I lived on Bainbridge Island 1973 and 1974, just opposite of Seattle. The ferry ride to this great city was always a joy. Many times we could observe a school of orcas crossing the ferry´s path. The video shows Seattle like I used to know it - thanks!
My poor mama used to eat the hot tar off of the ground to use as chewing gum. The Gould's made her their "unofficial Goddaughter" back then and would bring food to the family.
0:31 back in the day city leaders had no problem building a Light Rail Line from downtown Seattle to downtown Everett. Yet today Sound Transit still hasn’t done this & never had any intention of honoring their promise & instead Snohomish County taxpayers were swindled by Sound Transit to subsidize the cost of building Light Rail to Redmond & putting trains over tje floating bridge which required billions more in R&D because the bridge was never designed for trains & heavy rail. So far they are constructing 4 miles into Snohomish County to Lynnwood. Despite the fact there are existing rail lines crossing the Snohomish River to Woodinville from Snohomish, Sound Transit need only build another mile to extend rail from Redmond to Snohomish where another railroad grade acts as the centennial trail which ends at Skagit County which could easily at affordable cost take Light Rail to Arlington which is a fast growing area for industry & future housing. Sound Transit, it seems would rather build unaffordable transit with plans geared towards Seattle & no concerns toward the counties who subsidize their poor planning.
Actually, I think the narrator's style adds to it. It's definitely a municipal production (it's from the Department of Engineering, after all - he probably is an employee) and it has the look and style of such films. I wouldn't have it any other way. Of course, my arrival in Seattle in 1976 to start probably the best 9 years of my life doesn't color my feelings about it...
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I lived on Bainbridge Island 1973 and 1974, just opposite of Seattle. The ferry ride to this great city was always a joy. Many times we could observe a school of orcas crossing the ferry´s path. The video shows Seattle like I used to know it - thanks!
It's the brazen keyboard playing in the score that makes this video gold. I wish I could download the music track.
I miss the rides and games at the Seattle Center as a kid in the 1970'sand 80's.
Great to see this old film footage.
Awesome! Thanks SMA you all rock.
I love it!!! Thank you alot and the people who build it Seattle. Lots of hard work!!!
Thanks for uploading!
No tents on the sidewalks back then.
There was a shanty town
There was "Hooverville" in present-day SODO area
Freeway bottleneck then - freeway bottleneck now. It's a tradition!
Great film footage. I bet the founding fathers of Seattle would be ashamed of what Seattle has become now. Drugs, crime, homelessness.
5:17
Imagine the elevator actually doing that jolting 😂
0:35 I see there were jackass drivers back then too.
😂 that was an Uber driver
no street rules baby
My poor mama used to eat the hot tar off of the ground to use as chewing gum. The Gould's made her their "unofficial Goddaughter" back then and would bring food to the family.
Wow! That’s amazing! 🤷🏻♀️🌸
GREAT VIDEO!
Who would thumbs down this ?
Satan?
0:31 back in the day city leaders had no problem building a Light Rail Line from downtown Seattle to downtown Everett. Yet today Sound Transit still hasn’t done this & never had any intention of honoring their promise & instead Snohomish County taxpayers were swindled by Sound Transit to subsidize the cost of building Light Rail to Redmond & putting trains over tje floating bridge which required billions more in R&D because the bridge was never designed for trains & heavy rail. So far they are constructing 4 miles into Snohomish County to Lynnwood. Despite the fact there are existing rail lines crossing the Snohomish River to Woodinville from Snohomish, Sound Transit need only build another mile to extend rail from Redmond to Snohomish where another railroad grade acts as the centennial trail which ends at Skagit County which could easily at affordable cost take Light Rail to Arlington which is a fast growing area for industry & future housing. Sound Transit, it seems would rather build unaffordable transit with plans geared towards Seattle & no concerns toward the counties who subsidize their poor planning.
Empire way, is MLK way now.
Empire way, aka MLK WAY now
LOVE the cheesy soundtrack... but OMG couldn't they find a professional to read the script?
This narrator is AWFUL!
Actually, I think the narrator's style adds to it. It's definitely a municipal production (it's from the Department of Engineering, after all - he probably is an employee) and it has the look and style of such films. I wouldn't have it any other way. Of course, my arrival in Seattle in 1976 to start probably the best 9 years of my life doesn't color my feelings about it...