In 1955 my grandfather made a trip to Seattle, WA during his time with the Naval Air Reserve. He brought his 16mm camera along and captured these great images.
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It doesn't always mean you hate it. Some who are not interested in the topic use the downvote mechanism to indicate to TH-cam that they just don't want to see stuff like this in their future recommendations.
See, you said “pre-eruption of Mt St. Helens” 6 people disagree. Actually it never erupted. At least that’s the conspiracy. There was a catastrophic land slide from a nuclear device inside. Kim jong hung blew up a mountain in N Korea too but it caved inward not outward. Yeah.
So nice to take a step back in time, when Seattle was more quiet and uncrowded - heck, you could even find a place to park back then! This was before I-5 through Seattle even existed. And, this was about 7 years before the '62 Worlds Fair put Seattle on the map, so to speak. I have fond memories of NAS Sand Point... my dad took us kids there to see the Blue Angels perform, in 1966. I still have all of dad's color slides of that performance. Most impressive thing I'd ever seen (and still rates up there to this day). It's weird visiting there today, w/o the Navy activity. A beehive without the bees?Loved the views of the UW campus... I wonder why there was nary a soul in sight? Must've been a Sunday or holiday. Also strange to see it without the famous cherry trees.I wish there were more aerial videos like this, of the Puget Sound area from back in the day. Maybe I could even spot my house and yard, up north of Seattle. In any case, thanks for posting this, and thanks to your grandfather for being a great guy with a home movie camera! I've enjoyed the other clips you've posted, too.
Hello there, wasserdagger, I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content. It sounds like you have some incredible photographs. I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book. Thank you for considering.
i kind of like it better without the cherry trees. better sightlines to appreciate the architecture. that massive coast redwood on the red square side wasnt planted yet either.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I don't see comments identifying downtown locations, so here you go: First scene is west from 3rd and University. Building on immediate right is Pantages/Palomar theater, appears in my book Lost Seattle. Second scene is looking north on 7th from Spring. Third is looking west from 7th and Spring. At :20 we're looking down Spring from btw 9th and 10th. Then to UW, shot of Quad pre-cherry trees, then Sand Point NAS (also in my book).
Rob Ketcherside The Pantages/Palomar theater opened in 1915 and closed in 1965. It's now a multi-story parking lot. The building that occupied that space before the theater was there was a church called the Old Plymouth Church. You can read more about it here. pauldorpat.com/2009/08/30/seattle-now-then-the-pantages-palomar/
Jack Hydrazine Right, have that on page 88 of my book Lost Seattle, and thank Paul Dorpat by name on the opening page ;) At any rate, I hope the location identification is useful to folks over time.
My great grandparents founded the small city of Silverdale WA., in the 1800s and right now I'm sitting in Saint James Cathedral on Seattle's First Hill. This is some absolutely great footage. Thank you so much.
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@@trollfacedomi yeah but at least people of color can eat at the same restaurants as white people. Today's world may have it's problems, but at least we're making strides for justice and equality
I've just come across this and... I've never really been the kind of person to repeatedly watch anything but I just did. I think I watched it over and over again, transfixed, maybe 8 or 9 times. I can't describe how utterly engrossing it is. I don't know why. But after a bad day, this has made everything go away and I feel like I'm there, in 1955.
Watching these videos from the fifties, and early sixties of many of America's big cities, it breaks my heart to see these beautiful, and grand examples of human ingenuity, and prosperity reduced to filthy, trashy, crime ridden third world slums, with the dirty corrupt politicians running them only caring about money, and power, instead of caring if their cities are good clean, and safe places to live, work, and play for the residents who work hard, pay taxes, and obey the law.
Thank you so much for sharing! As someone who grew up in Seattle and the surrounding area who was born in the 80's, it is really cool to see how the city changed in shape and size over the years.
My grandparents moved to Seattle in 1962 and still live in the same house today... it's crazy that this is what they saw when they rolled in. Dang they've lived there forever
Eleven years after this was shot, BOAC Flight 911 would crash near Japan's Mount Fuji, a mountain much like Mount Ranier, and 113 people died because clear-air turbulence around the mountain broke up the Boeing 707. I wonder if pilots even dare to get this close to the Mount Ranier anymore because of the hard lessons learned in that crash.
Thanks for sharing this! I've lived in the Puget Sound area since the late sixties. It's STILL a beautiful place, despite the commenters who insist on politicizing everything in support of their dismal, alt-right worldview.
Seattle is full of heroin and meth addict bums who shit in the streets, rape women, throw trash everywhere, trample restored native plants in greenbelts, assault tourists, and give us the highest property crime of any big city in USA. And we're only wasting a $1 billion per year catering to these loser drug addict vagrant bums. It's a beautiful place despite the left wing loons and their pet drug addict bums.
Hello there, Lynn I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content. If you have any stories or images you would like to share, we would be very grateful for the content. I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book. Thank you for considering.
1:47 Tacoma Narrows Bridge II? Stunningly beautiful aerial footage! Thanks for posting. Could someone tell me which mountain is Ranier and which is St. Helens? (I'm a Michigander and wouldn't know Mt St. Helens from Helen Keller)
My twin sister and I were born at Seattle General Hospital in October 1955 and grew up in north Seattle I live in Oregon now but am certainly struck, in my visits to Seattle, at how much the city has changed during my 68 years of life thus far.
Pre skyscrapers. Pre space needle. What a beautiful place it was. Of course this was a rare sunny day, unseen are the more common dreary drizzly days that seem to have no end. But that's what helps keep Seattle clean I guess. Unlike L.A. .
If there was a better year to live in Seattle, I would like to know it. Folks who lived in Seattle in the 1950s and 60s cannot find another place even remotely comparable.
Obviously his plane flew out of Sand Point Air Station, back when it was still in operation. Now, of course, it has long since been turned over to the city and made into Magnuson Park. For that reason alone, these are rare films.
Great memories of Sand Point Naval Air Station. My father, Kenneth Magelssen, was a Naval officer and flew PBY's from Sand Point until his untimely death in 1962. My memories include the movie theater, swim team, officers' and enlisted mens' beach, dinner and dancing at the officers' club, building a sailboat in the hangar designated for woodworking, flight lunches my Dad would bring home, the teen dances, scuba diving club Neptune's Court ! Oh, those were special days. Wonder what my Dad would think now if he knew part of the air strip is a dog park . . Thanks for sharing that wonderful video !!!!
I grew up with a view of the north end of Lake Washington, 1963 +, on top of that ridge of land west of Bothell Way. North of 160th. Air traffic coming out out of Sand Point would be eye level or somewhat higher as it passed our house. Lots of airplanes daily. I don’t remember seeing any PBY's. Too bad, love those. There were lots of flying boxcars though, and those weird helicopters with two intermeshing rotors (Husky's?). They were the loudest things. You could here them coming and going long after they were out of sight.
Wow! I didn't know that these famous cherry trees at UW Quad were not even there in 1955!!! According to the Internet, these cherry trees were transplanted from the Washington Park Arboretum to UW when construction on Highway 520 began in the ‘60s!..
Meng i remember when the lumber yard in ballard caught fire. i just lived a few blocks north of it , never saw so much fire and smoke. the year was 1959.
Amazing footage, THANKS for posting! That was Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point. The aircraft he was aboard was a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, the land-based naval B-24 variant. We found one on the bottom of Lake Washington in the early 1980's, about 160' down--it is a great dive! www.fennent.com/images/ImageGallery/planes/pb4y2-1.htm
So cool watching the takeoff from Sand Point Navy Station in a PB4Y! Neat to be in a military plane where they were allowed to fly so low over the Sound and near the mountain!
Awesome, this is the Navy of my father's prime. He served during WWII and mustered out then reupped in the 50's and retired as a Chief Petty Officer with 20 years in. He mostly was on the east coast but he was flown to this very base as a trouble shooter on a problem with a P2V Neptune.
Seems fine without sound but it would be interesting to have one version where is dubbed over, describing what we’re seeing-esp during the flight. Live in Seattle and love the footage.
Hello there, Michael, I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content. If you have any photographs or memories from your father's time on the Base, I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book. Thank you for considering.
2:11 shows PB4Y number 201. That's the one that crashed and sunk in Lake Washington in 1956. It looks like the plane that took off in the film is number 202. Look for the video titled "Rebreather diving the PB4Y bomber wreck in Lake Washington".
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Thank you. I hope you can visit again!
This was fantastic! Thanks for sharing it!
As a guy born here in the #pnw and of a certain age... This is a most wonderful share! Great footage! Thank you for sharing this!
How cool!
May I use this footage? Thank you.
Does anybody know the street from 17 seconds to 21 seconds? Thank you.
You should watermark these to prevent Getty images or other scumbags stealing your work bro
Yes! Please do!
GettyImages would never steal random peoples content. Watermarks just ruin videos.
@@goldenhourkodak whose content? the guy whose been dead for 30 years? i dont get it
And add some music. Hendrix, or Stan Boreson.
The shot of Mount Rainier where you can see the pre-eruption Mount Saint Helens in the distance is breathtaking! Thanks for sharing this!
I was wondering if that was Helens or Adams?
Nope, that's Mt. Adams
No Mt. St. Helens in the video
No Helens in this video, however it has some cool shots of Baker and Adams.
3:09 that is Glacier Peak
Wow Lake Washington Floating bridge, Tacoma Narrows and Deception Pass all in the same video. Incredible! The best!
It will always confuse me how videos like this get downvotes. Seriously, how can you hate historical footage? Thank you for sharing. =]
It doesn't always mean you hate it. Some who are not interested in the topic use the downvote mechanism to indicate to TH-cam that they just don't want to see stuff like this in their future recommendations.
Yes why bother with a negative vote for something so innocuous.
Perhaps one of the only videos where I'm happy you can't see the dislikes anymore😀
See, you said “pre-eruption of Mt St. Helens” 6 people disagree. Actually it never erupted. At least that’s the conspiracy. There was a catastrophic land slide from a nuclear device inside. Kim jong hung blew up a mountain in N Korea too but it caved inward not outward. Yeah.
i’ve always been a history buff, but some people just don’t like certain parts of history. some people don’t like history at all, yanno?
So nice to take a step back in time, when Seattle was more quiet and uncrowded - heck, you could even find a place to park back then! This was before I-5 through Seattle even existed. And, this was about 7 years before the '62 Worlds Fair put Seattle on the map, so to speak. I have fond memories of NAS Sand Point... my dad took us kids there to see the Blue Angels perform, in 1966. I still have all of dad's color slides of that performance. Most impressive thing I'd ever seen (and still rates up there to this day). It's weird visiting there today, w/o the Navy activity. A beehive without the bees?Loved the views of the UW campus... I wonder why there was nary a soul in sight? Must've been a Sunday or holiday. Also strange to see it without the famous cherry trees.I wish there were more aerial videos like this, of the Puget Sound area from back in the day. Maybe I could even spot my house and yard, up north of Seattle. In any case, thanks for posting this, and thanks to your grandfather for being a great guy with a home movie camera! I've enjoyed the other clips you've posted, too.
Post/share those amazing color slides of that Blue Angel performance!
Hello there, wasserdagger, I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content. It sounds like you have some incredible photographs. I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book. Thank you for considering.
i kind of like it better without the cherry trees. better sightlines to appreciate the architecture. that massive coast redwood on the red square side wasnt planted yet either.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I don't see comments identifying downtown locations, so here you go:
First scene is west from 3rd and University. Building on immediate right is Pantages/Palomar theater, appears in my book Lost Seattle.
Second scene is looking north on 7th from Spring.
Third is looking west from 7th and Spring.
At :20 we're looking down Spring from btw 9th and 10th.
Then to UW, shot of Quad pre-cherry trees, then Sand Point NAS (also in my book).
Rob Ketcherside The Pantages/Palomar theater opened in 1915 and closed in 1965. It's now a multi-story parking lot. The building that occupied that space before the theater was there was a church called the Old Plymouth Church. You can read more about it here. pauldorpat.com/2009/08/30/seattle-now-then-the-pantages-palomar/
Jack Hydrazine Right, have that on page 88 of my book Lost Seattle, and thank Paul Dorpat by name on the opening page ;)
At any rate, I hope the location identification is useful to folks over time.
+Rob Ketcherside Do you know the exact streets of the first four clips?
Nope!
Someone gave me a copy of Lost Seattle for my birthday a few years ago. I love it!
My great grandparents founded the small city of Silverdale WA., in the 1800s and right now I'm sitting in Saint James Cathedral on Seattle's First Hill. This is some absolutely great footage. Thank you so much.
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Silverdale aint small lol
Add about 200,000 people with blue hair and it’s 2018
Alexander Williams don't forget the heroin addicts living and shitting on the streets! Ahhh good ol Seattle
Damn it. I'm one of those blue haired people.
@@trollfacedomi yeah but at least people of color can eat at the same restaurants as white people. Today's world may have it's problems, but at least we're making strides for justice and equality
@@chandlerseanspears9404 hahahahahahaha
Chandler Sean Spears cringe and bluepilled.
The good old days. I'm sorry that my generation is destroying Seattle and the region.
....no comment
It's the Dems.
How wonderful to see Seattle's past in such high quality!
And its demise after 2000
I can't believe my eyes!!! Less traffic and available parking spots!
16mm film was EXPENSIVE to buy, shoot, and process, but it gave results so much better than 8mm.
I've just come across this and... I've never really been the kind of person to repeatedly watch anything but I just did. I think I watched it over and over again, transfixed, maybe 8 or 9 times. I can't describe how utterly engrossing it is. I don't know why. But after a bad day, this has made everything go away and I feel like I'm there, in 1955.
I watched it on my phone and it was spectacular. Will watch it on my TV and REALLY enjoy it.
As a person, who’s from Seattle and goes to downtown Seattle weekly I could say say it looked way nicer back then
Watching these videos from the fifties, and early sixties of many of America's big cities, it breaks my heart to see these beautiful, and grand examples of human ingenuity, and prosperity reduced to filthy, trashy, crime ridden third world slums, with the dirty corrupt politicians running them only caring about money, and power, instead of caring if their cities are good clean, and safe places to live, work, and play for the residents who work hard, pay taxes, and obey the law.
I'll take that downtown Seattle over today's cesspool.
Kevin Nelsonukoll i came to Seattle when i was 6 mos old in 1952, remember the old days very well.
I agree!!!
Me too. It's the pits.
Ahh yes, more pollution, pioneer square crumbling to the point of almost being torn down, and segregation.. ahh the old days
Just move to Everett or something. There's plenty of towns around WA that look like this today.
The bluest skies you've ever seen were in Seattle.
Seattle (and WA) sure was beautiful back then. Now, not so much.
Nope. Spent 30 years there and left the now stinking, homeless turd bin.
Mercer Island 1:31-1:45
just think if you bought all that empty land in the clip, you'd be a billionaire now
Thank you so much for sharing! As someone who grew up in Seattle and the surrounding area who was born in the 80's, it is really cool to see how the city changed in shape and size over the years.
I was born in Seattle in 1955. Grew up there and I feel lucky!
Vintage 1955 too but I was raised in Grays Harbor County. Raised a lot of hell in Seattle, though!
@@jodybogdanovich4333 me too😎
My grandparents moved to Seattle in 1962 and still live in the same house today... it's crazy that this is what they saw when they rolled in. Dang they've lived there forever
What were the 80s like in Seattle?
Eleven years after this was shot, BOAC Flight 911 would crash near Japan's Mount Fuji, a mountain much like Mount Ranier, and 113 people died because clear-air turbulence around the mountain broke up the Boeing 707. I wonder if pilots even dare to get this close to the Mount Ranier anymore because of the hard lessons learned in that crash.
Thanks for sharing this! I've lived in the Puget Sound area since the late sixties.
It's STILL a beautiful place, despite the commenters who insist on politicizing everything in support of their dismal, alt-right worldview.
Seattle is full of heroin and meth addict bums who shit in the streets, rape women, throw trash everywhere, trample restored native plants in greenbelts, assault tourists, and give us the highest property crime of any big city in USA. And we're only wasting a $1 billion per year catering to these loser drug addict vagrant bums. It's a beautiful place despite the left wing loons and their pet drug addict bums.
3:24 Everything looks peachy, peachy clean
Crazy to seattle that long ago
Great footage! That is Sand Point Naval Air Station. I went to boot camp there in 1966. Can't miss those old brick buildings! Thanks!
Hello there, Lynn
I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content. If you have any stories or images you would like to share, we would be very grateful for the content.
I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book.
Thank you for considering.
This is a national treasure
What significant historical footage! Thanks to you and your family for sharing this view of midcentury Seattle and surrounding. Wow!
Your grandfather must have had an excellent camera and knew how to use it, the detail is excellent.
Thanks so much for sharing. Seattle looked like an amazing place to live in the 50s.
hard to believe this was my hometown at one point, no skyscrapers!
Smith Tower 1914
Smith tower
1:47 Tacoma Narrows Bridge II?
Stunningly beautiful aerial footage!
Thanks for posting.
Could someone tell me which mountain is Ranier and which is St. Helens?
(I'm a Michigander and wouldn't know Mt St. Helens from Helen Keller)
1L6E6VHF 3:31 Rainer is the one up close with the pre erupted St Helens in the back
My twin sister and I were born at Seattle General Hospital in October 1955 and grew up in north Seattle I live in Oregon now but am certainly struck, in my visits to Seattle, at how much the city has changed during my 68 years of life thus far.
And now it's an open-air toilet
Pre skyscrapers. Pre space needle. What a beautiful place it was. Of course this was a rare sunny day, unseen are the more common dreary drizzly days that seem to have no end. But that's what helps keep Seattle clean I guess. Unlike L.A. .
Ive lived here since 92. Its 2021 and now its completely destroyed :(
If there was a better year to live in Seattle, I would like to know it. Folks who lived in Seattle in the 1950s and 60s cannot find another place even remotely comparable.
I remember the braniff 707 in 66 coming through the clouds then coming below and seeing lake Washington as one of the most exciting times of my life.
"The Wizard of Oz" came out in 1939. No wonder people like Trump. Why tell the truth when you can lie?
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Really just the coolest video. Thank you for sharing this. The colors are outstanding!
every generation has its problems and "the good old days" look back.. we tend to forget the bad and remember the good..
Wow. Seattle 63 years ago. Everything looks samey, but also differenty
at 1:56 it's a quick shot of Sucia Island's Fossil Bay up front, Mud Bay on the right and Fox Cove and Little Sucia in the distance.
I mean, only a quarter of this video was Seattle, but cool video nonetheless.
Wow, unbelievably beautiful. This film is a f****** treasure, seriously.
Great stuff! I'm in Nashville now but you'll never take the Northwest out of this Northwest Native.
wow cool. thats the year after i moved there as a young child
Obviously his plane flew out of Sand Point Air Station, back when it was still in operation. Now, of course, it has long since been turned over to the city and made into Magnuson Park. For that reason alone, these are rare films.
Great memories of Sand Point Naval Air Station. My father, Kenneth Magelssen, was a Naval officer and flew PBY's from Sand Point until his untimely death in 1962. My memories include the movie theater, swim team, officers' and enlisted mens' beach, dinner and dancing at the officers' club, building a sailboat in the hangar designated for woodworking, flight lunches my Dad would bring home, the teen dances, scuba diving club Neptune's Court ! Oh, those were special days. Wonder what my Dad would think now if he knew part of the air strip is a dog park . . Thanks for sharing that wonderful video !!!!
I grew up with a view of the north end of Lake Washington, 1963 +, on top of that ridge of land west of Bothell Way. North of 160th. Air traffic coming out out of Sand Point would be eye level or somewhat higher as it passed our house. Lots of airplanes daily. I don’t remember seeing any PBY's. Too bad, love those. There were lots of flying boxcars though, and those weird helicopters with two intermeshing rotors (Husky's?). They were the loudest things. You could here them coming and going long after they were out of sight.
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Great stuff, Jeff - my jaw dropped to see those Glenview Reserve PB4Ys! If you have any NAS Glenview footage I'd love to see it! Thanks for posting!
awesome.....16mm was high tech!!......still is great.
WOW! I love this! And the quality is amazing! Thank you for sharing it!
Good ole Naval Station in Sand Point. Grew up there and used to go shopping at the Commissary with Grandpa.
Wow! I didn't know that these famous cherry trees at UW Quad were not even there in 1955!!!
According to the Internet, these cherry trees were transplanted from the Washington Park Arboretum to UW when construction on Highway 520 began in the ‘60s!..
Meng i remember when the lumber yard in ballard caught fire. i just lived a few blocks north of it , never saw so much fire and smoke. the year was 1959.
Amazing footage, THANKS for posting! That was Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point. The aircraft he was aboard was a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, the land-based naval B-24 variant. We found one on the bottom of Lake Washington in the early 1980's, about 160' down--it is a great dive! www.fennent.com/images/ImageGallery/planes/pb4y2-1.htm
Thanks so much, I loved it.
Absolutely AWESOME!!! Beautiful footage!!! Thank you for sharing!!
Absolutely extraordinary. Thanks for sharing
So cool watching the takeoff from Sand Point Navy Station in a PB4Y! Neat to be in a military plane where they were allowed to fly so low over the Sound and near the mountain!
I wish my dad would have bought ten acres on Mercer Island back then.🤑
The COOLEST "Home Movie" EVER! Thanks for sharing!
That is so very very cool. Priceless.... TY for posting.
Fantastic film! So much looks similar but it's amazing to see the changes. The clip of Mount St. Helens is awesome!
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
Amazing, I'm sharing. Couldn't even see one house on Mercer Island.
Is that airplane taking off from Boeing's Renton plant and flying over Lake Washington?
Wow! Working in Downtown Seattle right now :) this is so breathtaking, and such great quality!
That was a pretty nice camera for back then. My dad bought an 8mm in 1962 and it wasn't nearly this good.
Fantastic video. Thank you for sharing.
I was born in Seattle in 1955. So nice to see the city as it once was.
Thankyou good movie I have visit Seattle 8 times, interesting watching the video.
Awesome, this is the Navy of my father's prime. He served during WWII and mustered out then reupped in the 50's and retired as a Chief Petty Officer with 20 years in. He mostly was on the east coast but he was flown to this very base as a trouble shooter on a problem with a P2V Neptune.
Did you edit these in terms of the cuts? Such a great rhythm to these films. Completely in awe.
Really cool to think of Kurt's parents whilst watching this
Wow! Such great footage and unbelievable film quality.
love the shot of the original highway 10 floating bridge with the manual drawspan bulge.
Jimi Hendrix was 13 years old at this time.
Seems fine without sound but it would be interesting to have one version where is dubbed over, describing what we’re seeing-esp during the flight. Live in Seattle and love the footage.
Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for sharing! What a great video!
Fantastic footage, BRILLIANT color!!! Thanks for sharing this, it made my day!
Wow man. Just came across this video. It's pretty stunning and amazing what your grandfather captured. Thanks for sharing man! Pretty awesome!
I just realized, my grandfather was in the Navy in 1955, and he was stationed at THAT base.. He likely knew those service men in the video!
Great film! I love seeing color photography from back in the day.
I bet that crow is dead by now
Incredible footage! Thanks very much for sharing.
What really caught my eye is the lack of traffic and air pollution in the downtown portion of the video.
This is so amazing. Just beautiful shots of Mt St Helens, Rainier. Lovely.
Thank you so much! Love the pics of the PB4Y-2 Privateers... My Dad was an A&P Mechanic and worked on the Privateers at Sand Point at that time.
Hello there, Michael,
I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content.
If you have any photographs or memories from your father's time on the Base, I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book.
Thank you for considering.
2:11 shows PB4Y number 201. That's the one that crashed and sunk in Lake Washington in 1956. It looks like the plane that took off in the film is number 202. Look for the video titled "Rebreather diving the PB4Y bomber wreck in Lake Washington".
Beautiful video
whoa.. the quad before the cherry trees. [fun fact -the cherry trees were planted in a "W" formation back in the day]
Wish those glaciers on Rainier were in tact today, not to mention the trees ! Very wonderful pictures. Thank you.
Dude, thank you very much for sharing this. This footage is really great.