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Old 03-04-2009, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Came across a couple of these when going thru my dad's slides.
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:52 PM
 
Location: Houston Texas
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thank you for sharing
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:55 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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My dad used to work there.
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Old 03-05-2009, 03:08 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Nice photo Ghengis

Yeah, when I was a kid the Prudential Building and the Board of Trade were the dominant buildings on the skyline. When the First National Bank went up in the 60s it was a big deal.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh92/Irishtom29/burnhampoint.jpg (broken link)

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Old 03-05-2009, 03:15 PM
 
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You guys would get a kick out of the Charles Cushman archive
Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection >> Home

You could spend weeks combing through those gems (Chicago and otherwise). And all in brilliant Kodachrome! Just goes to show digital still dosent hold a candle to good slide film.
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Old 03-05-2009, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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You guys would get a kick out of the Charles Cushman archive
Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection >> Home

You could spend weeks combing through those gems (Chicago and otherwise). And all in brilliant Kodachrome! Just goes to show digital still dosent hold a candle to good slide film.
Great link, thanks for posting!
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Old 03-06-2009, 01:15 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Cushman loved those '50's southside ladies.

While I'm not saying the Children's museum in Grant Park is a great idea - it's helpful to remember that, for some of those "Grant Park should be forever open and clear!!!" advocates - it was a surface lot 40 years ago. It's not like they're trampling on a century of greenspace. They're taking the existing building footprint that's only been there for 30 years.
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Old 03-06-2009, 01:14 PM
 
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Cushman loved those '50's southside ladies.
Can you blame him?
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Old 03-06-2009, 04:19 PM
 
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Can you blame him?
White people were better looking before they moved en masse to the suburbs.
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Old 03-07-2009, 08:47 PM
 
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Default Anybody got some old pictures of the Chicago skyline?

like from the 1990's/80's and earlier? I'm kinda interested. Thanks.


This one just blew me away, it doesn't even look remotely like the same city I grew up in and know today.
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