Sunday, January 13, 2019

ABOUT JOHN CHUCKMAN

John Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian oil company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history. He writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason, and concern for human decency. John regards it as a badge of honor to have left the United States as a poor young man from the South Side of Chicago when the country embarked on the pointless murder of something like 3 million Vietnamese in their own land because they embraced the wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of calling “the peaceable kingdom.”

John’s writing appears regularly on many Internet sites. He has been translated into at least ten languages and has been regularly translated into Italian and Spanish. Several of his essays have been published in book collections, including two college texts. He has published a book, The Decline of the American Empire and the Rise of China as a Global Power, published by Constable and Robinson, London. John also writes book reviews.

Apart from his writing since retiring from the oil industry, John has taught university courses in economics, done a good deal of private tutoring, served as a professional newspaper restaurant reviewer (he likes cooking), followed his favorite hobby of photography, and created a popular family of image blogs on the Internet.

John may be reached directly at:  formersouthsideboy@gmail.com

SOME INTERNET SITES FROM JOHN CHUCKMAN:


CHUCKMAN'S PLACES ON WORDPRESS: FEATURING THE BELOVED URBAN VILLAGE OF SOUTH SHORE CHICAGO

CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: CHICAGO NOSTALGIA AND MEMORABILIA

CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: TORONTO NOSTALGIA

CHUCKMAN’S MONTREAL

CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORD PRESS

CHUCKMAN'S KODACHROMES ON WORDPRESS: JOHN AND BOBBY LONG AGO

CHUCKMAN'S PORT STANLEY

CHUCKMAN'S BAYFIELD

CHUCKMAN'S GODERICH

CHUCKMAN'S ILES DE LA MADELEINE (MAGDALEN ISLANDS)

CHUCKMAN'S ART

CHUCKMAN'S ROBOTS

CHUCKMAN'S GALLERY OF GROTESQUES

CHUCKMAN'S CARTOON COMMENTS

CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: 1920s ARCADE CARD BEAUTIES – THEIR CHARM AND GRACE AND WHIMSY

CHUCKMAN'S WORDS ON WORDPRESS: POLITICAL ESSAYS

CHUCKMAN'S WORDS ON WORDPRESS: COMMENTS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS

CHUCKMAN'S MISCELLANEA OF WORDS

CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS OF THE 1950S VOLUME 01 (OF 4 VOLUMES)




ME, ROUGHLY: THE DECLINE IS RAPID NOW

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE AND WASHINGTON - LOOKING N - HUGE CROWDS AROUND MARSHALL FIELD'S WINDOWS - TINTED - NICE VERSION - 1909


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE AND WASHINGTON - SLIGHTLY ELEVATED LOOKING N W - BIG CROWD - MARSHALL FIELD CLOCK - EARLY 1940s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BEAUTIFUL STREET SCENE - WOODLAWN AVE N NEAR MIDWAY BLVD - WOMAN WALKING - AWNINGS - DELIVERY WAGON - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STONE-FRONTED THREE-FLOOR APARTMENT BUILDING - WABASH AVE AND 55TH STREET - THE DECORATION ABOVE SECOND-FLOOR WINDOWS SUGGESTS LOUIS SULLIVAN INFLUENCE - 1909


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - VERY HANDSOME APARTMENT BUILDING - N E CORNER OF SHERIDAN AND MORSE AVE - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDING - S E CORNER WILTON AVE AND KING PLACE - NOTE TWO GIRLS ON SIDEWALK - c1910 - GENERAL NOTE: THIS KIND OF LARGE APARTMENT BUILDING TYPICALLY HAD A LOBBY INSIDE THE STREET DOOR, SEPARATED FROM THE STAIRS TO THE APARTMENTS BY A LOCKED DOOR - THE LOBBY WOULD BE STYLISHLY TILED AND MAILBOXES WERE BRASS BUILT INTO THE WALL - OFTEN THERE WAS A FAUX FIREPLACE WHOSE MANTLE WAS USED TO PUT THINGS ON AS MAIL TO BE FORWARDED - ALL THE WOODWORK OF DOORS AND BANISTERS WAS TYPICALLY VERY HEAVY DARK-STAINED HARDWOOD - THE STAIRS WERE THICKLY CARPETED WITH GOOD STUFF OFTEN ORIENTAL IN MOTIFF - THE GLASS IN THE DOORS WAS HEAVY AND OFTEN HAD BEVELLED EDGING AROUND WOOD AND A SECTION OF STAINED-GLASS INSERT - BUILDING NUMBERS WERE HEAVY BRASS AS WERE DOOR HANDLES AND KICK-PLATES - ALTOGETHER MAKING A HANDSOME AND HOMEY PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO COME HOME TO - SERVICES SUCH AS GARBAGE COLLECTION WERE FROM THE ALLEY BEHIND THE BUILDING WHICH ALSO CONTAINED THE ELECTRICITY AND PHONE POLES, KEEPING THEM OFF THE STREET - THERE WAS SOME SERIOUS URBAN PLANNING AT THAT TIME IN CHICAGO - THE ROWS OF TREES UP AND DOWN THE STREET PROVIDED A BEAUTIFUL SCREEN FROM NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS ACROSS THE STREET AND PROVIDED COOLING EFFECTS IN AN ERA WITH NO AIR-CONDITIONING - THEY JUST LOOKED MAGNIFICENT AT MATURITY - THEY WERE TYPICALLY AMERICAN ELMS WHOSE CHARACTERISTIC VASE SHAPE CREATED A CATHEDRAL-CEILING EFFECT FROM THE SIDEWALK


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDING - N E CORNER SHERIDAN ROAD AND HOWARD STREET - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - EGGLESTON AVE S OF 77TH STREET - AUBURN PARK - HOMES AND TWO-FLATS ON TREE-LINED STREET - SOME PEDESTRIANS - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - 7546 SAGINAW AVE - HOUSE FRONT WITH GINGERBREAD PORCH - 1912


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - 7611 CREGIER AVE - BRICK HOME - NEAR SOUTH SHORE HIGH SCHOOL - BACK OF CARD SAYS OWNER BOUGHT IT FOR $8500 AND HAS BEEN OFFERED $12000 - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - JEFFERY AVE - N FROM 72ND STREET - LARGE HOMES - TRICYCLE ON SIDEWALK - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - 74TH PLACE - W OF COLES TO RR AVE (CALLED THAT - MAYBE EXCHANGE ?) - NEW HOMES AND TREES - 1910


PHOTO - CHICAGO - WABASH AVE - AERIAL - TELEPHOTO-FORESHORTENED - ELEVATED TRAIN TURNING ONTO LAKE STREET - NOTE STOUFFERS RESTAURANT - BLACKHAWK RESTAURANT - PART OF WIMPY HAMBURGER SIGN - c1960


PHOTO - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE - GROUND LEVEL LOOKING N - PEOPLE WALKING - FLAGS - PRUDENTIAL BUILDING - 1960s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - UNKNOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPPING STREET - YOUNG MAN STANDING WITH A CARTON OF POP - EDITED FROM SITE EVERYDAY LIFE OF CHICAGO IN THE 1960s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CORONADO APARTMENT BUILDING - 44TH AND WABASH - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - EGGLESTON AND WINNECONNA - AUBURN PARK NEIGHBORHOOD - LAGOON - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - HARVARD SCHOOL - HARVARD AVE AND 75TH - AUBURN PARK NEIGHBORHOOD - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MYRA BRADWELL SCHOOL - 7710 S BURNHAM - 1908






POSTCARD - CHICAGO - RACINE AVE - S OF WILSON - TREE-LINED APARTMENT STREET - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SHERIDAN ROAD - APARTMENT BUILDINGS - AWNINGS - ONE CAR PARKED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SHERWOOD SCHOOL - 57TH AND PRINCETON AVE - 1908


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SUNNYWOOD APARTMENTS - S W CORNER WINCHESTER AVE AND SUNNYSIDE AVE - 1909


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - THE BON AIR APARTMENTS - WINTHROP AND LELAND - WITH AWNINGS - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - THE MONTVILLE APARTMENT BUILDING - (SOMETHING) LAKE AVE AND WOODLAWN AVE - WOMAN WALKING IN FOREGROUND - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - YALE AVE S NEAR 72ND STREET - TREE-LINED APARTMENT STREET - 1911


PHOTO - CHICAGO - CHANDLER SHOE STORE - STATE STREET - PEOPLE LOOKING IN WINDOWS - NICE VERSION - 1950s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL - BABE RUTH AND HIS WIFE CLAIRE IN THEIR ROOM - IN TOWN FOR 1932 WORLD SERIES - EDITED FROM A CHICAGO TRIBUNE IMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL - DANCER ELITA CLEVELAND AT SEASON OPENING OF OUTDOOR POOL - 1962 - EDITED FROM A CHICAGO TRIBUNEIMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL - SHOWGIRL POLLY PARROTT AND BARTENDERS - 1944 - EDITED FROM A CHICAGO HERALD AMERICAN IMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL - TWO SHOWGIRLS USING OFFICE TYPEWRITERS - BETTY LEE FOOTE AND EILEEN MCDERMOTT - 1944 - EDITED FROM CHICAGO TRIBUNE IMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - GROUND LEVEL LOOKING S IN FRONT OF MARSHALL FIELDS - CROWDS - 1960s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL - E HYDE PARK BLVD AND THE LAKE - ADDITION BUILT E OF ORIGINAL IN 1921 - ORIGINAL RAZED 1927 - LATER 5TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS - TINTED - 1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL - E HYDE PARK BLVD AT THE LAKE - TINTED - 1907


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL (ORIGINAL BUILDING) - E HYDE PARK BLVD AND THE LAKE - GROUND LEVEL - PART OF I WILL SERIES - TINTED - 1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL (ORIGINAL BUILDING) - E HYDE PARK BLVD AND THE LAKE - GROUND LEVEL LOOKING E TOWARDS LAKE - BUILT IN 1892 FOR COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WORLD'S FAIR 1893 - c1900


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL (THE ORIGINAL) - HYDE PARK BLVD AT THE LAKE - GROUND LEVEL VERANDA VIEW - TINTED - PRE-1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - EDGEWATER BEACH YACHT CLUB COCKTAIL ROOM - EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL - 5555 N SHERIDAN ROAD - TINTED - 1941


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - NORTH AVE BEACH - VIEW LOOKING W FROM WATER - BIG CROWD - 1600 N LAKE SHORE DRIVE - NOTE THE FAMOUS SHIP-LIKE BEACH HOUSE - TINTED - 1949


POSTER - CHICAGO - NORTH AVENUE BEACH - STYLIZED DRAWING OF WOMAN IN BATHING SUIT HOLDING ARMS UP TO SUN OVER WATER - 1920s


Wednesday, December 20, 2017

PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N FROM VAN BUREN - NIGHT - CHRISTMAS SEASON - EARLY 1950s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N FROM VAN BUREN ELEVATED - STREETCAR - BUS - TAXI - PEOPLE - 1953


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BROOKFIELD ZOO ENTRANCE WHEN NEW - TINTED - OPENED 1934


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - FRITZEL'S RESTAURANT - 201 N STATE - BAR - 1950s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MANDEL BROTHERS DEPARTMENT STORE - SHOWING 3 STORE FRONTS - STATE - MADISON - WABASH - c1905


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MARSHALL FIELDS DEPARTMENT STORE - STATE STREET AISLE - SEASONAL DECORATIONS - c1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - RIVER - STATE STREET BRIDGE OPEN - STEAMER HEADED W - TINTED


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - RIVER - STATE STREET JACKNIFE BRIDGE OPEN - HUGE LAKER AND TUG - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE AND MADISON - AERIAL LOOKING NE - CARSON PIRIE SCOTT ENTRANCE - CROWDS - TINTED - c 1910