July… Heat, Humidity, Hot Dogs… you know the drill. Often, especially in the Northeast, one of those cool fronts brings relief but they also bring trouble. This particular night in 1977 is remembered by nearly every New Yorker around back then. It started off as a miserably hot day, then a BIG storm front blew in… but it was only one of a chain of events that would leave Big Apple residents in the dark.
Radio covered it well. Lots of audio from WABC, WCBS, WINS & others. 28 years ago this year!
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I remember this quite well. I was 10 Years old. I lived in Jackson Heights. I do remember the WABC coverage, but mostly due to the booming reverb…That still worked? Gerorge Micheal.
Wow, the whole block was out..what a party. But I think it was mostly to protect the neighborhood. I remember going to bed and getting no relief from the heat…Son of Sam, The HeatWave, The Blackout, and NYC in the Summer of 77 at it’s worst..God I still miss it
If memory serves, the reverb was added at the transmitter in Lodi, NJ. Ergo, a power disruption in New York City would not have affected the reverb.
I was watching TV in NJ and all of a sudden all the channels went out, found out the next morning what happened.