Slideshow: Remember When?
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Slideshow: Remember When?
Remember when… Chicago celebrated America’s Bicentennial in 1976?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… Chicago taxis looked like this?
Credit: Betsy Rubin
Remember when… the spectacularly modern McCormick Placewas built on the lakefront?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… you shopped at the Carson Pirie Scott flagship store on State Street?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… Chicago parking meters looked like this?
Credit: Special Collections Center, Bradley University Library
Remember when… you double-dutched with your girlfriends?
Credit: Chicago History Museum
Remember when... you shopped at the first Crate & Barrel on Wells Street?
Credit: Chicago History Museum
Remember when… seeing the Great Clock meant you were at Marshall Field?
Credit: Chicago History Museum
Remember when… you took in a matinee at Dearborn Cinemas?
Credit: Chicago History Museum
Remember when… Virginio Ferrari’s sculpture was still on the corner of State and Washington?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… New Wave was en vogue?
Credit: Chicago History Museum
Remember when… break-dancing was big?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… you said “Kiss me, I’m Irish” at the St. Patrick’s Day parade?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… you first saw Chicago from the Sears Tower Skydeck?
Credit: Special Collections Center, Bradley University Library
Remember when… the riverfront looked like a storage lot?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… State Street was a pedestrian mall?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… the Chicago Sun-Times headquarters were on the river across from the IBM building?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… your stomach dropped the first time you rode the American Eagle?
Credit: Six Flags Great America
Remember when… you could pass some time in the LaSalle Street Station waiting room?
Credit: Special Collections Center, Bradley University Library
Remember when… you could catch a late show at the Woods Theater?
Credit: Special Collections Center, Bradley University Library
Remember when… you slept outside the Field Museum just so you could get a chance to see King Tut’s ancient treasures?
Credit: The Field Museum
Remember when… you rode the Ferris wheel at the Old Chicago mall and amusement park?
Credit: Sharron Fox
Remember when… you watched Bozo’s Circus on WGN?
Credit: Deb Nilles
Remember when… you went ice skating at Lake Shore Park in Streeterville?
Credit: Northwestern Memorial Hospital Archives
Remember when… you shopped for bargains on Maxwell Street?
Credit: Chicago History Museum
Remember when… you checked out some “Free Soul” in Grant Park?
Credit: Sun Times Media file photo
Remember when… you partied at the Bears Super Bowl victory parade?
Credit: Chicago History Museum
Remember when… you dug your way out of the Blizzard of ’79?
Credit: Robert Matia
Remember when… you used to watch you favorite baseball team at old Comiskey Park?
Credit: C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Library (College of Architecture and the Arts)
Remember when… the Hancock Observatory opened?
Credit: Sun-Times Media file photo
Remember when… you bundled up to watch the Bears play at Wrigley Field?
Credit: Sun-Times Media file photo
Remember when… Navy Pier was a port where foreign freighters docked to unload goods from far away?
Credit: Sun-Times Media file photo
Remember when… Montgomery Ward was on State Street?
Credit: Sharron Fox
Remember when… you moved with the groove at the dance hall?
Credit: From the estate of Michael Abramson
Remember when… you passed the evening at the bar with friends?
Credit: From the estate of Michael Abramson
Remember when… driving down LSD and spotting the Hancock made you feel pretty great about being in Chicago?
Credit: Diane Alexander White
Remember when… you were a part of the Bears Shufflin’ Crew?
Credit: Deborah White Dabulskis
Remember when… you were in high school and hung out in parking lots?
Credit: Deborah White Dabulskis
