I was 15 yrs old and living in Worcester when this hit. Being a paperboy back then I used to jump from the 3rd floor back porch of 3 deckers that I delivered to into deep snow piles.
I drove into Cambridge from Whitman in a 63 Chevy. Got to the Hotel Sonesta where I picked up my buddy (who owned the Chevy) and a couple other people. Ended up about a dozen people in a 12th floor studio apartment with no food for a day. Scammed a pass from the National Guard and drove back to Whitman with people hanging out the windows and sitting in the open trunk.. Along the way we pulled a couple cars out of the snow, got stuck several times and dropped people off near their homes.
I was 8 yrs old when this happened. They let us out of school early that day. Remember walking home with my older brother. At one point mom and dad had to go to work( dad ran heavy equipment clearing the snow and mom at the phone company.) I remember them telling me and my older brother and sister that if we needed anything to get our aunt across the street and than left lol. We had snowbanks till the end of April. A hill that looked like a mountain in the park. Loved it.
WOW, thanks for the video, looked like a brand new Cadillac being towed at the beginning of the video.........Great quality video from 40 years ago ........Thanks.
When Bristol had a radio station (WBIS) they were asking for people who had snowmobiles. They were needed to transport any nurses or doctors that worked at the Hospital.
I was living in (about 2 blocks from) Harvard Square at the time and working in Waltham (about 5 miles away). By late morning the day after it stopped snowing a co-worker and I decided to walk out and got to the end of the trolley line in Belmont. Nothing moving but snow flying up from behind one 8-foot bank. Over the bank we slide down into a tiny commuter's restaurant. The place was wall-to-wall cops. They couldn't go anywhere either and well, they had donuts, and you know a cop looks at a donut; with love in their eyes. Finally got a ride to Harvard Square from a guy in an old station wagon with no glass in his windows, just plastic sheeting taped over them. The real problem came when I tried to get up my driveway. The drive was about 40' long and 5' deep in snow. I finally had to "swim" up it in a breaststroke using my open coat to keep me from sinking down with each stroke. By the time I got about 3/4 of the way up I was getting so tired I was beginning to wonder if I was going to make it, but all my yelling finally paid off and my father looked out the door and saw me. He threw me a life ring from our boat that was being stored in the basement and he and my brother pulled me in. After we got the driveway clear I went exploring and had one of the best days of my life. The snow pile in Harvard Square was about 25' high and there was a constant snowball fight going on for "King of the Mountain". The National Guard came through in the their half-tracks and got a big cheer. Remember that this was the time when cops and the military were hated and despised by most young people so this was a big deal. Later I went back and helped out neighbor hook up his Newfoundland to a sled so he could get around to find food and stuff for his family. A BIG strong young rambunctious dog tied to a sled made for quite a ride. It was a blast. Well that is more than enough of my story, but thanks for posting this, it sure brought the memories back and I have a big smile on right now.
It was probably all he had! I wonder what happened to him & if he did get his car out that night or the next morning. He said his name was JohnTarbox Then again, he could be a frequent visitor to this page. If so, how did it work out, Mr. Tarbox?
man my dad was in that 78, storm.he said everything stop nothing move.can't believe that lucky I was very young at that time.but I miss those old cars just watching getting all that snow.❄⛄😦
I lived in Toledo Ohio when this storm hit. It really started coming down around 9 or 10 am and the snowflakes were the biggest I have ever seen. It must have dropped a few inches in like an hours time. They sent us home from school by 11 am. Didn’t go to school for about a month afterward
I was in the Detroit area. Remember walking to the house my parents were having built in deep snow with my dad at night with flashlights to go check the recently framed house. We moved to Boston in '82, and we always heard about the Blizzard of '78!!
Cleveland, Ohio here...Im still hearing horror stories about it! We're 1 exit from Downtown Cleveland, Ohio(We seemed to have a church on every corner), some of the neighborhood is in the movie The Deer Hunter w/Deniro,Walken, Meryl Streep, & many others). We got hit & were shovelling everyone out, had no school, & helped on foot w/shovels if we saw people who were stuck. Loved sled riding at Clark Field w/ friends then too.
Was the best storm of my life time. In Hartford Connecticut the storm came in earlier then they thought, then all the insurance companies let everybody out at the same time. This was the reason so many got stuck.
I was 18 yrs old then and spent 10 days living in memorial school in hull mass with all my friends drinking and inhaling good stuff. Deep water , devastation and unreal cold. Snorkel coats kept us invincible on our 12 mile daily walks round trip to package store for butts n beverages
When the roads were somewhat cleared I walked down to small market and got the Hartford Courant, Boston Globe and the New York Time and put them in a small box and sent them down to Naples, Fl.
I was looking for my Dad's v.w.bug had no snow around it but he was taken to The Oscar hot dog plant in Framingham that day, what a storm it was..looked for him on r.t.24 in West Bridgewater..on our ski mobile..
That was the first night and day. My brother lost his little Fiat sports car under a snowbank in Brockton. Found it upside down above another car in a snowbank on about day 3 or 4. One of my teenaged sister's friends stepped on a live wire and was killed. Shoveled one heck of a lot of snow that week. My parents house you could only get in and out by the second floor door and the staircase led into a cut in the snowbank about 15 feet high.
Impossible!!! He cant still live here!! But: John Tarbox (781) 878-6915 19 Vinton Ter Rockland, MA 02370-2442 Read more: 411.info/people/Massachusetts/Rockland/Tarbox-John/116143079.html#ixzz3RrIWoO1f
i drove from Ft.Hood,Texas to Fort Wayne,Indiana on Fri&Sat Jan.13&14,1978 it was snowing in Texas and single lane Frozen ruts I-35N to OklaCity. the East trip wasnt too bad until i got home,,then I didnt see my Car for 2 months buried in snow. House Trailers were completely covered, drifts were 15 foot tall easy. Snowmobile Convoys went on Food Runs to resupply Monroeville,Indiana with basic needs. Then Fort Wayne Flooded that Spring and I filled sand bags all night long. Global Warming at itz finest🙏🏼
i was too young to drive then but i remember all those carbuerated cars and the choke problems dead batteries fouled spark plugs backfires flames all sorts of crazy stuff . fuel injection ended all that fun
I remember it was snowing out and they finally let us out of school about noon and it has already drop 4 in of snow on the ground. I remember announcements on the radio for people with 4 wheel trucks to help picking up nurses and doctors to get them to the hospital also 9 months later there was a little baby boom because the people couldn't get out for a couple days the reason it was so bad they didn't let people out of work until late in the afternoon and by then the roads we're really bad my father barely made it home
Everyone paralyzed in that disaster, they were so much more polite. This country really was so much better then, today there would have been murders and chaos. I remember this snowstorm well here on Long Island, it was incredible, and everyone pitched in! Us kids had a blast!! I was 14yrs old and them were some good Ol days.
yeh..headin' down I-71... leavin' CLE behind next morn...headed to mother Rucker, AL...on a Greyhound bus...that and ARNG road graders only rollin' stock😁👌🇺🇸
I was 15 yrs old and living in Worcester when this hit. Being a paperboy back then I used to jump from the 3rd floor back porch of 3 deckers that I delivered to into deep snow piles.
I drove into Cambridge from Whitman in a 63 Chevy. Got to the Hotel Sonesta where I picked up my buddy (who owned the Chevy) and a couple other people. Ended up about a dozen people in a 12th floor studio apartment with no food for a day. Scammed a pass from the National Guard and drove back to Whitman with people hanging out the windows and sitting in the open trunk.. Along the way we pulled a couple cars out of the snow, got stuck several times and dropped people off near their homes.
I was 8 yrs old when this happened. They let us out of school early that day. Remember walking home with my older brother. At one point mom and dad had to go to work( dad ran heavy equipment clearing the snow and mom at the phone company.) I remember them telling me and my older brother and sister that if we needed anything to get our aunt across the street and than left lol. We had snowbanks till the end of April. A hill that looked like a mountain in the park. Loved it.
WOW, thanks for the video, looked like a brand new Cadillac being towed at the beginning of the video.........Great quality video from 40 years ago ........Thanks.
When Bristol had a radio station (WBIS) they were asking for people who had snowmobiles. They were needed to transport any nurses or doctors that worked at the Hospital.
I was living in (about 2 blocks from) Harvard Square at the time and working in Waltham (about 5 miles away). By late morning the day after it stopped snowing a co-worker and I decided to walk out and got to the end of the trolley line in Belmont. Nothing moving but snow flying up from behind one 8-foot bank. Over the bank we slide down into a tiny commuter's restaurant. The place was wall-to-wall cops. They couldn't go anywhere either and well, they had donuts, and you know a cop looks at a donut; with love in their eyes. Finally got a ride to Harvard Square from a guy in an old station wagon with no glass in his windows, just plastic sheeting taped over them. The real problem came when I tried to get up my driveway. The drive was about 40' long and 5' deep in snow. I finally had to "swim" up it in a breaststroke using my open coat to keep me from sinking down with each stroke. By the time I got about 3/4 of the way up I was getting so tired I was beginning to wonder if I was going to make it, but all my yelling finally paid off and my father looked out the door and saw me. He threw me a life ring from our boat that was being stored in the basement and he and my brother pulled me in. After we got the driveway clear I went exploring and had one of the best days of my life. The snow pile in Harvard Square was about 25' high and there was a constant snowball fight going on for "King of the Mountain". The National Guard came through in the their half-tracks and got a big cheer. Remember that this was the time when cops and the military were hated and despised by most young people so this was a big deal. Later I went back and helped out neighbor hook up his Newfoundland to a sled so he could get around to find food and stuff for his family. A BIG strong young rambunctious dog tied to a sled made for quite a ride. It was a blast. Well that is more than enough of my story, but thanks for posting this, it sure brought the memories back and I have a big smile on right now.
Love the old style "key in the ignition" buzz.
The guy using the little chintzy wooden snow brush...priceless!
It was probably all he had!
I wonder what happened to him & if he did get his car out that night or the next morning. He said his name was JohnTarbox
Then again, he could be a frequent visitor to this page.
If so, how did it work out, Mr. Tarbox?
Back in the day, that's all the stores sold. Chintzy snow brushes or a floor push broom.
man my dad was in that 78, storm.he said everything stop nothing move.can't believe that lucky I was very young at that time.but I miss those old cars just watching getting all that snow.❄⛄😦
I lived in Toledo Ohio when this storm hit. It really started coming down around 9 or 10 am and the snowflakes were the biggest I have ever seen. It must have dropped a few inches in like an hours time. They sent us home from school by 11 am. Didn’t go to school for about a month afterward
I was in the Detroit area. Remember walking to the house my parents were having built in deep snow with my dad at night with flashlights to go check the recently framed house. We moved to Boston in '82, and we always heard about the Blizzard of '78!!
This is the Northeast Blizzard of '78. Different storm than the Ohio Blizzard.
Cleveland, Ohio here...Im still hearing horror stories about it!
We're 1 exit from Downtown Cleveland, Ohio(We seemed to have a church on every corner), some of the neighborhood is in the movie The Deer Hunter w/Deniro,Walken, Meryl Streep, & many others). We got hit & were shovelling everyone out, had no school, & helped on foot w/shovels if we saw people who were stuck.
Loved sled riding at Clark Field w/ friends then too.
@@gallagirl23There was a diff. Storm? Tell me about it please- I thought it was just this one...
Was the best storm of my life time. In Hartford Connecticut the storm came in earlier then they thought, then all the insurance companies let everybody out at the same time. This was the reason so many got stuck.
I was 18 yrs old then and spent 10 days living in memorial school in hull mass with all my friends drinking and inhaling good stuff. Deep water , devastation and unreal cold. Snorkel coats kept us invincible on our 12 mile daily walks round trip
to package store for butts n beverages
When the roads were somewhat cleared I walked down to small market and got the Hartford Courant, Boston Globe and the New York Time and put them in a small box and sent them down to Naples, Fl.
Loving that Dodge Monaco police car!
Later to be seen in the Blues Brothers!
I was home on leave when his storm hit. I was supposed to fly back to El Paso the next day, but got a 3 day extension instead. I was 17 years old.
My family is originally from Connecticut my mother two sisters and I were living in South Carolina at the time we returned in 1979.
Great video quality from '78.
This was a truly crippling blizzard in 1978 in the northeastern united states.
I was looking for my Dad's v.w.bug had no snow around it but he was taken to The Oscar hot dog plant in Framingham that day, what a storm it was..looked for him on r.t.24 in West Bridgewater..on our ski mobile..
That was the first night and day. My brother lost his little Fiat sports car under a snowbank in Brockton. Found it upside down above another car in a snowbank on about day 3 or 4. One of my teenaged sister's friends stepped on a live wire and was killed. Shoveled one heck of a lot of snow that week. My parents house you could only get in and out by the second floor door and the staircase led into a cut in the snowbank about 15 feet high.
Don't wanna insult anybody but that cb in the CAHHH😊
Super quality
-what do you think of snow?
-It's cold!
Do you think all that snow has melted by now?
my father was an Army Major at the time, he drove the national guard plows :D
Where is John Tarbox today I wonder? He lived in Rockland. He was a route salesman for "Quality Copiers"
Impossible!!! He cant still live here!! But:
John Tarbox
(781) 878-6915
19 Vinton Ter
Rockland, MA 02370-2442
Read more: 411.info/people/Massachusetts/Rockland/Tarbox-John/116143079.html#ixzz3RrIWoO1f
tommiej3 holy sh*t!
I was 12 years old in Watertown ... what an experience
i drove from Ft.Hood,Texas to Fort Wayne,Indiana on Fri&Sat Jan.13&14,1978 it was snowing in Texas and single lane Frozen ruts I-35N to OklaCity. the East trip wasnt too bad until i got home,,then I didnt see my Car for 2 months buried in snow. House Trailers were completely covered, drifts were 15 foot tall easy. Snowmobile Convoys went on Food Runs to resupply Monroeville,Indiana with basic needs. Then Fort Wayne Flooded that Spring and I filled sand bags all night long. Global Warming at itz finest🙏🏼
This video is Massachusetts
i was too young to drive then but i remember all those carbuerated cars and the choke problems dead batteries fouled spark plugs backfires flames all sorts of crazy stuff . fuel injection ended all that fun
Wow. They had the 82nd Airborne out there.
I remember it was snowing out and they finally let us out of school about noon and it has already drop 4 in of snow on the ground. I remember announcements on the radio for people with 4 wheel trucks to help picking up nurses and doctors to get them to the hospital also 9 months later there was a little baby boom because the people couldn't get out for a couple days the reason it was so bad they didn't let people out of work until late in the afternoon and by then the roads we're really bad my father barely made it home
No cab or roll bar on end loader .. can you believe how dangerous that was?
Everyone paralyzed in that disaster, they were so much more polite. This country really was so much better then, today there would have been murders and chaos. I remember this snowstorm well here on Long Island, it was incredible, and everyone pitched in! Us kids had a blast!! I was 14yrs old and them were some good Ol days.
The country was also 85 to 80% european back then too, and Massachusetts 97% european. Demographics make a difference my friend.
That's before BLM, DEI, quotas, affirmative action, white privilege, invasion of America, horrific immorality, etc. Need I say more....
Mass State Police car footage starts at 15:34 - single blue light on Dodge Monaco
Lived outside Battle Creek Michigan in 78..Man it was a rough one.
This video is Massachusetts.
I was 22 when this happened and I was out plowing and clearing roads for a week.
I was driving a bus for r.t.a that year I was stuck in that snow for 9 hours
LOL ... 12:55 .. Stop&Shop, Bradlees, MediMart.
1:45 looks like Tom Brady in a military suit.
yeh..headin' down I-71... leavin' CLE behind next morn...headed to mother Rucker, AL...on a Greyhound bus...that and ARNG road graders only rollin' stock😁👌🇺🇸
This video is Massachusetts in 1978.
Hahaha bradlees truck at 12:55. They went out of business years ago.
And just think in 1978 Boston residents could afford rent screw modern Massachusetts those were better days
I will never forget that storm ….
Didn't anybody have a decent weather app on their phone then? Then this one guy refers to his phone as a "cb". Strange video
Cellphones in 1978?
Natl Guard young dude from Calif at 14:15 - haha never saw snow before!
My mistake Army not NG
Donald Jones
He's probably a general now
He had to be from SoCal, because in the Sierra Nevada region, they know snow.
awesome video
I was in Boston when this happened :)
I remember this storm well...
YEAH'
I WAS BORN. 5-10 - 70 MOTHERS DAY... 50 YS THIS MAY 2020
ON A SUNDAY...
TALK THE BLIZZARD. FROM THE 40S
Very good post.
Where's the sound?
This probably 8mm movie film. No sound. For sound you’d have to have super8.
From 9.15
Is that a prisoner @15:25?
Were is this at
Boston area.
The guy at 8:01 🤣
Where the hell's the sound, they had video tape handy cams back then that had sound, gimmie a break.
After 9.15
It must have been bad if someone had to go outside to poop or pee in that cold...
😁
This is not footage of the blizzard of 78
well the interview was not
If that equipment represents the military in action, even by today's standards .. Heaven help y'all in the next disaster? ... just being honest.
Needham towers
Interesting video but with no sound it quite boring!
Typical cop .. standing and and doing nothing.
Have you ever seen a cop shovel snow? .. they carry a bag of kitty litter in the trunk .. no shovel.
Surprised the cop didn't try say; " you cant video ,you have to stand back while we're doing are investigation."
Lmfao yep imagine how boring that is
Aweeee did someone have a bad interaction with the Po Po? Boo hoo for you.