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Looking back: Johnny comes marching home
An Everett crowd of 15,000 celebrated return of WWI soldiers.
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Looking Back: A Roaring Twenties playground for the well off
The Big Four Inn drew the famous and wealthy.
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The dawn of aviation in Snohomish County
An 1928 event celebrated the opening of the county’s first airport, between Everett and Marysville.
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Looking back: 1930s WPA project transformed Forest Park
A public works program is responsible for much of what exists today.
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Looking back: 1974 road trip turns deadly
The Snohomish County sheriff, his wife and mother-in-law were killed while vacationing in Mexico.
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1893: First East Coast shipment of shingles leaves Everett
From the 14th Street Dock in Port Gardner Bay to St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Looking back: 1928 fire department collision cast pall over Everett
The chief’s condition was front-page news for days. His was the first “state funeral” in city history.
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Looking back: Floodwaters spill into the Snohomish River Valley
January 1969 event was a portent of worse to come.
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Looking Back: New Year’s 1963 in Everett
Martin and Lewis back together at the Everett Theatre
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1933 blaze damaged historic Granite Falls hotel
The fire not only threatened the 1893 building, but a large portion of the city as well.
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Looking back: A working-class watering hole
Joe King’s tavern satiated Everett’s early thirsts.
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Looking back: Early Everett commercial structure touted as fireproof
1910 construction of Commerce Building followed 1909 blazes that damaged many Everett buildings.
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Looking back: Everett mob terrorizes immigrant mill workers
The goal was to drive “all aliens from City of Smokestacks.”
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‘The most outstanding building in Everett’
The historic downtown YMCA served for nearly a century. Today it closes.
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Gouges, gashes, breaks, burns and the occasional gunshot wound
Everett’s first hospital treated a variety of ailments.
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Keeler’s Korner catered to early motorists
The first gas station built on the Seattle-Everett highway became a landmark.
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Richard Nixon flies to Everett for Halloween
“Vice President Richard M. Nixon has a pleasing good-looking face, with dark, sparkling eyes.”
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Old-time Monroe was a condensed-milk powerhouse
A sprawling plant that once operated on the east side of town wasn’t exactly condensed.
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In the 1890s, a cedar tree beckoned Snohomish cyclists
A local logger cut a pathway through the trunk to create a popular destination.