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

[@highwayvideos3434]

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

[@hassanalialtaai5244]

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.

[@dallasbagley]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@SasquatchPicker]

So many more trees..

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

The only times I ever managed to get to the Kingdome with my late father was 2-3 times for the Auto Show in the late '90s. Years before, (back in Junior High/mid-'80s) I had done well enough in my studies to be a member of the Honor Society. In one instance, based on academic performance, they awarded students tickets to attend one or two Mariners home games at the 'dome. I remember showing them to my father and asking him when we could go, and he just kind of blew it off, because he didn't particularly care for dealing with Seattle traffic (even then), so I never got to go. That was a disappointment that still stands out, closing in on 40 years later. 😭

[@Chris-fq4xz]

My first time in the Kingdome was a Led Zeppelin concert on July 17th 1977. Many Seahawks and Mariners games. And a lot of other concerts.

[@mylesmoss1477]

I was in Bremerton back in 1997.

[@motionsick]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@ef5supercell]

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

[@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.

[@vladgladkov237]

Old buick dealership building on hwy 99 still there

[@vladgladkov237]

Good old days

[@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.

[@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]

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

[@VesperAegis]

It's amazing how the newest cars in this video now look like old clunkers today.

[@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."

[@ethanx908]

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.

[@jon9103]

6:40 the cranes on harbor Island were still red.

[@kbond002]

Hollywood video on 196th and 99. I still have late fees there.

[@MichaelSeaBelA]

37:31 - SR104

[@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

[@jon9103]

12 billion less if it miraculously stayed on budget. Also keep in mind the tunnel project also shore up the sea wall which would have been an expensive additional project otherwise.

[@vladgladkov237]

I like audi 5000

[@arwzqu1964]

4 new tires 100$ 😂

[@bannertraveller5879]

and Gas for 1.25

[@ModMokkaMatti]

@@bannertraveller5879 I grew up in the southwestern corner of SKC, but attended WWU in the early / mid-'90s. I remember those days of $1.25 (or less, even for premium grade) gasoline when fueling up to make the drive between The 'Ham and my parents' home, flying down Chuckanut Drive and I-5, in my second-hand VW Mk1 Cabriolet. I thought they would last forever. They sure were a lot better than what adulting came to be in the years afterward.

[@scampeezo]

Strange... I didn't see a single Tesla

[@craigster1234]

GAS - $1.35 a gallon for 'regular'.

[@jon9103]

90s cars were ugly.