Seems Like Yesterday

Published 9:00 pm Saturday, October 1, 2005

50 years ago (1955)

Members of the YMCA’s Hi-Y Club helped publicize the United Good Neighbors campaign by distributing window signs to businesses. They were Gaylen Rebbe, Jack Perin, Dave Gunderson, John Denney, Don Johnson, Mike Ward, Don Frazier, Jack Lamey, Bob Carlson, Sig Thorlakson, George Newland and Lorne Holmstad.

D.A. Duryee had an advanced showing of five homes under construction in Eastmont. To reach the new housing development, you took the new Broadway cutoff, turned left on the Silver Lake highway and followed the signs.

25 years ago (1980)

The grand opening of the new Jafco store in north Everett featured a prize drawing. The grand prize was a Hawaiian holiday, second prize was a Minolta camera, and third prize was Nikon binoculars.

Bothell, in King County, was planning to annex a small piece of Snohomish County. It would be debated at a public hearing by the Boundary Review Board. The annexation was unusual, because only three other communities in the state straddled county borders.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library