A History of Seattle, 1987 Documentary by Kaw Films, F823

A history of Seattle, from the 1800s, to the 1980s. This film already appears on YT, but as a VHS video, with some information loss. Here we have a 16mm film captured as if it was filmed some 40 years ago. Film has its problems, but so too does magnetic video tape. Please enjoy the film version of footage...without colour dullness or electric noise on shadows!

[@1VirginiaL]

As someone who has lived in or within 200 miles of Seattle for most of my (long) life, I appreciated this documentary ... truly a gem.

[@jamesleyda365]

I miss that beautiful city, where has she gone?!

[@UmQasaann]

White colonizers can go back to Europe.

[@jtoland2333]

I know. Remember how pretty downtown was? And you could walk around after dark and yeah, it could be dangerous but nothing like now.

[@bobrowers]

ZOGonzoTRIBE ruined it. Peattle RIP

[@DemiDogg]

She started doing fentanyl like a bunch of these other people unfortunately

[@loge10]

This is great. It'd be even better if it had been filmed two or three years before while I was still living there, but it really does show the place and its spirit of the time. I was there from 1976 to 1985, during my twenties. I still miss it and have friends there I still visit-but I am so sad about what it's become...

[@WendyAllen-df5yg]

I was born in Seattle in 1965 and I have great memories. My Dad was in the coastguard. We ate alot in Chinatown. It was great.

[@TbHiNgK]

Don’t buy much into the social media. I live here, it really really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be 😂

[@loge10]

Yes, but how long have you lived there? Can you compare conditions now from 40 years ago? I have visited many times since 1985, the last time in 2018, and compared to when I lived there, it's horrific - homeless encampments everywhere, crime, overcrowded and overpriced. And I also don't do social media - I use personal experience, something social media is having us lose our capacity for...

[@GS-zc4sk]

A libtard dumpster fire 🔥

[@cme98]

This movie was made in 1987, Microsoft went public 1986. Amazon wasn’t even a vision back then. Boeing was respectable back then & McDonnell/Douglas wasn’t imploding things like they are today. Seattle followed Boeings every command like pawns. The 1980s was a great moment for Seattle to clean up its streets & present itself to the world & hope someone might notice. That moment came in 1990 when Seattle hosted the Goodwill Games, a big thing back then & the weather was perfect Larry King hosted the games & remarked after looking out the window of his studio, the sun setting behind the Olympic Mountains with a slight fog majestically colored from the sun, “look at that” Larry shouted LOOK AT THAT! Yesterday it was 96° & now its 69° just amazing it feels great looks beautiful i have never experienced this before ever, look at that!” And i guess people were looking. Seattle looks somewhat like it did in 1987, today it ranks as a World Class City for being a tourist destination, a business destination, expensive & unaffordable & that is no small accomplishment.

[@blubaughmr]

I still have a team water bottle one of the Russian women tossed near me when they went through my neighborhood on the Goodwill Games marathon.

[@macshawnakastepdaddy9060]

This is a awesome video of Seattle I seen my big brother Kenny Drumming when he worked @ Tillicum Village so now it became a family video now thank you for these memories the people that made the video god bless you guy 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@loge10]

Which of the two guys is it? Can I assume it's the guy drumming?

[@ACR_BOX]

My (Dutch) Uncle lived there. We went to Seattle in 1987 for 6 weeks. We did a few days Vancouver and later we went on the very to Victoria for a few days. Many things shown in this video i have seen and visited. Downtown, Chinatown, Harbor + market down there, sea world, Indian reservation, forest with giant trees ect ect.. Great memories, thanks for sharing👍

[@matthieuhaentjens9518]

great video ! I am doing a documentary about marine life in Puget Sound, do you think I could use some of this footage ? Thanks, Mateo

[@EnronnSierra]

Watching this, I get goose bumps knowing that I live here. I have to say though, the scenes shown especially the Pioneer Square area is a little rough today. Homelessness and drug addiction is rampant. I feel like someone came here, saw the beauty, splendor, productivity, progressiveness, innovative, pioneering nature of Seattle and decided to poison it. Its just so strange how so much has changed from what looked like a great rhythm. Now, cost of living is way up; and the dream for many buying a house seems impossible. I put a lot of blame on leadership, it has in some ways moved too much in the direction of woke liberalism. Nothing wrong with being liberal, its 'woke' that needs to be dropped. Its supporting too much garbage policies.

[@maxustaxus]

I agree...

[@victorharitonov6207]

❤❤❤

[@RaeDee1111]

It's the casual mention of the "removal" of the indigenous people for me.

[@DemiDogg]

and how they wont mention them by name (Duwamish Tribe btw), only mentioning the chief because the city's name is derived from his lol

[@MrChildren87]

Good upload! Thank you! This narrator sounds uncannily like John DeLancie.

[@gstudios36]

Too bad seattle is just super woke now

[@UmQasaann]

I'm Native American the white days are over lol go back to Europe settler.

[@bobrowers]

it's Peattle*, man. One Big ArmPit created by ZOGonzoTRIBE. I'll NEVER go back to that shht-hole they created.

[@loge10]

I don't know about that-all I know is that it is overcrowded and overpriced, nothing like the gem where I lived from 1976 to 1985 (my 20s). Now there's a lot of people there just for the money but not for the place. Like most of America, it's lost its soul.

[@GS-zc4sk]

They banished the Blue Ange fighter jet demonstrations. An advocacy group determined that a 45min demonstration once a year was polluting the environment.