Maxwell Street Blues, Documentary w/ Vintage Footage

Maxwell Street Blues, Documentary w/ Vintage Footage

A somewhat bittersweet film about the effort to save the Maxwell Street Market a vast mecca of peddlers and other commerce, food and widely regarded as the birthplace of Chicago blues. The scene in "The Blues Brothers" where they go to Aretha Franklin's diner takes place here. It was a one of a kind cultural melting pot that has since that has since been rehabbed.The film contains rare archival footage of Maxwell Street in the 1940s, and documents some of the last blues performances in this historic community.
This flim was found at http://www.archive.org/details/Maxwell_Street_Blues

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
Producer: Robert Wyrod
Contact Information: Robert Wyrod robertwyrod@gmail.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Maxwell
• Street
• Chicago
• blues
• gentrification
• UIC
• commerce
• food
• melting
• pot
• preservation
• urban
• documentary
• MIM

[eosrk]

chicago destroys things that are timeless and perserve and build stuff that is pointless

[YouAreAllReallyBorin]

Please tell me they haven't destroyed Maxwell street!!

[eaguir3]

Yeah..its gone

[danoinreno]

good one Mike, thanks for sharing !!!