" CHICAGO!" 1965 AMERICA! TV SHOW EPISODE LAKE MICHIGAN, DOWNTOWN, MUSEUMS XD60754

[@brianarbenz1329]

I took my first trip to Chicago in 1965, as a 7-year old, and I vividly remember Riverview Park, and specifically that water chute ride. I even still recall the hipster talk of the ride attendant, which was new to me. And the Museum of Science and Industry is heaven! A city in of itself. This video brought back so many fun memories! 👏

[@shep1634]

Boohoo

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@shep1634 Something making you unhappy, @shep1634 ?

[@S.E.C-R]

I wish narrators and reporters still spoke this way!

[@Breakingbylaws]

that requires effort & personality. it's something that died off some 20 or 30 years ago.. though I do agree. it was an era of class & intellect. people now pride themselves on disrespectful & impulsive behaviours.

[@lisasdfwhightechworld9946]

Now we have uptalking. (Shudder!)

[@sqrboro]

He’s got kind of a Howard Cosell thing going on.

[@Breakable7]

Spoke which way?

[@iVenge]

yes

[@UnfoundMusic]

22:26 Chances R!!!! I never thought I'd see my grandfathers restaurant in something like this! So cool.

[@Dadsezso]

I always looked forward to the school field trips to the museums (especially science and industry) and the zoo as a kid from the early 60's. Very nice to see it again, the way it was.

[@patrickwoods2583]

I was born 10 years later but I really miss the way the city made me feel in the 70's and 80's -- Watching the Cubs play, shopping at Marshall Field's, riding the bus around the city (like those old models shown in this video)... Growing up there was epic. Summers were so pleasant and memorable... almost as if the Ozone layer was still in tact.

[@mgo4917]

I’m with you. It was a great time to grow up! I lived on the South Side going to Sox games and me and my friend would take the bus up to catch a Cubs game once in awhile and we were only 10! We’d play fast pitch, watch Cubs games with Harry Caray at 1:20pm, Bozo, Son of Svengoolie, family picnics by the beach. The food,Midwest people, the huge Christmas decorations and much more. Damn I’m thankful for it all.

[@mariopantoja8259]

Lived here for 50yrs....ita still electric

[@bobdobalina838]

I miss Maxwell street so much. It was such a big part of chicago culture. I bought a bike there - probably hot -for twenty dollars when I was a poor student.

[@jeshkam]

Wow, the quality is outstanding!

[@bobdobalina838]

My mother always recounts arriving at the city during this era, when the smaller prudential building was the tallest building in chicago. Incredible.

[@ShelleeGraham]

I enjoyed this 1965 documentary type film featuring places in Chicago, Illinois. Thank you, Periscope Film!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JeffK787]

Love me some Chicago. The city that works!

[@TomStarcevich-fb3qo]

Doesn't work anymore 😕

[@1GirlieGirl]

@@TomStarcevich-fb3qo You don't even know anything about Chicago. You should be proud of posting the most uninformed idiotic comment so far. Congrats. 🥉

[@steverogers7381]

LOL! They are #1 in the country for percentage of residents over 18 yrs old on welfare! The city that USED to work!

[@a1wireless1964]

Riverview was the greatest park ever, boy? Do I ever miss it? Laugh your troubles away!

[@MrLeftfootlouie]

Yeah... I lived that life in 65 . Those were great times, and walking along the lakefront was always exciting. Riverview is long gone, and the city now is bigger than ever.

[@S.E.C-R]

I never knew that everything in Chicago was once “the worlds largest”

[@videodistro]

It was, and in some cases still is. Back in 65 it was not competing with as many "world class" cities.

[@tomsparxxx]

Not everything - the Tribune was the "world's greatest"

[@wy498]

All the industry that fueled its growth moved away...

[@MightBeAPizza]

Historically speaking, Chicago was one of the five largest cities in the world and also was considered the fastest growing city *ever.* The world's first skyscraper was developed here as well as nuclear power, commodities trading, and so on so of course it'll have the world's largest XYZ. Mccormick Place is the largest convention center in the US Sears/Willis Tower is technically still the second tallest building in the US Cook County is the 2nd most populated County in the US O'Hare (ORD) has the most runways of any airport on earth and is the most connected airport on earth as well Chicago has the largest rail network in the country and is the central node to moving goods across the country (hence why it needed to rebuilt after the fire) Chicago Institue of Art, which is about to go undergo expansion, is the 2nd largest Art museum in the country And so on and so forth. It's a reason Chicago is typically mentioned in media as an important city.

[@BikingRules]

Holy crap, Rush street looks absolutely nothing like that anymore. I prefer the old neon lights look depicted here.

[@kevinmichaelcallihansr5053]

Wonderful, Thank you Kindly JACK of many Trades, musicians, architects because I have a concave typ 360 view of a city that appears to be Chicago Blues Festival how many years about 45 Jack? 🐬

[@Mangas24]

Good old days!!

[@donaldhookstead6991]

$1.25 all you can eat! Woohoo!

[@gregoryleo4640]

No visit to the Prudential Building(. The tallest building in Chicago at the time. Home of Stouffer's Top of the Rock.

[@jlastre]

This piece was done a year after I was born. It still propagates the claim that Fort Dearborn was the founding of Chicago. It ignores what is more accurate that it was founded by a black trader Jean Baptiste Point du Sable in 1780. Maxwell Street Market was still around when I was a kid. Also I went to St. Ignatius Col. Prep. which is another building that survived the Chicago Fire. Hook and Ladder engines never went away.

[@ChicagoRonin]

I am a member of Chicago Aikikai (originally Illinois Aikido Club) and the Midwest Buddhist Temple (originally Midwest Buddhist Church). Great seeing the clip of my dojo giving a demo at the fest about a decade before I was born. Both the festival and my dojo are still around: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6XYY4tsq7l3ntk. Thanks for posting this!

[@brianm7185]

I was waiting to see Harrison Ford running around the streets...

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

2:46 I'm not from the States but I'm pretty sure I've seen those buildings in movies.

[@Tindog81476]

They are sometimes called the corn cobs. They are quite famous as they are quite distinct.

[@josegonza1ez]

Id give anything for a go at that smorgasboard then amusement park and zoo after

[@LJC68]

Who would win in a fight, Goldblatt's or Wieboldt's? Leo Durocher or Ditka? Bozo or Jack Brickhouse?

[@michaelfisher7170]

ooh. what sixty years will do to a place.

[@1GirlieGirl]

Yes. To any place. Go burn a cross, loser.

[@hamburglar83]

It’s nicer and bigger downtown now…….crime is bad everywhere in America. I love when people say shit when they refuse to look at stats. Nashville beats us in some categories of crime, as does Dallas, Houston etc.

[@qoph1988]

@@hamburglar83 Yeah... The same thing has been happening to those places too

[@mikeygiannoni]

When was the last time you explored the city? I am convinced you don't live here or visit often.

[@Voicesampd]

90% of these buildings are still there and in tip top shape

[@devoradamaris]

Home🤲👑🤲

[@alexndernikulkin2130]

Севастополь привет

[@ВалераВалеров-т9ж]

Как там погода у вас, море, поди еще теплое и греет весь полуостров ?

[@cyberGEK]

🟦🟦🟦 Крим це Україна! 🇺🇦 🟨🟨🟨 Все буде Україна! 💪

[@gnightcore5352]

Sewastopol ukraiński

[@defconkev]

​@@cyberGEKSlava Ukraine! 🇺🇦

[@ВалераВалеров-т9ж]

Я не знаю., почему то английский язык 60-тых, 70-тых годов, мне понятен больше, чем современный, хотя английский язык мне не родной и я учил его только в школе. 🤔 Наверное люди, с рождения говорящие на своем родном английском языке не замечают, как изменился на восприятие их язык. 🤷

[@千代白渚]

I felt same with Russian language. Old timer Vremya news are more understandable.

[@2003ranp]

It has to do with the lazy generations! 😂

[@jimmyohara2601]

Nobody speaks Anglo (English) properly 🤷 🤦

[@dreamcore]

It's due to changed ideas of how TV presenters should sound. Anti-European egalitarian anti-elitism, and now progressively antiwhite. A similar phenomenon occurred in Britain where they once had a strict standard.

[@BeardofBeesPool]

The Chicago accent of that fire fighter remains the same. I live here. 🤣

[@RENEGADE-gk9hv]

As beautiful as it looked racism was so bad that you couldn't leave your neighborhood... great documentary...

[@darrininverarity4297]

They found most of city intact when the settlers arrived in 1820.

[@jefftaylor5754]

I heard that from my great uncle who came here in 1919 what sources are you referring to?

[@mikeygiannoni]

Lot of dumb comments here from people that don't even live in Chicago. One of the most beautiful and safe cities in the world.

[@davidfoster3427]

It's the name that confuses folks. Especially Italians. CHi CAGO

[@TomStarcevich-fb3qo]

Not anymore buddy 😮

[@1GirlieGirl]

@@TomStarcevich-fb3qo You again with your stupidity. Is it hard being so wrong or are you used to it?

[@1GirlieGirl]

I knew they would come slithering out of the sewers. I just watched a video about a $20 million rooftop chateau in Chicago with views all the way to Canada. Chicago is prospering and gorgeous. But we don't want racist uneducated shitstains, so let them stay away.

[@jagboy69]

LMFAO... Thanks man, I needed a good laugh!

[@beefgoat80]

And in 2024, it's a ginormous collage of regal architecture, modern bleakness, and urban decay. It's no wonder this town has so many bars. I'm too old to go to the 4am bars now.

[@aguilarcreative]

What the hell are you talking about? Chicago is now one of the most modern, progressive, multicultural, prosperous cities in the US. It is in so many ways better than NY, LA, SF, AT, etc. You don't know what you are talking about old man

[@djjerome]

Memories of once great city, that is no more. I should know, I live here.

[@petykash]

Nahhh it’s still beautiful everywhere I visit is a dump , we’re still a world class city don’t let the media fool you or your own fears and anxiety, there’s a ton of beautiful people and places to go

[@WestSideGorilla1980]

Shane heavy industrial jobs disappeared like union reps Police and fire unions get 115k for life after 30yrs. Tops out The do 8.5 hear somewhere else and another small pension. My pop don't have to retire if town is under 5000population. When leavings out of state he'll have 160k a year until he draws breath.

[@TomStarcevich-fb3qo]

Back when chicago was nice 😮

[@1GirlieGirl]

It's still nice but we don't want racist ignoramuses like YOU so stay in the trailer park where you belong, Cletus

[@mariopantoja8259]

I agree. Chicago is wonderful

[@Marcel_Audubon]

it's even better today, sweets!

[@mikelfootballtv6808]

propaganda

[@chillydawgg4354]

Let's see, vintage video with 'Chicago' in the title, I anticipate many thinly veiled racist comments here.

[@xandercruz900]

I love watching these types of videos, but yeah, EVERY ONE OF THEM are filled with the same 23 year old clowns screaming that "minorities" ruined their "perfect" city....that apparently was corruption and crime free.

[@PeaceToAll-sl1db]

did the colored people make Chicago a better place

[@Marcel_Audubon]

I anticipate many totally ignorant comments here -- and you did not disappoint!

[@loveppl6999]

​@@Marcel_Audubon SO YOU ARE SAYING YOU DON'T SEE THE RACIST COMMENTS? LAIR!!!!

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@loveppl6999 turning your capslock on doesn't make a flaccid comment any less flaccid

[@PeaceToAll-sl1db]

Chicago looked great as a white majority city - what happened

[@alvarocorral1576]

We showed up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJfWk6d7qLCZd5Isi=gX75FTzs7AlHqG4J

[@alvarocorral1576]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJfWk6d7qLCZd5Isi=jgVPCQBElT51v8W4

[@ChicagoRonin]

Just ignoring the bit with the Japanese festival, huh?

[@jagboy69]

Doesn't look like the chicago I've been to. Wonder why that is?

[@2003ranp]

The liberal DA's!

[@PeaceToAll-sl1db]

white culture was replaced with x

[@davidt8438]

I know exactly what you mean and you’re exactly right.

[@TimMonbrod]

Bad Leaders, Bad Government, Bad Cities.

[@davidmicalizio824]

GFYS

[@1GirlieGirl]

Bad brain. You know nothing about Chicago.

[@2003ranp]

Blue cities!

[@mariopantoja8259]

I agree. CHICAGO is wonderful!

[@TimMonbrod]

@@davidmicalizio824 GFYS also!

[@tommym321]

7:03 good lord that is some awful looking food. Dining - especially in America- has come a long way. 11:25 hahahahaha that’s some pretty bogus choreographed “self defense” there hahahahaha

[@Mike_Greentea]

What a beautiful place to get Robbed ! 😂

[@davidmicalizio824]

GFYS

[@TomStarcevich-fb3qo]

Definitely 😮😮😮😮

[@1GirlieGirl]

I bet you live in a great place to buy meth.

[@davidmicalizio824]

@@TomStarcevich-fb3qo GFYS

[@hamburglar83]

Chicago doesnt rank top 20 in robberies. Maybe a city you think is nice because Fox News doesnt attack cities from red states (top ten worse states for crime are all red minus New Mexico)

[@robertmonaghan5420]

No , That is Not Original Chicago. There's No River

[@nick_624]

Then they came to town

[@SPEEDBOATTarnell]

….continue….

[@nick_624]

@@SPEEDBOATTarnell The illegals :)

[@1GirlieGirl]

Yes they did, and you stayed in the trailer park where you belong.

[@2003ranp]

​@@SPEEDBOATTarnellto be continued for now!

[@mariopantoja8259]

They came all over your face

[@russell_beddyoisken]

Well, well, well...what a difference nearly 60 years makes....

[@Marcel_Audubon]

yeah, much improved today!

[@whatafreakinusername]

4:18 “back scracther”

[@jakelee7639]

Glorious….nothing political, or racial, or gender or any other bs angle….just a pleasant, informative documentary……….as things should be

[@traviskitteh]

I hate to break it to you, everything in this video is political, including the video itself. The choice of tourist destinations, the topics they didn't choose to cover, the fact that not a single black person appears in the video, despite the huge black population in Chicago at the time this was filmed.

[@jakelee7639]

@@traviskitteh yawn….there were black people if you look, perhaps not as much as a woke may want I don’t know,…it is about the landmarks more than the individual people, so hate to break it to you, and despite your deep desire, not political

[@mgo4917]

@@jakelee7639Thank you Jake! Can’t even watch and enjoy a Fkn video without a Debbie Downer posting something negative. No wonder people suck.

[@jakelee7639]

@@mgo4917 couldn’t mean me, my original comment was praising the video

[@mgo4917]

@@jakelee7639 Yes I meant you Jake. I was THANKING you for your comment as opposed to all the negative Nancy’s posting.

[@MAXIMUSMINIMALIST]

The good old days before it was completely ruined by the 13%

[@davidt8438]

Now it’s closer to 35%

[@alvarocorral1576]

You have almost three equal parts of whites, blacks, and Hispanics in Chicago. Any politician running for office in Chicago will go for the minority vote which is really the majority vote.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJfWk6d7qLCZd5Isi=jgVPCQBElT51v8W4

[@Marcel_Audubon]

wtf??