Seems Like Yesterday

Published 10:16 pm Thursday, April 10, 2008

50 years ago (1958)

Everett business leaders watched as Mayor George Culmback and Commissioner of Public Works George Gebert moved the barricades aside to formally open the new $326,000 Norton Avenue Overpass to link the waterfront industrial area with Alverson Boulevard at Legion Park.

25 years ago (1983)

Spring wore a white overcoat and turned out the lights for about 3,000 people in Snohomish County this morning. Snow fell in north county communities — ranging from a light dusting in Lake Stevens to more than two inches in the Granite Falls yard of Bertha Johnson. Heavier snow toppled trees from Jordan Road to Lake Roesiger.

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