I was a kid and teen in the 60's and 70's, and we lived near White Center in Seattle. It was a great place and time to grow up. The culture is gone from what I have known. It was still safe there. It's sad to see what Seattle has become. I believe the 70's was the end of Seattle's great culture and a place you were proud to be a part of. I would take the city bus from White Center to the Public Market when I was a kid, where my favorite comic book store was, alone. I am grateful, fortunate, and proud to experience and lived in Seattle in it's last great times.
Born 1955 Maynard Hospital , which is gone. Dad worked at Boeing ,Mom worked world's fair . We are Mexican, not many Mexican back then , Mom worked at a Mexican restaurant at the world's fair & almost every mexican women she worked with ended up getting there own restaurant's, including my Mom & Dad. Lot's of memories growing up in Seattle ♥️
Seattle seemed to know how to have fun back then before we started taking ourselves too seriously. And it's interesting to compare the society back then to the one we have now with all the wealth disparities. We are working harder, still broke and too tired to "dress up to go out for dinner and dancing."
Sad that another Seattle icon besides Ivar... JP Patches... was missed. There were many terrific selections that I enjoyed. JP Patches was someone who was so personable. I met him several times as a kid and his morning and afternoon were MUST-SEEs for this Seattle youngster. Long live JP Patches cuz I'll always be a Patches Pal!
JP Patches was also the favorite of the Seattle grunge scene hanging out with soundgarden even opening for soundgarden when Seattle was booming with the musical style and talent of the 1980's to 1994.
You're right about JP. His alte-ego, Chris Wedges was just as funny & cordial as JP. I went to a special opening event at MOHAI one evening, and when Mr. Wedes approached the podium with a can of Rainier, he parleyed that beer into a seque about our favorite clown with a beloved local beer.
Even though I live in New Jersey, I've always liked Seattle. Being a transit historian, my main attraction to Seattle back in the 1960's was the fleet of electric trackless trolleys. At that time, they were still running the original fleet that dated back to 1940. Imagine being able to ride on pre-war style Twin Coach trackless trolleys and 1944 Pullman-Standard trackless trolleys still running in the 1960's and 1970's. It was a museum in motion, who's future was in serious doubt. Consultants had recommended junking the ancient fleet of trackless trolleys and replacing them with diesel buses. It was said and thought at that time that nobody made new trackless trolleys anymore. And by the way, I have a huge collection of vintage Seattle transit memorabilia. I took my movie camera to Seattle in the late 1960's to film the old system and to record it for historic record and posterity before it was gone. I met with the then General Manager of the Seattle Transit System Lloyd P. Graber to try and persuade him to ignore the consultant's study and to retain the electric trackless trolley system. I rebutted the study and pointed out that indeed new trackless trolleys were again being made. I pointed out that Seattle got the electricity for the quiet, clean, pollution free system from hydro-electric generation. I pointed out the steep hills that the system operated on, such as Queen Anne. I mounted a campaign to save the Seattle trackless trolley system, as well as similar campaigns I mounted in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dayton, Ohio and Boston {sadly, Boston recently scrapped their trackless trolley system against all advice and reason}. I was successful in those battles back then. As of 2023, Seattle has continuously operated electric trackless trolleys for eighty-three years !! And now, even modern streetcars have returned to the streets of Seattle. Too bad the Yesler cable car line was not saved. Imagine the tourist attraction that would be today. www.newflyer.com/bus/xcelsior-trolley/
One of my best friends had a step-dad, who retired from Seattle Transit after driving for well over 50 years!...His name was Frank Falsini, and he was #1 seniority when he retired...he loved his job! And sometimes, when driving a diesel bus, he would stop by my parent's house, for a cup of coffee--whenever his schedule would allow...can you imagine a company allowing such a thing nowadays?...the neighbors were always a little freaked out when Frank would pull that big bus to the curb in front of our house!..He was such a cool dude!
I’m born and raised in seattle I can tell u one thing I do remember my grandmother being very proud she was a hard working business owning black woman from Texas so she got to shop at Frederick and Nelson’s Woolworth and etc without being put out or looked at “TOO” funny 😂 we’re still black 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️💯💯
Black folks were scarce in Seattle, until WW2, when many people moved up from the South to get jobs...Even so, Seattle only has, today, around 14% black people...there are more minorities, such as Chinese, Hispanics, etc now.
I am not even American but I love these sorts of shows, I assume this was a PBS broadcast, like the Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Tulsa and Buffalo 'Things'? Its remarkable, and quite sad, that the one fixture of all those programs was people remembering the wonderful department stores that just disappeared over time...
I grew up listening to Ivar Hagland singing his folk songs. I sang along to his Acres of Clams. I have ridden the Kalakala and she shook like crazy. I lived on a beach on Vashon Island that had a Mosquito Fleet pickup pier on it and the next beach had one too.. I even saw the beach name on the ferry sail schedule. I never rode a street car, they were gone by the time I was around but the electric trolleys were great. I've drive the Queen Anne counterbalance many times and wished the street cars were still running. Thanks for the memories.
I worked with a guy who had worked at Ivar's Captains Table restaurant...Ivar was a character, he frequently would show up in the evening with some lovely lady, and proceed to get loaded!...and he could be stern with his workers...but then he would leave a $20 tip!
I'll forever be greatful to Frederick and Nelson for employing me in the early 1970s while I was getting my degree at UW...what a wonderful place to work in a wonderful city...very fond memories ❤
I remember being young end being taken to a Frederick and Nelson's sometimes ( I grew up in Bellevue) I remember always being so excited to go to "the city". My folks would take me to Frederick and Nelson's to see Santa too. Il8f I remember correctly they had a big breakfast with Santa thing back then. I'll always remember the one year wheni left with my dad 59 see Santa and I was fine but by the time we got back home I had broken out in chickenpox . That was a bad Christmas. I had really bad chickenpox
I remember being young end being taken to a Frederick and Nelson's sometimes ( I grew up in Bellevue) I remember always being so excited to go to "the city". My folks would take me to Frederick and Nelson's to see Santa too. Il8f I remember correctly they had a big breakfast with Santa thing back then. I'll always remember the one year wheni left with my dad 59 see Santa and I was fine but by the time we got back home I had broken out in chickenpox . That was a bad Christmas. I had really bad chickenpox
I'm 26 and I LOVE local history. I hail from burien just south of the city and I always loved going downtown as a kid. I wish I could have seen the kalakala and the mosquito fleet in action and the trolley that ran from old burien into downtown. The greenlake aquatheatre would have been so cool to have seen. The oldest thing for me that I remember is the kingdome and planet hollywood but man what I would give to experince the worlds fair like my father did.
I grew up in West Seattle. Not as young as you but I find myself More interested in this citie's history as I grow older. Denny party landed 15 minute walk from the house I grew up in. This cities history gets more important to me as I grow older. I hope our gen holds on to it
I am elderly now, but did indeed experience those things you mentioned...FYI--the Kalakala was a "rebuild" job, having had that futuristic exterior placed upon the deck of a ship that had seriously burned out, in San Francisco. So the structure was a bit creaky, and did indeed shake, especially when turning!...If you were having a cup of coffee at the small food service bar, you had to hang on to your cup!..My mother, still alive at 95, remembers riding a trolley that rode on an elevated track, from West Seattle, into downtown Seattle...that trolley jumped the track one time, and fell completely over the raised track...several people died.
@@curbozerboomer1773 I've heard it was pretty creaky and loud in general. Would have been fun to see that trolley. Sad so many people passed away in the accident though. There was a similar setup that went to leschi as well I think. There's an overpass leftover next to the park there I've walked on.
When I turned 8 in 1968, I finally got to join the Cub Scouts! Our troop got to go to KIRO Channel 7 and be on the J.P. Patches TV show.🤡 The Sea Fair boat shows, Namu and Shamu the Orcas, Jacque Cousteau's ship Calypso and the Ballard Locks. So many memories of my home state of Washington. ❤
A close friend and I ventured downtown rising 6th Graders ~~ 1965. We traveled by bus from Magnolia Village to the Tea Room - at Frederick and Nelson. We ordered ice cream! Debbie and I felt so grown up ~ it was sort of a rite of passage! I never knew the history of making ice cream for the Tea Room until just now!❤❤❤❤
I used to hang out at woolworth as a preteen, they had lots of toys downstairs and of course the wrap around diner. The Fredricks&Nelsons had a whole floor dedicated to toys, was amazing around christmas time. Might of been the Bon Marche..can't remember :)
I came here for Christmas every year with my great grandmother and family as a child in the late 80s early 90s. I remember being in that tea room, and the Christmas nutcracker performances, looking in all the windows...
very interesting. Moved to Seattle in 1988 and lived there for several years. always enjoyed going downtown. Many of the buildings are still there just changes in the façade!! Love seeing how people dressed and the old cars.
Bob hale!!! I was in his hobby shop under the monorail in the early 70s think he had the biggest slot car track ......bob was also a weather man for k.l.n.g. Tv. Back then their were several hobby related shops down town I can still name
Quick story...my late uncle Gene was an electrician, who was working in the attic area of the Orpheum theatre one time--suddenly someone turned out all the lights in the theatre, and my uncle had no flashlight with him!..It was pitch black, and he had to literally crawl, slowly around the area he was in, until he found the stairwell, and even then had to be extra careful negotiating the stairs...the incident gave him claustrophobia, which lasted a lifetime!...It was ironic, because he had served on a submarine during WW2, and had been used to tight spaces.
@@curbozerboomer1773 - I saw Ride the Wild Surf and A Hard Days Night at the Orpheum. My grandmother bought a faux royal throne chair from there when they closed. After she died, I stored it in a storage unit and it molded. Thx.
Here is a weird fact...the Bubble part of the Bubbleator, is in some guy's backyard now, in Auburn!...it is being used a place to grow flowers, etc...The guy bought it, in pieces, for $1,000 dollars. He put it back together.
I grew up in Mount vernon. Going to see Bobo was so exciting. He died when I was in 4th grade, that week for current events every child brought articles on Bobo to share. I remember my teacher having to limit who shared. I was excited again when I saw the beginning of this portion in documentary but soon realized what a tragic story it was. Animal cruelty in this portion and the reindeer, both just horrible.
I remember BoBo and FiFi. As children, we would have our pictures taken with Santa at Fredrick and Nelsons. Standing in line and looking in the windows and seeing the beautiful displays. I cringed at the story of the reindeer and seeing the Polar Bear cubs. Thank goosness it was before my time. I still rember the smell of Fredick and Nelsons, it was a unique smell.
Just a boy from Kent who survived the 1955 Swedish hospital staff out break. thanks for the memories. My late fathers cousin Clifford retired from F&N jewelry dept. .
Had the pleasure to work with the main guy trying to save and restore the MV Kalakala. Stuck on shore in alaska they towed it all they way back to seatle, sadly wasn't enough interest and it wasn't restored.
My great aunt dot piccolo worked at F&N for many years I think from the early 1950s and many yrs afterwards they lived in West seattle, john piccolo worked at the shipyards many years One of gmas brothers helped to construct the tacoma narrows bridge in 1939. He lived on Broadway, Geoff? O'connell Many old ways of seattle can still be brought back in the process of time (as such) It's so very important for ppl to connect with one another through history At the end of the day it's about community, also I always loved how gma & gpas cultural heritage of montana & new orleans meshed in with living in the pac N.W in the late 1960s, etc They oughta have a symposium sometime of the community sharing seattle memories, etc
I too am a rare Seattle native, born at the Northgate Mall hospital. My Grandfather was an engineer at KIRO, and a friend of JP. When I was 5 I started at [Mrs.] Perkins Musical Kindergarten, where the music teacher was Wunda Wunda. One thing that I've been trying to answer for 50 years, is related to south Lake Union. My dad owned a Union 76 station across the street from the Seattle Times building, and on some Saturdays I'd go to work with him. When we were headed south on the ship canal bridge, I was fixated on the south end of Lake Union. Just offshore there was a flat barge painted black, that looked like it was abandoned. I've been dying to know the story of that barge for 50 years. GREAT VIDEO !
@@TheSGBrown Nope, not NW, Northgate General Hospital was located at the North end of the mall, a stone's throw East of the movie theater. I was born there and my Grandad died there about 20 years later. I stopped by the Northgate Hospital shortly before it closed, and it was like being on the set of Back to the Future
@@GB-go6gp Ah, I remember that building. For me, it had been a research facility before its teardown and mall reconstruction. Northgate Mall also has the distinction of being the FIRST MALL in the nation when it was founded. (Fwiw, I grew up near Green Lake, just east of lower Woodland. . .) :)
@@GB-go6gp I remember that a friend of mine broke his leg, and spent the night at that small, but very cool, Hospital!...It was right next to the Northgate Theatre--which was an excellent movie theatre, well designed and appointed...quite a large seating capacity too! Around 1980, my sons were born at NW Hospital, which was a nice, convenient Hospital with full services.
@@curbozerboomer1773 You're spot-on about the Northgate theater, it was something you'd expect to see downtown, red velvet curtains, LOTS of seatng from the screen to the back wall.
Definitely the Golden Age of Seattle. Grew up there in the 50's and 60's , no better place to be a kid. So sad to see what Seattle and it people have become in 2021
I just moved to Seattle and I am so jealous that I can’t experience what it was before things got complicated. Washington state in my opinion was the pinnacle of American life. Beautiful snow capped mountains, bright and modern City, small quiet country towns, green lush evergreen trees abound, Crystal clear snowmelt lakes and rivers.
As every generation grows old they disapprove of the younger generation. It seems like American tradition, and to be frank it's pretty corny. The city has always had issues going back to the 1800's. I guess it's just easier to blame a particular generation or type of people for the cities "downfall" rather than embrace the changes and accept the city good and bad. Please feel free to move away if you don't like it here ;) 👋
@@ws6032 Its true, Seattle has always been a "boom and bust" community. That does not excuse bad behavior. Either your city is better, and is improving the lives of its citizenry or it is not, clearly the city is in decline.
Grew up in many areas of Seattle in the 50s and wound up on north queen in the 60s....also ran the streets at age 10 and road buses downtown, so am very familiar. With what Seattle was before it was destroyed Which has now been reduced to glass a garbage dump and a yuppy infested toilet;.....sadly as of us knew the once beloved Town has died never to be the same.again.., such a terrible waste of a once loved city...
Rainier Beach High School football games played at the stadium at Seattle Center in the late 60's/early 70's.......metro bus rides there and back always safe........sewing classes at the Singer Sewing Store across from JC Penney's on second avenue in the summer, 1967......Frederick & Nelson's and the Bon Marche especially at Christmas......riding the monorail to the center and back......swimming lessons at the indoor pool at White Center........candy striping at Cabrini hospital.......the SeaFair parade in Chinatown/international district with the big dragon......picnics at Seward Park.......birthday parties at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor.......the Olde Curiosity Shop on the waterfront.......Seattle in the 1960's was a kid's playground and so much fun
Born in Bellevue, parents were buying a place by the UW or in Bellevue and decided Bellevue when I was coming. 1970-2022 I left because of the policies.
Wow!...... The women were so very beautiful back in the 40's even the 50s & 60s. It's really sad that I nor anyone will ever r see a woman or women like that, so feminine so gorgeous
Girls from that era were not upset, or afraid to be accenting their feminine features, in a stylish, nice way....the womans movement did clear up areas of employment discrimination, etc..but also took down the idea of women as "ladies"...a big mistake.
the 20th century seems exciting because it was the century between the old days and the modern era we are in now. There was so much visible progress from the early 1900s to the end of the 20th century, started the century with a horse and buggy and ended the century with computers, modern medicine and modern manufacturing methods and materials. makes me jealous of seattle of the 20th century because now seattle is a dump and people hate/don't even know about the people and place that came before them. People just live as if this civilization was always here and have no idea about the time when this place was being built, and people actually have contempt about the idea of the people that came before them and it is incredibly sad and ignorant. I'm a seattle native born in 1987, I live outside the city because the people there are the worst, especially if you are a heterosexual white male who believes in having a job and responsibility and not having an authoritarian government that is just terrible at managing a city.
Seattle was settled in the 1850s, by white folks from the mid-west...a few years later, boatloads of people from Sweden/Norway showed up(witness Ballard!)...sooo, yes, Seattle was like 98% White until the 1940s, when Blacks migrated from the south mainly, to take good jobs up in the NW. Even today, compared to other major cities, Seattle is mostly white, although down to about 66%...Lots of minorities have come here in the last 50-60 years, and that is also true over most other places of the country.
@@curbozerboomer1773 thank you I watched the first part and I was like wait i have Bleach in my eyes I keep watching see the planes trains boatsxautomobiles ok had enough
Are you mad have you lost your mind I saw tiny black child talking to Santa I don't know how that happened I probably was more than one black child in Seattle but they were all busy that that I guess. It was white wasn't it?
Young people---especially young girls/women---look at how slim, feminine, and soft the women were back then, and still were years later! Such a pleasure to see. We wish women were still like that in America.
Yes indeed...I was looking at my HS yearbook the other day-class of 1965...those gals back then were so fresh, clean, and cute...and few were overweight...no tattoos, either!
The live animals in the store windows is disgusting the people should have went to prison for animal abuse trying to glue back the antlers and fur, seriously how ignorant and cruel were those people??
My lovely Home Town .... before WOKE destroyed it. Seattle Native 1960 ... Swedish baby too . What a lovely wonderful place to live until I was taken to the Farm country in 1965 .... We should have Never left. Never.
My mother used to take us to Fredrick n Nelson we had a cousin who was a model. And we would go for Christmas time events. My mother used to work in the Space needle.
I was a kid and teen in the 60's and 70's, and we lived near White Center in Seattle. It was a great place and time to grow up. The culture is gone from what I have known. It was still safe there. It's sad to see what Seattle has become. I believe the 70's was the end of Seattle's great culture and a place you were proud to be a part of. I would take the city bus from White Center to the Public Market when I was a kid, where my favorite comic book store was, alone. I am grateful, fortunate, and proud to experience and lived in Seattle in it's last great times.
That's also my favorite comic/novelty store. It's still there in Pike.
That's my story, too. Great memories. Very idyllic childhood.
Born 1955 Maynard Hospital , which is gone. Dad worked at Boeing ,Mom worked world's fair . We are Mexican, not many Mexican back then , Mom worked at a Mexican restaurant at the world's fair & almost every mexican women she worked with ended up getting there own restaurant's, including my Mom & Dad. Lot's of memories growing up in Seattle ♥️
What’s they restaurant?
I too was born in Seattle in 1955 along with my twin brother at Providence Hospital. We moved to Minnesota in 1968. Great story about your parents.
Seattle seemed to know how to have fun back then before we started taking ourselves too seriously. And it's interesting to compare the society back then to the one we have now with all the wealth disparities. We are working harder, still broke and too tired to "dress up to go out for dinner and dancing."
I am thankful for the memories
Wow I'm sure the reindeers fur was falling out from stress
My cousin Shirley McArthur won Seattle Fair Queen and many other beauty contests in Seattle during 1950 s
I have a most vivid memory of Seattle World’s Fair. I was 6. Oh, Ivar and his “Acres of Clams.”❤❤❤Ty for making this video and posting it!
Sigh... I miss the Seattle of my youth.
I miss my youth period. 🙋♂️
If there were time machines?! The fun of visiting for a weekend
Oh Bobo 😪 Namu...this little girl knew. I loved you ❤
Sad that another Seattle icon besides Ivar... JP Patches... was missed. There were many terrific selections that I enjoyed. JP Patches was someone who was so personable. I met him several times as a kid and his morning and afternoon were MUST-SEEs for this Seattle youngster. Long live JP Patches cuz I'll always be a Patches Pal!
I met JP!
Lot's of memories Captain Puget, Breakman Bill, Stan Borenson w/ Slow Mo his Basset Hound & last but not least Wanda Wanda !! 😀
JP Patches was also the favorite of the Seattle grunge scene hanging out with soundgarden even opening for soundgarden when Seattle was booming with the musical style and talent of the 1980's to 1994.
You're right about JP. His alte-ego, Chris Wedges was just as funny & cordial as JP. I went to a special opening event at MOHAI one evening, and when Mr. Wedes approached the podium with a can of Rainier, he parleyed that beer into a seque about our favorite clown with a beloved local beer.
I met JP Patches along with my mom and two brothers at our Trade Well grocery store in the summer of 1961. Loved the guy. Always watched.
Even though I live in New Jersey, I've always liked Seattle. Being a transit historian, my main attraction to Seattle back in the 1960's was the fleet of electric trackless trolleys. At that time, they were still running the original fleet that dated back to 1940. Imagine being able to ride on pre-war style Twin Coach trackless trolleys and 1944 Pullman-Standard trackless trolleys still running in the 1960's and 1970's. It was a museum in motion, who's future was in serious doubt. Consultants had recommended junking the ancient fleet of trackless trolleys and replacing them with diesel buses. It was said and thought at that time that nobody made new trackless trolleys anymore. And by the way, I have a huge collection of vintage Seattle transit memorabilia.
I took my movie camera to Seattle in the late 1960's to film the old system and to record it for historic record and posterity before it was gone. I met with the then General Manager of the Seattle Transit System Lloyd P. Graber to try and persuade him to ignore the consultant's study and to retain the electric trackless trolley system. I rebutted the study and pointed out that indeed new trackless trolleys were again being made. I pointed out that Seattle got the electricity for the quiet, clean, pollution free system from hydro-electric generation. I pointed out the steep hills that the system operated on, such as Queen Anne. I mounted a campaign to save the Seattle trackless trolley system, as well as similar campaigns I mounted in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dayton, Ohio and Boston {sadly, Boston recently scrapped their trackless trolley system against all advice and reason}. I was successful in those battles back then. As of 2023, Seattle has continuously operated electric trackless trolleys for eighty-three years !! And now, even modern streetcars have returned to the streets of Seattle. Too bad the Yesler cable car line was not saved. Imagine the tourist attraction that would be today.
www.newflyer.com/bus/xcelsior-trolley/
One of my best friends had a step-dad, who retired from Seattle Transit after driving for well over 50 years!...His name was Frank Falsini, and he was #1 seniority when he retired...he loved his job! And sometimes, when driving a diesel bus, he would stop by my parent's house, for a cup of coffee--whenever his schedule would allow...can you imagine a company allowing such a thing nowadays?...the neighbors were always a little freaked out when Frank would pull that big bus to the curb in front of our house!..He was such a cool dude!
I’m born and raised in seattle I can tell u one thing I do remember my grandmother being very proud she was a hard working business owning black woman from Texas so she got to shop at Frederick and Nelson’s Woolworth and etc without being put out or looked at “TOO” funny 😂 we’re still black 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️💯💯
Black folks were scarce in Seattle, until WW2, when many people moved up from the South to get jobs...Even so, Seattle only has, today, around 14% black people...there are more minorities, such as Chinese, Hispanics, etc now.
I remember my $400 downtown Seattle apartment in 1992, entire block now bulldozed for new condos and now homeless live on the street
😂😂 I paid 95$ a month in 1973 to 1975 for a beautiful 1 bedroom apt.on Capitol Hill ❤ looking them up the buildings are both still there.
I miss the original Fun Forest 💕💕
Me too. I rode the Trip to Mars and bumper cars multiple times.
I am not even American but I love these sorts of shows, I assume this was a PBS broadcast, like the Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Tulsa and Buffalo 'Things'? Its remarkable, and quite sad, that the one fixture of all those programs was people remembering the wonderful department stores that just disappeared over time...
Still lots of very old buildings in downtown Tulsa.
I grew up listening to Ivar Hagland singing his folk songs. I sang along to his Acres of Clams. I have ridden the Kalakala and she shook like crazy. I lived on a beach on Vashon Island that had a Mosquito Fleet pickup pier on it and the next beach had one too.. I even saw the beach name on the ferry sail schedule. I never rode a street car, they were gone by the time I was around but the electric trolleys were great. I've drive the Queen Anne counterbalance many times and wished the street cars were still running. Thanks for the memories.
I worked with a guy who had worked at Ivar's Captains Table restaurant...Ivar was a character, he frequently would show up in the evening with some lovely lady, and proceed to get loaded!...and he could be stern with his workers...but then he would leave a $20 tip!
I'll forever be greatful to Frederick and Nelson for employing me in the early 1970s while I was getting my degree at UW...what a wonderful place to work in a wonderful city...very fond memories ❤
I remember being young end being taken to a Frederick and Nelson's sometimes ( I grew up in Bellevue) I remember always being so excited to go to "the city". My folks would take me to Frederick and Nelson's to see Santa too. Il8f I remember correctly they had a big breakfast with Santa thing back then. I'll always remember the one year wheni left with my dad 59 see Santa and I was fine but by the time we got back home I had broken out in chickenpox . That was a bad Christmas. I had really bad chickenpox
I remember being young end being taken to a Frederick and Nelson's sometimes ( I grew up in Bellevue) I remember always being so excited to go to "the city". My folks would take me to Frederick and Nelson's to see Santa too. Il8f I remember correctly they had a big breakfast with Santa thing back then. I'll always remember the one year wheni left with my dad 59 see Santa and I was fine but by the time we got back home I had broken out in chickenpox . That was a bad Christmas. I had really bad chickenpox
When I think of Fredrick & Nelson I think of eating chocolate candy.
I'm 26 and I LOVE local history. I hail from burien just south of the city and I always loved going downtown as a kid. I wish I could have seen the kalakala and the mosquito fleet in action and the trolley that ran from old burien into downtown. The greenlake aquatheatre would have been so cool to have seen. The oldest thing for me that I remember is the kingdome and planet hollywood but man what I would give to experince the worlds fair like my father did.
I grew up in West Seattle. Not as young as you but I find myself More interested in this citie's history as I grow older. Denny party landed 15 minute walk from the house I grew up in. This cities history gets more important to me as I grow older. I hope our gen holds on to it
I love Burien!! I’d love to learn more about the history!!
I am elderly now, but did indeed experience those things you mentioned...FYI--the Kalakala was a "rebuild" job, having had that futuristic exterior placed upon the deck of a ship that had seriously burned out, in San Francisco. So the structure was a bit creaky, and did indeed shake, especially when turning!...If you were having a cup of coffee at the small food service bar, you had to hang on to your cup!..My mother, still alive at 95, remembers riding a trolley that rode on an elevated track, from West Seattle, into downtown Seattle...that trolley jumped the track one time, and fell completely over the raised track...several people died.
@@curbozerboomer1773 I've heard it was pretty creaky and loud in general. Would have been fun to see that trolley. Sad so many people passed away in the accident though. There was a similar setup that went to leschi as well I think. There's an overpass leftover next to the park there I've walked on.
When I turned 8 in 1968, I finally got to join the Cub Scouts! Our troop got to go to KIRO Channel 7 and be on the J.P. Patches TV show.🤡 The Sea Fair boat shows, Namu and Shamu the Orcas, Jacque Cousteau's ship Calypso and the Ballard Locks. So many memories of my home state of Washington. ❤
Seattle is nothing like this today lol...
I loved watching this. My dad grew up in Seattle(1915) and would always talk about how he loved living there.
A close friend and I ventured downtown rising 6th Graders ~~ 1965. We traveled by bus from Magnolia Village to the Tea Room - at Frederick and Nelson. We ordered ice cream!
Debbie and I felt so grown up ~ it was sort of a rite of passage!
I never knew the history of making ice cream for the Tea Room until just now!❤❤❤❤
I used to hang out at woolworth as a preteen, they had lots of toys downstairs and of course the wrap around diner. The Fredricks&Nelsons had a whole floor dedicated to toys, was amazing around christmas time. Might of been the Bon Marche..can't remember :)
I'm a transplant from Oklahoma City (2009), but, being interested in history and genealogy, I have been interested in the history of my adopted home.
Home sweet home
I came here for Christmas every year with my great grandmother and family as a child in the late 80s early 90s. I remember being in that tea room, and the Christmas nutcracker performances, looking in all the windows...
very interesting. Moved to Seattle in 1988 and lived there for several years. always enjoyed going downtown. Many of the buildings are still there just changes in the façade!! Love seeing how people dressed and the old cars.
I miss Bob Hale and his hobby shop, the Orpheum theater and Manning's with my grandmother.
Bob hale!!! I was in his hobby shop under the monorail in the early 70s think he had the biggest slot car track ......bob was also a weather man for k.l.n.g. Tv. Back then their were several hobby related shops down town I can still name
@@stanburdick9708 Yep. The Cartooning Weatherman. Followed by Bob Cram.
Quick story...my late uncle Gene was an electrician, who was working in the attic area of the Orpheum theatre one time--suddenly someone turned out all the lights in the theatre, and my uncle had no flashlight with him!..It was pitch black, and he had to literally crawl, slowly around the area he was in, until he found the stairwell, and even then had to be extra careful negotiating the stairs...the incident gave him claustrophobia, which lasted a lifetime!...It was ironic, because he had served on a submarine during WW2, and had been used to tight spaces.
@@curbozerboomer1773 - I saw Ride the Wild Surf and A Hard Days Night at the Orpheum. My grandmother bought a faux royal throne chair from there when they closed. After she died, I stored it in a storage unit and it molded. Thx.
'Make new friends, but keep old.'
One is silver, but the other's gold.
I am trying to keep my old friends...but they are dying off!
I miss the Bon. F & N, bubble at Seattle center, Fun Forrest, Northgate Mall
Here is a weird fact...the Bubble part of the Bubbleator, is in some guy's backyard now, in Auburn!...it is being used a place to grow flowers, etc...The guy bought it, in pieces, for $1,000 dollars. He put it back together.
I grew up in Mount vernon. Going to see Bobo was so exciting. He died when I was in 4th grade, that week for current events every child brought articles on Bobo to share. I remember my teacher having to limit who shared. I was excited again when I saw the beginning of this portion in documentary but soon realized what a tragic story it was. Animal cruelty in this portion and the reindeer, both just horrible.
I remember BoBo and FiFi. As children, we would have our pictures taken with Santa at Fredrick and Nelsons. Standing in line and looking in the windows and seeing the beautiful displays. I cringed at the story of the reindeer and seeing the Polar Bear cubs. Thank goosness it was before my time. I still rember the smell of Fredick and Nelsons, it was a unique smell.
I grew up in MV as well! But too young to remember Bobo.
Just a boy from Kent who survived the 1955 Swedish hospital staff out break. thanks for the memories. My late fathers cousin Clifford retired from F&N jewelry dept. .
I worked at Frederick and Nelson downtown 1970 to 1975...what a great city back then ❤
Had the pleasure to work with the main guy trying to save and restore the MV Kalakala. Stuck on shore in alaska they towed it all they way back to seatle, sadly wasn't enough interest and it wasn't restored.
I worked with a few of the main guys ... hehheh
Poor Bobo, made me so sad.
This was wonderful
Thank you for this❤️
I remember going to Fredrick and Nelson with my mom and getting lunch downstairs
Awesome film. Ty for sharing!
Thank you
My great aunt dot piccolo worked at F&N for many years I think from the early 1950s and many yrs afterwards they lived in West seattle, john piccolo worked at the shipyards many years
One of gmas brothers helped to construct the tacoma narrows bridge in 1939. He lived on Broadway, Geoff? O'connell
Many old ways of seattle can still be brought back in the process of time (as such)
It's so very important for ppl to connect with one another through history
At the end of the day it's about community, also
I always loved how gma & gpas cultural heritage of montana & new orleans meshed in with living in the pac N.W in the late 1960s, etc
They oughta have a symposium sometime of the community sharing seattle memories, etc
That was great. The Bobo part was my favorite.
Frango mint ice cream at Christmas time The memory makes my heart ache.
Beautiful reminiscence ❤
I too am a rare Seattle native, born at the Northgate Mall hospital. My Grandfather was an engineer at KIRO, and a friend of JP. When I was 5 I started at [Mrs.] Perkins Musical Kindergarten, where the music teacher was Wunda Wunda.
One thing that I've been trying to answer for 50 years, is related to south Lake Union. My dad owned a Union 76 station across the street from the Seattle Times building, and on some Saturdays I'd go to work with him. When we were headed south on the ship canal bridge, I was fixated on the south end of Lake Union. Just offshore there was a flat barge painted black, that looked like it was abandoned. I've been dying to know the story of that barge for 50 years. GREAT VIDEO !
Northwest Hospital? /grins
@@TheSGBrown Nope, not NW, Northgate General Hospital was located at the North end of the mall, a stone's throw East of the movie theater. I was born there and my Grandad died there about 20 years later. I stopped by the Northgate Hospital shortly before it closed, and it was like being on the set of Back to the Future
@@GB-go6gp Ah, I remember that building. For me, it had been a research facility before its teardown and mall reconstruction. Northgate Mall also has the distinction of being the FIRST MALL in the nation when it was founded. (Fwiw, I grew up near Green Lake, just east of lower Woodland. . .) :)
@@GB-go6gp I remember that a friend of mine broke his leg, and spent the night at that small, but very cool, Hospital!...It was right next to the Northgate Theatre--which was an excellent movie theatre, well designed and appointed...quite a large seating capacity too! Around 1980, my sons were born at NW Hospital, which was a nice, convenient Hospital with full services.
@@curbozerboomer1773 You're spot-on about the Northgate theater, it was something you'd expect to see downtown, red velvet curtains, LOTS of seatng from the screen to the back wall.
frango's, santa clause, made Fredricks so very special
Definitely the Golden Age of Seattle. Grew up there in the 50's and 60's , no better place to be a kid. So sad to see what Seattle and it people have become in 2021
As a 90s kid. I wish I grew up in the 50s/60s. When life seem so simple.
I just moved to Seattle and I am so jealous that I can’t experience what it was before things got complicated. Washington state in my opinion was the pinnacle of American life. Beautiful snow capped mountains, bright and modern City, small quiet country towns, green lush evergreen trees abound, Crystal clear snowmelt lakes and rivers.
As every generation grows old they disapprove of the younger generation. It seems like American tradition, and to be frank it's pretty corny. The city has always had issues going back to the 1800's. I guess it's just easier to blame a particular generation or type of people for the cities "downfall" rather than embrace the changes and accept the city good and bad. Please feel free to move away if you don't like it here ;) 👋
@@ws6032 Its true, Seattle has always been a "boom and bust" community. That does not excuse bad behavior. Either your city is better, and is improving the lives of its citizenry or it is not, clearly the city is in decline.
Yep its turned into a yuppy infested toilet for sure😡
Nobody ever told me about Frango Ice Cream!
My grand pa was the manger of Nestlé toulouse
Flashback Seattle.:"No more Jello.!"
Elvis gave a concert at Rainer stadium too.
My parents would love to watch this. Is it Available anywhere on DVD by any chance?
Dosewallips best place to see newts or salamanders? and get rained on :) The Brinnon General store north of there is amazing as well.
Ya wow things have most definitely changed ...
Same here.
Grew up in many areas of Seattle in the 50s and wound up on north queen in the 60s....also ran the streets at age 10 and road buses downtown, so am very familiar. With what Seattle was before it was destroyed Which has now been reduced to glass a garbage dump and a yuppy infested toilet;.....sadly as of us knew the once beloved Town has died never to be the same.again.., such a terrible waste of a once loved city...
Are you related to John Burdick? I went to school with John...just asking, as the name is a rare one.
Rainier Beach High School football games played at the stadium at Seattle Center in the late 60's/early 70's.......metro bus rides there and back always safe........sewing classes at the Singer Sewing Store across from JC Penney's on second avenue in the summer, 1967......Frederick & Nelson's and the Bon Marche especially at Christmas......riding the monorail to the center and back......swimming lessons at the indoor pool at White Center........candy striping at Cabrini hospital.......the SeaFair parade in Chinatown/international district with the big dragon......picnics at Seward Park.......birthday parties at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor.......the Olde Curiosity Shop on the waterfront.......Seattle in the 1960's was a kid's playground and so much fun
what's the name of the song the captain sings at the beginning? min 1.30
Acres of clams... That was Ivar Heglund.
Where was Bird Land? They didn't say or I missed it. Couldn't place it from the exterior shots
22nd Avenue and E Madison Street more info at www.historylink.org/file/8415
is that stan boreson with the raindeer?
Yes!
Street cars are still in Boston
Born in Bellevue, parents were buying a place by the UW or in Bellevue and decided Bellevue when I was coming.
1970-2022 I left because of the policies.
"when they opened the day after Thanksgiving". Not any of that these days. Convenience stores and the business model ruined much of this.
Some of them ladies weren't doing shopping uptown if you know what I mean
Cudis name is Hugh Mann lmaoooooo
Seattle changed it used to be the black river.
Ahhh, good old laughing about animal cruelty (re: the reindeer)
Appallingly cruel and abusive.
I’m sure they weren’t as educated about the issues then as they are now, like cigarettes
This video and those 5 ft 4 dark haired girls.... well that was kinda weird.... some james bond kinda stuff goin on there?
It was explained, and there was nothing wrong with that concept!
Sanity.
16:03 headlines
Seattle ain't there anymore. Lol
Anyone remember WIGWAM ?
I might have misspelled WigWam ? And oh ya Frederick and Nelson's,,mom draging us around lol hey thank you for the good memories.
You always got more at a wig wam store
Grow up on Seattle 1960
Wow!...... The women were so very beautiful back in the 40's even the 50s & 60s. It's really sad that I nor anyone will ever r see a woman or women like that, so feminine so gorgeous
Girls from that era were not upset, or afraid to be accenting their feminine features, in a stylish, nice way....the womans movement did clear up areas of employment discrimination, etc..but also took down the idea of women as "ladies"...a big mistake.
the 20th century seems exciting because it was the century between the old days and the modern era we are in now. There was so much visible progress from the early 1900s to the end of the 20th century, started the century with a horse and buggy and ended the century with computers, modern medicine and modern manufacturing methods and materials. makes me jealous of seattle of the 20th century because now seattle is a dump and people hate/don't even know about the people and place that came before them. People just live as if this civilization was always here and have no idea about the time when this place was being built, and people actually have contempt about the idea of the people that came before them and it is incredibly sad and ignorant. I'm a seattle native born in 1987, I live outside the city because the people there are the worst, especially if you are a heterosexual white male who believes in having a job and responsibility and not having an authoritarian government that is just terrible at managing a city.
Good grief, the animal abuse 😢
Wow well it definitely was mighty white ⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️
Seattle was settled in the 1850s, by white folks from the mid-west...a few years later, boatloads of people from Sweden/Norway showed up(witness Ballard!)...sooo, yes, Seattle was like 98% White until the 1940s, when Blacks migrated from the south mainly, to take good jobs up in the NW. Even today, compared to other major cities, Seattle is mostly white, although down to about 66%...Lots of minorities have come here in the last 50-60 years, and that is also true over most other places of the country.
@@curbozerboomer1773 thank you I watched the first part and I was like wait i have Bleach in my eyes I keep watching see the planes trains boatsxautomobiles ok had enough
Are you mad have you lost your mind I saw tiny black child talking to Santa I don't know how that happened I probably was more than one black child in Seattle but they were all busy that that I guess. It was white wasn't it?
Poor Bobo. Poor tortured reindeer. This was so depressing.
Young people---especially young girls/women---look at how slim, feminine, and soft the women were back then, and still were years later! Such a pleasure to see. We wish women were still like that in America.
Yes indeed...I was looking at my HS yearbook the other day-class of 1965...those gals back then were so fresh, clean, and cute...and few were overweight...no tattoos, either!
Repressed?
@@aceykrew5207they’re talking about appearance and you’re talking about repression, those are two different topics.
The live animals in the store windows is disgusting the people should have went to prison for animal abuse trying to glue back the antlers and fur, seriously how ignorant and cruel were those people??
How about affordable housing
My lovely Home Town .... before WOKE destroyed it. Seattle Native 1960 ... Swedish baby too . What a lovely wonderful place to live until I was taken to the Farm country in 1965 .... We should have Never left. Never.
My mother used to take us to Fredrick n Nelson we had a cousin who was a model. And we would go for Christmas time events. My mother used to work in the Space needle.