Archive for June 2017
PHOTO – CHICAGO – NEWSBOYS WITH THEIR DELIVERY CARTS FULL OF ROLLED PAPERS – LAKE AND LARAMIE – 26 YEARS LATER WE STILL WORKED THIS WAY – ONLY WE HAD MORE PAPERS IN BIGGER CARTS WITH THE TRIBUNE – 1934 – EDITED FROM THE CHICAGOLOGY SITE Leave a comment
PRINT – CHICAGO – WABASH AVE – AERIAL LOOKING N FROM ADAMS – ELEVATED TRAINS – AWNINGS – WAGONS – TINTED – 1900 Leave a comment
PRINT – CHICAGO – STATE STREET – LOOKING N FROM MADISON – BOSTON STORE – HILLMAN’S – FIELD’S OLD STORE AND CLOCK – TRAM – CROWDS – NOTE AWNINGS ON MASONIC TEMPLE BUILDING – TINTED – 1900 Leave a comment
PRINT – CHICAGO – CHICAGO RIVER SCENE – STEAMER – TUG – WAREHOUSES – SCHLITZ BEER PAINTED SIGN – TINTED – 1900 Leave a comment
PRINT – CHICAGO – RANDOLPH – LOOKING E FROM LA SALLE AERIAL – POWERS’ THEATRE – EARLY SHERMAN HOUSE – MASONIC TEMPLE IN CENTER DISTANCE AT STATE – TRAMS – WAGONS – TINTED – 1900 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – UNKNOWN STREET – WOMAN STANDING WITH ELEVATED BEHIND – SNAPSHOT – 1943 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAPID TRANSIT ELEVATED – HUMBOLDT PARK SECTION – TWO WORKERS – TRAIN IN BACKGROUND – 1931 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAPID TRANSIT – TRACKS NEAR HOWARD STREET – TWO MEN DOWN ON TRACKS – SIGN SAYS EDISON SERVICE – 1930 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAPID TRANSIT ELEVATED STATION AT 61ST STREET – NOTE ADS ON PLATFORM – TRAIN IN DISTANCE – 1944 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – RAPID TRANSIT ELEVATED STRUCTURE – CERMAK ROAD STATION – TRAIN IN DISTANCE – TWO MEN ON PLATFORM Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE AND MADISON – LOOKING E ON MADISON FROM STATE – CROWDS – WAGONS – LOTS OF FLAGS – TINTED – NICE VERSION – 1907 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE STREET FROM MONROE – CROWDS – BOY LOOKING AT CAMERA – TRAM – CARRIAGE – TINTED – 1906 1 comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – GROUP OF GRADE SCHOOL GIRLS IN COSTUME CALLED THE BLUE BELL DANCERS – 1911 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE AND WASHINGTON – AERIAL – MARSHALL FIELD’S OLD STORE AND FIRST HALF OF NEW – TINTED – c 1905 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – INDIANA AVE – BETWEEN 47TH AND 48TH – APARTMENTS AND TOWNHOUSES – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – EMERALD AVE – S FROM 69TH – APARTMENTS AND HOMES – YOUNG MAN STANDING IN STREET – c1910 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO- GRANT PARK – LOOKING N FROM CONGRESS – CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS – NIGHT – CROSS ON THE PRUDENTIAL BUILDING DOES SEEM ODD FOR CHRISTMAS – 1960 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – UNKNOWN COMMERCIAL STREET – AFTER BIG SNOW STORM – PEOPLE WAITING FOR STREETCAR – SNAPSHOT Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – CHICAGO SURFACE LINES PULLMAN STREETCAR – STORES BEHIND – 115TH AND HALSTED LINE – 1940s Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – MISS BLOOD PLASMA – IN THE 1950s AND 1960s CHICAGO HAD A HUGE NUMBER OF BEAUTY QUEENS – ONE FOR ALMOST ANY PURPOSE OR EVENT YOU COULD THINK OF – I ALWAYS THINK OF THIS AS VERY MIDWESTERN – SOME HAD QUITE BIZARRE TITLES LIKE THIS ONE – KOREAN WAR PROPAGANDA OF COURSE – 1951 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – GROUP OF WOMEN DANCERS IN GYPSY COSTUMES – OPERA OR BALLET OR VAUDEVILLE – STUDIO PORTRAIT – CELEBRITY STUDIO – c1920 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – THREE WOMEN STANDING ON STEPS OF CORNER STORE – LOCATION UNKNOWN – SNAPSHOT – 1940s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – 92ND STREET – E FROM COMMERCIAL AVE – SOUTH CHICAGO – PEDESTRIANS – STREETCAR – TINTED – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CITY HALL AND COUNTY BUILDING – CORNER AERIAL VIEW – TINTED – 1950 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN BOULEVARD (CALLED THAT ) – LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL – CARS – DOUBLE-DECKER BUS – TINTED – 1920s – SEE READER COMMENT 1 comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MAJESTIC BUILDING AND THEATRE – MONROE BETWEEN STATE AND DEARBORN – AERIAL – TINTED – 1913 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MILWAUKEE AVE NEAR ASHLAND – AERIAL – SIGNS – NOTE RECORD-HERALD ON WALL – WAGONS – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – LINCOLN PARK – BOATERS NEAR THE GRANT MONUMENT – TINTED – 1920s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – GRANT PARK – COLONNADES AND OTHER ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES – LOOKING N FROM NEAR WASHINGTON – TINTED – 1920s Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – SOUTH SIDE RAPID TRANSIT – ORIGINAL FORNEY STEAM ENGINE – BUILT FOR COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WORLD’S FAIR OF 1893 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE STREET – AERIAL LOOKING S FROM LAKE ELEVATED – FIELDS IS BEING CLEANED – LOTS OF BUSES – CROWDS – 1961 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – LAWRENCE AVE – 4 YOUNG WOMEN WALKING NEAR ARAGON BALLROOM – SNAPSHOT – 1930s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SOLDIERS FIELD AND FIELD MUSEUM AND MICHIGAN AVE SKYLINE – AERIAL LOOKING NW – TINTED – 1942 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – THE BAMBOO ROOM – COUNTRY CLUB HOTEL – 6930 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE – “MOST INTIMATE ROOM IN TOWN” – 1950s Leave a comment
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: CHICAGO NOSTALGIA AND MEMORABILIA 