Monday, May 28, 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 RAPID NOW

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - AERIAL PANORAMA - NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE - GOLD COAST BUILDINGS ARE CENTER BACKGROUND - 1980s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - ART INSTITUTE - HOUSING ART EXHIBITION - CENTORY OF PROGRESS WORLDS FAIR - 1933


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BOSTON STORE DEPARTMENT STORE - STATE AND MADISON N W CORNER - EXTENDS BACK TO DEARBOIRN ALONG MADISON - STRICTLY FIREPROOF - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO RIVER - EXCURSION SHIP PASSING THROUGH OUTER DRIVE BRIDGE TOWARDS LAKE - LOOKING NE - 1950s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - DEARBORN STREET - AERIAL LOOKING N FROM VAN BUREN - NOTE AWNINGS - NOTE ELEVATED STATION - I WILL SERIES - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - EDELWEISS RESTAURANT - 104-106 MADISON - DINING ROOM - c1905


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - FAIR DEPARTMENT STORE - STATE AND ADAMS - CORNER VIEW - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - GOLD COAST - LAKE SHORE DRIVE - AERIAL LOOKING N - ITS MOST BEAUTIFUL PERIOD - TINTED - 1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - HOTEL LORRAINE LOBBY - WABASH AT VAN BUREN - TINTED - c1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LAKE SHORE DRIVE - LINCOLN PARK - AERIAL - GARDENS - CARS - BUGGY - OLD MASTED SHIP - TINTED - c1920


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LAKE SHORE DRIVE - N FROM BANKS - DOUBLE-DECK TOURIST BUSES - POTTER PALMER MANSION - TINTED - 1923


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LAKE SHORE DRIVE ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN - CAR - PEOPLE WALKING UNDER TREES - TINTED - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LAKE SHORE ROAD - BIG HOMES - TREES - I WILL SERIES - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MADISON AND DEARBORN - TRIBUNE BUILDING - MCVICKERS THEATRE - AERIAL PANORAMA - TINTED - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MERCHANDISE MART - BRIDGE - COUPLE OF BOATS - AERIAL FROM ACROSS RIVER - TINTED - c1950


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL IN FRONT OF ART INSTITUTE - NOTE PARKED CARS AND MAN ON BENCH - TINTED - NICE VERSION - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE AND MONROE - LOOKING W FROM GRANT PARK - PEOPLES GAS - LAKE VIEW BUILDING - ILLINOIS ATHLETIC CLUB - MONROE BUILDING - UNIVERSITY CLUB - TINTED - 1914


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE AT CONGRESS PLAZA - THE BOWMAN AND SPEARMAN STATUES OF IVAN MESTROVIC - NOTE OLD MOBILGAS SIGN BEHIND FIGURE ON LEFT - c1960


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE BOULEVARD (CALLED THAT) - STAGE COACH AND BUGGY GOING AROUND CORNER - TINTED - 1915


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN BLVD (CALLED THAT) - GRANT PARK - LOOKING S FROM RANDOLPH STREET BRIDGE - NOTE STONE WALL FOR IC RAIL - TINTED - 1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY -YESTERDAY'S MAIN STREET - WINDOW SHOPPING - NAMES OF LOCAL BUSINESSES - CHARLES A. STEVENS DEPARTMENT STORE - BOWMAN DAIRY - c1960


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - NORTH MICHIGAN AVE - LOOKING N AERIAL FROM NEAR EQUITABLE - 1982


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - OAK STREET BEACH LAKE SHORE DRIVE DRAKE HOTEL - AERIAL - PLANE DRAWN-IN - TINTED - CENTURY OF PROGRESS 1933


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - PICK CONGRESS HOTEL - MICHIGAN AVE - VIEW FROM GRANT PARK - c1960


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - PUBLIC LIBRARY - MICHIGAN AND WASHINGTON - DRAWN-IN CARS - TINTED - 1945


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SISSON HOTEL - 53RD AND THE LAKE - TINTED - 1920s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - NIGHT - STATE LAKE THEATER - TRAFFIC - AERIAL FROM LAKE ELEVATED - 1954


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - WABASH AVE BRIDGE - LOOKING E - SUN-TIMES - WRIGLEY - WEE BIT OD SHERATON - TRIBUNE - c1960


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - WASHINGTON - E FROM DEARBORN - AERIAL - PART OF I WILL SERIES - TINTED - c1910


POSTER - CHICAGO - UNITED AIRLINES - BASED ON MIES VAN DER ROHE APARTMENTS AT 860-880 N LAKE SHORE DRIVE - 1950s


Sunday, May 13, 2018

PHOTO - CHICAGO - FAMILY ON SCENIC BOATRIDE WITH SKYLINE BEHIND - EITHER WENDELLA OR MERCURY - SNAPSHOT - 1964 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER


PHOTO - CHICAGO - PART OF SKYLINE TAKEN FROM AERIAL POSITION - SPIRED BUILDING IS CHICAGO METHODIST TEMPLE SKYSCRAPER CHURCH - 1940s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - TRIBUNE BUILDING - FROM OTHER SIDE OF RIVER - LOOKING NE - NOTE AWNINGS - 1931


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - GRANT PARK - LOOKING S W GROUND LEVEL TOWARDS LOUIS SULLIVAN'S AUDITORIUM THEATER - TINTED - 1907


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - JACKSON PARK - GERMAN BUILDING - PARK STATS - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE - AERIAL LOOKING NW - CALLED NEW MICHIGAN AVE - TINTED - 1951


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SKYLINE - LOOKING E AERIAL FROM KEMPER BUILDING - EARLY 1960s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - THE PITTSFIELD BUILDING - WASHINGTON AND WABASH - ANOTHER OF THE FIELD FAMILY'S FINE BUILDINGS - MERCHANDISE MART FIELD APARTMENTS FIELD BUILDING - TINTED - 1920s