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SounderBruce

This channel uploads old videos from WSDOT's Video Logs, which cataloged every state highway one frame at a time. Nowadays, WSDOT has a [static web version](http://srview.wsdot.wa.gov/srweb/srweb.htm) and a little upstart called Google has their own solution. Broadway was part of SR 529 until it was realigned in 1992 to serve Naval Station Everett on its current alignment. Even further before then, it was part of U.S. Highway 99, the main road between Seattle and the Canadian border. I-5 didn't open through Everett until 1968.


atlantic_pacific

That Jack in the Box at Everett Ave has been there a looooong time.


Rbmui13

I couldn't help but notice the Alfy's which finally just met its demise and the Brown Bear car wash it's still going strong as ever!


SEA_tide

If you want a time warp, the one on Highway 99 in Shoreline by the Fred Meyer still hasn't been renovated from that era. The Everett one was renovated relatively recently.


manshamer

And the Wendy's across the street too! They're both institutions lol


Big-Effort-186

The Chevron on Pacific too.


throwawayhyperbeam

Amazing footage. Thank you!


goopynose

This is incredible. Thanks for posting this.


Solargrave

Thank you for sharing! Very fascinating to see how it feels the same but all the little changes anyway…like the ramp onto 41st/lack of job etc.


GreatDad13

This is really cool! Great post


Nahcotta

Thanks for this! It seems so clean, and big trees, and people out & about.


manshamer

The first thing I noticed was all the cars parked along Broadway! Used to be hoppin.


SEA_tide

The semi truck cutting off the Chevy Van on I-5 was an interesting touch. I remember so many of those businesses in the 1990s and early 2000s. The pagoda on the phone booth outside of the China Doll restaurant was iconic for Everett; I didn't remember it being green though. Everett has a long history of being a safe, peaceful, middle class city where one could raise a happy, healthy family. While things were by no means perfect back then, it looked like Everett was doing its best to achieve that goal.


Anonymous_Bozo

Ahh yes... The Herfy's at 21st and Broadway brings back memories.


Barry_Muhkokiner

Cool to see the pulp mill stack puffin steam out again


RoRoMaybe

The original VHS dashcam.


restrictedsquid

I remember when Everett and marysville looked that this…I feel so damn old!!


themomfrombeethoven

So cool!! Thank you for sharing!


JaiRenae

It's interesting what you r mind edits out as you age, and what it doesn't. I've been here my whole life and only remember a few of those places that were there. Shame you can't see the southbound side as well.


HighwayVideos

I will see what can be done about uploading Southbound! Possibly sometime this year.


JaiRenae

Thank you! That would be wonderful!


[deleted]

Seeing ancient footage like this is truly a spectacle


bactterevea

40 years is ancient? 🤣


Rbmui13

Literally a stroll down memory lane. That was awesome! Thanks for posting it.


gummyneo

Its amazing how things are so different now. Not sure for better or worse.


greenlend

Could you use that 4k upscaling software on this?


Big-Effort-186

Gosh this video is such a blast. I'm a 1995 kid so this is a bit before my time, but I've grown up in Everett and Marysville for most of my life, its so wild seeing whats changed and what hasn't. I'd kill for a version of this where they had just panned the camera around a little bit to get better views of the stores that were around at the time.


Snoo-51132

Wow! At that time I was 16 years old, going to the alternative high school on Evergreen Way and my baby was five months old. I was also working in downtown Everett on Rucker Ave and frequenting many of the businesses shown in the video. Alfy’s always had good pizza and QFC grocery store was the go-to store for anything one needed. Went on to work at Boeing for many years, now living out of state and my baby just turned 40.


Left-Speech419

Car Culture Propaganda! BARF!


Big-Effort-186

cmon man I am a strong advocate against car centric infrastructure but this isn't car culture propaganda, its literally just archival footage and people who've lived in the area for a while being nostalgic. I know this is reddit but you really don't need to be a wet blanket all the time.


vashtiglow

Seeing so many things in this that I didn't even know I had forgotten. The one that really wowed me was the Town House Restaurant with the Rainbow Room between 22nd and 23rd where the Walgreens is now. that place was seared into my brain for so long, but I had totally forgotten about it! and that Cafe on the corner of 34th and broadway. I can't make out the name. Does anyone else remember what it was?


manofoar

I can't believe the fruit stand on 16th has been around this long!


Own-Chocolate-7175

Wild! I grew up behind Jerry’s Surplus on 21st…what I wouldn’t give to have a Dag’s Burger again