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Peaches Records & Tapes, Inc., was a Los Angeles-based national retail chain of record superstores, some as large as 15,000 square feet. The chain became a subsidiary of the Nehi Record Distributing Corporation. Tom Heiman (né Thomas Michael Heiman; born 1941) [1] founded Peaches in 1963 and went on to become president of Nehi. At its peak ...
This helped contribute to the 1966-67 winter setting a record seasonal snowfall of 68.4 inches (173.7 cm) for Chicago, breaking the previous record of 66.4 inches (168.7 cm), set in 1951–52. This record would be surpassed just three seasons later, when the 1969-70 winter dropped 77.0 inches (195.6 cm) of snow on the city.
[74] [75] For the first time in history, Los Angeles failed to reach 70 °F (21 °C) in February. [76] On February 21, Flagstaff saw their snowiest day on record with 35.9 in (91 cm) of snow. [77] From February 28 to March 4, New York City tied a record for the most consecutive days with measurable snow, at 5. [78]
Public officials warned people to keep off the roads due to extremely dangerous whiteout conditions in parts of the Midwest and northern plains
Great Blizzard of 1978: New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York metropolitan area: US February 5–7, 1978 5 Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978: Northern Illinois, northwest Indiana: US January 13–14, 1979 4 1979 Chicago blizzard: Upper Midwest of the United States US October 31–November 3, 1991 5 1991 Halloween blizzard
One of the most recent blizzards in Chicago took place on Feb. 1-2, 2011, when over 20 inches of snow piled up in Chicago.The powerful storm responsible for the blizzard also dealt wintry weather ...
"All records for the erection of a huge structure were believed to have been broken when last week the Scofield Engineering Construction Company turned over the new $5,000,000 department store and mail-order house at Ninth street and Boyle avenue to Sears, Roebuck & Co., having completed this height-limit project in 146 working days, or 171 ...
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