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PHOTO – CHICAGO – STATE STREET AT WASHINGTON – SLIGHTLY ELEVATED VIEW – VERY BIG CROWD – LOOKS LIKE CHRISTMAS SEASON BUT THE DECORATIONS ON THE TOP OF POLE LEFT OF CENTER ARE RATHER SUBDUED – MARSHALL FIELD’S ON LEFT – DOUBLE-DECKER BUS CHICAGO MOTOR COACH COMPANY ON RIGHT – WALGREENS DRUGSTORE IN DISTANCE – 1940s – EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER – SEE COMMENTS ABOUT “HAPPY FEELING” OF THIS IMAGE 2 comments
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: CHICAGO NOSTALGIA AND MEMORABILIA 
This picture makes me happy.
It does me too, Walter.
Even though it predates my time, things in the 1950s had a similar “feel” still.
Of course all of that – the happy crowds shopping on an amazing commercial street with about eight department stores and wonderful places to have lunch and a large collection of movie palaces within a short walk – is pretty much gone.
I love any of the pictures that bring it back, just a little.