STUNNING SCENES FROM CHICAGO IN THE 1970s

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Who is ready for Then (70's) and Now Photos of Chicago

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[@bigbub5219]

Yes alot of white people.

[@johnlackner1193]

I'm glad somebody put up photos of what Chicago REALLY looked like.

[@ExtraHistoryYT]

@@johnlackner1193 thank you

[@samsungtablet9155]

Thank you for this I was born and raised in Chicago in 1951 Theres no place like home

[@ExtraHistoryYT]

@@samsungtablet9155 welcome

[@mrs.morris5506]

Born and raised in the Chi.... That skyline has come a long way. Thanks for the upload! 👍🏽☺️

[@highwaymaintainer]

I loved the 1970's..........honestly......now its but a moment in time

[@bobzwol]

Thank you so very much. I grew up in Chicago [1955-1979]. I fondly remember all of these scenes.

[@keyshawnscott12]

Are you still in Chicago

[@bobzwol]

@@keyshawnscott12 No. I moved to Los Angeles way back in 1979. Chicago will always be home nonetheless. I've since retired in Palm Springs a few years ago.

[@keyshawnscott12]

@@bobzwol I'm here now I'm 21 born and raised you should come visit see the Sox new park the new buildings in the loop ride the new trains and stuff but outside of that alot is still the same

[@bobzwol]

@@keyshawnscott12 I used to fly in every quarter to visit my mom on the far NW side and cousins in Gurnee and Warrenville. My mom passed 2 years ago at age 104, so I won't be coming in as often. I was born at Grand & Ashland (1955-1959) Then moved to Belmont & Central (1959-1977) then had a few apartments in uptown when it was a hellhole (1977-1979)

[@keyshawnscott12]

@@bobzwol sorry to hear about your lost may she rest in peace also you should try to visit once I think you would be in a little shock with some of the modern stuff we got now

[@blackthorne1497]

Oddly I have become homesick only three years after going back home to Chicago. I spent a week driving all over town (I still don't know what I was looking for then). That shot of Harpers Court brought back memories. We used to go the Chances R and enjoy the burgers and play pong, the first video game we ever saw.

[@michaelfrankel8082]

Thow the peanut shells on the floor. ❤

[@brianglade848]

Could get your balls licked in the back after 10pm most nights

[@augustmosco]

This was great, thanks. Thanks for the captions, also. They make the video comprehensive.

[@BullCricket75]

Southsider, '75 model...Holy Cow! This calls upon the waaay back memories. I love it! Thank you.

[@mikehughes4969]

My Dad had a boat in Montrose Harbor in the 70s. I remember so much of this. I wasn't in any of these pictures, but I could have been. I live in Florida now, but whenever I think of home, I think of Chicago. Home sweet home.

[@mikehughes4969]

Extra Facts thanks for the love my friend.

[@alexzais1935]

What happened to his boat?

[@mikehughes4969]

@@alexzais1935 He sold it in 1979.

[@chrisd.x3276]

Man it's great how technology is so advanced that they can put these great colors in old photos. It was like I was really there and I was born in the 80s. Seeing that Walgreens on the Chicago Ave and Michigan Ave photo makes me smile because I'm always around there, along with state St and Madison Ave photo, and also along with about 5 more photos!!

[@skubz81]

Haha I'm not sure how old you are but by the 70's most photos were produced in color.

[@pvlvq]

This last picture is a parking building located in North Av close to wells interseccion

[@BBrown_Chicago]

Great memories from childhood cruising with parents!!!

[@galechicago325]

5:47 My old neighborhood! My car- 68 Olds Cutlass! Parked alongside the Woolworths that used to be there.

[@ExtraHistoryYT]

Memories

[@charlesandrews2360]

Those were difficult times for a lot of people in the city. We were in a very bad recession and America's industrial belt began to rust.

[@patrickhawkinson8399]

Oh, but how can that be? The comment section clearly declares that any decade before the current one was the best of times. Just an absolute slice of heaven on earth those good ol' days were.

[@charlesandrews2360]

@@patrickhawkinson8399 Not true. The 1980s was the worst decade since the 1930s. The Teens was horrific and the 2020s is shaping up to be a real nightmare but looking at all aspects of American society the 1980s was really bad. We peaked in '73, around the time that Watergate broke.

[@patrickhawkinson8399]

@charlesandrews2360 The 1980's? I thought that was the decade of optimism? Morning in America. Poppy music, hairspray, and drums with lots of reverb. How can that be bad? It was so much fun.

[@galechicago325]

8:00 My first apartment after college. The glamorous McClurg Court: “a city within a city.”

[@mmfmmf332]

Thank you for the memories! (I grew up on the West and North sides of Chicago from '68 to '92). 😃

[@tonylambardo8250]

I’m surprised they didn’t show construction of the Sears tower

[@thecawdsquad875]

No shots of Cabrini-Green. The '70s were its most infamous time. (Even JJ lived there.)

[@bjsteinhoff9810]

Many thanks for the reminder of when Chicago was still Chicago...

[@skubz81]

Facts. This city is unrecognizable now... It's not just the skyline and the buildings that have changed, it's the people. Too many out of towners moved in a d changed the culture of the city for the worst.

[@r.pres.4121]

Chicago isn’t alone in that transformation. Other big major cities like Boston, New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles all underwent that same negative transition. They are now all very expensive and corporate.

[@brianglade848]

Yep, can sit in an alley off the Edens and get your balls licked and buy a bag of peanuts

[@tonyhill1141]

I love this city, warts and all. Appreciate showing it as it was in my youth.

[@frankdel5115]

Growng up in Chicago in the 1970s these photos give a good feel on how dead it was back then and slow and economic depression of the times.

[@workingtheworld68]

Sort of like the Titanic. The iceberg hit in the mid-60's, but the ship sank very slowly

[@BlownMacTruck]

It’s crazy how people were literally streaming out of the city at the time. That changed significantly from the late 80s into the aughts. It ebbs and flows I suppose.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

Amazing photographs

[@trevorsutherland5263]

Holy cow! I literally could have been in Harper's Court the day that photo was taken, having a burger with my Dad at Chances R restaurant!

[@augustmosco]

Here's an unexpected treat for me, at time 1:43, you have a photo of North Sedgwick. The little green 2 flat right next to the "L" is where my grandmother lived during the 50s. All that's long gone. Thanks for those memories.

[@Helloiswhat]

Absolutely fantastic pictures! Thank you for sharing!

[@chitownmedia101]

It makes me happy and sad to watch this video. I just wish I could just jump in and live those times.

[@brianglade848]

Come to our house, hasn't changed in here since 1975.....

[@ExtraHistoryYT]

Where?

[@brianglade848]

@@ExtraHistoryYT Garfield Ridge, 58th and Austin

[@thpass]

Thanks for posting these, Slide 61 is actually the parking garage at Old Town next to the old Piper's Alley theater on North ave west of Wells (about 236 w. North Ave). It's a very distinctive structure with the 1970s styled oval portholes and round light fixtures (long since removed). Also, the slide at 53 just before the Standard Oil (Aon) looks to be an unnamed alleyway possiblynear Cermak at the old RR Donnelly warehouse. Thanks a gain for posting these. subscribed.

[@ExtraHistoryYT]

Thanks 👍

[@ksf8325]

I remember Piper’s Alley. Chicago of my youth. Subscribed as well.

[@kenkunz1428]

Man, a lot of those buildings are gone now.

[@daviddoyle543]

After seeing these photos I realized I had been all around the city. I lived on East Delaware and would walk everywhere. I'd hoof it all the way to Roosevelt and back.

[@paulj6756]

#34 Amazing how Kingsbury Street looks nothing like that anymore.

[@Victoria3232-j7o]

Kingsbury Was home to Hwavy Industry and Manufacturting now home to upscale commercial strips and multimillion dollar homes General Iron recently shut down irs operation at 1909 N Clifton on Kingsbury

[@MrSoldierperson]

My Beautiful Chicago ❤

[@antonioperez2623]

It was my once beautiful city. Started 9th grade in 1976. I had a great childhood in South Chicago represented at 2:23 and 6:51. Very sad to see what it's become.

[@brianglade848]

Yeah.....yeahyeahyeahyeah

[@joefranks4235]

I was born and raised on the southwest side of Chicago by Midway Airport. It's really gone downhill. I do get a chance every now and then to visit Chicago to visit my parent's graves at Resurrection Cemetery. Man, this city has really tanked.

[@brianglade848]

@@joefranks4235 I was too Joe, 55th and McVicker, and you're right

[@kbeard5130]

Omg!!!! I remember the city looking like that! ❤❤❤❤

[@mrserious55]

real autos....born and raised there love it thx for sharing

[@boataxe4605]

Yep, real autos that were done at 100,000 miles. My Honda is going strong at 180K.

[@susanfey4727]

This sound is so relaxing 👍

[@kcrost]

grew up just past those tracks. The apartment was on the south side of Touhy just past the El.

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

1971 was my favorite year from the seventies!😶‍🌫️

[@derricklangford4725]

Hey I live about a block and a half from the second picture on Argyle, that photo was taken the year I was born, you can see the old AON insurance Bldg in the background 🙂

[@InvestAndGrow2020]

Love the classic cars

[@PRHILL9696]

Very nice, thank you!

[@patkay5036]

Thank you

[@cordneyperkins8648]

I love my city

[@andrewhoyle1521]

I do to, the city looks a lil "run down" rusty and I love it. There's another one on here. Seeing downtown state st have those porno shows. And obviously selling prostitution. Every big city had that. Were only rust belt that is still swimming in gold

[@mikehughes4969]

You and me both my friend.

[@vikctorrkreedd6418]

It doesn't love you.

[@luisreyes1963]

Never saw much of Chicago as a young boy back then. I mostly was in the neighborhood I lived in on Clarendon Road.

[@jimfischer63]

Maybe others have already mentioned this, but slide 53 is a view of an unidentified alley presumably somewhere on the North Side. It is mislabeled as being the Standard Oil Building under construction. That description is actually applicable to the next slide, number 54. Don't get me wrong - this is a fine video with many provocative images. The slide descriptions are very accurate and really quite helpful.

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

Thanks for posting this historical content. Despite the modern high-rise construction apparent in these photos, 1970s Chicago had a distinct industrial grit to it that is not as prominent today.

[@hondotoo]

nice pictures, i live on the southeast side...

[@Dimas-vx5ri]

Correction: at 4:05 that's not Kinzie street, it is Kedzie Avenue. That is Talman Home Savings & Loan.

[@boataxe4605]

Yep! Kinzie is an East /West street.

[@SteveLangbein]

Nicely done

[@TestTubeBabySpy]

My grandmother was a waitress at the Oak Tree Restaurant on Rush in the 80's.

[@peterdavis8471]

That was so sweet 😊😊😊😊

[@charleyyoung262]

I don't know if it's better now or better back then. Chicago has a long way to go still but it's coming along.

[@bobdanis9040]

I grew up in Chicago and it's sad for what it was to what it is today. I moved away and will never go back it's turn into something I don't even recognize.

[@thomasbrown3356]

Judging from the photos, it looked pretty grimy, then. When was it supposed to be so great? 1955?

[@commonsense3921]

What are you talking about? It’s look better today.

[@ChiGuy1837]

Lmao Chicago looks jus fine

[@imhim8831]

Drama Queen😂 Chicago looks much more vibrant from what it did in the 70s. Yeah it has problems, but what major city doesn’t?

[@patrickhawkinson8399]

For starters no place you grow up in ever stays the same, so get over it. That said, I've been to today's Chicago many times and have never had an experience that has made me not want to make a return trip other than the cost of travel to get there and back.

[@BrettJohnson-n1v]

It would be fun recreating some of these images in 2024. I recognize bits and pieces.

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@@BrettJohnson-n1v Will do

[@skubz81]

Slide 56, that parking lot on Kinzie is between the north branch of the Chicago river and Kingsbury st. That lot is now where the East Bank Club now sits, built in 1980, I worked there for 18 years and I know that entire area like the back of my hand, you can see the Grand ave bridge in the background and the big red building on the right side of the screen is the Sexton building, from what I was told they manufactured office equipment though by the time I was running around that area it was turned into lofts.

[@musclecarfan74]

Great video

[@jimoconnor6382]

This was an era where people still rode in the trunks of Cadillacs and Ambassadors. LOTS OF MOVIES FILMED HERE TOO😅

[@JasonKavetis]

whole time I'm expecting the opening notes to Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here to start. Anyway, in #5 I worked at the Montgomery Ward tower looking west down Chicago Ave when the company closed in 2001. You can also see it being building during opening/closing credits of Good Times.

[@TheUgams]

Slide #30 is mislabeled It actually is a picture - looking north on Kedzie (NOT Kinze) at 55th street. Talman S&L was located on the SE corner of 55th & Kedzie. Otherwise... Very nice shots - Thanks for posting

[@ExtraHistoryYT]

Thanks for the info

[@sooziesonhiem1833]

You’re right .. 55th and Kedzie..,lived in the area for almost 50 yrs ..,I miss Chicago..,not the weather though ..,lol

[@edgetaker]

I figured someone would catch #30 label error. I lived at 54th & California from 1969-1983, watched Talman grow from just the corner building to almost a block-long institution. St. Gall was across Kedzie from it; the Colonial Restaurant was across 55th street from it (I think that was the name of it).

[@fratzogmopars]

@@edgetakerAnd the Colony Theater 59th and Kedzie, Gerties Ice cream shop, Yankee Doodle Dandys south of 59 th street. Old days.

[@Diogenes-ty9yy]

I remember Talman way back when, IIRC, the bank was sold and the building torn down. An era when there were independent banks in the neighborhoods.

[@d.l.l.6578]

Yeah, Chicago looks like that. What is so stunning?

[@maureencora1]

1970s I was 13 - 23. Northside, Westside, Southside & Downtown.

[@Rickswars]

This video shows almost the whole city unlike the media with their video of scared tatics and fake news. Chicago is 3rd or 4th largest city in N.America and has more beautiful buildings than most other cities. I visited every year since the early 60s. The ghettos came from the Government's failed programs and drugs. Some People don't know truth. Hoosiers, Hillbillies, buckeyes always admired Chicago and many visit often. We all have a city we admire outside of our own city, and the Midwest picked Chicago!

[@thomasbrown3356]

Ghettos existed before Government programs. You must have skipped Economics 101. I didn't.

[@cesarchoya6961]

Chicago is one of that places that exudes character, I got that feeling that physical reality is anchored in the past, as we're moving forward everything is kind of loosing the real essence of things, could be delusion or not...

[@merkury06]

I was just a tyke back then. But that's how I remember Chicago even now that it has changed.

[@galechicago325]

3:57 Gately’s Peoples Store!

[@jamesgreen880]

Roseland!!!

[@johntorres4573]

I work the Gino’s season 1976 thinking about dropping out of high school read it

[@joefranks4235]

#30 that's Kedzie not Kinzie avenue.

[@jamescook9661]

Grew up in Kankakee an hour south and would accompany my parents on business. How many kids can say they sat in a window booth of a submarine shop and watched the sears tower get built?

[@111danish111]

1:27 Such a clean picture of Michigan and Chicago streetscape wise no clutter . The Walgreens is still there . 8:35 State Street before the Harold Washington Library . 7:08 There seems to be a church steeple like structure in the background . Has it been demolished ?

[@defconkev]

Some has changed and some has not except for the cars

[@paul2019.]

It’s so weird seeing a black walgreens

[@raycontreras422]

30. Is NOT Kinzie, that is 55th and KEDZIE.

[@denali9449]

Not one shot of the Sears Tower, or did I miss it?

[@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79]

No, some of the photos it wasn’t built yet. It was completed in 1974.

[@denali9449]

@@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 No back at ya. It opened in May 1973. Tenant work continued into '74. What prompted the query was that there are many other pictures from the mid and late 70's.

[@michaelreed4744]

I was born in Chicago, in 1976.

[@TerezaEsparza-t3j]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@gaguy1967]

I can do without the Japanese Garden Music. Afterall it is Chicago, not Japan

[@blackhawksstrong9330]

it's nice to see photos without people holding cell phones! Technically is great, but anything overdone tends to taste like shit

[@joefranks4235]

That's Kedzie not Kinzie. And it's on the southwest side for Talman.

[@wilshiregreen5746]

It seems like only yetserday that I saw these cars on the streets. More than anything, it seems that automobiles really freeze a picture in time like nothing else in Human history.

[@Victoria3232-j7o]

Kingsbury st once home to heavy industry and Manufacturting now upscale commercial strips and multimillion dollar homes General Iron just shut its scrap yard on Kingsbury and Clifton and was considered the last of its kind on Kingsbury

[@BBrown_Chicago]

How about slide 57... where portillos stands today infront of 76 gas station..... empty state street..... to go back......

[@brianglade848]

Back then, they said in every picture, behind closed doors, someone was getting porked

[@raydemos1181]

I am surprised I survived dodging all those huge, framed vehicles on the streets of Chicago growing up, then came along Unibody. constructed ones that hit the market. and it was a little safer, also crash dummies. helped out

[@bigbub5219]

And wheres the stock yards

[@marquitapalmer9426]

1982 cabrini green strangers with arsenals too many moves on turf.

[@brianglade848]

Back in the 70s, one could step in dog crap and walk right thru an office building smearing it all over the carpet, and no one would notice, now that's Chicago in the 70s

[@ExtraHistoryYT]

😂

[@napsorpnilyneb]

John Wayne Gacy might have been prowling some of these streets.

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😄😄

[@devoradamaris]

Beautiful🫂Chicago

[@levil4012]

Wish i could go back and stay there now since cell phones came into play u got zombies walking around with their head plastered into their phones and NOT paying attention to where they're going

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@@levil4012 😄😄

[@lucianene7741]

Rare car at 02:40: Bricklin SV-1

[@boataxe4605]

Yeah, it was a real piece of shit.

[@clarencebanks1953]

REMEMBER THE MOVIE "the day the 🌎 earth stood still" ONLY BY ELECTRICITY CAN THAT HAPPEN 😢 OOPS

[@royamac1844]

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[@drpoundsign]

Not much on the "Baddest" parts of town.

[@royamac1844]

walgreens allowance

[@chihickman4836]

I'm wondering why y'all keep saying these buildings don't look nothing like this today or most of the buildings are gone. Duhhhhh the video is labeled 70s photos! Some of these pictures are 50 years old. Which one of y'all still look the same or have all your teeth and hair from 50 years ago🤔

[@keyshawnscott12]

Bro I'm 21 and recognize most of these streets ant much changed lmao except some modern glass buildings in the loop

[@royamac1844]

next door

[@munsters2]

What's with the screwy space odyssey music?

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