WLS Channel 7 - Eyewitness News At 10pm - "The Freeze Of '79" (Part 1, 1979)

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @robvig60
    @robvig60 2 года назад +8

    S&H Green Stamps! I remember as a kid my mother had several booklets of those.

  • @robadams5799
    @robadams5799 2 года назад +8

    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.

  • @mrski4945
    @mrski4945 3 года назад +7

    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.

  • @TheChicagoL
    @TheChicagoL 2 года назад +8

    Just seeing this news cast video reminds me of those loooonnnnngggg cold waits on the "L" platform-Lol!

  • @jimmyb1559
    @jimmyb1559 3 года назад +12

    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!

  • @roxyabrooks864
    @roxyabrooks864 Год назад

    Everything about this is so nostalgic. Thank you ❤

  • @61rampy65
    @61rampy65 Год назад +3

    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!

  • @thebrotherhoodofsleep9857
    @thebrotherhoodofsleep9857 4 года назад +25

    Definitely remember this, no school! Watched Benny Hill on 32 after this.

    • @fredicagoillanoise1309
      @fredicagoillanoise1309 2 года назад +3

      I did too

    • @roxyabrooks864
      @roxyabrooks864 Год назад +2

      I did the same! Cheers 🍻

    • @cccalll
      @cccalll Год назад +3

      Benny Hill? Nope, if it was Saturday night-WGN channel 9-Creature Feature,WFLD channel 32-Son of Svengoolie and Elvira for me😊

    • @kuryakn
      @kuryakn Год назад

      ​@@cccalllThat sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.

  • @marquishoward3529
    @marquishoward3529 3 года назад +11

    RIP Joel Daly

  • @richsleyster2656
    @richsleyster2656 2 года назад +10

    A John Wayne Gacy update! Oh wow!!!

  • @ladydawgfan4832
    @ladydawgfan4832 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @richsleyster2656
    @richsleyster2656 2 года назад +4

    I was 7 years old in Wadsworth. Endless outdoor fun for a kid. I loved it!!

    • @jamjedi1972
      @jamjedi1972 Год назад

      Same here lol. I turned 50 last June. Man, we’re getting old lol.

  • @richardszablewski1420
    @richardszablewski1420 4 года назад +3

    Great Memories. Thanks.

  • @hoover1060
    @hoover1060 3 года назад +5

    this was 1 day before the great blizzard of '79!

  • @josephkrejci2024
    @josephkrejci2024 5 лет назад +9

    I loved this team when I was a kid, Joel and Fayeh Flynn (SP?) and John Coleman.

  • @tvtimetravel
    @tvtimetravel 6 лет назад +16

    Like all those Chicago suburb names in the opening.

    • @davanmani556
      @davanmani556 4 года назад

      Randy Hansen WPLG In Miami did that as well in the mid 70’s.

    • @melodycjefferson1323
      @melodycjefferson1323 4 года назад

      Why is Gary in there? Indiana?

    • @tvtimetravel
      @tvtimetravel 4 года назад +2

      @@melodycjefferson1323 Yep, that's a Chicago suburb.

  • @JohnHolton
    @JohnHolton 3 года назад +8

    I forgot how gorgeous Terry Murphy was...

  • @jeromekandziorskijr6314
    @jeromekandziorskijr6314 5 лет назад +7

    Besides being a journalist Joel Daly fronted an irish folk band Joel Daly and the Sundowners.

    • @jeromekandziorskijr6314
      @jeromekandziorskijr6314 5 лет назад +3

      They we're a fixture at the annual Irish Fest at the Gaelic Park In Oak Forest, IL on memorial Day weekend.

  • @pappy999
    @pappy999 2 года назад +4

    Gold Coast burglary ring, huh? The more things change…

  • @altfactor
    @altfactor Год назад +3

    John Coleman would later join ABC News as meteologist on "Good Morning America".

  • @melodycjefferson1323
    @melodycjefferson1323 4 года назад +4

    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😂

  • @booberry349
    @booberry349 6 лет назад +4

    Terry Murphy was on our channel 2 in the early 1970s and the channel 7 intro was our intro also

    • @1thetvzone
      @1thetvzone 5 лет назад +1

      Detroit's Channel 2 I think?

  • @wolfalistair5311
    @wolfalistair5311 Год назад +4

    The voices and faces of my childhood

  • @batterymakermarkii2654
    @batterymakermarkii2654 2 года назад +3

    Ohhh I was there. Moved to Dallas after this…

  • @That0neMonkey
    @That0neMonkey 6 лет назад +7

    Oprah got her start on AM Chicago. Loved watching her back then!

  • @jbb8382
    @jbb8382 3 года назад +4

    Surprise Suprise same Ole doing break ins somethings never change!

  • @highwaymaintainer
    @highwaymaintainer 3 года назад +10

    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)

  • @bradbyington6662
    @bradbyington6662 Год назад +2

    John Coleman had a real set of pipes!!!!

  • @525Lines
    @525Lines 6 лет назад +5

    Thanks for posting this. Beautiful video quality.

    • @jptang1701
      @jptang1701 6 лет назад +1

      Your mama's even more pretty!

  • @SagittariusQueen1980
    @SagittariusQueen1980 5 лет назад +3

    Joel Daly looking like, where are those suburban town names popping out of the screen behind me in the opening, where they come from?! 🤷🏾

  • @johncaldwell881
    @johncaldwell881 2 года назад +2

    I was eight years of age still, I turned 9 in March of 1979

  • @timdailey2690
    @timdailey2690 3 года назад +2

    John Coleman Weather Experience!!

  • @thomasbrown3356
    @thomasbrown3356 2 года назад +2

    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 RUclips.

  • @svrandall
    @svrandall 5 лет назад +5

    EEK!!"John Gacy. I remember that!

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 3 года назад +1

      That monster was the last one executed in Illinois before the state abolished the death penalty.

  • @MrDuds1984
    @MrDuds1984 6 лет назад +7

    Terry Murphy meow wow

  • @soxpacker
    @soxpacker 2 года назад +4

    Terry Murphy of Hard Copy fame.

  • @pgh45rpms
    @pgh45rpms 2 года назад +1

    Is that Chuck Woolery doing the A&P voiceover?

  • @jptang1701
    @jptang1701 6 лет назад +14

    "You're an ice age redhead." Wow.......

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines 6 лет назад +2

      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

    • @jptang1701
      @jptang1701 6 лет назад +3

      And a hearty FUCK YOU to you too PSYCHO!

    • @davanmani556
      @davanmani556 5 лет назад +3

      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.

    • @georgeortiz2631
      @georgeortiz2631 5 лет назад +2

      @@525Lines Thanks for the info on him

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines 5 лет назад +1

      @@jptang1701 I meant John Coleman.

  • @1thetvzone
    @1thetvzone 5 лет назад +4

    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?

  • @bethdibartolomeo2042
    @bethdibartolomeo2042 6 лет назад +3

    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.

  • @michaelrichardson1898
    @michaelrichardson1898 3 года назад +2

    On the twilight zone when doing a few episodes by video after the director claps The slate it makes a beeping noise ?

  • @bsteven885
    @bsteven885 2 года назад +2

    5:30 -- Hear the archetypal Chicago accent, uttered by the court guard.

  • @TheBandit7613
    @TheBandit7613 5 лет назад +6

    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.

  • @senosab
    @senosab 5 лет назад +4

    Terry Murphy was hot.

  • @ryanbimel6464
    @ryanbimel6464 6 лет назад +2

    I was born the next day!

  • @moonraker30
    @moonraker30 Год назад

    I was 1 about to turn 2 in a few months

  • @eileensteele2497
    @eileensteele2497 3 года назад +2

    I hated it could bot go any wgere stay in house to cold

  • @robertonline6543
    @robertonline6543 4 года назад +1

    Haha rob Weller I remember you where you go? O yeah Oprah took over.

  • @raydemos1181
    @raydemos1181 11 месяцев назад

    since when is a clown a respectable business man

  • @v.a.993
    @v.a.993 2 года назад +1

    The eyewitness news theme music is overly dramatic...lol

  • @stevenmandl4920
    @stevenmandl4920 3 года назад +1

    never was a big ABC fan