Who was on strike at 2:32? I wonder if it was GTE, they had an office on that block. The current Snohomish County hazmat recycle building was the old GTE garage. There was an engineering office a block or 2 to the north.

I was 8 years old. god, i remember when it used to look like this

2024

My family moved to Marysville from Mercer Island, my mother being part of the design team to finish the construction of i-5 north of Everett. It was different times then & not a whole hell of a lot went on back then in Snohomish county except that Tulalip had a failing Drive-In Movie Theater called the Thunderbird 9:16 & would later take advantage of the fact this new highway to nowhere might generate some more business for the Thunderbird & wasn't a damn thing Marysville residents could do when the Tbird showed X rated movies after 10pm. But not even that saved the Tbird, a wind storm which was constantly knocking the movie screen down, eventually knocked it down for good one late night & who would think Tulalip would grow into being the #2 employer of the county & reward their members with money & possibilities that seemed impossible when the State came in & used eminent domain to just take the border between Tulalip & Marysville as free land for the new I-5 that few had any faith in. Most called the who interstate freeway project a jobs program at a time when jobs wasn't a problem until Boeing laid off 2/3rds of their work force & building that freeway was the only place hiring good paying jobs. If it wasn't for that Freeway i suppose Tulalip would have never dug itself out from exrreme poverty & the Feds never would have approved & created "Quilceda Village" the 2nd "District" ever created by Congress (the 1st district being the USA Capitol District of Columbia, which prevented the Columbia District from keeping its name once the southern half was bought from Britain in 1846, the north renaming itself British Columbia & the south renaming itself Oregon Territory because the name Columbia was taken by our nations Capitol. So... after Oregon was carved out from us & became a state in 1859 a new name was required so we stole the name Washington from the same idiots who stole our name Columbia.

It’s crazy to remember Spokane this way. Now this whole stretch is just homeless and junkies wandering around.

I miss this life I was 13 years old.

The narrator sounds so Canadian.

Basically looks the same except all the businesses are gone. Nothing new and what’s left is old and decrepit. Rip Aberdeen hoquiam.

6-10-97 I was in boot camp getting my ass kicked during the filming of this video lol.

Im surprised with the lack of traffic. 8/27/83 what day was it? Judging from the shadows it looks morning.

This is hilarious. If it weren't for the cars and gas prices, you'd be hard pressed on deciding whether it's from 30 years ago or last week

I'm unbelievably annoyed that you cannot see any Buffalo in this video!

Love these old videos of places I lived at the time!

It's good to have this to show to friends when I say "I grew up east of Lynnwood and it is WAY different now compared to when I was a little kid..."

Thanks for posting

For some reason the first thing that made me go "Oh wow!" was realizing how long the Jack in the Box has existed at 85th haha Other notable things: the casino at 220th in Edmonds was literally just some piles of dirt; "Oh whaaat" - me remarking at the Arby's still existing on Everett Mall Way; How remarkably barren Everett Mall Way was back then...

Taco Bell on 188th still standing! Cheveron is still on 200th and the restaurant across the street is there but has been abandoned for like over a decade now.

28:07 up on the right hand side there’s a pathway you can sneak onto. My buddies and I would skate around Seattle all day and hit up that spot sometimes to smoke weed before it was legal. I loved that spot. Get high and watch all the cars driving by

I moved to this area just a few years after this and so I can recall when most of the missing buildings were built, but I was somewhat shocked to see Thrasher's Corner without a Safeway and 180th with nothing on the east side of the road.

1:51 Pontiac Firebird trans am

80's

Sooo many trees gone now. 😢

7:03 Chevrolet el camino 1973 33:16 Chevrolet Camaro 1981

3:36 Did he just time traveled from August 3rd, 1982 to August 4th, 1982?

There should be a trigger warning on this for those of us who suffer amongst Seattle drivers on the road

90's

28:08 How epic is two identical Volkswagen vans pulling up on either side?! So badass!!!

Longacres!!! 🐎

32:00 I used to have a Price Savers membership. It later tuned into Sam's Club. Today the whole property is vacant.

Is this your last video?

Born in Spokane in 1937 and grew up with in 1 /2 Block of the river it was a time of incredible freedom for a young boy allowing him to be Huck Fin and yes Tom Sawyer all in the same day. I graduated from Roger’s in 1956. Perhaps some of you remember the A and W drive in at the bottom of Division St Hill it was the place to be on Friday night what memories

I do remember the Burlington Northern Railroad. And I do remember them having cabooses.

I remember the Mustang Ranch (Ford Mustang parts yard) just south of Fitz there in Woodinville. It was tl right by the Grace tollbooth.

Feels like there are more trees today than back in 1987.

Even back then, it takes 30s of a video to show a driver being cut off on I5. The Broadway exit has sure changed since the early 80s.

I drive this road every morning and night, going and coming from work. Now, in 2024, crazy how things have changed

Question: Is this how streets were mapped before Google Maps? I'm just wondering.

I PCS'd to Spokane in 2002, we moved to Everett in 2011, it's crazy how so much has changed, even in the last 5 years. I'm watching this in 2024. It just shows how change is inevitable. Thanks for the upload.

7:37 cat is going for a walk 😺

1991=33 years ago. OMG no traffic! The planning in government did this right! Still working, depending on the time of day and traffic.

Whoa - Tacoma Boys, Bantz Blvd., Tower Lanes, Pay-n-Pak, one bridge structure, and (not seen)... the infamous Span Deli on the other side of the Narrows. Total throwback!

So it wasn't the drugs. Cars really did come in more colors back then.

Wow that's grand. Seconds in I'm thinking where r u. Oh the 3 way, but coincidentally (Of all coincidences I absolutely don't believe in just randomness!) your driving right past me the Hampton trailer (Trash Trap) park. ????? Thank you for sharing this video 2 years before I was born. Honestly this just makes me think of my dad. Bringing me to work lots of times ... In his mutha fucking Kenworth mule train logging'em truck. Ron "Rattle snake" Chapman born a logger and passed away a logger, and even while in his log truck. RIP DAD love you. Anyways , so now un- coincidentally what's he trying to show or tell me? When I comment again , I saw the sign. TV is saying it's a sign in writing. Blown away . TV straight spoke what I just wrote down 1 second after RIGHTING? gooses bumps I tell ya. S n a p outa it text mode hypnotized

The Golden Age. Simplicity, modesty, sophistication and excellence in everything through the streets, roads and simple life in the beautiful city of Seattle in the late eighties and nineties.

Such a cool project, decades in the making

55 mph

At 47:15 I remember this stretch of road called the "suicide curves" or "deadman's curves".

Lived in Arlington/Edgecomb area from 1976-86. I was lucky. I couldn't have asked for a better place to have grown up.

4:53 Very cool. I had just moved on to Fort Lewis in July of 88 into the Old Hillside neighborhood by the gate there at MP 120.92

Left Lane is for passing, not lollygagging. Even if you're going the speed limit, it's illegal to dog it in the left lane unless you're moving faster than the traffic in the lane that's right of you