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You know what's coming up next month? Yes, the 40th anniversary of The Blizzard
By adamg on Wed, 01/17/2018 - 9:27am
And is that what started us down the road to French Toast? Sean Barnacoat at WBZ found this clip in the station archives:
When it snows... BREAD & MILK!
Is this when it all started, @universalhub? #WBZ Blizzard of 78 clip... pic.twitter.com/r5Ibe1Izff— Sean Barnacoat (@BarnacoatWBZ) January 17, 2018
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Bread, milk, some small meats
Obviously, they made French Toast a bit differently back in the day.
Cheese
Add some cheese to that and you can make stuffed french toast. Adding ham in the middle works well.
croque monsieur...
Is, I believe, what that is called.
...or in the US, a Monte Cristo
A more commonly encountered name around here, although it seems that there are nearly as many variations and names for it as there are countries where people like sandwiches.
aka "Monty Crisco"
My first encounter with those was when I took a job at Arthur D. Little in the late '80s, and they had them in the cafeteria.
I had also known them as a toasted ham and cheese.
You don't see that very much anymore
(and that's a good thing)
Three-piece suits and three identical hairdos on a TV set.
At least I think that's the case. Can't remember the last time I actually watched the news on TV
Enormous bows on blouses
Worn with fe-male business skirt suits, to make power suits girly.
What else you don't see
A calm interview with a reporter asking reasonable questions at a normal tone of voice.
For that matter, when's the last time
you actually saw a reporter interview someone live on camera.
"Food and snow shovels....
.....the truest staples in such troublesome times"
That's some poetic truth right there.
1978 must have been the widest that suit lapels ever got.
Giant shirt collars and neckties, too.
The anchorman's hairdo looks like it was inspired by Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in The Enforcer.
Not just Jack Williams
Check out the hair on Bruce Schwoegler, standing in front of his weather map with the temperatures he wrote in himself with a magic marker.
Of course, I should talk, with my Members Only windbreaker back then ...
GREAT shirt collars and neckties!
Fixed that for you, guy.
(Sorry, don't know how to do the strike out.)
Those repressed memories bubbling up
1970s plaid Polyester pants, God, even Paul Newman looked horrible in them in "Slapshot"
I sometimes miss the old Blizzard
HA! I see what you did there!
HA!
I see what you did there!
Didn’t realize Seth Macfalane
Didn’t realize Seth Macfalane use to be a store clerk
Hard Times!
It's been so long I can't even imagine having the cashier type in every price
Back in the day, a good cashier at a smaller store
could type in the price just by looking at the item, without having to read the price tag.
Babie boom 10 months later -
Babie boom 10 months later - no work, no school, no power. What else was there to do?
Urban Legend
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2015/10/26/no-a-wave-of-blizzard-...
This article talks about 1978, too, when there was no such bubble.
Eggs were bad for you in the '70's
I'm guessing this was filmed before it became apparent that Route 128 was snowed in and they shut down non-essential traffic for a couple of days. I don't think those deliveries happened when the manager expected them. A couple of days after there wasn't any bread or milk and hardly any eggs. I remember getting some condensed milk because that was all there was. (Blech.)
Simpler times. We had to walk uphill both ways to the grocery store and we liked it!
But 2015 was worse in my opinion. 1978 had two big storms. There was a large one a couple of weeks before the Blizzard that people forget. I think 2015 was like 6 in a month, each one pretty epic.
Probably depends on your age...
I was 12 in '78.
Best storm ever!
Off school for a week. Jumping off my triple decker porches into the snow. Skid hopping all over the hood behind busses and bread trucks. Making mad cash shovelling.
2015? Eh, not so much...
So much goodness...
...in that clip.
Jack Williams. Bruce Schwoegler and the many sliding maps that he wrote on himself with marker.
The Bruins sweater. B's were still kings in Boston, almost 2 years after Orr left.
Old school accent. You can find alot of people that still say "staht" ... but not so many that'll tell you a "stahm" is coming!
If you heard someone say
If you heard someone say "stahm", they're not from around here.
If they were from around here, they'd say "stom".
Adam, can we get clarification on this?
Wicked good guide to bawstin English, stahm? Oah, stom?
Thank you.