1940's Chicago

[elainebmack]

Just think. By 2011 all those older people are gone and the little kids you see are in their 70's now!

[Maria199810]

Even beautiful back then

[starguard]

This was great. It's so cool that someone back then took the time to videotape this, and even cooler that someone else too the time to post it here for all of us to see.

Thanks!!

[gore53]

I went to work in Chicago at the Merchandise Mart in 1980, then moved back to LA six years later. Me thinketh I got their 40 years too late. Either way, a great city then and now. Thanks for the post.

[hep2jive]

@gore53 great! thanks for sharing!!

[rollcd111]

i wish i could go back in time :(

[marbanak]

This is from a promotional video for "General Outdoor Advertising".Thus the emphasis on the billboards. Part 1 is archived in black and white, part 2 is in color.

[midmodgal]

"Cool , Crisp" The billboard at 0:03 sets us up nicely for the rest of the film.

[hep2jive]

@midmodgal hahaah youre right! thanks! make sure to watch my other videos if you like classic cars.

[dobbs1947]

Thank you for posting this. I would have loved to have lived in Chicago back then and visit the neighborhoods. A much different time all the way around.

[JORDANCAM09]

reminds me of fallout 3...

[panterml]

where are the black people?

[hep2jive]

@panterml hahahah oh i know!

[royamd]

@panterml i was thinking the same

[hep2jive]

@royamd according to this book, they were not invented until the mid 60s

[elainebmack]

@panterml Are you kidding?  Black people were not photographed by White owned companies back in those days. The only way for Whites to to see photos of Blacks was to see someone's family album.

[panterml]

@elainebmack, Man, im not from USA, dunno how was in back days

[elainebmack]

@panterml . It was another time - practically another world.

[panterml]

@elainebmack Yae, same shit like this days.. another world

[hep2jive]

@curtflirt1 No free ads sorry

[elainebmack]

Love the cars!!!!

[hep2jive]

@elainebmack thanks if you like old cars check out my other videos

[elainebmack]

@hep2jive Will do! I love to imagine what my parents were doing in their young lives during that time.

[kikiteka]

Was this film shot by an ad agency? It seems like it's really focused on billboards

[hep2jive]

@kikiteka yeha its a video that was from 1940-1942 that talked about the importance of signage along the road!

[thenendo]

This video looks like it was some sort of promotional film put together by an ad agency to extol the virtues of billboards to potential clients. Pretty neato.

[Peroxide055]

I wanna live back then!!!

[hep2jive]

@Peroxide055 who knows..maybe you did!?

[herrrob14]

Man that's great.! Thanks for posting!

[hep2jive]

@herrrob14 youre welcome! thanks for watching! check out my other videos if you like old cars as well!!

[craigrfc19]

thumbs up if the music reminds you of fallout 3 hehe

[tdkenne]

people seemed so much more classy back then....

[hep2jive]

@tdkenne Totally!

[thephotogguru]

@tdkenne That's because they had good morals. lol

[TheShipin]

I am thinking that when this was filmed might have been the last day the sun was out in Chicago!

[elainebmack]

@TheShipin Ha Ha!! I'm from Chicago. I know what you mean!

[1952kid]

Is it just me, these old 1940's films, everything looks old even when it was new.

[hep2jive]

well people used things for a while...they didnt just use something and throw it way. not everyone had a band new car ever 3 years.. just a different way of living...though it looks like some of thoseppl would smell like an old attic...though thats just because I am typing this in 2010 on this interweb...wow am i drunk??

[crowamonghens]

god. i look at this and think

WHAT HAPPENED

[hep2jive]

well the 60s and 70s happend. baby boomers ruined society...now its all about me me me instead of us us us.

[TheShipin]

I am a baby boomer and I have to agree 100% with your comment, taking it one step further however one might also accuse the 60's and 70's liberal movement has the cause too.

[checkmate440]

@hep2jive I ruined nothing but my HEMI roadrunner street racing back in 69

[jefboyardee]

@crowamonghens Unions and Democrats

[lcar4000]

The song was recorded in Chicago. Featured the Gene Krupa Band with Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge

[elainebmack]

@lcar4000 I didn't know that Roy Eldridge worked with Gene Krupa. This must have been after Gene Krupa had worked with Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, and Teddy Wilson, the first interracial trio to play publicly. That must have inspired Krupa to hire a top player like Eldridge without fear of racial reprisals.

[xrayqqq]

Street traffic is like in Europe in '60s

[TheShipin]

wow, what a clean video of the 40's Chicago, almost like a movie pic, to see those people just walking around like that was unreal, I need to find more good clean video's like this

[dancer46722]

i like it.

[rglinNewMex]

Nothing wrong with the music which fits the time perfectly

[hep2jive]

SEVERE AT 2:52-2:56

[steffidude]

This was before your plymouth was built.

[steffidude]

Wish I were there. Like a time machine.

[Hencytjo]

Yeah, I'd love to experience Chicago in the 40's. Watching Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal video sure sets one in the mood as well.