50 years ago (1954)
Charles “Sig” McCumby was elected commissioner of public works by the Everett City Council. He was taking over an office vacated by the death of Louis Unzelman.
The Evergreen State Fair was about to open. Saturday was Everett Day, Sunday was Snohomish County and King County Day, and Monday was Seattle Day and the Labor Day celebration.
25 years ago (1979)
Construction of the 100-unit International Motor Inn, a Best Western motel, was to begin in mid-September near the Eastmont interchange of I-5. The site was a wooded area between a skating rink and restaurant.
An old tire, a rusting hot water tank and the rubble of cut and fallen trees cluttered the streambed where Alvin Bailey stood, at the point where Shell Creek rushed into Puget Sound from Yost Park in Edmonds. Bailey and others remembered a time when the stream was a clear-running salmon waterway, and they were seeking ways to restore the stream.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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