A hot rod named after William Shaddoff, formerly of Everett, was racing on the salt flats at Bonneville, Utah. In the 1930s, Shaddoff was associated with the Shaddoff Brothers Mobilgas station, which was where the Sears Farm Store currently stood. His four brothers were still in Everett. Arnold operated the Rainbow Mobilgas station at California Street and Rucker Avenue, Reiney and Herman operated the Mobilgas station at 19th Street and Colby Avenue, and Arthur was associated with the Sears store.

With one of the biggest and best toy selections in years, Toyland at Wilson Hardware on First Street in Snohomish, opened.

Marysville’s school superintendent, Ray Harding, asked the school board to consider a special levy. Assistant superintendent Dean Farley was projecting growth in enrollment, while administrative assistant Dick Huselton noted improvement in test scores.

Something that was disappearing from homes was the front porch. Instead of an architectural evolution of hundreds of years, the porch’s obsolescence had occurred in one generation. Once a social creation for homes in the South and Midwest, it was now reduced to a 4-by-4-foot concrete slab on new homes.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library