Chicago Skyline 1931

good old times... i was there... i will miss them :cheers:

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now we have this two ugly big things in the front row ... :shrug:

That could have been interesting, but it is more common to see that in Europe. They had already torn down many of the old building in the south loop back in the Daley SR. era leaving vacant lots so we can't bring them back now. Rebuilding and saving old destroyed or damaged buildings started after the war in Europe, so they have been doing it for years. But in the USA they mostly tore down the old and rebuilt with new and mostly modern unless they got landmarked after the war. More private investment, less government control in the USA.

Chicago Skyline 1924

enjoy guys... :cheers:

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What??

- yeah... you are right... i was 7 years old at the time... and i can still remember that 1930s chicago skyline

- and at that time there were only 2 cities in the world who had a lot of skyscrapers... new york with 74 and chicago with 22 skyscrapers over 100 meter
height

- so new york and chicago were special at the time

- and i was 1930 the first time in chicago... and it blowed my mind... this big buildings... nothing like this anywhere in the world... except new york

- so young boys... i am the only one here... who can compare the skylines then and now ;)

So your 100 years old? Well god bless you if you are!! Still a Skyscraper fan at 100..

i will be 100 this November... time flies...

Wow that's pretty incredible, especially that you remember the skyline from back then.

Planning on changing your username and avatar to just "C" in November then? Impressive.

Thank you for sharing!! What an experience that must've been.

He is almost 100 years old and still enjoying the skyscraper forum. and reliving the early glory days of skyscrapers. Somewhat reminds me when I was nine, went to Pittsburgh, saw the skyline and was fascinated, moved to Chicago and became overjoyed with skyscrapers.

I would be nice if they could have done a base like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Tower_(Manhattan) but $$$ talks.

That is great to hear. So you came with ship/rail all the way, amazing.

I always said Chicago downtown looked it's best around 1920-1930 from street level. Other than the coal smoke soot from the trains on the buildings it had to be very pretty to see, but dirty. I wish they had more color film from back then, but you saw it in living color!!! Color film plates only in their infancy in the late 1920's.

How about these:

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You must have hated when this and Essex went up.

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Those look colorized from black and white film. Color plates cost a fortune and were mainly single frame back then.

^ I knew that. I was just saying you can still sort of experience 1920s and 1930s Chicago like our 99-year-old friend did.

Why can't I see the Masonic Temple in these old aerial photos? I wish it was more visible.

2022 ACS came out the other day (1 year). While I take it with a big grain of salt, here's where Chicago (the city) stacks up against literally every place in America for increases of each racial group from 2021 to 2022

- Hispanic population: #2 in America
- Mixed Race population: #2
- Asian population: #4
- White (non Hispanic): 2nd to last place
- Black: last place (aka lost the most)
- Other: last place
- Native Hawaiian/American Indian: #17

The Census estimated that more non Hispanic white people moved out of the city than Black people moved. of course, take the ACS with a grain of salt but still interesting. There was 41,000 reduction of White non-Hispanic but 45,000 gain in Hispanic, Asian, and Mixed Race population.