Driving On WA SR-2 West In 1983 (Monroe)

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Driving On WA SR-2 West In 1983 (Monroe)

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Күн бұрын

Back in 1983, The Washington State Department of Transportation drove West on WA SR-2 and recorded video to document the highway. This was part of a project that photographed/videotaped the states highways every couple of years. This video now resides at The Washington State Archives who were kind enough to share it.

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@DK-gy7ll Жыл бұрын

Wow... to think there actually was a time in history when traffic wasn't backed up clear from Sultan to Monroe.

@BillKibby1 2 ай бұрын

About 30 years ago I lived just east of Goldbar, big holiday weekends were awful for traffic! One was careful to stock up on smokes, t.p. and groceries! Once to Startup could get onto the Kellog Lk. road and go way around, but really long drive for incidentals.

@Ben-mn6zo 15 күн бұрын

@@BillKibby1just moved from out there. Lol only thing that's changed is I don't buy smokes any more!

@danielhildebrand6892 19 күн бұрын

Thank you! I can finally settle a bet. I visually remembered a draw bridge on 2 at Everett. Now I can show this off!

@Thinking.Of.Some.Handle Жыл бұрын

That's the Monroe i remember

@eljefecom Жыл бұрын

Highway 2 went through Snohomish instead of around it.

@12DMC81 Жыл бұрын

It also used to go through Main Street in Monroe

@mikenovick9677 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in Everett and played golf often at Snohomish GC. .. circa 1978-83… I remember having to cut thru town. You can even see the old Harrington Chevrolet dealership on what is just 2nd Street. Same building is now furniture store.

@BillKibby1 2 ай бұрын

There was big federal $$$ to do the same for Monroe, until swindled by the state. 40 years later Monroe at 5:00PM would have appreciated it. Fun to see the route through Snohomish, I had ridden on that years ago but forgot exactly where it was. This went about 2 miles from my current location north of Snohomish.

@Ben-mn6zo 15 күн бұрын

@BillKibby1 kind of a blessing, the bypass took all the money out of snohomish. Traffic might be shit in monroe but it's amazing how much it's expanded.

@Mommahpc Ай бұрын

Omg did you see all the barns when you go around cormer by fales road.none of those barns are there anymore.no turning lane for fern bluff .no guard railings up around corner look at the farm land before monroe on right no houses all fields. Realize how this person is driving on highway and theres hardly amy cars .No one is honking or cussing or flying around them WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR WORLD THIS BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES.THANKS FOR SHARING

@PugetSoundFlyer Жыл бұрын

I can almost smell the leaded gas!

@eauhomme 8 ай бұрын

1:00 The Wayside Chapel, still there 40 years later.

@Mommahpc Ай бұрын

It's been there since I was a little kid so you know it's been along time.I love going there still.Its not over crowded and I feel your right there with God because you survived coming 0ff that highway to get there...lol.For real I will never stop going there.Its pretty much the only piece of history around here

@12DMC81 Жыл бұрын

Finally! Thank you for uploading this!

@dgendvil Жыл бұрын

Good old Everett.

@braxtonoertwig9191 Жыл бұрын

My old stomping grounds grew up there from 1980 until 2009 left never been back. I remember the candy cane drive in best burgers in town. it sucked when Jack in the box bought them out in the early 90's

@Ben-mn6zo 15 күн бұрын

I believe it was bank of America wasnt it? That's when they put the building in and then moved the vault from the old location down main street.

@arwzqu1964 2 ай бұрын

Lots of 60's cars still running around.

@KieferSkunk 3 ай бұрын

I noticed at the Ebey Slough / Hwy 2 Trestle, there's no exit or route to Lake Stevens at all - doesn't look like it was even started at the time. I wonder how people got up there - or did the city even exist at the time?

@alexknafla6219 2 ай бұрын

You had to take the exit halfway across the tressel to go under it and then you can go up the super steep hill from the bottom

@eauhomme 8 ай бұрын

I'm curious: Do you know why the drivers were always going 10-20 under the speed limit in these videos? I noticed it in some of the I-5 ones, but here it's obvious as the driver has to keep moving to the shoulder to let the traffic pass.

@KieferSkunk 3 ай бұрын

It seems in general people just weren't driving that fast at the time. As for the driver of this vehicle, the bumpiness and the slow acceleration makes me think they were in a less powerful vehicle with a less-than-awesome suspension, and they were probably also driving more slowly to allow the camera to see things. It's too bad the camera was pointed mostly toward the ground through the drive. Made it a little harder to see some of the sights in Monroe and Snohomish.

@toddn.3123 2 ай бұрын

I think the camera was attached to the outside of the car so likely they were afraid to go too fast.

@Mommahpc Ай бұрын

No one was in hurry to do anything back then.Once you got to everett it got faster so people just took there time out here without a care in the world and plus they valued their lives alot more back then.Not now it's a race track and ya flip a coin to get out there safe and that's if they let you in.

@robertrussell263 27 күн бұрын

slow on purpose. this is a Washington State Department of Transportation filmed for posterity.