A 1960s Summer Day at The Maxwell Market Chicago Illinois - Vintage Street Scene Footage

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  • @GCast
    @GCast  ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Royalty free stock footage available at: bit.ly/GCPond5

  • @alyslesafranks261
    @alyslesafranks261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Them polish sausages and pork chop sandwiches they used to sell on Maxwell Street were delicious. They served them 24/7.

  • @jamesohara6513
    @jamesohara6513 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Love that blues music.

    • @GCast
      @GCast  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I have more at youtube.com/@TheOldTimeyChannel
      I have so much old footage I’ve moved all my old videos there.

  • @Kiamichi-Okie
    @Kiamichi-Okie ปีที่แล้ว +7

    OH - WOW This video takes me back of former days, that were so innocent, full of hope an joy Going to Maxwell Street was a Treat. I miss Mazwell Street - I miss Chicago, but I have the memories. G-Cast Thank-you for sharing this jewel with us . I am eternally grateful ,

    • @ERen-tj6jg
      @ERen-tj6jg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I grew up a few blocks south on the other side of the tracks..
      It was an amazing time to grow up in the 60s 70s and 80s..
      I love the Pilsen neighborhood.

  • @iananderson8288
    @iananderson8288 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Wow! so amazing to see this. Compared to today, chicago has no life at all

  • @luisnavarro9307
    @luisnavarro9307 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    l loved going to maxwell street, l wish it was still around.

  • @boataxe4605
    @boataxe4605 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    If your hubcaps got stolen you could go there the next day and buy them back.

    • @yoc4744
      @yoc4744 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😂

    • @WAY2RIL
      @WAY2RIL 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Facts 😂😂

    • @backachershomestead
      @backachershomestead 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Spare tires also!!😂. Good times

  • @XoxoMoot
    @XoxoMoot ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The original Flea Market/Block party!

  • @Carmen-qx8ib
    @Carmen-qx8ib ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved Maxwell Street, Great buys, Good Polish's and the Love of my Life (J T Parker)🧓🏽💖!!! Thanks for the Memories 💋!!!

  • @matrox
    @matrox ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Check it out mostly po' folks trying to make it here, but notice no car jackings, no one getting robbed or mugged. I was a kid during this time and this is how I remember it. Contrast it with todays massive sh!thole of crime and corruption.

  • @Sentientmatter8
    @Sentientmatter8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    It's a crying shame this doesn't exist anymore.

    • @Thekidyusuke
      @Thekidyusuke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Segregation?

    • @kenkunz1428
      @kenkunz1428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Thekidyusuke Gentrification.

    • @anthony6112
      @anthony6112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can thank the Liberals for destroying Chicago culture!

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Thekidyusuke I see all races together in this video wtf are you talking about

    • @carstarsarstenstesenn
      @carstarsarstenstesenn ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The market and the entire area was destroyed the expansion of University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). In the 90s, the Maxwell Street Market was moved by the City of Chicago to accommodate even more expansion of UIC.
      This all started in the 60s when Mayor Daley ruined the entire near west side and forcefully relocated tons of working class people, many being African Americans into low income project housing so they could build a modern campus for wealthy white people. The modern campus of UIC stands ontop of what used to be a thriving working class neighborhood just west of downtown

  • @FatneckAsshoe
    @FatneckAsshoe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wish I lived in this year

    • @redbone8844
      @redbone8844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Right we was born in the wrong era 😞

    • @noahreyna76
      @noahreyna76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well from everything I’ve heard that time sucked ass too 😂

    • @kkarllwt
      @kkarllwt ปีที่แล้ว

      Color ttv was 5 years old. 6 TV channels, Bias ply tires that lased 25 k miles. Car engines got rebuilt at 70k miles. But, the sunday tribune was 25 cents.

  • @davidzornig1319
    @davidzornig1319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It went to the Gold Coast Art Fair and Oak & Rush at 3:30. It then goes to Old Town at 5:21.

  • @JR-jk5wz
    @JR-jk5wz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    As a kid back in the 80s I remember my father waking us up at 5:00am and making our way to JEWTowN. That’s what they called it if I remember correctly! Loved the food and cheap things you could purchase at reasonable prices. It was a way of life for us growing up. Miss it

    • @shable1436
      @shable1436 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is that two streets past shecklesbergsteins

    • @TeslaBoy123
      @TeslaBoy123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is priceless bro never never back again 👍

    • @JR-jk5wz
      @JR-jk5wz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TeslaBoy123 ya unfortunately! I was just having a conversation with my wife and telling her my stories that I had with my father! Now if that market was still open to this date, for sure I’ll be taking my kids there! Lol

    • @Diogenes-ty9yy
      @Diogenes-ty9yy ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I still remember the first time I went there with my Dad. A street vendor asked if he'd like to buy a watch, then pulled up his right sleeve to display about 10 watches from his wrist up to his elbow. Dad passed on the deal and I had a good laugh. Now, Dad is gone and both he and Maxwell street are only memories.

    • @JR-jk5wz
      @JR-jk5wz ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Diogenes-ty9yy sorry for your loss. My dad has pancreatic cancer and doesn’t have much time! But yes I agree only memories to share with family and friends for years to come

  • @duckman23
    @duckman23 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My uncle Augie used to take me and my cousin there all the time in the early 80s. You could find anything they're great food tapes music records anyting anyting in your imagination you could find there. All nice people

    • @GCast
      @GCast  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I have more at youtube.com/@TheOldTimeyChannel
      I have so much old footage I’ve moved all my old videos there.

  • @bobbie143bc
    @bobbie143bc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Those Maxwell Polishes was so juicy back then now they are so dry. The fries not even the same.

    • @tblack1264
      @tblack1264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And they not 24 hours anymore

    • @mshepshep258
      @mshepshep258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fries are HORRIBLE!!

    • @jimmiesmith5811
      @jimmiesmith5811 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They used real beef sausages back then not this cheap pork and chicken by product garbage they have now

    • @MJ-we9vu
      @MJ-we9vu 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Well, they had to change the grease when they moved. It'll be back to normal in 30 years or so.

  • @gaagsl
    @gaagsl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is such good quality video. Great job

    • @GCast
      @GCast  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you liked it!

  • @Y-Soightnie
    @Y-Soightnie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My friend's dad sold produce on Maxwell St. in the mid- '60s. We would go with him in his large truck and help set up. He paid some "block guy" for the spot. We would go most of the summer. I never remember any fine artwork being sold there at all, but I do remember the musicians and the guys walking around with watches on the inside of their suit coats. It was wild.

    • @GCast
      @GCast  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for sharing

  • @JACOBSJohn818
    @JACOBSJohn818 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Would of loved to done some shoppin there in 60's or 70's..

  • @Sammydx1
    @Sammydx1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Grew up on 24th and Princeton. I was only there for the mid 90s Maxwell street. But my Grandfather was a yellow cab driver. He was on level with a beat cop with street life...

  • @mojoboo41
    @mojoboo41 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Nothing like a good old Chicago redhot.

    • @GCast
      @GCast  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I have more at youtube.com/@TheOldTimeyChannel
      I have so much old footage I’ve moved all my old videos there.

  • @backachershomestead
    @backachershomestead 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Cool,went there every Sunday in late 80's and early 90s. Until the university to over.👍👍

  • @sayeurekaafrica8265
    @sayeurekaafrica8265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Back in my day we called this place JEWTOWn and would go there to buy yummy Giant Polish Sausages with loads of grilled onins, green hot peppers on a poppy seed bun for $.99

    • @onemanarmy916
      @onemanarmy916 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Memories as a kid going here on Sunday morning

    • @sevegarza
      @sevegarza ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lol damn I guess my dad was telling me the truth about this place. You said exactly what he told me verbatim. My dad still hasn’t found a place that serves polish sausage the “right” way

    • @wesleystacknik1920
      @wesleystacknik1920 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Great memories of Maxwell Street

    • @CirceandLillith
      @CirceandLillith ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My uncle showed me and my older brother this place in the 90s. I was at least 5 or 6 years old... He passed away a month ago... He went into cardiac arrest ON HIS WAY TO PICK UP MAXWELLS ON 79TH. . he was the coolest uncle ever. Died way too soon. Rest in peace my tio fredo "floyd" torres ❤

    • @MasterRoss-sn7dl
      @MasterRoss-sn7dl 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It was called Jewtown by ppl who weren’t Jews

  • @mikey5150
    @mikey5150 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember in the early eighties we used to do Roofing on Maxwell Street start at 5:00 in the morning and we used to see The Pimps the hookers and the cops all having breakfast at Jimmy's Maxwell Street Polish.😋😁

    • @GCast
      @GCast  13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I guess they all had a big appetite after a big night.

  • @michaelreynosa195
    @michaelreynosa195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I was born and raised on Taylor Street years ago I still love going down jewtown to buy clothes or stuff I needed and have my suits tailored upstairs from the Chinese guys .. you can buy just about anything in town years ago anything..... It's all changed now the UIC took over I missed the olden days on Taylor Street it was so nice back then.. all of these videos bring back a lot of memories thank you so much and keep it up with those videos.. I was wondering if you had any videos on Taylor Street back in the sixties or '50s?

    • @augustmosco
      @augustmosco ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hey Mike---I was born and raised on Taylor St. too, during the 50s and 60s. I went to Andrew Jackson grammar school (by Sheridan Park) and lived on Racine near Mother Cabrini Hospital (where I was born). I remember that Maxwell St was the only stores open on Sunday and we would go and hang out every Sunday morning. It's nice to see these old films.

    • @MasterRoss-sn7dl
      @MasterRoss-sn7dl 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please stop calling it Jewtown

    • @dreamcore
      @dreamcore หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MasterRoss-sn7dl no

  • @kenkunz1428
    @kenkunz1428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The fist half of this clip is Maxwell St., the second half is Old Town. The loss of Maxwell st. to gentrification is a sin the City can never correct.

    • @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711
      @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gentrification is another word for making the place nice and clean.

    • @kenkunz1428
      @kenkunz1428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 You're the kind of guy who would have been scared shitless to walk down the Original Maxwell street.

    • @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711
      @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kenkunz1428 absolutely. Because it was a third world shit hole and i am used to nice clean Chicago streets the way its been my whole life. Up until now. Im 24.

    • @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711
      @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kenkunz1428 dont blame me for growing up good fam. Im latino we take advantage of opportunities not squander them and blame whites for our problems.

    • @kenkunz1428
      @kenkunz1428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 Well, at least you copped to being scared shitless of the old Maxwell. It was a great place. You missed it.

  • @josephhall5884
    @josephhall5884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You could buy anything. Literally until 1996. Anything.

  • @bluesquirrel3919
    @bluesquirrel3919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I remember those po' boy sandwiches that they sold at the dime store (Neisner). Every now and then I remember the taste (so damn good) and 🤗

    • @Sentientmatter8
      @Sentientmatter8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What they put in them?

    • @ExtraHistoryYT
      @ExtraHistoryYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/F53nhGzziwg/w-d-xo.html

    • @bluesquirrel3919
      @bluesquirrel3919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Sentientmatter8...That was a little over 55 years ago, so I don't quite remember, but I do remember the smell and taste 🤗

    • @tomfilipiak3511
      @tomfilipiak3511 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WOW,Niesner brothers dime stores,Memory,sitting with my mon and dad and sisters,at the lunch counter listening to my mom,ordering a coffee Boston,which means double cream or milk! When’s the last time you heard any of that,Born in 1948,lived at2416 South Whipple Street,Near Cermak and Kedzie,Marshall Boulevard!

  • @errorsofmodernism9715
    @errorsofmodernism9715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This would make a great Colt 45 Malt Liquour commercial. Some of their best customers are seen in this video dressed for a night out on the town

    • @randomuser1105
      @randomuser1105 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very clever comment. So funny. 🙄

  • @billbeliakoff5589
    @billbeliakoff5589 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One time I went to Maxwell St. With a buddy who was looking for a car stereo and thought he could haggle for a good price. I told him that he better be ready to pay the asking price because things are are already cheap. After about 45 minutes the guy he was talking to and finally caved and sold one for $50 that he was asking $125 because he got tired of the back and forth.

  • @matrox
    @matrox ปีที่แล้ว +3

    7:08 Those girls are now in their 80s.

  • @joejazzy3588
    @joejazzy3588 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very nice THANKS

  • @tomfilipiak3511
    @tomfilipiak3511 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When you are 15 years old,traversing the Chicago,I know,1963 I was 15 years old,had a 53 Pontiac,straight 8,drove all over the CII, town I know!JU,Town,12 street and Halsted,Smoky Joes,for a brim,or some shark skin pants,and a vest!We all dressed to the nines,Hardy’s,or Tom McCanns for some shoes,Jimmys for a polish,the onions you could smell a block away!No,gangs,no trouble,shady as it might be,people trying to make a buck,legal and illegal!The CHI town I knew!Thomas A.FilipiakBringit back!!!

  • @wakcedout
    @wakcedout 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ngl, was kinda watching to see if my great grandma grandma or dad could be spotted in this. Woulda been interesting to see my dad and grandma younger and see my great grandma alive.
    But not sure if they would have ever taken the bus up to this.

  • @chrisfritsch7934
    @chrisfritsch7934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Pickle Barrel was on Wells! Not Maxwell!

  • @LloydMajor
    @LloydMajor 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome!

  • @wallstreettrader1
    @wallstreettrader1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:52-1:07 Carrie Robinson.

  • @kkarllwt
    @kkarllwt ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We would go down there on sunday morning to the flea market to buy tools.1968

  • @bluehand9631
    @bluehand9631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Bananas, eight pounds for 50 cents then. Fifty nine cents per pound now.

    • @oohlaalaagaga
      @oohlaalaagaga 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      With inflation that would make 8 lbs $4.37ish and .59x8 = 4.72 so not a huge difference

    • @GnomeChomsky9999
      @GnomeChomsky9999 ปีที่แล้ว

      Always do the math..

  • @DavidGarcia-x9w
    @DavidGarcia-x9w ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Looked dirty and hood but this place holds good memories and was more safer than Chicago nowadays

    • @jonathanmosher72
      @jonathanmosher72 ปีที่แล้ว

      No it wasn't, Maxwell St is way safer today. Go look up assaults and murders today in this area vs the 60s and 70s. People are literally brainwashed by fake news

  • @uwetoob9265
    @uwetoob9265 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    then wells in old town

  • @bluesquirrel3919
    @bluesquirrel3919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hey, you left Maxwell and went to Old Town, not fair

    • @davidzornig1319
      @davidzornig1319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It went to the Gold Coast Art Fair and Oak & Rush at 3:30. It then goes to Old Town at 5:21.

  • @LloydMajor
    @LloydMajor 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is awesome! May i use some of the footage in my "TH-cam VIDEO"? I will give you credit.

  • @uwetoob9265
    @uwetoob9265 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    second 1/2 looks like the gold coast art fair

  • @bobbie143bc
    @bobbie143bc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A lot of this film is not on Maxwell Street.

  • @marks7167
    @marks7167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks toteUOI

  • @firstlastname3865
    @firstlastname3865 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is not entirely Maxwell Street. I see Old Town, near North.

  • @merrybe3418
    @merrybe3418 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Street dancing and singing, independent junk dealers, a woman wearing short white gloves, none of the homogenized feel of today's art shows and flea markets.

  • @dominiquejohnson2643
    @dominiquejohnson2643 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine This Is A theme song

  • @gabrielvasquez926
    @gabrielvasquez926 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Name of song

    • @GCast
      @GCast  13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Can't remember, it came from epidemic sound.

  • @dachicagoan8185
    @dachicagoan8185 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is the birthplace of Chicago blues and maxwell street hot dogs

  • @michaelkawell3300
    @michaelkawell3300 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jewtown blues brothers was filmed

  • @alexwilson2988
    @alexwilson2988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hi there, amazing footage here. Do you have an email contact address I can get you on?

  • @HelenaSkazki
    @HelenaSkazki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Мой дед жил и умер в Чикаго.

  • @AbletonLiveTechs
    @AbletonLiveTechs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    so amazing. No blm and feminism. Gotta love it

    • @kenkunz1428
      @kenkunz1428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Alright Trump, keep your shirt on.

    • @Denahii
      @Denahii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If that’s all you think about when watching this, there’s something wrong with u. So obsessed for what 😂

    • @david-lm7iu
      @david-lm7iu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Denahii he is right tho its toxic, with everyone that's wants to be in a social group.

    • @honorbluelovelyful
      @honorbluelovelyful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It surrounds us so much these days that it honestly IS refreshing to not see political signs in these pics.....ppl look a lot more relaxed and engaged with each other

    • @tricatfilms6136
      @tricatfilms6136 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      now chicago is a sh$thole thanks to the mayor and demorats

  • @tomfields3682
    @tomfields3682 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where's Jake and Elwood and Aretha?

    • @GCast
      @GCast  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They're on a mission from God.

  • @matrox
    @matrox ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1963'

  • @anthonyhuminsky5132
    @anthonyhuminsky5132 ปีที่แล้ว

    INSTALL ON MY MESSAGING

  • @kevinharms7578
    @kevinharms7578 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Good ol Jew Town.

  • @fastted3504
    @fastted3504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I gotta' say that is some sht bkgrnd music. Drunken 10 y/o's playing that ?

  • @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711
    @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Honestly looks like shit. Kinda like how it looks now.

    • @randomuser1105
      @randomuser1105 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Kinda how you look.

    • @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711
      @theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@randomuser1105 how do you know what I look like?? The photo I have is podcaster Tim Dillon. Not myself.