Thursday, May 17, 2018

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 SO RAPID NOW

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - DEARBORN - AERIAL LOOKING N FROM JACKSON - MONADKNOCK BUILDING - POST OFFICE - GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL - TINTED - c1910


PHOTO - CHICAGO - EDDY FOY'S SHOW LOUNGE - NIGHT - 754 S WABASH - c1950


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO RIVER - HALSTED STREET LIFT BRIDGE - LONG LAKE STEAMER PASSING UNDER - TINTED - c1905


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - THE BURLINGTON DINER - 4183 S HALSTED - OPPOSITE UNION STOCK YARDS - OPEN DAY AND NIGHT SINCE 1939 - 1940s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - NEW CITY CREAMERY - CHICAGO'S OLDEST BUTTER STORE - 4741 S HALSTED - STAFF IN FRONT - 1910


Wednesday, April 11, 2018

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - WASHINGTON PARK - LAGOON WITH CANOE SITTING AT SHORE - TINTED - 1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - UNION STOCK YARDS - TRANSIT HOUSE AND GATE - WAGON - HORSE RIDER - PEDESTRIANS - TINTED - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - THE STATES RESTAURANT - DINING ROOM INTERIOR - STATE AND ADAMS - TINTED - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SWEDISH ROCOCO HOUSE RESTAURANT - 161 E OHIO - DINING ROOM INTERIOR


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STREET STREET AND MADISON - AERIAL LOOKING NE - 1913


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N FROM NEAR JACKSON GROUND LEVEL - NICE VERSION - c1960


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - AERIAL LOOKING N FROM VAN BUREN - FLAGS FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR AT NAVY PIER - NICE VERSION - c1960


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - O W RICHARDSON AND COMPANY - WABASH AND CONGRESS - FINEST LINE OF RUGS IN CHICAGO - FIRST FLOOR SHOWROOM - TINTED - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - NEBRASKA S OF DICKENS - TREE-LINED STREET OF LARGE FRAME HOMES - 1909


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MOODY BIBLE CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL ORCHESTRA - GET RIGHT WITH GOD SIGN - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE - LOOKING N FROM NEAR ADAMS - ART INSTITUTE - PEOPLE WALKING - CHECKER CAB - MID 1960s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MANDEL BROTHERS STORE - STATE AND MADISON - AERIAL LOOKING NE - NOTE CARSON'S HAS BEEN MOSTLY REMOVED -1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LINCOLN PARK - LILY POND - RENIOR-LIKE SCENE WITH TWO WOMEN ON BENCH - TINTED - 1911


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - JACKSON PARK - THE GOLF LINKS - PEOPLE GOLFING - PEOPLE ON BENCHES - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - GRANT PARK - VIEW LOOKING N - MICHIGAN AV ON LEFT - JOHN M SMYTH - COCA COLA - PRUDENTIAL - c1960


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL - 5301-5355 N SHERIDAN - FIRST PORTION BUILT 1916 - SECOND BUILDING 1924 - TINTED - c1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - DOUGLAS PARK - FOUNTAIN AND PAVILION - PEOPLE WALKING - SOMEWHAT SURREALISTIC - TINTED - 1921


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BELMONT HARBOR YACHT BASIN - APARTMENTS AND HOTELS IN BACKGROUND - TINTED - 1941


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BABALAN AND KATZ TIVOLI THEATRE - MAIN FOYER - JUST S OF 63RD AND COTTAGE GROVE - 4500 SEATS - TINTED WITH OFF-REGISTER REDS - WHEN IT OPENED IN 1921


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - COURTYARD APARTMENT BUILDING - 6040-50 DORCHESTER AV - 1910s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - VICTORIA HOTEL - MICHIGAN AND VAN BUREN - LOOKING W ON VAN BUREN - 1900


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N FROM MONROE GROUND LEVEL - LATE 1950s - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - CHRISTMAS DECORATION AND STATE LAKE THEATER - 1962 - EDITED FROM A DAVID ZORNING IMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STAGE SHOW DANCERS - STATE-LAKE THEATRE - 190 N STATE STREET - SNAPSHOT - c1930


PHOTO - CHICAGO - OAK STREET BEACH - HUGE GROUND - GROUND LEVEL - LOOKING TOWARDS GOLD COAST - NICE VERSION - 1925


PHOTO - CHICAGO - MERCHANDISE MART - OPENED IN 1930 - MARSHALL FIELD TRUCK AND TRAFFIC COP - 1934


PHOTO - CHICAGO - LINCOLN PARK - BOATHOUSE AND BOATERS - 1905


PHOTO - CHICAGO - DEARBORN STREET - PEDESTRIANS STREETCAR WAGONS CARRIAGE - 1907


PHOTO - CHICAGO - CHICAGO MASONIC TEMPLE - LATER THE CAPITOL BUILDING - STATE AND RANDOLPH - LIGHT WELL AT CENTER OF BUILDING - WORLD'S TALLEST AT 23 FLOORS IN 1892 - 1939


PHOTO - CHICAGO - CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT - FIREMEN POSING INSIDE NEW PUMPER UNIT - 1938


Thursday, January 25, 2018

PHOTO - CHICAGO - UNKNOWN STREET - GROUP OF PEOPLE NEAR A NEWS STAND AND A DRUG STORE - COULD BE HYDE PARK - 1941


PHOTO - CHICAGO - FIGURE SKATER JOANNE SCOTVOLD - APPEARING IN AN ICE SHOW IN CHICAGO - 1948


PHOTO - CHICAGO - CHICAGO RIVER - DAILY NEWS BUILDING - NEWSPRINT LAKE BOAT - COTEAUDOC FROM FORT WILLIAM - 1956


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - GUS GOOD FOOD RESTAURANT - ENGLISH ROOM BAR INTERIOR - 420 N DEARBORN -1950s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - N FROM ADAMS - MOUNTED COP - CROWDS - FAIR STORE SIGN - OG SHOES SIGN - TINTED - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - REPUBLIC BUILDING - TINTED - 1912


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB - GROUND LEVEL - STRIPED TENT PAVILION IN FRONT - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE AND MADISON - AERIAL LOOKING N - BIG CROWDS - TINTED - NICE VERSION - c1920


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE AND MONROE - AERIAL - CROWD - DOUBLE-DECKER BUS - WHAT WAS CALLED PALMER HOUSE CORNER - TINTED - c1920


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE AND WASHINGTON - AERIAL - WAGONS - STREETCARS - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - AERIAL FROM VAN BUREN LOOKING N - TINTED - c1935


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - AERIAL LOOKING S FROM LAKE - TINTED - 1913


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - AT MADISON - AERIAL - TRAFFIC JAM - CROWDS - TINTED - c1920


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - AT MADISON - LOOKING N ELEVATED - CROWDS - WAGONS - STREETCARS - TINTED - 1910