While looking for something completely different, I stumbled across a Flickr photostream and subsequently lost my afternoon to it: Joe+Jeanette Archie. There are pictures of all kinds, many of which won’t be of interest to the average viewer, but there are loads of pictures of Chicago from the ’30s through the ’80s. The Lawndale album is spectacular:

Downtown in the 1940s and ’50s:

Downtown in the 1960s:

Views from the top of the Wrigley Building in 1950:

Stock car racing at Soldier Field:

And much more, including pictures from the El, pictures from the Sears Tower in the 1970s, and so forth.

Photographs: Joe+Jeanette Archie (CC by 2.0)