Those was the times loved my childhood . I grew up on the far south side Michigan ave.115th st. What a time were did it go.i fell sorry that the kids now days that they can't enjoy this. With all the killing going on GOD HELP ALL OF US.loveed your video thank for the memories Chicago❤❤❤
Lots of great memories here I grew up AROUND Chicago in the BURBS Wheeling Arlington Hts. Mt Prospect love the whole series of remembering Chicago tell my friends here in Iowa about growing up in the 60's as a kid thanks for posting😁😁😁
Thank you for sharing, In the fifties, I was a kid in Chicago. Those were carefree days for me when all relatives were still here. It brings a tear into my eyes. :)
l really, really enjoyed the boomer years, l was born in 1945 in Chicago . This brought back a lot of memories for me, no matter where l have gone to live in my life , l am always a Chicagoan and proud of it. I missed the 1967 blizzard because l was in Vie Nam. my mother sent me newspaper clippings of the blizzard. Thank you for the boomer years.
I remember seeing the presidential parade and it was great. We lived on Loomis Ave then W. Jackson Blvd, the happiest days of my life. Went to Skinner school. I can't locate any pictures from those areas. I am aged 72 now and never forgot Chicago.
I’m from NY and spent the summer of ‘67 with my aunt, uncle and their eight kids at their 3 br. 1bath post- WWII tract home in Lombard. This was bar none the best memory I have of growing up; these people were so kind to me to take me in for the summer. I cried all the way back on the plane to NY-how I wish I could have stayed with them. Chicago, it’s suburbs and it’s people are great! Thanks so much for this series.
Wow I enjoyed this. TY so much. I was born in Chicago in 1958 on the SW side, Our Lady of the Snows parish, and my family moved to Champaign Urbana 135 miles south in 1972. That period of my life remains special to this day.
the man with the 8 yr old story was not lying. My friend and I would take the Halsted bus from the southside and transfer at 79th to the west bound bus and then transfer at Western AVenue to go to his Grandparents house in the Italian section around 800 south. After a large dinner we would go the opposite way back to 100th& Halsted. We were around 8 or nine and made the trip, by ourselves quite a few times and never had a bit of a problem. This was around 1957. No one ever worried about us. We also went to the Museum of Science and Industry almost every Saturday on 57th and the lakefront. there would be 3 or 4 of us 10 year olds by ourselves. Sounds impossible but it was done everyday all over the city in those days.
This brought back so many wonderful memories. I was born in ‘53 and grew up at 102nd and Morgan. Taking the bus with my sister and cousin to Comiskey, collecting bottles so that we could spend it all at the penny candy store, building forts under porches, going into the prairies to look for garter snakes, asking around the block on stilts, leaving the house right after breakfast and staying outside until the street lights came on, spider walking, playing kick the can and freezer tag…. Those were fun times.
I grew up in Mount Carroll Illinois (135 miles from Chicago.) I only knew about Chicago from what we read in the Chicago Daily News that my folks subscribed to and what I heard on the radio. My first time in Chicago was when I was in the navy doing basic training at Great Lakes. One Saturday we were given leave to either go to Chicago or Milwaukee. I chose to go to Chicago to spend the day. The Prudential Bldg, Museum of Science and Industry, Shedd Aquarium, I tried to enter Marina Towers and the Merchandise Mart but was prevented by a security guard.
Chicago in the Sixties . . . what a great time!! My brother and I are a couple of Baby Boomers (born in 1950 and 1952) who just LOVED growing up in Pullman and Roseland. Our favorite activity was hitching rides on moving freight trains, and living to tell the tale! We walked all around Lake Calumet on one occasion. Another time, we rode a Nickel Plate Road freight train all the way to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and "thumbed it" back home. Nowadays, 15-year-old kids get their kicks by killing each other with guns. Sad . . .
I was Born in 1963 Bolingbrook and grow up in Homer Glen township 1971 until I graduate high Lockport high 1982 move to Florida in 1984. Lockport is a awesome town! I miss living up there!
Thank you for uploading this. While I really enjoy all the Remembering Chicago documentaries, this one means the most to me because it covers my era of growing up in the 1960s, especially the home movies of the interviewees who attended Catholic schools...Something else touched a chord with me. It was where Gina Gibson said that she just wanted to hide in her room with her 45s. Yeah, I felt like that, too, once back then. When you're young it's hard to comprehend things like racial unrest, political assassinations and the war in Vietnam...But there were the nice things like penny candy, 12-cent comic books, bike hikes, long summer days, lots of friends and mothers who watched over ALL the kids in the neighborhood. I loved growing up in the Brainerd neighborhood.
When the Good humor man came up our alley each day in the summer we would go home scramble for nickels pennies and dimes. We could get twin popsicles for a nickel, anyone lucky enough to have a dime could get something like a chocolate eclair.
As a kid growing up first in Wilmette and then moving to Glencoe as I entered 5th grade, this revived several memories that have laid largely dormant for over half a century. This documentary brought a real smile to my face. Chicago is one of the great museum cities in the world and I went to them all quite frequently as a kid and teenager. When I became a teen my parents trusted me enough to take the Northwestern to Evanston and then transfer to take the 'L' train downtown. I remember frequently going to the Art Institute with my friend Paul Zelinsky who was a great scholar of fine art. I had kind of a love/hate affair with Chicago. In hindsight, it was in several ways a much better city than Los Angeles where I moved in 1970, but the winter weather was horrible. Particularly in 1967 and later - the worst - in 1978 when I went home to visit my mom. They even had a name for it - The Big Snow. The city actually shut down for well over a week. It was the closest thing to the current Corona Virus phenomenon going on now. I remember telling mom right then and there that I would not return to Chicago in the winter unless someone died or got married.
The best thing about this are the NW Side and SW Side Chicago accents. They say that the Chicago accent is becoming instinct. But not on the NW Side or the SW Side.
The 50s was an innocent sweet time... Perspective. There was Cicero and Marquette Park with unwritten laws in the 50s that I heard about. Redlining and prejudiced teachers and cops didn't help. But, I grew up in East Chatham, Hebrew mother, Catholic father. Went to Catholic school and had to deal with those issues. My maternal grandparents were my stabilizers. Life was pretty good. Washington Park and the museums were paradise.
Thanks for this walk down memory lane. I was raised in Los Angeles, but my childhood almost exactly parallels the events and experiences of those in thise video. Excellent, really excellent - thank you again.
In the 70s, mom sent away for bozo tickets. It took 7 years to get those things in the mail and when they did arrive, I was doing my first week in the marines.
That "Shoot The Chutes" concrete divider you can see at 34:26 is still there. You have to search for it in the walking path next to the river but it's fairly intact.
Love these videos / documentaries, but don't understand the one lady's comment about "being unaware of Catholics until she saw them on American Bandstand trying to cover up their uniforms with sweaters" when American Bandstand wasn't taped or filmed in Chicago.
In the spring and summer we never even though about locking the doors until night time. Front and back doors would be open as we would be in and out. Sad how America has evolved into the sh!thole it is now.
In the late 60s I do remember when I was in the Navy but I wish I could not remember. I almost drowned in the swimming pool at Great Lakes boot camp. And contrary to your opinion, I WAS there.
Well, it depends in what part of Chicago you live. I used to live in an three-floor walk up in both Lincoln Park and Humboldt Park through the 1990s up till 2003. I left my door unlocked by accident before going to work several times and was never the worse for it. Nothing happened. The biggest problem is getting your bike stolen and your windows in your car smashed b/c some drug addict or gangbanger saw some loose change in your car. Also, getting towed by the city at inopportune times for a cool $145 in "towing & storage fees" was always a humdinger. Come to think of it, don't really miss too much of Chicago at all.
Yeah, that's what I heard. But starting around the mid-90s, gentrification came in full force in Humboldt Park and the gangs were pretty much gone by 1999 when I moved in. By then, the HP was pretty much an up-and-coming, heavily gentrified, working class Puerto Rican neighborhood, sans the 'hood part. Nowadays I heard it's really family friendly, not like the '80s at all.
Born in 59 In Chicago moved to Park Forest in 62. So many great childhood memories of growing up in the 60’s and 70’s!
Thanks for the memory's.
Those was the times loved my childhood . I grew up on the far south side Michigan ave.115th st. What a time were did it go.i fell sorry that the kids now days that they can't enjoy this. With all the killing going on GOD HELP ALL OF US.loveed your video thank for the memories Chicago❤❤❤
Great Program Great Memories.❤
Lots of great memories here I grew up AROUND Chicago in the BURBS Wheeling Arlington Hts. Mt Prospect love the whole series of remembering Chicago tell my friends here in Iowa about growing up in the 60's as a kid thanks for posting😁😁😁
Even during my time in Chicago growing up, it was always fun being with your neighborhood friends. ❤
Thank you for sharing, In the fifties, I was a kid in Chicago. Those were carefree days for me when all relatives were still here. It brings a tear into my eyes. :)
l really, really enjoyed the boomer years, l was born in 1945 in Chicago . This brought back a lot of memories for me, no matter where l have gone to live in my life , l am always a Chicagoan and proud of it. I missed the 1967 blizzard because l was in Vie Nam. my mother sent me newspaper clippings of the blizzard. Thank you for the boomer years.
I remember seeing the presidential parade and it was great. We lived on Loomis Ave then W. Jackson Blvd, the happiest days of my life. Went to Skinner school. I can't locate any pictures from those areas. I am aged 72 now and never forgot Chicago.
I’m from NY and spent the summer of ‘67 with my aunt, uncle and their eight kids at their 3 br. 1bath post- WWII tract home in Lombard. This was bar none the best memory I have of growing up; these people were so kind to me to take me in for the summer. I cried all the way back on the plane to NY-how I wish I could have stayed with them.
Chicago, it’s suburbs and it’s people are great! Thanks so much for this series.
I appreciate all of your comments, those who lived thru these times. Made this thing even cooler.
Wow I enjoyed this. TY so much. I was born in Chicago in 1958 on the SW side, Our Lady of the Snows parish, and my family moved to Champaign Urbana 135 miles south in 1972. That period of my life remains special to this day.
the man with the 8 yr old story was not lying. My friend and I would take the Halsted bus from the southside and transfer at 79th to the west bound bus and then transfer at Western AVenue to go to his Grandparents house in the Italian section around 800 south. After a large dinner we would go the opposite way back to 100th& Halsted. We were around 8 or nine and made the trip, by ourselves quite a few times and never had a bit of a problem. This was around 1957. No one ever worried about us. We also went to the Museum of Science and Industry almost every Saturday on 57th and the lakefront. there would be 3 or 4 of us 10 year olds by ourselves. Sounds impossible but it was done everyday all over the city in those days.
I'm not from Chi-town, but as a late 50s 60s era kid, this was a great time to grow up as a kid.
This brought back so many wonderful memories. I was born in ‘53 and grew up at 102nd and Morgan. Taking the bus with my sister and cousin to Comiskey, collecting bottles so that we could spend it all at the penny candy store, building forts under porches, going into the prairies to look for garter snakes, asking around the block on stilts, leaving the house right after breakfast and staying outside until the street lights came on, spider walking, playing kick the can and freezer tag…. Those were fun times.
Sad to think my young kids today will not have these same experiences...pray for our nation
I grew up in Mount Carroll Illinois (135 miles from Chicago.) I only knew about Chicago from what we read in the Chicago Daily News that my folks subscribed to and what I heard on the radio. My first time in Chicago was when I was in the navy doing basic training at Great Lakes. One Saturday we were given leave to either go to Chicago or Milwaukee. I chose to go to Chicago to spend the day. The Prudential Bldg, Museum of Science and Industry, Shedd Aquarium, I tried to enter Marina Towers and the Merchandise Mart but was prevented by a security guard.
Chicago in the Sixties . . . what a great time!! My brother and I are a couple of Baby Boomers (born in 1950 and 1952) who just LOVED growing up in Pullman and Roseland. Our favorite activity was hitching rides on moving freight trains, and living to tell the tale! We walked all around Lake Calumet on one occasion. Another time, we rode a Nickel Plate Road freight train all the way to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and "thumbed it" back home. Nowadays, 15-year-old kids get their kicks by killing each other with guns. Sad . . .
I was Born in 1963 Bolingbrook and grow up in Homer Glen township 1971 until I graduate high Lockport high 1982 move to Florida in 1984. Lockport is a awesome town! I miss living up there!
I was born and raised on 26th and Western on the Southside
i use to live in the city when i was a kid until i was 15 now been in the nothwest subs for over 25 years
Thank you for uploading this. While I really enjoy all the Remembering Chicago documentaries, this one means the most to me because it covers my era of growing up in the 1960s, especially the home movies of the interviewees who attended Catholic schools...Something else touched a chord with me. It was where Gina Gibson said that she just wanted to hide in her room with her 45s. Yeah, I felt like that, too, once back then. When you're young it's hard to comprehend things like racial unrest, political assassinations and the war in Vietnam...But there were the nice things like penny candy, 12-cent comic books, bike hikes, long summer days, lots of friends and mothers who watched over ALL the kids in the neighborhood. I loved growing up in the Brainerd neighborhood.
UR welcome!
Awesome just awesome. Gee I remember those electric busses. Riverview, penny 🍭 candy. Kinda sad now. 🙃
When the Good humor man came up our alley each day in the summer we would go home scramble for nickels pennies and dimes. We could get twin popsicles for a nickel, anyone lucky enough to have a dime could get something like a chocolate eclair.
As a kid growing up first in Wilmette and then moving to Glencoe as I entered 5th grade, this revived several memories that have laid largely dormant for over half a century. This documentary brought a real smile to my face. Chicago is one of the great museum cities in the world and I went to them all quite frequently as a kid and teenager. When I became a teen my parents trusted me enough to take the Northwestern to Evanston and then transfer to take the 'L' train downtown. I remember frequently going to the Art Institute with my friend Paul Zelinsky who was a great scholar of fine art. I had kind of a love/hate affair with Chicago. In hindsight, it was in several ways a much better city than Los Angeles where I moved in 1970, but the winter weather was horrible. Particularly in 1967 and later - the worst - in 1978 when I went home to visit my mom. They even had a name for it - The Big Snow. The city actually shut down for well over a week. It was the closest thing to the current Corona Virus phenomenon going on now. I remember telling mom right then and there that I would not return to Chicago in the winter unless someone died or got married.
It was still basically the 50s up until 62' or 63'. By 67' we were opening the doors to the turbulent 60s of 68 and 69'.
The best thing about this are the NW Side and SW Side Chicago accents. They say that the Chicago accent is becoming instinct. But not on the NW Side or the SW Side.
The 50s was an innocent sweet time... Perspective. There was Cicero and Marquette Park with unwritten laws in the 50s that I heard about.
Redlining and prejudiced teachers and cops didn't help.
But, I grew up in East Chatham, Hebrew mother, Catholic father. Went to Catholic school and had to deal with those issues. My maternal grandparents were my stabilizers. Life was pretty good. Washington Park and the museums were paradise.
Great Documentary! Lived on the South Side in the 80s. Still remember buying baseball cards at 7-11 and playing video games at the corner stores
Thanks for this walk down memory lane. I was raised in Los Angeles, but my childhood almost exactly parallels the events and experiences of those in thise video. Excellent, really excellent - thank you again.
In the 70s, mom sent away for bozo tickets. It took 7 years to get those things in the mail and when they did arrive, I was doing my first week in the marines.
What about "Funtown" ?.🎶 Funtown, Funtown for the kids and you, 95th and Stoney Island avenue, FUNTOWN 🎶
Yep, all our partys were in someones basement. We would get dressed up with hard shoes.
Got my draft card June, 1968! Thomas Kelly High School.
At least both the Sox and Cubs have won the World Series since this was made!
50's &60's
It's the banging years now 😁
Around Halloween or neighborhood 5&10 sold the wax lips we put on our lips then ended up chewing it like gum.
That "Shoot The Chutes" concrete divider you can see at 34:26 is still there. You have to search for it in the walking path next to the river but it's fairly intact.
58'! Edgewater Hospital
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We had a Kiddie land in my area too.
Love these videos / documentaries, but don't understand the one lady's comment about "being unaware of Catholics until she saw them on American Bandstand trying to cover up their uniforms with sweaters" when American Bandstand wasn't taped or filmed in Chicago.
We had a blizzard in 66' in my area.
In the spring and summer we never even though about locking the doors until night time. Front and back doors would be open as we would be in and out. Sad how America has evolved into the sh!thole it is now.
Remember house doors and even cars parked on the streets, not being locked.
Charlie Pride!
it would have been nice if there were people from the west side which seems to be forgotten in these types of Documentaries
I'm a west side guy (Jackson and Austin).....and that's OK. Fun watching this stuff anyway.
Bizarre bizarre and the pickle barrel with the acid laden pickles
Please do one of DC.
45:58 Jeanne Bell on the left.
At least I was a skids row bum for a few years. How can I be an elite?
If you actually remember the '60's, you were NOT there.
In the late 60s I do remember when I was in the Navy but I wish I could not remember. I almost drowned in the swimming pool at Great Lakes boot camp. And contrary to your opinion, I WAS there.
That line has been sold out for a very long time.
Where was this located?
Well, it depends in what part of Chicago you live. I used to live in an three-floor walk up in both Lincoln Park and Humboldt Park through the 1990s up till 2003. I left my door unlocked by accident before going to work several times and was never the worse for it. Nothing happened. The biggest problem is getting your bike stolen and your windows in your car smashed b/c some drug addict or gangbanger saw some loose change in your car. Also, getting towed by the city at inopportune times for a cool $145 in "towing & storage fees" was always a humdinger. Come to think of it, don't really miss too much of Chicago at all.
Yeah, that's what I heard. But starting around the mid-90s, gentrification came in full force in Humboldt Park and the gangs were pretty much gone by 1999 when I moved in. By then, the HP was pretty much an up-and-coming, heavily gentrified, working class Puerto Rican neighborhood, sans the 'hood part. Nowadays I heard it's really family friendly, not like the '80s at all.
Jim Smith Chicago was always a violent city. Your nostalgia is misplaced boomer.
@@packr72 Yep...there was a gunfight between cops and car thieves outside my house in 1968. Crooks ran thru our yard.
@@packr72 ok boomer