Driving On WA SR-99 North In 1997 (Seattle, Shoreline, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Everett)

Back in 1997, The Washington State Department of Transportation drove north on SR-99 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.

[@highwayvideos3434]

Sorry about the wavy lines! It looks like the original VHS tape that the WSDOT used may have gotten damaged while in storage.

[@dallasbagley]

Wow man, the king dome... So many great memories there. Monster Truck shows and Mariners games!

[@jasonlittlejohn8051]

Mon Oct 20, 1997 I was in class and had football practice in the afternoon lol. I remember this stretch of Everett Mall Way. I miss what the Everett Mall used to be Mr Bills, Casey's Game Room, Suncoast Videos, Sam Goodies, Mervyns, Bon Marche, Carmel Corn in the back near Payless

[@240adam]

Thank you for uploading these videos. This one is especially cool to watch and compare to the video of the same drive in the 80's. I particularly like the videos of Everett.

[@SasquatchPicker]

So many more trees..

[@425gabe]

When you've lived in one town for such a long time, you wonder what it's like to experience it for the first time. Jimbo's restaurant, my grandmother loved that place in Lynnwood.

[@johnnysama]

This is the SR-99 I remember! :D

[@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King]

The Kingdome 😭 I begged my parents to take me to a game there before it got demolished but we couldn't make it happen. Very sad I never got to see inside

[@m8x425]

it was cool, but weekend games could get a bit loud if they drew a larger crowd. It felt sort of like watching a baseball game in a warehouse, which I thought was unique.

[@mohammedelmi5506]

I used to drive limo back then and I had just turned 20 , I used to drive all over Seattle and this brings memories.

[@AmericanGypsy206]

I like because this guy went pretty much all over Seattle and saw other parts. These are the areas I grew up in most of the people who film videos of Seattle just film downtown the Pike Place market and all the cliché areas. This guy actually filmed the real Seattle the Seattle. I grew up in

[@GenX_US_Marine]

8:35 The Kingdom!!!! I was in the military in 97. I finished boot camp in August of 97. I think I was in infantry school during this recording, I can't remember exactly.

[@AmericanGypsy206]

I’m glad this guy filmed other parts of Seattle everybody who films Seattle is usually a tourist and they film downtown only this guy actually went to other areas of Seattle and I know these areas very well especially Greenwood, Shoreline and Edmonds

[@mylesmoss1477]

I was in Bremerton back in 1997.

[@GenX_US_Marine]

6:20 Wow, no traffic. The good ole days

[@vladgladkov237]

Good old days

[@12DMC81]

Everett Mall Way still looks almost the same as today except for a few new buildings

[@OrsonBuggy1958]

11:07 You always see one of those on any commute around Seattle. Hwy 99, Aurora Ave and Greenwood Ave. were the main north-south roads to Seattle before I-5 was built.

[@bannertraveller5879]

would have been funny if narrator cursed him out LOL

[@vladgladkov237]

Old buick dealership building on hwy 99 still there

[@Britt4ny]

yess i love these mid to late 90s videos

[@TruckEnthusiastYT]

It’s weird to see all the cars rotting away in junkyards be brand new and for sale

[@pingpongowo]

Have you tried running any of these videos through a deinterlacer? Could help make all of these videos look better on our modern displays.

[@highwayvideos3434]

Great suggestion! I'm hoping to go back and fix up some of these uploads at some point. For now just focusing on getting them uploaded =).

[@wtpauley]

@@highwayvideos3434 I appreciate the focus on getting them uploaded first in any quality. Thank you.

[@BradTheProducer]

44:17 - Pretty sure I see the old location of Kennelly Keys on the right.

[@BradTheProducer]

Also, this is a good video for playing "Count The Blockbuster Videos."

[@motionsick]

I went to the Art Institute of Seattle. So glad I got to enjoy the city before, well you know.

[@wasserdagger]

You can see where gas prices in 1997 were around $1.35 for regular...... In the 1987 video of this same stretch of highway, I saw where regular was around 75 to 80 cents a gallon. Also noted that Aurora Village mall, which you can partially see in the 1987 video, is gone, now replaced with a big Costco as well as a Home Depot store. The Twin Teepees restaurant NW of Greenlake is clearly visible here (20:20 mark)... it would be razed about 4 years later due to fire damage. Unfortunately, Seattle lost a kitschy but ubercool landmark. I ate there when I was a kid. Good memories.

[@ACE-sx8mo]

The elevated "Viaduct" bridge was demolished and replaced with a high tech tunnel. Projected cost was 2.6 billion. Final cost was 15 billion and took 8 years longer than expected. One independent expert had originally proposed a bay bridge that would have cost about 12 billion less, would not require high-risk engineering that inevitably led to the delays and cost overruns, would not have disrupted traffic for a dozen years, and would have provided world class views of the Olympic mountains to the west and cityscapes to the east. For $ome unimaginable reason he was ignored....

[@bannertraveller5879]

All worked out in the end. Waterfront is beautiful. Money? Government will just print more

[@garbagemanbear406]

Man look at all the incandescent traffic signals. When did Seattle convert most of their traffic lights to LeD

[@m8x425]

57:50 it amazes me that Walmart did not las long in this area due to theft, but Dick's Drive-In wants to build a burger stand right across the road.

[@vladgladkov237]

I like audi 5000

[@arwzqu1964]

4 new tires 100$ 😂

[@bannertraveller5879]

and Gas for 1.25