One minute in and I'm already awash in a sea of nostalgia. I used to live a block away from the Color Tile at 7100 W 79th Street. I could see it from my front door.
I remember that well! Our thermometer at home showed -27 on one of those days. I had installed dual batteries in my van, and was one of the VERY few people out on the roads. Went to my girlfriends house and tried to jump start her and many of her neighbors cars, most with no luck. Moved to AZ in 1982. Now, I freeze at anything below 70. I've become a major wuss!
Wow! What a flashback The News, and those commercials!! I was in grade school when that cold front came through. But for a kid it was exciting, I was happy because all that snow wasn't going anywhere.
Hated the blizzard of ‘79. I had to get to work every day. The blizzard of ‘67 was much more fun. No school. We built forts in the alley out of the mountains of snow the plows left. Then we’d run home and defrost with moms home cooking. Heaven on earth!
Wow! My dad always watched channel 7 news when we lived in Aurora. I remember the Big Freeze mostly because I have a recording from KQX mentioning the weather. The DJ said that the temperature was -26° in the middle of the afternoon and that he couldn't take it anymore. I also remember driving around on "square" tires until they warmed up and the flat spot defrosted.
I was nearly seven months old when this aired, I don't remember a thing. My family doesn't have any outdoor pictures of those days either, but there are a couple of me as a toddler from the following winter when there was a pretty deep snowfall.
When did A&P go out of business? Also, the annoyed man in the LaChoy commercial is the same man who gets annoyed in the right guard commercials, when some guy on the other side of his medicine cabinet greets him in the morning. He would call for his wife, Mona, at the end. Those commercials are on TH-cam.
He had incidences with a sports reporter by throwing paper at his face while he was presenting. He clashed with newspaper TV critic Gary Deeb who called his weather coverage “phony.” And Deeb liked Terry.
models sure aren't too beautiful these days and it it aired on January 10th 1979 this was 4 days before the "blizzard of 79" and after the New Years Eve snowstorm (the weatherman mentioned a small storm coming, boy, was he wrong)
S&H Green Stamps! I remember as a kid my mother had several booklets of those.
Everything about this is so nostalgic. Thank you ❤
Just seeing this news cast video reminds me of those loooonnnnngggg cold waits on the "L" platform-Lol!
One minute in and I'm already awash in a sea of nostalgia. I used to live a block away from the Color Tile at 7100 W 79th Street. I could see it from my front door.
I remember that well! Our thermometer at home showed -27 on one of those days. I had installed dual batteries in my van, and was one of the VERY few people out on the roads. Went to my girlfriends house and tried to jump start her and many of her neighbors cars, most with no luck. Moved to AZ in 1982. Now, I freeze at anything below 70. I've become a major wuss!
Wow! What a flashback The News, and those commercials!! I was in grade school when that cold front came through. But for a kid it was exciting, I was happy because all that snow wasn't going anywhere.
Hated the blizzard of ‘79. I had to get to work every day. The blizzard of ‘67 was much more fun. No school. We built forts in the alley out of the mountains of snow the plows left. Then we’d run home and defrost with moms home cooking. Heaven on earth!
Definitely remember this, no school! Watched Benny Hill on 32 after this.
I did too
I did the same! Cheers 🍻
Benny Hill? Nope, if it was Saturday night-WGN channel 9-Creature Feature,WFLD channel 32-Son of Svengoolie and Elvira for me😊
@@cccalllThat sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.
A John Wayne Gacy update! Oh wow!!!
Wow! My dad always watched channel 7 news when we lived in Aurora. I remember the Big Freeze mostly because I have a recording from KQX mentioning the weather. The DJ said that the temperature was -26° in the middle of the afternoon and that he couldn't take it anymore. I also remember driving around on "square" tires until they warmed up and the flat spot defrosted.
RIP Joel Daly
I loved this team when I was a kid, Joel and Fayeh Flynn (SP?) and John Coleman.
Yup. The greats.
Fahey
I was 7 years old in Wadsworth. Endless outdoor fun for a kid. I loved it!!
Same here lol. I turned 50 last June. Man, we’re getting old lol.
this was 1 day before the great blizzard of '79!
Great Memories. Thanks.
Like all those Chicago suburb names in the opening.
Randy Hansen WPLG In Miami did that as well in the mid 70’s.
Why is Gary in there? Indiana?
@@melodycjefferson1323 Yep, that's a Chicago suburb.
Besides being a journalist Joel Daly fronted an irish folk band Joel Daly and the Sundowners.
They we're a fixture at the annual Irish Fest at the Gaelic Park In Oak Forest, IL on memorial Day weekend.
Gold Coast burglary ring, huh? The more things change…
In the opening I used to replay this over and overlooking for CHICAGO when those names flew by...then I realized it was the first name😂
Terry Murphy was on our channel 2 in the early 1970s and the channel 7 intro was our intro also
Detroit's Channel 2 I think?
I forgot how gorgeous Terry Murphy was...
Surprise Suprise same Ole doing break ins somethings never change!
John Coleman had a real set of pipes!!!!
The voices and faces of my childhood
John Coleman would later join ABC News as meteologist on "Good Morning America".
Ohhh I was there. Moved to Dallas after this…
Thanks for posting this. Beautiful video quality.
Your mama's even more pretty!
I was eight years of age still, I turned 9 in March of 1979
So they were #1? Where they beat WBBM or tied with Channel 2? Terri Murphy who used to be on Hard Copy in the 90s?
Same Terri Murphy.
Oprah got her start on AM Chicago. Loved watching her back then!
John Coleman Weather Experience!!
Joel Daly looking like, where are those suburban town names popping out of the screen behind me in the opening, where they come from?! 🤷🏾
I was nearly seven months old when this aired, I don't remember a thing. My family doesn't have any outdoor pictures of those days either, but there are a couple of me as a toddler from the following winter when there was a pretty deep snowfall.
Terry Murphy meow wow
On the twilight zone when doing a few episodes by video after the director claps The slate it makes a beeping noise ?
When did A&P go out of business? Also, the annoyed man in the LaChoy commercial is the same man who gets annoyed in the right guard commercials, when some guy on the other side of his medicine cabinet greets him in the morning. He would call for his wife, Mona, at the end.
Those commercials are on TH-cam.
Terry Murphy of Hard Copy fame.
Is that Chuck Woolery doing the A&P voiceover?
EEK!!"John Gacy. I remember that!
That monster was the last one executed in Illinois before the state abolished the death penalty.
"You're an ice age redhead." Wow.......
Shut the f*ck up, John. www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/obituaries/john-coleman-co-founder-of-the-weather-channel-dies-at-83.html
And a hearty FUCK YOU to you too PSYCHO!
He had incidences with a sports reporter by throwing paper at his face while he was presenting. He clashed with newspaper TV critic Gary Deeb who called his weather coverage “phony.” And Deeb liked Terry.
@@525Lines Thanks for the info on him
@@jptang1701 I meant John Coleman.
models sure aren't too beautiful these days and it it aired on January 10th 1979 this was 4 days before the "blizzard of 79" and after the New Years Eve snowstorm (the weatherman mentioned a small storm coming, boy, was he wrong)
5:30 -- Hear the archetypal Chicago accent, uttered by the court guard.
Thank god I moved away from Chicago in the mid 80's.
Life has been good in the desert southwest. My kids are grown and I'm close to retirement.
I hated it could bot go any wgere stay in house to cold
Terry Murphy was hot.
I was 1 about to turn 2 in a few months
I was born the next day!
Haha rob Weller I remember you where you go? O yeah Oprah took over.
since when is a clown a respectable business man
The eyewitness news theme music is overly dramatic...lol
never was a big ABC fan