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

Speed Limit 55. Id almost forgotten about those days. The funny thing is I-5 was designed for a 75 mph speed limit except in a few places. People were such selfish drivers, the speed limit was set at 55 in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Also: we used to have Rest Area/Stops all over this country. So many have been closed because big business lobbied for the privatization of Rest Stops and now they are for profit. Washington still holds onto the Rest Areas so far... but privatization will arrive.

Had they added more lanes back then it wouldn't be this bad today.

The only town that relatively looks the same is Snohomish. I live in Lake Stevens and boy it's a mess! Gone are the beautiful drives in the country.😪

Born January 83. Lived and worked in Shoreline or Seattle my whole life. Grew up in Shoreline. Never lived outside of King county, or East of Aurora for that matter. I remember a lot of these scenes. Besides all the changes, what sticks out to me are all the places selling R.V.s, truck canopies, and all the VW Beetles on the road or for sale. R.I.P. the Viaduct. I didn’t appreciate back then how cheap gas was!

Could you imagine the stoplight at HWY 16 and 19th street today? hahaha....I almost stacked up a truck at that light back in 89 making a trip to Target without finishing my brake job first.

Wasn’t the 5… “Interstate 5” by 1997? I always knew as that. The narrator kept saying “state route 5.”

Are these old wsdot videos? Highway engineers? They are pointing out lights, signage, middle turn lanes and speed limits - even rec area signs.

The Philly’s cheesesteak shop used to be an Arco?!

Did the person who recorded these work for Washington DOT or something? I love the historical implications of all of these being put on youtube to save forever, but curious as to why they recorded these. I find these super fascinating.

Haha! I remember this! I remember when 167 was a two way highway and they were building the other side to the left (southbound) still to make it a proper north and south divided highway!!! You can tell they are already possibly flattening that land over there for the southbound. Vivid memories. I would have been 7 in 82.

I love these videos but you should really have been in the right lane if you are driving so slow. You are a hazard here.

What I would give for cars to look this good again.

Omg before the mall. That was a farm on the right. Also right before the freeway overpass, to the right was a tree farm. I was looking for our scout or our celica going opposite direction of you this whole video because this is where i grew up from 3 years old to beginning 8th grade, so we were there during your video. I went to the coop (preschool) on the left side of the road from firgrove elementary on the right for kindergarten. And then they built pope elementary up the hill and farther down passed 144th. We lived up the hill on 118th off of 144th at the left turn of the cider press on the right. The only thing i didn’t realize is that 144th didn’t have a light! I can’t even imagine this. This became one of the worst intersections for crashes up there even with lights. This brings back memories. I remember it being this woodsy and rural. I also remember that 7-11 on the left (76 on the right) because we would go there for slurpees of course. Once you get past the thunder field bar (?) on the right, i get lost. We didn’t go that way much except to go to mt. Rainier, northwest trek, or the landfill.

Use your ashtray. Also on 8/15/88 it is possible my mom was preparing her classroom for headstart/eceap at the parkland school that you passed if there was a rust red/orange scout parked out front there. We used to go to the dairy dell for lunch and snack if we had to help her in her classroom too. Spanaway, we spent a lot of time at sprinker ice skating rink with lessons. and then when i was in high school our tennis finals were at the sprinker tennis courts because they were inside. Also after high school i got a job at spinning wheels roller palace which i believe was on 133rd and that was 5 years after your film here. Lastly, i grew up in south hill/puyallup so i believe the road we would take would have been south on south hill and eventually it would have hit this sr-7 on one of those eatonville/puyallup meetups. We did go to mt. Rainier a lot in nice weather and in snow while growing up.

I forgot how popular boxy old Volvos were back when Seattle still had a healthy Nordic heritage

Wow Tiny's Tires, Kimbell's Collision,and Spud's Pizza Parlor are all still there!

Do you have any Sultan or Gold Bar footage?

13:26 I remember that BP and the corner of 112th and Pac Ave! If I remember right it got torn down because one of it's tanks was leaking and it was a huge cleanup. Now it's an AutoZone.Did a car wash fund raiser there at some point in the '90s.

Love to see glimpses of Kingston--though my folks didn't move out to the Peninsula til 1989... It's kind of a shame to get such brief/passing glimpses of the old Red Apple Market complex, Kingston Inn, etc. etc. I had no idea the old "Community Center" was a Church, or that it was painted Red and not blue! :)

interesting that last bit of 16 between Union and Sprague looks pretty similar today. But the overpass over the valley is completely different now. It was cool to see the Tacoma Mall there with what I assume was the old theater where I watched Independence Day!

Drivers were no better back then. Look at the number of clueless lane changes and turns, (without signaling) on Rainer from Sea thru Renton. Also forgot there was no exit at 212th back then.

What I am learning is that in the past, everyone was poor, because they could only afford old cars.

Man, that Jack in the box on 85th has been there forever!!

Chubby and Tubby!!

Hmm. No tents along PAC Ave back in those days….

I actually live in that neighborhood wow so many memories I lived in Seattle/Shoreline my whole life, and this brings me back so many memories

5:41 Pete’s Pool still had a pool !

So much better without SUV's.