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LARGE COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS ABOUT CHICAGO. MUCH OF THE BUILT-ENVIRONMENT OF THE EARLIER POSTCARDS SURVIVED INTO THE 1950-60s, THE PERIOD OF MY GREATEST INTEREST. INCLUDED ALSO ARE MENUS, MATCHBOOKS, AND OTHER ITEMS REFLECTING CITY LIFE IN THE 1950s AND 1960s. IT IS HOPED THESE PRESERVE SOMETHING OF THE SENSE OF WHAT A SPECIAL PLACE THE CHICAGO OF THAT TIME WAS IN WHICH TO GROW UP. NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF MATERIAL IS WELCOME. PLEASE CREDIT THE SITE.
YOU MAY ENJOY THESE OTHER SITES FROM JOHN CHUCKMAN
- CHUCKMAN'S ART - ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, PHOTOS, AND GIZMOS
- CHUCKMAN'S CHOICE OF WORDS - ESSAYS AND COMMENTS ON POLITICS AND WORLD AFFAIRS
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 01
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 02
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 03
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 04
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 05
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 06
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 07
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 08
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 09
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 10
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 11
- CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VINTAGE CHICAGO POSTCARDS - VOL 12
- CHUCKMAN'S GALLERY OF GROTESQUES - THE WORST IMAGES OF DREADFUL POLITICIANS I CAN FIND
- CHUCKMAN'S MISCELLANEA OF WORDS - ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, BOOK AND RESTAURANT REVIEWS, AND RECIPES
- CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS OF THE 1950s - VOL 01
- CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS OF THE 1950s - VOL 02
- CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS OF THE 1950s - VOL 03
- CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS OF THE 1950s - VOL 04
- CHUCKMAN'S OTHER CHOICE OF WORDS - COMMENTS ON ALMOST ANYTHING
- CHUCKMAN'S OTHER COLLECTION - VINTAGE TORONTO POSTCARDS - VOL 01
- CHUCKMAN'S OTHER COLLECTION - VINTAGE TORONTO POSTCARDS - VOL 02
- CHUCKMAN'S OTHER COLLECTION - VINTAGE TORONTO POSTCARDS - VOL 03
- CHUCKMAN'S OTHER COLLECTION - VINTAGE TORONTO POSTCARDS - VOL 04
- CHUCKMAN'S PLACES - NOSTALGIC IMAGES FROM CHILDHOOD IN CHICAGO
- CHUCKMAN'S SLIDE SHOW ON FLICKR - ORIGINAL POLITICAL CARTOONS
- THE FACE OF HOPE
- 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 happened to embrace the wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of calling "the peaceable kingdom." John's columns appear regularly on Counterpunch, Media Monitors, Politics Canada, Baltimore Chronicle, Online Journal, Scoop (New Zealand), Asian Tribune, Aljazeerah.info, Smirking Chimp, Dissident Voice, and many other Internet sites. He has been translated into at least ten languages and is regularly translated into Italian and Spanish. Several of his essays have been published in book collections, including two college texts. His first book has just been published, The Decline of the American Empire and the Rise of China as a Global Power, published by Constable and Robinson, London.












































































