Chicago 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Street scenes in Chicago, Illinois 1942, You can see what's happening on the sidewalks, classic cars, streetcars, storefronts, and billboards of the time.
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Internet Archive
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Would You Like to Live in the 1940s???
I did.
Yes but not possible!… Almost all the cities today in America have been turned into 3rd world dumps.
I did too. When I was going on seven, my dad bought his first house in 1944 for $ 6,500 (now listed for $ 90,000 on Zillow).
@@donaldwilson7717 only 90k? You mean 900,000.
NO. Lol
The clothing, the billboards, the vehicles, and the characters....the fat kid with the yo-yo and the little girl coaxing her mother into the ice cream shop...the elevated train and the people all seeming to have a sense of going somewhere significant...the Kress store with its iconic 5-10-25 cent boast...the grocery store and price of food and the sheer life of the city in every form. Thank you for another excellent restoration.
thank you very much ;))
The five & dime was the period Dollar 🌲 Tree.
I believe Kresge was the founder of K-Mart
Were those cars capable to work out to drive them from East to west coast?
@@gustavoperez5480Oh sure. Ever read On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Many people made the journey from the dust bowl states in the thirties out to California. You just needed to change the oil a lot more as most of these cars didn't have oil filters. And they really pumped out some fumes. Great looking though. My favourite period for cars 🛺
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I love these videos, because they show what absolute slobs we have become.
I'm 78 & was alive for part of the 40's ,but would you really want to go back to a time
where you had to get dressed up, even to go to a darkened movie? Men had to wear
suits & women dresses, that they couldn't afford, to go to jobs that paid too low salaries!
@@rongendron8705Melhor é o DESLEIXO então ??? E com 78 anos vc nasceu em 1946 ...4 anos após esse vídeo ...era um bebê .Crinaça nos anos 50 ,logo Não sabe o que está dizendo.
Men wearing suits, ties and hats. Women in dresses, stockinged, some hats. Really not a one that isn't thin and walking strong. Oh yeah, one old guy taking his time. I'm fat so don't think I'm bias.
@@rongendron8705 We've gone way too far the other way. People don't even dress up for church or funerals. Gents with sandals on an airplane. People used to dress with self-respect and respect for others.
We live in a world where you have to get undressed in the airport in order to be let on the plane - so what if people wear sandals??
Thank you for sending us on another stunning trip to the past! What a delightful video this is, Chicago at its best, so clean, so pristine! I love your work, and thank you always for allowing us all to be a part of what you do….❤
Hi!! Thank you!!
My grandma told me about the streetcars in chicago. So cool to finally see them. Thank you 🙏
They were still around in the mid 60's I remember them. Sadly "progress " got rid of them.
As a baby in 1946 Chicago in my mother's arms, a cement truck ran head-on into our streetcar. Of course, the streetcar couldn't turn. The window by our seat shattered glass that cut my mother's arm that was protecting me. The streetcar driver lost his legs. When I was a little older, we would ride the streetcar southeast on Clark Street to get to Wrigley Field.
American heritage and culture . What a great time capsule. Great work my friend. I didn't see a single bum/hobo.
Thank you!! ^^
People are watching where they’re going, which is no longer the case with mobile phones. The definition is beautiful. Another beautiful moment in the time machine. A huge thank you!
Anyone remember the Simon&Garfunkel lyric from the song America. “So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies”. Pretty cool in 2024 watching a video from 1940 and reminded of a song lyric from 1970.
Yes, the only place I'd heard of those pies was in that song. Now I know they were singing about a popular brand of pies, not woman they knew named Wagner.
That lyric came into my head when I saw the billboard
NASS........you just keep out doing yourself. I enjoyed that film very much. The resolution, color and frame rate are superb.
You bring so many hours of enjoyment\education to so many people. Seems like saying "Thank you" just isnt enough.
Please know when I do say "Thank you" it is with the most heartfelt sincerity and complete admiration for you and your work.
So........Thank You NASS!!!! Thank you x1000.
Thank you ;))!
This was at the beginning for WW2. My mother might have been in the downtown footage... ps.. i wish you would have put the streets in as with the exception of downtown... no idea where this was taken... if you have anymore of Chicago.. would love to see them.
Agreed. Even the names of the nearest intersections would help.
How nice,peaceful and calm city at that time. And now😳😾🥲As I always say : historical footages.
Thanks!
;))
My parents were children in 1942, in Chicago. South shore for my dad. Roseland for my mom. They used to tell us stories about growing up in Chicago. Another time.
I was born in Roseland, 1959
Did they ever go to raceway Park at 127th and Ashland?
@@wayneadams7829 I don’t know. Heard of raceway park
Think it was open when I was growing up. Never been
This video DEMANDS at least one million views.
I have no illusions about that era as there was a war going on and we just recovered from the Great Depression. Add to this is the fact that there was too much racial/ethnic discrimination going on. Despite all, I'd still love to have a TARDIS just to visit, for at least a little while.
Thanks for making this highly entertaining production.
Nass, Great video. Love all your videos, especially New York, Chicago, and San Francisco in the 1930's and 40's. I just love the men's dress and the cars of the period. At 1:31 for a second, I thought man at far right was going to flip a coin up and down like Hollywood Gangster George Raft in the movie Scarface in 1932. LOL. I like the big billboard signs too! Oh Uh, At 1:55 Mother and daughter differences of where they want to go! LOL. Cute scene though! Thanks for the upload.
Hi!! Thank you
278 views 13 minutes after posting. Not bad.
Nice seeing all the red Chicago Surface Lines (CSL), vintage streetcars and the newer PCC type ones as well. Back when it cost 7 cents to ride on them. Thanks for sharing!
Hii! Thank you!! ^^
Fantastic work as always.
thank you very much
Please, people, this channel gives us great clips, and 100% people litter the comments with DEPRESSING things, which they would realize are not “it” if they took a moment to think it thru. Do not comment, “all of these people would be dead now” or how much better, cleaner, nicer those times were. It was extremely rough for all marginalized communities. So, no, not a universal thought or very nice. Do not be too sentimental for dead loved ones in the comments; it is depressing and not nice to us. We worry about your mental health. If the current times are not amazing for you, go make it better! Meet some friends! You can do it.
What a depressing comment.😒
The longcoat was essential attire of the time. Heavy and durable, but they were pricey. Some second hand stores sell them now, the real McCoy.
Yes, those coats were de-riguer! Also in the 1950’s. I think that in Ireland they were called “Crombies”.
Back when everyone dressed nice and people could afford to wear shirts with stuff like buttons , a collar , sleeves , ... Well people could afford to wear a real shirt ...... Back when pretty much everyone was smart enough to know what a real shirt was .... That kinda sums it up .... Back when ,,,,,, well things were just a lot better back then when it came to the clothes .
Yeah I know what you mean but on the other hand people were very up-tight and society was very formal, even too formal I would say. If you were to transport back to that time, maybe you would actually miss our less informal world of today, would you not? Having to dress in heavy clothing to go anywhere might get tired after a while, I wear Khakis and short sleeve T shirt all year even in winter but I do agree that seeing people like with nasty Tattoos or just ugly flimsy clothing or exposed people is not very civil but at least here in Seattle most of the year it's raining out so people tend to dress heavier clothing which makes everyone look more dressed up than say in Texas or Florida or California that's for sure.
@@drscopeify I wear bluejeans , a khaki Red Kap workshirt with a collar , chest pockets with flaps , sleeve cuffs that button and a white t-shirt under it everyday with either nike air monarchs or carolina journeyman work boots . I own a small real estate investment company and I'm a Landlord Partner with a rapid rehousing program for the homeless . I've had to wear suits but everyone knows me by my khaki workshirts I wear that go way back . I get mistaken for a homeless person all the time because I'm always dirty and in the same places like thrift stores where all the homeless people are . I love old work clothes Oh and my everyday jacket is a black Red Kap panel jacket from the late 50's early 60's and it has chest pockets on it for cigarettes . They don't make em like that anymore . The people working at Famous Barr noticed . Told me I'd be killed in Tokyo for it .
@@drscopeify don't confuse being formal with contemporary fashion and conformity. None of those people were dress formally, they were just wearing casual attire of the period. Dime store dress shirts were 39¢. Sears and higher quality shirts were over $2.99. clothes were better cared for and lasted longer because many people used professional laundries. A nickel had a shirt laundered and a dime got that plus had it folded and wrapped.
Today it's a zombie apocalypse! Tea shirts, shorts, jeans with large holes, sneakers. pajamas worn in public, etc.!
It's not like clothes were proportionally cheaper. It was just simply what you had to do to be part of society. Lots of people only had one or two outfits and washed by hand daily.
Thanks for your videos man! It's a time machine to let you see what the world in the past looked like
My mom was born in 1923. She always talked about the streetcars, the Loop, how dressed up they would get just to go shopping. How relatable this made those stories. I felt totally immersed in that time. Brilliant work!
thank you very much
Good to see the streamliner streetcars which had entered service a few years earlier. Ridership increased because of their superior riding qualities and speed. Chicago had plans to buy many more, but sadly wartime shortages and the rush to encourage car ownership meant these would be withdrawn by the 1950s.
This is amazing. Definitely subscribing.
These clips are culled from another TH-cam video, To Market, To Market (1942). It's black and white, with a narration explaining the strategy for placing outdoor billboards around Chicago. That's why these clips have so many billboards.
We've all been there, Mom. Some things never change. 1:56
lol.....happens again with another mom @4:12 😁
good natured mothers, this is cute
Absolutely incredible video!
Very nice footage. Thanks for sharing. One question, if you don't mind: where did you get those images from.?. Thanks again.
"Hey buddy, what's the big idea cuttin' into my lane?"
"Well, on accounta ya movin' too slow."
The road rage was outta control back then.
Beautiful real street life ! Better colours and sound design. A survey inquiry about billboards ?
Thank you!! ^^
To go back in time would be amazing. Nice clothes, kind people, family owned businesses, you name it!
These films were obviously made by and for the outdoor advertising people. Great street car and bus shots.
Life’s one big movie🦋🕶🦋
Consider you are living ancient history at this very moment because the day will come when it will be.
Fabulous look at the 1940s, similar to the downtown 1930s motion pictures of Los Angeles. The unvarnished look at yesteryear. It was incredible that someone had the foresight to take these motion pictures. A lesson to us today: we need to do the same thing now for future generations.
Some clips I recognize as being Madison and Crawford now Madison and polaski since they change the name of Crawford Some clips are of the loop and I would suspect state and Madison because at that time it was considered the world's busiest intersection
Dress so nicely
I've lived in the Chicago area since 1970. I still recognize many of these locations despite the changes. Sadly it's a bygone world.
At 0.22, behind the streetcar, looms the Marbro Theatre, a grand movie palace.
Very interesting footage. However, the scenes were only a few seconds each. Which is too brief to observe everything in the frame and capture the period.
It shows the prosperity which we used to have as a country before outsourcing.
Thank you for such a fascinating video! My only question is that since this film was made in 1942, in the summer or maybe fall, I am surprised that there are no patriotic support our troops bill boards, or anything else to hint at the war, like seeing lots of soldiers. Am I confused as to what early WW2 life was like on the home front????
Fantastic, I Love ❤️ It 😊!!
Thank you
I was born 14 years after this but the Chicago of my youth makes this seem familiar to me. I would NOT get lost in 1942 Chicago.
I would most definitely love living back then. I didn't know that they had A&P foods all the way back then. I did not know Walgreens had been around that long. You could barely recognize Chicago back then.
I miss when you could actually go down town and shop or go to the movies, or stop off and have a hot fudge sundae. I was hoping to see Ma and Pa Kettle driving by. 😮😅
I didn't see a single bullet...
"OBEY!!!" -google/meta/msm/dnc
No gun control back then. I was 10 years old in 1963, bought a .22 rifle from Sears, mail order. No questions asked.
What is the black car on the right side of the video at 3:49?
Good editing job.
Thank you ;))
I'm curious. How long did it take you to digitize, upscale, colorized and clean-up this footage?
About 10 hours with work I believe
it takes a lot of time to get a good result
Maybe the guy with the stop watch in front of the sign is calculating how many people per minute walk past/view the advertisement or cars drive past 🤔
I spent six years in the 1970’s driving a delivery truck all over Chicago. I recognize many of the street names and a few of the buildings but a lot was nothing I specifically recall.
A lot of these buildings were still here in the 70s, but by the 70s the Dope dealers had moved in.
Amazing
It just posted, you haven't watched it yet.
@@JSFGuyvi todo el video.
@@emirarrab translate to English
I can't explain it but while watching I could sometimes get the sensation of actually smelling my grandmother's perfume.
Colors are very weird, edges very sharp, in general it looks like "poster" effect in motion, but i saw my favorite public transportation kind on 1:23 - trolleybus! Honestly, not everything needs to be colorized. Professional photographers sometimes even prefer black an white photos because they better relay the details and even mood of the image. Color sometimes "cartoon-izes" the image, especially, like here, "not historically accurate". We have our imagination and our brain is doing wonderful job "translating" images for us. I would rather watched this in black and white and not so overly processed.
When Chicago was safe.....and white.
And yet, Europe was AT WAR! lol & smh ..HOW COME they couldn't maintain such "peace" and "civility" in Europe? ..???? And I guess that there were NEVER any gangsters in Chicago before Black people, huh? ..?? 😅
That's just a coincidence...that murder rates were 1/4 of what they are now per capita
We got an Adolf here.
If you don't like go back to Ireland.
@@gustavoperez5480 happens to be fact you fool.
This is wonderful footage! A different world!
@1:09, is that Cermak and Trumbull or Pulaski and Belden?
So clean
I wonder why they took out all the trains that were on the ground. Looks more beautiful back then than now. The clothes the billboards the cars the trains even the light poles
Looks like some great B-Roll
Notice no pillagers at any of the Walgreens.
Are these available on dvds
What shocks me the most is to think that all these people have died.
Those 2 grocery stores side by side, only separated by one storefront. They must have had some pretty good price wars. All the meat was pennies a pound too.
It's amazing to me to see when US cities still were really vibrant, and had great public transport 😊😊
Please don’t do this. It is not a clever thought, or original. The world today that so many people know is much fairer and better for them than anything that would exist in that world. I mean, think of most women for a start.
@@terriealabama7612 I was talking about urban development and public transport, nothing else
aw people up close ... brilliant
Looking back, each one of those people lived in modern times, unaware of what was coming: WAR.
Fantastic work. Thanks.
They were quite aware that war already started in Europe and in Asia.
@@pawelpap9We entered the war on December 8, 1941. And a few days later, Germany declared war on us.
@@pawelpap9 In Chicago? I'm not sure.
@@jimmerhardy you think they didn’t read newspapers and listen to the radio? Not to mention the fact that very large percentage were new arrivals from Europe so they had keen interest in what was happening in their home countries.
@@thefish5861 Are you aware that currently there is war in Ukraine? The US is not involved, but I assume you read the news.
Chicago was a massive city. At that time, it was 1/2 the size of NYC.
2:15 is lake shore drive near Temple Shalom
Would be interesting to put this video to compare today’s time and see the complete difference. Nothing against anyone in particular just how much society has changed so much since.
Order, productivity, common courtesy, no crime, no litter, no graffiti, no gangs and no diversity.
Gotta love the ad guys sitting there with clipboards counting foot traffic as it walks by. Jotting down people who look up. Gotta show the clients where the money is going.
A calmer, saner time.
Yeah, the 1940s enjoyed peace on earth. Dummy.
Flowframes?
yes!
90% of the people wear real cool hats
Why did it change?
Some ppl that were hive minded and undraftable were given a lot of say...
Leftist lunatics
What's up with the guy with the notepad in the end?
Why don't we see videos like this in other than the United States of America?!! Why don't we see Baghdad, for example??!!
This was very interesting. I wonder why Chicago dd away with their Trolley car system while other cities didn't. 🤔
Others did too
Anyone know why?@@NoName-rl3fh
When cars became more affordable and people began to move to suburbs, trolly ridership began a decline in late 1940s
How do you remember which car is yours when you park tho 😵💫
Hate hate hate the three plus minute adds imbedded within the video. Not being able to fast forward through it diminishes the experience.
some of them areas look familiar. been in chicago all my life
This was before the Southern Diaspora. After WWII thousands of southerners poured into the northern cities. Their children and grandchildren changed them.
So, like, WHO were the ones with the stop-watches... WHAT were they timing, mes amis !? 💋
Window shopping was the Amazon
That's cool: The guy counting people walking by the billboards: it's to calculate it's "SHOW" rating to potential advertisers. You need a combination of 100 SHOW (from numerous billboards around the city or state) to make it worthwhile campaign.
th-cam.com/video/WbQ0tVx-DA0/w-d-xo.html
I have literally hundreds of Irish family in Chicago. They settled there in 1890. Grandpa was an accountant for Swift. My great-uncle was a bricklayer, who worked on the Museum of Modern Art - including the Lions!
Was mir ganz besonders auffällig, die Leute legten noch Wert auf Kleidung. Die Männer trugen Anzüge und Hüte. Es gab auch viel mehr Disziplin. Heutzutage laufen viele, sehr viele schlampig herum und von Disziplin kann man gar nicht mehr reden. So ist es aber nicht nur in den USA, so ist es ganz oft jetzt auch in Europa. Was mir jedoch positiv auffällt, dass in Italien die Menschen elegant gekleidet sind.Es hat sich vieles nicht gerade zum Guten entwickelt. Die USA waren schon immer die Vorreiter, positiv wie negativ.
Didn't see Capone and Mugsy Moran's gangs going at it! Nice though
The people look so fit and healthy. No garbage, graffiti and human waste in the streets this can't the US?
Like you're there!
❤كل شيء قديم فيھ لنا رسالة لنفھم ما دورن في ھذا الحياة كلھا
لكل مينا وقتھ ويرحال من ھذا الحياة ماذا قدمت لھا وماذا فعلت فيھا وماذا تنتظر منھا
Well done, NASS!
You think of who was alive in your family then.
My Greek grandparents.
My mother.
On and on.
Bravo!
The Time Machine is now taking on passengers for one way or round trip destinations…
demographics make a city... a country.... a nation.
Well, I'm fairly certain the streets have never been blue, green or aqua.
05:50 Oh know he did int hit that man's car!!
didn't look like it
Tutti magri ben vestiti, un tempo che non esiste piu'