This color, silent, travel footage was taken in August 1966 by a couple travelling in the Florida Keys, the Wisconsin Dells, and in Chicago. It contains footage of Florida and its long bridges as well as footage shot from a TV screen of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughter’s marriage. Luci Johnson’s marriage to Patrick Nugent was notable because of her father and also since she had converted to Catholicism. She and Nugent married in a Washington, D.C. basilica that no longer holds weddings. This home movie also showcases historic Chicago landmarks such as the Balaban & Katz United Artists movie theater, outside of which were displays for the newly-released “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” which won 5 Academy Awards and remains well-known today. The film also features footage shot from the top of the Prudential skyscraper in Chicago.
(00:25) A sign for a Jungle Cruise on the Little Manatee River
(00:33) Bahia Beach
(00:43) Diners enjoy a restaurant with a view of the beach
(01:49) Bahia Honda Rail Bridge
(03:10) Seven Mile Bridge
(04:30) Footage of a news report “White House Wedding” about Patrick Nugent and Luci Johnson, daughter of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, being played on a TV. The pair married on August 6, 1666 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
(04:52) A macaw at a zoo
(05:15) Flamingoes gather around a pond
(05:43) Swans
(06:13) A close-up view of a blue and yellow macaw
(06:23) Toucans sit in trees
(07:35) Tourist enjoy a gift shop
(08:13) Visitors sit on a tour boat, a guide wears a Native American headdress.
(08:26) Dells Boat Company
(08:50) Native Americans walk in a circle
(09:36) Goats ask for food
(09:45) The amphibious duck boat parks on a road
(11:05) The historic Balaban & Katz United Artists movie theater displays signs for the newly-released film “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?”
(11:07) The Holloway House Cafeteria on Randolph Street
(11:30) “What did you do in the war, Daddy?” was released in 1966
(11:50) The Roosevelt Theater on State Street in downtown Chicago
(12:02) The 1966 film “Walk Don’t Run” starred Cary Grant
(12:20) Marina City, a Chicago landmark on State Street
(12:57) Elevated train tracks
(13:28) Prudential Building (now One Prudential Plaza)
(13:33) A view from the skyscraper
(14:00) Thirty Five E Wacker
(14:13) Chicago skyline with Lake Michigan in the background
(14:45) Aerial view of Grant Park
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