Chicago Blizzard 1967 Radio Reports Part II

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!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Chicago
• blizzard
• 1967
• winter
• January
• WCGO
• WTAS
• Heights
• Sauk
• Village
• Cook
• county
• Will
• snow
• radio
• nostalgia

[MeveUno]

Westside of chicago all ways on some gangsta shit...born and raised...How I love my city

[boonshit]

@MeveUno me too; i've been around and loved snow my whole life!

[MeveUno]

Little Village Chicago IL 2011..recovering from this centurys blizzard

[boonshit]

@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!

[SFConifer]

This is an intrinsically interesting radio archive. You can really get the community feel of Chicago as reported here.

[boonshit]

@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!

[MrGordie09]

Remember this well.