Awesome 1960’s Video of W Maxwell Street Market Day in Chicago Illinois - Vintage Street Scenes
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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🌆 Immerse yourself in the vibrant tapestry of 1960s Chicago with this incredible vintage footage capturing a bustling Maxwell Street Market day. Join us on a journey through time as we stroll through the lively streets, filled with the sights, sounds, and energy of a bygone era. 🛍️🏙️
🎬 This rare glimpse into the past offers a front-row seat to the heart of Chicago's iconic Maxwell Street Market. From lively street vendors to the diverse array of goods on display, this video showcases the unique charm that made Maxwell Street a cultural hub. Witness the hustle and bustle, the fashion, and the vibrant street life that defined this historic marketplace. 🎞️👫
🚗 Take a ride on the nostalgia train as vintage cars line the streets, and the cityscape provides a backdrop to a different time. Whether you have a personal connection to Chicago or simply appreciate the beauty of history preserved on film, this video is a captivating visual time capsule that transports you to the heart of the Windy City in the 1960s. 🚦🌆
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I remember it fondly, It was a great place to get nearly anything you wanted. The music was the best. There was laughter and chicanery in equal amounts. To my knowledge, they don't make them like Maxwell Street anymore.
From a young man, all i can say is You're one lucky gentleman to have gotten to experience that back in the days. Shame it was gotten rid of. It was the largest open air market in the US.
If your hubcaps got stolen you could go there the next day and buy them back.
I’ll tell you sometimes I miss it so much I cry thinking about it.
Amen to that!🎉
The outside was the flea market but the stores sold really fine clothes. My mom would buy beautiful imported 3 piece Italian knit suits. They fit her like a glove. She’d wear heels, gloves and a nice leather purse. Fast forward to two hippies in love in 1972, my husband, boyfriend at that time, bought a suit at a store for my junior prom. The salesman took it off the wall with a long pole with a hook at the end. 😂 I loved the Woolworth with the old wood floors. We’d get a rotisserie chicken to go.
I love how people dressed back in the day. Always nylons on for the ladies. Hats. Suits. Even the uniforms for like, bus drivers had brass buttons and a tie.
@@PaulTheSkeptic yes and the bus driver gave you your change from a roll of cash and a coin dispenser.
That was a genuine chicken. Probably from the stock yards.
That’s my child hood right there and real music
Back in the day, my dad used to take me to Maxwell St. We would always get a big polish hot dog at Big Jims. We’d walk around and occasionally buy something. One time I got a good deal on some used (stolen) tires and they installed them right on the street. The blues music was kick asz too. Ah, the good memories…. 😆😆🇺🇸🇺🇸
What is a polish hot dog? It is either a polish sausage or a hot dog. They are not the same.
@@ellisjames7192 Chicago is a Vienna hot dog town. One of the varieties of hot dogs Vienna sells is a “Polish hot dog”- all beef w Polish spices hot dog. A “Polish sausage” more traditional is made with pork. Thats the difference between what Vienna calls Polish hot dog or sausage.
With plenty of onions
Good 'ol Old Town. When Chicago was Safe & very culturally vibrant.
lmao
I would go by myself on the bus in the 80s when I was a kid to watch the blues bands and eat a polish. For those who know, and share a super transfer.
Thanks for sharing
this is awesome... used to go every sunday great deals loved the music
I SWEAR THOSE WHERE THE BEST DAYS EVER
Memories thanks for sharing. Absolutely enjoyed Sunday morning shopping. My dad would bargain for new shoes for me & my brothers ,
Glad you enjoyed it.
Never knew this Chicago but if I had a time machine I know where I’d visit.
My father started working there when he was 8 he grew up on taylor an racine. When i got older he took me there an got me some starter gear back in the early 90s.
My dad grew up on Polk and Paulina. He talked about Taylor street all the time. My favorite was the smell of grilled onions from maxwell polish
Anyone notice the guy selling 8 lb bags of bananas for 50 cents? 2:20
I sure did.
I was born in 83 in this is amazing!! Hot Dogs were 25 cents!!!
Damn son I be lovin that music!
Everybody got a long on this street something we can't do anymore.
Why not?
I’m glad but not glad I’m old enough to experience the real J Town/ Maxwell Street . Im 44 so when I was a teenager this was still going on .
use to go every Saturday to eat on halsted and maxwell in 1960 61 62 63
Great guitar wonderful history
Maxwell street where you could buy lots of christmas toys , car tires , , brand new clothes and shoes too . There were bargains everywhere. Haggling was the rule on prices, especially if you were buying more than one
Fascinating
Best food and the most intetesting people, then and now.
In 64 my friends bought button down shirts, great price, bought five, got home, shirts had no backs...
Were they advertised as “50%” off?
Check out how civilized the people are. I was a kid in the 60s and remember days like this when most things made sense.
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My father would take me there for odds and ends. One time he got 10 pairs of works socks for $3. They where a tad bit thin but he had to feed 4 kids and my English war bride mother. In those days mothers fried in margarine, bacon grease, and crisco. We lived 7:28 7:28 in the housing project by Ford City mall.
Thanks for sharing
i'm so old, that as a kid my dad would take me there, and get the original al's beef stand. and all that music that i wish i understood. Now it's gentrified.
Thanks for sharing
Sheeesh been there many time
The best times
I remember the Dime Store (Po' Boy Sandwiches 💜), the record store where you had to walk down some stairs. Also, the deli where you had to walk down other stairs to buy delicious corned beef sandwiches 💕.
Thanks for sharing!
Maxwell street was great, at 3:15 this film turns to "Old Town" on Wells street in Lincoln Park
Thanks for the info
The last few minutes of this clip was Old Town, not Maxwell st.
Saw the chicken man!
The last time I visited Maxwell St was 1980; by then most of the buildings on the street were torn down. The still had good live blues though!
The footage starting at 5:00 is not Maxwell Street, but Old Town Wells Street, between North Ave. and Division St.
The end is an art show at Old Orchard Mall in Skokie.
The Stateway PJs
Chicken George JTown my upbringing James ST. James guitar player great place and time for an inner city kid this is where i learned to play guitar. personal. memories are so precious you know. and yes the last clips was old town the old town art fair RIP Bunni S.
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Great footage - I could watch SEVENTY minutes of it! That said, I'm guessing the middle part is the Old Town Art Fair, and of course the Earl of Old Town. Old Orchard is in Skokie (gee, was the Edens Expressway finished by then?).
Thanks, I wish I had more as well. Although, I do still have a lot more films to post.
At 0:20 onward, that's "The Chicken Man", that really is a live chicken on top of his head. As I have read, his real name was Anderson Punch. He was a street performer often seen at the Market, and various other parts of Chicago. By the time I was able to visit Maxwell Street, the Chicken Man had long since passed away, sadly.
Thanks for sharing!! He's now been immortalized onto film.
Dude got a rooster on his head. I guess he's never late. Always up with the sun. Lol.
🕊🌎🕊🕊sharing
There was once a fire on a toy or hobby store there , and afterwards, people were going in and taking all of the toys. 1960's G.I. Joe dolls and their equipment.
You think they could do that on the streets of Chi-town today without bullets flying, mass lootings and fight breakouts? No way in hell.
Yes, because they do. There's markets like this all over the city. Turn off the news and go outside once in a while.
@@saulgood8229 Nobody watches the fake news anymore....its a DemocRAT run propaganda joke machine. They all get their 4AM talking points and run with it.
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@@saulgood8229 So you admit...its fake news?
@@matrox what’s fake news?
AZZ Kicken jams. Who be doing it?
Wish they’d stuck UIC some place that wasn’t such an iconic cultural hub. Wish I had the chance to experience this place
I hear it was a great place
We're from Taylor & Halsted, I remember my mom bringing home 2 dozen pairs of socks for $2.00, many had no toes in them! LOL! She used to buy shoes at Maxie's for cheap. The rumor was Maxie got them off dead people from Bacigalupi! LOL! There will never be a place like Maxwell Street again and it's a damn shame.
Used to ride my bike n get patty melts and the best fries
Someone Can tell me who.s play music of the vidéo ?
I like this ambiance on the street.
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It's licensed from Epidemic Sound. Not sure of the name though.
I came here expecting a video about four fried chickens and a coke. 🙃
I remember going there with my family as a child. The food and the music would bring us there
It was called JU town,Roosevelt and Halstead!You,could buy,Anything,and I mean Anything,get my drift!!!
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Hot dogs for 25 cents, huge 8 pound bag of bananas for 50 cents😀
What would one do with 8 pounds of bananas
Make banana bread and sell that.
Show the polishes and hotdogs with peppers 🥵😄😋
The OLD SCHOOL IS NOW GONE, the UOI has it now I believe 😢,
Very nice. Now its all gentrified an sanitised. I have no interest in going here today
I blame the politicians
Ju-town
Remember,going down ther,with my Dad,mid 1950 s,to buy shoes,clothes,and anything,we needed,Later as a teen,going to Smokey Joes, for a Cabrera,Lid,sharkskin pants,pointy black leather shoes,or black side shoes!We as greasers,always dreaded to the nines!Jimmy’s polish,loaded with the greasy,onions,you could smell,blocks away,and the near the loop hotel,for ladies of the evening!Chicago,guy 75 years old,and still breathing,I will please take a pack of,Camels,Luckys or Pall Malls!Its Cabbretta a black,leather jacket,greasers,remember,a lid was a fedora!!!Black suede shoes!Would,travel,all over the city,not a care in the world!Thomas A.Filipiak
Thanks for sharing!
My cousin had a full-length BLUE leather coat, iridescent shark skin suit, and blue suede shoes all from Smokey Joe's. He was about 8 years older than me, and He was the baddest dude i ever knew, he looked like a movie star back then!
CHICKEN GEORGE.
Was that his actual name?
@@TheOldTimeyChannel I don't know.
great video, terrible blues-ish music
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Not Maxwell street
Yes it is, well not all of it.