Friday, November 30, 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

AD - CHICAGO - NEWSPAPER AD FOR RVERVIEW AMUSEMENT PARK - WESTERN AT BELMONT - LAUGH YOUR TROUBLES AWAY - NEW FLYING CARS - 1954


BOX - CHICAGO - MARSHALL FIELD CHRISTMAS GIFT BOX - GREEN AND IVORY - VICTORIAN VILLAGE SCENE - YEAR UNKNOWN


MATCHBOOK - CHICAGO - GIMBEL'S RESTAURANT - 30 W RANDOLPH - FEATURING CHICKEN IN THE ROUGH - A 1937 EARLY FRIED CHICKEN FRANCHISE FOUND A NUMBER OF PLACES


MATCHBOOK - CHICAGO - HARRIS RESTAURANT - 3150 IRVING PARK ROAD - JUST E OF KEDZIE AVE


MATCHBOOK - CHICAGO - MELODY LANE RESTAURANT - 1425 W 87TH


MENU - CHICAGO - KUNGSHOLM RESTAURANT AND PUPPET OPERA - RUSH AND ONTARIO - FORMER MCCORMICK MANSION - DINNER MENU INSIDE WHEN RUN BY FRED HARVEY - SOLD TO THEM IN 1957


MENU - CHICAGO - KUNGSHOLM RESTAURANT AND PUPPET OPERA - RUSH AND ONTARIO - FORMER MCCORMICK MANSION - MENU COVER WHEN RUN BY FRED HARVEY - SOLD TO FRED HARVEY IN 1957


PHOTO - CHICAGO - AERIAL PANORAMA LOOKING NE LIKELY FROM TOP OF SEARS TOWER - DATE UNCERTAIN - MAYBE 1970s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - AMTRAK TRAIN - ELEVATED - CITY BUILDINGS BACKGROUND - 1978


PHOTO - CHICAGO - AMTRAK TRAIN CURVING ACROSS TRACKS - ELEVATED VIEW - COMPLEX RAILS IN BACKGROUND RAILYARD - c2004


PHOTO - CHICAGO - AMTRAK TRAIN HEADED OUT - SKYLINE FEATURING SEARS TOWER IN BACKGROUND - 1978


PHOTO - CHICAGO - AMTRAK TRAINS IN YARD - BASCULE BRIDGE IN BACKGROUND - SOME OF SKYLINE IN DISTANCE - 1994 - EDITED FROM A PAUL SCHNEIDER IMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING - 141 W JACKSON AT BOTTOM OF LA SALLE STREET - FLAGS - PARKED CARS - PEDESTRIANS - 1950s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - BUCKINGHAM FOUNTAIN - COUPLE WALKING BY - LOOKING W FROM GRANT PARK TOWARDS MICHIGAN AVE BUILDINGS - 1967


PHOTO - CHICAGO - BUILDINGS SILHOUETTED NEAR SUNSET - 1970


PHOTO - CHICAGO - CONRAD HILTON HOTEL - MICHIGAN AVE FROM BALBO DRIVE - LOOKING W GROUND LEVEL - 1977


PHOTO - CHICAGO - CTA 2400 SERIES RAPID TRANSIT CARS BEING BUILT - LOCATION UNKNOWN - THIS MODEL WAS BUILT BY BOEING-VERTOL IN PENNSYLVANIA AND CTA SKOKIE SHOPS DID MAJOR OVERHAUL WORK - 1976


PHOTO - CHICAGO - CTA ELEVATED RAPID TRANSIT - N WELLS AND W LAKE AERIAL VIEW - 6-CAR TRAIN - 1982


PHOTO - CHICAGO - CTA RAPID TRANSIT - NEW CARS FOR BICENTENNIAL - CAR IN FRONT NAMED BEN FRANKLIN - 1976


PHOTO - CHICAGO - FIELD MUSEUM - TWO BOYS STANDING BY ENTRANCE SIGN - 1956


PHOTO - CHICAGO - ILLINOIS CENTRAL TRACKS - MICHIGAN AVE SKYLINE BEHIND - SOUTH SHORE LINE COMMUTER TRAIN APPROACHING - LOOKING N ELEVATED - 1962


PHOTO - CHICAGO - INTERNATIONAL TEEN PRINCESS CANDIDATES - FRANCE - FINLAND - CHICAGO - 1967


PHOTO - CHICAGO - LOOP ELEVATED RAPID TRANSIT - 2200 MODEL ALUMINUM CARS TURNING CORNER - 1979


PHOTO - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL FROM NEAR UNDERGROUND PARKING EXIT - MAN CROSSING STREET - HEAVY TRAFFIC - YELLOW CABS - c1960


PHOTO - CHICAGO - MISS CHICAGO - NANCY KESLER - SITTING ON A STEP LADDER - 1961


PHOTO - CHICAGO - N MICHIGAN AVE - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL - TAXI BUSES - POLICE CAR - 1980


PHOTO - CHICAGO - OUTER DRIVE BRIDGE AND S-TURN PLUS SURROUNDINGS - AERIAL LOOKING E - ILLINOIS CENTRAL YARDS - RIVER - NAVY PIER - 1956


PHOTO - CHICAGO - PALMOLIVE BUILDING - TWILIGHT - LOOKING N FROM HIGH LOCATION NOT TOO FAR AWAY - c 1960


PHOTO - CHICAGO - RIVERVIEW AMUSEMENT PARK - ALADDIN'S CASTLE FUN HOUSE - AERIAL PANORAMA - NEIGHBORHOOD BACKGROUND - c1960


PHOTO - CHICAGO - RUSH STREET - GROUND LEVEL - DAYTIME - MARYLAND HOTEL ON LEFT IS AT DELAWARE - BOURBON STREET - FACES - CABARET - c1970


PHOTO - CHICAGO - SHEDD AQUARIUM - CROWDS GOING UP STAIRS - TAXIS - EARLY-1950s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - SHERIDAN ROAD - CTA BUS PULLED UP - LADY ON SIDEWALK - TRAFFIC - 1976


PHOTO - CHICAGO - SIGHT-SEEING BOAT BY SHEDD AQUARIUM LETTING OUT PASSENGERS - 1966


PHOTO - CHICAGO - SOME MICHIGAN AVE BUILDINGS BEYOND GRANT PARK - SEEN FROM OUTER DRIVE - LINCOLN MONUMENT LOWER RIGHT - MID-1960s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - SOUTH SHORE LINE RAILROAD COMMUTER - HEAD-ON FRONT - SOMEWHERE IN INDIANA - 1989


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING UP AND N - MARINA CITY - CHICAGO AND LOOP THEATERS MARTIAN STREETLIGHTS - 1972


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET AND GRAND - LOOKING S GROUND LEVEL - 1963


PHOTO - CHICAGO - THREE OLDER STREETCARS - ILLINOIS RAILROAD MUSEUM DISPLAY - 1999


PHOTO - CHICAGO - WABASH AND WACKER - GROUND LEVEL LOOKING E - BIG CROWD BREAKING UP - LOOKS LIKE AFTER A BIG PARADE - 1950s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - WABASH AT LAKE - LOOKING S GROUND LEVEL - CTA ELEVATED TURNING W - 1950s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - BUCKINGHAM FOUNTAIN IN GRANT PARK LINED UP WITH PRUDENTIAL BUILDING - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL - c1960


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CHICAGO AUTOMOBILE CLUB - LOCATION UNKNOWN - PART OF I WILL SERIES - TINTED - c1910


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CITY HALL SQUARE BUILDING AND PALACE THEATER - TINTED - 1914


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CIVIC OPERA BUILDING - 20 N WACKER DRIVE - VIEW FROM RIVER - TINTED - c1950


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CIVIC OPERA BUILDING - ENTIRE BLOCK BETWEEN MADISON AND WASHINGTON - DRAMATIC VIEW FROM OVER TRAIN SHEDS - TINTED


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - DON ROTH'S BLACKHAWK RESTAURANT - WABASH AT RANDOLPH - INTERIOR DINING ROOM DRAWING - SPINNING SALAD BOWL - ROAST BEEF CART - OPEN HEARTH STEAKS - SINCE 1920 - LATE 1960s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - FIELD BUILDING - LA SALLE CLARK AND ADAMS - AERIAL CORNER VIEW BETWEEN NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS - 1940s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - FRENCH RESTAURANT - 180 E DELAWARE - DINING ROOM - JACQUES FUMAGALLY MANAGER - THE EARLY VERSION OF JACQUES RESTAURANT - 1930s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - GARFIELD PARK - ADMINISTRATION BUILDING SEEN FROM ACROSS LAGOON GROUND LEVEL - TINTED - 1940s