Remembering Chicago: The Boomer Years looking for historical photos and movies for WTTW documentary
IPPA member Karen Kring, shares an interesting project on Chicago’s history:
This in recently from WTTW-11 Jamie Ceaser.
I think this sounds like a worthy project that might be fun to contribute too.
Jamie’s deadline is end of August, but if she’s got a lead on something very special, she’ll stretch that to Sept. There’s no monetary compensation, but you can get a screen credit. (I’d ask for a copy of the show too.)
Best,
Karen Kring
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Hi everyone:
If you’ve gotten this email, it’s because you’ve spent at least 5 minutes Of your life in chicago–and hopefully, you can clean out your closets And help me at the same time!
I’m producing a documentary for Ch. WTTW/11 called REMEMBERING CHICAGO: The Boomer Years. I’m looking for your home movies, snapshots and great memories of those years to include in the doc. OR if you know anyone who might have aforementioned items–please HELP!
Here’s a little memory jog/a kind of guide of what I’m looking for:
Streetcars; Wrigley Field/Comiskey Park; Chicago Blues; Beaches; Drive-ins; Neighborhood Shopping Centers; Airports; Chicago TV Shows; Car Fins;Returning Vets/GI Bill; Junkmen in horse-drawn wagons;3-D Movies;Jet Magazine; Queen Elizabeth II Visits Chicago; Polio Shots; Polk Bros; Playboy Magazine; Washington Park/Arlington Park/Hawthorne/Sportsmanšs Park/Maywood; Rainbow Ice Skating; Chicago Newspapers; Demolition Derbies;Old Town; Beatles in Chicago; White Castle/Henryšs/McDonalds;Soda Foundations/Dove Candies/Margiešs; Woolworths; American Bandstand/Shindig!/Hootenanny; Collage All Star Game; Public School/Catholic School;School Field Trips to the Zoos; Civil Rights Movement; Prudential Building/Marina City;Park District Pools/Day camps; Riverview/Kiddieland/Adventureland/Santašs Village;Sock Hops; WLS vs WCFL; 60s Chicago Bands: Buckinghams; Ideas of March;Hippie Scene/šThe Seed.˛ Hula Hoops; S & H Green Stamps; Old TV Commercials; “Kiddie a gogo”
If you have home movies or snapshots from these years that include any of the following imagery or more, please email:
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Or call me, Jamie Ceaser, at
773-509-5534
Or send footage to WTTW,
5400 N. St. Louis,
Chicago, IL 60025,
ATTN: Remembering Chicago.
BIG THANKS!!