful to see!
Anybody else looking for a familiar face in the crowd?
yep!
Wow thanks for that
The first portion with the Chevy Nova police car and the cop directing traffic is in Madison, Wisconsin. NOT Chicago.
I remember the Howard Johnsons over the Expressway!
I noticed a number of people walking and smoking at the same time. That was common back then. Don't see that much anymore.
Of course it was common. Cigarettes were around a dollar a pack then and if you didn't have a smoke, all you had to do is ask someone if you could bum one and there was no shame in doing so, people were like, of course you can. I'm a smoker who's sick of this politically correct era which condemns smokers.
Much appreciated!!
I was born in 78
I think this is so cool of video footage and if you have more then upoad more and more videos.
And now we have Lori Lightfoot......... smh.
As opposed to a corrupt machine politician?
@@kevinwatts2 - did you miss the irony?
@@kevinwatts2 she IS the corrupt....and pure evil!
I was there
the year i left chicago for san diego
INTERESTING! 🙂
Where did all the towers go?? Prudential Tower 2? And how many others?? A lot more skyscrapers a good 45 years later
Who is playing the jazz?
I was 2 years old
16.
My birth year!
In 1978 I was 14 years old when I moved back to Chicago, home sweet home. By the way what the name of the jazz song playing ?
A lot of the people who posted here ended up booking, liked Chicago that much huh?
It's a nice city . It just gets a bad rap from certain areas that are bad!
It's hard to live in that type of weather when you start getting older.
Chicago before O block
But they still had gacy
1978 Chicago, 1940s film technology.
Lots of people picked up good quality used film movie cameras. Videotape cameras of the time were expensive, bulky, and heavy.
Who in 1978 could have guessed that this would all be gone in fifty years. Because by 2028 it will be. If you want to know why, ask Elon Musk.
Could have been a Mecca if people had better quality about town. ANILA672 Your Amazing, Brian A.K.