1967 Chicago Big Snow (Home Movies)

[edwolf1127n]

This vid went viral on Yerevan

[abstractexpressions]

Russel's!

[Olddog231]

I was in the service serving in Philipines Temp 98 and a couple of ice cold Millers laying on the beach soaking up some sun. parents sent me some pictures and wrote letter saying what I was doing

[FaganRoberts]

Cicero, Ill. (1967)

[AtlantaGymFan]

My best friend, Tom, lived in Arlington Heights then (he was a junior at AHS) and he said the snow came in so fast that some of the elementary school kids were trapped in their schools!

[danniegirl1213]

This is nothing compared to what we had this year.I can't wait to tell my kids about this one when I grow up.

[Philtration]

I was 5 years old and I remember it like it was yesterday

[SvenMarbles]

Of all I've heard about 1967 being "the big one", that really deosn't seem like more than what's outside of my house right now. Maybe even less. See my latest video I took this morning..

[davidbrucemusicvideo]

Wow! Great quality for back then!

[MsTubeWhore]

Oh my God I grew up there. I see Russell's BBQ! I wasn't born yet but neat to see my home area back in time..

[TheLinemen]

It is returning...it has been in slumber for 44 years, but now IT IS FINALLY RETURNING! I wasn't even alive back then, but if the storm coming up is anyhting like this video, it's gonna be BIG!...

...and also, horray! no school!

[Brenzilla4698]

@TheLinemen I know right! And my dad told me all about that snowfall and now i'm reliving my dad's past

[ChicagoTyme]

@Brenzilla4698 Hell yeah! 

[loryr405]

Wow. Wish I could have been alive to see that, but they just said on the news that it's like this snowstorm is coming back to haunt us cause of all the snow we are going to get starting tomorrow night :)

[elainebmack]

I remember this blizzard very well. I was in the 7th grade at Holy Angels School on the South Side. The temps had been unseasonably warm in mid January - the mid upper 60's. Around 2:00 in the afternoon we suddenly got an announcement from the principal telling us to go home, a blizzard was on the way. You could see the cars coming from downtown covered with snow. The buses were packed, and we barely squeezed on. School was closed for over a week, and the drifts were over 6 feet high. WOW!

[XxRockhopperxX]

is this by river grove??? im interested in this storm now cuz my grandma said in 1967 she was trapped in her house for a week...

[johnmeyer77]

@XxRockhopperxX

No, it was taken in River Forest and Oak Park, with a few views across North Avenue into Elmwood Park.

[tazjet1]

Ha I remember tobbogining off the neighbors roof the next day. we were off school for a few day back then. We lived in what was then Clarendon Hills (now Darien) The good old days.

[kurtespo]

So cool yu saved your Super 8 video

[TheOtterspace2]

2 friends and I returning from Miami Beach were halted in Fowler Indiana because there was no highway visible. They put poeple up in jails overnight while they plowed a singlew lane in each direction. the walls of the lane were ten feet high. the jail was full so they opened a school for just us three. we played basketball in the gym and slept in the boiler room. the best snow of my life!! Even brought neighbors together as crisis are wont to do.

[pbarrett]

Wow! I was there! Shoveled for DAYS! I lived on West End, near Central and Madison!

[mypalrocco]

Great video!

[Ryan300000000000]

hopefully the snow could end march because i am tired of snow right now

[rd1956]

I was 11 and lived on Pine st. in Austin near Austin High. It was clean, safe and wonderful then. Now it's a dump. Such a shame to let such places go to shit.

[gramawphyl]

I'm a geezer now. Scuse me, geezette. My husband and I were 21. We live in Michigan. It was even worse here. We didn't make it home for 3 days. Our car was stranded in a busy intersection the whole time. The TV and Radio stations were completely given over to destress calls. Many people died of asphixiation in their cars or of heart attacks trying to get thru the chest deep snow. Snowmobiles were commandeered to get medicine to people or help dig people out of their houses. I could go on.

[pokerbaby7]

thank you i was there i lived in hickory hills just outside of chicago and it was bad the snow drifts were as high as our second floor balcony.

[jim59913]

I remember this ! I was about 8, but my mom and dad owned a truckstop at the intersections of US 51+30 west of Chicago. There were three restaurants at the junction and all were full inside and out. There were literally nowhere left to park The highways were closed because of whiteouts and the drifts were incredible. I remember seeing a picture taken from a helicopter or airplane a day or two after the storm. It was an incredible sight with all the stranded people and vehicles.

[ILoveWomenFruitsBGon]

i remember '77 and '79

i think it was '77, where my dad had to pull over in his dodge dart, of off 57, somewhere outside urbana? or kankakee?

just like it was yesterday, it was planet hoth!

lol

was not born yet in '67, though i wish i were, would have been with my grandfather and grandmother, he would have been around 57 at the time

he was a cool person and so was his wife to hang around with anytime of year

sigh, see what a snow storm really brings back?

[Chicago10281]

I was just a little kid in 1967 when all this was going on!

[TheSuckZone]

I was 11 years old at the time and lived in Berwyn, a near suburb of Chicago. I remember walking down the middle of the street, above the roof tops of cars on packed snow. Once Roosevelt road was cleared, I played on the drifts, which were about three times my height! '77, '79 and 1999 were almost as bad. Having had enough of snows like this, I moved to Kansas City!

[SB20Champions]

my mom has a home video of her and her siblings. in it is a short clip of this. my mom was somewhere from the age of about 2 or 3. she was playing in it with her brothers and sisters and i swear to God, the snow banks had to be 2 and a half times bigger than her

[tss77]

You had to live through this to believe just how bad it was.

[ChefRocknRoll]

INCREDIBLE VIDEO, So crisp and clear.  Thank you for sharing this precious view.

[pianodon]

The footage looks GREAT! OK...I have to know how you did it. I just found about 20 reels of Super8 from the late 1960s that I took. Didn't realize there were so many. How did you do it with no flicker? Projector? What camera did you use? I am thinking about a Canon HF100 and I have been using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8.0 with standard def video. Thanks!

[aknowneemus]

i was 2 in 67' and i heard it was bad!

but i do remember 79' and that one was terrible!

[DewbieHaut]

Dont use LOL if your old, hope we get another one of these blizzards this winter!

[rhblakeman]

Oops should be 42 yrs - man senility already? LOL

[rhblakeman]

Lived on the corner of 64th Place and Meade a block off Austin Ave and a block off the Bedford Park border of S. 65th Street and was 10 - we had a friggin blast with drifts up to the roof in the alley, buses stranded and open on 63rd Street. Last blizzard I dealt with as I left in 76 and the 70's blizzard I was in Las Vegas in the USAF. I remember big cars and all that snow like it was yesterday yet it was nearly 32 yrs ago - Jan 67. Anyone reading from my old 'hood or Hale school send me a note

[ColonelJack]

Oh my God! I used to live on Washtenaw and Talman Avenues just off North ... and I was eight when that snow fell!  I remember it vividly, but these films make me live it again. Thank you so much for bringing back a part of my childhood!

[oakandwillow]

Amazing... I'm from this general area (Austin district, west side of Chicago, I lived in an apartment on Laramie Av at Lake St). I had just turned four years old late in the month before and was coming home from the hospital after a virus that gave us high fevers (two of my brothers, less than age two spiked well over 105 degrees)... A helluva time for us.

[SirMolle]

God I was 6 years old when this storm hit.

my dad and the neighbors shoveled the street!

[IllinoisMike]

Nice shots, thanks for digitizing and uploading them. I am from Elmwood Park (are you?) and was only 3months old when the snow fell. How cool to see Russel's BBQ way back then.

[IBMeddling]

I always hear about the 1967 snow and also the 1979 snow. The snow equipment here is better now. (hopefully)

[oakandwillow]

Yeah, but I don't think it has snowed that hard since '78-79, has it???

[oakandwillow]

Well, there was 1999... I wasn't living in the Chicago area then.