Amazing. I was born here in '97 so aside from downtown (of course, the Lucky Lager brewery was gone before I was born) I hardly recognize anything east of there. Some interesting things to note: I can just smell the view coming into Camas.😉🤢 The paper mill was in full operation then. (Crown Zellerbach until 1986) The whole highway through Camas was redone as a true freeway with interchanges about ten years ago. Washougal now has a pair of roundabouts. No 192nd Ave interchange until much later in the future. The bus station at 164th hasn't been built yet. Interesting how you could pull off the highway at a couple of spots to access Cascade Park. Not many houses along Evergreen Highway. The old stone tunnel under the RR tracks is now an on ramp only to 14. Access to Blandford Drive is no longer possible. That shoofly section is certainly bizarre. Traffic signals at Grand and Columbia Way no longer exist. Now, it's an overpass. No Land Bridge yet. Still more than twenty years away.
I moved here at 16yo in 1987. I can see the spot of Hwy14 where I rolled my car. It's all reshaped, contoured and paved over now. All those little driveways and intersections that don't exist any more. There were about 180K people in the county then. 500K now.
Amazing.
I was born here in '97 so aside from downtown (of course, the Lucky Lager brewery was gone before I was born) I hardly recognize anything east of there.
Some interesting things to note:
I can just smell the view coming into Camas.😉🤢 The paper mill was in full operation then. (Crown Zellerbach until 1986)
The whole highway through Camas was redone as a true freeway with interchanges about ten years ago. Washougal now has a pair of roundabouts.
No 192nd Ave interchange until much later in the future.
The bus station at 164th hasn't been built yet.
Interesting how you could pull off the highway at a couple of spots to access Cascade Park.
Not many houses along Evergreen Highway.
The old stone tunnel under the RR tracks is now an on ramp only to 14.
Access to Blandford Drive is no longer possible.
That shoofly section is certainly bizarre.
Traffic signals at Grand and Columbia Way no longer exist. Now, it's an overpass.
No Land Bridge yet. Still more than twenty years away.
its crazy how 192nd didnt even exist yet
192nd existed but they didn't bring it down to 14 until the 2000s
Nice, thank you it was fun to see how all that used to look.
Happy 40th anniversary to this video
You can almost smell the paper mill again! 🤢
17:26 there's where that electronic speed display measures the speed of the highway cars instead of the cars of the road it's on lmao
So crazy they used to have an intersection at Bella Vista between 164th and 205
I moved here at 16yo in 1987. I can see the spot of Hwy14 where I rolled my car. It's all reshaped, contoured and paved over now. All those little driveways and intersections that don't exist any more. There were about 180K people in the county then. 500K now.