Chicagos 67 blizzard.wmv

Home movies of the 1967 Chicago Blizzard. .Chicago's south side neighborbood of Roseland, Not as impressive as I'd hope and the muzak that was added when the film was transfered to video is awful but here it is...

[@jimmyb1559]

One thing that really stands out is that I don’t recall anyone complaining. We just did what we needed to do. Neighbors who hardly knew one another helped each other out like they were best of friends. My dad who pretty much worked seven days a week was stuck at home with the rest of the family and that made it a special time I’ll never forget. Thank you for the video. It brought back great memories.

[@tharascsak]

My pleasure. I’m grateful to have these home movies.

[@sarahshouse1890]

Nice memories, thanks for shsring.

[@ramencurry6672]

Midwest people don’t really complain. It’s the New Yorkers that do the whining

[@msmaj4895]

@@ramencurry6672 No...its not the "New Yorkers". Its jews and blacks who do nothing but complain and act out. The more you notice....the more you know.

[@javierdenardo2607]

That generation is sure missing

[@mikehughes4969]

The blizzard of 1967 had quite possibly the most significant impact on my life. I was conceived during it.

[@Anonymouslikemydad]

Old person

[@Nativityin6lack]

@@Anonymouslikemydad one day we will be too. then we and everything will be dust. enjoy it while you can

[@CalebWilliams2030]

Ok boomer 😉

[@johntruckdriver5048]

After shoveling for hours . The chairs came out to mark your spot !! The good old days .

[@same5952]

Ah yes! The "dibs". Still very much in existence in Chicago.

[@willyjoerockhead]

They still do this - Like that song ... "These are the good old days!"

[@sarahshouse1890]

Am from Dolton, IL and remember this storm so well! Was only 8, and went to Lincoln Grade School. We were sent home from school early, due to heavy snow and this was a first for us to be sent home due to bad weather! We lived in a Rambler style home and the snow drifted up past our windows! What fun we had playing in the snow, building igloos and snowmen! My Mother made us hot cocoa when we came in. My Dad took our sled and walked about a mile up the road (Sibley blvd) to buy milk, coffee, bread, eggs etc...anything he could possibly fit on that sled, and then hauled it back home! He was quite a trooper! This was a truly wonderful memory of my childhood that I'll never forget!☃️

[@jamesolsen1150]

I live in Calumet City across the expressway I was12. You could see the highway from my house

[@sarahshouse1890]

​@jamesolsen1150 that's cool! My parents lived briefly in Calumet City back in the 1940s in an apartment when they first moved from Missouri to IL when my Dad got his first teaching job at Thornton Township HS in Harvey, IL. My oldest sister was born there. They eventually moved to a house in Harvey and had 3 more children. Then my Dad built our home in Dolton on Sanderson right before I was born in 1958. Love reminiscing with everyone here about the good old days! They were the best of times!😊❤😊

[@richardarnista1366]

Making snow forts, helping your neighbors and staying out all day with your friends, that’s what it was all about back then.

[@sweetladyc15]

Love the way people came together to help those times were sweet

[@Anonymouslikemydad]

Chicagoan

[@tomfilipiak3511]

My wife and I were married less than a month she worked at the first national bank downtown,I worked loading and unloading trucks for New era potato chips,now frito lay near Archer and Pulaski,it took her 6 hours to get home,We lived in a basement apartment on 6037 south Austin Ave!I walked to work down Archer Ave! Turned around and was sent home,walked home!The next day had to climb out the basement window to get out of the basement,from the drifts,there had to be 3 feet of snow on my 56 Chevy it started,but did not move for a week!Thomas A.Filipiak Chicagoan!

[@mexton]

I was a kid and it was wonderful.

[@robertholmes8835]

I was 8 years old and got to hate powdered milk. No school for a couple weeks and played Sun-up to Sun-down with every neighbor in a square block area(which if you lived there would know thats a bunch). Fun times when life was simple and no cell phones or computers. Somehow I feel we had such a great childhood being forced (maybe a bad choice of a word) to know everyone in the neighborhood.

[@daveanderson6248]

Yep.. I lived in with my parents in Rogers Park and I was determined to go to work that morning as I had recently started the job and wanted to look good. Started out in my car going west into the wind; by the time I got about a half a mile the car was stuttering and when I opened the hood the engine had already been completely covered in snow and ice. Walked back home, got in my father's car and actually made it to work in Niles. Of course there was hardly anybody there and we were sent home almost immediately. Took me 8 hours to get home and still had to abandon his car 1/2 block away.

[@mikemcgown6362]

I was only a year old when this was filmed but I remember growing up in these kinds of situations. What do you do when it snows? Start shoveling and don't stop until you're done. Everyone had a good snow shovel and knew how to use it. In the '70s I made a lot of money with my snow shovel. I'm paying for it now. At least I'm still alive!

[@crabbyhayes1076]

What a powerful storm. It was my freshman year during semester break. The city of Chicago actually rigged cement trucks with plows. That was the first time I ever saw a plow get stuck in the snow (right at the Ind/Ill state line on US 41, we could see it as we attempted to get fuel near the approach to the Chicago Skyway). We ended up leaving the vehicle and walking 2-3 miles to get home. By the time we returned, cars were burried to the roofs, with some drifts maybe 15 ft high. Brrr - glad I live in Carolina now.

[@ernestconnell8087]

Living in East Chicago, my parents remembered it well. The next next month they went on vacation to Key Largo, where I learned to walk. 😆

[@_Tommmmmm_]

Man my dad always would talk about this. These seemed like the days, now every kid is too busy playing their xbox inside to ever have fun outside anymore. :(

[@edwardquirk8393]

Was 13 then a wonderful time we were jumping off the garage roof into the snow

[@michaelmercurio1669]

My father had to walk to get me formula, I was brought home from hospital, born in January. Dad talked about, sunny, then storm just dumped snow. And didn't move.

[@tharascsak]

Roseland Community?

[@fratzogmopars]

It was 65 degrees a few days before the snowstorm. Three months later a tornado went through Oak Lawn and the south side, just a mile south of our house, I was 5 years old and remember being outside and it was a warm and sunny about 75 degrees that day, the next day we had a few inches of snow. 1967 was a rollercoaster weather year.

[@duckman23]

My father always told me about this. He said it was awesome

[@jamessells4687]

Us kids loved it. No school, build igloos. Ice skating. Sledding. If you were poor, you just grabbed some cardboard out of grocery dumpster and sled down hills.

[@michaelcase8574]

I was in boarding school at that time and kids were jumping out of third floor windows into 29ft snowballs. Yuk!

[@luisreyes1963]

I was but a mere lad of 1 when this took place. My father took me & my older brother out to play in the snow. ☃️

[@highwaymaintainer]

ladies in babushka's shoveling away......total respect for that generation

[@tharascsak]

We lived on a dead end street so it was up to the moms and dads to get it cleared.

[@greensombrero3641]

BRAVO! I was too young to shovel snow _ I was only 17 then

[@MahoganyRaven]

love my city

[@danielpecaro777]

Wasn't a blizzard just a big snow. I think the day before was 60 degrees. Only 4 inches or so were forecast. Total about 24 inches.

[@wilpotocki2453]

I lived in Calumet City and remember this blizzard well. Took our sleds to the expressway to get milk and other things from the stranded semi's. We always looked forward to snow days. We had about 3' of snow. Good times.

[@abubakrabdullah6626]

We lived in Hyde Park, I was the age of the some of the kids in your video. Fond memories.....we dug out many a car that day, and days after. THX!

[@bjsteinhoff9810]

Was supposed to be a bridesmaid in a friend's wedding in OKC. ORD was closed & trains were running too late to make the wedding in time... ☹️

[@user-is6de8pp7k]

Those were the days. ❄️

[@TheUgams]

Thanks for the memory

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

Ah,my first big snow.I was four just about anyway. Hizzoner didn`t know what to do.Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!

[@calme-dx2dp]

I remember it well😊

[@hugosophy]

lol this is nothing nowadays in Chicago. I think it just sticks in people’s memories like a trauma.

[@perrymason4208]

Back in the good ole days when the mafia ran things solid.

[@jat6547]

I'm from Chicago ,,,, don't recall thus I was born July 67..

[@tharascsak]

You stayed in your womb.

[@jat6547]

You reply fast. Just watched. I do recall the storm of " 79 "

[@jat6547]

@@tharascsak basically. Lol

[@jat6547]

You from Chicago ??

[@tharascsak]

Yes, Roseland on the south side. I was 8.

[@wayneharris9263]

This is just normal for Atlantic Canada lol.

[@user-jj2ke2ue5v]

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