50 YEARS AGO (1960)
At the top of the front page in today’s Herald was a drawing of Everett’s proposed Cascade High School. The $3 million campus-type secondary school would be located on a 37-acre tract between Highway 99 and Beverly Park-Casino Road. Covered walkways would connect the seven buildings.
After a week that brought no smiles to the faces of the farmers who grew strawberries, the weatherman smiled on Marysville. It was an ideal day for the annual Strawberry Festival. Marysville had its own representatives in the parade, including a Chamber of Commerce float.
25 YEARS AGO (1985)
J.C. Penney dropped the bombshell that the company planned to close its downtown store early in 1986. Penney’s had been in Everett for 69 years, the previous 60 at California Street and Colby Avenue where the Medical &Dental Building was built. Local business people were shocked. Unfortunately, large retailers abandoning downtowns was a national trend.
Laurie Baker’s fifth-graders and Vicki Hill’s first-graders at Jackson Elementary School were filmed by a crew from WQED-TV in Pittsburgh. The event was the release of fingerling coho salmon into Pigeon Creek.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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