Charles, thanks for all those pictures..it sure does bring back some memories of that 'fun' time so long ago...
Today, I live in the Pacific Northwest, in Western Washington State, and we almost never get any snow...tho I will say, we got a few inches of snow, in mid December, and everyone freaked out...myself included, since I have been gone from Chicago since 1978...I am no longer used to driving in blizzards and snow storms...these days, if I want to play in the snow, we just go up to the mountains, and enjoy the snow up there...
Of course, thinking back on that huge snowstorm, I get nostalgic for Chicago...that storm was surely some storm, even by Chicago standards....
I am trying to remember when my dad finally got our neighbors all organized, for everyone to dig out the alley behind our houses...it did no good for my dad to dig out the alley, just by our house, we had to get all the neighbors clear down the block to join in a concerted effort to dig out the whole alley, so that dad could finally get his car out of the garage and down the alley...and then, the alley opened up onto a side street, and we know, in Chicago, the snow plows and salt trucks will hit the side streets only after all the main streets have been dug out...I think we had to get a whole block full of people together to shovel out the alley, and the side street...if we had waited to get the side street cleared out by the city, we would have been waiting until springtime..
It sure is fun, remembering that big snow...