Looking back at Chicago's Uptown in the mid-1970's
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- Photographer Bob Rehak chronicled Uptown and its residents in photos from 1973 to 1977. His portrait of one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Chicago history is now documented as a book.
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I was there, in the 1970's and 80's. I remember the old Uptown, the Burger King on Wilson and Sheridan, and the drug store kitty-corner from it. The Sheridan Plaza where I lived up on the 12th floor! The Salvation Army on Sunnyside and Boradway now replaced by a Target Store and going to Stewart School...I remember summers at Montrose and Foster Beach, Crooked Hill and movies at the Riviera and at the Uptown. Eating at the Pancake House and shopping at Goldblatts! A slice of pizza from Ginos on Broadway and buying records at Topper records next door to it... My neighborhood! MY UPTOWN, It may be physically gone now, but not in my heart. i can close my eyes and walk those streets in my memory! I miss it all these years later!
I grew up there from 90-98. I will never forget it. Pivotal memories / times in my life. Uptown forever. Winona & Broadway
I'm from Australia...but adore Chicago, it's culture and history; thanks for the vid'. It's my favorite city in the world ; I've visited Chicago five times.
Wow that's the uptown I remember just amazing like a trip back into time tanks for sharing.
I was born and raised in uptown. I remember a lot of these places. This is the uptown I remember.
WOW!!! My Grand-parents lived here in Uptown in the mid-late 1920's (Lawrence Hotel). Back then, my Grandmother used to tell me that it used to be so much fun, because most of the people living at the Hotel (plus other apt. bldgs) were young, and they used to go out on weekend nights to the various clubs and dance halls and get all dressed-up and go dancing !! The other day I saw a picture of them when they were married in 1926, and MAN! Were they a GORGEOUS COUPLE !! Absolutely beautiful !! At the Hotel that they lived at, music was playing in various rooms, and everyone used to dance and have the greatest time. "At that time, you didn't sleep during the weekends because there was so much partying going on" (Grandma). She said that there were fire escape stairs on the outside of the bldg, and so many people snuck in friends / lovers. In 1928 my Grandfather got a great position downtown Chicago, and they moved to East Rogers Park in 1929, on Chase St, in a totally modern apt. bldng with not only an elevator, but it had a few garage spaces !! She used to say that the 1920's really WERE the funnest time to live. We took her over 45 years ago (Grandfather passed away in the early 1960's), to the Lawrence Hotel, where she used to live. Cried like a baby, thinking of all the good times they used to have, and then to see how much deterioration was in the Uptown area. She told us back then that she was a "flapper", and Grandpa was a "shiek"!! BTW: I am of British / Italian descent !!
Despite the high rent, rising food prices, violence and poverty, I've been a Chicagoan for 41yrs, having visited places such as Mississippi, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, and Louisiana, I always come back home to Illinois and I love My city, I really do 🫡🫡🫡❤ the food, architecture, monuments, history, landscapes, sports teams, music, AND people, there's no place like SWEET HOME CHICAGO !
GREAT video! I hope it stays up for the rest of time.
Beautiful. This summer (2014) I photographed many of the residents in Uptown. However, I take candid portraits and do not talk to or otherwise engage my subjects. I should have a video on CZcams by the end of December. Love the above film.
I arrived in Uptown in the mid 90s. By that time there were no abandoned buildings except the old Buena Memorial Presbyterian Church at the Montrose/Broadway/Sheridan intersection.
My neighborhood as a kid. 1954-71. Gunnison/Sheridan.
Thats the thing bout Chicago. Every neighborhood has its own flavor. I grew up in ravenswood a mile away. I was blessed to be born in this city. It builds character and it lets you see the big picture in everything in life.
Awesome photos.We're can I see more?I grew up in Logan sq.Chicago back then was so diverse and unique.Everyone would hangout outside.There was no video games & a lot of the apartments didn't have
great pics
Thank you so much for sharing this I'm from Mississippi born and raised I've always wanted to visit this state along with others I love to look back into the past as if sometimes I wish I was there to see what it was like I'm going true enough but life isn't the same like it used to be family gathering friends but just to see these photos make my heart warm and now I can daydream more thank you good man
The guy with the gun to his head is Billy Slavin RIP Billy. The white guy with the switchblade is Robert Walker. He's dead too. I grew up with these guys on the corner of Winthrop and Ainslie. That's where the no pity mural was.
Uptown was my stomping ground in the 70s & 80s. However, strangely enough some of footage in this video strongly reminds me of life in certain areas of the Bronx in New York back in the day.
These photos are amazing!
This is the beauty of photography in "old" Chicago and how things were. Unfortunately things have changed, some for the best and some for the worst.
Wow! I used to live there when I was a kid in 70’s. Any more photos??? Any photos of Palmer Park area??