50 years ago (1955)
The J.J. Newberry dime store on Colby Avenue announced that it was temporarily closing. It would reopen in the middle of August with three times the display space and a new basement sales floor. A new snack bar would be built across the front of the building, and the store would be air-conditioned.
A truck and its load of lumber came to rest only inches from F.R. Falk’s Maple Heights Grocery and Chevron gas station at a curve on Mukilteo Boulevard and Glenwood Drive. A load binder snapped, and the load shifted, turning the truck on its side.
25 years ago (1955)
Doris Bagley and her relatives were having the time of their lives on the I-5 overpass just south of 41st Street. Before their eyes, Mount St. Helens, 125 miles away, was heaving steam up to 60,000 feet in the air.
Charles Washburn, a General Telephone engineer and Snohomish resident, was in the right place at the right time. While on a business flight in a 10-seat Cessna Citation, he took 12 photographs of the Mount St. Helens eruption.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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