Chicago Blizzard 1967 Radio Reports Part III (South Suburbs)
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- čas přidán 1. 01. 2011
- This is the third of four clips of a broadcast from the 1967 Chicago blizzard. This is mainly from WTAS, for the south suburbs of Chicago. The broadcast came from WCGO and WTAS studios in Chicago Heights Illinois and surrounding south suburban Chicago areas. The audio was originally recorded on a reel-to-reel by a Crete resident. The reel and recorder were later auctioned off when the resident had passed on and we have been lucky to obtain it. The video was done with stills of roughly half actual pictures from that blizzard (Chicago Tribune's "Big Snow", January, 1967) and half random pictures not necessarily from the blizzard, but there for filler, hopefully to make this all so not boring. It may not all completely jive, but we tried our best for it to. Sorry if the video is boring, but at least the audio portion is genuinely from that time. Please enjoy!
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I lived in Chicago too , I remember my Mom and Dad were stranded , An entire week of HOME ALONE , with my brother and sister I was only 10 years old and almost died from exposure myself , My Brother Found me in a 15 ft, snow drift and carried me home and literally saved my life ‼️
Holy cow! What a scary experience! Glad everything ended up okay! Thanks for sharing your story David!
@@boonshit my Pleasure , I had fallen asleep, and was already in a state of hypothermia, from exhaustion trying to battle the drifts, Believe U me buddy , I'm happy my big brother came looking for me ❤️‼️
Holy cow! Must have been scary! Glad you was okay!
@@boonshit that was nothing compared to what the United States Government had planned out for me , David Staudohar USMC USN SS USCG ret ‼️ American Patriot
@@davidstaudohar6733 Holy cow! Guess the blizzard don't hold a candle to that! Thank You for Your service Good Sir!
oh my gosh, this brings back memories, I lived in chicago and remember that blizzard, never seen so much snow in my life, thanks for the memories
You got it! Thank You for the story! Always like to read the stories people have behind this blizzard!
Agreed - it was horrific.
I know you name is for a little monkey
The blizzard was big news, until the story about the 3 astronauts dying in the Apollo 1 capsule hit the airwaves.
The great Chicago blizzard of 1967 had a significant impact on my life. I was conceived during it.
Holy cow! Guess the parents was cooped up for a couple of days with not much else to do lol.
I was born in 67. Chicago. 79. Also ❄
@@jat6547 For sure '79 was another large one!
@@jat6547 '79 was a doozy as well!
I was born during the blizzard and my dad got mom to the hospital in time. When he doubled back to get clothes and things he was stranded. Spent 2 Days in a Tavern playing cards.
Wow! I lived in Chicago Heights in 1967. We lived off of Chicago Rd. We went over to a friends house to visit. When we went to leave, we couldn't move our car to get home so we stayed over night. The next morning, the snow was up to the gutters because of drifts. I remember walking home as plain as day 56 years later.
Must have been an adventure back then! I live just a few miles from Chicago Heights!
What a find! I grew up in Crete where this was broadcasted from!
Excellent! i still live just a few miles from there!
No need to apologize! This video is not boring at all! Thanks for sharing!💕
I actually had driver's ed that winter. That's why to this day, I'm not intimidated driving in snow. Thanks Coach Mills, Hinsdale Central High School.
Wow that must have been a crash course!
so did i
Our whole street came out and started digging the block out. I remember even elderly people were out there helping with whatever they could! We got our street dug out around Saturday evening. When I went to school the day the storm started, there was about a half inch of snow on the ground. When they let us out around 3 pm, the snow covered more than half of the glass door! A very scary sight for a young kid of 9! It was scary for about a minute until we got out in the snow and then it turned to "very cool"!
I also remember that blizzard! I'm from Dolton, IL...suburbs of Chicago, and as an 8 year old, it WAS scary! Snow was 3/4ths of the way up our windows in our one story home! Walked 7 blocks home when they sent us home from school! Was soo cold! Next day made snowmen and snow forts...those were good old days for sure!
Wouldn’t happen today. My neighbors shovel up to the gangway lines every time. I’ve done their houses dozens of times with no return. Welcome to Chicago 2021
@@DutchGirl859 Hey Dutch girl! I'm a 'Dutch boy'! I am actually an Italian/American, but I moved to The Netherlands in the year 2000 to marry my Dutch girlfriend; been together for 22 years now. I was just 7 in '67, but I remember the Blizzard of '67 very well. It was both a blast and a pain in the keester!
You actualy did a great job in adding visuals to these audio clips.
My mom was teaching French, night class, adult education at HF that evening and could not make it home until the next morning. I remember that day well.
Wow what a day it must have been for you and your Mom! Hope she was able to get some food from a cafeteria!
I love the way the historic photos were researched & seamlessly fitted into this great video treasure of the '67 blizzard. I was a kid in the NYC blizzard of 1947, and from the film of this one in Chicagoland, ours in '47 was no blizzard, just a big snow.
Jack Rescoe, Even though it wasn't a blizzard, I'll bet you and your friends had a wonderful time playing in that 'big snow'!
I may be the only person on the planet but I enjoyed the full seasons and miss snow and ice in the winter. Its practically over this year and I haven't even used my windshield scraper or snow shovel once. Winter in the Midwest now is nothing but dank chilly rain. Also people proudly walking around in shorts in January depresses me. Send me back! Not my world anymore.
I understand. Aside from now being too old to enjoying driving in the snow, i always loved winter!
Mr Taylor was found at the corner bar
A blizzard I will NEVER forget. I nearly died getting home that night and the next morning my heartless bosses called and wanted to know why I was not coming to work. I told them I nearly died and I was NOT going to do it again. I did not give a damn if I got fired.
Sorry to hear of the unfortunates events for you back then friend. What a jerk that boss must have been. Hope everything is better for you now than it was back then!
We lived in hometown.Walked from there to jewel on Pulaski with our sled. There wasn't much food left. No cookies,bread,eggs,milk,etc. But at least we had power.
Glad to hear you had a place to go and hopefully heat!
Oh my gosh! How scary to think about a fire and filling up the bathtub!
My parents walked around downtown East Chicago, IN through the snow. The roads were shutdown.
Must have been an adventure and/ or struggle for sure!
It was awesome being off school and building snow forts!
@@69eddieD For sure! Snow fort was were it was it when there was snow around!
Lived in roseland we were jumping off the roof of the garage into the snow banks great fun I was 13 years old
Sound like a great memory!
1967 I was 2 years old living in Lagrange, my Dad was working for the Jewel Grocery store chain.
What a moment in history! Thanks for sharing your story!
Chicago they think they are so special, that blizzard hit a big part of the midwest. I was 7 when that hit I lived in Sterling Illinois 100 miles west of Chicago we couldn`t go anywhere and were stranded.
Yes the blizzard went much further than Chicago. These recordings come from a local broadcast from WCGO/ WTAS, about thirty to forty miles south of Chicago. Many were impacted throughout the area. Thank you for your story!
We are special. Just kidding. I think because biggest city in Illinois.
@@fleurmartin Lol!
A great memory at 7 yrs old. Old enough to go outside with my older brothers and sister and make fortresses and tunnels , but too young to shovel . I wasn't too lucky in the winters 77, 78 , and 79. Now it was my job to shovel and my older brothers were in college or married
The perfect age to enjoy that blizzard! Damn adult life had to ruin it by the late '70's ay? Lol.
Wasn't born in 67..but hey I was around for blizzard of 79...lol
Either was i. Got ahold of these reels in the mid-eighties when i was around ten. Was a huge fan of snow then. Didn't even know about this blizzard until then. Yes i also remember the '79 one!
Thank You Altfactor! i know that not all of the pics jived and aren't all actually from this blizzard but it was a fun project, trying to piece it together to look like actual old news!
"Snow will you bog you down if you're not dress for it; don't even try it"
Thanks MrGordie! Parts III and IV were of course more local to where i stay than actually in Chicago so i found them especially interesting because of that.
On Friday, January 27th, 1967, this storm was the lead story on all three network early evening newscasts.
But a couple of hours after the early evening newscasts aired, the Chicago blizzard was completely tossed out of the news cycle (except in the Chicago area) by the breaking news that the three astronauts who were to have flown the first manned flight of the Apollo program were killed in a flash fire that consumed the interior of their spacecraft on it's Cape Canaveral launch pad during a countdown rehearsal.
What a historical day for the weather!
Got to remember that I was 9 years old and no school I remember taking big piece of cardboard me and my friends we could actually walk up onto a roof of a garage and an alley and slid right down it because of the snow drifts they were so high, and then for parking spots people would shovel them out on the side streets and that was when they were traffic was two way and the cards were much bigger than but anyway you would have to put something in front of your parking spot that you shovels out and everybody respected that in the neighborhood
Great story Richard! A time to never forget with the cardboard sledding down the roof!
Good old days. Before crime and trash became a norm and defense.
Check out the number of yearly murders in Chicago over the past fifty years.
Nostalgia is one of the greatest enemies of the truth.
the trick is to start the plows immediately and keep them going through the storm- that's how we do it in Canada and 2 ft of snow is not bad enough to do what it did in this video.
Wanda, Chicago knows how to deal with snow, the trucks do plow all night, the drifts were 6 feet tall that day, the snow came down very very fast.
This was 55 years ago, they did not have modern equipment.
I remember the storm as a child. My dad built a horse out of snow in our front yard.
Wow a snow Horse! That's excellent! Had a snow Dog one time over here!
@@boonshit Yeah my dad was quite talented. We have 8 mm movies of it (although now missing).
@@lauraz2896 Wish You could still have the 8MM's. That's the good stuff!
@@boonshit I know. I’m so sad that they are gone. The good thing is that I still have the memories.
@@lauraz2896 That's for sure! Keep all ya can in your head!
I was stuck at Richards HS @ 106th & Central. I didn't drive yet, and didn't know my way home. I took to walking the RR track, hoping it would get me home, since I lived within sight of the tracks. (I think it was dry that morning but the school had no classroom windows, so we knew nothing until they announced that class was ending, and the busses weren't running).
Wow, that was a huge surprise for you after school!
i remember walking home from catholic school and crying ..i had snow knee high and no one came to get me
Oh no :( Sorry to hear it wasn't a pleasant walk. Glad to hear you got through it though :)
@@boonshit i was only 7..i always wonder why my mom did not come and get me and schools did not close early
@@tweets8284 True. School should have been closed that day.
5:44 check out the prices!!😀
No doubt! Dig the prices at the restaurant full dinners for under two dollars!
Respond to this video...
For real, this part in particular has been cracking me up for two and a half decades!
Sweet dreams god for love you Godloveyou much
In 1967, Erik Sandvold, I earned $2.20 an hour in Jersey City. I owned a new Ford and was never without spending money.
I'm not sure but I think this blizzard, and the tornado outbreak that same year, thats why my dad packed up and moved to Arizona. We had to dig tunnels in the snow to get out.
It was fun playing in it and with no school.
Sound like it would have been a blast for kids!
I saw this video was posted on 1/2/11. Just a month later, Chicago would have another big blizzard.
Yes it is crazy! Just happened to make the videos that year and then, another one that year! Guess it was destiny lol.
I don't remember the one in Feb 2011. I guess it wasn't that bad. I remember Feb 2020 or 2019. A lot of snow. It's amazing how people call in to the tv/ radio station if a person is missing or they have no food. Very community like.
@@fleurmartin i was home for the 2011 one. Tried to record some of the news on an old cassette player as an attempt of semi-nostalgia but it didn't all come out. Oh well.
At 6:26...That's pretty interesting that the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad was employing public help to clear yard tracks and switches. I wonder what the Rock Island paid for shoveler's wages to help clear the snow off the lines? I would assume in 1967 that wages would've been around $1.20 an hour for adults, and around $0.60 an hour for the 16-17 year olds.
I was 5 at the time and vaguely remember that.
i actually wasn't born 'till seven years later but got ahold of these reels in the eighties. Loved snow as a kid and this blizzard was very intriguing to me!
I'm born and raised in Chicago but after this sounds terrible I remember the blizzard if 78or79
Excellent! I grew up in the south suburbs and remember the '79, '83 and other blizzards after that.
This happened at a time when 99% of the vehicles didn't have 4 wheel drive.
That's true. Some of the snow plows was stuck in snow drifts!
And as always, the CTA buses were USELESS.
Free Navalny! Free Navalny! Free Navalny!
I was there for the 1967 blizzard. In my local neighborhood I saw a baseball cap on top of a snowbank piled up against a local building. I picked it up and thought I saw the top of a head.
I heard later that two of the local medicants (aka "bums") who hung out in that immediate area had died in the storm. Fact is, I do not know and will never know if there was a person there. I was a teenager at the time, and when you are that age, it is implicit in your mind that you have no authority to do anything. That means, if you see something, no, you don't attempt to report it to any authority.
I imagine that had to be a scary experience!
@@boonshit Not really. Not when you are trying to cope with conditions. I wasn't sure at the time. I'm not sure today. I'm sure there was a baseball cap at the top of the snowbank. I'm not sure there was a person there.
I'm sure I heard, there were two local deaths on the street in that immediate area. But people talk and sometime make things up.
Possibly, the police and other public safety logs and other records still exist. The logs, at least, are public records.
9:10 telling peoples names and addresses on the radio...I don't think that would be done today. (for safety reasons)
No probably not. Wondered that myself while listening to these.
Using wife’s phone not her opinions I was a kid when this happened my father was on the Chicago Fire Department if I remember correctly engine 13 they some how got stuck for awhile at McCormick place we didn’t see him for 5 days (even as children we knew if dad didn’t come home from a shift 24hrs it wasn’t good we had been to other families funerals the news would have it on but back then no names but you knew by the address what companies were there we would stare at the phone and drive waiting)they were kinda busy people were stranded on Lake Shore Drive in cars trucks and buses and they were doing their best to get to them but abandoned vehicles made near impossible to use the engine to get to them or to plow it man there was snow like crazy amounts of it and of course we had to go out in it ignorant to the dangers as children are but Police and Fire moms are tough and don’t do the wait till your father gets home they got you then and now the Samurais of wooden spoons hai ya choppy chop what you say? it was a neighborhood of city workers the sanitation dept was the snow removal also every garbage truck in Chicago had a plow on it
@SFConifer All we need was a couple more inches, but we came close. 3rd isn't bad!
@SFConifer Yes, i imagine he kept warm with rounds of bourbon and old fashioneds!
Was in Midlothian then
I was 4
Must have been some experience for Ya!
@SFConifer Yes, theeeeee youngsters, theeeeee boys must be sixteen years of age or over!
@MeveUno south side, waiting for the next twenty inches!
Mr. Taylor has been living across the street from me since the day in 1967. Nice guy... hot young girlfriends... never seem to age.
Hilarious story!
one good thing about big snow ( and
freezing cold temps) is the murder rate go down lol
Yeah it do tend to lessen stuff like that, traffic, etc. It's too cold and snowy for that!
Ok. I get it. You didn't have a picture of Homewood-Flossmoor High School from 1967 so you took one of the current school.
You got it. Not all of the pictures jived but did the best we could. Thank you!
@SFConifer Not sure if it's Steve Miller from the band or Steve Miller on CBS.
04:22 - Mrs. Franklin Taylor's husband was reported missing. I wonder if he was ever found. Perhaps he was already on the other side of the world escaping his life of drudgery being married.
The 1960s were great inspite of all the turbulence going then I m sure the 1960s had their good parts
Yes there was definitely the ups and downs. Too many unfortunate events in every decade.
Lifetime union jobs, with defined benefit pensions, and cool cars without computers.
@@elultimo102 A different time it was for sure!
Miller just called home.
Miller you came home!
@@boonshit one year later this pops up Love this! 👍😃
@@jonnydanger7181 Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun to put together!
Imagine asking someone nowadays to shovel out the fire hydrant it would never happen
I still do it.
Shoot, Steve Miller is missing, too. He must have flown like an eagle...
The Hawk!!!!!!¡!!!!!
Was this the same guy that did the song requests out of Beecher?
No idea. These reels were found in the mid- eighties. Don't know the broadcasters' names but wish i did!
I'll report to work with my shovel...I've been working on the railroad all the live long day
A month later after this was posted the Blizzard of 2011 will eclipse it
Did they ever find that Steve Miller guy?
Lol don't know. That was the end of what we had of the reel.
Don't care about what these people think or do-- they made their bed---
All the missing men wasn’t foul play back then, it was men leaving their wives for other women. I can imagine how easy it was to disappear and get out of a relationship then without cell phones and your significant other tracking your every movement. If a man leaves you cold turkey like that, he definitely wasn’t happy.
Now that's something I never thought of!
Mittens are better than gloves if at all available
@SFConifer Please please dress warmly,....needless to say.
trying to piece together with original pictures .... most of the students are invariably using the same USB drivers of the directors don't know if drivers are dictators or radio jockeys are dictators , jockeys wife is always using saraswathi account for all shopping ..... the vice Chancellor closed my account back in the year 2013 , ...... department of atomic energy Queens are directing the vice Chancellor , who are we ???? ..... filtrates , already filtered out ...... green filters , blue filters and yellow filters are removed out so what remains is red filter .
True. This was mostly old school with the aid of some modern movie maker apps. The audio is originally from old reel tapes and i found pics on the net. It doesn't all jive but did the best i could.
It's been 1,990 years or so since Jesus Christ was crucified. You would think that by now, we would have more and better systems for dealing with such large quantities of snow and flooding. By now, 2023 January, we should have 100-year storm drains in every city, snow plows in every city, & advice via T.V. for preparing for these storms.
True we probably should. We have better equipment for handling the weather now than we did in '67 but yeah, you'd think it would be way more advanced by now.
Thank God for savior JESUS!
No amount of money can replace the damage you did and as a society literally. And frankly not worth it.. he thinks he'll keep her. Society brought this on yourself ; especially shut the f*ck up attacks consistently 24/7/365 after her (his) fake , vicious, cruel lies and jokes he's done literally to me. Death inside my body (no life) and outside it depends for me. Inside my eyes say it all. Thank God I was born w/ two eyes, one mouth and only 2 ears. Nothing more and nothing less.
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