Yay!!:hyper: been waiting to find a thread like this for so long!
Here's my contribution, all photos from the Charles W.Cushman collection from the the good people at Indiana University Archives. Taken mid forties. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02186.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02185.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02196.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02198.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02199.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02212.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02213.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02218.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02219.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02222.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02221.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02220.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02274.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02386.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02398.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02399.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02599.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02722.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02720.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02857.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02866.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02887.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02890.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02909.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02910.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02913.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02911.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02954.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P02955.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03016.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03090.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03112.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03132.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03135.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03136.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03200.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03398.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03460.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03484.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03497.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03998.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P03999.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P04092.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P04091.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P04131.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P04151.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P04183.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P04207.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P04273.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P04853.jpg These are from the late 50's. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10240.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10255.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10239.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10268.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10271.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10270.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10263.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10262.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10260.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10274.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10306.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10313.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10347.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10358.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10359.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10361.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P10364.jpg Early 60's: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12876.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12877.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12878.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12885.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12884.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12883.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12882.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12880.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12879.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12889.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12888.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12887.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12886.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12872.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12873.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12875.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12892.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12891.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12890.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12899.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12901.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12894.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12893.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12897.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15372.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15371.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15386.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15385.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15383.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15382.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15373.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15377.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15376.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15375.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15362.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15363.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15368.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15367.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15369.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P15397.jpg 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:previous: AWESOME!!!!! Thankyou For that!
A few more...... http://aycu40.webshots.com/image/501...7441900_rs.jpg http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/485...3748070_rs.jpg http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/496...5243235_rs.jpg http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/477...1459295_rs.jpg Comisky Park 1913 http://aycu16.webshots.com/image/495...1322851_rs.jpg Lincoln and Robey 1910 http://aycu34.webshots.com/image/476...5894621_rs.jpg State Street 1905 http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/496...4947303_rs.jpg Wacker 1928 http://aycu39.webshots.com/image/473...1005583_rs.jpg |
:eek: this is a mind blowing thread :eek:
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Tribue Tower 1924
http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/493...8833292_rs.jpg 1927 http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/481...5067772_rs.jpg Originally Posted by ethereal reality in the Chicago Spire Thread. 1930 shot before Lake Shore Drive Built. http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/2...romeastqo6.jpg 1936 http://aycu11.webshots.com/image/492...6327280_rs.jpg 1939 http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/481...5914807_rs.jpg Wacker and Dearborn 1950 http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/491...4259327_rs.jpg 1952 http://aycu39.webshots.com/image/502...5872925_rs.jpg 1955 http://aycu02.webshots.com/image/498...0892536_rs.jpg 1962 http://aycu09.webshots.com/image/486...8125043_rs.jpg 1964 From Van Buren L Stop http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/468...1578833_rs.jpg Marina City Construction http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/490...5095362_rs.jpg |
WOW, Chicago is such an amazing city, I love old pics of supercities like Chicago.
Beautiful pics! :tup: :worship: |
http://aycu40.webshots.com/image/487...4770319_rs.jpg
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/3813/dscc0112ym9.jpg This is nearly the same vantage point 78 years later. I took my picture last Friday. |
Not to many but here's a few i found
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/pic...r_074_v113.jpg http://www.archives.gov/research/ame...cities-074.jpg http://www.archives.gov/research/ame...cities-006.jpg http://www.archives.gov/research/ame...cities-040.jpg http://chicago.urban-history.org/sit...rs/chicago.jpg http://www.hellochicago.com/Images/P...icago-1927.jpg http://www.hellochicago.com/Images/P...icago-1907.jpg http://www.hellochicago.com/Images/P...-Park-1927.jpg http://www.hellochicago.com/Images/P...front-1912.jpg http://www.hellochicago.com/Images/B...treet-1941.jpg http://www.hellochicago.com/Images/B...Drive-1934.jpg Sorry they're not bigger :) here is link to where i got most of them http://www.hellochicago.com/Photos_Panoramic.Cfm |
Amazing town, but very gritty, I know many of those towers started out white, the Mather tower looks almost black in one picture
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how many of those old towers were torn down?
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Another Set...
The FIRST City
http://aycu27.webshots.com/image/478...4475973_rs.jpg http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/486...3352379_rs.jpg http://aycu15.webshots.com/image/493...0847230_rs.jpg 1893 Worlds Fair http://aycu30.webshots.com/image/483...6980245_rs.jpg 1902 http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/498...2386592_rs.jpg 1906 http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/497...9194902_rs.jpg 1906 http://aycu19.webshots.com/image/468...2327112_rs.jpg 1907 http://aycu02.webshots.com/image/501...9718187_rs.jpg 1907 http://aycu37.webshots.com/image/491...2819273_rs.jpg McCormic Plant 1907 http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/493...8953981_rs.jpg From Majestic Building c1907 http://aycu13.webshots.com/image/503...8573479_rs.jpg 1908 Jackson Park http://aycu37.webshots.com/image/495...1222957_rs.jpg c1910 http://aycu37.webshots.com/image/495...2961048_rs.jpg c1910 http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/462...3447364_rs.jpg US Army Tournament, Grant Park 1910 http://aycu39.webshots.com/image/486...9443039_rs.jpg 1912 http://aycu13.webshots.com/image/486...2451463_rs.jpg 1912 http://aycu31.webshots.com/image/479...7561615_rs.jpg 1912 http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/496...2660592_rs.jpg 1913 http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/496...4966689_rs.jpg 1913 http://aycu19.webshots.com/image/498...6724956_rs.jpg 1915 http://aycu19.webshots.com/image/498...8854844_rs.jpg 1918 Sept 8 http://aycu01.webshots.com/image/502...4509472_rs.jpg 1918 Sept 15 http://aycu12.webshots.com/image/504...7174315_rs.jpg 1921 Soldier Field...Not a skyline, but interesting... http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/488...5946076_rs.jpg c1926 http://aycu25.webshots.com/image/505...6112555_rs.jpg 1929 July 27 Cubs Field http://aycu11.webshots.com/image/476...6792357_rs.jpg 1933 Century of Progress http://aycu04.webshots.com/image/501...5749842_rs.jpg c1938 http://aycu12.webshots.com/image/492...4515201_rs.jpg |
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Ridiculous thread.:worship:
My parents wedding reception photos from 1972 prominantly feature the skeleton of the Standard Oil (Aon) building going up in the background out the windows. |
Damn this is a massive thread, it's going to take a while to go through it. Kudos to everyone who's posted.
And I've never seen a picture of the Hancock under construction, thanks for posting that one Cbot. One of the things that struck me was, I've stayed in the Allerton Hotel before, now it's a small building that's lost among the skyscrapers, but it used to be one of the tallest in Streeterville. A building you never even notice anymore used to be a fixture of the skyline. |
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Marina City 1968, pre IBM
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/3...mslidenkj7.jpg |
the beginnings of Illinois Center 1968.
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8...ter1968za2.jpg above: notice the lights for the Wrigley Building on the small brick building in the foreground. http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5...er1968bfb3.jpg http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8...ial1968le5.jpg a rare shot of the northern side of the Prudential Building. You can see a South Shore Line train emerging from beneath the building. |
Looking south towards Grant Park,
the future site of the Aon Building (Standard Oil Building) You can see a bus traveling elevated Randolph Street http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3521/lse1968sq2.jpg This would almost be your view from AQUA (in 1968) |
January 1943. The waiting room of Union Station in Chicago
http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/8..._0.preview.jpg Jack Delano - http://www.shorpy.com/node/2273 South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago. May 1, 1943 http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/1a34786u.preview.jpg Jack Delano - http://www.shorpy.com/node/47#comment-31051 UNION STATION - Adams and Canal http://www.dhke.com/CRJ/unionsta.jpg http://www.dhke.com/CRJ/station.html State Street in 1907 http://www.essential-architecture.co...treetc1907.jpg http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...icial%26sa%3DG Navy Pier 1915 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...vyPier1915.jpg Public Domain . |
much of these are from the SSC threads
1915 South Water Street http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2142/...421e3c97_o.gif 1929 http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y15...ago-1929-b.jpg http://i21.tinypic.com/15otteu.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/4...f72800b5_b.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y15...03i2191l01.jpg Chicago River 1937 http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...g?t=1196561539 Civic Opera - 1930's http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...g?t=1196561204 http://i20.tinypic.com/16bip7q.jpg Late 1930's or 40's http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...g?t=1196559600 State Street - 1941 http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...g?t=1196560916 Disco Dance Night – Comiskey Park 1979 May not count as ‘historical’ but it happened several years before I was born, so its historical to me. http://www.benkepple.com/Images/disco.jpg http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DN . |
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Looking back 50-80 years or so the buildings had an awefull amount of soot on them, most likely due to coal burning. Just look at the older white buildings like the Mart and compare them to today. Were they washed or were they cleaned by nature?
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Great thread. Yet, does anyone know what the dome building is that is nearly in the center of the photo below?
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12882.jpg |
^Chicago Federal Building, demolished in the 60's.
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http://blogs.trb.com/news/weather/we...rchives/FB.jpg http://blogs.trb.com/news/weather/we...rchives/FB.jpg |
damn that's cool
everything is sooo dirty, christ thats creepy looking |
Fantastic Pictures! Love the housing photos in Ducov's post.
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I wanted to link this thread from SSC. some really amazing Old Chicago photos in there.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=273147 |
What is the name of the white, boxy building?
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12888.jpg http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/ar...ull/P12883.jpg |
^^ Unitrin building. I dont really care for it. http://skyscraper-en.wikidot.com/unitrin-building
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Unitrin.....absolutely awful. ...on the far right in the 2nd photo is The Executive House, same time period....kinda cool. |
Executive house kind of made Mather look less slender, It's too big for what's next door IMO
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River North before it was wiped clean in many areas by the scourge of urban renewal (unknown photographer):
http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/2147/old136oc.jpg |
^You REALLY need to stop posting photos like that unless you want me to tear every last hair out of my head. Man that is just achingly beautiful.
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This thread is gold, it has showed me how great Chicago's skyscraper
history are. |
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The Jewelers building does not allow photography in the lobby, so shoot quick. |
From soaring higher
http://i21.tinypic.com/15otteu.jpg Unbelievable that these gems are all still with us, looking better after switching from coal to gas, and a cleaning. These are what makes Trump Tower look soo good. |
From the National Library of Congress,
Photographs by Jack Delano, 1940's. http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34785v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34790v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34782v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34699v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34784v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34781v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34677v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34788v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34688v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34791v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34783v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34780v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34786v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34678v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34787v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34775v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34779v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34697v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34676v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34797v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34645v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fs...0/1a34663v.jpg |
I am very fascinated with old trains and Chicago. Delano's photos really capture it perfectly.
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These pics are just amazing. What a city i have to say. A very awesome thread...
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http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../earlychi5.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../earlychi3.jpg ^^I think Aero Park is now Midway airport, not sure though. http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../earlychi1.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2...o/earlychi.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../earlychi2.gif ^^ Jim Colosimo was Chicago first organized crime head. He was murdered by Jim Torio, would brought in Al Capone from NYC to take over. |
Here is an aerial view of the Loop in 1938. The dome of the Federal building
(destroyed in the late 1960s) can be seen in the center of the photograph. http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3...938ebaygu8.jpg ...and also the lakefront 1938. http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3...pfoto3ata8.jpg if you see RED Xs for these photos....hit the refresh button. They're quite large. |
This is the best thread of all time. It's amazing.
I was going to ask about that domed building (Chicago Federal Building). I've never seen pics of it before. It's a shame they tore it down. |
Are those two huge structures (one west and the other northwest of downtown) water tanks or towers? Those things are a couple of hundred feet tall!
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3...pfoto3ata8.jpg |
^ Gas works I guess.
Aerial skyline shots from this time are always amazing. |
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awesome shot |
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Rusty Staub and Ducov Here's a photograph of one of the tanks you guys mentioned, taken in 1929. http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/2...chicagokm6.jpg ...and this is the reverse of the photo. http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2...ontank2vu8.jpg You guys should check out the thread I started under buildings and architecture: "ROOFTOP TRANSMISSION TOWERS and obsolete BEACONS." I think its cool that you noticed such a small detail (the tanks) in that 1938 aerial shot. |
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