Blizzard of '77 WBEN-TV Complete Newscast 1/31/77
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- staffannouncer.com presents... John Corbett, Chuck Lampkin, Chuck Healy, and Kevin O'Connell on WBEN Channel 4's First Team News. Video of the aftermath of the Blizzard of '77. Also great commercials for Super Duper (with Joey) and Your Host with Bob Wells. Also, reporters Ray Finch, Ron Arnold, Jim Peppard, Sheela Allen, Allen Costantini, and Kevin had Weather with a Beat, and a great, long mocked WBEN... all about YOU! spot as well.
I always love the retro commercials on these old, and historical news casts. They're just as entertaining.
Most commercials had jingles back then now they just talk about health and medical stuff.
They sure are!
I miss the old days. I was 12 and living in the Kensington- Bailey area on Highgate Ave. in Buffalo at the time of the Blizzard of '77. This posting brings back good memories of life in the USA then. For instance the News cast back then was easy going and informative. The News always seemed to reflect common people's struggles. It wasn't the gossip, illusions, and general bullshit that we see today on the "News." And notice how the commercial breaks only have two commercials- not 6!
My dad was 12 too! The ads are nice. I wish they were still short, must have been nice.
Once there became more options for people to advertise on, TV stations had no choice but to add commercials to their breaks. Raising rates would be suicide.
@@JimiJamm It's all about the money. I'm not one to weep over maximum profits for rich folks Jimi
@@jeffreyg4626 I work on the radio in Warsaw...it's not all sunshine and rainbows in media
@@JimiJamm I can relate. Gotta friend who works at Channel 4 in Buffalo. It's tough. Wishing you well and peace my brother.
You know you're from Buffalo or living in Buffalo when elderly people and middle aged people bring up this storm EVERY time you see them, even in the middle of July lol.
Ok. I’m one of them. If you weren’t there, you can have no idea of what it was like. Not just cold and snowing...it was scary.
@@marcianniemarciannie892 I agree. It was the most terrifying storm I can ever remember. We lived in Cassadaga and my Mom was stuck at work in Fredonia. We were home alone for a week and ran out of groceries. We shoveled until I thought my arms would fall off. And I was afraid to sleep because I was afraid that the snow would bury us if we didn't keep shoveling the doors out.
I love this! Would love to see more 1970s newscasts like this.
I like all the 70's retro broadcasts . Memories of growing up in the 70's. Better in my memories. Thank You.
Man, haven't seen a Super Duper commercial in a long, long time, just seeing some of those old ads makes me feel things I haven't in a decades, real nostalgia, triggers lots of memories.
i lived threw the blizzard of 77 and in 78 i moved to florida but i will never forget that storm - everyone pulled together and helped if it was possible - was borned there and glad i was still there for the blizzard of 77 - 37 years later and it seems like yesterday - proud to be from Buffalo - Kathy Kester
Oh, the commercials back then! Sooo much better then the commercials now!
I'll never forget this time in my life....I directed the newscast above and played the Ground Hog in the bit with Kevin...those were great and fun times in Buffalo
Nice to see your name in the end credits.
@Chris Smith Mike's memories were pleasant it seems. I'm sorry if yours weren't.
@Chris Smith 🙄
Its a shame that this snowstorm was a big hoak in order for Buffalo to get that 3 million..everyone i talk to said it was all bs..fake news fake news fake news..I lived in Kenmore in 1977 we barely had 3 inches if that
I was 15 and was hiking in the woods with some friends when the storm hit. We were lost and trying to find our way back holding on to the back of the person in front. Ice formed a mask on my face that actually blocked the wind. A neighbor and his dog found us and got us home.
Fantastic to watch...right down to the commercials - thanks for posting this!!
When we get snow like this on Buffalo...its FUN! I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else.I dont want to deal with hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes. When I see all the havoc that stuff causes...snow really isnt that bad!
People really digging in and helping others, it was a whole different world back then.
Thank you so much for the memories and the commercials.Whenever I'm feeling down, "call me weird"I watch this video and in no time,everything is alright.
This was just awesome. The commercials, groundhog's day segment and disco over the weather is so funny.
This is world class! Kevin O'Connell mentioned at the end of the weather segment that "today's Groundhog Day." This newscast is from Wednesday, February 2, 1977.
I should be sleeping...but I'm watching this. damn you, youtube
I'll never forget that blizzard. Tops of cars is all you saw. They called it a freak storm in how the pressures met. Kevin, was so thin and hair so thick..how time changes you. Your Host restaurant I remember. Gee 69cents for tea n Danish. Super Duper grocery stores. Gee time passes so fast.
Not long afterwards, WBEN-TV changed call letters to WIVB-TV ("IV" is the roman numeral for four; "B" means Buffalo).
I live in Rochester, I remember this as well as some more blizzards in buffalo as well as my own hometown of Rochester, thanks for posting..brings back memories
My parents had just moved into their house in Rochester a few months before this blizzard
I remember living at Delaware and Amherst in an apartment with my Mom. It seemed like I didn't have school for like two weeks!
*cries in corona school shutdowns.* seriously it was nice at first but I'm getting kinda sick of having to fight tooth and nail to pass.
Wow I also grew up on Delaware and Amherst Street in the 90s - 00s. Must have been awesome living in those days... And I'm replying to a comment that was made 5 years ago. Lol
I was 17 and living in Toronto at the time. Snowfall here wasn't nearly as bad and life went on pretty much as usual. I remember thinking of the poor devils in Buffalo and wishing I could do something to help them.
Amazing blast from the past! Local news was great back then, especially in the smaller markets, and great mix of local and national ads. Love that Super Duper!
I was 13 and a freshman in high school in an Alleghany County town near Arcade during the blizzard. We were more or less snowbound, so probably watched this broadcast live.
Well I was working at Super Duper on Lake Street in Hamburg. I happened to be offing that day. Went shopping with my mother on that day. It was sunny outside when we walked into the store which happened to be TOPS in Derby. Then the stores intercom began playing these show emergency notices. We just thought that was for some other place around the broadcaster’s signal. Well when we were at the check out we could see nothing but snow. My father worked at Upstate Milk on Walden Avenue. Luckily him made it home that night. That was like a 25 mile drive from Cheektowaga to Derby.
Thanks for keeping the ads in here too! 69 cents for a cup of joe & a danish??? And I worked for Super Duper while I was in high school.
Tommy 1971+
I was 13 years old when i faced
The snow storm in 1977 i lived
In Niagara Falls Canadian side
6180 main srreet.
Now i live in florida facing
This pandemic of the carona virus
Its like being back during the snow
Storm but without the snow
This video is priceless! Love it. Sure brought back some memories. I was in high school when all this happened. Thanks for the memories!!
As a kid from Belfast Northern Ireland, I spent my summers with a family from Buffalo, they told me about this storm. Years later as a volunteer in Israel I worked with a U.S volunteer who was an engineer in the army who was sent to help with the clear up in Buffalo. Small world.
Dennis Cole Did your Family tell you how crazy ST.PATRICKS PARADE gets. Buffalo has a big IRISH Population. Doesnt get any better for Buffalo we still get 10-12 feet every winter
This is what you call a Real gem of a newscast.
Man, I was 10 and lived in North Tonawanda. My Dad got stranded at work, it is better than being stranded on the thruway.
That’s what I remember.
I live in Rochester and a lot of people were stuck on the thruway and thruway rest areas.
This old vid is great I can't lie I miss back in the days things were so original
Wow, normal TV reporting. The news isn't about the news casters. The ads are awsome. I miss seeing real advertising that makes you laugh and doesn't leave you feeling depressed. Now days it is all about life insurance, health care, finding a place for mom, medication that if you are dead you need to call this #, political left or right, bickering between broadcasters and politicians, etc. You got the idea. Life was better back then. I lived in Kadoka, So. Dakota during this storm. We had our own snow problems at that time too. But not as bad as NY and Boston. Love this blast from the past.💞🌬❄☃️🥰☃️❄🌬💞
Thank you for posting this! I am from Virginia and was 12 years old when this blizzard hit and this was huge news here. What a walk down memory lane. I also appreciate you left in the commercials!!! Too cool!!! This was the most enjoyable video I have watched in a while.
Commercials were always like this until TV was deregulated now it is nothing but GOSSIP and bantering back and forth and most importantly propaganda. They did it right 40 years ago.
I really enjoyed this video. Lots of fun to remember the old days.
I remember the blizzard of 77 and it was so much snow you couldn't even hardly go outside because there was no way to get around the people in Buffalo were so helpful and so kind to one another and I wish that that would always be a part of Buffalo buffalo is a good City and I love buffalo in spite of all the negativity that has been said about Buffalo we are the city of good neighbors God bless Buffalo
Love the vintage commercials!! :D
Was living in WNY during that storm. Man, it was COLD!
Tell me about it Here in Cincinnati it got all the way down to -25 and wind chill near 90 below. My hands got so chapped I had to wear Vaseline on my hands with wool mittens. NOT FUN.
22:14 is an interesting list of forecasts. One of the most astonishing features of January 1977 was that Anchorage averaged 2.7˚F warmer than Atlanta for the month - although Anchorage is twice as far from the equator!
I do remember like it was yesterday... I was 17 and we had to get groceries up to my grandmothers on Bailey Avenue... next to Jerry Gradl's car lot...2417 Bailey... I was driving the car with my mother and as we usually did, went down the first side street and around the corner to be pointing the car in the correct direction to park in front of the car lot. Only problem was ruts in the sidestreet...and someone coming towards us head on. We got stuck, so bad...cars frame got stuck on ice and we had to call Dad to bring my brothers to get us out before the curfew started at midnight!! They came, we walked to groceries up to my grandmother and got out of Buffalo just before midnight!! That was rough. Earlier in the week, when the storm started, we had to go and pick up my brother from work at Goodyear. The wind chill at the time was 50 below!!!! You just dont forget that...
John Rose - Hello John. I'm from Ringgold Georgia. We had 23 inches in 1993. It was paralyzing to the south. I can't imagine the storms ya'll have up north. Although, I must say, in my older age I would love to give it a go. Summers are just hell down here. All the best.
Pick ax snow removal brings back fond memories of being a boy in 1903. Thank you to whom uploaded this. Enjoyed watching
Wow, sure does bring back memories. Gotta love the frig magnets used for the high and low pressures on weather board. Can still remember everyone getting together to shovel our street out in S. Buffalo. A time when everyone knew who their neighbors were and not just a pic on a social page. "Danny moves your fanny in the morning"
Great post! I remember the blizzard from here in Ohio, but wow, did Buffalo get socked! And the commercials were just the cherry on top!
Buffalo always gets socked in Winter and so does Rochester and so does Cleveland, Ohio east of about 185th street.
Chuck Lampkin was an excellent jazz drummer before he became a newsman. He passed away in 2003.
Broke out my bell bottoms to get 'groovy' to the "Weather with a Beat!" Yeah!
Kevin O'Connell, future game show host. Now a weatherman in Buffalo again
thanks Steve for posting this- great memory
November 11th 2019 watching!💪
I remember this storm!! We lived in Clarence and had a long driveway out in the country. Shoveled for days. Snowed in for 7 days. No school, no work. It was like the end of the world. My dad was an electrician and couldn't get home until the next day. He spent the night in a fire station. He was brought home on a snowmobile. We were so worried about him. We had drifts up to the roof of the house. Almost the whole house was buried in snow. -50 degrees (below 0). It was brutal. I got married in May and in September moved to Florida. Couldn't handle anymore of that snow and below 0 temperatures. Most of my family stayed living up there till this day. Don't know how they do it. Thanks for this video. Brings back memories.
Originally from Niagara Falls, but have lived in the Florida panhandle (Pensacola first, Panama City now) since retiring from the Navy in 1988. When this storm occurred was stationed at one of US Naval Hospital Subic Bay Philippines Branch Medical Clinic and my parents sent me clippings from the Niagara Gazette of the storm and I showed them to local Philippine Nationals that I worked with and they had a hard time believing what they saw.
I was 12 at the time. Remember it well. Had just moved to Clinton str. (Kaisertownfrom) from Sattler Ave. (Schiller Park).Relatives with Snowmobiles had to bring us food. Thanks for the memories.
Born near Fredonia, I spent the first 20 years of my life there, experiencing the 77' blizzard before I came out to sunny California later that year - I never looked back and never came back. It was a miserable and demoralizing existence.
IM IN CONNECTICUT AND RATHER BE HERE THAN IN CALIFORNIA THESE DAYS
Well, that was for sure a trip down memory lane. Having lived through the blizzard of 77 (Yes it really was the worst storm in the past century) during which I was entombed in my Mother in Law's house for five days until the snow was finally shoveled clear of the doors and the roads made passable once again. The wind, which was brutal, smashed the flakes of snow so hard together that the stuff was like concrete. Very hard to dig through and very heavy.
But watching this video was like a trip back in time. Those polyester suits that were so cool at the time look absolutely ridiculous now as do the haircuts and long sideburns that were the fashion of the time. Ah yes, the 70's! Thank God they are long behind us. But it was sure nice to see a Super Duper commercial once again and with Joey to boot! That alone made my day.
Thanks for posting.
i went through this storm. my friends and i were the only ones outside, no cops, no city workers. when we wanted to get out of the storm we went to the sheraton foxhead, as storm evacuees lol
It's interesting that when they did the nationwide temperatures on the weather report at around 22 minutes one of the warmer cities was Anchorage Alaska at 42 degrees.
the Blizzard of '77 made national news, made people think Buffalo was in Alaska
I remember it well.....I was in my early 20's....living on Buffalo's west side.
Watching this from my warm apartment in Houston on Christmas Eve 2019.
Blissfully unaware what 2020 was going to be like.
wildbill9919 Thats why they call Buffalo ( SNOW CAPITAL OF USA ). Its true even now we still get 10-12 feet every winter. ALWAYS WHITE CHRISTMAS IN BUFFALO
I saw my Aunt's House!
Watching this during a 115° heat wave in Houston. Anything to cool down!
Elizabeth Ford Not any better for Buffalo. We still get 10-12 feet every winter. WE were once called ( SNOW CAPITAL OF USA ). People really were afraid of Buffalo. Good thing NIAGARA FALLS IS CLOSE FOR VISITORS. It was a bad storm City & Schools closed for 3 weeks. We still had snow on the ground in June. It is cool to see the Lake compleaty frozen. People love to walk on the frozen Lake. ALWAYS WHITE CHRISTMAS IN BUFFALO
OMG...Chuck Healy! Super Duper!
wow I grew up down in Bradford and we had all the Buffalo stations on our cable system this brings back memories! Thanks for sharing. That was one crazy blizzard i remember even we got some time off school i believe.
I was seven years old when this storm hit and remember it very well lots of memories
Just found the name of the song at 22:10 is "Bring it On Up" by The Love Unlimited Orchestra. I should have known it was the one and only, Barry White! He's the Man!!
22:04 party like it's 1972
Lived in Chautauqua County then. Drove through the first night of the blizzard from Buffalo. Barely made it following a tractor trailer to the Dunkirk exit.
I was born right in the middle of the Blizzard of '77, I remember Super Duper I all ways got stuck going there as a child with my mother, I miss the old days.
1978 was some snow storm , I'll never forget it 🤲🏾
this was 1977
I have never heard of Chuck Lampkin or the other guy for that matter. When this happened I was living in Atlanta. I called my parents in Amherst and they were fine but dad did have a rough time coming home. I did a Google search on Lampkin and found out that he was a jazz drummer for Dizzy! The obit that I found stated that he died Feb 10 but it does not give a year. Thanks for posting this video.
Love the commercials
Wow, the picture is so clear! Nice
I lived through this blizzard. My mom was stranded with my baby sister away the house for three days. Brother & I stayed home alone no power no parents 3 days
Ah, Kevin O'Connell. How young you were. Nobody can call the crazy Buffalo weather like that guy.
great, really brings back memories. was 11 and snowed in in amherst at the time. Love the commercials.
I was born on this date wow I'm old
This a great find! I remember those "Super Duper" ads. I was an "Irv" viewer back then...but I DO remember `ol Chuck, the "weather with a beat" and of course Kevin! (great hair). These old "computer-free" newscasts look so dated! Oh...I also recognize the guy with the short afro hair on the Nationwide ad. He had a small role in the 1973 thriller "Sisters" w/Margot Kidder.
There was so much snow, some of it was loaded onto an empty 100 car coal train just to get rid of it, then the train was driven to Florida, parked on a siding with the hatches underneath open and allowed to thaw.
jess dine really? I didn’t know that, I was only 5 at the time.
I remember that I was 15
This is awesome! I lived in a small(small small) town called millers between barker and lyndonville and went to barker central school. My mom came and got us when she saw the snow start and thank goodness because most of the other kids were stuck in school for days...Thanks Mom!
I was 7 years old and lived in Newfane I was stuck in school overnight and went home on a snowmobile the next day.I have lived in North Carolina for 20 years now get super excited when it snows,but it almost never happens
Love the music at 22:10... Made me get up and dance!!!
26:48 - Wow! The earliest of the Nationwide Insurance commercials. And with the same famous slogan intact as of today.
Wow--Mr. Healy (26:16)-mentioned the Buffalo Braves NBA team---this was before they moved first to San Diego to become the Clippers--and ultimately to Los Angeles---always felt that Buffalo could have supported the Braves but the Sabres and Caninus took most of the best dates at the old Aud and left what was left to the Braves
I was 19 and working downtown when it hit. Never did I thought I would make it home. 14 minute drive took three hours, but made it home.
We went to a Zappa concert at the Auditorium that night. We were about the only ones there. OMG, look at the size of lapels on those suits!!
I was there! FZ came out with a big scarf wrapped around his neck!
In 1977, I was in the Third Grade and living in suburban Toronto. We had a nasty snowstorm in our neck of the woods, and we had a few snow days because the roads weren't passable. Fortunately, we kids made the best of a bad situation.
This was also viewed in Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara and the Golden Horseshoe!
I was a senior at Albion High School and didn't see my parents for a week. Ah, the good old days before climate change! Haven't seen a storm even close to this since the ice storm in 91' or ... snow & wind like that in decades.
A great stroll down memory lane..... I was 18 yrs old.....
I remember this! I had a black and white tv! I remember a state of emergency being declared in Buffalo. I couldn’t go to work. I worked as a cashier at a grocery store called super duper. I used all my sick time throughout the beginning of the storm until the state of emergency was lifted.
I remember this like it was yesterday.
I was 5. My dad had just started working for the Co of Erie downtown & got stuck there! Had to spend the night sheltering in a church. Got home early afternoon the next day after he spent the AM helping people dig their cars out on the street where they were all stranded. My mother went out to shovel our front walk, came back inside to check on us & her shovel got stolen!
i love that martial law gets declared when it snows in buffalo
I was 13 then & grew up on South Park Ave. in South Buffalo, N.Y. I remember the National Guard was called in & loved watching the big wheel loaders & dump trucks removing the snow in front of our house. The snow was so high we used those red plastic snow sleds & sledded down from the top of our 2 car garage! That was a lot of fun.
2:22, Chuck Lamkin wore a helmet during the newscast, concerned that the massive amount of snow could cave in the roof of the TV station.
Sad the Buffalo Braves didn't last in Buffalo and now exist as the LA Clippers-the Braves drew well at the old War Memorial Auditorium but had to compete with the Buffalo Sabres for arena time and the Sabres got the best dates leaving the Braves with whatever was left---this affected attendance and the Braves simply couldn't compete
sometimes I feel like a nut, sometime I don't
You got that right
That was 3 questions, but:
1. It is the very same Kevin O'Connell if you can believe it.
2. They owned the building downtown before they went out of business.
3. Super Duper was a supermarket chain, so it was more like Tops or Bells( if you can remember that one)
albumin I worked at the Super Duper in Silver Creek in 10th grade in 1988. $3.35/hr minimum wage, fun times!
I was 3 years old in buffalo. only thing I remember is shitting my diaper.... a lot
Things haven't changed I guess...
I doubt you remember that. All u recall is a nice warm feeling.
jimbobradford same here!
The commercials and music sets are HILARIOUS!! Made for satire. I grew up in Buffalo during the 70's and 80's. What a blast from the past.
+Kenny Meeks Joey Heinz looked absolutely radiant in the Super Duper ad.
I grew up in Buffalo in the 1970’s. I remember this blizzard. Chuck Healy on sports! All of it! The 1970’s were the best.
Wikipedia has a very good article on the Blizzard. So many lessons here: that local officials had done literally everything they could, in the right way; the Federal government's reluctance to declare this a disaster, adding to the economic misery; the order in which services were restored (Amherst got lucky, surprise, surprise). Saw my classmate's house on Blossom in this footage.
Damn they broke into fire truck,and stole radio..I thought that kind of sht only happened in Baltimore
Love it! the commercials add so much too it too!
Yes this headline needs changed to 2/2/77 as michael pointed out below, kevin goes to weather records for february 2nd during forecast and the extended forecast starts with thursday which would be the 3rd. And it's funny I remember watching John Telich do sports there for a number of years and right after I moved to Cleveland in september of 80 he came here to do sports for channel 8, it was nice having a familiar face on tv. Always liked the channel 4 crew and on 7 Irv Weinstein.
Wow, Buffalo felt like a major city back then...even an NBA team!
Buffalo Bills - still play - No MATTER WHAT !
Love the funny commercials!
yes I remember. took me 3 hrs to get home from work and a week stuck in the house.
29:33 How can he sound like he's pinching his nose without even touching his nose? That's Amazing
I was BORN 3 years later.