Two new lines of automobiles for 1954 were on display at Olson Motors, 2417 Broadway. They were the Willys, available with a 27 percent increase in horsepower, and the Kaiser, featuring "power on demand" performance. It would be the last model for both companies.
Gwynn’s was going full swing with a mammoth January shoe sale. Every pair of shoes was reduced. Gwynn’s was at the corner of Hewitt and Wetmore avenues. Ed Ross was the owner.
The sound of "all aboard" would be a thing of the past in Snohomish County if a recommendation to cut Amtrak rail service was accepted by Congress. Threatened were the North Coast Hiawatha between Seattle and Chicago and the Pacific International between Seattle and Vancouver. Both routes served Everett and Edmonds.
Rosalyn Sumners, a 14-year-old Edmonds skater, captured the gold medal in the novice ladies division at the 1979 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Cincinnati. She topped a field of nine finalists in the free-skating finale. Sumners would go on to win a silver medal in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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