Chicago loop in 1970

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  • @augustmosco
    @augustmosco Рік тому +27

    Thanks a lot for this. I worked downtown in 69 and 70 and this brought back some good memories. 90% of the places in this video aren't there anymore. This is a treasure!

  • @kathlynemarkham3119
    @kathlynemarkham3119 10 місяців тому +11

    Wow so many memories!!!

  • @josephferguson6158
    @josephferguson6158 6 років тому +76

    Chicago was there before us and will be there long after were gone. Work hard, enjoy your short time on this earth and stay safe.

    • @paul9912
      @paul9912 4 роки тому +5

      Yes you will enjoy it more if you stay away from Chicago LOL

    • @h3cz_
      @h3cz_ 4 роки тому +13

      @@paul9912 nah. Chicago is great.

    • @paul9912
      @paul9912 4 роки тому +4

      @@h3cz_ I think you're outnumbered a little bit on that one buddy LOL but if you enjoy it great

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 4 роки тому +11

      Chicago is still the best place on earth

    • @paul9912
      @paul9912 4 роки тому

      @@PRHILL9696 yes if you're looking to get robbed or murdered lol

  • @jericarolinem2789
    @jericarolinem2789 4 роки тому +24

    The old CTA buses of the time. Wow! My dad used to drive those back then

    • @WAL_DC-6B
      @WAL_DC-6B 8 місяців тому

      Yeah, the CTA still had a fair amount of the 1950s vintage, propane fueled, "Twin Coach" buses still running around downtown in 1970.

  • @ARTURO-EP
    @ARTURO-EP 4 роки тому +20

    My family would make a day of it with shopping, a matinee movie, followed by a steak dinner at Tad’s Steakhouse: T-bone steak, mashed or baked potatoes, peas and carrots, dinner rolls, and a soft drink. Cost $1.59. I miss the 70s. I was in 8th grade in 1971. Food was unprocessed and abundant, life was uncomplicated, and overall people behaved and respected authority.

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 3 роки тому +1

      Tad's Steakhouse. Obviously not solely a New York thing (there were quite a few in Manhattan back in the day, one on 34th Street across from Macy's, another along Times Square . . . ).

  • @jimmyb1559
    @jimmyb1559 3 роки тому +25

    I never thought there would come a day when I’d enjoy watching a strangers home movies. But here I am wanting more.

  • @merrybe3418
    @merrybe3418 7 років тому +18

    At 9:10 I saw a glimpse of the "Stop & Shop" sign, which was a place my grandparents brought me to to purchase mixed nuts in a pink and brown rectangular box, and had chocolate covered orange peels. All luxuries. I loved seeing all those shift dresses and still the preponderance of bouffant hairdos. I so remember that pace and it looks like the summer!

  • @111danish111
    @111danish111 3 роки тому +10

    Very analog world . I like how men and women are distinctly dressed differently.

  • @johnkennedy9327
    @johnkennedy9327 2 роки тому +6

    This is great film. Real as captured as it was. I was going to college in those days. I used to eat at "Tad's" sometimes.

    • @johnkennedy9327
      @johnkennedy9327 2 роки тому

      @Veronica A. It was steak and chop House downtown. I think the vid shows the one on State Street near the Chicago Theatre.

    • @Diogenes-ty9yy
      @Diogenes-ty9yy Рік тому +1

      I was at the U of I Circle Campus 1967 - 1971 and Tad's was too much $$$ for me. I existed on $2 a day and that was only $1 for lunch so a hot dog and a small soda was my usual.

  • @phoebecatgirl933
    @phoebecatgirl933 5 років тому +21

    Rider: Does this bus go to da Loop?
    Driver: No, it goes "beep-beep"!

  • @gintasindreika933
    @gintasindreika933 4 роки тому +19

    I was in college in '69 when this was filmed. We were so blessed to have a normal everyday life, while our peers were fighting in Viet Nam.

    • @AlejandroP1980s
      @AlejandroP1980s 4 роки тому +3

      Until they came back in body bags and some spit in their face

    • @Diogenes-ty9yy
      @Diogenes-ty9yy Рік тому +6

      These were depressing times for a young man, I was in college, too, and the 2S draft determent was the prime reason. College wasn't a way of dodging the draft, just delaying it for a few years. I thank the Almighty that today's kids don't have to worry about a draft anymore.

    • @dbeaus
      @dbeaus 2 місяці тому +1

      We were in Laos briefly at the time. I dreamed of Chicago and we wore Chicago on our helmets and packs. We were proud of coming from Chicago.

  • @jaminova_1969
    @jaminova_1969 Рік тому +5

    Jake: "How often does the train go by?" Elwood: "So often you won't even notice it!"

  • @tommcfarland6008
    @tommcfarland6008 3 місяці тому +5

    This camera person had a very good eye! Used to go downtown in the seventies when I was a child all the time. Amazing thank you.

    • @boataxe4605
      @boataxe4605 18 днів тому

      The camera person had an eye for porno theaters.

  • @brushcreek42
    @brushcreek42 7 років тому +32

    "Cotton Comes to Harlem" was released in 1970, as was "Soldier Blue". Imaginative, nicely framed, captures the Loop probably at noon hour in the summer of 1970. I worked in the Loop from 1965-70 and walked many miles on my lunch hour.

    • @nathancoleman8413
      @nathancoleman8413 2 роки тому

      How old were you then brushcreek?

    • @brushcreek42
      @brushcreek42 2 роки тому +2

      @@nathancoleman8413 I was born in 1942, so 23-28 years. The Loop was still a neat place then.

    • @beatricemccoy2288
      @beatricemccoy2288 4 місяці тому

      Everytime you look.around it's a new movie came out and we was there

    • @boataxe4605
      @boataxe4605 18 днів тому

      @@beatricemccoy2288Especially ‘Weekend with the baby sitter’ and Beyond the valley of the dolls’!

  • @KamJ2010
    @KamJ2010 Рік тому +2

    Wow! I was 5. (oh born and raised in chicago so this is awesome!)

  • @kel2580
    @kel2580 2 місяці тому +5

    Chicago was so much fun in the sixties and the seventies. The old buildings were so interesting to look at and I loved looking at the buses picking up all kinds of passengers.

  • @thomask4836
    @thomask4836 Місяць тому +3

    Wow! Was 14 when this was filmed. Thanks so much for the memories!

  • @nicolascalvache8102
    @nicolascalvache8102 4 роки тому +19

    The (mostly) clean, colorful, respectable appearance and attitude of people and the atmosphere are great examples that people decided to discard. We have a bad habit of leaving the good things of yesterday behind.

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 4 роки тому +4

      I wasnt even born just yet and I would love to go back to these days. People were happy and relaxed. Now the city has daily riots vandalism attacks on police! Downtown back then was safe, now its a warzone!

    • @stevenpiehl6199
      @stevenpiehl6199 2 місяці тому

      1970 was so good for all of us I was in Vietnam

    • @kenkunz1428
      @kenkunz1428 28 днів тому

      @@PRHILL9696 I'm in the Loop everyday. It is in no way a warzone.

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 28 днів тому

      @@kenkunz1428 It is a violent war zone that is a fact.

  • @iggy8702
    @iggy8702 7 років тому +13

    This was filmed in 1970 based on the release dates of the movies. Most were released in the US in mid to late 1970. One was released in late Dec 1969.

  • @niccoarcadia4179
    @niccoarcadia4179 7 років тому +5

    Painting a vivid picture of a very small portion of Chi- town via my memories:
    The film stirred up some old memories of me as a youth going to Wrigley Field by train with my old grammar school girlfriend, her brother and other pals. It was that long portion of the train ride through the inner-city which showed the backsides of the row houses and tenement buildings with those clothes lines which is etched in my mind. Unpainted light brown dingy wood porches with old couches and automobile backseats, crooked stairs, black tar, and roofing tiles. Also, backyards, weeds, vacant lots, & parking lots, all loaded with old metal junk, like washers, dryers, railroad ties, and stripped down wrecked cars.

  • @troyw1843
    @troyw1843 4 роки тому +9

    Really cool video! Everyone looked so healthy back then!

    • @v.a.993
      @v.a.993 Рік тому +1

      the average life expectancy back then was 60/65.

  • @bigal05171957
    @bigal05171957 2 роки тому +2

    THANKU UA-cam AMAZING FOOTAGE how many times I took the subway to the CHICAGO STADIUM to see LED ZEPPELIN though out the 70s and the movies SHAFT & SUPERFLY now in my 60s it was a great time ✌️☮️🎸😎

  • @jaysaeger2057
    @jaysaeger2057 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for sharing

  • @PRHILL9696
    @PRHILL9696 6 років тому +10

    Love the city so much now but loved it then as well and wish I could go back in time for a few days and experience it again

  • @1Radioriot
    @1Radioriot 4 роки тому +47

    Haha I forgot what it looked like to see ppl walking without their faces in phones 📱

    • @maguffintop2596
      @maguffintop2596 Рік тому +8

      All women in dresses w/ very few being morbidly obese.

    • @alfx5432
      @alfx5432 11 місяців тому +5

      Smart phones need to be put away you are so correct.

    • @alfx5432
      @alfx5432 11 місяців тому +4

      ​@@maguffintop2596women look so much better

    • @GrainGuy757
      @GrainGuy757 3 місяці тому +1

      And no electric scooters 😆

    • @MightBeAPizza
      @MightBeAPizza 3 місяці тому

      ​@GrainGuy757 Electric scooters are amazing. I use one everyday to go to work while my $575 a month car sits in the parking space.

  • @clevlandblock
    @clevlandblock Місяць тому +3

    Roosevelt Theater, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls @ 11:31. Went there and saw that as a 19 year old college student from the burbs.

    • @robertbullock9554
      @robertbullock9554 Місяць тому

      I was 12 or 13 and how movies changed SO quickly from when we were much younger (60's). So tame by today's standards but not then. I wanted to see them, but couldn't.😊😊😊 Precocious.

  • @MJ-we9vu
    @MJ-we9vu 25 днів тому +1

    Lol. This guy knew where every dirty movie house in the Loop was. 😂

  • @afrogirl757
    @afrogirl757 4 роки тому +10

    6:15 a lot of sizzling going on at Ronnie's steak house. This is the 70s when xxx movies took over half the Loop's movie houses. And the Loop after dark was a mini Babylon.

    • @fnihp30
      @fnihp30 4 роки тому +3

      I noticed all the XXX movies. It’s a lot like Times Square in 1970s New York.

  • @tsf5-productions
    @tsf5-productions Рік тому +1

    This film of Chicago in the Summer (?) months of 1970 are great...the famous and infamous downtown scenes with "real people" who had (and still does) have human life stories that would be incredible.
    Good, steady filming.
    Thanks for presenting a good era of filming life in its places and everyday people.

  • @nathancoleman8413
    @nathancoleman8413 2 роки тому +4

    I am in Chicago right now! this is what it looked like in the period I was born!(which was 1969 to be more precise)

  • @brandon7913
    @brandon7913 Рік тому +1

    In 1970 I was a kid. I do remember the grey hound station in 1981 I worked at the Burger King there. Chicago was really grimmy back then but safer than it is today 2023 so many adult movie theaters some of our ancestors were freaky. I remember the shoppers corner at Randolph & State they had so many gadgets. Downtown is nothing like this today. The excitement and upbeat of the 70’s & 80’s is long gone.

    • @beatricemccoy2288
      @beatricemccoy2288 11 місяців тому

      Yep haven't see downtown Chicago in a few yrs.

  • @krishnamurtiism
    @krishnamurtiism 2 роки тому +3

    Without a stitch - sounded a classic.

  • @drjohnson98
    @drjohnson98 4 роки тому +11

    This was probably 28 August 1970, which was a Friday. The headlines in the newspapers refer to a tear gas grenade attack that the Jewish Defense League (JDL) carried out in Chicago's Civic Opera House on the evening of 27 August to protest the performance of a Soviet dance troop there that night. Interesting to see the cars, buses, store fronts, and clothing styles. This is the Chicago I remember as a kid.

    • @themovietheatre
      @themovietheatre  4 роки тому +1

      title changed.

    • @beatricemccoy2288
      @beatricemccoy2288 11 місяців тому

      I was just starting high school. Use to ride on the 66 bus going there just to enjoy being downtown

    • @boataxe4605
      @boataxe4605 3 місяці тому

      I bet they didn’t call it “Domestic Terrorism”.

  • @stephenmoerlein8470
    @stephenmoerlein8470 8 місяців тому +2

    The Green Limousines (CTA buses), Checkered Cab and Yellow Cab (same owner ironically) are prominent in these scenes, Thanks for posting!

  • @Stephanie-vn6ir
    @Stephanie-vn6ir 3 місяці тому +2

    This is 1970 ,because the movie is soldier blue 💙
    I miss those big green checker cabs!😂

  • @dareklachowicz3946
    @dareklachowicz3946 5 років тому +13

    BETTER DRESSED PEOPLE AND REAL CARS.

  • @ronniejones6025
    @ronniejones6025 5 років тому +7

    It seem like people looked much better and much happier back than

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 5 років тому +5

      They are called the good old days for a reason

    • @robertpreston2220
      @robertpreston2220 4 роки тому +4

      we were

    • @peteroberts6771
      @peteroberts6771 4 роки тому +3

      Technology is hurting us! Human interaction is necessary! Face to face, shoulder to shoulder.

  • @patrickmclaughlin214
    @patrickmclaughlin214 Рік тому +2

    Looks like the city was very comfortably integrated back then.
    Everyone was very polite to others.
    I am from NYC but have always wanted to see Chicago.
    This looks very much like midtown Manhattan

  • @norellpolk
    @norellpolk 3 роки тому +5

    I miss those days.a time I would like to go back to

    • @robertpreston2220
      @robertpreston2220 2 роки тому +1

      we all would

    • @antoniomenjivar6556
      @antoniomenjivar6556 Рік тому

      We all would be we have to remember that there was a lot of crime and other things that were happening

  • @MaynardUSMC
    @MaynardUSMC Рік тому

    Thank you for the memories! I grew up in Chicago, west side, from "68 to "95. It's such a different City now.

  • @fulton92503
    @fulton92503 7 років тому +9

    even in 1970 people were well dressed I was a teen then but I think there was less poverty then

    • @argopunk
      @argopunk 6 років тому +3

      Everyone dressed well back then. The slob thing picked up in the '70s. Had nothing to do with money.

  • @gregggillott8551
    @gregggillott8551 11 місяців тому +3

    In this 12-minute video of only people walking in a busy city, NOT one woman was wearing pants..

  • @PRHILL9696
    @PRHILL9696 4 роки тому +8

    Wow look at all that crowed foot traffic! These days the sidwalks downtown are pretty vacant. I miss those old news stands too. And the old Chicago Northwestern Train terminal sadly demolished in 1984!!!

    • @luislaplume8261
      @luislaplume8261 3 роки тому +1

      Wait til rioting is made legal and at present theft is legal. By the end of this year the Lop will be like a ghost town.

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 3 роки тому +1

      @@luislaplume8261 sadly i know

    • @jimmiesmith5811
      @jimmiesmith5811 Місяць тому +1

      Between Van Buren Jackson and Monroe State street is a ghost town nowadays

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 Місяць тому

      @@jimmiesmith5811 exactly

  • @phillipmoore7436
    @phillipmoore7436 3 роки тому +5

    GOOD OLD DAYS NO CELL PHONES.🤭

  • @Nancy-y8q1n
    @Nancy-y8q1n Місяць тому +2

    Wow people actually talking to each other, unlike today where people just stare at their cell phones

  • @tomservo56954
    @tomservo56954 6 місяців тому +2

    11:30 Chicago and they don't brag that Roger Ebert co-wrote that movie?

  • @robertpreston2220
    @robertpreston2220 4 роки тому +8

    So much more street and foot traffic compared to today by far

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 4 роки тому +3

      I wasnt even born just yet and I would love to go back to these days. People were happy and relaxed. Now the city has daily riots vandalism attacks on police! Downtown back then was safe, now its a warzone!

    • @dutchmangolinde5469
      @dutchmangolinde5469 4 роки тому

      Yea it's warzone alright tanks and jets are in downtown blowing up buildings and shit

    • @dg1006
      @dg1006 3 роки тому +4

      We’ll never have a downtown like that again. Most of those small businesses on State St are gone. My first trip to Chicago was on a layover on an Amtrak train going west in June of 1974. I remember there was a Montgomery Wards and two Woolworths’ on State St.

    • @robertpreston2220
      @robertpreston2220 3 роки тому +3

      @@dg1006 You are right. ANd yes Sate street had Fields, Wards, two Woolworths, Sears, Weiboltz, Goldblatsz, Caron Piere Scott, Many theaters, etc. Now nothing

  • @timward3116
    @timward3116 4 роки тому +3

    Just think: Everybody in those street scenes is 50 years older or dead, but otherwise the scenes haven't changed all that much.

  • @TariqBusy
    @TariqBusy 6 років тому +3

    Great video, thanks for posting.

  • @BernardProfitendieu
    @BernardProfitendieu Місяць тому +3

    Protective scaffolding still up on the new First Chicago headquarters at Monroe and Dearborn
    Everyone looks well dressed. If you worked in the loop, you had to present yourself well.
    I think the cameraman really, really wanted to go see Weekend with the Babysitter! multiple long shots of that marquee

    • @robertbullock9554
      @robertbullock9554 Місяць тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂. I think the Monroe was always a little sleazy.

  • @imanonattorneyspokesperson
    @imanonattorneyspokesperson 7 років тому +7

    Some of the footage is from the 70s

  • @ejhickey
    @ejhickey 28 днів тому +2

    People were thinner

  • @PRHILL9696
    @PRHILL9696 4 роки тому +17

    Would give anything for Chicago to be great like this again!

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 4 роки тому +7

      @Ronald Washington Its very sad

  • @SRLovesPandas1
    @SRLovesPandas1 2 роки тому +1

    My city! this was like 20 some years before I was born

  • @dickiegreenleaf750
    @dickiegreenleaf750 Місяць тому +1

    Dresses are rare to see. Now it’s spandex and pajamas.

  • @thpass
    @thpass Рік тому +4

    Please give credit to Vivian Maier for this footage. She shot many photograph stills and motion picture film footage of Chicago in the 1960s-70s. It was the era of miniskirts and baby doll style dresses. Seeing people holding newspapers instead of smart phones was the norm. Downtown Chicago was an active, thriving place to be back then.

    • @boataxe4605
      @boataxe4605 18 днів тому

      So she was the one who was obsessed with the porno theaters?

    • @rachelfranklin9460
      @rachelfranklin9460 День тому +1

      @thpass Thank you! I came here to see if anyone else recognized her! She was brilliant and deserves her credit!

    • @boataxe4605
      @boataxe4605 День тому

      @@thpass So she’s the one who had the obsession with the dirty movie theaters?

    • @thpass
      @thpass День тому

      @boataxe4605 downtown Chicago was filled with movie theaters and some of them did show x rated flicks, karate flicks, exploitation, that was fairly standard fare in the 70s. Not sure if you're trying to discredit her, but that's a poor attempt.

  • @babyyoda8195
    @babyyoda8195 3 роки тому +1

    We were just a few months old! Born in Woodlawn and lived in Hyde Park.

  • @daviddoyle543
    @daviddoyle543 3 роки тому +9

    Notice how everyone dressed? Like they had some class and dignity...

  • @dipschwantz1
    @dipschwantz1 3 роки тому +7

    Back when people dressed decent to go outside...

    • @cgbleak
      @cgbleak Рік тому +2

      more likely dressed decent for business or for a day visiting downtown.

    • @dickiegreenleaf750
      @dickiegreenleaf750 Місяць тому

      @@cgbleaknope. Even to the grocery store. Now it’s sweat pants and spandex

  • @ytyt3922
    @ytyt3922 6 років тому +5

    8:40 those big circular cases/bags. Don’t see those anymore.

    • @michaelmccormick3830
      @michaelmccormick3830 5 років тому +1

      Those were for ladies' hats.

    • @afrogirl757
      @afrogirl757 4 роки тому +2

      Hat boxes! That lady was getting fresh summer hats for church. :-)

    • @111danish111
      @111danish111 3 роки тому

      Did not even knew those existed.

  • @beatricemccoy2288
    @beatricemccoy2288 4 місяці тому +2

    Downtown was rather crowded with people and cars almost daily and holidays sometimes.

  • @jeffreyking279
    @jeffreyking279 Місяць тому +2

    Was that you milling around in front of the X Rated theater?? Lol

  • @cokesquirrel
    @cokesquirrel Рік тому +1

    2 things jump the mind looking at this. Almost nobody is overweight and Of course nobody has phones in hand

    • @beatricemccoy2288
      @beatricemccoy2288 11 місяців тому +1

      Yep. People back then pay attention on whats going on around them and was more friendly and helpful

  • @within360
    @within360 24 дні тому

    I remember porno theaters visiting my father as a child in Manhattan in the late 70's. Looking out of the side of my eye as we passed them. Time square was full of them. I don't remember them as a kid in Chicago though. I guess all these theaters were on their last legs at this point in their history. The Bijou was in Old Town, but I didn't learn about that until much later.

  • @merkury06
    @merkury06 3 роки тому +4

    Anybody else look for familiar faces?

  • @melvonjohnson5711
    @melvonjohnson5711 Рік тому

    Sometimes I search for vintage footage to see how life was like before I was born-This is before my time- I was born 13 years later (1983) but it seems like life look simpler and easier going compared to nowadays.... No smart phones or social media--people were interacting with each other instead of looking at phones.

  • @stevenpiehl6199
    @stevenpiehl6199 2 місяці тому +2

    It’s sort of odd to think the most the people in this video are dead and gone now 2024

  • @shanan1124
    @shanan1124 6 років тому +3

    Vivian Maier loop?

  • @ronwallace6273
    @ronwallace6273 23 дні тому

    its crazy to live your whole life in a city but people young today will never know about the city from before them , like a different world , different buildings

  • @KillerChair1
    @KillerChair1 4 роки тому +5

    Beautiful city. To think Chicago was a much bigger city then than it is now. I hope the inner city can continue to grow again.

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 4 роки тому +3

      wish they would expand more and stop tearing down old buildings and stop cancelling big towers that are proposed

    • @patrickmclaughlin214
      @patrickmclaughlin214 Рік тому

      Is the city shrinking?

    • @Shivayoudestroyme
      @Shivayoudestroyme 9 місяців тому +1

      @@patrickmclaughlin214 Population peaked in 1950 at around 3.6 million and today it's around 2.7

    • @fratzogmopars
      @fratzogmopars 8 місяців тому

      @@Shivayoudestroyme If you count the illegals, it would probably put us over 3 million again.

  • @wallykaspars9700
    @wallykaspars9700 Місяць тому

    Great video! On the date of filming I was out of the US Army two years and driving a Continental Airport bus. State Street was still the Great Street. Surprised not to see any Arthur Rubloff signs, also hardly any men with long hair.

    • @mitchlader
      @mitchlader Місяць тому

      My grandfather, Tom O'connor, was VP of continental air transport. Worked at the Palmer House office!

    • @robertbullock9554
      @robertbullock9554 Місяць тому

      Long hair took hold of the mainstream just a little bit later. Remember this is mid-1970 AND the Midwest! Same with bouffants....always slight overlap.

  • @drewhunkins7192
    @drewhunkins7192 3 місяці тому

    Never knew there was a Tad's Steaks in Chicago. I saw them in Times Square when I lived in NYC in the mid 1990s but never knew they were in Chicago.

  • @JamesSmith-wp4um
    @JamesSmith-wp4um 6 років тому +1

    Spotted a new 1970 Buick Riviera at 11:58 so most likely this was taken in 1970

  • @mustafahajj
    @mustafahajj 6 років тому +17

    A time when women dressed like ladies.

  • @banks5162
    @banks5162 3 роки тому

    Can't imagine living that close to train tracks.

  • @fratzogmopars
    @fratzogmopars 8 місяців тому

    7:26 is that Carl Kolchak of Night Stalker fame?

  • @anthonyscilingo266
    @anthonyscilingo266 Рік тому

    Wow so many more elderly walking around in the city back then. The city is so much younger now-a-days.

    • @stephenmoerlein8470
      @stephenmoerlein8470 8 місяців тому +1

      Too dangerous for the elderly

    • @fratzogmopars
      @fratzogmopars 8 місяців тому +1

      No, just the elderly are afraid to venture outside now. This was a time when people didn’t lock their house doors.

    • @kenkunz1428
      @kenkunz1428 28 днів тому

      @@stephenmoerlein8470 Too expensive for the Elderly.

  • @kevinjones5715
    @kevinjones5715 7 місяців тому +2

    ah yes, Chicago in 1970, I remember going to all the Porno Palaces shown in the video!
    Good times, good memories.

  • @scottgrunow5201
    @scottgrunow5201 4 роки тому +1

    Some of these buildings by the L in the beginning are still there

  • @ChiTownBF3
    @ChiTownBF3 6 років тому +3

    Gem Frozen in time

  • @jeffspitza
    @jeffspitza 4 місяці тому +1

    Walgreens must have come from the future as their stores and logo look the exact same as they do today!

    • @boataxe4605
      @boataxe4605 18 днів тому

      Except for the cafeteria,which they no longer have.

  • @yahinessness5669
    @yahinessness5669 Рік тому +1

    I bet that food was so damn good omg i miss 90s meat 😢

  • @RyanSmith-on8rj
    @RyanSmith-on8rj 8 років тому +2

    Did you film this personally or know the person that did?

    • @timoneill9574
      @timoneill9574 7 років тому +3

      This 8mm footage was filmed by Vivian Maier in 1970.

  • @keyboardwarrior656
    @keyboardwarrior656 9 місяців тому +1

    THX!!

  • @filmmakerjohnb
    @filmmakerjohnb 4 роки тому

    Do you license footage?

  • @abegoldman3078
    @abegoldman3078 7 років тому +6

    wow times have changed, I didn't see a single mexican person in that video, everyone was either black, white and a few chinese maybe, chinese was the only Asian ethnicity back then, I also didn't see any panhandlers in that video, because Americans actually hired their own back then.

    • @davehansen4537
      @davehansen4537 7 років тому +4

      It has been predicted that by 2044 there will more Hispanics in the United States than white people. Also, Europe is basically dying. People aren't producing enough children, and the Euro populations are getting smaller. Sadly, in many European cities Muslims will be the highest population in 25 years or so.

    • @miguelmacias8177
      @miguelmacias8177 6 років тому +3

      Hola!!

    • @nicolascalvache8102
      @nicolascalvache8102 4 роки тому +1

      My latino family was there, they had worked hard and came in the early 60s, moving to what used to be the polish area off of Ogden. They became a part of close-knit community. There were also some Mexicans who had been there since the 30s; they remember these colorful, clean days quite fondly. Unfortunately, rioting happened in the late 60s, which is when they say the city took a turn for the worse.

  • @brianglade848
    @brianglade848 Рік тому +1

    The Trout House was a front for a brothel back then

  • @danielandries6998
    @danielandries6998 11 місяців тому

    I am looking to license some of this footage for a documentary. How can we get that done? Who should I contact?

    • @rachelfranklin9460
      @rachelfranklin9460 День тому

      @danielandries6998 Look online for Vivian Maier. There is a movie called finding Vivian Maier about the kid who found all her stuff in a storage unit. Treasures like these films. Tons of her photos. There is a collection of her work somewhere online that I have seen.

  • @chuckwagon5518
    @chuckwagon5518 3 роки тому +7

    Back when Chicago was still somewhat a decent city before the democrats ran it into the ground! I was born and raised there and I ain't never goin back!

    • @robertpreston2220
      @robertpreston2220 2 роки тому +2

      democrats destroy everything that is good

    • @Diogenes-ty9yy
      @Diogenes-ty9yy Рік тому +1

      Amen, sir. I've lived in the free state of Florida now for 39 years and there's no going back.

    • @robertpreston2220
      @robertpreston2220 Рік тому +2

      @@Diogenes-ty9yy I have friends in Florida who want me to move there and get out of this democratic crap hole. I just HATE hot weather though and need my winters. or I would move there like everyone else is in two minutes!

    • @PRHILL9696
      @PRHILL9696 Рік тому

      Democrats have destroyed many once great citys

    • @beatricemccoy2288
      @beatricemccoy2288 11 місяців тому +1

      Its kinda spooky now

  • @The_best_days_are_yesterdays
    @The_best_days_are_yesterdays 7 років тому +2

    We seem to have a predilection for the adult movies, don't we....

    • @iggy8702
      @iggy8702 7 років тому

      Oh later there is one that is rated X, but that it when X meant adult only. The porn industry in the 70's turned X into explicit sex. Today there is a rarely used NC-17 rating to replace the X of the 60's.

    • @bigdogs29
      @bigdogs29 6 років тому +1

      My thoughts EXACTLY and whoever took this was definitely GIRL watching. Notice all the girls filmed with the view scanning down to their legs. lol. GREAT REMEMBRANCES regardless.

    • @djbhe
      @djbhe 4 роки тому +1

      @@bigdogs29
      A woman filmed it. The person who posted it gave her name in the the comments. It was filmed in 1970.

    • @5x7m
      @5x7m 3 роки тому

      @@bigdogs29 Her name is Vivian Meier a photographer... and yeah, I noticed the ankle fetishism

  • @countolaf1920
    @countolaf1920 4 роки тому

    12:15-12:26 James Marcelo and Pat Marcie leaving a meeting on who is going to be the next judge in their pockets!! Lol

  • @patrickmclaughlin214
    @patrickmclaughlin214 Рік тому

    It definitely is fascinating

  • @thewilloughby605
    @thewilloughby605 7 років тому +3

    incredible,looks just like nye, love chicago culture

  • @kurtdrathering158
    @kurtdrathering158 22 дні тому

    I wonder how many people in this video are still alive today?

  • @beatricemccoy2288
    @beatricemccoy2288 11 місяців тому

    I don't see the McVick movie theater. It seem like more in the late 60s to me

    • @boataxe4605
      @boataxe4605 18 днів тому

      The movies being shown were released in 1970.

  • @devoradamaris
    @devoradamaris 3 місяці тому +1

    🤲👑🤲

  • @MJ-we9vu
    @MJ-we9vu 25 днів тому +1

    The screenplay for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was written by Roger Ebert, the film critic. Not his finest work. His partner, Gene Siskek, gave the movie zero stars.

  • @kingpasha6057
    @kingpasha6057 2 місяці тому

    Pretty cool!!

  • @KamJ2010
    @KamJ2010 Рік тому

    That wa so cool!

  • @BGTuyau
    @BGTuyau Місяць тому

    54 years from 2024, what will one see on these streets?

    • @robertbullock9554
      @robertbullock9554 Місяць тому

      We don't want to know. I'll be taking a dirt nap.😢😢😢😢