ExiledInIllinois Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Interesting if you like this kinda of thing. 1/2 hour of film footage, aerial shots were provided by United Air Line. Lost canister of film found. Produced by the Chicago Board of Education. Some are dating it to 1945 to 1946. Head of the Board was elected in 1945 and narrator died in 1946. http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/03/mysterious-canister-film-transports-you-back-1940s-chicago-color/8676/
Marv's Neighbor Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 I lived there in the 80's. The only thing that kept me sane was their Liquor store sales. To this day, I still hate State run Liquor stores.
The Big Cat Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 All I know is post-Millennium Park Chicago. Watching Chicago movies from the 80's and 90's is very disorienting.
Guffalo Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Try a free app called "What Was There?" It allows you to look at a building or location from another time period. Example, I stand in front of my office on Park Avenue, there are 4 different pictures of the building one from 1890, one from 1913, another from 1955 and another from 1988, Select one and and the picture displays on the screen of your phone, you can increase or decrease the density of the picture so you are looking at the present building with the "Ghost" of the old picture overlaid in the viewfinder. Its pretty cool to see changes through the years.
ExiledInIllinois Posted February 4, 2015 Author Posted February 4, 2015 I lived there in the 80's. The only thing that kept me sane was their Liquor store sales. To this day, I still hate State run Liquor stores. This is the good thing about Illinois. Get your hard liquor @ the gas station, cruise across the border to Indiana to get your guns. Indiana you can't get booze on Sunday. Interesting, I don't think Illinois has state run liquor stores. ?? You can anything you want @ gas stations, supermarkets, etc... Even Everclear. All I know is post-Millennium Park Chicago. Watching Chicago movies from the 80's and 90's is very disorienting. I am not sure how true it is... But, the decade with the most skyscrapers that went up in Chicago was the 1980's. I forget where I heard that. That skyline in 1945-46 looks strange! Notice, the expressways were even built yet.
boyst Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 Try a free app called "What Was There?" It allows you to look at a building or location from another time period. Example, I stand in front of my office on Park Avenue, there are 4 different pictures of the building one from 1890, one from 1913, another from 1955 and another from 1988, Select one and and the picture displays on the screen of your phone, you can increase or decrease the density of the picture so you are looking at the present building with the "Ghost" of the old picture overlaid in the viewfinder. Its pretty cool to see changes through the years. is that on android? I can't find it?
Guffalo Posted February 4, 2015 Posted February 4, 2015 is that on android? I can't find it? I have an Iphone, so it was at the apple store.
boyst Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 I have an Iphone, so it was at the apple store.next to the fugees or golden delicious?
ExiledInIllinois Posted February 5, 2015 Author Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) next to the fugees or golden delicious? Is this an instant TBDism? I hear if you bite into a "fugee" apple, it will kill you softly... But, no woman no cry and to my peeps who passed away! next to the fugees or golden delicious? Oh... Boyst, did you watch the video and catch the Chicago Stockyards clip? They use "every last bit of the animal down to the last hair." LMAO, "pink slime" even in 1946? Nice PR around the whole Bubbly Creek thing! Edited February 5, 2015 by ExiledInIllinois
boyst Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Is this an instant TBDism? I hear if you bite into a "fugee" apple, it will kill you softly... But, no woman no cry and to my peeps who passed away! Oh... Boyst, did you watch the video and catch the Chicago Stockyards clip? They use "every last bit of the animal down to the last hair." LMAO, "pink slime" even in 1946? Nice PR around the whole Bubbly Creek thing! asking me on something if its a TBDism? Think of your source. You did catch me once, and I believe the only time I've ever slipped. Otherwise i do it for fun on porpoise. And, it's not pink slime, it was just scraps. They still do it at all packagers. Nothing to waste.
ExiledInIllinois Posted February 5, 2015 Author Posted February 5, 2015 asking me on something if its a TBDism? Think of your source. You did catch me once, and I believe the only time I've ever slipped. Otherwise i do it for fun on porpoise. And, it's not pink slime, it was just scraps. They still do it at all packagers. Nothing to waste. It was rhetorical. The stockyards thing... I thought most of the video was over the top, especially the bit on the stockyards. One of the reasons Bubbly Creek along the South Branch of the Chicago River got its name was becasue of the waste/leftover carcasses that would be thrown into the river. The decomposing animals would cause the water to "bubble." In the video, they used great spin on "how nothing is wasted down to the last hair." I just thought it was funny.
Wacka Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Sam as pigs. I knew someone that worked at a Tobin packing plant in Albany. He said the only thing they didn't use was the oink.
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