Chicago 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Street scenes in Chicago, Illinois 1920s,
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source from: Newberry Library ( Charles H. Wacker )
B&W Video Source: archive.org/de...

[@NASS_0]

in which city in the world do you want to live in 1920s???

[@sergpie]

Buenos Aires or New York, hands-down.

[@erwin4539]

chicago

[@huntrrams]

London, Chicago or Paris

[@Geheim]

berlin

[@raulduke6105]

Paris

[@jonhansen100]

I'm now 71, born in 1951. Seeing this video was amazing. I lived and worked in and around Chicago all my life. I grew up sailing in Monroe Harbor and seeing the old original Chicago Yacht Club is mind blowing. My Grandparents were in their 30's in the 1920's. What a hoot to see a day in their times in moving pictures. Thanks for putting this out ! Really great !

[@magwildlife2318]

Ever go to Columbia yacht club?

[@Chumpy_1]

do you like how the world has changed?

[@2pugman]

I see a number of 1928 Ford vehicles.

[@Blox117]

ok old man, time to take your meds

[@47Kaay]

well have you seen Chicago nowadays ?

[@7GtwNYkHYs]

holy cow... I'm a Chicago courier and I see these buildings everyday. I'm in awe The Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower looks just like it did 100 years ago.

[@TomNovak2113]

Just a little more soot on the façades. lol!

[@fredricardo3272]

Although the Tribune building is much cleaner today.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

One word; coal.

[@SnoopEastwood]

They built them well back then. Guarantee most modern buildings won't be around 100 years from now because they are poorly constructed

[@jestinrobinson5115]

I had the pleasure of staying in the Athletic Club a few years ago and it was absolutely superb

[@jimoconnor6382]

The rivalry of Chicago and NYC goes back. At this point in time, Chicago is a world economic super power and it held it for decades .Thank you for posting this gem.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Indeed it was. The city proper held nearly four million inhabitants in less then one hundred years. The bustling, hustling drive, innovation, and creativity of the city, especially before the first world war was so astonishing and remarkable, it did not escape the notice of the world. So much of what made America a modern and efficient showcase wonder, had its beginnings in Chicago.

[@killingjoke535]

Wish we could capture that energy again

[@ligondesenuts769]

@@killingjoke535 If Chicago could compete with other overseas cities. Chicago was completely dethroned when other countries started to make automobiles as well

[@jerrybooker-bm4nu]

Super power? Facts. Especially before foreigners moved here.

[@jestinrobinson5115]

By the 1950s, Detroit was the wealthiest city in America for a bit over 20 years.

[@georgeg.morgan8841]

Magnificent! I lived in Chicago for 25 years (1970-1995) and saw massive construction and changes in the city. This film shows so many landmarks from the late 1800s and early 1900s that are still a vibrant part of the city. Bravo!

[@dudebro3250]

This is what MAGA should be. Taking America back to this. Without diversity America was great!

[@patrickhawkinson8399]

​​@@dudebro3250Sure Klan.

[@RealmsofPixelation]

Hard to explain in words how incredible it is to be able to watch people over 100 years ago just going about their day. I love this content. Imagine the journey of this video footage over the last century.

[@infomercialwars]

what's incredible is it looks so much like it does now, I used to walk all over the area they show for the first 2 mins daily and the city has done a good job of preserving all of that.

[@kickthesky]

Not quite a hundred years yet. The Merchandise Mart construction was featured in this video and the first shovel was turned on the project in August of 1928. My guess it is late in that year in the video.

[@TheElectrocar]

I also liked to think that someone is watching this video not realizing they could be watching an ancestor.

[@thegeneral19]

They'll be doing it to us in 100 years

[@nehuge]

Really wasn’t that long ago

[@skeptale]

I lived in downtown Chicago for a while, and it's stunning to see several of the buildings I walked past every day appear exactly as they are now on a film that's 100 years old. Such an incredible piece of living history.

[@mortyrickerson6322]

Its amazing how much the city changes from only 30 years prior when the Chicago worlds fair was going on the cityscape was drastically different

[@MyKnifeJourney]

I liked seeing the works site for the Merchant Building as "coming soon"

[@music4thedeaf]

@@MyKnifeJourney I saw that too

[@Evilmindy12]

I love the fact Chicago kept most of their architecture 😍, I've lived here my whole life and as I grow older I'm finding more and more reasons to stay, such awe.

[@dudebro3250]

Chicago was a beautiful city when it was full of whYtè people. Diversity has ruined it completely.

[@hugosophy]

It’s kinda weird seeing Chicago without all the huge third generation skyscrapers of international modern style skyscrapers made up of smooth glass facings but at the same time Chicago still looks the same because it has done a good job of preserving the first and second generation of skyscrapers in its skyline.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Disagree. Chicago in fact has treated its architectural patrimony in a very careless, cavalier if not shabby manner. Many examples of uniquely American architectural design and expressions were wantonly destroyed and sacrificed for the flimsiest reasons. Such as tearing down treasures in order to replace them with parking garages or even allow properties to remain fallow for years after notable buildings were demolished. Had the city taken its trove of archtectural heritage more seriously it would have given Chicago a much greater and richer cache of remarkable buildings. Judging from what is currently being built, the city's standards have fallen far below it's predecessors, with much of it's output being quite mediocre and bland. Chicago's setting apparently covers a multitude of architectural sins.

[@pastaisgood6681]

@@LUIS-ox1bv I hear you but I disagree with you.

[@jev2867]

@LUIS What? I see the opposite of what you said. The Chicago in the video is very much recognizable to this day. Buildings with important architectural history are preserved. With that being said, the least important had to make way for growth, just like in any other city. The buildings that replaced them also carry significance. I've read literatures, seen photo illustrations, and watched videos, and still I am amazed at how the layout, the bones if you will had already existed in the late 1800.

[@AnonYmous-ry2jn]

@@LUIS-ox1bv I believe Luis is 100% correct. Yes it is indeed amazing to see so much of the cityscape then matching what exists now, but way, way too many beautiful buildings were demolished for no good reason. This video shows many of the major buildings that survived, but they were the exceptions. It is a story very similar to the old Penn Station in New York. Not sufficiently appreciated until it was gone, callously destroyed by people with no appreciation for architectural continuity and history -- and majesty for that matter; just fetishizing the new and modern and "futurism" above all else. Chicago's decimation of its architectural legacy is one of its great tragedies.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

@@jev2867 As a former architectural student who upon moving to Chicago sought employment with Skidmore Owens & Merril,( at that time, the world's largest architecture firm), to work in their architecture library, I resolutely stand by my views. The city's record on historical preservation warrants a failing grade. In fact, so high was the level of destruction that occured during the decades leading up to my arrival in 1980, I was shocked and appalled to learn about not only the extremely significant and uniquely Chicagoan treasures that were lost, but what replaced them. People can argue until the cows come home about trade offs and gains made by reducing what made this city stand out in many ways, into a pile of rubble or prairie, but in the end the price paid is the city's soul, identity and cultural, historical patrimony. Before I moved to Chicago, I worked in a company which helped restore historic homes and even save many from demolition by moving them to protected districts. We had a lawyer in our office who was a former Chicagoan who bemoaned the utter destruction of the city's great architectural heritage. The corruption in the city and the lackadaisical, careless and indifferent atitudes that preservation efforts were carried out in Chicago, disgusted him enough to compell him to move out of the city. Did not fully comprehend his views until my 30 year stay in the city, when I witnessed the outrageous destruction of not only individual buildings downtown in the neighborhoods, but large swathes encompassing entire city blocks. Block 37 in the Loop, across from another Chicago trajedy,( the loss of Marshall Field's), proved an explicit example of Chicago's approach to, "preservation." The block once contained a mish mash of structures, but among them was a notably beautiful building dating from the 1870s and built not long after the fire. It also boasted another visually interesting building, which had the offices of Clarence Darrow. Being steeped in historical value meant little to nothing, for the city was won over by developers. Ultimately the proposals fell through, one after another. So this very important and prominent block sat empty for nearly 20 years. The block now contains a sterile mall, topped with mediocre, nondescript towers. The city deserved much, much better. The straw that broke the camel's back, was the tearing down of the former Mercantile Exchange Building in the Loop. By then, I had my fill of a city that is hell bent on erasing its past and not capitalizing enough on what made it great. While the city has accomplished much in improving and embellishing public recreational aspects, so much of this strikes one as mere, " window dressing." The city has lost much of its driving juice when it comes to what its noted for and other cities have picked up its slack when it comes to bold and innovative design. Nevertheless, it remains a city in a beautiful setting, with a remarkabke skyline. Which, while spectacular, when viewed from a distance, promises more then it delivers upon closer inspection at streetlevel.

[@SanctusBacchus]

I know the remastering smooths things out, but it's still crazy just how clean and orderly everything was back then. Times have really changed

[@elisabarker7723]

This is so cool. My mom was born in Chicago in 1926. So now I can see the city the way she saw it.

[@pickle_soup160]

That's an awesome way to look at it.

[@mattisnotjoan]

My mom born in 1925. Still alive and relatively well at 97. All these scenes were just the day before, the day before yesterday… ❤️

[@elisabarker7723]

@@mattisnotjoan please hug your Mom for me. Mine’s been gone 25 years.

[@connyjohnson855]

My dad was born in Chicago in 1924. They lived at North Clark Street in the building next to the garage where the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre took place.

[@glennhavinoviski8128]

My mom was born in Chicago in 1925 (West Side), eventually my Dad emigrated to Chicago in 1958 from Eastern Europe via college and early career in New England. I was born @ Edgewater Hospital in 1960. Except for about 11 years (1966-1977), mostly in Cleveland, my Mom lived her whole life in Chicagoland (passed in 2006 along with my Dad).

[@jeffreyd508]

Cant believe how fast NY and Chicago were built. First "skyscraper" was like 1888, and 30 years later seems as though they took over! Imagine the construction jobs in that era

[@deansheridan]

yes the story is ludicris... limited heavy machinary, how much skilled labor can one place have? you know the empire state building was built in one year.... LOL

[@XTR02]

Wow, I recognize just about everything here. It’s amazing how open everything looks, nowadays everything is so crammed in with so many additional buildings.

[@rfh1234]

Really great video, well done. Whoever made this had an eye on the future and we're enjoying his work now in 2023! 100 years later.

[@geneval3151]

Chi-town never looked better. Really enjoyed watching it. Thank you Nass for all that you do. Please allow me to wish you the happiest of holidays and may the New Year be kind to you and to those you love. 🥰🥰🥰

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@btnhstillfire]

All I see is overwhelming industrial impact. Nothing but industrial equipment and buildings hiding all the historical buildings.

[@mfilitti]

This is amazing. My grandfather was raised in Chicago. He was an attorney there during this time. To see this is wonderful. Rumer has it he was an attorney for the mob. My great grandfather was a tailor in Chicago and had his own shop. He and my great grandma came to settle in Chicago after coming here from Italy.

[@scuwopguwop_0715]

Really?? That’s interesting

[@theylivewesleepwakeup]

I'll bet you can cook your ass off.

[@MrModelaer]

They did the groundbreaking on the Merchandise Mart in August of 1928. This film footage must have been around that timeframe as the site work was just beginning stage in the film.

[@OneYulaw]

I was thinking that also. Footage must be from the very late 20's since Buckingham Fountain (seen in some of the clips) Did not open to the public until 1927.

[@ronnie237]

That’s only about 20 years before I was born. Wow, I am really old.

[@gabyfields3235]

Yes, that segment of the film. However, it looks like there are different time periods in this video. To my knowledge, the "Chevrolet" sign was not constructed until right before the 1933 World's Fair. It is clearly visible in the video.

[@60015]

Was expecting to see a couple of shots where I can make out what it is today. Would have never guessed how similar downtown looks here as it does today. One of the best videos I have ever come across.

[@digby_dooright]

The streets looks better then than they do now. 😂

[@jamesshelton1127]

The footage of them building the merchandise mart is amazing. My mother worked there for a long time.

[@TomNovak2113]

World's largest building at the time of its completion and for decades afterwards, I believe. Had its own Zip code!

[@Noneofyourbyisness]

This is simply fantastic. Idk if we’re supposed have this sense of awareness like this but this is insane. I wonder if the man/woman recording knew this would be seen 100 years into the future and admired by all.. probably just how they were amazed at the ability to record and the rate the city was expanding. We are all apart of a higher, forever expanding consciousness if we really stop and think about it.

[@retiredmusiceducator3612]

Right - and today young people are changing their sex - some don't even know what sex they are and our president is destroying America and the country is being taken over by China. Expanding consciousness? You had BETTER stop and think about it, man!

[@user-tc4xy6jl7o]

It was a man recording.

[@Noneofyourbyisness]

@@user-tc4xy6jl7o K 👍🏾.

[@marktwain5232]

Well said! It is very meditative. These people are all now dead. Yet on this day they were living their daily life in the sunlight. Both the Great Depression and WWII were coming yet they could not see it. Future mind bending folly and idiocy. All out there in the great sea of being. Everyone, like us now, just passing through this way station in the Universe under highly impaired management in the fog of derelict Souls.

[@enriquesanchez2001]

THE PAST makes me sad, because one day, I, too, will become THE PAST 😢😢

[@texasscifi3431]

Grant Morrison does a great explanation of the past. It's awesome to think of the past as a place you might be able to visit.

[@humblebugg5270]

​@@texasscifi3431 being lazy. But any links...

[@BudsCartoon]

Then you better leave your mark while you can.

[@enriquesanchez2001]

@@BudsCartoon Indeed, my friend...

[@enriquesanchez2001]

@PJM1 😐yup thxxx

[@rongendron8705]

It's hard to imagine that colorizing & stabilizing old footage, could make these 100 year old films seem so current! Also, we are seeing Chicago in the 'heyday' of Al Capone, the way people then, saw it! Great!

[@stevenkaiser6253]

It's so great to see Chicago all those years ago. So many of the buildings and sights are still there. With the ones we see, like the Tribune Tower, Buckingham Fountain, Shedd Aquarium, Medinah Athletic Club under construction, I would say the earliest year any of this video could be from is 1927.

[@JacobKlippenstein]

Shedd Aquarium looks pretty complete in the shot of Grant Park and that was completed in 1929. You can see Riverside Plaza and the Civic Opera Building under construction in another scene. Both were completed in 1929. As you pointed out, Medinah Athletic Club looks near complete and it was completed in 1929 as well. Merchandise Mart wasn't started in that shot and it began construction in 1928. It seems that this is a collection of shots from the last 2 or 3 years of the 1920s.

[@robertmasina7388]

Maybe one can't pinpoint the exact year of this footage, but if the title is the 1920's, it can be anywhere from January 1920 to December 1929.

[@brucekrause2801]

Buckingham Fountain was completed in 1926. I agree.

[@bdmention]

@@JacobKlippenstein Agreed.

[@dannydaw59]

Is that wasteland at 8:20 where modern Millenium Park is today? That looks like Navy Pier in the distance at 8:40.

[@chrischristoferson1191]

This is why I love Chicago. 100 years later, I can still walk the same streets & see the same buildings/ landmarks today. So wild.

[@jody6851]

What's also amazing is that by the 1920's the contours of the entire 20th Century and even so far into the first decades of the 21st were pretty clear, including air travel, Robert Goddard's experiments with rocket propulsion, the development of quantum physics, and Einstein's theories which by this time were already well over ten years old. Even rudimentary computing. In contrast, compare what a typical city and technology in 1820s Chicago, New York City, or London looked like and what if anything then could offer as a clue as to what the next 100 years would become compared to the same cities by the 1920s.

[@andyjay729]

Especially since as of 1829, Chicago had a population of less than 100. But then between 1870 and 1900 it exploded from 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million, the fastest-growing city in world history. Seriously, consider that it took Rome, London, and Beijing thousands of years to pass the million mark.

[@TheFrenchPug]

Yes. They probably talked about how great all of the technological and medical advancements of the time were.

[@awesomemouse]

Watching videos like this, I always feel some indescribable pleasure. It was like visiting the past in a time machine.

[@NASS_0]

Like and Share Please

[@moode122all4]

ما عندك مقاطع عربيه قديمه او سعوديه قديمه ابو عثمانيه قديمه عربيه

[@moode122all4]

واكتب المقطع بالعربي

[@babitasinha6174]

Absolutely

[@mive9503]

This is so very cool! There's the ORIGINAL colonnade designed by Edward Bennett at 7:53 in the video. A replica now stands in the same spot (I think) in Millenium Park. And the Bowman and Spearman statues in place but Michigan Ave and now Ida B. Wells street not quite done. So cool! The Art Institute and lions, the Aquarium and the Field Museum. Wow! The Hilton hotel looks a little no texture but still recognizable. And of course the Metropolitan Tower (with the Blue Beehive on top). Worked Downtown Chicago for 30 plus years. I recognized a lot of architecture in this video - the iconic buildings and views are still there today.

[@goodtimefolkrock]

Hi NASS .....amazing as usual! Happiest of holidays to you .....looking forward to what you have up your sleeve for us in 2023

[@carnivalgods4573]

Absolutely stunning. Hard to take your eyes away. The architecture is just incredible.

[@btnhstillfire]

Disagree. The industrial impact was awful. This is such an ugly look. Im a photographer and I would not want to shoot any of this today. Of course it looks beautiful today bc the overwhelming industrial crap from this video was taken away and replaced w non industrial buildings. I reqlly dobt like how it looks in this video. Very ugly due to industrial flooding.

[@carnivalgods4573]

@@btnhstillfire Noted. But getting past the obvious carbon footprinting and industrial polluting of which I'm not indicting the people at that time over. Nor am I holding the architecture's stunningsness to a level consistent with cistene chapel. I do respect the time, consideration, and craftsmanship of those that ever drew the blueprints,wielded a hammer, and climbed a set of scaffolding to make it possible. The mystique and historical intrigue in a sense holds it's value and spans across time in a manner consistent Wrigley Field for example. At least to me.

[@heymiguel85]

@@carnivalgods4573 agreed. I'm not an expert in architecture, but I can appreciate these buildings and what they represent. Just amazing that Chicago's unique look and feel has been around for so long. Love my city, not a perfect place but it's home.

[@birgitd.9274]

Thank you for that well restored footage. An ancient relative of my husband ( with the same name) from Germany was a well known citizen of Chicago in the 19th century who founded a brewery (Lill and Diversey). I hope, I will get to Chicago one day. Wish you all happy christmas

[@nitedreamer23]

Was it the Berghoff brewery, by chance?

[@birgitd.9274]

The name was Lill& Diversey brewery

[@millyonair9225]

3:28 steel, baby! Totally modern architecture. A city under construction. What a WONDERFUL video!

[@gretgirl6750]

This is amazing! I grew up in Chicago in the 60's and 70's. I see so many similarities (Buckingham Fountain, Wrigley Building), yet so many differences (El trains with only two cars, parking 50 cents!).

[@connyjohnson855]

Amazing footage. As I just wrote in a another thread my dad was born in Chicago in 1924. They lived at North Clark Street in the building next to the garage where the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre took place.

[@augustmosco]

This was ABSOLUTLY BEAUTIFUL!! Thank you so very much.

[@NASS_0]

thanks

[@maxpower5205]

Its really funny to see those old cars with dirt and mud on them. They are now rarely seen and when you do see one, its restored and maintained perfectly to a point where you forget those were everyday cars. Great video, love it!!

[@EDRISSALEXIS21]

This was intoxicating. I only wish the actual person filming would have been captured, too. That person seemed to have an uncanny sense of the vast changes that would come in the future. Loved this!

[@nitedreamer23]

well said. I wish that, too.

[@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820]

Indeed

[@tomatoseed1443]

Yes. I wonder exactly who and why they did the filming. Such foresight!

[@Mr_Chode]

I love how perfect the program always makes the roads look.

[@theperegrinecatholic2892]

My great grandparents came from a small village in Northern Italy. They settled in Chicago after WW1. They must have been amazed when they first set their eyes on a big city like Chicago.

[@AK-fj8yo]

a black Haitian man founded Chicago Du Sable. your great grandparents would’ve hated him.

[@f.w.2054]

Capone,Weiss, and Drucci were battling it out around this time, and big band Jazz was coming into its own. Shoeless Joe Jackson was tearing it up for the Black Sox and the Charleston was catching on in the clubs! It was a great city then and its a great city now, even if its always had problems!

[@JustJim772]

thank you for the work that it took to put this video together. a real treat down memory lane😊👍

[@vespii]

now lets see it in 2020 with skin color added

[@30AndHatingIt]

My favorite part of looking back at old footage of everyday life is how, sometimes, things really don't seem all that different. Obviously yes things are different as far as styling, but if you really look at it... it's cars moving down streets, past buildings that don't look that much different today, with advertisements punching you in the face as usual, birds dropping white chocolate bombs everywhere, streetlights, concrete curbs and stairs, local and regional trucks delivering stuff, people walking to work. A good chunk of the flair and design is different, but it's basically the same routine. Now, if footage existed from the 1400's, then you'd really see a different way of life.

[@jasonlara5069]

This looks so unreal but it's fascinating watching it like if it was a normal day.

[@swayday1209]

Crazy to see the city you were born in, in the past. Gives you much perspective. Some of the street design layouts still look the same. And was def waiting for Wrigley Field to appear lol maybe in the next

[@olrikm]

Wow again! For most of this video, I felt like an alien visiting a new world that was both familiar and utterly remote. Keep up the good work!

[@richardblayneamerican8149]

Amazing footage. So much that is still recognizable. 100 years later, we still have 'Chevrolet' and 'Frigidaire'!

[@kirkmooneyham]

I noticed that there was little to nothing in the way of traffic lights or stop signs, and yet the traffic was just flowing along. Pretty incredible, really. The other thing I find amazing is how clean it all looks.

[@thegheymerz6353]

Major US cities at the time had begun to develop fairly robust public transport. Combination of peoples love of cars, the US auto industry deliberately destroying public transport, and poorly planned suburbs really screwed us over. If you live in even a small city today its likely you can find somewhere that tram tracks have been paved over. Its is incredibly clean. Despite the smog and industry at least people had dignity.

[@SnuupSantana]

Because the traffic was probably 1/8th of what it is today and cars couldn’t go that fast

[@Seemsayin]

@@thegheymerz6353 Before the advent of personal vehicles... Public transportation was invented for people who had no other means of transportation. As personal vehicles became the norm, the need for public transportation diminished. Contrary to your opinion... Cars were NOT manufactured for the sole purpose of destroying something that you think should still be in existence. Geez... All of those arcades... GONE... because those undignified gamers couldn't be happy with putting quarters into a robust video machine coin slot. The console manufacturers deliberately destroyed them cuz those same gamers wanted to sit in the comfort of their own homes with their PS5s, and not be burdened with the task of having to run to a store, or a bank to make change for a twenty. I'd bet real money that you couldn't wait to get your first set of wheels. Any chance you'd give up your car, so you could pay a fare to ride the bus, or a trolley instead? Or would it make more sense to you to be able to hop into your car, and go anywhere you want, whenever you please? So... how, exactly, have you been screwed over? And, where did you say you were from?

[@ConsumptiveSoul]

@@thegheymerz6353 if the us back, then heavily invested in public transport, it be a lot easier

[@stripedassape8148]

If you want to go anywhere in the US that isnt a large city you need a car

[@richardblair919]

Astonishing to see how similar to modern day Chicago! So much is completely familiar - great work!

[@MattMajcan]

this is amazing. seeing the lakefront like that is crazy. they must have just expanded the land out when this footage was taken. the aquarium and the field musuem are brand new, and stand out like the parthenon on the acropolis. those hills going down the right side from the museum look so weird.

[@andrewauto6082]

this is pretty god damn incredible footage. Im still in awe seeing buildings that are still there to this day completely unfazed/

[@BobMori]

12:20 The Art Institute Building. Flanking the exterior Michigan Avenue entrance stairs are two bronze lions by sculptor Edward Kemeys that were a gift from a Mrs. Henry Field for the Art Institute's opening at its current location in 1893. Although the lions have no official names, the sculptor designated the lions by their poses as "stands in an attitude of defiance" (south lion) and "on the prowl" (north lion).

[@Shrek_Smith]

Your channel feels like a time machine I'm glad i found you !🔥

[@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife]

This is exactly why I record what I do on my channel. Not for current viewers, but definitely for some future archive to showcase what the early 21st century looked like in full color. I have so much content that I still need to edit and upload but I think it'll be really cool to show my future generations the era in which I grew up and came into adulthood.

[@monicarenee7949]

I started recording random videos of me driving down the street or walking down streets in the neighborhood. I don’t post to any site but maybe I should archive them somewhere. I was able to find some from the 70s of my hometown and it’s so cool seeing streets I also went down, with a mix of things that are still there and some that aren’t

[@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820]

I may start doing the same, thanks for the motive. 😁

[@zeffery101]

tbf, theres billions of records of the early 21st century in full color, but yeah its different when its your personal life you are documenting.

[@stvlu733]

If that technology makes it into the future. People of that time will be saying WTF when they the current generations and the things they did.

[@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820]

@@stvlu733 very much also let's leave tiktok out of thee equation oh boy😅

[@Zelielz1]

Insane how advanced and modern Chicago was compared to the rest of the world.

[@jeremiahratliff4332]

Indeed. I believe Chicago was the first city powered by Tesla energy then the powers that be had it dismantled and erased from history books.

[@AFT_05G]

The US in general was,mostly due to rapid expansion of automotive industry and skyscraper culture.

[@ChamaeleonMustermann]

Wow stunning footage. Well refurbished! Thanks a lot.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@williampalenik7306]

Nice remastering job on this 100 year old film , and seeing how the city was like back then.

[@huntrrams]

Kind of crazy as a Chicagoan of how are downtown feels the same but bigger. This was a cool video to watch.

[@digby_dooright]

It looks like people drive the same too. And without any traffic lights!

[@huntrrams]

@@digby_dooright lol yep

[@skylerdylan1005]

I feel like I’m watching footage of a lost golden age. When we still cared about beauty. We lost something precious in the last 100 years. Cant explain it.

[@parapaq5072]

You are 100% correct

[@ThePancakeman96]

happy black history month!!

[@TheFrenchPug]

Stopped caring about our neighbors and work became way too competitive.

[@thejerseyj5479]

At the six minute mark we see the construction site of the Merchandise Mart. Wow, what a building that became ! So nice to see large American cities on their way up. I sure would have liked to have been there.

[@traviswright456]

This is amazing, thank you so much for giving us this beautiful footage. It's so clear, you did a great job on remastering. 👍🤙

[@bottlerocket3218]

1920s Chicago, when Al Capone resided there.. what an iconic time and place to see...

[@liparitpoladyan4383]

This just takes back in future without a stress. You watch and wonder!. Good job Nass.

[@NASS_0]

thanks

[@madmattdigs9518]

This is so amazing to see. Today I walk in this same space, and some of these structures are still there, looking just as they did 100 years ago. Just think, at the time this was filmed, there were still people who were alive during the civil war.

[@cshrlh]

You are quickly becoming my favorite channel

[@paulweinberger4723]

Great downtown then and now. Chicago has maintained its look and character. One of my favorite Cities to visit. Was just there last weekend.

[@spade8988]

Your lucky you didn’t get shot

[@harryvuemedia5106]

Incredible! Just incredible! To see 100 years in the past truly amazes me. Majority of the people in here are gone now. Anyone born in the 1920s is 100 or 104 years old this year. To see how far human have advance with the automobiles, the building and the lifestyle shows of people back then, there just no words to explain it all. This is why I love multimedia because it allows me to freeze time and relive it again.

[@DionysusAlS]

I live in the Loop. It's unreal to see what it looked like 100 years ago. Haunting, really.

[@danielgraves2457]

Nice work, NASS! That original footage was quite a find.

[@MilkeyMilkthedog]

Ahh before all the gang violence and abandoned homes it looked beautiful

[@CamXantana]

Onfoenem

[@fdrstan]

Crazy seeing the museum from this long ago. I remember standing on the steps with my Uncle as an 8 year old in 1987.

[@thereelrantreviewer]

Person who recorded and shot this footage is a legend today!

[@adam2084]

Did they have tribal teen takeovers back then?

[@irenehinz6543]

Being born and raised in Chicago and growing up in the 50s and 60s, I just love this video! To see all the familiar landmarks is amazing! Thank you for doing this! I wonder how the scenes from above were taken?

[@markilod657]

I'm from Germany and I love America because of its cities. I would definitely fly to America every year if I wasn't afraid of flying.😆

[@vladimirs8760]

Haha, if you love America because of cities expect something like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6ncnHxpZcuGa5Y The real cities here can only be counted on fingers (NY, DC, some parts of Chicago, etc). Whereas most of the "cities" in the US consist of suburban houses, freeways and parking lots. Nothing close to Europe.

[@nitedreamer23]

I used to fear it but, think about it, there are hundreds of thousands of flights every year, and none crash. I'm just saying this to encourage you to get here. Chicago is a special place.

[@monicarenee7949]

Next time you come to Chicago, I would recommend you come in July for “Taste of Chicago”. It’s a great festival!

[@SergeantExtreme]

@@monicarenee7949 Assuming you don't get shot and killed by a dindu nuffin getting some reeperations.

[@ptahrahotepasr6982]

No Jackson boulevard where they are institute is at. These buildings look ancient like Old Stone relics. Like they've been there hundreds of years. This is great video

[@MLaker221]

3 minutes in and I forgot it was added sound, so that means it worked!! Nice job on all of this.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much

[@lvsqcsl]

At 2:54 the Chase and Sanborn sign. My grandfather loved Chase and Sanborn coffee. Great video!

[@madpeace1764]

I've Lived In Chicago All Of My Life And After Watching This Video All I Can Say Is "Things Change As Much As They Stay The Same"

[@7Haody]

So many places that I walk by today were there almost exactly the same 100 years ago... kinda mind blowing if you stop and think about it.

[@Btn1136]

It’s amazing how much more ambitious and capable people were back then- we could never build at this rate today even with all the technological advantages we have.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

The Chinese for certain still can build so fast, and can build faster. I'm already since years wondering where the Chicago of around 1900 might be currently reincarnating in their country.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@Caper Donich I'm certainly addicted to identifying reincarnations. I have already identified the Breslau and Prague of around 1900 with the Vienna and Bangkok of now, and I'm confident about a successor to the Chicago of those years following soon.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@Caper Donich The case of the Chicago of around 1900 is indeed a hard nut for me to crack, since a while. I'm confident about a reincarnation of the London of around 1900 in current Beijing (with Kim Jong-un resembling Churchill, accordingly), also about one of at least parts of the New York City of around 1900 in current Shanghai (Shanghai Tower probably being a reincarnation of the Woolworth Building). The Los Angeles of around 1900 can with a similar decidedness be re-discovered in current Shenzhen. But Chicago? Perhaps Guangzhou? Perhaps Wuhan? Guangzhou seems to lie too much at a coast with salty water, also a little close to my candidate for LA. Wuhan seems to be a little small...

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@Caper Donich Vivian Leigh may easily already have returned. I'm currently comparing Li Chuanyun (born 1980) to David Oistrakh (1908-1974). Leigh has lived from 1913 to 1967. That buildings should reincarnate once you have a reincarnation of people would not mean a noteworthy addition of surprise. If you select similar genes from the ones of your parents each time, combine these genes in a similar manner, each time, you'll probably also plan similar buildings, after that. It is even _easier_ to imagine any sort of reincarnation if you also have one of cities. For a reincarnation of cities enables the individual human being to find his or her reincarnated mates much more easily. A person just needs to recognize a reincarnated place, then, downward into ever smaller spatial units. A city being much bigger than a single person or house, you'll more easily find it when you try to tune in to a destination. Having found a city, you'll easily be able to refine your search first for a quarter, then for a street, a house, and in the end, for a pair of particular parents. If your reincarnated mate applies the same process, you then twenty years later just need an interest in similar aspects of the world like you have had it in your last life, to find such a mate, again. You'll now easily develop such a similar interest because you have been born to parents resembling those you have had in your last life. Every generation thus needs to adapt genes but slightly, on par with what's known to be possible. It should not appear as probable even to the one who doesn't yet see the thing that such a phenomenon wasn't in place on Earth. For the universe is much bigger than just our planet, which means that you'll probably have systems of a much higher organization than the one so far commonly assumed to exist on Earth unaided from space, at some stars. One aspect which the wireless communication of our days must suggest as most likely exploited by such higher forms of an organization of matter is that you can organize molecules into organisms on pathways invisible to the human eye, e.g. via invisible electromagnetic radiation or also via dark matter or dark energy. That our bodies do not fall apart alone, how their cells are governed, how our genetic systems have come along anyway strongly suggests whatever aid from elsewhere than this planet, quite irrespectively of the question to what a degree such possibilities are commercialized in entertainment. Such possibilities can certainly be commercialized well simply because they really are plausible. If you do not believe me, you should also pay attention to the recentness of the emergence of broadband Internet. You cannot well expect a breakthrough on proofs of a concept like reincarnation so far mainly known from the realm of myths to become generally known already twenty or twenty-five years after such a new method of communication has arisen. Additionally, it should be clear that it's difficult to speak about such discoveries in public because there have been so many evil personalities in history, while you have to assume that anybody of the age of a child is innocent. You could compare maps of the city of Darmstadt, Germany of around 1800, of the Meriden, CT and Worcester, MA of around 1900, and of the current Wuxi west of Shanghai. You'll discover comprehensively similar networks of roads, also similar buildings with similar functions at similar places. That it's not an arbitrary choice to compare the Darmstadt of around 1800 with the Meriden and Worcester of around 1900 should be clear because these places (at least Meriden, concerning the time around 1900) have been visited by Goethe (1749-1832) and by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), respectively. These two writers exactly have shared their facial profiles, their ears, and also such and other traits of people surrounding them. Hauptmann has been well known for his impression that he was a sort of a reincarnation of Goethe, in the 1920s, and with the help of the Internet it's now easy to see as how justified such ideas must indeed appear.

[@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820]

Unless you live in Asian countries especially China 😂

[@adambenedict6155]

The rumble in of elevated Trains, the sound of construction, the cars and buses, and the hoof beat of horses - the same sounds you hear in downtown Chicago today.

[@mtanyctrainatlantamartatra7164]

Good video, no annoying music which is great.

[@stevensims3342]

Everything looks so new, clean and sharp.

[@bobc.5698]

I have a picture of my Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother who got married in 1914. He worked at International Harvester until he retired in 1956. I guess the is what Chicago looked like when they were in their 30's. If I could go back in time to the 1920's I would have looked around Chicago for a while then I would make a B line for California before winter....lol.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

I guess that you can find a reincarnation of _the entire city of Chicago_ in or close to the current China, including most of the inhabitants Chicago has had in the 1920s.

[@Snow_OwL217]

I love this movie "Road to Perdition" I'm watching the video with the movie soundtrack. And I think it fits perfectly. Because it's this special... I can't explain why. It has something.. I love your Videos :)

[@sfeddie1]

I am amazed at how people back then could parallel park their cars almost bumper to bumper, see 4:09, in primitive cars (by today’s standards) with no power steering. I doubt you would see that today. Don’t know if self-parking cars can even do it.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Maybe, its because they were easier to drive than you think. Crazy thought, I know. Over 200 Automobile companies, each with their own function style for driving unique to the company, usually with 7 to 10 colors, 4 models, choice of rims and bumpers, interiors. But yah, very primitive, maybe thats why a lot of women drove them with gloves on

[@TheFrenchPug]

Yes! I caught that as well. They had literally 0 space in front or back of them. Couldn't figure it out.

[@1977TA]

To think Al Capone was roaming around somewhere out there gives me chills.

[@huangdenggaouk6951]

it is incredible to look at life and buildings from 100 years ago.

[@kriseric1]

Those people must have thought they lived at the peak of civilization.

[@tylergillihan6307]

Imagine living in a time where you didn't dread new construction because you knew that it would be something beautiful.

[@hazzard8760]

As of the date of the posting, there are probably still a few people alive today who were very young children at the time this film was taken. What an incredible legacy for them ( now 100+) to see what life was like at the time of their birth and tell their great great grandchildren.

[@markg999]

15:49 my great grandfather from Italy helped build that Hotel, looks online completed in 1925.

[@lornaprutzman3683]

Tribune Tower and The Sun Time building are ICONIC! For that matter all of Michigan Ave and State street have such great architecture and staying power !

[@jacktheIV44]

What an absolute gem this footage is

[@luckychucky3426]

It's like a time machine I'm looking back a Time all my teenage years were in Chicago I'm 82 years old now I was born in 1940 but to see it 1920 wow you guys did such a great job the color the filming I don't know if the filming was done to show the real way that they walked and drove and everything else cuz when you see old pictures they're usually very jerky guys did a great job absolutely great thank you I'm thrilled

[@ShutUpBubi]

Its a real shame to see how far western society has fallen in such a short amount of time

[@jebbroham1776]

Color really brings it to life, incredible work!

[@bonniedeibel1546]

Time goes by way too fast! I grew up around Chicago. Left in 1989 & miss it to this day except for the high property taxes & crime! It’s such a shame Chicago has gone down hill like it has!

[@JamesJensen-g4m]

Chicago is so much better than it was in the 70s or 80s. Sad that you are too misguided to,see that. Oh well. Stay away! We don’t miss you at all.

[@bighuge1060]

Many thanks for making this footage come aive.