From the Archives: Streamlining Chicago (1940's)

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  • Опубліковано 13 вер 2017
  • We're not the first to release "Streamlining Chicago", but we do believe we have one of the higher quality copies. While this video covers Chicago transportation as a whole, it offers a unique look into the construction of Chicago's subways in the early 1940's.

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  • @NoBody-xg1wg
    @NoBody-xg1wg 2 місяці тому +1

    My father was credit manager at the Palmer House Hotel, both pre-war, and after 4 years in the Army Air Corps, returned for another 5 years or so. Can't help but thinking of my young parents walking these streets. I was born there in 1949.

  • @giarc888
    @giarc888 Рік тому +2

    Only 40 feet down,that really is hard work.

  • @boss_lady_luna2750
    @boss_lady_luna2750 2 роки тому +5

    What a beautiful video Very Nice I Love Chicago ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @QuarioQuario54321
    @QuarioQuario54321 4 роки тому +9

    I wish these were built. Especially the Michigan Ave Subway.

  • @DoncasterA1Music
    @DoncasterA1Music 6 років тому +8

    Wow!! Very cool! I have loved the L for all my life, and this is awesome. 33rd view

  • @kmotley517
    @kmotley517 6 місяців тому +2

    They helped build the city for you and me!

  • @suebasko3865
    @suebasko3865 3 роки тому +5

    I wonder why this film has the city map sideways all during it.

  • @LUIS-ox1bv
    @LUIS-ox1bv Рік тому +10

    This was when Chicago lived up to it's deserved reputation of the "City of big shoulders, " and the spirit of the" I will," city. Unlike the city of today, which is more like I won't shoulder the challenges the city faces without sitting on the shoulders of heavy goverment assistance and federal subsisidies.

  • @yixnorb5971
    @yixnorb5971 Рік тому +3

    I always wondered how they did this.

    • @fleurmartin
      @fleurmartin Рік тому +1

      Yes. I'm not an engineer, so I can't begin to fathom how they did it. Good video.

  • @iman2341
    @iman2341 5 років тому +6

    How many of the subways mentioned were actually built?

    • @QuarioQuario54321
      @QuarioQuario54321 5 років тому +9

      Aero Buddy The west side subway ended up in between the highway. The lake subway only has a small spur with no tracks west of Clark/Lake. The Ashland subway initially sounded like it’d be the Orange line, which did not open until 1993, but it’s many were not built. The Milwaukee subway may have been the O’Hare branch, which did not open until 1984.

  • @bdavis6450
    @bdavis6450 2 роки тому +3

    Very interesting

  • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
    @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 5 років тому +2

    13:57 Chicago Tunnel Company?

    • @VolumedMusicMan
      @VolumedMusicMan Рік тому +3

      they didn’t hook up the train line to midway until 1993…

    • @chooch1291
      @chooch1291 Рік тому

      Sure looks like it!

  • @phillipgrey
    @phillipgrey Рік тому +2

    Bomb proof subways? That's interesting and a good place to go in case of nuke attack.

  • @jjn2013
    @jjn2013 3 роки тому +1

    Was the Belmont subway built?

    • @kpopgrrl
      @kpopgrrl Рік тому +1

      No

    • @Maggie22002
      @Maggie22002 6 місяців тому +1

      Yes, built as the Milwaukee/Kimball Subway.

  • @billa1870
    @billa1870 2 роки тому +3

    Chicago used to be a a great city. As was Milwaukee. So sad. I have no regrets growing up there. Got out when the going got bad.

  • @DoncasterA1Music
    @DoncasterA1Music 6 років тому

    FIRST

  • @schaerffenberg
    @schaerffenberg 2 роки тому +14

    "Chicago, city of friendly communities." What a pathetic joke! This film was made when Chicago had a future, or its residents imagined it did. How appalled they would be to see what's become of it today!

  • @leroyjones6958
    @leroyjones6958 2 роки тому +7

    This was their vision of the future. It is a future we could have had if we'd stayed vigilant against genetically inferior breeding.

    • @nassar57
      @nassar57 Рік тому +2

      Global financiers and the evils they found so very amusing are the reason why we no longer have a bright future.