1980 Walking Tour of Seattle

[@jonanddy]

"Outrageous $2 each" I'm dead

[@bankruupt]

Now its 10$

[@ChathamGames]

@@bankruupt Ha I wish! It's $25-38 depending on if it's tourist season or not.

[@GreatPacNorthwest]

35 cents monorail ticket...and ride the space needle elevator for an "outrageous" $2 each LOL!

[@byrd7633]

@Kyle Mortensen ikr

[@WallStreetIceCream]

Looks unrecognizable

[@prgirl]

It truly does

[@patsalas5170]

Loved Seattle in the 1970s ❤ lived on Capitol Hill, worked at Frederick and Nelson and got my degree at UW...remember well the public market, pioneer square and Trident imports ❤

[@prgirl]

The good ol days

[@user-uh9ff6pv1r]

So lucky to have spent my young man years there back then. It made a lasting impression upon my soul.

[@EdwardTravels]

Wow. Seattle has changed so much since this was made Thanks for posting this great look back

[@IInvictus]

Gee I wonder what it could be?

[@jodylancaster8706]

Democrats ruined this city.

[@EverythingWavy]

I worked for Nordstrom in the original store, mid 90’s, and was there for the big move into their newly renovated store, the old Frederick Nelson building. From childhood Santa pictures to bustling holiday shopping seasons and everything in between. Downtown used to be a fun and exciting place to work, shop, watch movies, eat and explore. So much so that the era of department stores seems like a past dream. The number of closed and boarded up store fronts is astounding but not surprising. Downtown Seattle is now an empty shell of its former heyday.

[@jamosh1967]

I used to work at the Southcenter Mall Nordstrom from 1989 to 1999.

[@patsalas5170]

😊 I worked at Frederick and Nelson in the 70s and used to get my hair cut at the salon in Nordstrom ❤ pike place market was so good then, when Starbucks was new and only sold coffee beans..❤

[@EverythingWavy]

@@patsalas5170 One of my fondest childhood memories in the late 70’s during the holidays was having a Frango milkshake, at the art deco 50’s style diner, at the counter, in the basement of Frederick & Nelson’s and marveling over the black and white checkerboard floor pattern.

[@patsalas5170]

@@EverythingWavy 😏 it was the budget floor ( they didn't like the basement).. I worked there while getting my degree at UW...my favorite was the candy dept by the 6th Ave entrance..one Christmas I got to work in the candy factory on the 10th floor tying bows on boxes of chocolates 🤗

[@EverythingWavy]

@@patsalas5170 haha that’s an amazing perspective. I was probably just 4yro then. I too remember the candy department! If you haven’t read The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson I highly recommend it. It has a hilarious remembrance and nostalgia to it like the dearly departed department store era.

[@lilychu8912]

I miss the free Metro rides between Chinatown and Downtown to this day. And the old Seattle Public Library was cool in a 1960s-1970s sort of way. It was lovely growing up in Seattle.

[@Dreaded88]

@Lily Chu : I envy you. I wished I could've grown up in seattle. Instead I got *_'Nasty Nuke-Yuck'_* and lived to hate it! I live in Seattle now, and after this past *_"Summer of Loooove"_* (I'm being sarcastic here) I've gotta' move out! I wished I could've seen Seattle when it was gorgeous! *_:(....._*

[@kylemortensen407]

@@Dreaded88 watch the documentary called Streetwise filmed in 1984, it wasnt that beautiful and infact more dangerous in the 80s and 90s then today.

[@Dreaded88]

@@kylemortensen407 : I fully remember *"Streetwise"!* And yes, I can agree with you to a degree. Seattle's problems in the 80's/early 90's were caused by Boeing loosing the *S.S.T.* contract. [As someone who grew up in the shadow of *Grumman'* I really know what pain!]. It took so long for Seattle to recover. *Nuke Yuck* barely recovered, only to be trounced once again, by both *_'Bloombug'_* and now *_'ASS-BLASTIO'!_* This was when/how *New York* became: *_"Nuke Yuck"_* and Seattle's in grave danger of becoming just like it! Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYisaaCJhb-YeZI

[@philosopher2king]

That trolley train that went from the Old Spaguetti factory to Chinatown was so quaint and awesome. I'm glad I got to ride it a few years before they did away with it.

[@tomspeer9627]

Me too!

[@mizowhyte]

It's a real treat, all this fentanyl use around you when on public transportation, and people camping in the streets makes you feel real safe !

[@richardgadberry8398]

Yeah, back then the worst thing you'd see on a bus was some drunk pissing his pants.

[@cliffhammer7953]

@Duffelbag Drag Not only Seattle....

[@prgirl]

😢

[@thecandyman9308]

Raleigh, NC, Richmond, VA, Roanoke, VA, Columbia, SC et al. take note. This is coming for YOUR town in the next 12-36 months!

[@DonstarGaming]

$2 space needle tickets coming to Roanoke?

[@MukhtarMarso]

I like old memories

[@jamaicasky]

Thank you! This was fun to watch. Thank you for including the prices in your narration. It's all very interesting! I lived there in the 80s I loved it 💙💙💙💙

[@philosopher2king]

Surprisingly, not much has changed on this tour (Pioneer Square, Ivar's and Pike Place) in 41 years.

[@AB-bc9tf]

This is the Seattle I miss. I don’t know what that place is now.

[@norahwillett]

I hate that we can’t take a bus to Pike Place Market any more.

[@Danatownsmith67]

I forgot which number for that bus is it the 99?

[@vipermad358]

Uhhh...you still can. And light rail, too!

[@Danatownsmith67]

@@vipermad358 nah b the 99 bus was straight up have a bus stop in front of pike place and waterfront because i used to work at Port of Seattle and some employees were complaining about the 99 disappearing

[@jasongrooming36]

@@vipermad358 luckily you typed out uhhh. It made your comment sound so intelligent.

[@drscopeify]

@@vipermad358 Also the Street car goes to Pioneer :)

[@prgirl]

I miss this old seattle. Now there's so many more ppl.

[@jodylancaster8706]

Back when Seattle was nice.

[@markpreston6930]

Seattle wasn't nice in 1980.

[@markpreston6930]

@@jodylancaster8706 Seattle was loaded with drunk Indians from Pioneer Square to 3rd and Pine in the 70s and 80s. Junkies were on Aurora AVE. Junkies and hookers hung out at The Donut Shop at Pike Place Market. The restaurants were swill.

[@markpreston6930]

@Duffelbag Drag Passed out dying indians throughout downtown, smog, junkies on Aurora, shitty food.

[@forevershampoo]

@@markpreston6930 bullshit it was great all the way up to the 2000s - now it is being intentionally destroyed

[@markpreston6930]

@@duffelbagdrag Drunk Indians dying throughout downtown from Pi Square to 3rd and Pine and junkies on 1st AVE and on Aurora. You idiots that revise history are a stale joke.

[@DYvideos]

$2 for the space needle being outrageous when it’s like $40 now lol, the 80’s weren’t even that long ago

[@Imfafe]

the 80's were like 40 years ago

[@PlayWaves1]

@@Imfafe But with inflation that's still only $7.47, so the current price has skyrocketed well above inflation at $37.50.

[@Imfafe]

@@PlayWaves1 then don’t get it cheap ass

[@elizabethcoffee8436]

Thank you for this. Bitter-sweet

[@bongwelll]

This was before modern life came in and screwed up everything. This is the city/world I grew up in. Feels like it was all just a dream then. Our modern society is what happens when you make basic life unaffordable and cut social programs. It's really sad. Makes me wanna check out permanently.

[@markpreston6930]

Drunks, hookers and junkies were all over Downtown Seattle you liar.

[@trossk]

funy how so much has changes, yet other parts have stayethe same. i miss the Seattle from when i was a kid, but cant stop the steps of time, unfortunately

[@EminencePhront]

0:25 They were still running this model in the mid 90s when I first started riding the bus on my own. I remember thinking how old and decrepit they were by then.

[@josac966]

Wow so much has changed ever since. There are taller buildings now and it's also sad to see how there are so many homless people now and so much trash on the streets.

[@kendrabrown6345]

Blame your parents tree hugging yuppies

[@jasongrooming36]

@@kendrabrown6345 seriously? More like shitty politicians Seattle morons keep voting for. But of course you dullards blame everyone but yourselves.

[@psymi-hk1fp]

cumulative effect of 60 years of Democrat party rule over Seattle... don't forget the rotting infrastructure, filthy and dangerous buses, and roaming mentally ill drug addicts

[@tobyjones-garvey3226]

Modern seattle is shitty compared to this.

[@markpreston6930]

Seattle was full of drunks and junkies in 1980 you liar.

[@Skier10]

Mark Preston..from someone who grew up there during this time and lives there now.. um sorry you’re completely wrong.

[@dawnwelch6579]

@@Skier10 I’ve lived in Washington state/PNW since I was only a few months old (I’m 53 now) and as a former stadium/attraction worker, I can say that Seattle has been losing its individuality and going downhill for years. I would sadly have tourists come up to me and ask why so many homeless people are so visible. This would be while they’re going to a concert or a game, or up high in an observatory where many more tents and campers are out along just about any road and freeway underpass. I also used to work in the Columbia Tower (the tallest one in Seattle; higher than the Space Needle) for a couple years; an observatory is up there - and during that time view of the Space Needle was slowly covered up by now what is the 2nd tallest Seattle building. So much construction…a lot of crime and shootings…many iconic places and venues and events changing/closing/ending… Extremely sad...

[@Skier10]

Dawn Welch… my response was to a comment that seems to be no longer here that said Seattle was better now. I agree with you… Seattle is much worse then it use to be in many ways.

[@dawnwelch6579]

@@Skier10 Gotcha! I do not see the comment in question either...thanks for letting me know!! 😊

[@Sabbathtage]

The bus fare is $0.35 Me: What, nothing, NOTHING in my world cost 35 cents! The Space Needle elevator is "an outrageous" $2 each Me: THAT'S WHAT I PAY FOR MY BUS FARE! (Inflation is wild)

[@KingCast65]

0:36 Volvo 122 1:28 I'll ride that bus. 1:47 SAAB 99 GL

[@DeborahFESQF-jf4gw]

Awesome tape! 👍🐝🦷♥️👯‍♀️🙌🏿💲🇺🇸

[@user-uh9ff6pv1r]

You need a tank to do downtown Seattle these days.

[@seattlebeard]

1980: Cheap rent, no homeless people, safe streets, and practically no tourists or chain stores. It was fun while it lasted. I bailed in 2010, and don't miss it at all.

[@smallviolin3842]

Until you look up that crime rate chart buddy

[@xrrrismickey]

There were some. It just wasn't every where and white liberal virtue seekers at the time wanted to keep them in institutions. Now they fight each other for the privilege to have them poop in their yard. Only Republicans wanted them on the streets starting with Reagan. Liberals are just 🐑. They'll do whatever they are told is cool at the moment

[@sodanomusic]

That look out of the Space Needle over the city is wild. I took a screen shot and grabbed a modern google image of looking out just to compare. Cool o check out all the growth

[@Kiddo5010]

This Is Like Pre War Fallout And Now Its Post War Today

[@sobefobik]

Where is all the trash on the streets and homeless people??

[@IceManLikeGervin]

Lots of homeless people, prostitution and drugs back then in the 1980s. Skid row was right across the street from the Pike Place Market...on Pine Street between on First and Second avenues (the old JC Penny's store) as well as all along First avenue down to Yesler street. Pioneer Square was where the drunks hung out as well as around the King County court house. This broadcast episode just didn't show that part.

[@good1day726]

They’re working in their jobs? which used to exist, apparently, or families, once in existence also, apparently and helped ppl to not fall through as much.

[@scotronix]

There used to be flophouse “hotels” where the drunks lived that were super cheap rooms, shared bathroom. You would see their signs around the Chinatown / pioneer square area. Super cheap like $8/night. Winos would bum up quarters and live there I think government made those illegal (started requiring individual kitchens, bathrooms) .

[@albeback5234]

I miss Lusty Ladies 😢

[@flutebasket4294]

"You mean there was a time when Seattle wasn't an open-air toilet, daddy?" "Yes son.... yes...." 😔

[@aidenpearce4409]

"Outrageous 2 dollars each" wow and now it's almost 20x that price lol, almost 40 bucks

[@dude4173]

Back then min wage was $2/hr. Now it’s like what, $15? And the price of going up is $40? Everything was cheaper back then

[@IceManLikeGervin]

The fish guy at the market just rubbed his nasty hands all over that salmon before he wrapped it up...wow

[@garthwatkins2806]

That's the last thing to be worrying about. Don't think so? Seek help.

[@estebong]

Man, I miss those prices

[@ahill9477]

Before the crazies came….

[@psymi-hk1fp]

before Californians invaded

[@sophis9453]

I was born 20 years after this ... Huh

[@stevenbloom5470]

Not one blue tarp in sight!

[@MrWolfTickets]

Lol the Denny regrade area was so sparse... Let's go to Frederick Cadillac and steal some gold emblems, then hit the UA 150.

[@zarnell]

I had the pleasure of living in Seattle in 79-80. I was just a kid but wow what a great place it USED to be.

[@arhondo]

Still is.

[@zarnell]

@@arhondo No, its not. It USED to be though. its a liberal SHITHOLE now.

[@John-cu8bu]

@@arhondothe city is awful unless you’re a fent smoking schizo junkie

[@jaywilldoit]

Seattle imported third world citizens into their city council such as Savant Shawarma or whatever the hell her name is, and has slowly become a third world city. So sad. I missed the 90s America.

[@johngottasuper2771]

The guys nose is melted from the coke! Lol

[@IWantATimeMachine0000]

Oh how this once great city has fallen in recent years. 😢

[@JTSunriseMusic]

Back when small businesses jobs were everywhere, seafood was cheap, apartments were a few hundred a month, coffee shops and bars and music venues were numerous. Now all gone. Replaced by Trump towers, boarded-up corporate storefronts, and insane people living on the streets

[@Guy_with_the_funny_voice]

now that Seattle in there finest day everything was beautiful and cheap before inflation happened.

[@jegr3398]

Such a cool city

[@loge10]

Big Tech ruined Seattle...

[@markpreston6930]

Led Zeppelin reruns and ranch dressing ruined Seattle.

[@loge10]

@Duffelbag Drag Yes, but what produced the mass homelessness? While there was no doubt homeless when I lived there 40 years ago, what's occurring now is unbelievable- homeless villages all over the city.

[@tmorelli1982]

@@loge10 .... It's called population growth

[@romanceenthusiasm7972]

​@@tmorelli1982 True but depopulation must ensure population growth doesn't continue.

[@IWantATimeMachine0000]

​@@tmorelli1982It'S cAlLeD pOpUlAtIoN gRoWtH. Typical Democrat. 🙄 No it's awful Democrat mayors who bring their stupid policies onto the city. And that is why so many American cities are suffering with mass crime and homelessness today. Wake up.

[@larryj1048]

I bet the fishmongers don't rub their bare hands over the fish anymore.

[@xrrrismickey]

So sad what this place had turned into

[@TheRPGRogue]

$2 dollars for the Space Needle? "Outrageous". I wonder how much it is now with inflation

[@drscopeify]

@Duffelbag Drag I went there with family and when we saw the price we left. Thankfully Columbia Center "Sky View Observatory" is like $25 or something so not too bad and I think the view is nicer, way higher up.

[@patsalas5170]

Actually, the ride up was free if you ate in the revolving restaurant...I got my degree at UW in early 1970s and took my 9 yr old son there in 1986...we had breakfast for 2 for less than $15..😂

[@PlayWaves1]

@@patsalas5170 Sadly they got rid of the restaurant :(

[@xrrrismickey]

The restaurant is gone? Wow

[@youtubecensors5419]

Seattle used to be so wonderful. Meh, nothing lasts forever.

[@David-ho7nt]

When Washington was beautiful and our politicians actually believed in the people. We just elected a Republican Governor but was elected on merit and not because of party. We had a democratic run in the mayorship of Seattle but once again was elected on merit. Washington lost this long tradition of merit a few decades ago and all hope was lost when that idiot Jay Inslee took control of what once was a great state.

[@UAL320]

That city bus looks great….now the busses are filthy and filled with filthy drug users…

[@ShirtlessGuy-zz1qp]

Yes, 1980s, we're different. Oddly. 2023. Is now a fishn chips wonk. Of disasters