Washington, The Evergreen State, 1950
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2008
- A tour of the state of Washington in the 1950s. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
Do any of you native Seattleites remember the sign by Boeings that said " Last one leaving Seattle,turn out the lights." ?
Yes..that was around 1970, when Boeing cut around 30,000 jobs--a huge blow to the local economy..this was before our hero, Bill Gates, invented Microsoft!
That was when 33,000 or so Boeing employees lost their jobs overnight when Congress pulled the plug on research for a US supersonic transport jet-1970 or 1971. My dad, an engineer, was transferred from Seattle to the Washington DC office of Boeing in the summer of 1967. He was one of these workers.
It was a challenging time for our family.
I loved growing up in Seattle 1958-1967. Gratefully I’ve been back twice.
It’s time to go back-maybe Summer, 2024.
We grew to love the East Coast, Virginia and Delaware - but Seattle was special for sure.
❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I sure do and remember it being the best yrs of my life !!! Now nothing but a glass garbage dump $hit hole😡
that wouldn't come until 18 years after this came out
I do! I was a kid at the time so i didn't really understand it.
I love seeing the history of where I live. Thanks for sharing.
I'm reading your comment 9 years later. That's history in itself 😁
10 years ago wow
I'm reading it 11 years now
I’ve lived in Whidbey Island (Oak Harbor), and currently live in Lake Stevens, Washington. I love history and although this wasn’t too long ago I’m still fascinated by this.
I live N.E.WASHINGTON in a small town it's still good. Very small.
Those forestry shots are crazy.
This was back in the better days. I grew up in Edmonds 1960's-1980's.. moved to Lake Stevens in 1993 and currently still reside here. Time has ruined our cities and this State, Homeless people everywhere, crime is out of control, drug usage, and traffic is nuts.
You mean the communist socialists ruined our nation and our state?
Yea they really did.
A long gone state, country and world!!
beaches were far from warm in washington in the 50s
You are totally correct. I remember Seattle’s beaches as littered with kelp and with very cold water.
One time my mom, an RN, took my sisters and me swimming in the Sound near a water treatment plant. She said that this was where the Sound was cleanest.
It was a small sandy beach. ❤❤🎉🎉🎉
fabulous
I grew up in Yakima and other than a few years away, have spent most of my life in the "Greater Seattle" region. ;-)
My dad, his siblings still in kentucky and gpts would still be in Montana for the next couple yrs
I live on the Olympic peninsula and it's still beautiful over here. Thanks to the protection of the national Forest which is my backyard. And the Hoh rain forest.
Your face is lopsided. It looks like you were in a machete fight!!!
How do you afford it nowadays? My heartaches to not be able to live in my home but seeing others enjoy it gives me hope there’s a chance for good change
Beautiful 🌷🌷
Wonderful state
Beautiful 🌷🌹
I just went to Ruby beach last weekend.
Omg...our Seattle!
Has turned into one big $hit hole😡😡😡
I live in Walla Walla it is a beautiful town❤
Those were the days when fishing was still safe. These days, eat fish at your own risk!
I didn’t see it (the sign mentioned below) but sure knew about it. Boeing transferred my Dad to Washington DC in 1967. Talk about virtue shock!
Proof that Yakima used to be really Nice & Clean Gem of a City !!
So funny how there are always people who find something negative to say about everything 🤣 How about just enjoying an old film showing our beautiful state? It is a completely unbiased look at the state... not political .
It will always be political. Especially since society has been destroyed so much that all respect has been lost by others. Everything is destroyed, dirty, filled with drug addicts, and no one respects anyone anymore.
I agree 100% with you it's really a choice isn't it😊
GOOOOOOO WASHINGTON!
This is gold. Great upload. Im glad that digitized this cant deteriorate anymore. Film is beautiful but a shitty storage medium.
I live in Seattle Washington 🌹
and its shit, thanks bud
i live in a place called port orchard it’s like 10 mins away from the bremerton shipyard and i can see seattle from where i live across the water
@@jaysaini955 loool
@@AyayronBalakay Meh
@@jaysaini955 one man's trash is another man's treasure
Blackbears used to be friendly?.. interesting
they train Rangers to make sure they take your money
😂
No, just people were more respectful and not so dumb. So they didn't get attacked as easily
That’s because people fed them. They say not to now.
That's so true
Beautiful state but the people have lost it
Totally skipped over Bremerton…
“…Across the water from Seattle is Brem-Everett…”
30 years before st helens took a sht
Any chance of a better soundtrack? Also, what year is the Apple Blossom Queen from?
This is the original soundtrack, why would you want to change it? This video is from 1950, so therefore that is when the apple blossom queen is from. You can find their pictures in the museum. Feel free to check it out
@@ashledashnaw2575 It skips alot. That's why I asked.
Beautiful seattle (evergreen) where I live wow !
So in 1950's Washington, citizens could play with the wild bear cubs. That's pretty cool. All kidding aside, it would have been nice had there been a shout-out to the Native fisherman. There's nothing like the fresh seafood from the Reservation. I remember often getting a wide variety of it amazingly cheap in the 80's.
My papa was born in Oroville. He fished Sockeye all over the state. And my dad smoked salmon all summer long.
Yes you are right. Heaven
Nice bit on my hometown of Bremerton. Subtle yet to the point
Moses Lake WA here, 11 more years later
I think they forgot to teach sustainability to their people. All of this could still be here if they were taught how to manage, and take care of it. & possibly thought of their future generations. As long as the NR are available there’s still time to change!
i wasn't even alive when this came out lol
I was lol
Unless your 72 years old at least, no you weren't.
2:00 5:55 15:00 this is for an assignment so don't worry abt it
i am very worried
So, it's been two years now. What grade did you get on your assignment?
What is wrong with this otherwise excellent retro-documentary about the wonders of my home state?..the soundtrack skips like crazy!
Vintage editing and film age that ebbs in and out
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Well that was kind of lame, kinda just skimmed right over Vancouver. We’re only the fourth largest city in the state!
Seattle Born
Me too...76yo now...we surely have now seen the good, the bad, and the ugly now, right?..I am lucky to be living when I did, and now do not regret my eventual death...the beauty around me is withering anyway.
Seattle raised. My parents moved to Seattle Christmas 1958-I just turned 4. Boeing moved us back to the East Coast just before Thanksgiving 1967. I think of the most important years of my raising being in Seattle.
My parents were so happy in Seattle. We ALL were.
I’ve been back to Seattle three times as an adult. It’s time to go back and to see my BFF from Grade 2. ❤
I wonder if people back then would have ever thought Washington Seattle would have a new lawless city called CHAZ (CHOP).
That's not a thing anymore
Yo, Kevin! How far back do you want to go!?! How about Seattle being an alcohol infested Whore House!?! But that's ok, huh?
Back when this state was awesome, now all gone :/
not all of it the vide mentioned a place called hamma hamma i still go camping there every year and it’s beautiful. sad thing is half of it was lost in a forest fire but the other half still looks great
@@dombefaded Ah, but the city itself is gone my man.
Not the Olympic peninsula
@@aceykrew5207 ?
@@jaysaini955 true that
What a nice advertisement for the beautiful land of our 42nd state, then recently conquered and ripe for the taking, surging with population growth and resettlement that has continued to this day.
Now that we are feeling the effects of global warming. It's so sad seeing those giant trees get cut down.
the mountain exploded and poo'd everywhere lol i think some people died
48 people!
Yakima is no longer clean. It's so full of drug addicts
shhhh lets just pretend its awesome still
@@AyayronBalakay I wish it was
@@ashledashnaw2575 yeah me too
I have a good friend who came from Yakima and he tells me all of the crazy stories.
Just look at the demographic profile in the video and what's now....period.
The sky is dark blue ( 20:25 ), the way it used to be; the way it naturally would be, if the aerial spraying wasn't going on. These travel archive films show the natural sky before the white lines were put everywhere to create artificial clouds for weather modification.
Literally every other time it shows the sky it's washed out almost to the point of being white, including the shot of the same sky at grand coulee two seconds later at 20:28. Please explain.
Lmaooooooo
Source?
You're a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
You probably think the earth is flat too.
everything between the cascades and idaho border is boring except the spokane area
Probably because you're materialistic so all you care about is cities
Agreed. That drive along 395 from Kennewick to Ritzville is a yawn fest.
Tenderfoot
Lost to the liberals 😂😂
how stupid were and still are feeding wild animals. it's freaking common sense i guess they had none in 1950
They had more then we do now.
Back before lefties turned this state into a craphole. This was way before my time though. 😡
Yep one big $hit hole🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬