Chicago Time Machine with Geoffrey Baer

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @kateospeaks9018
    @kateospeaks9018 3 роки тому +40

    I'm a history buff and I visit Chicago frequently and I have to say Sir I love your videos please keep them coming. Thank you!!!

  • @jannewlove725
    @jannewlove725 4 місяці тому +1

    Moved from Chicago 18 years ago in 2006. When I watch your videos I can still feel the excitement of the first day I moved there in 1995. Seems like yesterday...arrived in Roscoe Village & left from Ravenswood/Lincoln Square. No other city like Chicago! Thank you for the brilliant tours thru Windy City history!!❤😊

  • @chiefvirgobleu6744
    @chiefvirgobleu6744 3 роки тому +32

    Makes me wonder why I ever left...best city in the whole 🌎 This guy truly knows Chicago. Love all his videos 💙

    • @deborahbaker4770
      @deborahbaker4770 Рік тому

      This is 2023 be happy you moved away from Chicago I just read today OCTOBER 14, 2023 that CHICAGO IS THE MOST CORRUPT CITY ISN’T THAT A NICE COMPLIMENT TO GET‼️‼️💯👍🏻😳😱

    • @laurachristianson1688
      @laurachristianson1688 Рік тому

      I have left and returned….last time was almost twenty years ago and I shan’t ever make that mistake ever again🎉

  • @phyllishamilton165
    @phyllishamilton165 Рік тому +5

    Geoffrey, thank you for creating such a lively body of work! Your documentaries effortlessly blend facts, history, and quirky details to present energy, accuracy, and relevance that today's viewers can both enjoy -- and learn! You take my home town to a new dimension -- your frank and honest handling of Chicago's hideous discriminatory history, and current challenges, still finds uplift and energy in today's advocates, activists, and hands-on work that gives vision and inspiration to our young people of today!

  • @DLL8252
    @DLL8252 Рік тому +2

    Despite the high rent, rising food prices, violence and poverty, I've been a Chicagoan for 41yrs, having visited places such as Mississippi, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, and Louisiana, I always come back home to Illinois and I love My city, I really do 🫡🫡🫡❤ the food, architecture, monuments, history, landscapes, sports teams, music, AND people, there's no place like SWEET HOME CHICAGO !

  • @sableindian
    @sableindian 2 роки тому +6

    I live in Colorado now. I'm 72. In 1992 I worked at 6 Flags in Gurnee, ILL. The Rotor was there and
    there was also a plaque stating it came from Riverview. It's been a while, but it was there in 1992.
    Your videos are only 2nd to me reading Mike Royko. Keep up the good work.

  • @mariocisneros911
    @mariocisneros911 Рік тому +1

    12:45 there are suburban town halls from the same era still standing all over Illinois. 1 is in the suburbs of LaGrange .

  • @TimVeatch
    @TimVeatch 2 роки тому +3

    41:10 Edgewater Beach Hotel
    46:33 Bridgeport
    1:06:26 Preston Tucker
    1:13:00 International Amphitheater at Back of the Yards

  • @RGC198
    @RGC198 Рік тому +2

    Excellent video. Thanks for sharing If only it was possible to have a portable time machine like that. Here in Melbourne Australia it would be possible to see the former cable car system in action, which closed in 1940.

  • @Shahrdad
    @Shahrdad 3 роки тому +9

    Edgewater Beach Hotel was not pink, but “Sunrise Yellow.” The Edgewater Beach Apartments that were built farther north, and still exists, was “Sunset Pink.”

  • @Nyx773
    @Nyx773 4 місяці тому

    12:25 - City County Building
    17:16 - McVicker’s Theatre
    27:03 - September 8, 1860 Ship Wreck
    33:09 - Libby Prison
    54:00 - MTL house location
    1:02:57 - 1871 temporary house
    1:15:32 - 1860 Wigwam convention hall

  • @paulakpacente
    @paulakpacente 3 роки тому +7

    My dad took me to the Edgewater Beach Hotel. My grandpa took me to Maxwell Street. They both did it because an era was passing. Little did I know then (in about 1962) that I would graduate from the University Of Illinois at Chicago in 1976. We left Illinois over 28 years ago. Even though the city has deteriorated since then, my Chicago spirit will exist in me until the day I die.

    • @anonymike8280
      @anonymike8280 Рік тому +1

      No way has Chicago deteriorated. Billions have been spent on real estate development in formerly blighted neighborhoods to the point where ordinary middle and lower middle income people can no longer afford to live there.
      Don't confuse the fiscal problems of local governments with the state of the entities these govern. The fiscal problems of local governmental entities largely are due to unfunded pension obligations contracted for decades ago. When these obligations finally sunset and funded pensions kick in, the fiscal condition of local governments will improve.
      If you look at the "Streets of America" Chicago videos, you will get a better idea of how things have changed. Many neighborhoods still have a lot of old buildings on their commercial streets and a lot of old houses and apartment buildings, but blighted buildings with no economic use are not allowed to stand. If there are boarded up buildings anywhere, it is because the city has determined that these are rehabilitatable and can put to use in the future when residential and commercial patterns change.
      I grew up in Chicago in the1950s and 1960s. I left in the 1970s. Living there again would give me nothing but a sense of futility, or call it a feeling of having gone nowhere, but I long have followed what is going on there. The internet makes it easy.

    • @paulakpacente
      @paulakpacente Рік тому

      @@Georgian1717- Hope springs eternal.

  • @gmac8852
    @gmac8852 Рік тому +1

    I would love to see a story of the history of the Auburn Lagoon in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.

  • @hto560
    @hto560 2 роки тому +11

    This was a great vid but damn is it sad how many beautiful buildings we’ve torn down

  • @heatman311
    @heatman311 Рік тому +1

    Back in the 70's and 80' we would ride our bikes thru what was then called The Vita Course now Richard Clark Park off Rockwell Ave along the river......There were still some of the foudations of a few of the rides from Riverview including some of the original pavement from the park......one in particular was the failsafe for the shoot the chutes a giant concrete block ...... my friend and his dad did an unofficial biography for my friend's school project as his father grew up going to the park

  • @nathanas64
    @nathanas64 Рік тому +1

    I love this series ! Mr Baer and WTTW have created an outstanding and unique historical “document” of Chicago.

  • @mlradcliffe3955
    @mlradcliffe3955 2 роки тому +3

    Great video, I loved going to Riverview as a child. My dad always took me to Maxwell St as a child. I loved it & the food was delicious

  • @iheard6888
    @iheard6888 3 роки тому +4

    I enjoyed your "Time Machine", it breaks my heart that W. Jackson Blvd. is gone, it was a great place when we lived there.

  • @sableindian
    @sableindian 2 роки тому +4

    You forgot Washington Park race track.

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 2 роки тому +4

    Belmont and Western, right across from Riverview, my Parents owned a restaurant there and I went to Riverview routinely. Great memory.
    Walt Disney is said to have based Disneyland on Riverview.
    Edgewater area, I was born at Edgewater Hospital, so was Hillary Clinton, though she was a few years (7 yrs, I think) before me. We lived in Lincoln Park area.
    Cubs Cubs Cubs!!! 🏆 2016!

    • @dcotai2902
      @dcotai2902 2 роки тому +1

      ... Go Lane Tech..
      1967... LAST SPRING...

  • @anonymike8280
    @anonymike8280 Рік тому

    1:05:13 That mammoth is truckin'.

  • @DTM-Books
    @DTM-Books 10 місяців тому

    Hey, this show has the same ending as The Shining. Creepy!
    Seriously, though, it's a great look at Chicago history. I'm a Minnesota transplant, so I enjoy all of this forays into the city's past.

  • @anonymike8280
    @anonymike8280 Рік тому +1

    46:06 No steroids in those days. Back then, people had to live on food and water. It was terrible.

    • @natebarry5553
      @natebarry5553 Рік тому

      I could never go back in time. Food and water 🤮

  • @QuaaludeCharlie
    @QuaaludeCharlie Рік тому +1

    Wee Chicago. Love all these videos :) QC

  • @elizabethd8428
    @elizabethd8428 Рік тому +2

    I’m so glad I’ve found these videos. I feel like a kid again when I used to watch these type of shows on channel 11🥹

  • @deborahbaker4770
    @deborahbaker4770 Рік тому

    There is no more Maxwell Street in 2023 ☹️ there are tiny home’s now and they cost more then $125.00

    • @Nyx773
      @Nyx773 4 місяці тому

      $125?

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 2 роки тому +6

    This is obviously pre-2016
    GO CUBS GO !!!!!!!!!

    • @fjohnson3002
      @fjohnson3002 2 роки тому +2

      That's what I thought! He needs to add an addendum.

    • @natebarry5553
      @natebarry5553 Рік тому +2

      Look at the cars on the road. This is what Chicago looked like in 2009-2014 in terms of the makes and models of vehicles. Got some early nineties beaters still clinging on to life, mixed in with some brand new looking 2014 Toyota Camries and riced out Infinity G35 coupes.

  • @DerrickBoundsMusic
    @DerrickBoundsMusic 3 роки тому +1

    I thought troops left Fort Dearborn to help in War of 1812. That's what I heard/read.

  • @alanaadams7440
    @alanaadams7440 2 роки тому +2

    My father was a good catcher. He tried put for the Cubs and got it but grandma said he had to be am engineer and said if he took the catcher job she would not pay for his college. Well he did become an engineer but I always wondered if he would have been happier as a catcher for the Cubs

  • @cynthianorthdakota1067
    @cynthianorthdakota1067 3 роки тому +1

    Hello I am A Fuller from North Dakota/ Wrigleyville ( Halstad started when it was Residential ; ) ( My fav is Club Metro .. Cubby Bear ) n yr You Tube series is worthy of so much more!!! Tyvm .. to the point .. I jumped from my TV to my fon to make sure.. I told you... FYI .. we have 2 family tragedies You may be interested.. both From Law Enforcement POV .. one loss as a Police Officer Killed in Action the Night of The Night of the Worlds Fair 1933 and the next was Dec 29th 1969 .. 1 Police Officer 7 Shot .. only my Uncle passed ... South Side ... BP members confirmed as the shooters
    Wud appreciate a conversation some times... Best to You n Yours n Diaduit

  • @DG360MaN
    @DG360MaN Рік тому

    Hell yeah brother

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 2 місяці тому

    Geoffrey Baer is a great narrator, and hopefully he watch the great World Series of 2016: CUBS WIN !!!!!!!!!
    I had 2 days if pure pleasure, then the November 8th election of 2016 ... changed the energy ... and like gum on one's shoe it just ....
    But, I focus on the desires and know they are emerging ...
    October 15, 2024 ✨☀️✨

  • @alanaadams7440
    @alanaadams7440 2 роки тому +1

    Why do cities tear down so many beautiful old buildings

    • @LUIS-ox1bv
      @LUIS-ox1bv Рік тому +1

      Money, coupled with crass stupudity.

  • @gabrielortiz665
    @gabrielortiz665 Рік тому

    Beautiful. Never knew about FARMER

  • @saironer
    @saironer 2 роки тому +1

    I fucking love the ending. Class act this guy. 👋 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    • @Nyx773
      @Nyx773 4 місяці тому

      Unlike you who has to use the F word

    • @saironer
      @saironer 4 місяці тому

      @@Nyx773 Amen brother.

  • @devoradamaris
    @devoradamaris 2 роки тому +1

    🕊🌎🕊🕊sharing🦋

  • @lindagonzalez2378
    @lindagonzalez2378 2 роки тому

    Way too much commercials WOW! 😫

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 2 місяці тому

    "?" Is this guy a W Sox fan, or just not into Baseball? How do ya stand next to "Wrigley Field" and not mention it or the Cubs"?" ... rather talk about an Ice Age Lake Ridge "?"

  • @dcotai2902
    @dcotai2902 2 роки тому +1

    ..... 1967...winter... OMG... More....

  • @ДмитрийДепутатов
    @ДмитрийДепутатов 2 місяці тому

    Garcia Edward Clark Cynthia Lopez Jessica

  • @CJinsoo
    @CJinsoo Рік тому

    Love these videos but pointing out how crime and poor conditions are generally underscored when they happened decades ago, and pretty much glossed-over for any recent reviews and that seems to be true for the entire Baer series.

  • @patriciaegan7244
    @patriciaegan7244 8 місяців тому

    One of the disturbing things about some of this is how major city investments are thrown out. Doesn’t that impact our city’s debt?

  • @alanaadams7440
    @alanaadams7440 2 роки тому +1

    Have you noticed all the projects for the poor Never works

  • @dickiegreenleaf750
    @dickiegreenleaf750 8 місяців тому

    Here we go again.

  • @danielmarsala849
    @danielmarsala849 3 роки тому

    Way out!

  • @alanaadams7440
    @alanaadams7440 2 роки тому +1

    Our school watched this debate and then voted Kennedy won

  • @patriciaegan7244
    @patriciaegan7244 8 місяців тому

    It seems people are the last of anyone’s worries in mess.

  • @michaelfugate2404
    @michaelfugate2404 Рік тому

    To think her name would grace Cabrini Green which becomes a housing project that goes down as one of the most dangerous in all American history.

  • @janetrmn
    @janetrmn Рік тому

    "...gave up their land." LOL

  • @patriciaegan7244
    @patriciaegan7244 8 місяців тому

    I never understood why the America Indians went through so much turmoil.

  • @leeatterberry1453
    @leeatterberry1453 2 роки тому +1

    And let's not forget about the homicide rate

  • @electricjellyfish375
    @electricjellyfish375 Рік тому

    You better be careful when you buy time machines at flea markets.

  • @RomanGecko
    @RomanGecko Рік тому

    Isn’t it amazing what Chicago was like before corporate welfare and pandering
    Just imagine how beautiful and advance Chicago could have been.
    But now a casino on River so you can loose money to , so the city and state can give better tax cuts to multinational corporations that do not reinvest

  • @shaungorham7959
    @shaungorham7959 Рік тому

    ABD.

  • @RobertPahlavi-ko4gj
    @RobertPahlavi-ko4gj 8 місяців тому

    I dont Need false time memories. Save your dna from mutations and dont travel at high speeds or in the cold tunnels #chicagomayor #fubu #beyonce save the Native and cowboys etc. #Barbbie

  • @CrisDell-fh9zp
    @CrisDell-fh9zp Рік тому

    It's disappointing that so many African-American neighborhoods were demolished by the city, can't say I'm surprised though

  • @woodehinz4726
    @woodehinz4726 3 роки тому +1

    Du Sable, 'may have been, might have been, could have been and some historians believe'? Whatever is great and I'd love to hear about whatever the history is. But it's pretty sad we can't nail down facts on PBS to tell history without spinning a narrative. I'm from Chicago and you can name every street Du Suble, but let's do that based on facts and history. Not what might, would, could or should have been because it fits some stupid SJW narrative. If you want to report Chicago History do it and I'll dig it. Waiting for how Capone "may have been", a black transexual social justice Warrior advocating for mixed bathrooms instead of bootlegging.

    • @carstarsarstenstesenn
      @carstarsarstenstesenn 2 роки тому +2

      Research the facts or go cry about it haha

    • @redrobbo1896
      @redrobbo1896 2 роки тому +3

      You're creating strawmen to argue. Turn fox News off you'll live longer.

    • @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79
      @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 2 роки тому

      You sound like a hater, I swear these people can have all the success and as soon as one black person is named for something significant they began to hate. Like damn can’t anybody else shine Jesus Christ, is that the only thing that bugged you. You didn’t care about how they demolished a lot of black neighborhoods and the segregation that was happening, the only thing that bug you was the black guy who settled on the river. Your a true hater my friend.

    • @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79
      @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 2 роки тому +1

      @@redrobbo1896 he’s just a hater, they only want to hear about how black people are doing bad or suffering, no problems with that. As soon as it’s something significant a black person does they began to hate. It’s just sad to be honest.

    • @redrobbo1896
      @redrobbo1896 2 роки тому +2

      @@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 it's just lame honestly. It's history, I'm a fan of history. I never knew a black dude founded chicago. I learned something new, no reason to hate on that because I'm white.

  • @jamesanonymous2343
    @jamesanonymous2343 11 місяців тому

    HO HUMM,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BYE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

  • @woodehinz4726
    @woodehinz4726 3 роки тому

    We don't know what dude actually looked like or clear on who he was or what he did...... But we'll tear down a statue of somebody else to make room for Du Sable who we think "maybe"??? Yeah brilliant and not racist at all..............

    • @carstarsarstenstesenn
      @carstarsarstenstesenn 2 роки тому +2

      Aww are you gonna cry?

    • @redrobbo1896
      @redrobbo1896 2 роки тому +3

      Here you're again showing your true colors.

    • @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79
      @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 2 роки тому +1

      I smell a hater, out of this entire hour long video the only thing you question is the one significant thing he said about a black person. It bothered you that much that you posted twice in this thread about it. I can bet my last dollar you didn’t like Obama, I can bet my last dollar you also thought the police killing George Floyd was justified too. How I know is because you can smell a hater a mile away.

    • @piper888
      @piper888 2 роки тому

      There's some rule that says you have to have statues 🙄🤔??

  • @HappyMuffin
    @HappyMuffin 8 місяців тому

    The transition music is so obnoxious this is hard to even watch this isn’t the 90s anymore dude grow up