Few signs of what was in store (40TH ANNIVERSARY OF DA BIG SNOW IN CHICAGO)

Daily Southtown - Chicago ^ | January 21, 2007 | DONNA VICKROY, Staff Writer

[Condor51]

I remember the '67 blizzard like it was yesterday.

I was just a few months out of HS (June 66), no car and had to take the bus to work (west of Midway Airport). I finally wound up 'walking' (crawling and falling) the last five blocks through 30" snow drifts on the parkway between Western Ave and Western Blvd from Archer Ave (37th St) to home at 42nd St. With nothing on but Thom McCann shoes, shark skin pants and obligatory 'Guinea Jacket' (Black, Cabretta Leather)

I think I stood by the radiator (steam heat for you youngsters) for an hour when I finally got home. I was cold and frozen as 'heck'.

(However, my Thom McCann pointy toe shoes with Cuban heels held up fine through all of that. All us cool guy 'Greasers' wore Thom McCann's)

[Chi-townChief]

I was in high school in da Heights (Chicago Height, of course) at the time. We were waiting for the 2-1/2 mile bus ride home and we were told the bus was stuck and another was on the way. The teachers all bugged out and tried to get home as best they could the boys' dean stayed with the kids until the school was finally cleared. He probably ended up staying there all night. We finally got home about 6:30 or 7:00 overjoyed at the prospect of a few snow days.

My dad worked father north at about 142nd and Cottage and he and a bunch of other guys ended up leaving their cars in the lot and piling into someone's little Rambler for the ride home. The managed to get through all the high snow and stuck cars, getting out to push when necessary, and he made it home a little before midnight. I can't remember how or when he retrieved the car but we didn't seem to have any problem with food shortages or heat or anything like that.

My wife, who's a bit younger than me, lived in Roseland at the time remembers her father pulling her to the store on the sled to get things.

Being as young as I was, the snow made for a fun week but I can imagine how it sucked for anyone with any responsibilities.