50 YEARS AGO (1959)
Owner Joe Hart announced the reconstruction of the George Hotel-Slack Building at Hewitt and Rucker avenues. McGee’s Pharmacy, Berry’s Meat Market and Everett Fruit and Grocery would remain in their present sites.
Now open was Everett’s first exclusive pancake restaurant, the new Pancake Castle across from the totem pole in south Everett. The restaurant featured pancakes of all kinds served with whipped butter and a choice of syrup.
25 YEARS AGO (1984)
More than 6,600 voters were invited to help decide the fate of Cascade Hospital District’s aging building. Letters were sent to registered voters from Silvana to Darrington to attend a meeting at Arlington Middle School. Officials said the hospital needed to be updated and enlarged.
Gay Cumlander of Granite Falls, Scott A. Black of Bothell and Jeff Johnson of Lake Stevens were named winners of the Lake Stevens Path-Trailfinders logo contest. The contest was staged to determine a logo for a proposed 13-mile recreational trail on an abandoned railroad bed between Lake Stevens and Arlington.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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