First Airmail Flight - Grant Park Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Chicago Board of Trade – 1933 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Elevated Tracks – 1936 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Chicago Black Sox – 1919 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Chicago Cubs – 1907 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Edgewater Beach Hotel 's Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Chicago Theater 's Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Chicago River – 1936 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Oak Street Beach – 1931 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Maxwell Street – 1932 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Museum of Science & Industry – 1933 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Wrigley Field - World Series – 1932 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Open Air Bus – 1927 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Merchandise Mart – 1935 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Riverview – 1938 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Palmolive Building – 1930 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Chicago River 's Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Oak Street Beach – 1916 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Grant Park – 1937 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Lincoln Park – 1931 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

76th Street Pier – 1913 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Ferris Wheel – 1893 Copyright 2005 David R. Phillips

Chicago Stockyards – 1905

"Silver Flash"... a small train traveling on a wooden track Trellis. No safety belts or padding, just a "grab bar".....and you did!!!

Note: not even a fence between the River and the Park grounds.

From the top of the "Shoot the Chutes"... a twenty foot wooden boat that went down a forty foot high slide into a small lake! Again, just a grab bar for safety.

This was the ride up on the "Pair-O-Chutes"...the seat was a single plank of wood with chains to keep you in place. You rose 65 feet in the air and then dropped until the chute filled and brought you down to the ground. To this day, the single scariest ride I ever went on..

A walk along the midway... the "Flying Turns" in the background. The roller coaster car went free rolling in an open topped chute. Again, gravity was your safety harness.

The Merry-Go-Round is the only ride that still exists. It now is at Six- Flags in Atlanta, Georgia.

Aladdin's Castle (Fun House)

You know this was not the Greyhound bus station

You know 'The Bob s' was not plural for Bob

You know this was 'The Silver Flash', not the 'L'

The "Pair-O-Chutes" (two people, one seat, one chute)... the little car on the cable was "the Sky Ride" and was the last ride built in the park in the early sixties. "The Rotor" was a round room that spun until centrifugal force pinned you to the wall and the floor dropped away!

This was the barrel inside "Aladdin's Castle"