Это видео недоступно.
Сожалеем об этом.
(MSTS1) WBZ Radio - Blizzard of '78
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2009
- (MSTS1 Illustration - Animation - Audio Collection)
A scratchy recording of WBZ-AM 103 Boston from the morning of Feb. 7th 1978, during the Blizzard of '78.
I made this audio recording on a reel with a mic to the radio, and low quality recordings like this do not digitize to my system very well, but it's all I have of it.
So great to hear the voices of my youth, Gary Lapierre, Gil Santos, and Don Kent.
That was the only snowstorm I was actually scared in. I've never seen a sky that color at night before or since.
I'm doing a tad bit of research on the blizzard of 78. What did the sky look like at night?
Remme6, ever frequent 'The Last Drop' in Brighton, per chance?
Glad you like the memories.. Yes, I did record this audio on that day. Thanks!
My favorite memory of this was the next morning. My Dad, a very low key guy opened the front door and all the snow had drifted to our side of the house so that looking out the storm door it was just solid white. He looked at it for a second, said nothing, then quietly closed the door. All these years later that still cracks me up. You were a pissa pop.
It was great to hear their voices again. I was working to this and when it stopped, I wanted it to continue. I miss the old days.
Memories from this storm: My neighbor was a WBZ Camera Man for their news casts from morning to 6pm, was stuck in Boston, for 2 weeks! We were out of school for a week and a half in Central Mass, which the first 4 days was due to snow, the other days for the lack of heating fuel that couldn't make it from Boston. Nothing compares to that storm...in my memory...
Ah Gary Lapierre and Gil Santos on WBZ radio. Man those were the days of Boston radio.
And Larry Glick! My dad was a big radio listener before his morning commute into Boston from Winthrop. On the days he’d drive me to school we’d listen to it going in and at night before bed we’d listen to wbz.
As a 9 year old living in Abington, this was a great storm.
As a 7 year old in Wellesley, it was pretty great too.
God Bless Don Kent. New England weather will never be the same without him.
As a 12 year old living in Peabody, this was frightening, my dad had a massive heart attack the August before, so I had to shovel. Was hell.
I got out on the last Red Line train heading for Quincy before the T shut down. Listening to the radio over the night, I was tuned to WHDH. At one point, they were knocked off the air, and with the expedient of several car batteries that the staties dropped off, and they wound up stringing steel paper clips between them to get the power to get back on the air.
We had a storm right before, and then, this one hit. As I remember, the street snowplow-pack nearly reached the height of the stop sign on our street..
10 years old at the time and living in Melrose
Thanks for the memories! I was living in Medfield at the time and we measured 30" plus in our driveway after the storm and drifts up to the 2nd story windows of our house. I remember my father driving from Waltham to Medfield and taking many hours to get home , I believe the storm hit on a Monday and we were sent home from school by noon. I now live in Minneapolis and have not seen anything like that here, close but no cigar!! RIP Don Kent,a true weatherman.
I was 23 at the time...it was amazing!!!
I was 22 at the time working at Logan Airport didn't return to work for a couple of weeks !!
Don Kent a true New England legend. RIP Mr. Kent
Thanks for that!
Well it seems to look 3D because I illustrated it in a perspective of looking up at the building from a corner view.
As for logos, mine is an overlay with a saved-selection on the logo. When I bring it into animation I re-select the logo selection and choose a transparent background so the under-tracks will then be visible around the logo.
@altfactor I remember it starting to snow in the morning, they let us out of school early (I was a senior at the time) and I do believe you are right, Don Kent was the only one calling for significant snow.
One other note about Don Kent: I seem to recall that the morning of February 6th (a few houts before the snow started), he was the only weathercaster on radio or TV (he was doing both at WBZ-TY and Radio) predicting a major snow, although his projection of a foot was way off the mark.
Other TV weathercasters here were not predicting more than light snow with minimal accumulations.
what great peice gla d you took the time even back then,,,,,you had no idea there wld be a you tube someday,,,,so now ,,millions can list in,,esp thise that well emb the storm of 77,,love finding old cassettes,,or any early vids,,,but very few saved news clips,,stillhvnt found that cut ,,think it was larry glick used to play once in awhile,,about a veutnam vet,,who gave a graphic account of what it was like on the ground after the b 52s had rolled in,,& bombed people used to request that clip
I have watched dozens of these videos on the '78 storm but the first time I actually heard arrests could be made if driving out blocking streets and this City closed...great news for once even back then!!
Interesting note in this broadcast. Many places in the US didnt have 911 in 1978. I know the Ashland.Framingham area got it in June of 1980 and the state of Vermont didnt even have it until 2000!
That brings back alot of memories! I was only a middle school kid during this storm,but it wasnt as bad in small town New Hampshire as it was in Boston and the larger cities. I just remember alot of playing in the snow! lol. It brought back alot of memories hearing Don Kents voice on the radio! Thanks for uploading this!
great way ti illustrate these little bits of audio history. much appreciated.
AM radio itself has a limited audio range, and even a direct (not by putting a microphone to a speaker) recording wouldn't have sounded much better.
An interesting soundbite of perhaps the biggest weather disaster in New England history.
Harvey Leonard - channel 7 called this storm...
Also, this storm didn't dump snow onto bare ground, it followed another big snow storm right before it, late January 1978, and it all piled up massively.
The storm actually began on the afternoon of Monday, February 6th.
By the time of this audio clip (7:48-7:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time), it had been snowing in the Boston area for close to 17 hours!
I seem to recall the snow didn't end until early that afternoon.
I remember Don Kent saying as close as Monday morning that he still thought the storm would go east and only hit us with light snow or flurries and gusty winds... it was Harvey Leonard on the old WHDH channel 7 that said as early as Saturday that this could become a major storm with heavy snow and near steady hurricane force winds; I was skipping high school and was at North Shore Shopping Ctr in Peabody when Don Kent finally said around 10 am on Monday said that it would become a major blizzard and to get home as soon as possible. I wish we had the technology then that we do now to show Don Kent's wrong prediction.
Michael Souza x
Michael Souza
Michael Souza
I remember!
GOOD ONE MS,,,,,LOVE THOSE OLD RADIO CUTS FROM HOME,,WAS LIVING IN BEVERLY AREA AT THE TIME,,DID U RECORD THIS BACK THEN,,,EXCELLENT FIND
@caganb - My brothers' van was stolen in Bos a couple years later; stole the wheels and stereo, then smashed all the windows. Turns out it was a towing co. that did it.
In your case, interesting that the Blizzard stopped everyone, except the criminals..
I was driving home from a Plymouth State game, where they had hardly any snow. y the time i got to Concord, I was crawling along behind several "wall-to-wall" snow plows, listening to Larry Glick. So he says: "If you're out driving in this...YOU'RE AN IDIOT!!!" Long story short: I got home about 4am.
Awesome!
RIP Gary Lapierre
I was working
I was working at Logan Airport when the blizzard hit they let us go home didn't return to work untill 2 weeks later !!
I got stuck and abandoned my van. It got broken into and vandalized the next day. Life is good.
i went to the beanpot. what an idiot i was
The worst blizzard I've known, I was a lil kid back then... My parents owned a 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger coupe and a new 1978 Chevy Malibu coupe.
Is that a light on top of the building or the sun?
Lol, "check for school closings." These days, they're all closed.
It's hand-drawn- I made it myself.