Seems Like Yesterday

Published 8:30 am Wednesday, November 12, 2014

50 years ago (1964)

Admiring the more than 300-year-old “Historie of the World,” written by Sir Walter Raleigh, recently given to the Everett Junior College Library by Judith Long of Marysville, were college president Rodney Berg and Angelin Tesdell, director of library services.

Beginning next week the banks serving Everett would be on a new schedule. They would open their doors at 9:30 a.m. and remain open until 5 o’clock in the evening, two hours later than they were open in the past. They also would continue to remain open until 5 on Friday evenings.

25 years ago (1989)

Upper Ridge Road in southwest Everett was being closed north of 73rd Street. Then that part of the road would simply disappear to make way for an Associated Sand &Gravel mining operation, according city traffic engineer Dave Davis. Associated would build a new road connecting Hardison Road and Glenwood Avenue to be called Madison Place (Sievers-Duecy Boulevard).

It was picture day at Oak Heights Elementary. Fifth-grader Julie Chrysler smiled as Bob Boldman photographed her. Kindergarteners Tyler Rothfus and Thomas Mayes went to great pains to look picture perfect.

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