Chicago in 1974 [60fps HD] America in the 1970s

[@StockTurboN20]

I love seeing the Checker Cabs they’re so cool

[@624radicalham]

My brain isn't braining when I see this. The quality, the shine of the cars, the detail ... it's like if it was filmed with an Iphone yesterday

[@michaelwills1926]

This was some 16mm looking footage to me on a steady cam

[@josephk362]

@@michaelwills1926 Not to mention (although I'm mentioning it) the conversion to video/digital was superb.

[@jackgilreath3113]

My biggest takeaway-people walking on the sidewalks actually taking-in the surroundings & making an effort to react/avoid walking into other people, not staring into their phones like vapid robots. This is one of the things I miss most about how the world was then vs. how it is now starting about 20 yrs. ago.

[@AlexanderCrump]

You are absolutely right. Young people today do not know how to make polite eye contact or to interact with someone else other than by a keyboard. The whole public interaction situation began to spiral around 2006. Thanks, social media.

[@steveb9151]

I keep looking for Bob Newhart walking to work.

[@brianarbenz1329]

I was in Chicago as a child in 1969, then in 1977 when I was college age. It was an amazing city at every age. Love Chicago!

[@edbrosky9273]

Thanks for sharing! Great footage! Love going back in time! Yes, love the old cars, trains, buses, etc.

[@Deadfoot-Dan]

Awesome video quality, well done. I always love visiting Chicago, almost went there last weekendm I don't live that far away.

[@FreedomOfSpeech1776]

I am 68 years old, great time to grow up in chicago, definitely not today

[@blasemessina3711]

I'm same age, you're 100% Correct 💯

[@johnjones393]

I was just one year old living in the Chicago suburbs when this was filmed.

[@Bedroomeyze]

Just lookin’ out of the window Watchin’ the asphalt grow Thinkin’ how it all looks hand-me-down Good Times, yeah, yeah Good Times..........

[@josephk362]

Hangin' in a chow line? Hangin' and a' jawin'?

[@joedimaggio3687]

Scratchin and surviving, good times!

[@bigcat618]

In 1974 I had an after market 8 track player installed in my car. You have no idea how remarkable it was to be able to listen to a song while driving when you wanted to instead of waiting for WLS or WCFL to play it on the radio.😃

[@whereismarkcam]

This is awesome! I was 9 and remember it well.

[@blast4me754]

Look at my grandparents generation still rocking and rolling back then. My grandparents were from the Greatest Generation age group but with this being the 1970s the Lost Generation was still rocking and rolling too. My grandparents were probably just in their 60's back then.

[@ge2623]

I loved Chicago in the 70's. Rush street was an eyeopener for a 12-year-old boy I can tell you! Adult clubs and stores and a Ripley's museum. Good times.

[@ligeiasinistra879]

Wow! I just saw a pale yellow Mustang passing by... It was Kolchak. "Carl, come back here!"

[@josepha5885]

Haha, I was thinking the same thing

[@Rushyesgenesis]

I need to hear the Bob Newhart theme in the background

[@M1CHAZZ]

As a teenager at that time, was in the LOOP.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Man all that concrete is so beautiful. Highways in the city. And huge parking lots! That's America, the beautiful. C'mon guys, let's Make America Concrete Again.

[@AccountNo-fg8fy]

Yes! and bring back asbestos!

[@ColtraneTaylor]

@@AccountNo-fg8fy Mmm ... love that fragrance.

[@mjg263]

@1:22 couple of brothers pushing a ‘71 Buick Skylark with the hood up. I can relate, cars used to break down much more often back then. BTDT!

[@hisdness1]

I wish we had a time machine to go back to this era.

[@Doug-mc3dd]

It wasn't all that good, still 50Xs better than today. The late 50s and 60s were much better as I remember as a small kid.

[@hisdness1]

@@Doug-mc3dd True, I'm not saying everything was good and certainly we've made some improvements. I just felt there was a different vibe in the 70's, 80s and early 90s. More kids played outside, the music was better, the movies were something spectactular.There was more optimism and the world seemed simpler. It had an atmosphere that somehow can't be duplicated in today's world.

[@Doug-mc3dd]

@@hisdness1 Yep...definetly better than today. American started spiraling down in the mid late 70s and has never stopped.

[@jamesm.3967]

Oil embargo and lines for gas, 8 % inflation. Interest rates @10% and rising. It wasn’t a picnic. 😮

[@larrydrozd2740]

@@Doug-mc3dd Because you were a kid!! I grew up there back then...the murder rate was 970 in 1974. I remember RUNNING to the car after Blackhawk games in 1976. No.... its 50x better NOW! Cleaner too.

[@jlh4jc]

Isn't the Bob Newhart show intro supposed to be playing in the background? :-)

[@brianhoward7829]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@BernardProfitendieu]

1974 was the year the Sears Tower was completed. That started a whole building boom in the southwest loop

[@elizabethchase6528]

Every car in this block is a muscle car

[@edwardandrews2618]

The way people dressed in 70s and the "clothing" they are wearing today... Especially the youth---- 95% In monotone black or dark grey. High scool students look like a big flock of crows)) Well... Two different worlds!

[@AlexanderCrump]

The Sears Tower was brand new. Nice how every surface wasn't covered in $hithole graffiti then.

[@AlexanderCrump]

0:45 Lady rockin' the Betty Ford flip. So cool.

[@danholm4952]

not everyone is 300+ pounds I see

[@scarpfish]

Life was certainly more tactile back then. Good and bad.

[@Richardpasquinucci]

Is that a video tape or a film. The quality is very good for footage of that time

[@Doug-mc3dd]

Looks like early betamax tape.

[@Richardpasquinucci]

@Doug-mc3dd o

[@josephk362]

"of the time"? 16mm and 32mm film beats digital anyday, that's why this looks so good. You're just noticing that it's not 8mm, and that the conversion to video/digital looks good, which is, in fact, unusual unless it was professionally done.

[@Richardpasquinucci]

@josephk362 it looks like a professional transfer. But it could be 35mm film. The quality of the footage is very god

[@ЮлийВахутинский-л5и]

Love the chanel!

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

The year I was born.

[@wallykaspars9700]

1974 I was driving a Checker cab then.

[@tomfields3682]

Looking closely at the sidewalk for Bob and Emily!

[@AndréLuizBósio-h5w]

'Driver 2: The Wheelman Is Back' (PlayStation).

[@arthurmorgan2906]

That was driver 2

[@davidtaylor328]

Awesome Video & that's the year I was born !!! 👍🏻🪙👍🏻

[@janeentumbao8690]

I love 70's style clothing and hair. Women looked like women. They did their hair and put makeup on. No baggy crap. No wearing pjs out. People gave a damn about their appearance. Love it!🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

[@brianarbenz1329]

Take a closer look at this film, please. Lots of people with no make up, with too many heavy coats to see if their clothes are baggy. But they'll do to make a speech whining about today. Now go collect your troll points.

[@janeentumbao8690]

@brianarbenz1329 Someone escaped their dungeon and is a tad cranky. 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@Somethingwicked1x]

Who are you to judge?

[@boyczk2]

In 71 my dad got his wheels ripped off from his 69 gto couple months after he bought it.

[@muh_v8787]

"Jonesy, we got ourselves some action. I found our witness, and he's real jumpy"

[@danholm4952]

50 years ago, you have to be..

[@rolfteichmuller371]

Fabulous great cars....a better time than the shit cars of today

[@donaldhookstead6991]

Looks like they still were pushing them!

[@larrydrozd2740]

Ha! Unless you stand behind one for 5 minutes! I spent 45 years restoring and rebuilding the old classics. From 1901 to 1971, you name it and I built, repaired or restored to factory spec just about every model imaginable. The air was TOXIC back then!! It was deadly in NYC in 1966. I was in Italy 3 years ago and the levels of crud and filth they've been cleaning off their treasures is stunning. All from cars. Sure, older cars LOOKED nice, but modern cars are way better all around. Which is why I drive a 2010 Honda while my muscle cars and classics sit in the garage most of the time. Modern cars last much longer too.

[@Mercedes600SELfan]

You're so right, im a Z kid from mid 2000s, but I hate the modern ugly gayshit with the Chinese details, the Detroit was on his peak back then- the real steal with a full tank of gasoline, and some Detroit rock city or highway star hitting from the radio, I think it was something...

[@brianarbenz1329]

Yeah, those two pushing the stalled car with the hood up prove your point, @rolfteichmuller371. No shit car in that scene! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@Mercedes600SELfan Take the bus or train, then. ... _Detroit was on its peak then._ Good grief, is there any YT thread commenter who _ever_ knows what their talking about? Let someone who was there correct your nonsense: The U.S. auto industry was in absolute crisis in 1974. Gasoline prices had doubled. A full tank of gasoline would get you nowhere.

[@user-dc1dw2np1w]

Ohhh a time machine..please take me back....even 1964, even 1984....when everything was so simple,good, no damn cellphone, and other stupid things

[@am74343]

Was this original source from videotape or film?

[@624radicalham]

Obviously film dude. There's no way you can get this quality from VHS or Beta lol

[@васякука-г1ж]

Это 16 мм киноплёнка, VHS Это всего лишь 240 телевизионных линий! Это слишком мало чтобы быть качественным, К тому же формат(Video Home System) родился в 1976 году!

[@michaelwills1926]

@@васякука-г1жI figured it was 16mil it’s way to crisp and neat for anything less

[@josephk362]

@@624radicalham Though there is some signal loss in the conversion to video, still a fine job.

[@chessdad182]

No one staring at their iPhone. LOL

[@Doug-mc3dd]

No one getting car jacked. In 74 peeps never even heard of the term.

[@christopherbowen1836]

Carjacking arose because theft deterrent systems got so good. A thief would much rather steal something with no one in it than take the risk of confrontation.

[@ChiGuy1837]

Lol you never even been to Chicago

[@Doug-mc3dd]

@@ChiGuy1837 Sounds like a democRAT shithole even in 1974.

[@janeentumbao8690]

And if someone stole something and was caught, they got their butts grounded or worse. And people weren't afraid to defend themselves.

[@HouseRepublican]

Chicago had gangs at this time, very vicious ones. You have to remember, this is a former Midwestern rust belt that converted. Chicago has been violent since the industrial revolution. It is a democratic hellhole.

[@CleciPohren]

❤❤

[@Havoc-bc6oy]

and nary a headscarf to be seen anywhere. great times.

[@brianarbenz1329]

at 0:47 woman is wearing a headscarf. You're not too bright, are you?

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Hasn't changed.

[@josephk362]

Well, that's just wrong. It isn't even the same city, but, to be fair, a few of those buildings are still there.

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

Now its one of the worst cities in the USA !

[@brianarbenz1329]

Have actually been there, or you running up troll points by spewing that?

[@StockTurboN20]

@@brianarbenz1329I’m a Chicago native Chicago is one of the worst cities for crimes in the country that’s not a troll it’s facts