This is absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing 🩵

Those beautiful Japanese structures, which influenced Frank Lloyd Wright, were burned down and never rebuilt. While they have restored the Japanese garden in Jackson Park, they never restored the pavilions.

We really enjoyed this! Thank you!

This is a great film. Much is different now, but many places are recognizable. How I miss Maxwell St.!

Wow, they lived through WW1 and the Great Depression, Prohibition, and probably had no clue WW2 was near! :O

Thank you for posting this video of George Williams College in Hyde Park. I was a student there in it's final year before moving out to the Downers, Grove campus. I loved my experience in Hyde Park. I was a country lad and the city was exciting and up lifting for me. Yes, I remember diving behind some bushes near the building when gun shots rang out one evening. I remember swimming in the nude in the indoor pool for the first time in my life. I loved my time in the "Old" George Williams College. I loved my time in the new George Williams College in Downers Grove, Ill. Thank you, George Williams College for changing my life for the better. My heart still beats quicker thinking about those years.

The old lady in red dress had to be alive when Abraham Lincoln was alive. love these videos 😊🎄

The narrative goes that the Chicago tribune tower and Wrigley building were both built and completed within 2 years in early 1920’s. Can someone tell me what’s wrong with this narrative?

Soldier Field’s Seating - not “Soldiers Field Seating”

Thank you for your hard work converting film to video and editing.

The work that went into making this film by an amateur is just amazing. All the headings had to be hand created and spliced into the developed film The filming was usually shot in short segments, then cut up. Careful planning of each shot segment to have enough lead in/out for splicing. My dad, also an amateur filmmaker who lived in/filmed Chicago scenes during the 20's thru 60's, worked tirelessly on this hobby. I managed to get about a quarter of these digitally transferred before they disintegrated beyond repair. The technician was in awe of the work he did on these.

Awesome video of Christmas 1936.

Just a nitpick, but it is "Soldier Field", not "Soldiers Field". But many make this error and it has even been made by the Chicago Daily News newspaper!

What kind of color film were they using? I thought consumer color film didn't become available till 1940.

My dad grew up on the SS of Chicago in a neighborhood called the valley it's no longer in existence it's now the Dan Ryan expressway h, he was born 1924 he would have been 6 years old thx you for sharing this awesome video, I myself work as chef on 95th floor of the John Hancock building aka the signature room at the 95th. Peace y'all Chicago rules from 74th stoney island 1963

how does chromatic aberration get on a piece of black and white film?

15:00 is the Blackhawk statue...recently restored in Oregon, Illinois.

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those poor Japanese girls probably got put into POW camps during World War II

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p r i c e l e s s . Future intelligence will look upon the video in awe.

This is an absolute treasure, wow. Priceless

I love that old antique radio in the background there..

"Great Depression?"....What Depression? After watching all the KZbin videos recorded during the thirties from around the U.S.,I'm beginning to think the "Great Depression" wasn't as bad as we were all led to believe.

This is so lovely. Christmas the way it should be celebrated: a well-dressed family gathered together simply enjoying the holiday, no TV blaring, people actually talking to one another (not texting!) and not having their faces glued to their smart phones. People call what we have today progress and technology, I call it sad. We lost so much along the way.

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Liked and subscribed ty keep those old home movies coming

My mom who just passed away was born in 1936

Thank you for sharing this with everyone, Sure looked different, but some things look as they do today.

This has to be the earliest Christmas home movie on KZbin...at least in color.

chicago when everybody was white !!!!!!

Like one of the other commenters I tried to imagine my grandparents and parents living through those images. Yes, it's ironic that Maxwell St. was titled a "ghetto." It looked like a great market of entrepreneurship. Would love to be able to transport back to visit that era. Thanks for the vid!

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Wow everybody wearing suits, ties and lovely dresses. Especially impressive since this was right in the midst of the Depression.

12:28 a Chicagoan bugger

It looks to me as though your grandparents were staying in Windsor, Ontario because of their shot of the Ambassador Bridge "from their hotel". I believe I'm right and if so, I would guess that they stayed at the old Norton-Palmer Hotel. I say that because had they stayed at the old Prince Edward Hotel, there would have been more identifiable (for an older person like me, anyways) buildings in the shot.

Thanks so much for sharing this!

Grew up in Roseland and Fernwood on the south side. My mom and dad were teenagers and young adults who lived in Pullman in the '30's. I heard a lot of great stories about Prohibition,the World's Fair,Pullman Shops,getting up early to go shopping on Maxwell Street and the old high school sports rivalries -Fenger v Pullman Tech. Thanks for posting.

thank you for sharing.

does, anyone remember my grandfather samuel schachtman from maxwell st? his brother liked me his name was morris the barber, call me 949 6462005

Jesus it's historyl!!! I from Russia.

Wow, it's amazing how much Chicago has changed in 80 years. Apart from the museums and Navy Pier, I really didn't recognize much, especially the skyline (I think I did see Tribune Tower). And the traffic has not changed, just the cars, LOL. I wish I could have seen Wrigley Field and old Comiskey Park (at least it has Soldier Field), but apart from that it's a beautiful piece of history.

Thanks for sharing love old home movies.

I lived off Drexel Boulevard in the early fifties. It was a beautiful Boulevard, and many prominent people, black and white alike, lived on Drexel. Now there are drive by shootings on Drexel, and public housing next to majestic homes and apartments. Sad.

This was so wonderful to see. I grew up in Chicago and I have often wished that I had a time machine that would allow me to see what Chicago was like long before I was born. Now you have provided me with one! Thanks so much for sharing!

Priceless! Thank you for sharing!!

Lovely to have,goes to show we are all just passing through

You need to scan this film properly, I can help

An absolute historic treasure piece - this film. I am so filled with emotion viewing this - to know that somewhere amongst all this visual - at that time, my gramma is there (1937 - 34 yrs old. Mom was 9.) I miss them so - and miss my gramma more as years go - 1966 I lost her, so it is a special film - It makes me feel close to them - Thank you so for sharing and Congratulations on being asked to share clips w a larger documentary. This must be so exciting. Best wishes and to all my fellow Chicagoians. (I was born/lived-Northside between - Lincoln Park and Wrigley). Sadly the hospital I was born in came under severe criminial charges - Edgewater - and back in 1958, it was 1st class - met a nurse that worked there back then. My parents owned restaurants in the 50's/60's - the primary was at Belmont and Western - across from Riverview! (I remember going as a lil child 3-4) Many Chicago memories from then. This film helps add scale to memories - only 21 yrs before - though Chicago buildt major engineering feats and quickly - like back after the fire. There are some Facebook Groups that share info/pics/links/etc. (Historic Chicago - is one and really nice folks in our group.) The history and details - architecture/families/investors/social history is so colorful and rich - it would take volumes of books tp record just between 1860 and 1910. I never tire of it and feel robbed to have been moved as a child to dad's home in Tennessee. Trips back and as also an adult - traveled there for business from my home in Nevada - and just got butterflies everytime I was in airspace of Chicago and everytime I walked down Sheffield Ave and cleared this one tree limb and then could see WRIGLEY FIELD!!! GO CUBS - fav destination (Bleechers) ALWAYS BE MY HOME!!! PROUD OF IT AS WELL. :-) Thanks again - so appreciative.

This is incredible footage thanks for posting!