Chicago Blizzard of 1967 Universal News

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[@pamelasmith6221]

I was born in Chicago in October 1967!! 9 months after the storm. Do the math. 😂 😝 My parents moved to the western suburbs the month of the storm. My dad got stuck in Chicago at work and my mom was alone in their new house, new subdivision with only one or two neighbors. Can’t imagine.

[@Osckarre]

I lived in Southern Ontario at the time just across the lake from Chicago. As kids we were dirt poor but we sure had fun. Schools closed, massive snow drifts, Lake Ontario shores frozen, bobsledding, tobogganing, skating it was just awesome. 1967 :)

[@kenbulut-oe8sb]

Just accross the lake from Chicago is Michigan, not Ontario.

[@sarahshouse1890]

I was born in Dolton, IL and was 8 years old at the time. We were sent home from (Lincoln) school early that day, due to very heavy snowfall. That 7 block walk home with no snow boots made our feet so cold!! My best friend / next door neighbor had an electric blanket on her bed so I remember stopping by her house before I went home and turning that electric blanket on to thaw out our feet and hands!! My Dad was a Science and Biology teacher at Thornridge High School and they closed the school early and he had to leave his car there due to the snow and walk a mile home! He took our sled and walked downtown to a little family-owned grocery store for milk, bread, eggs, etc and made the trek home as the snow just kept getting deeper. At the time there was only a dirt lane leading back to our house on Sanderson. We lived in the Dolton Prairie with only a few homes nearby. The snow drifted way up to our windows of our one story home! Next day my brother and I played outside in the snow and made an igloo, snow angels and a snowman, it was so much fun! My Mother had hot cocoa waiting for us inside! She also made us pancakes with strips of bacon in them and fried eggs. We also pulled each other and one of my sisters on our sled! Loved the fun we had back then, plus no school for a few days! Oh the memories, I'll never ever forget that day!!🫠 1:23

[@luisreyes1963]

Universal was the last major producer of newsreels in the US. They ended in 1967.

[@user-rq1ll1km7p]

8 years old, best time of my life.

[@sarahshouse1890]

Same!!😊

[@pennymartin3821]

Thank you for the video, I remember that snow storm, I'am from Merrillville, Indiana, I was 12 years old at the time. thanks again for the memories. and channel 7 Weather forecaster John Coleman predicted the snowstorm when others did not.

[@ernestclements7398]

Of course the first thing to vanish from store shelves were milk and bread, we lived about a block from our neighborhood store, and a block and a half from a bakery my mom sent my younger brother and I to get milk and bread, outside the store we met one of the other kids from the block who informed us that the store was out of bread, so he and I headed down to the bakery, while my brother went in to get milk when he got to the dairy case there was two women arguing over who saw the last gallon of milk first my brother reached behind them grabbed it and went straight to the checkout and paid for it, while the two were standing there bickering, suddenly one of the pair looked into the case, and saw it was gone, the two stood there for a few minutes staring daggers at each other before huffing off, the manager saw the whole thing and was still laughing when he told my mom about it a few days later, the suburb we lived in had its own bus company, and snow plows that kept the bus routes plowed, and all of the bus drivers, had to take turns driving the plows, this meant overtime, and the money my grandfather made driving the plows bought him a new outboard motor.

[@anonymike8280]

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