Seems Like Yesterday
Published 10:58 pm Tuesday, November 27, 2007
50 years ago (1957)
You could always stay in focus with new Bausch &Lomb Balomatic 300 automatic slide projector. They were available for $84.50 at Bill Marchand’s Everett Camera Shop, 2717 Colby Ave.
Members of the Cascade League All-Star team, compiled by The Daily Herald, were ends Larry Carlson of Langley and Dick Danubio of Arlington; tackles Vern Soth of Monroe and Ken Sather of Arlington; guards Mel Zylstra of Oak Harbor and Bill Rice of Arlington; center Don Camandona of Oak Harbor; and backs Don Gibbons and Mike Larson of Arlington, Norm Janke of Monroe, Dave Nieuhuis of Oak Harbor and Bruce Howard of Langley.
25 years ago (1982)
Former Everett Seagull Chuck Nelson in three seasons as the Washington Huskies soccer-style place kicker had rewritten kicking and scoring records. He had established the highest field-goal percentage ever for a career and a season. He kicked 30 field goals in a row before missing.
Ted Hendricks snubbed the Cessnas, Pipers and Beechcraft propeller-planes at Harvey Field in Snohomish. He had built the Emaraude, an air show champion. Hendricks scrounged materials, glued, pounded, screwed, sanded and painted for six years with $10,000 worth of materials.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
