Vanished Chicagoland: Chicago 1967 Blizzard Edition

Vintage Ads from The Chicago Tribune that were featured during the infamous winter blizzard on January 26-27, 1967. The song is Our Winter Love by Bill Pursell. The Facebook page was formerly called Chicago's Extinct Businesses.
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[@santiagocanojr.4663]

I was born 49 years ago on January 13th, 1974 and my parents remembered the snowstorm that hit Chicago 56 years ago.

[@TheAccessoryGirl]

Thank you for the memories this video brings back!

[@felixcobarrubias3271]

Beautiful times want to go back

[@gregorycameron4464]

I was born 1971...My mom remembers this!

[@phoebecatgirl9968]

REALLY miss Kroch's & Brentanos!

[@brianglade848]

Yeahhhhh....the dirty mags behind Good Housekeeping

[@berenicebauer2896]

Brings back some good memories. My children were two and nine months old. Lived in the suburbs but all the ads were familiar. Remember my husband driving on top of the packed up snow . We had a VW and it just chugged along riding the snow. Drove from the University of Chicago to Broadview. After that he helped protect the local store owner from some very ugly acting people when supplies of milk were getting low.

[@kjchicago1]

It was Just Like Yesterday-The 1967 Blizzard in Chicago-The Chicago Tribune Ads-I was a little kid when the blizzard hit

[@mikestyles499]

I LOVED the 1967 Snow Storm! Two days off from high school, basically another weekend off! Oh, yay! Nice video, btw.

[@paulbervid1610]

Great music , fantastic video. Some of the shoppers world had blue glazed brick. Saw green hornet black beauty at the onr across from midway around 1967. Car had visable door handles.

[@brianglade848]

porking the old lady next door, drinking a Lowenbrau in my underwear, smoking a pipe next to the altar at a church.....those were the days

[@bobzwol]

Wow! Thanks for putting this together! My brother was in the very last January graduating class at Lane Tech on the evening the blizzard hit. Won't forget it! I fondly remember seeing my 1st snowmobile where I lived at Belmont & Central. All these stores that are no more... Thanks again!

[@hayford75]

Your welcome.

[@lizvan5183]

Love this! Thanks for posting! Lots of good prices back then

[@PatriciaFeager]

Pete Kastanes - thanks for the memories. Those prices will never be seen again....

[@brianglade848]

anytime

[@christinekreutz2616]

Skitching on Cadillac’s in Sauganash!

[@paulakpacente]

Love the music!

[@waynewright2886]

Nothing but Memories of Chicago of Things that Ain't There No More!

[@brianglade848]

Jesus Wayne, you left Chicago when you were 8, stop acting like you're a true Chicagoan

[@nancyfaustjenkins]

Remember all too well. Student at North Park college at the time

[@elwoodblues6663]

great video pete thx

[@hayford75]

Thank you!

[@brianglade848]

no....I don't like it.....

[@kms1266]

Nice 🍻

[@sonyaalexander3028]

Love it!

[@chuckjohnson3436]

Amazing how many of these I remember. Plus, High-Low foods was my first job.

[@boomer1579]

Rainbow Food & Liquors was my first job (1972), but somewhere I have a folding paper "High-Low Foods Grocer's Hat". Among other "goodies" is a small "Dutch Boy White Lead Wet Paint" sign, replete with my Grandpa's name and address: "Gus Lundin 12543 S Elm, Blue Island, Ill." Probably from 1935-45?

[@brianglade848]

I remember the butcher at Hi-Lo Foods, he used to have this cashier lady lick his nuts in the back, she had skidded up underware, yuck

[@drholingue]

All gone now.

[@pmjablonski]

Funny how this sticks out as we have had worse since then

[@phoebecatgirl933]

So many stores gone - SAD!!!

[@shadowcrimsonflare]

Dispensa's Castle of Toys

[@marieh2070]

This had nothing to do with the blizzard!

[@hayford75]

Yes, it does. These ads were printed in the Chicago Tribune when the blizzard occurred.

[@jimmyathegreek3098]

Why are you negative marie??? I don’t get it? It’s a great video

[@brianglade848]

where were you, the Grand Bazaar on Cottage Grove it's all about the blizzard Marie, now go wash my underware