CHICAGO — With the Cubs off to one of the hottest starts in Major League Baseball history inside a ballpark undergoing a huge renovation, let's take a peek back at how Wrigley Field used to look.
An unearthed movie from Chicago Film Archives shows Wrigley in magical color during the 1937 season — or almost 30 years after the Cubs won their last World Series.
The two-minute-plus movie, taken by Jacob Glick, includes a marching band and baseball players entering Wrigley Field, plus shots of the Wrigley bleachers and center field scoreboard.
The bleachers were built in 1937, 23 years after Wrigley Field was erected at 1060 W. Addison St. in 1914. Bill Veeck planted the ivy in September of 1937.
The movie is part of the "Glick-Berolzheimer Collection," which "contains home movies by Diane Berolzheimer's father Jacob Glick from the mid 1930s through the early 1960s," according to Chicago Film Archives.
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