Comiskey Park - Last Days (1 of 3)

Taped September 9th, 1990. A video tour of old and new Comiskey Park, as well as a tour of several Chicago area landmarks. Filmed by a couple of Dopes. Part 1 of 3.

[@brettfavreify]

Old Comiskey, Tiger Stadium, Cleveland Municipal, Baltimore Memorial, Milwaukee County, I miss'em all.

[@jbobbster]

Damn it, why couldn't I have been born earlier. I was like a year old. At this time. I've always been fascinated by what life and culture was like back in the late 80s and early 90s. This is great footage. It's amazing that the site of of Old Comiskey is now a parking lot. And the Sox actually had pretty good team that year. They just happened to be in a division with the high powered Oakland Athletics.

[@donnix1192]

I was born in 82, just got into sports in the late 80s/early 90s, it was a great era for my earliest sports memories……except when the 49ers crushed the Bears at soldier field in the 1988 NFC Championship game……..

[@adamNDkipker]

This is TOTALLY AWESOME WHOEVER DID THIS THANK YOU

[@robertmasina7388]

I'm glad I went to a number of games at that ballpark in the 1970's and 1980's.

[@JoeySlugs]

brings back some great memories of the neighborhood. i grew up a block away from the old park.

[@jbobbster]

man hard to believe i was only a year old at this time. So this was life in Chicago back in the early 90s. Thanks for these vids. They offer some great insight.

[@chazhogue2945]

Thanks for the vid. Love to see the old ball park again.

[@sldl04]

Good tunes....and thanks for the video.

[@TheBearfan76]

thanks for posting this

[@nteowl2025]

Great footage

[@MidwestFlesh]

Very cool!

[@Jaylinkin]

I was only 2 when this was shot and I appreciate this, gives me an appreciation that the white sox didn't move to florida :p

[@tonyb147]

Yes he is - a true pro for sure. Love the mullet. Good taste in music too.

[@edwynnkelley136]

Coming off the 94 on 35st street. Fun fact: Thr first psrk for the Whitesox was South Side Park lll which was built in 1900. Comiskey Park brcame the 2nd ball park for the Whitesox in 1910.

[@leesimeone]

The sound is great, can't beat analog!

[@TheBearfan76]

Great video. Too bad I never got to visit the old ballpark. GO SOX!

[@Twom44]

History did mean alot to the south-siders. we didn't have a say so in whether or not they were going to tear her down. Real Sox fans didn't even want a new park. Thanks for this video though. It brings back a lot of good memories for me, A SOUTH SIDER.

[@Galidorquest]

We don't even get a say so in whether or not buildings & stadiums should be renamed either... 😒

[@shivam220]

dam i wish i was born in the 80;s so i can see all this man damm fmml 96 -.- love this old cars culture with tupac n wu tang rap uhhh!

[@Galidorquest]

You'd have to be born *before* the 80's to have a better memory and fuller experience of the 80's & 90's.

[@shivam220]

@@Galidorquest I wrote this 11 years ago. Man does time fly by. Now i'm a young adult.

[@chitownkid59]

Nice nice nice.....thanx.

[@edwynnkelley136]

At 9:23 I had a asbestos removal job in that brown building called the T.E. Brown Apartments.

[@johnscrutch]

u got any video on the old chicago stadium

[@jimtracy6844]

I love watching this video with the greatest baseball stadium of all time, Old Comiskey Park. I've told people this, but if Old Comiskey was still standing today, I would be a die hard soxs fan. I'll say is, if baseball is America's past time, why aren't the old stadiums still standing?

[@ericreyes3383]

Jim Tracy if old comiskey park was still standing today i can picture how modern it would look

[@michaelkawell3300]

Old comiskey park i still call it that.just like the willis tower its the sears tower to me

[@jtleon7086]

should've been playing some disco in honor of disco demolition night that happen in the 70's and for a little tribute for the Comiskey demolition. A few yrs back Im at trailer park and an old hippy handicap in a electric scooter tells me during our small talk that he was there on disco night.

[@furpal40]

Just for playing songs from Foreigner you get a thumbs up.

[@Sammydx1]

Jesus.... chills coming out from under the viaduct on 35th. NOT ONLY to see new Comiskey Park.... but the old girl herself. There in all her glory. My my my

[@hotredboy84]

I CAN REMEMBER GOING PAST THE TWO PARKS AND THINKING DAMN, THE OLD GIRL WILL BE GONE SOON

[@nickofypres]

Parts 2 & 3?

[@thatgirllivvy1925]

Harold Baines and Carlton Fisk

[@mattlocke06]

Wow time warp. What if I told you in the future the camera you are using now will be so small it will fit in the cell phone you carry in your pocket. Whats a cell phone you ask?

[@craigirwin4771]

That was the greatest stadium. Quit my Sox fandom. F Reinsdorf!

[@robertmasina4610]

Anyway in later years Comiskey Park was getting rickety due to its age.

[@topflightmarketing]

Too bad history didn't mean anything to the South Siders. Old Comisky is way better than new Comisky.

[@topflightmarketing]

@Twom44 I should have clarified my remarks to say, "Too bad history didn't mean anything to the OWNERS of the South Siders." Yeah I understand, it's the fans that get the shaft every time. Ask me about my Minnesota North Stars sometime.

[@michaelkawell3300]

Bridgeport

[@ericreyes3383]

Dont why Comiskey Park was painted white I wish it would of just kept its original color

[@craigirwin4771]

F Reinsdorf

[@juieandersonJHLA]

Wow! Foreignor got a lot of play after the Disco shunning. I remember that and lived about 30 miles from Comiskey Park then. Was oblivious, but now I am ashamed to be from the Chicago area. I love the Bee Gees now, and I also liked Foreignor a lot then. By 1987 when their (Bee Gees) "One" single and album came out the radio started playing them again. Money Money Money, the rockers couldn't get air play, so?

[@robo60616]

juie anderson ashamed of a city?you didn't even live in ?glad your gone stay gone

[@crews-lj3ph]

juie anderson what wrong with Chicago blame the gangs

[@bearstown19show]

You are fake Sox fan

[@DJAnthonyillWill]

Anyone else find this dude's music selection to be terrible?

[@marchmadness76]

No way

[@furpal40]

Foreigner is Awesome !