Irish and Italian gangs fought to the death for a market share of the enormously profitable bootlegging business. Prohibition was in force between 19, and the smoky basement bar next door was open for illegal alcohol consumption on a daily basis.
Life was overblown and intoxicating, like one of Louis’s trumpet extravaganzas.Īnd it could be dangerous as well. Louis Armstrong was playing the country’s most advanced music in Chicago, and on Saturday evening crowds avid for entertainment flocked to legendary dance halls like the Aragon. Chicago shifted into the heady rhythm of jazz and the blues. It experienced its best days in the period when America was discovering the consumer culture, and nobody suspected that the Depression was just around the corner. Following an extension in the year 1928, the bank shone out as a modern cathedral of high finance, with a light-bathed foyer redolent of power and money. In the ‘Golden Twenties’, the vaults of the Mid-City Trust and Savings Bank on Chicago’s Near West Side must inevitably have harboured a fair quantity of dirty dollars.
#The vault chicago series#
The labyrinthine look of the vault interior draws the viewer in, despite its nature being to keep people at bay.īanking secrets – An essay about the vault series by Christian Voigt Unlike a safe, a vault is integral to the structure in which it is built, and Voigt’s photograph cements this notion. Vaults are intended to keep monetary goods and other valuables safe from theft, unauthorized use, or other threats. This antiquated bank vault in Chicago is both a historical and sociological piece, reminding us about the value that humanity places in materialism.
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