Seems Like Yesterday

Published 7:19 pm Thursday, June 4, 2009

SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY

50 YEARS AGO (1959)

The Sea Spree, a 27-foot Edwin Monk-design cabin cruiser, recently was christened at a party held by builder-owners Harold Shaw and Bob Benson and families. The two men worked three years building the boat. Its first trip was to Saratoga Passage.

Large enough now to go free if it cared to, a robin raised by the William Gans family, 7111 Beverly Blvd., had the run of the house and made full use of it. It was found near death by Theresa Gans, 5, and nursed back to health.

25 YEARS AGO (1984)

Two new businesses in Everett were North Sound Hose &Fittings and First American Title Insurance Co. The former was located at 2200 Hewitt Ave. and owned by Doug Benson and Mike Mansker. The latter, at 3019 Colby Ave., was managed by Leonard R. Bluhm, with Lance Lewis as his assistant.

What remained of the Love Israel Family, which once consisted of 350 people clustered in homes on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, was moving to its country property, a 230-acre site near Arlington. There were now about 75 members, a third of them children.

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