Chicago Blizzard 1967 Radio Reports Part II
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- čas přidán 22. 12. 2010
- This is the second of four clips of a broadcast from the 1967 Chicago blizzard. 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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This is an intrinsically interesting radio archive. You can really get the community feel of Chicago as reported here.
This was REALLY interesting! Great to hear how events were covered back then!
I remember this snowstorm well. I lived in Calumet City on Wentworth Avenue and we walked to the Calumet Expressway with our sleds for free milk, eggs, and other food. Us kids were thrilled to be out of school. I was in 7th grade at Schrum Memorial. We loved playing in the snow. Only Corvairs, Renault Dauphin, and Volkswagen Beetles were seen on the roads.
What a trajic adventure that must have been for you! Love hearing the stories from back then! Thank you!
My VW got my Mom and myself to work and back. I was being teased all day by
the guys that worked at the same place. They did dig me out at the end of the shift.
When the streets were cleared the next day weekend. I drove into Northlake and the
snow was piled up on both sides of the streets. Lived in Naperville, IL at the time.
I will never forget this storm. Had so much fun driving around in it.
@@ShirlBussman It was fun driving in the snow at a younger age! Those old VW's were tanks for sure!
@@boonshit I would love to have one of those again. Just for fun.
@@ShirlBussman Agreed!
My Granfather and his Brother were shetered in the warm Union Stockyards Cafe for about 36 hours with about 200 other Farmers/Ranchers/Truck Drivers that were also stranded due to the heavy snow. Many slept on chairs/taables in the cafe, and even in the chairs in the Auction arena. My Grandpa and his Brother passed the time by playing countless games of cards with friends and strangers alike, while enjoying rationed food and coffee. A meal consited of a half sandwich, side, cookie, and coffee.
I had made a trip to Lafayette, IN that Thursday from Michigan City, IN. On the way back I was stranded near Hwy 30 and 421. I was there for two days and two nights at a truck stop. Actually, I got a motel room the second night with 3 other very nice people. The stop eventually had to make homemade buns for hamburgers and they ran low on eggs so we had to have pancakes on Saturday. A truck driver had a load of TVs and broke one out so we could see what was going on. I eventually made it home on Saturday due to a car and family that was going north. Driving back to Lafayette on Sunday (we were moving for school) was like driving through a tunnel 10 ft. high. Will never forget it.
The comments from people from Da Region was phenomenal!
@SFConifer Thank you! They were really fun to put together. Admittedly not all of the pictures in the clips are from the blizzard. Most of them are but the rest i had to improvise a little, and i know it doesn't all jive but hopefully the holes were filled enough. Thanks again!
Credit to the broadcaster! This man can get a message across
True! Them dudes had the voices for radio!
I was there, we couldn't get out of our house, we had to dig a tunnel out the front door. Has anyone noticed that this was the same year as the massive Oak Lawn tornado outbreak and the tornado tragedy in Belvidere?
At 9.10 it talks about a 59 year old guy who had a heart attack while trying to free his car in the snow on I 80..I remember this well..it was right behind our house in thornton..we saw the fireman struggling to carry his body on a stretcher up the embankment to the ambulance ..I was almost 8 years old..many of the neighbors took in stranded motorists from the highway..we had an ten ft drift in our back yard
Wow that is crazy that you saw that especially at an early age! What a crazy experience!
Awesome work! I have a paper with the snowstorm and the tornado from the same year that I found in an antique store year's ago! Should find we're I stashed it!
Thank You Deb! Very kind words! Cool You have that paper! i have an original article about it from the Tribune also!
@@boonshit wow you kept it this whole time! I've gotta remember we're I put it for safe keeping 🤣 hate when I do that!! My Parents also have pictures from the tornado putting tarp's on the neighbors roof's 67 garage was on are swingset and the house roof never to be found, they lived with us in the basement for 6mths while they fixed there house, paper has both Snowstorm and tornado and people wonder why I get freaked out?
@@me4654 The paper was actually given to me about fifteen years ago but i have it hung on a wall. Also still have the old audio reels that the broadcast was originally recorded on. Someone in my local area recorded it on that day.
Correct. Only a few months later was the day of the tornado outbreak in the area. I was 6 years old but remember both weather events clearly.
Amen to that. ❤
@MeveUno me too; i've been around and loved snow my whole life!
3:30 I well remember that horrible, discordant news sounder growing up in New York City. Being born in 1962 I remember many television shows being interrupted for one disaster or another.
What a day full of excitement and tragedy all at once!
We were there! Living in Homewood.
I was 9 years old in Dolton that winter.
It brought back those memories of the Viet Nam war. I dated so many guys when they came
back from over there. Almost married one. He was a helicopter gunner and he flew 36 hours
under fire. I still think he should have gotten a medal for that. Long time ago.
For sure!
@@boonshit 🏅
We were still in South Bend when that blizzard hit. I remember it.
I lived through this winter storm in Chicago , What horrible memories 😰😰😰‼️
Sorry they was bad memories for Ya :( Glad Ya got through it :)
I totally enjoyed it. Thanks.
@MeveUno Good point! i didn't even think about the fact that this was Chicago's first 21st Century Blizzard. Thanks for pointing that out!
Crazy weather it always is JP!
i'm glad You did Netmoney and Thank You for saying so!
Hopefully, someone out there will upload audio and video of other broadcast reports from other statuions to complement the WCGO/WTAS clips heard here.
"A dial tone will be delayed". WOW
A Friday night perch dinner with french fries, coleslaw, tartar sauce, and Italian bread for $1.15. 😋
Yep! Crazy how prices was that long ago!
$10.30 in 2023 money. Still a deal!
And even more surreal: Two days earlier the same storm system spawned an F4 tornado that struck St. Louis, killing three people...
What a weather year that was!
Just by reading people comments, we have lost a Generation that banded together and help each other.
i'm assuming You had the real experience of this day MrGordie!
in 2011
South Bend have 3 feet of snow then blizzard a month later.
That would be cool Altfactor!
Someone should put together or curate an art show dedicated to this place in time. God's Test! Or A Test From God.
@@melaniekrygoski9284 That's a great idea and great ideas for the title!