On Monday, Feb. 6, 1978, Massachusetts was bombarded with fast-falling, heavy snow. By the end of the storm, which lasted over 30 hours, the region had been hit with more than 2 feet of snow, stranding cars and marooning workers and students.
Days after the legendary Blizzard of ’78 buried the Brockton area, renowned Brockton Enterprise photographer Stanley A. Bauman captured an image that would become a widely remembered photograph — Mike Barron sitting atop a phone booth nearly buried in snow, using the phone, with snow piled high around him.
On Monday, Feb. 23, almost five decades later, Brockton was again buried beneath 30 inches of paralyzing snow from the Blizzard of 2026…