Seems Like Yesterday

Published 9:00 pm Sunday, October 30, 2005

50 years ago (1955)

Tommie Hadler and Leonard Martin rode around the Homeacres area in a house-to-house canvass to inform residents and invoke support for the upcoming school bond. Martin was legislative chairman of the Monroe School PTA.

An Everybody’s Department Store was to open next month in the Lynnwood Shopping Center. The location was the southeast corner of 196th and Highway 99 in a building formerly occupied by Ed’s Market, which had moved to larger quarters. It would be similar to the Everett Everybody’s. Robert Malin would manage the new store.

25 years ago (1980)

Commuters were fuming as they crawled through a series of new traffic signals at 128th and the I-5 interchange. They were already inadequate, many believed. There were also plans to widen the bridge over the freeway, but that project was put off until 1982.

There was a warning tonight for small ghosts, witches and ghouls to beware when trick-or-treating at Michael Shone’s home near Silvana. A spook haunting Shone’s yard was a 91/2-foot-tall skeleton that weighed 225 pounds. The sentry along Highway 530 was made from scrap metal.

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