I'm now 71, born in 1951. Seeing this video was amazing. I lived and worked in and around Chicago all my life. I grew up sailing in Monroe Harbor and seeing the old original Chicago Yacht Club is mind blowing. My Grandparents were in their 30's in the 1920's. What a hoot to see a day in their times in moving pictures. Thanks for putting this out ! Really great !
Cant believe how fast NY and Chicago were built. First "skyscraper" was like 1888, and 30 years later seems as though they took over! Imagine the construction jobs in that era
yes the story is ludicris... limited heavy machinary, how much skilled labor can one place have? you know the empire state building was built in one year.... LOL
The rivalry of Chicago and NYC goes back. At this point in time, Chicago is a world economic super power and it held it for decades .Thank you for posting this gem.
Indeed it was. The city proper held nearly four million inhabitants in less then one hundred years. The bustling, hustling drive, innovation, and creativity of the city, especially before the first world war was so astonishing and remarkable, it did not escape the notice of the world. So much of what made America a modern and efficient showcase wonder, had its beginnings in Chicago.
@@killingjoke535 If Chicago could compete with other overseas cities. Chicago was completely dethroned when other countries started to make automobiles as well
I noticed that there was little to nothing in the way of traffic lights or stop signs, and yet the traffic was just flowing along. Pretty incredible, really. The other thing I find amazing is how clean it all looks.
Major US cities at the time had begun to develop fairly robust public transport. Combination of peoples love of cars, the US auto industry deliberately destroying public transport, and poorly planned suburbs really screwed us over. If you live in even a small city today its likely you can find somewhere that tram tracks have been paved over. Its is incredibly clean. Despite the smog and industry at least people had dignity.
@@thegheymerz6353 Before the advent of personal vehicles... Public transportation was invented for people who had no other means of transportation. As personal vehicles became the norm, the need for public transportation diminished. Contrary to your opinion... Cars were NOT manufactured for the sole purpose of destroying something that you think should still be in existence. Geez... All of those arcades... GONE... because those undignified gamers couldn't be happy with putting quarters into a robust video machine coin slot. The console manufacturers deliberately destroyed them cuz those same gamers wanted to sit in the comfort of their own homes with their PS5s, and not be burdened with the task of having to run to a store, or a bank to make change for a twenty. I'd bet real money that you couldn't wait to get your first set of wheels. Any chance you'd give up your car, so you could pay a fare to ride the bus, or a trolley instead? Or would it make more sense to you to be able to hop into your car, and go anywhere you want, whenever you please? So... how, exactly, have you been screwed over? And, where did you say you were from?
Hard to explain in words how incredible it is to be able to watch people over 100 years ago just going about their day. I love this content. Imagine the journey of this video footage over the last century.
what's incredible is it looks so much like it does now, I used to walk all over the area they show for the first 2 mins daily and the city has done a good job of preserving all of that.
Not quite a hundred years yet. The Merchandise Mart construction was featured in this video and the first shovel was turned on the project in August of 1928. My guess it is late in that year in the video.
5:50 As a 43 year old born and raised lifelong Chicagoan who has lived half his life downtown…..I can’t tell you how unbelievably incredible this is!!! Seeing the iconic Merchandise Mart in the very beginning of its construction. SIMPLY WOW!
holy cow... I'm a Chicago courier and I see these buildings everyday. I'm in awe The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower looks just like it did 100 years ago.
Magnificent! I lived in Chicago for 25 years (1970-1995) and saw massive construction and changes in the city. This film shows so many landmarks from the late 1800s and early 1900s that are still a vibrant part of the city. Bravo!
I lived in downtown Chicago for a while, and it's stunning to see several of the buildings I walked past every day appear exactly as they are now on a film that's 100 years old. Such an incredible piece of living history.
It’s kinda weird seeing Chicago without all the huge third generation skyscrapers of international modern style skyscrapers made up of smooth glass facings but at the same time Chicago still looks the same because it has done a good job of preserving the first and second generation of skyscrapers in its skyline.
Disagree. Chicago in fact has treated its architectural patrimony in a very careless, cavalier if not shabby manner. Many examples of uniquely American architectural design and expressions were wantonly destroyed and sacrificed for the flimsiest reasons. Such as tearing down treasures in order to replace them with parking garages or even allow properties to remain fallow for years after notable buildings were demolished. Had the city taken its trove of archtectural heritage more seriously it would have given Chicago a much greater and richer cache of remarkable buildings. Judging from what is currently being built, the city's standards have fallen far below it's predecessors, with much of it's output being quite mediocre and bland. Chicago's setting apparently covers a multitude of architectural sins.
@LUIS What? I see the opposite of what you said. The Chicago in the video is very much recognizable to this day. Buildings with important architectural history are preserved. With that being said, the least important had to make way for growth, just like in any other city. The buildings that replaced them also carry significance. I've read literatures, seen photo illustrations, and watched videos, and still I am amazed at how the layout, the bones if you will had already existed in the late 1800.
@@LUIS-ox1bv I believe Luis is 100% correct. Yes it is indeed amazing to see so much of the cityscape then matching what exists now, but way, way too many beautiful buildings were demolished for no good reason. This video shows many of the major buildings that survived, but they were the exceptions. It is a story very similar to the old Penn Station in New York. Not sufficiently appreciated until it was gone, callously destroyed by people with no appreciation for architectural continuity and history -- and majesty for that matter; just fetishizing the new and modern and "futurism" above all else. Chicago's decimation of its architectural legacy is one of its great tragedies.
@@jev2867 As a former architectural student who upon moving to Chicago sought employment with Skidmore Owens & Merril,( at that time, the world's largest architecture firm), to work in their architecture library, I resolutely stand by my views. The city's record on historical preservation warrants a failing grade. In fact, so high was the level of destruction that occured during the decades leading up to my arrival in 1980, I was shocked and appalled to learn about not only the extremely significant and uniquely Chicagoan treasures that were lost, but what replaced them. People can argue until the cows come home about trade offs and gains made by reducing what made this city stand out in many ways, into a pile of rubble or prairie, but in the end the price paid is the city's soul, identity and cultural, historical patrimony. Before I moved to Chicago, I worked in a company which helped restore historic homes and even save many from demolition by moving them to protected districts. We had a lawyer in our office who was a former Chicagoan who bemoaned the utter destruction of the city's great architectural heritage. The corruption in the city and the lackadaisical, careless and indifferent atitudes that preservation efforts were carried out in Chicago, disgusted him enough to compell him to move out of the city. Did not fully comprehend his views until my 30 year stay in the city, when I witnessed the outrageous destruction of not only individual buildings downtown in the neighborhoods, but large swathes encompassing entire city blocks. Block 37 in the Loop, across from another Chicago trajedy,( the loss of Marshall Field's), proved an explicit example of Chicago's approach to, "preservation." The block once contained a mish mash of structures, but among them was a notably beautiful building dating from the 1870s and built not long after the fire. It also boasted another visually interesting building, which had the offices of Clarence Darrow. Being steeped in historical value meant little to nothing, for the city was won over by developers. Ultimately the proposals fell through, one after another. So this very important and prominent block sat empty for nearly 20 years. The block now contains a sterile mall, topped with mediocre, nondescript towers. The city deserved much, much better. The straw that broke the camel's back, was the tearing down of the former Mercantile Exchange Building in the Loop. By then, I had my fill of a city that is hell bent on erasing its past and not capitalizing enough on what made it great. While the city has accomplished much in improving and embellishing public recreational aspects, so much of this strikes one as mere, " window dressing." The city has lost much of its driving juice when it comes to what its noted for and other cities have picked up its slack when it comes to bold and innovative design. Nevertheless, it remains a city in a beautiful setting, with a remarkabke skyline. Which, while spectacular, when viewed from a distance, promises more then it delivers upon closer inspection at streetlevel.
Wow, I recognize just about everything here. It’s amazing how open everything looks, nowadays everything is so crammed in with so many additional buildings.
My dad was born in Chicago in 1924. They lived at North Clark Street in the building next to the garage where the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre took place.
My mom was born in Chicago in 1925 (West Side), eventually my Dad emigrated to Chicago in 1958 from Eastern Europe via college and early career in New England. I was born @ Edgewater Hospital in 1960. Except for about 11 years (1966-1977), mostly in Cleveland, my Mom lived her whole life in Chicagoland (passed in 2006 along with my Dad).
This is superb restoration work. So amazing to see through a window and at the press of a button or two, we get to see life rewound back to a time many years before. Thanks NASS
Priceless, to step back in time is a touch of heaven to me at age 75. To see people going about their lives so long ago, and to think that all have passed away.
I love the fact Chicago kept most of their architecture 😍, I've lived here my whole life and as I grow older I'm finding more and more reasons to stay, such awe.
Mind blowing what they were able to build with almost no technology. All built with skill and by hand. And to think every single person in the video has already died. They were kids, had dreams, their own families.
Cities much older than Chicago were built very well and are standing today. So apparently, the technology required has been around a long time. Your notion of technology may be the machinery now available to assist in some tasks formerly done by hand.
Chi-town never looked better. Really enjoyed watching it. Thank you Nass for all that you do. Please allow me to wish you the happiest of holidays and may the New Year be kind to you and to those you love. 🥰🥰🥰
Wow! My grandma wasn't born til 1933, so this is how her parents saw Chicago when they migrated from the south. Thanks to my Great Grandparents we were all born here from 1933 - present & I'm sharing this with the whole squad 😁 Thank you so much for this beautiful footage 💪🏾
What's also amazing is that by the 1920's the contours of the entire 20th Century and even so far into the first decades of the 21st were pretty clear, including air travel, Robert Goddard's experiments with rocket propulsion, the development of quantum physics, and Einstein's theories which by this time were already well over ten years old. Even rudimentary computing. In contrast, compare what a typical city and technology in 1820s Chicago, New York City, or London looked like and what if anything then could offer as a clue as to what the next 100 years would become compared to the same cities by the 1920s.
Especially since as of 1829, Chicago had a population of less than 100. But then between 1870 and 1900 it exploded from 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million, the fastest-growing city in world history. Seriously, consider that it took Rome, London, and Beijing thousands of years to pass the million mark.
This is amazing. My grandfather was raised in Chicago. He was an attorney there during this time. To see this is wonderful. Rumer has it he was an attorney for the mob. My great grandfather was a tailor in Chicago and had his own shop. He and my great grandma came to settle in Chicago after coming here from Italy.
It's hard to imagine that colorizing & stabilizing old footage, could make these 100 year old films seem so current! Also, we are seeing Chicago in the 'heyday' of Al Capone, the way people then, saw it! Great!
6:40 Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago Landmark in the center of Grant Park, between Queen's Landing and Ida B. Wells Drive. Dedicated in 1927 and donated to the city by philanthropist Kate S. Buckingham, it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style.
So cool to see what downtown Chicago looked like back in the 20s, especially Michigan Avenue. It was adorable to see that the Brown Line only had 2 cars!? But wow, that Allerton Hotel sign is still there to this day!
Ok, I'm going to watch here in a little bit. I'm trying to place everything, with out the red building I can't find my bearing lol, and if your from Chicago you know what building I'm talking about. Lol
Can you believe guys, we are looking at something 100 years old, and depending when this was filmed maybe, slightly, more. Nearly all the babies born the year this was filmed have now, passed away. Every single, soul we see shown in this is now, gone, and Chicago today, is unrecognizable from the Chicago we see here. All the space though, I can't believe all the open space. Future development for sure.
11:20 The Bowman and The Spearman, also known collectively as Equestrian Indians, or simply Indians, are two bronze equestrian sculptures standing as gatekeepers in Congress Plaza, at the intersection of Ida B. Wells Drive and Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Grant Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The sculptures were made in Zagreb by Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and installed at the entrance of the parkway in 1928. Funding was provided by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund.
Capone,Weiss, and Drucci were battling it out around this time, and big band Jazz was coming into its own. Shoeless Joe Jackson was tearing it up for the Black Sox and the Charleston was catching on in the clubs! It was a great city then and its a great city now, even if its always had problems!
Since I'm originally from Chicago, this is one of my favorite videos you have. The era of Capone and the iconic structures, some that are just being built like the Merchandise Mart. I had deliveries to the Mart in the mid 80s, I was in there 2 days making them lol It was so vast inside. IDK if the Kennedy family still owns it. Had to pay for a ticket in the Reid Murdoch building @ 2:55. My wife worked in the Straus building, @ 6:53, 310 S. Michigan Ave., it was the Encyclopedia Britannica building when she worked there. Now Britannica is in the Reid Murdoch! Lol Adler Planetarium was under construction @ 10:33. Soldier Field @ 11:13 behind the Field Museum. All that construction due to the Chicago Plan of Burnham. Everyone can thank him for making Chicago what it is, at least the majority of what we see in The last 8 minutes of this film. Grant Park, the museums, the railroads, etc. It's a great read, he was a visionary.
It's so great to see Chicago all those years ago. So many of the buildings and sights are still there. With the ones we see, like the Tribune Tower, Buckingham Fountain, Shedd Aquarium, Medinah Athletic Club under construction, I would say the earliest year any of this video could be from is 1927.
Shedd Aquarium looks pretty complete in the shot of Grant Park and that was completed in 1929. You can see Riverside Plaza and the Civic Opera Building under construction in another scene. Both were completed in 1929. As you pointed out, Medinah Athletic Club looks near complete and it was completed in 1929 as well. Merchandise Mart wasn't started in that shot and it began construction in 1928. It seems that this is a collection of shots from the last 2 or 3 years of the 1920s.
It is sad to think about the fact that everyone seen in this video has now passed away with maybe just a few exceptions. I wonder what legacy they may have left behind. Incredible to see and think about life during those times! Going to a Ballroom in the 20's with Big Band music would have been amazing!
This is so very cool! There's the ORIGINAL colonnade designed by Edward Bennett at 7:53 in the video. A replica now stands in the same spot (I think) in Millenium Park. And the Bowman and Spearman statues in place but Michigan Ave and now Ida B. Wells street not quite done. So cool! The Art Institute and lions, the Aquarium and the Field Museum. Wow! The Hilton hotel looks a little no texture but still recognizable. And of course the Metropolitan Tower (with the Blue Beehive on top). Worked Downtown Chicago for 30 plus years. I recognized a lot of architecture in this video - the iconic buildings and views are still there today.
Was expecting to see a couple of shots where I can make out what it is today. Would have never guessed how similar downtown looks here as it does today. One of the best videos I have ever come across.
They did the groundbreaking on the Merchandise Mart in August of 1928. This film footage must have been around that timeframe as the site work was just beginning stage in the film.
I was thinking that also. Footage must be from the very late 20's since Buckingham Fountain (seen in some of the clips) Did not open to the public until 1927.
Yes, that segment of the film. However, it looks like there are different time periods in this video. To my knowledge, the "Chevrolet" sign was not constructed until right before the 1933 World's Fair. It is clearly visible in the video.
Disagree. The industrial impact was awful. This is such an ugly look. Im a photographer and I would not want to shoot any of this today. Of course it looks beautiful today bc the overwhelming industrial crap from this video was taken away and replaced w non industrial buildings. I reqlly dobt like how it looks in this video. Very ugly due to industrial flooding.
@@btnhstillfire Noted. But getting past the obvious carbon footprinting and industrial polluting of which I'm not indicting the people at that time over. Nor am I holding the architecture's stunningsness to a level consistent with cistene chapel. I do respect the time, consideration, and craftsmanship of those that ever drew the blueprints,wielded a hammer, and climbed a set of scaffolding to make it possible. The mystique and historical intrigue in a sense holds it's value and spans across time in a manner consistent Wrigley Field for example. At least to me.
@@carnivalgods4573 agreed. I'm not an expert in architecture, but I can appreciate these buildings and what they represent. Just amazing that Chicago's unique look and feel has been around for so long. Love my city, not a perfect place but it's home.
This is simply fantastic. Idk if we’re supposed have this sense of awareness like this but this is insane. I wonder if the man/woman recording knew this would be seen 100 years into the future and admired by all.. probably just how they were amazed at the ability to record and the rate the city was expanding. We are all apart of a higher, forever expanding consciousness if we really stop and think about it.
Right - and today young people are changing their sex - some don't even know what sex they are and our president is destroying America and the country is being taken over by China. Expanding consciousness? You had BETTER stop and think about it, man!
Well said! It is very meditative. These people are all now dead. Yet on this day they were living their daily life in the sunlight. Both the Great Depression and WWII were coming yet they could not see it. Future mind bending folly and idiocy. All out there in the great sea of being. Everyone, like us now, just passing through this way station in the Universe under highly impaired management in the fog of derelict Souls.
It does not look like a city from 1920 but from 1970. It is simply impressive the engineering construction of skyscrapers for that time. In my small Spanish town, in 1920, there were no houses over 5 stories high and many houses made of wood and mud. And only horse-drawn carriages circulated on the poorly paved streets.
My great grandparents came from a small village in Northern Italy. They settled in Chicago after WW1. They must have been amazed when they first set their eyes on a big city like Chicago.
12:20 The Art Institute Building. Flanking the exterior Michigan Avenue entrance stairs are two bronze lions by sculptor Edward Kemeys that were a gift from a Mrs. Henry Field for the Art Institute's opening at its current location in 1893. Although the lions have no official names, the sculptor designated the lions by their poses as "stands in an attitude of defiance" (south lion) and "on the prowl" (north lion).
My favorite part of looking back at old footage of everyday life is how, sometimes, things really don't seem all that different. Obviously yes things are different as far as styling, but if you really look at it... it's cars moving down streets, past buildings that don't look that much different today, with advertisements punching you in the face as usual, birds dropping white chocolate bombs everywhere, streetlights, concrete curbs and stairs, local and regional trucks delivering stuff, people walking to work. A good chunk of the flair and design is different, but it's basically the same routine. Now, if footage existed from the 1400's, then you'd really see a different way of life.
This is amazing! I grew up in Chicago in the 60's and 70's. I see so many similarities (Buckingham Fountain, Wrigley Building), yet so many differences (El trains with only two cars, parking 50 cents!).
Thank you for that well restored footage. An ancient relative of my husband ( with the same name) from Germany was a well known citizen of Chicago in the 19th century who founded a brewery (Lill and Diversey). I hope, I will get to Chicago one day. Wish you all happy christmas
Amazing footage. As I just wrote in a another thread my dad was born in Chicago in 1924. They lived at North Clark Street in the building next to the garage where the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre took place.
Its really funny to see those old cars with dirt and mud on them. They are now rarely seen and when you do see one, its restored and maintained perfectly to a point where you forget those were everyday cars. Great video, love it!!
This is exactly why I record what I do on my channel. Not for current viewers, but definitely for some future archive to showcase what the early 21st century looked like in full color. I have so much content that I still need to edit and upload but I think it'll be really cool to show my future generations the era in which I grew up and came into adulthood.
I started recording random videos of me driving down the street or walking down streets in the neighborhood. I don’t post to any site but maybe I should archive them somewhere. I was able to find some from the 70s of my hometown and it’s so cool seeing streets I also went down, with a mix of things that are still there and some that aren’t
At the six minute mark we see the construction site of the Merchandise Mart. Wow, what a building that became ! So nice to see large American cities on their way up. I sure would have liked to have been there.
this is amazing. seeing the lakefront like that is crazy. they must have just expanded the land out when this footage was taken. the aquarium and the field musuem are brand new, and stand out like the parthenon on the acropolis. those hills going down the right side from the museum look so weird.
I feel like I’m watching footage of a lost golden age. When we still cared about beauty. We lost something precious in the last 100 years. Cant explain it.
The clip at 2:58 was taken near the corner of Wacker Dr. & Orleans St. My father remarried in the building on the left with a clock tower in the middle. Incredible footage!
This was intoxicating. I only wish the actual person filming would have been captured, too. That person seemed to have an uncanny sense of the vast changes that would come in the future. Loved this!
Crazy to see the city you were born in, in the past. Gives you much perspective. Some of the street design layouts still look the same. And was def waiting for Wrigley Field to appear lol maybe in the next
My grandfather worked for the cook county road commission when this was filmed. I've pictures of him in front of crew pouring gravel in an alley. And my grandmother was a telephone operator back when they wore roller skates to run the huge switch board.
While I too can recognize most of the locations, it would be great if someone posted watermarks with approx locations for each shot. But LOVE it as is. So cool to see my city a century ago!
This is so amazing to see. Today I walk in this same space, and some of these structures are still there, looking just as they did 100 years ago. Just think, at the time this was filmed, there were still people who were alive during the civil war.
It’s amazing how much more ambitious and capable people were back then- we could never build at this rate today even with all the technological advantages we have.
The Chinese for certain still can build so fast, and can build faster. I'm already since years wondering where the Chicago of around 1900 might be currently reincarnating in their country.
@Caper Donich I'm certainly addicted to identifying reincarnations. I have already identified the Breslau and Prague of around 1900 with the Vienna and Bangkok of now, and I'm confident about a successor to the Chicago of those years following soon.
@Caper Donich The case of the Chicago of around 1900 is indeed a hard nut for me to crack, since a while. I'm confident about a reincarnation of the London of around 1900 in current Beijing (with Kim Jong-un resembling Churchill, accordingly), also about one of at least parts of the New York City of around 1900 in current Shanghai (Shanghai Tower probably being a reincarnation of the Woolworth Building). The Los Angeles of around 1900 can with a similar decidedness be re-discovered in current Shenzhen. But Chicago? Perhaps Guangzhou? Perhaps Wuhan? Guangzhou seems to lie too much at a coast with salty water, also a little close to my candidate for LA. Wuhan seems to be a little small...
@Caper Donich Vivian Leigh may easily already have returned. I'm currently comparing Li Chuanyun (born 1980) to David Oistrakh (1908-1974). Leigh has lived from 1913 to 1967. That buildings should reincarnate once you have a reincarnation of people would not mean a noteworthy addition of surprise. If you select similar genes from the ones of your parents each time, combine these genes in a similar manner, each time, you'll probably also plan similar buildings, after that. It is even _easier_ to imagine any sort of reincarnation if you also have one of cities. For a reincarnation of cities enables the individual human being to find his or her reincarnated mates much more easily. A person just needs to recognize a reincarnated place, then, downward into ever smaller spatial units. A city being much bigger than a single person or house, you'll more easily find it when you try to tune in to a destination. Having found a city, you'll easily be able to refine your search first for a quarter, then for a street, a house, and in the end, for a pair of particular parents. If your reincarnated mate applies the same process, you then twenty years later just need an interest in similar aspects of the world like you have had it in your last life, to find such a mate, again. You'll now easily develop such a similar interest because you have been born to parents resembling those you have had in your last life. Every generation thus needs to adapt genes but slightly, on par with what's known to be possible. It should not appear as probable even to the one who doesn't yet see the thing that such a phenomenon wasn't in place on Earth. For the universe is much bigger than just our planet, which means that you'll probably have systems of a much higher organization than the one so far commonly assumed to exist on Earth unaided from space, at some stars. One aspect which the wireless communication of our days must suggest as most likely exploited by such higher forms of an organization of matter is that you can organize molecules into organisms on pathways invisible to the human eye, e.g. via invisible electromagnetic radiation or also via dark matter or dark energy. That our bodies do not fall apart alone, how their cells are governed, how our genetic systems have come along anyway strongly suggests whatever aid from elsewhere than this planet, quite irrespectively of the question to what a degree such possibilities are commercialized in entertainment. Such possibilities can certainly be commercialized well simply because they really are plausible. If you do not believe me, you should also pay attention to the recentness of the emergence of broadband Internet. You cannot well expect a breakthrough on proofs of a concept like reincarnation so far mainly known from the realm of myths to become generally known already twenty or twenty-five years after such a new method of communication has arisen. Additionally, it should be clear that it's difficult to speak about such discoveries in public because there have been so many evil personalities in history, while you have to assume that anybody of the age of a child is innocent. You could compare maps of the city of Darmstadt, Germany of around 1800, of the Meriden, CT and Worcester, MA of around 1900, and of the current Wuxi west of Shanghai. You'll discover comprehensively similar networks of roads, also similar buildings with similar functions at similar places. That it's not an arbitrary choice to compare the Darmstadt of around 1800 with the Meriden and Worcester of around 1900 should be clear because these places (at least Meriden, concerning the time around 1900) have been visited by Goethe (1749-1832) and by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), respectively. These two writers exactly have shared their facial profiles, their ears, and also such and other traits of people surrounding them. Hauptmann has been well known for his impression that he was a sort of a reincarnation of Goethe, in the 1920s, and with the help of the Internet it's now easy to see as how justified such ideas must indeed appear.
I love these videos!!!! I just found your TH-cam page and subscribed. Thank you for doing this!! I have always, most of my life, wished that I had a time machine!
I love this work you do as I basically am writing history on my channel and live in the 1920's...my late mother was born 100 years ago in 1922, made to 94. Chicago played a major role during The Summer of 1926...which I've written and vlogged about on my channel. A vicious personal attack on Valentino weeks before he died ... coming out of Chicago with his going there to try to confront the writer, to no avail.
My father was born in 1923 and my mother in 1927 ... in this very city Chicago, as a matter of fact. I can picture both of them as small children during this film, and my grandparents as young adult parents.
@@jody6851 I lived in Milwaukee in the early 80's and would visit Chicago to feel less isolated. Coming from the NYC area WI was not for me, but Chicago 👍. I saw Elton John in an open arena down there during his "Mozart" days, lol.
@@rudolphvalentinoconnection8298 Last time I was in Chicago, the Bears had a home against Green Bay. It definitely, was an experience only equaled to the time I was at a Brazilian's home while Brazil was playing Argentina in the World Cup years ago.
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in which city in the world do you want to live in 1920s???
Buenos Aires or New York, hands-down.
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London, Chicago or Paris
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I'm now 71, born in 1951. Seeing this video was amazing. I lived and worked in and around Chicago all my life. I grew up sailing in Monroe Harbor and seeing the old original Chicago Yacht Club is mind blowing. My Grandparents were in their 30's in the 1920's. What a hoot to see a day in their times in moving pictures. Thanks for putting this out ! Really great !
Ever go to Columbia yacht club?
do you like how the world has changed?
I see a number of 1928 Ford vehicles.
ok old man, time to take your meds
well have you seen Chicago nowadays ?
Cant believe how fast NY and Chicago were built. First "skyscraper" was like 1888, and 30 years later seems as though they took over! Imagine the construction jobs in that era
yes the story is ludicris... limited heavy machinary, how much skilled labor can one place have? you know the empire state building was built in one year.... LOL
The rivalry of Chicago and NYC goes back. At this point in time, Chicago is a world economic super power and it held it for decades .Thank you for posting this gem.
Indeed it was. The city proper held nearly four million inhabitants in less then one hundred years. The bustling, hustling drive, innovation, and creativity of the city, especially before the first world war was so astonishing and remarkable, it did not escape the notice of the world. So much of what made America a modern and efficient showcase wonder, had its beginnings in Chicago.
Wish we could capture that energy again
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If Chicago could compete with other overseas cities. Chicago was completely dethroned when other countries started to make automobiles as well
Super power? Facts. Especially before foreigners moved here.
By the 1950s, Detroit was the wealthiest city in America for a bit over 20 years.
I noticed that there was little to nothing in the way of traffic lights or stop signs, and yet the traffic was just flowing along. Pretty incredible, really. The other thing I find amazing is how clean it all looks.
Major US cities at the time had begun to develop fairly robust public transport. Combination of peoples love of cars, the US auto industry deliberately destroying public transport, and poorly planned suburbs really screwed us over. If you live in even a small city today its likely you can find somewhere that tram tracks have been paved over. Its is incredibly clean. Despite the smog and industry at least people had dignity.
Because the traffic was probably 1/8th of what it is today and cars couldn’t go that fast
@@thegheymerz6353 Before the advent of personal vehicles... Public transportation was invented for people who had no other means of transportation. As personal vehicles became the norm, the need for public transportation diminished. Contrary to your opinion... Cars were NOT manufactured for the sole purpose of destroying something that you think should still be in existence.
Geez... All of those arcades... GONE... because those undignified gamers couldn't be happy with putting quarters into a robust video machine coin slot. The console manufacturers deliberately destroyed them cuz those same gamers wanted to sit in the comfort of their own homes with their PS5s, and not be burdened with the task of having to run to a store, or a bank to make change for a twenty.
I'd bet real money that you couldn't wait to get your first set of wheels. Any chance you'd give up your car, so you could pay a fare to ride the bus, or a trolley instead? Or would it make more sense to you to be able to hop into your car, and go anywhere you want, whenever you please?
So... how, exactly, have you been screwed over? And, where did you say you were from?
@@thegheymerz6353 if the us back, then heavily invested in public transport, it be a lot easier
If you want to go anywhere in the US that isnt a large city you need a car
Hard to explain in words how incredible it is to be able to watch people over 100 years ago just going about their day. I love this content. Imagine the journey of this video footage over the last century.
what's incredible is it looks so much like it does now, I used to walk all over the area they show for the first 2 mins daily and the city has done a good job of preserving all of that.
Not quite a hundred years yet. The Merchandise Mart construction was featured in this video and the first shovel was turned on the project in August of 1928. My guess it is late in that year in the video.
I also liked to think that someone is watching this video not realizing they could be watching an ancestor.
They'll be doing it to us in 100 years
Really wasn’t that long ago
5:50 As a 43 year old born and raised lifelong Chicagoan who has lived half his life downtown…..I can’t tell you how unbelievably incredible this is!!! Seeing the iconic Merchandise Mart in the very beginning of its construction. SIMPLY WOW!
holy cow... I'm a Chicago courier and I see these buildings everyday. I'm in awe The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower looks just like it did 100 years ago.
Just a little more soot on the façades. lol!
Although the Tribune building is much cleaner today.
One word; coal.
They built them well back then. Guarantee most modern buildings won't be around 100 years from now because they are poorly constructed
I had the pleasure of staying in the Athletic Club a few years ago and it was absolutely superb
Magnificent! I lived in Chicago for 25 years (1970-1995) and saw massive construction and changes in the city. This film shows so many landmarks from the late 1800s and early 1900s that are still a vibrant part of the city. Bravo!
This is what MAGA should be. Taking America back to this.
Without diversity America was great!
@@dudebro3250Sure Klan.
Its amazing how much the city changes from only 30 years prior when the Chicago worlds fair was going on the cityscape was drastically different
I liked seeing the works site for the Merchant Building as "coming soon"
@@MyKnifeJourney I saw that too
I lived in downtown Chicago for a while, and it's stunning to see several of the buildings I walked past every day appear exactly as they are now on a film that's 100 years old. Such an incredible piece of living history.
It’s kinda weird seeing Chicago without all the huge third generation skyscrapers of international modern style skyscrapers made up of smooth glass facings but at the same time Chicago still looks the same because it has done a good job of preserving the first and second generation of skyscrapers in its skyline.
Disagree. Chicago in fact has treated its architectural patrimony in a very careless, cavalier if not shabby manner. Many examples of uniquely American architectural design and expressions were wantonly destroyed and sacrificed for the flimsiest reasons. Such as tearing down treasures in order to replace them with parking garages or even allow properties to remain fallow for years after notable buildings were demolished. Had the city taken its trove of archtectural heritage more seriously it would have given Chicago a much greater and richer cache of remarkable buildings. Judging from what is currently being built, the city's standards have fallen far below it's predecessors, with much of it's output being quite mediocre and bland. Chicago's setting apparently covers a multitude of architectural sins.
@@LUIS-ox1bv I hear you but I disagree with you.
@LUIS What? I see the opposite of what you said. The Chicago in the video is very much recognizable to this day. Buildings with important architectural history are preserved. With that being said, the least important had to make way for growth, just like in any other city. The buildings that replaced them also carry significance. I've read literatures, seen photo illustrations, and watched videos, and still I am amazed at how the layout, the bones if you will had already existed in the late 1800.
@@LUIS-ox1bv I believe Luis is 100% correct. Yes it is indeed amazing to see so much of the cityscape then matching what exists now, but way, way too many beautiful buildings were demolished for no good reason. This video shows many of the major buildings that survived, but they were the exceptions. It is a story very similar to the old Penn Station in New York. Not sufficiently appreciated until it was gone, callously destroyed by people with no appreciation for architectural continuity and history -- and majesty for that matter; just fetishizing the new and modern and "futurism" above all else. Chicago's decimation of its architectural legacy is one of its great tragedies.
@@jev2867 As a former architectural student who upon moving to Chicago sought employment with Skidmore Owens & Merril,( at that time, the world's largest architecture firm), to work in their architecture library, I resolutely stand by my views. The city's record on historical preservation warrants a failing grade. In fact, so high was the level of destruction that occured during the decades leading up to my arrival in 1980, I was shocked and appalled to learn about not only the extremely significant and uniquely Chicagoan treasures that were lost, but what replaced them. People can argue until the cows come home about trade offs and gains made by reducing what made this city stand out in many ways, into a pile of rubble or prairie, but in the end the price paid is the city's soul, identity and cultural, historical patrimony. Before I moved to Chicago, I worked in a company which helped restore historic homes and even save many from demolition by moving them to protected districts. We had a lawyer in our office who was a former Chicagoan who bemoaned the utter destruction of the city's great architectural heritage. The corruption in the city and the lackadaisical, careless and indifferent atitudes that
preservation efforts were carried out in Chicago, disgusted him enough to compell him to move out of the city. Did not fully comprehend his views until my 30 year stay in the city, when I witnessed the outrageous destruction of not only individual buildings downtown in the neighborhoods, but large swathes encompassing entire city blocks. Block 37 in the Loop, across from another Chicago trajedy,( the loss of Marshall Field's), proved an explicit example of Chicago's approach to, "preservation." The block once contained a mish mash of structures, but among them was a notably beautiful building dating from the 1870s and built not long after the fire. It also boasted another visually interesting building, which had the offices of Clarence Darrow. Being steeped in historical value meant little to nothing, for the city was won over by developers. Ultimately the proposals fell through, one after another. So this very important and prominent block sat empty for nearly 20 years. The block now contains a sterile mall, topped with mediocre, nondescript towers. The city deserved much, much better. The straw that broke the camel's back, was the tearing down of the former Mercantile Exchange Building in the Loop. By then, I had my fill of a city that is hell bent on erasing its past and not capitalizing enough on what made it great. While the city has accomplished much in improving and embellishing public recreational aspects, so much of this strikes one as mere, " window dressing." The city has lost much of its driving juice when it comes to what its noted for and other cities have picked up its slack when it comes to bold and innovative design. Nevertheless, it remains a city in a beautiful setting, with a remarkabke skyline. Which, while spectacular, when viewed from a distance, promises more then it delivers upon closer inspection at streetlevel.
Wow, I recognize just about everything here. It’s amazing how open everything looks, nowadays everything is so crammed in with so many additional buildings.
This is so cool. My mom was born in Chicago in 1926. So now I can see the city the way she saw it.
That's an awesome way to look at it.
My mom born in 1925. Still alive and relatively well at 97. All these scenes were just the day before, the day before yesterday… ❤️
@@mattisnotjoan please hug your Mom for me. Mine’s been gone 25 years.
My dad was born in Chicago in 1924. They lived at North Clark Street in the building next to the garage where the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre took place.
My mom was born in Chicago in 1925 (West Side), eventually my Dad emigrated to Chicago in 1958 from Eastern Europe via college and early career in New England. I was born @ Edgewater Hospital in 1960. Except for about 11 years (1966-1977), mostly in Cleveland, my Mom lived her whole life in Chicagoland (passed in 2006 along with my Dad).
This is superb restoration work.
So amazing to see through a window and at the press of a button or two, we get to see life rewound back to a time many years before. Thanks NASS
Really great video, well done. Whoever made this had an eye on the future and we're enjoying his work now in 2023! 100 years later.
I know the remastering smooths things out, but it's still crazy just how clean and orderly everything was back then. Times have really changed
Priceless, to step back in time is a touch of heaven to me at age 75. To see people going about their lives so long ago, and to think that all have passed away.
I love the fact Chicago kept most of their architecture 😍, I've lived here my whole life and as I grow older I'm finding more and more reasons to stay, such awe.
Chicago was a beautiful city when it was full of whYtè people. Diversity has ruined it completely.
Mind blowing what they were able to build with almost no technology. All built with skill and by hand. And to think every single person in the video has already died. They were kids, had dreams, their own families.
Cities much older than Chicago were built very well and are standing today. So apparently, the technology required has been around a long time. Your notion of technology may be the machinery now available to assist in some tasks formerly done by hand.
no technology? they were building with steel already. the romans mastered masonry & concrete "technology" 2000 years ago. weird comment.
This is why I love Chicago. 100 years later, I can still walk the same streets & see the same buildings/ landmarks today. So wild.
Chi-town never looked better. Really enjoyed watching it. Thank you Nass for all that you do. Please allow me to wish you the happiest of holidays and may the New Year be kind to you and to those you love. 🥰🥰🥰
thank you very much
All I see is overwhelming industrial impact. Nothing but industrial equipment and buildings hiding all the historical buildings.
Watching videos like this, I always feel some indescribable pleasure. It was like visiting the past in a time machine.
The footage of them building the merchandise mart is amazing. My mother worked there for a long time.
World's largest building at the time of its completion and for decades afterwards, I believe. Had its own Zip code!
Wow! My grandma wasn't born til 1933, so this is how her parents saw Chicago when they migrated from the south. Thanks to my Great Grandparents we were all born here from 1933 - present & I'm sharing this with the whole squad 😁
Thank you so much for this beautiful footage 💪🏾
What's also amazing is that by the 1920's the contours of the entire 20th Century and even so far into the first decades of the 21st were pretty clear, including air travel, Robert Goddard's experiments with rocket propulsion, the development of quantum physics, and Einstein's theories which by this time were already well over ten years old. Even rudimentary computing. In contrast, compare what a typical city and technology in 1820s Chicago, New York City, or London looked like and what if anything then could offer as a clue as to what the next 100 years would become compared to the same cities by the 1920s.
Especially since as of 1829, Chicago had a population of less than 100. But then between 1870 and 1900 it exploded from 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million, the fastest-growing city in world history. Seriously, consider that it took Rome, London, and Beijing thousands of years to pass the million mark.
Yes. They probably talked about how great all of the technological and medical advancements of the time were.
This is amazing. My grandfather was raised in Chicago. He was an attorney there during this time. To see this is wonderful. Rumer has it he was an attorney for the mob. My great grandfather was a tailor in Chicago and had his own shop. He and my great grandma came to settle in Chicago after coming here from Italy.
Really?? That’s interesting
I'll bet you can cook your ass off.
THE PAST makes me sad, because one day, I, too, will become THE PAST 😢😢
Grant Morrison does a great explanation of the past. It's awesome to think of the past as a place you might be able to visit.
@@texasscifi3431 being lazy. But any links...
Then you better leave your mark while you can.
@@BudsCartoon Indeed, my friend...
@PJM1 😐yup thxxx
It's hard to imagine that colorizing & stabilizing old footage, could make these 100 year old films seem
so current! Also, we are seeing Chicago in the 'heyday' of Al Capone, the way people then, saw it! Great!
6:40 Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago Landmark in the center of Grant Park, between Queen's Landing and Ida B. Wells Drive. Dedicated in 1927 and donated to the city by philanthropist Kate S. Buckingham, it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style.
And built to honor her brother Clarence Buckingham who was killed in WW1.
This was ABSOLUTLY BEAUTIFUL!! Thank you so very much.
thanks
So cool to see what downtown Chicago looked like back in the 20s, especially Michigan Avenue. It was adorable to see that the Brown Line only had 2 cars!? But wow, that Allerton Hotel sign is still there to this day!
At what time in the video do you see the Allerton Hotel sign ? I missed it, and the second time too lol.
@@jasonshearer8449 2:09 correct me if I'm wrong, please!
Ok, I'm going to watch here in a little bit. I'm trying to place everything, with out the red building I can't find my bearing lol, and if your from Chicago you know what building I'm talking about. Lol
Your probably right, I live in northern In, I don't get in town up there anymore so I can't say if I even remember it lol. Thanks.
@@jasonshearer8449 I work downtown so I immediately saw the brown building with the sign. Barely changed, I'm surprised.
Can you believe guys, we are looking at something 100 years old, and depending when this was filmed maybe, slightly, more. Nearly all the babies born the year this was filmed have now, passed away. Every single, soul we see shown in this is now, gone, and Chicago today, is unrecognizable from the Chicago we see here. All the space though, I can't believe all the open space. Future development for sure.
11:20 The Bowman and The Spearman, also known collectively as Equestrian Indians, or simply Indians, are two bronze equestrian sculptures standing as gatekeepers in Congress Plaza, at the intersection of Ida B. Wells Drive and Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Grant Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The sculptures were made in Zagreb by Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and installed at the entrance of the parkway in 1928. Funding was provided by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund.
Capone,Weiss, and Drucci were battling it out around this time, and big band Jazz was coming into its own. Shoeless Joe Jackson was tearing it up for the Black Sox and the Charleston was catching on in the clubs! It was a great city then and its a great city now, even if its always had problems!
18 minutes 20s video,this is a dream.... This is the most beautiful gift for Christmas 🎄⛄💗 Thanks a lot lot lot....
Since I'm originally from Chicago, this is one of my favorite videos you have. The era of Capone and the iconic structures, some that are just being built like the Merchandise Mart. I had deliveries to the Mart in the mid 80s, I was in there 2 days making them lol It was so vast inside. IDK if the Kennedy family still owns it.
Had to pay for a ticket in the Reid Murdoch building @ 2:55.
My wife worked in the Straus building, @ 6:53, 310 S. Michigan Ave., it was the Encyclopedia Britannica building when she worked there. Now Britannica is in the Reid Murdoch! Lol
Adler Planetarium was under construction @ 10:33. Soldier Field @ 11:13 behind the Field Museum.
All that construction due to the Chicago Plan of Burnham. Everyone can thank him for making Chicago what it is, at least the majority of what we see in The last 8 minutes of this film. Grant Park, the museums, the railroads, etc. It's a great read, he was a visionary.
It's so great to see Chicago all those years ago. So many of the buildings and sights are still there. With the ones we see, like the Tribune Tower, Buckingham Fountain, Shedd Aquarium, Medinah Athletic Club under construction, I would say the earliest year any of this video could be from is 1927.
Shedd Aquarium looks pretty complete in the shot of Grant Park and that was completed in 1929. You can see Riverside Plaza and the Civic Opera Building under construction in another scene. Both were completed in 1929. As you pointed out, Medinah Athletic Club looks near complete and it was completed in 1929 as well. Merchandise Mart wasn't started in that shot and it began construction in 1928. It seems that this is a collection of shots from the last 2 or 3 years of the 1920s.
Maybe one can't pinpoint the exact year of this footage, but if the title is the 1920's, it can be anywhere from January 1920 to December 1929.
Buckingham Fountain was completed in 1926. I agree.
@@JacobKlippenstein Agreed.
Is that wasteland at 8:20 where modern Millenium Park is today? That looks like Navy Pier in the distance at 8:40.
It is sad to think about the fact that everyone seen in this video has now passed away with maybe just a few exceptions. I wonder what legacy they may have left behind. Incredible to see and think about life during those times! Going to a Ballroom in the 20's with Big Band music would have been amazing!
That was really the technological entertainment of the time.
It is quite safe to assume that everyone in the video is now dead. Otherwise, they would be in their upper 90s to just over 100 years old
It would have been Ben Pollack in the 20s with Benny Goodman in his band. Then in 1935-36, Goodman's band played the Congress Hotel for six months.
This is so very cool! There's the ORIGINAL colonnade designed by Edward Bennett at 7:53 in the video. A replica now stands in the same spot (I think) in Millenium Park. And the Bowman and Spearman statues in place but Michigan Ave and now Ida B. Wells street not quite done. So cool! The Art Institute and lions, the Aquarium and the Field Museum. Wow! The Hilton hotel looks a little no texture but still recognizable. And of course the Metropolitan Tower (with the Blue Beehive on top). Worked Downtown Chicago for 30 plus years. I recognized a lot of architecture in this video - the iconic buildings and views are still there today.
Was expecting to see a couple of shots where I can make out what it is today. Would have never guessed how similar downtown looks here as it does today. One of the best videos I have ever come across.
The streets looks better then than they do now. 😂
They did the groundbreaking on the Merchandise Mart in August of 1928. This film footage must have been around that timeframe as the site work was just beginning stage in the film.
I was thinking that also. Footage must be from the very late 20's since Buckingham Fountain (seen in some of the clips) Did not open to the public until 1927.
That’s only about 20 years before I was born. Wow, I am really old.
Yes, that segment of the film. However, it looks like there are different time periods in this video. To my knowledge, the "Chevrolet" sign was not constructed until right before the 1933 World's Fair. It is clearly visible in the video.
A truly extraordinary look at history (again).....many thanks!
thank you very much
@@NASS_0 even back then far from safe because al capone terrorised the city of chicago back then
Absolutely stunning. Hard to take your eyes away. The architecture is just incredible.
Disagree. The industrial impact was awful. This is such an ugly look. Im a photographer and I would not want to shoot any of this today. Of course it looks beautiful today bc the overwhelming industrial crap from this video was taken away and replaced w non industrial buildings. I reqlly dobt like how it looks in this video. Very ugly due to industrial flooding.
@@btnhstillfire Noted. But getting past the obvious carbon footprinting and industrial polluting of which I'm not indicting the people at that time over. Nor am I holding the architecture's stunningsness to a level consistent with cistene chapel. I do respect the time, consideration, and craftsmanship of those that ever drew the blueprints,wielded a hammer, and climbed a set of scaffolding to make it possible. The mystique and historical intrigue in a sense holds it's value and spans across time in a manner consistent Wrigley Field for example. At least to me.
@@carnivalgods4573 agreed. I'm not an expert in architecture, but I can appreciate these buildings and what they represent. Just amazing that Chicago's unique look and feel has been around for so long. Love my city, not a perfect place but it's home.
This is simply fantastic. Idk if we’re supposed have this sense of awareness like this but this is insane.
I wonder if the man/woman recording knew this would be seen 100 years into the future and admired by all.. probably just how they were amazed at the ability to record and the rate the city was expanding.
We are all apart of a higher, forever expanding consciousness if we really stop and think about it.
Right - and today young people are changing their sex - some don't even know what sex they are and our president is destroying America and the country is being taken over by China. Expanding consciousness? You had BETTER stop and think about it, man!
It was a man recording.
@@user-tc4xy6jl7o K 👍🏾.
Well said! It is very meditative. These people are all now dead. Yet on this day they were living their daily life in the sunlight. Both the Great Depression and WWII were coming yet they could not see it. Future mind bending folly and idiocy. All out there in the great sea of being. Everyone, like us now, just passing through this way station in the Universe under highly impaired management in the fog of derelict Souls.
It does not look like a city from 1920 but from 1970. It is simply impressive the engineering construction of skyscrapers for that time. In my small Spanish town, in 1920, there were no houses over 5 stories high and many houses made of wood and mud. And only horse-drawn carriages circulated on the poorly paved streets.
Mas é sim parecido uma cidade de 1920
When I went to Africa I didn't see anything like this. I was surprised because I was told black people built everything.
My great grandparents came from a small village in Northern Italy. They settled in Chicago after WW1. They must have been amazed when they first set their eyes on a big city like Chicago.
a black Haitian man founded Chicago Du Sable. your great grandparents would’ve hated him.
Its amazing how recognizable Chicago was from then to now. 100 years. This was a special treat Thank you!
12:20 The Art Institute Building. Flanking the exterior Michigan Avenue entrance stairs are two bronze lions by sculptor Edward Kemeys that were a gift from a Mrs. Henry Field for the Art Institute's opening at its current location in 1893. Although the lions have no official names, the sculptor designated the lions by their poses as "stands in an attitude of defiance" (south lion) and "on the prowl" (north lion).
I love how perfect the program always makes the roads look.
Hi NASS .....amazing as usual! Happiest of holidays to you .....looking forward to what you have up your sleeve for us in 2023
Insane how advanced and modern Chicago was compared to the rest of the world.
Indeed. I believe Chicago was the first city powered by Tesla energy then the powers that be had it dismantled and erased from history books.
The US in general was,mostly due to rapid expansion of automotive industry and skyscraper culture.
My favorite part of looking back at old footage of everyday life is how, sometimes, things really don't seem all that different. Obviously yes things are different as far as styling, but if you really look at it... it's cars moving down streets, past buildings that don't look that much different today, with advertisements punching you in the face as usual, birds dropping white chocolate bombs everywhere, streetlights, concrete curbs and stairs, local and regional trucks delivering stuff, people walking to work. A good chunk of the flair and design is different, but it's basically the same routine. Now, if footage existed from the 1400's, then you'd really see a different way of life.
This is amazing! I grew up in Chicago in the 60's and 70's. I see so many similarities (Buckingham Fountain, Wrigley Building), yet so many differences (El trains with only two cars, parking 50 cents!).
thank you for the work that it took to put this video together. a real treat down memory lane😊👍
now lets see it in 2020 with skin color added
1920s Chicago, when Al Capone resided there.. what an iconic time and place to see...
This looks so unreal but it's fascinating watching it like if it was a normal day.
0:37 Kraft Cheese! :D I love old billboards and advertising. And yes, Chicago has done a great job preserving its architectural heritage!
Thank you for that well restored footage. An ancient relative of my husband ( with the same name) from Germany was a well known citizen of Chicago in the 19th century who founded a brewery (Lill and Diversey). I hope, I will get to Chicago one day. Wish you all happy christmas
Was it the Berghoff brewery, by chance?
The name was Lill& Diversey brewery
Amazing footage. As I just wrote in a another thread my dad was born in Chicago in 1924. They lived at North Clark Street in the building next to the garage where the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre took place.
Wow stunning footage. Well refurbished! Thanks a lot.
thank you very much
Its really funny to see those old cars with dirt and mud on them. They are now rarely seen and when you do see one, its restored and maintained perfectly to a point where you forget those were everyday cars. Great video, love it!!
So cool to see how much it’s changed but also still the same in 100 years.
Amazing footage. So much that is still recognizable. 100 years later, we still have 'Chevrolet' and 'Frigidaire'!
This is exactly why I record what I do on my channel. Not for current viewers, but definitely for some future archive to showcase what the early 21st century looked like in full color. I have so much content that I still need to edit and upload but I think it'll be really cool to show my future generations the era in which I grew up and came into adulthood.
I started recording random videos of me driving down the street or walking down streets in the neighborhood. I don’t post to any site but maybe I should archive them somewhere. I was able to find some from the 70s of my hometown and it’s so cool seeing streets I also went down, with a mix of things that are still there and some that aren’t
I may start doing the same, thanks for the motive. 😁
tbf, theres billions of records of the early 21st century in full color, but yeah its different when its your personal life you are documenting.
If that technology makes it into the future. People of that time will be saying WTF when they the current generations and the things they did.
@@stvlu733 very much also let's leave tiktok out of thee equation oh boy😅
Your channel feels like a time machine I'm glad i found you !🔥
At the six minute mark we see the construction site of the Merchandise Mart. Wow, what a building that became !
So nice to see large American cities on their way up. I sure would have liked to have been there.
this is pretty god damn incredible footage. Im still in awe seeing buildings that are still there to this day completely unfazed/
this is amazing. seeing the lakefront like that is crazy. they must have just expanded the land out when this footage was taken. the aquarium and the field musuem are brand new, and stand out like the parthenon on the acropolis. those hills going down the right side from the museum look so weird.
I feel like I’m watching footage of a lost golden age. When we still cared about beauty. We lost something precious in the last 100 years. Cant explain it.
You are 100% correct
happy black history month!!
Stopped caring about our neighbors and work became way too competitive.
Wow again! For most of this video, I felt like an alien visiting a new world that was both familiar and utterly remote. Keep up the good work!
The clip at 2:58 was taken near the corner of Wacker Dr. & Orleans St. My father remarried in the building on the left with a clock tower in the middle. Incredible footage!
This is wonderful that you can restore old vintage film to look
so amazingly clear. Like to see more of this!
This was intoxicating. I only wish the actual person filming would have been captured, too. That person seemed to have an uncanny sense of the vast changes that would come in the future. Loved this!
well said. I wish that, too.
Indeed
Yes. I wonder exactly who and why they did the filming. Such foresight!
Great downtown then and now. Chicago has maintained its look and character. One of my favorite Cities to visit. Was just there last weekend.
Your lucky you didn’t get shot
Crazy seeing the museum from this long ago. I remember standing on the steps with my Uncle as an 8 year old in 1987.
Crazy to see the city you were born in, in the past. Gives you much perspective. Some of the street design layouts still look the same. And was def waiting for Wrigley Field to appear lol maybe in the next
I live in the Loop. It's unreal to see what it looked like 100 years ago. Haunting, really.
Astonishing to see how similar to modern day Chicago! So much is completely familiar - great work!
My grandfather worked for the cook county road commission when this was filmed. I've pictures of him in front of crew pouring gravel in an alley. And my grandmother was a telephone operator back when they wore roller skates to run the huge switch board.
While I too can recognize most of the locations, it would be great if someone posted watermarks with approx locations for each shot. But LOVE it as is. So cool to see my city a century ago!
Yes, agreed. Will check the comments below for "timecode."
So many places that I walk by today were there almost exactly the same 100 years ago... kinda mind blowing if you stop and think about it.
This is so amazing to see. Today I walk in this same space, and some of these structures are still there, looking just as they did 100 years ago. Just think, at the time this was filmed, there were still people who were alive during the civil war.
Damn this is the ULTIMATE in time travel! Well done restoration & color of film
Kind of crazy as a Chicagoan of how are downtown feels the same but bigger. This was a cool video to watch.
It looks like people drive the same too. And without any traffic lights!
@@digby_dooright lol yep
Wow, this bring memories. At 6:35, it's me with that white hat and two of my buddies, Louis and Gerome.
Looks much better than Chicago today
Before the sixties social revolution.
You can thank the democrats and illegal aliens for that
Yeah, that ugly Trump Tower is quite an eyesore.
I love Chicago vids because I can remind myself I have been to at least some of the locations and I enjoy seeing what they once were.
This is amazing, thank you so much for giving us this beautiful footage. It's so clear, you did a great job on remastering. 👍🤙
It’s amazing how much more ambitious and capable people were back then- we could never build at this rate today even with all the technological advantages we have.
The Chinese for certain still can build so fast, and can build faster. I'm already since years wondering where the Chicago of around 1900 might be currently reincarnating in their country.
@Caper Donich I'm certainly addicted to identifying reincarnations. I have already identified the Breslau and Prague of around 1900 with the Vienna and Bangkok of now, and I'm confident about a successor to the Chicago of those years following soon.
@Caper Donich The case of the Chicago of around 1900 is indeed a hard nut for me to crack, since a while. I'm confident about a reincarnation of the London of around 1900 in current Beijing (with Kim Jong-un resembling Churchill, accordingly), also about one of at least parts of the New York City of around 1900 in current Shanghai (Shanghai Tower probably being a reincarnation of the Woolworth Building). The Los Angeles of around 1900 can with a similar decidedness be re-discovered in current Shenzhen. But Chicago? Perhaps Guangzhou? Perhaps Wuhan? Guangzhou seems to lie too much at a coast with salty water, also a little close to my candidate for LA. Wuhan seems to be a little small...
@Caper Donich Vivian Leigh may easily already have returned. I'm currently comparing Li Chuanyun (born 1980) to David Oistrakh (1908-1974). Leigh has lived from 1913 to 1967.
That buildings should reincarnate once you have a reincarnation of people would not mean a noteworthy addition of surprise. If you select similar genes from the ones of your parents each time, combine these genes in a similar manner, each time, you'll probably also plan similar buildings, after that.
It is even _easier_ to imagine any sort of reincarnation if you also have one of cities. For a reincarnation of cities enables the individual human being to find his or her reincarnated mates much more easily. A person just needs to recognize a reincarnated place, then, downward into ever smaller spatial units. A city being much bigger than a single person or house, you'll more easily find it when you try to tune in to a destination. Having found a city, you'll easily be able to refine your search first for a quarter, then for a street, a house, and in the end, for a pair of particular parents. If your reincarnated mate applies the same process, you then twenty years later just need an interest in similar aspects of the world like you have had it in your last life, to find such a mate, again. You'll now easily develop such a similar interest because you have been born to parents resembling those you have had in your last life.
Every generation thus needs to adapt genes but slightly, on par with what's known to be possible.
It should not appear as probable even to the one who doesn't yet see the thing that such a phenomenon wasn't in place on Earth. For the universe is much bigger than just our planet, which means that you'll probably have systems of a much higher organization than the one so far commonly assumed to exist on Earth unaided from space, at some stars. One aspect which the wireless communication of our days must suggest as most likely exploited by such higher forms of an organization of matter is that you can organize molecules into organisms on pathways invisible to the human eye, e.g. via invisible electromagnetic radiation or also via dark matter or dark energy.
That our bodies do not fall apart alone, how their cells are governed, how our genetic systems have come along anyway strongly suggests whatever aid from elsewhere than this planet, quite irrespectively of the question to what a degree such possibilities are commercialized in entertainment. Such possibilities can certainly be commercialized well simply because they really are plausible.
If you do not believe me, you should also pay attention to the recentness of the emergence of broadband Internet. You cannot well expect a breakthrough on proofs of a concept like reincarnation so far mainly known from the realm of myths to become generally known already twenty or twenty-five years after such a new method of communication has arisen. Additionally, it should be clear that it's difficult to speak about such discoveries in public because there have been so many evil personalities in history, while you have to assume that anybody of the age of a child is innocent.
You could compare maps of the city of Darmstadt, Germany of around 1800, of the Meriden, CT and Worcester, MA of around 1900, and of the current Wuxi west of Shanghai. You'll discover comprehensively similar networks of roads, also similar buildings with similar functions at similar places. That it's not an arbitrary choice to compare the Darmstadt of around 1800 with the Meriden and Worcester of around 1900 should be clear because these places (at least Meriden, concerning the time around 1900) have been visited by Goethe (1749-1832) and by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), respectively. These two writers exactly have shared their facial profiles, their ears, and also such and other traits of people surrounding them.
Hauptmann has been well known for his impression that he was a sort of a reincarnation of Goethe, in the 1920s, and with the help of the Internet it's now easy to see as how justified such ideas must indeed appear.
Unless you live in Asian countries especially China 😂
You are quickly becoming my favorite channel
Absolutely amazing footage!
This just takes back in future without a stress. You watch and wonder!. Good job Nass.
thanks
Not 1 person starring into a cellphone just admiration 4 nature and the city was beautiful... 🙌 #IsaiditManagement
I love these videos!!!! I just found your TH-cam page and subscribed. Thank you for doing this!! I have always, most of my life, wished that I had a time machine!
I love this work you do as I basically am writing history on my channel and live in the 1920's...my late mother was born 100 years ago in 1922, made to 94. Chicago played a major role during The Summer of 1926...which I've written and vlogged about on my channel. A vicious personal attack on Valentino weeks before he died ... coming out of Chicago with his going there to try to confront the writer, to no avail.
thank you very much
@@NASS_0 Seeing these scenes bring to life what I write about...thank you!!!
My father was born in 1923 and my mother in 1927 ... in this very city Chicago, as a matter of fact. I can picture both of them as small children during this film, and my grandparents as young adult parents.
@@jody6851 I lived in Milwaukee in the early 80's and would visit Chicago to feel less isolated. Coming from the NYC area WI was not for me, but Chicago 👍. I saw Elton John in an open arena down there during his "Mozart" days, lol.
@@rudolphvalentinoconnection8298 Last time I was in Chicago, the Bears had a home against Green Bay. It definitely, was an experience only equaled to the time I was at a Brazilian's home while Brazil was playing Argentina in the World Cup years ago.
Nice remastering job on this 100 year old film , and seeing how the city was like back then.
Good video, no annoying music which is great.
Amazing video. Thank you for taking time to do this 😊
Thank You so much for this colorful treat!! Merry Christmas 🎄 every one!!!