Archive for March 2019
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE STREET AND MADISON – BIG CROWDS – HEAVY TRAFFIC – MANDEL BROTHERS DEPARTMENT STORE ON RIGHT – LOOKING N SOMEWHAT ELEVATED – TINTED – NICE VERSION – LATE 1910s Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – OLD FEDERAL BUILDING – ELEVATED PANORAMA WITH SURROUNDINGS – LOOKING S W FROM ABOVE ADAMS AND DEARBORN – OPENED IN 1905 – RAZED 1965 – NICE VERSION – 1961 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – ADLER PLANETARIUM – BUILDING FINISHED – GROUND NOT PAVED OR LANDSCAPED – THE PLANETARIUM WAS FUNDED BY MAX ADLER AN EXECUTIVE OF SEARS – IT WAS AMERICA’S FIRST OF A KIND OF INSTITUTION WHICH HAD ALREADY BECOME POPULAR IN GERMANY – OPENED IN 1930 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – LEXINGTON AVE AND 58TH STREET – QUADRANGLE CLUB – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – 2193 N SEELEY AVE – HANDSOME LARGE FRAME HOME ON TREE-LINED STREET – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MORSE AVE W NEAR PERRY – ROGERS PARK NEIGHBORHOOD – LARGE HOMES ON TREE-LINED STREET – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – DOUBLE-ENTRANCE SIX-FLAT APARTMENT BUILDING – ADDRESS UNKNOWN – INTERESTING HYBRID STYLE – 1910s Leave a comment
BOX – CHICAGO – MARSHALL FIELD DEPARTMENT STORE CHRISTMAS BOX – DIFFERENT EVERY YEAR – HIGH-QUALITY LINED BOXES – YEAR UNKNOWN – THINK MID-1960s Leave a comment
AD – CHICAGO – CARSON PIRIE SCOTT DEPARTMENT STORE – TULA PEIGNOIR SET – THIRD FLOOR – THE AD IS SO CHARACTERISTIC OF THE TIME – 1946 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CONRAD HILTON HOTEL (ORIGINALLY, THE STEVENS AND THEN THE WORLD’S LARGEST HOTEL) – LAKESIDE GREEN COCKTAIL LOUNGE – 1954 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE AND MADISON TO DEARBORN – BOSTON STORE DEPARTMENT STORE – THREE-QUARTERS ELEVATED VIEW – STREETCARS AND PEOPLE DRAWN IN – TINTED – 1914 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MARSHALL FIELD STORE – STATE AND WASHINGTON – CORNER VIEW LOOKING DOWN WASHINGTON – THREE-QUARTERS LOOKING NE AERIAL – SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 1902 FINISH OF FIRST HALF OF NEW STORE N END AND 1905 START OF S END FINISHED IN 1906 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – STATE STREET AT WASHINGTON – MARSHALL FIELD’S – SHOPPERS ON STREET – GROUND LEVEL LOOKING NE – BEFORE STONE WAS WASHED NOT LONG AFTER (THERE IS A CARD ON THE SITE SHOWING THAT UNDERWAY) – CITY BEAUTIFUL SERIES – THIS IS ONE OF THOSE IMAGES THAT JUST LITERALLY TAKES YOU BACK TO THE TIME WHEN STATE STREET WAS SUCH A BUSTLING, EXCITING PLACE – c1964 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MARSHALL FIELD’S – THE STORE FOR MEN – A SEPARATE BUILDING AT WASHINGTON (S SIDE) AND WABASH – FIRST FLOOR – OPENED 1914 – TINTED Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – PORTION OF SKYLINE SEEN BEHIND RAILROAD FREIGHT CARS – NOTE THE WILDFLOWERS AT BOTTOM – I LIKE THIS PHOTO BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A STRONG REMINDER THAT CHICAGO IS ON THE PRAIRIES – SOMETHING THE BUZZING AND HUMMING AND THICK WILD FLOWERS IN “EMPTY LOTS” (USED AS LOCAL URBAN PLAYGROUNDS) SO STRONGLY IMPRESSED ON CHILDHOOD – 1970s – EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – OUTER DRIVE BRIDGE OVER CHICAGO RIVER FROM OUT IN WATER – SOME SKYLINE – NEW STANDARD OIL BUILDING – 1974 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – FATHER TIME CLOCK – ON PURE OIL OR LONDON GUARANTEE OR JEWELERS BUILDING – 35 E WACKER DRIVE FACING RIVER – BUILT AND DONATED BY ELGIN WATCH COMPANY OF ILLINOIS WHICH HAD OFFICES HERE WHEN JEWELERS BUILDING OPENED IN 1926 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN AVE – AERIAL PANORAMA LOOKING S FROM MEDINA ATHLETIC BUILDING N OF RIVER – GIANT URBAN CATHEDRAL – WRIGLEY BUILDING ON RIGHT – PURE OIL BUILDING IN MIDDLE (AKA LONDON GUARANTEE AND JEWELLERS BUILDING) – TRIBUNE TOWER ON LEFT – NICE VERSION – 1920s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SVITHIOD SINGING CLUB – LOUNGE INTERIOR – 624 WRIGHTWOOD – 1943 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY – REAR FROM ACROSS LAGOON IN JACKSON PARK – LOOKING N – NOTE U-505 GERMAN WW II SUBMARINE ON RIGHT SIDE (WHERE I TOOK TOURS AS A GUIDE ON WEEKENDS IN THE EARLY MID-1960s) – 1955 – EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER 1 comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MUSEUM CAMPUS – SHEDD AQUARIUM (NOTE HOW NEW THE SHEDD LOOKS – IT OPENED IN 1930) – FIELD MUSEUM – AERIAL PANORAMA – GRANT PARK AND SKYLINE BACKGROUND – BLIMP – FOR CENTURY OF PROGRESS WORLD’S FAIR – 1932 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SHERIDAN ROAD – N FROM IRVING PARK – TREE-LINED WITH APARTMENT BUILDINGS – NOTE LITTLE WAGON PERHAPS FOR HORSE CLEAN-UP – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – SHERIDAN ROAD FROM ALEXANDER PLACE – BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDINGS – TREE-LINED STREET – c1910 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MINERVA AVE – S FROM WOODLAWN – WOODLAWN PARK CLUB – 1910s Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN AVE – LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL FROM NEAR ADAMS – ART INSTITUTE LION FEATURED – TINTED – NICE VERSION – c1950 Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN AVE – LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL FROM S END OF GRANT PARK – TINTED – 1925 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – OAK STREET BEACH AND BUILDINGS LOOKING S – AERIAL PANORAMA – 1992 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – TRADITIONAL FRAME HOME – WOMAN IN FRONT ON SIDEWALK – NAME GIVEN AS CARRIE ANDERSON – LOCATION UNKNOWN – c1920 – SEE INTERESTING READER COMMENT 1 comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – CTA PCC STREETCAR – HALSTED LINE – NIGHT – c1950 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – TWO WOMEN ON BOAT DRESSED IN DUTCH TRADITIONAL CLOTHES – UNKNOWN WHETHER FROM HOLLAND OR LOCALS CELEBRATING THEIR HERITAGE – FOR ANNUAL VENETIAN LAKEFRONT FESTIVAL – c1970 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – LIGHTED BOATS PARADING – ANNUAL VENETIAN NIGHT FESTIVAL – YEAR UNKNOWN – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Leave a comment
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – TWO INSETS – MICHIGAN AVE LOOKING N AND LAKE FRONT DISTRICT (CALLED THAT) – JACK KNIFE BRIDGE (NOT IDENTIFIED) – 1903 Leave a comment
PHOTO – CHICAGO – MICHIGAN AVE AT ADAMS – LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL – RUSH HOUR SCENE – PEDESTRIANS – BUSES – NOTE STANDARD OIL BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON RIGHT – CALLED “BIG STAN” BY CHICAGOANS WHO OFTEN USED TO HAVE NICKNAMES FOR BUILDINGS – ORIGINALLY THIS WAS CLAD IN WHITE MARBLE BUT THEY LATER RAN INTO PROBLEMS WITH ITS DURABILITY AND DID A MAJOR PROJECT REPLACING THE MARBLE SLABS WITH LIGHT-COLORED GRANITE – SNAPSHOT – PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN – 1972 1 comment
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: CHICAGO NOSTALGIA AND MEMORABILIA 