A 1960s Summer Day at The Maxwell Market Chicago Illinois - Vintage Street Scene Footage

[@GCast]

Royalty free stock footage available at: bit.ly/GCPond5

[@alyslesafranks261]

Them polish sausages and pork chop sandwiches they used to sell on Maxwell Street were delicious. They served them 24/7.

[@JR-jk5wz]

As a kid back in the 80s I remember my father waking us up at 5:00am and making our way to JEWTowN. That’s what they called it if I remember correctly! Loved the food and cheap things you could purchase at reasonable prices. It was a way of life for us growing up. Miss it

[@shable1436]

Is that two streets past shecklesbergsteins

[@TeslaBoy123]

That is priceless bro never never back again 👍

[@JR-jk5wz]

@@TeslaBoy123 ya unfortunately! I was just having a conversation with my wife and telling her my stories that I had with my father! Now if that market was still open to this date, for sure I’ll be taking my kids there! Lol

[@Diogenes-ty9yy]

I still remember the first time I went there with my Dad. A street vendor asked if he'd like to buy a watch, then pulled up his right sleeve to display about 10 watches from his wrist up to his elbow. Dad passed on the deal and I had a good laugh. Now, Dad is gone and both he and Maxwell street are only memories.

[@JR-jk5wz]

@@Diogenes-ty9yy sorry for your loss. My dad has pancreatic cancer and doesn’t have much time! But yes I agree only memories to share with family and friends for years to come

[@sayeurekaafrica8265]

Back in my day we called this place JEWTOWn and would go there to buy yummy Giant Polish Sausages with loads of grilled onins, green hot peppers on a poppy seed bun for $.99

[@onemanarmy916]

Memories as a kid going here on Sunday morning

[@sevegarza]

Lol damn I guess my dad was telling me the truth about this place. You said exactly what he told me verbatim. My dad still hasn’t found a place that serves polish sausage the “right” way

[@wesleystacknik1920]

Great memories of Maxwell Street

[@CirceandLillith]

My uncle showed me and my older brother this place in the 90s. I was at least 5 or 6 years old... He passed away a month ago... He went into cardiac arrest ON HIS WAY TO PICK UP MAXWELLS ON 79TH. . he was the coolest uncle ever. Died way too soon. Rest in peace my tio fredo "floyd" torres ❤

[@MasterRoss-sn7dl]

It was called Jewtown by ppl who weren’t Jews

[@iananderson8288]

Wow! so amazing to see this. Compared to today, chicago has no life at all

[@Kiamichi-Okie]

OH - WOW This video takes me back of former days, that were so innocent, full of hope an joy Going to Maxwell Street was a Treat. I miss Mazwell Street - I miss Chicago, but I have the memories. G-Cast Thank-you for sharing this jewel with us . I am eternally grateful ,

[@ERen-tj6jg]

I grew up a few blocks south on the other side of the tracks.. It was an amazing time to grow up in the 60s 70s and 80s.. I love the Pilsen neighborhood.

[@boataxe4605]

If your hubcaps got stolen you could go there the next day and buy them back.

[@yoc4744]

😂

[@RS01-q7e]

Facts 😂😂

[@jamesohara6513]

Love that blues music.

[@GCast]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I have more at youtube.com/@TheOldTimeyChannel I have so much old footage I’ve moved all my old videos there.

[@luisnavarro9307]

l loved going to maxwell street, l wish it was still around.

[@Sentientmatter8]

It's a crying shame this doesn't exist anymore.

[@Thekidyusuke]

Segregation?

[@kenkunz1428]

@@Thekidyusuke Gentrification.

[@anthony6112]

You can thank the Liberals for destroying Chicago culture!

[@shable1436]

@@Thekidyusuke I see all races together in this video wtf are you talking about

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

The market and the entire area was destroyed the expansion of University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). In the 90s, the Maxwell Street Market was moved by the City of Chicago to accommodate even more expansion of UIC. This all started in the 60s when Mayor Daley ruined the entire near west side and forcefully relocated tons of working class people, many being African Americans into low income project housing so they could build a modern campus for wealthy white people. The modern campus of UIC stands ontop of what used to be a thriving working class neighborhood just west of downtown

[@Carmen-qx8ib]

I loved Maxwell Street, Great buys, Good Polish's and the Love of my Life (J T Parker)🧓🏽💖!!! Thanks for the Memories 💋!!!

[@michaelreynosa195]

I was born and raised on Taylor Street years ago I still love going down jewtown to buy clothes or stuff I needed and have my suits tailored upstairs from the Chinese guys .. you can buy just about anything in town years ago anything..... It's all changed now the UIC took over I missed the olden days on Taylor Street it was so nice back then.. all of these videos bring back a lot of memories thank you so much and keep it up with those videos.. I was wondering if you had any videos on Taylor Street back in the sixties or '50s?

[@augustmosco]

Hey Mike---I was born and raised on Taylor St. too, during the 50s and 60s. I went to Andrew Jackson grammar school (by Sheridan Park) and lived on Racine near Mother Cabrini Hospital (where I was born). I remember that Maxwell St was the only stores open on Sunday and we would go and hang out every Sunday morning. It's nice to see these old films.

[@MasterRoss-sn7dl]

Please stop calling it Jewtown

[@dreamcore]

​@@MasterRoss-sn7dl no

[@XoxoMoot]

The original Flea Market/Block party!

[@mikey5150]

I remember in the early eighties we used to do Roofing on Maxwell Street start at 5:00 in the morning and we used to see The Pimps the hookers and the cops all having breakfast at Jimmy's Maxwell Street Polish.😋😁

[@davidzornig1319]

It went to the Gold Coast Art Fair and Oak & Rush at 3:30. It then goes to Old Town at 5:21.

[@bobbie143bc]

Those Maxwell Polishes was so juicy back then now they are so dry. The fries not even the same.

[@tblack1264]

And they not 24 hours anymore

[@mshepshep258]

Fries are HORRIBLE!!

[@jimmiesmith5811]

They used real beef sausages back then not this cheap pork and chicken by product garbage they have now

[@FatneckAsshoe]

Wish I lived in this year

[@redbone8844]

Right we was born in the wrong era 😞

[@noahreyna76]

Well from everything I’ve heard that time sucked ass too 😂

[@kkarllwt]

Color ttv was 5 years old. 6 TV channels, Bias ply tires that lased 25 k miles. Car engines got rebuilt at 70k miles. But, the sunday tribune was 25 cents.

[@gaagsl]

This is such good quality video. Great job

[@GCast]

Glad you liked it!

[@Y-Soightnie]

My friend's dad sold produce on Maxwell St. in the mid- '60s. We would go with him in his large truck and help set up. He paid some "block guy" for the spot. We would go most of the summer. I never remember any fine artwork being sold there at all, but I do remember the musicians and the guys walking around with watches on the inside of their suit coats. It was wild.

[@GCast]

Thanks for sharing

[@JACOBSJohn818]

Would of loved to done some shoppin there in 60's or 70's..

[@duckman23]

My uncle Augie used to take me and my cousin there all the time in the early 80s. You could find anything they're great food tapes music records anyting anyting in your imagination you could find there. All nice people

[@GCast]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I have more at youtube.com/@TheOldTimeyChannel I have so much old footage I’ve moved all my old videos there.

[@josephhall5884]

You could buy anything. Literally until 1996. Anything.

[@mojoboo41]

Nothing like a good old Chicago redhot.

[@GCast]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I have more at youtube.com/@TheOldTimeyChannel I have so much old footage I’ve moved all my old videos there.

[@matrox]

Check it out mostly po' folks trying to make it here, but notice no car jackings, no one getting robbed or mugged. I was a kid during this time and this is how I remember it. Contrast it with todays massive sh!thole of crime and corruption.

[@kenkunz1428]

The fist half of this clip is Maxwell St., the second half is Old Town. The loss of Maxwell st. to gentrification is a sin the City can never correct.

[@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711]

Gentrification is another word for making the place nice and clean.

[@kenkunz1428]

@@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 You're the kind of guy who would have been scared shitless to walk down the Original Maxwell street.

[@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711]

@@kenkunz1428 absolutely. Because it was a third world shit hole and i am used to nice clean Chicago streets the way its been my whole life. Up until now. Im 24.

[@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711]

@@kenkunz1428 dont blame me for growing up good fam. Im latino we take advantage of opportunities not squander them and blame whites for our problems.

[@kenkunz1428]

@@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711 Well, at least you copped to being scared shitless of the old Maxwell. It was a great place. You missed it.

[@bluesquirrel3919]

I remember those po' boy sandwiches that they sold at the dime store (Neisner). Every now and then I remember the taste (so damn good) and 🤗

[@Sentientmatter8]

What they put in them?

[@ExtraHistoryYT]

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[@bluesquirrel3919]

@@Sentientmatter8...That was a little over 55 years ago, so I don't quite remember, but I do remember the smell and taste 🤗

[@tomfilipiak3511]

WOW,Niesner brothers dime stores,Memory,sitting with my mon and dad and sisters,at the lunch counter listening to my mom,ordering a coffee Boston,which means double cream or milk! When’s the last time you heard any of that,Born in 1948,lived at2416 South Whipple Street,Near Cermak and Kedzie,Marshall Boulevard!

[@Sammydx1]

Grew up on 24th and Princeton. I was only there for the mid 90s Maxwell street. But my Grandfather was a yellow cab driver. He was on level with a beat cop with street life...

[@joejazzy3588]

Very nice THANKS

[@chrisfritsch7934]

Pickle Barrel was on Wells! Not Maxwell!

[@errorsofmodernism9715]

This would make a great Colt 45 Malt Liquour commercial. Some of their best customers are seen in this video dressed for a night out on the town

[@randomuser1105]

Very clever comment. So funny. 🙄

[@LloydMajor]

Awesome!

[@bluehand9631]

Bananas, eight pounds for 50 cents then. Fifty nine cents per pound now.

[@oohlaalaagaga]

With inflation that would make 8 lbs $4.37ish and .59x8 = 4.72 so not a huge difference

[@GnomeChomsky9999]

Always do the math..

[@kkarllwt]

We would go down there on sunday morning to the flea market to buy tools.1968

[@bluesquirrel3919]

Hey, you left Maxwell and went to Old Town, not fair

[@davidzornig1319]

It went to the Gold Coast Art Fair and Oak & Rush at 3:30. It then goes to Old Town at 5:21.

[@LloydMajor]

This is awesome! May i use some of the footage in my "KZbin VIDEO"? I will give you credit.

[@tomfilipiak3511]

When you are 15 years old,traversing the Chicago,I know,1963 I was 15 years old,had a 53 Pontiac,straight 8,drove all over the CII, town I know!JU,Town,12 street and Halsted,Smoky Joes,for a brim,or some shark skin pants,and a vest!We all dressed to the nines,Hardy’s,or Tom McCanns for some shoes,Jimmys for a polish,the onions you could smell a block away!No,gangs,no trouble,shady as it might be,people trying to make a buck,legal and illegal!The CHI town I knew!Thomas A.FilipiakBringit back!!!

[@wakcedout]

Ngl, was kinda watching to see if my great grandma grandma or dad could be spotted in this. Woulda been interesting to see my dad and grandma younger and see my great grandma alive. But not sure if they would have ever taken the bus up to this.

[@billbeliakoff5589]

One time I went to Maxwell St. With a buddy who was looking for a car stereo and thought he could haggle for a good price. I told him that he better be ready to pay the asking price because things are are already cheap. After about 45 minutes the guy he was talking to and finally caved and sold one for $50 that he was asking $125 because he got tired of the back and forth.

[@bobbie143bc]

A lot of this film is not on Maxwell Street.

[@merrybe3418]

Street dancing and singing, independent junk dealers, a woman wearing short white gloves, none of the homogenized feel of today's art shows and flea markets.

[@DavidGarcia-x9w]

Looked dirty and hood but this place holds good memories and was more safer than Chicago nowadays

[@jonathanmosher72]

No it wasn't, Maxwell St is way safer today. Go look up assaults and murders today in this area vs the 60s and 70s. People are literally brainwashed by fake news

[@firstlastname3865]

This is not entirely Maxwell Street. I see Old Town, near North.

[@marks7167]

Thanks toteUOI

[@wallstreettrader1]

0:52-1:07 Carrie Robinson.

[@dominiquejohnson2643]

Imagine This Is A theme song

[@matrox]

7:08 Those girls are now in their 80s.

[@alexwilson2988]

Hi there, amazing footage here. Do you have an email contact address I can get you on?

[@gabrielvasquez926]

Name of song

[@AbletonLiveTechs]

so amazing. No blm and feminism. Gotta love it

[@kenkunz1428]

Alright Trump, keep your shirt on.

[@Denahii]

If that’s all you think about when watching this, there’s something wrong with u. So obsessed for what 😂

[@david-lm7iu]

@@Denahii he is right tho its toxic, with everyone that's wants to be in a social group.

[@honorbluelovelyful]

It surrounds us so much these days that it honestly IS refreshing to not see political signs in these pics.....ppl look a lot more relaxed and engaged with each other

[@tricatfilms6136]

now chicago is a sh$thole thanks to the mayor and demorats

[@HelenaSkazki]

Мой дед жил и умер в Чикаго.

[@michaelkawell3300]

Jewtown blues brothers was filmed

[@MasterRoss-sn7dl]

Stop calling it that

[@matrox]

1963'

[@tomfields3682]

Where's Jake and Elwood and Aretha?

[@GCast]

They're on a mission from God.

[@anthonyhuminsky5132]

INSTALL ON MY MESSAGING

[@fastted3504]

I gotta' say that is some sht bkgrnd music. Drunken 10 y/o's playing that ?

[@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711]

Honestly looks like shit. Kinda like how it looks now.

[@randomuser1105]

Kinda how you look.

[@theplayerformerlyknownasmo3711]

@@randomuser1105 how do you know what I look like?? The photo I have is podcaster Tim Dillon. Not myself.