1930 Oak Park and Chicago

This is 16mm amateur film showing the neighborhood around the old Oak Park Arms hotel in Oak Park, Illinois. There are also a few scene taken along the Chicago shoreline. The park near the end is Garfield Park.

The narration was added in 1996. The film is set to play back at 16 frames per second.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Oak
• Park
• Randolph
• Chicago
• 1931
• 1930s
• 16mm
• film
• amateur
• historical

[postmann1000]

cool

[levasmagic]

am glad that my daughter was born in chicago in 2005

[levasmagic]

i used to lived in chicago in 1998 well its great to see this video am from mexico

[john54981]

I grew up a few blocks from here and so did my dad. He would have been about 13 at this time. Thanks for posting!!

[DranzieBooy]

This is just great .

[Bicho4u]

thank you for posting such a beautiful video.  God Bless!

[midgeeman]

Wow! So interesting to see the neighborhood way back when. Thanks!

[taniabaz]

I live off of Kenilworth and Lake St., in Oak Park and this is so fascinating to see this old footage of Oak Park! You are so lucky to still have this in great condition. Thanks so much for posting this. I've only seen Oak Park in photos but this was so much nicer!

[mark042683]

I grew up in Minnesota and this video reminded me so much of growing up later in the 1960's and the snow! Thank You so much for posting this video.

[ruleta74835]

Thanks so much for sharing this. The film is incredible, and the commentary adds so much value.