Chicago, 1947

An educational film by Carl Dudley about Chicago in the late 1940s.To purchase a clean DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at: [e-mail]. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

[@Narsuitus]

Enjoyed the film.

[@RJS1974]

3.5 million and another million in suburbs. That was then. Now it’s 2.7 million in the city and 6 million in the suburbs.

[@dave1956]

What a different Chicago this was. I couldn’t help but notice that there were almost no fat people and how much people must have walked in those days. Thanks fast food!

[@robertbullock9554]

David Cook-All classes looked decent and dressed up. Bums today. No one went anywhere, especially downtown, without dress clothes or classy casual clothes and you knew to behave or else.

[@dave1956]

@@robertbullock9554 Do you remember men as well as women in hats and ladies wearing white gloves? Visible tattoos? Never. You would have been considered a circus freak. How about behavior? Impulse control? All things of yesterday unfortunately.

[@charlesandrews2360]

@@dave1956 You assess character by location or number of tattoos a person has? Now repeat my question to yourself substituting the word I for you. How does that sound to you?

[@dave1956]

@@charlesandrews2360 It doesn’t change anything. Who was judging? I simply made an observation. Which last time I checked I am entitled to.

[@charlesandrews2360]

@@dave1956 Ha Ha. I'm downtown Chicago and I just saw dude walk past wearing a business suit and a LA Dodgers baseball hat. WHAT A FREAK!!! Like that. Good old days when people would ridicule other people that didn't look like everyone else. Gone forever "unfortunately". FOL

[@purplebutterflykisses8004]

@Travelfilmarchive I see you are deleting all of my comments

[@quentinkirk3870]

The Stockyards Are Long Gone

[@dc10fomin65]

So, this was 2 years before I joined the living folks of Chicago, don't know if I really wanted what I see now in 2021 !

[@anthonyricchiuti4128]

My hometown. South Side.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Love the shot at the end of the old lake steamer on the Chicago River.

[@samquentin7984]

Good old days now a cesspool

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Well at least no more coal burning in peoples' homes, businesses and railroad steam locomotives.

[@davidsalomon8426]

It was my kind of city. Not now.

[@davidhurst5434]

Too many black people now, huh?

[@TheRealLaughingGravy]

Can't please everybody, I guess. Chicago is still a great place to live, work, and raise a family.

[@ArtistsCry13]

@@davidhurst5434 I think it has more to do with the violence than the amount of black people.

[@ArtistsCry13]

@@TheRealLaughingGravy I don’t know about raising a family. The schools in Chicago aren’t very good.

[@robertbullock9554]

@@ArtistsCry13 -Chicago Public School System was once one of the top in the country if not No.1! Truly saddens me.

[@trainliker100]

The Santa Fe Railroad's name shows up at least four times on locomotives and their office building. I suspect they may have had a hand in funding this film.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Also, some of the background music is the same as used in a Santa Fe promotional movie on the "Super Chief."

[@trainliker100]

@@WAL_DC-6B Interesting. But that may only be because both films were by "Dudley Pictures" who might have used the same music in a lot of films.

[@j.l.lovelady-richardson1863]

Thank you for sharing your cool film with us.

[@sirachisrael5756]

2 Esdras 14:10 “For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.”

[@thomasm8872]

It has gone downhill. Alas.

[@robertbullock9554]

Thomas M.- She'll come back. We need old man Daley. He'd whip her back into shape! LOL

[@kollerbrian]

How-2 become a race among the ruins. New England enriched only to be left to fools who invited disaster. I mean the Fools who fought the Beer War. Believe in your middle class and give up what ever keeps people down. I know I fell as low as I could go. My own race in/out of the ruin, Brian Koller

[@kaiserbill5711]

and today a ruin in the making

[@parmeshwarlakra1134]

I wanted its related video