Saturday, June 16, 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

PHOTO - CHICAGO - MEIGS FIELD WATERFRONT AIRPORT - MCDONNELL DOUGLAS AND AMERICAN AIRLINES TESTS FOR SHORT-TAKE-OFF-AND-LANDING AIRCRAFT - SKYLINE IN BACKGROUND - 1969


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - AERIAL FORE-SHORTENED WITH TELEPHOTO LENS - GROUPS OF SHOPPERS CROSSING STREET - HUGE NUMBER OF BUSES - 1967


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL FROM NEAR ENTRANCE TO PALMER HOUSE - STREETCAR - CARRIAGES - PEDESTRIANS - 1905


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOKING S GROUND LEVEL FROM ACROSS THE STREET FROM WOOLWORTHS - EARLY 1950s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - LOOP THEATER - 1968


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET - UNDER MARQUEE OF CHICAGO THEATER - EARLY EVENING OR OVERCAST DAY - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL - 1960s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - STATE STREET AND RANDOLPH - LOOKING NW GROUND LEVEL FROM MARSHALL FIELD - NEWS CENTRAL - TWIN COACH -CROWD AND TRAFFIC - 1967


POSTCARD - CHICAGO - THE MAJESTIC BAR INTERIOR - 73 E MONROE - MAJESTIC THEATRE BUILDING - BETWEEN DEARBORN AND STATE - WONDER BAR OF THE WEST - TINTED - 1910s


POSTCARD - CHICAGO- THE RIENZI - CLARK AND DIVERSEY BLVD - WITH OUTDOOR SUMMER GARDENS AND CONCERTS - c1910


Friday, June 1, 2018

PHOTO - CHICAGO- MICHIGAN AVE AND WACKER DRIVE - AERIAL PANORAMA - ALMOST LIKE CATHEDRAL SPIRES - 1920s


PHOTO - CHICAGO - TWO FLAPPER-STYLE WOMEN DANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE ROOF OF THE SHERMAN HOTEL - 1926


PHOTO - CHICAGO - RINGLING BROTHERS BARNUM AND BAILY - WOMAN RIDING ELEPHANT - 1940s - EDITED FROM A CHARLES CUSHMAN IMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - RINGLING BROTHERS BARNUM AND BAILY - WOMAN CARRYING COFFEES - 1940s - EDITED FROMA CHARLES CUSHMAN IMAGE


PHOTO - CHICAGO - RINGLING BROTHERS BARNUM AND BAILY - WOMAN IN PINK FORMAL OUTFIT BY CIRCUS WAGON - 1940s - EDITED FROMA CHARLES CUSHMAN IMAGE