Tim Samuelson Quotations

Everything in this building can be re-created. It can be done.

It's often considered to be THE Chicago movie.

He was completely taken with the Gulf Coast and the beauty of the natural landscape. It gave him inspiration. It gave him rest. It fueled him and allowed him to come back to the city and renew his work.

In a city that grew up fast and changes quickly ... some of the old institutions and businesses and buildings that represent the past are a good thing to hold on to. It's kind of like looking at old family pictures.

Those old streetscapes didn't present a tidy appearance -- it was a real syncopation of signs and storefronts with neon and flashing lights -- and I think the planners of the '60s looked down on that kind of environment. The instinct was to clear everything out and start afresh. There were good things about that, but it was also done at a real cost to the existing street life.

It goes back to his old days selling on Maxwell Street,

I fell in love right then and there before words were even spoken.

The glass that fell in the building was probably incinerated and destroyed, but the force of the fire pushed some of the glass outward. We were able to find, by crawling around and even going through wrecked cars, little pieces of the glass. We probably can account for every color and glass pattern on there. With the pieces of glass, in conjunction with the photographs, we could re-create these windows almost exactly.

It's interesting how quickly it fell out of favor. The children of the older families didn't want to live there, and neither did the new wealthy families. By 1910, many of the houses had been converted to rooming houses or factories.

It's interesting how quickly it fell out of favor, ... The children of the older families didn't want to live there, and neither did the new wealthy families. By 1910, many of the houses had been converted to rooming houses or factories.