WFLD Channel 32 - Newscope - "The Blizzard of '67" and Other Stories (Part 1, 1967)
Vložit
- čas přidán 10. 01. 2014
- Here's the first part of an edition of Newscope on WFLD Channel 32, anchored by Patrick Muldowney. Also featuring Harlan Draeger of the Chicago Daily News, Richard Foster of the Chicago Sun-Times (both papers, like WFLD, were owned by Field Enterprises), sportscaster Dave Martin, and WA9RTP ham operators Jim Roper(?) and Dick Cox.
NOTES: This is the earliest footage currently known to exist of a WFLD broadcast (albeit via kinescope); the sound heard in the background on the right channel is of time code as heard on 3/4" Umatic tapes. (this is not our museum's transfer)
Also, at frame left on the Newscope set is a Teletype Model 28RO (Receive Only), which along with the Model 15 was the workhorse of many a newsroom for decades - and the source of the ubiquitous "clack-clack-clack" sound heard on many a newscast or all-news radio station (such as WBBM Newsradio 78 or the late, lamented WMAQ All News 67) until the advent of computer-based systems rendered teletype machines obsolete. Finally, the font used for lower-third identifications was Univers 67 Bold Condensed, which would be used by the station well into the early 1970's (noticeable, for example, on lower-thirds seen on surviving episodes of the late Jerry G. Bishop's Screaming Yellow Theatre a.k.a. Svengoolie).
Includes:
WFLD station ID slide, showing their first logo with a '32' where each number has a spiral (plus the early Field Communications logo)
Patrick opens the newscast by noting that, prior to a one-hour break, they had continuous coverage for the last 10 hours, with the combined facilities of Channel 32, the Daily News and Sun-Times, and amateur radio station WA9RTP (with him introducing Jim and Dick).
Harlan starts out by noting that conditions were just as bad for suburbanites and city residents.
At the city room of the Sun-Times, Richard Foster adds that by dawn, Chicago temperatures will be bitterly cold (10 above), and mentions the following facts in the course of his report:
- In Springfield, Gov. Otto Kerner meets with National Guard to coordinate snow removal efforts; Mayor Daley met with department heads to coordinate such efforts
- Snow fell for 29 hours and 8 minutes straight, with a total depth of 23 inches, with some drifts as deep as 15 feet(!)
- At least 29 lost their lives in the storm, mostly from heart attacks while shoveling snow
- Chicago's airports were closed; O'Hare may reopen the next day around 4:30pm, and Midway about noon
- Long-distance trains had as many as 4-hour delays
- CTA's rapid transit network was operating as scheduled, but the buses were another story, with one reporter speaking of taking 5 hours getting from the office to Fullerton and Clark
- Many grocery shelves, especially of milk, meat, bread and cigarettes, were bare, and there was no door-to-door milk delivery
- For the kids, the snow was a godsend; Richard spoke of his two nephews in Inverness building a Viet Cong-style tunnel
- On west side, some looting, with 10-year-old Dolores Miller shot to death during a shootout between looters and police at a shoe store on West Roosevelt Road.
- Most Chicago hospitals were fully operational
- Richard advises to check as to which activities will be held, as most are cancelled; he then signs off his report
Patrick then mentions about WFLD having broadcast "the longest weather report ever on a Chicago television station".
- "No Parking Anytime" sign, with a CTA route 151 bus (of 1963 Flxible "New Look" model F2P401-1 - number 8752 shown on front, production serial number 51404) stranded in the background (info on this particular model courtesy Ohio Museum of Transportation)
- Another stranded CTA bus (1963 Flxible "New Look" model F2P401-1 - number 8739, production serial number 51391) on the road
- People inside a CTA bus (including a police officer at right) biding their time during the storm
- Shots of Sun-Times / Daily News building, with one brave soul using skiing equipment to get through town
This aired on local Chicago TV late Friday, January 27th 1967 during the 11:30pm to 12:00am (Midnight) timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels; footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical purposes. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, and to view more of the 4,000+ (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at:
www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php... - Zábava
I would have to say that the blizzard of 1967 had the most significant impact possible to my life. I was conceived during it.
Me too!! 😂 I did the math one day when I was much younger and could help but laugh. Great time to be born.
what is the DATE??
Long time ago. No 'team coverage' out in the field. Here in SoCal, we get Team Coverage' when a quarter inch of rain falls.
I was 6 years old and living in Lincoln Estates. (Far south side). My dad got stuck at work (Marblehead lime co.) for 3 days. My 2 oldest brothers found they could climb on the front of our detached garage and ski right off the back, right to the ground. They didn't need to shovel anything. I remember eventually when the roads had opened, we all piled in mom's station wagon, we just made a circle around our small town. I was by a window and I remember looking out to a wall of white, as I leaned over to see the top, to me at the time, it appeared like that wall was near 12 foot high. I'll never forget that day.
1967 was a freaky year -- it even snowed in San Diego! Then we had the "Summer of Love".
It even snowed three inches the day after the Oak Lawn twister in April 1967
That should have thawed you out.
This storm among others while growing up in Chicago, made me into a southerner. The only snow I want to see is on a postcard.
My first experience with Chicago's brutal winter weather when i was very young. And believe me, it wouldn't be the last time. 🌨️
I recall two girls being interviewed. They were stuck at O'Hare---They were rom Florida, and never had seen snow.
"I think he had to go because there was no one else to answer the telephone". Hilarious! Patrick was an excellent newsreader! I'm so proud of him!
I was 10 yrs old and Had a Ball in All That Snow. Inside Watching Cartoon Town and Thunderbirds on WFLD-TV Channel 32.
I am so impressed with the info in the description!
I remember this like it was yesterday.
I was born just a couple of weeks after the blizzard hit us. The paramedics couldn't get to mom, so a police paddy wagon had to take mom and during that ride,I was born in the back. Mom said the cop fainted at the sight.
You know it’s serious when your sleeves are rolled up, your tie is loosen, and you are reporting with a cigarette in your mouth.
This is the earliest footage of channel 32 I
have ever seen! From the looks of it it must have been a fledgling UHF channel.
It was. It had been on the air about a year, and only those who had bought new TVs in the previous 3 years had UHF at all. There was little reason to have UHF in Chicago until the Sox moved to Channel 32 in 1968.
I'm sure but the whole newsman at the typewriter thing and the teletype going on was all part of the mythos. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing wasn't a set.
I was 5 ys old during this storm. My sisters plopped me in a snow drift on the side of our house and I couldn't get out. They also built me a snow throne in front of the house. Great fun for us kids. I remember my dad pulling me on the sled down the middle of our street to get to our local community grocery store for bread and milk. Of course it was no fun for the adults but I have pleasant memories of it.
smoking on camera. when you could smoke anywhere, any time. Doctor's office, grocery store, offices
Actually the "smoking is bad for you " thing hadent kicked in yet. Everyone seemed to be a smoker then.
@@lindamills7017 The Surgeon General's report was three years before this.
@@brianarbenz1329but few had fully digested it at the time.
our family was in Oak Lawn in 1967 Amazingly my Dad got home from work that day.
I was in Oak Forest, it was fun for us kids, my dad and neighbor dug us a huge snow cave and tunnel between our 2 houses and it lasted all week! 😂
2:28 Dig the original Sun-Times headline about the three Apollo 1 astronauts
He's smoking in the office. That's another thing you can't do anymore.
WFLD: "News Scope"
Me: "News Cope"
These news reports are classic. Imagine the hype and hysteria of today’s media if this happened now.
I'd love to see coverage from 2, 5, 7, and 9.
Incessant tickers on the bottom of your television screen. Embellished stories with reporters in snow up to their hips while people walk normally right by the camera.
@@TowGunner Bullseye 🎯
It would be 24/7 coverage in Chicago. And the cable news stations would probably devote 2/3 of their broadcasts to it.
this just makes me HAPPY. imagine no CRISIS blaring headlines
Even in the worst Chicago snowstorm where did they mention the trouble spots....West side.....must have been those peaceful lads, shoveling snow
A guy giving a news report as he smokes a cigarette. Yeah that’s definitely nostalgic for 1967. And in Chicago of all places !! 😂
My family lived between Chesterton IN and Michigan City IN during this. Luckily for us, my mother always kept the cupboards and freezer full during the winter. We dug our driveway out to the road but did not see a snow plow for 2 weeks so we were stuck until then. Someone spoke of snow piled up on one side of the house and seeing grass on the other; our house was the same; Northside piled right up to the peak of the roof, Southside, we could see grass out about 10 feet before the snow started to cover it again.
My grandparents lived in Dune Acres (north of Chesterton, right on the lake) at the time. From what I remember, neither could get out of their house for several days. They left the area that summer after 15 years.1
9:45 that last photo was a "far off" change all right-from blizzard paralyzed Chicago to sun drenched California halfway across the United States.
Oh, it was an emergency, Mom went into labor....with Me!
From the newspaper headline behind Richard Foster, I would date this at January 27,1967. It describes the Apollo 1 Fire.
Pretty sure the snow storm was in February but I will have to dig out the old newspaper to say for sure, I was in school and the Nun's wouldn't let us leave obviously they had not listened to the News the night before and it was up to my belly button by the time I got 2 blocks from home, I think they finally let us leave at 11:30 in the afternoon and I remember the office secretary coming in an hour before and whispering something in the Nun's ear,& I had on navy blue saddle shoes which was the first & last time I got too wear them 😭 9 and a half blocks I was exhausted from pushing the snow with my feet and mittens to get threw it! Came down really fast
@@me4654 On another CZcams of a radio station's coverage of the blizzard, the announcer mentions the deaths of the Apollo 1 astronauts, which happened on Jan. 27, 1967.
Looting and shooting on the Westside In chicago? i guess nothing has changed.
He said cool it and dont go out in it, so even by 67 slang was acceptable before it was not, still very refreshing.
Wow, I didn't know Channel 32 even had news people back then. I remember when it first came on the air, the only thing it broadcast was a moving kaleidoscopic image in the top half of the screen and scrolling text news stories in the bottom half. We thought it was very cool. I don't remember news programming or remotes from the Sun-Times and Daily News at all. PS: I still miss the Chicago Daily News, the best newspaper in America.
I was in High school, Thomas Kelly on Archer and California at the time...
Hey Dick Foster, Have another cigarette while updating the news. Those were the days
love it!!
Smokes ablaze and watching the Cutty Sark sign. Must be 5 o’clock
I was too young to remember it, but my parents did and everyone left for vacation to Florida the next month.
I remember it well...we had just moved into a new house.
I saw this commented on below but this is the same day as the Apollo 1 fire. That was a huge news day. Great reporter at the newspaper!
@ 5:20 "My nephews are out building Viet Cong Tunnels while their parents were inside drinking Brandy" LOVE IT!
It was independent at that time. I kinda wish they kept Wfld then Wfld Fox 32
I love the wacky 32 logo!
I know I wish they kept that name
LOL. Cheery, peppy music of police cars stranded in the snow!
6:49...that music lol XD!!!!
My brother bragged how he and a friend would drive around and charge people to have their cars pulled out of the ditch or snowdrift during that blizzard.
my dad was in vietnam way back then and my mom and my two brothers and my grandparents and my aunt and my uncle was waiting for my dad to come home did return home in may of 1967
The lack of cigarettes in stores… 😂
Took at least 2 hours to walk home from school!
This is the oldest footage of channel 32 I have ever seen! It must've been a fledgling UHF station at the time.
I was born in 1961. Lived there till I was 22 , got married and moved out. Channel 32 was very cool. That was the station that you watched those great old sci-fi shows on , on friday nights.
@@lindamills7017 And Son of Svengoolie
@@DougMcDave ohhh, YES!
@@DougMcDave I used to get so mad at him, he would cut in the movie to make fun of it, lol....that's still on, and just as bad as it was then...hehe
@@lindamills7017 Sometimes the bad movie needs to be interrupted, LOL!
Harlan Draeger was my grandpa and now he is dead.
Well that went dark💀
"My two nephews were building Viet Cong tunnels in the snow!" The montage at the end is quite interesting and bubbly, though the contrast is a bit jarring as it follows news that a little girl was shot to death during a gun battle between police and looters at a shoe store.
I was 4mos old
@ 1:20 "...an elderly man, trapped in his home after he'd amputated three fingers in a snow blower..." Jesus.
Thumbs up
I have a crush on Richard Foster now.
I was 9 years old in Chicago when this storm hit and it was worse than these photos would lead you to believe.
Wow i grew up in the 60,s near Joliet in Lockport and that was the shit building tunnels in the snow, i have never seen 32 this old before proubly because they only had a 10k watt generator, and could only be picked up in the city i,m imagining because around 70 we got 32 in Lockport and thats about 35 miles from chicago.
Imagine being in this then being in Buffalo ten years later!
50 years ago this month! Oh what a great time it was! No school for days!
It was a great blizzard! Schools never closed back in those days no matter what, so you know this storm was a doozy.
E Mack Hi E Mack. Schools ALMOST never closed. But I remember listening to the radio for the school closures. When they would get to my school, they'd always say, "Open, but the busses will not be running." Unfortunately, I lived walking distance from the school. So the Great Blizzard was quite a treat! And what was really strange about it was that, on January 24th, a day or two before, it was raining, there was thunder, and the temps were in the 60's.
Tim Ward . I also remember the warm temps just before the blizzard. Kids were jumping rope in the playground with no coats on, and I saw one guy walking his dog with shorts on. Crazy!
E Mack Hello E Mack! Ha! It was a wild time! I always loved thunderstorms as a kid - especially in the winter. But when the snow started, my poor older brother kept going out to shovel, but he couldn't keep up. Chicago weather is very interesting. Warm then cold, all in the span of hours. We had a popular Phoenix weatherman, Bill Bellis, who left Phoenix for the brighter lights of a Chicago station because, as he put it, "he wanted something more challenging." Here, in Phoenix, the local stations have their "storm teams covering every corner of the Valley." Almost invariably, when it comes time for them to report from their particular spot, the reporters report, "Well, it's not raining YET, but as you can see behind me, there does seem to be a threatening-looking cloud!" One time, after it had rained a few drops, the reporter crouched down, waved his hand over the pavement, and reported, "You can ALMOST see water here on the pavement." I miss the excitement of Chicago weather (although I don't miss the inconvenience of it).
Tim Ward Hi Tim Ward! Such funny stories here! I lived in the Middle East for three years, and talk about BORING weather; sunny, sunny, sunny, etc. Chicago weather is indeed capricious. 5 days ago we had temps in the high 40's with dark, low clouds and high westerly winds. The next day, fog, mist, and rain, and that night snow and freezing rain. Who knows what's up next?
Milk, meat, bread, and cigarettes. Yes, the staples of 1967. We lived in an apartment that had a roof top courtyard and we couldn't get out. The rubbish incinerator was just 20 steps away, and unobtainable until the janitor could shovel it. He had to climb a ladder and over the guard wall. LOL
Do you have the whole blizzard film news from wfld tv?
Jan 26 1967
I,m sure I did nothing but ear and sleep at 4 yrs old
My aunt who lives in suburbs of Chicago mentioned this storm yesterday so it is neat to get a visual of what she was talking about. I also find it interesting that the newspaper guy is smoking a cigarette while reading from his notes. Of course, now, we all know the dangers of smoking but back then it wasn't taboo to smoke on tv. And there's the ringing of the phone.. how long it has been since I've heard a rotary phone ring!
LOL. Best commerical!
Dick Foster, though probably unintentionally, comes across as kinda cocky, with his performative opening. Looking cool is fine for normal days, but not really while telling of people losing fingers and having heart attacks.
Gee....just think......back then, there were only 3 shootings a week
I don't remember this.
Wow, I'm surprised WFLD wasn't always a FOX affiliate (yes, I know FOX wouldn't exist for another 20 years).
It started out with Field Communications, then Kaiser Broadcasting, Metromedia, Field Communications (again), and finally as a Fox affiliate.
@@luisreyes1963 -- Co-owned with the Sun-Times in its early years.