Seems like yesterday

Published 9:00 pm Saturday, October 21, 2006

50 years ago (1956)

Coinciding with the completion of work to bring natural gas to the Everett region, Mayor George Culmback proclaimed the week of Oct. 21-27 to be National Gas Week for Everett. Businesses advertising natural gas or appliances were Tingstad’s, Rucker Avenue Plumbing, Haskell’s, Peterson’s, Hellenthal’s, Angel &Nelson, Holland Furnace, Thorpe’s, Erickson Bros., City Fuel, Slingerlend, Pedigo, Commercial Sheet Metal Works, Sager’s, Holmstad’s, Brown the Plumber and Callahan.

25 years ago (1981)

Two home-building companies showed their sense of humor during tough times in the home-building industry. Brien Stafford of Stafford Hansell Co. of Lynnwood and Larry Sundquist of Sundquist Homes of Bothell collaborated to share back-to-back sides of a sign on the Bothell-Everett Highway near Thrashers Corner. Each claimed to build better homes than its competitor.

By Jack O’Donnell

from Herald archives

at the Everett Public Library