Chicago Blizzard 1967 Radio Reports Part III (South Suburbs) 

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 ‼️

The great Chicago blizzard of 1967 had a significant impact on my life. I was conceived during it.

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

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! 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.

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"!

No need to apologize! This video is not boring at all! Thanks for sharing!💕

What a find! I grew up in Crete where this was broadcasted from!

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.

Mr Taylor was found at the corner bar

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 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.

You actualy did a great job in adding visuals to these audio clips.

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.

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.

My parents walked around downtown East Chicago, IN through the snow. The roads were shutdown.

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.

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.

1967 I was 2 years old living in Lagrange, my Dad was working for the Jewel Grocery store chain.

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!

Wasn't born in 67..but hey I was around for blizzard of 79...lol

Lived in roseland we were jumping off the roof of the garage into the snow banks great fun I was 13 years old

I remember the storm as a child. My dad built a horse out of snow in our front yard.

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

Oh my gosh! How scary to think about a fire and filling up the bathtub!

Good old days. Before crime and trash became a norm and defense.

5:44 check out the prices!!😀

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.

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.

i remember walking home from catholic school and crying ..i had snow knee high and no one came to get me

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).

"Snow will you bog you down if you're not dress for it; don't even try it"

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

Respond to this video... For real, this part in particular has been cracking me up for two and a half decades!

I saw this video was posted on 1/2/11. Just a month later, Chicago would have another big blizzard.

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.

I'm born and raised in Chicago but after this sounds terrible I remember the blizzard if 78or79

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.

In 1967, Erik Sandvold, I earned $2.20 an hour in Jersey City. I owned a new Ford and was never without spending money.

This happened at a time when 99% of the vehicles didn't have 4 wheel drive.

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.

It was fun playing in it and with no school.

I was 5 at the time and vaguely remember that.

9:10 telling peoples names and addresses on the radio...I don't think that would be done today. (for safety reasons)

@SFConifer All we need was a couple more inches, but we came close. 3rd isn't bad!

Sweet dreams god for love you Godloveyou much

Free Navalny! Free Navalny! Free Navalny!

@SFConifer Yes, i imagine he kept warm with rounds of bourbon and old fashioneds!

@MeveUno south side, waiting for the next twenty inches!

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

Mr. Taylor has been living across the street from me since the day in 1967. Nice guy... hot young girlfriends... never seem to age.

@SFConifer Not sure if it's Steve Miller from the band or Steve Miller on CBS.

one good thing about big snow ( and freezing cold temps) is the murder rate go down lol

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.

I was 4

@SFConifer Yes, theeeeee youngsters, theeeeee boys must be sixteen years of age or over!

Was in Midlothian then

Was this the same guy that did the song requests out of Beecher?

The 1960s were great inspite of all the turbulence going then I m sure the 1960s had their good parts

Did they ever find that Steve Miller guy?

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.

Imagine asking someone nowadays to shovel out the fire hydrant it would never happen

Miller just called home.

The Hawk!!!!!!¡!!!!!

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.

Shoot, Steve Miller is missing, too. He must have flown like an eagle...

Don't care about what these people think or do-- they made their bed---

A month later after this was posted the Blizzard of 2011 will eclipse it

I'll report to work with my shovel...I've been working on the railroad all the live long day

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 .

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.

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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