Published: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Seems Like Yesterday
50 YEARS AGO (1959)
Bids were opening for the sale of the old Pacific Northwest Industrial Shipyard property on the Everett waterfront. Bond issues for the Port of Everett to purchase the 69-acre site had failed twice.
Folks in Sultan manned the boats yesterday as the Sultan River gushed into town, flooding to a record high. Waters penetrated the town as far as Fourth and Main streets before retreating. Farther east in Startup, drivers sloshed through the main street flooded by the Skykomish River.
25 YEARS AGO (1984)
Five years ago when Mike Ring raided his savings account and took out a second mortgage to raise the $35,000 necessary to open a small video rental store, there were only a handful of other such operations in the Puget Sound area. But today, his shop was one of many in the area as the video craze had caught on by now.
Construction had begun on a new residential community in Mill Creek to be known as Mill Valley Park. Located just east of the Bothell-Everett Highway, south of the Mill Creek Plaza shopping center, the development would feature two- and three-bedroom homes in a park-like setting.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
Bids were opening for the sale of the old Pacific Northwest Industrial Shipyard property on the Everett waterfront. Bond issues for the Port of Everett to purchase the 69-acre site had failed twice.
Folks in Sultan manned the boats yesterday as the Sultan River gushed into town, flooding to a record high. Waters penetrated the town as far as Fourth and Main streets before retreating. Farther east in Startup, drivers sloshed through the main street flooded by the Skykomish River.
25 YEARS AGO (1984)
Five years ago when Mike Ring raided his savings account and took out a second mortgage to raise the $35,000 necessary to open a small video rental store, there were only a handful of other such operations in the Puget Sound area. But today, his shop was one of many in the area as the video craze had caught on by now.
Construction had begun on a new residential community in Mill Creek to be known as Mill Valley Park. Located just east of the Bothell-Everett Highway, south of the Mill Creek Plaza shopping center, the development would feature two- and three-bedroom homes in a park-like setting.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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