The best times in my life growing up in Washington were spent picking and enjoying the freshest produce! Like apples🍎🍏, raspberries, Bing and Rainier cherries 🍒, green beans, huckleberries, boysen berries and hazelnuts. Most of which could be found growing wild!😋❤
17:30 "-Mt. St. Helens displaying ancient lava flows from the adolescent period of the northwest..." Fast-forward 30 years and those lava flows won't be ancient!
Fast forward and that image is significantly altered. It's wild to look at and think, "Dang! The Cascades are really a chain of volcanoes that have erupted before and will do so again.
3:10 Portland looks so small back in the 50's. Now, there's expensive apartment buildings going up everywhere. Back then, the Pearl District was just railyards.
Why bring politics into this? The rail passage still exists. All of it. It’s known as the Empire Builder. Chicago to Portland and then Portland to Seattle. Scenery is still there too, and as pretty as ever. And the Empire Builder is an ansolutely gorgeous train.
Ah! Yes! Tillamook Cheese @11:46. Some of my earliest childhood memories was from a family visit to that processing facility in the 1950s. I recall being a cool, damp, overcast morning; with a long outdoor conveyor belt of milk cans being moved from trucks into the building. I vividly recall the processing vats of stirring milk with the stench emanating from the process; very unappetizing. I guess sanitation wasn't much of an issue back then, as the touring visitors could walk by those open vats just several feet away. At the end of the tour the visitors could sample the various cheeses Tillamook offered. I recall various styles of cheeses were displayed in a glass case identical to what you'd see at grocers' meat market section; where Tillamook employees, dressed like meat market butchers, would access the cheeses of the visitors' choosings; slicing the samples for the visitors to taste.
I remember people telling me about how they used to do the tours then. I think it was around ‘67 or ‘68 they stopped due to health and safety concerns.
Union Pacific had their own in-house film production department and their productions, like this, were all first rate! Gee, maybe I can find a film copy of this someday.
@@nikmills you know I am 1000s of miles from Portland, living in W. Europe and witnessing the same festivities around here. Have we all been scr3wed by the same kind of people?
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The best times in my life growing up in Washington were spent picking and enjoying the freshest produce! Like apples🍎🍏, raspberries, Bing and Rainier cherries 🍒, green beans, huckleberries, boysen berries and hazelnuts. Most of which could be found growing wild!😋❤
12:44 "Will provide us with new forests forever" - cries in 2022 😪
Fun drinking game: take a sip every time the narrator says Oregone. Bonus swig at 27:28 guzzle after Hegeta Head.
This is good old days....
before BLM and hipsters
17:30 "-Mt. St. Helens displaying ancient lava flows from the adolescent period of the northwest..."
Fast-forward 30 years and those lava flows won't be ancient!
lava didn't really flow from it, was mostly ash plumes coming out of it
@@poshmalosh14 Right.
Fast forward and that image is significantly altered. It's wild to look at and think, "Dang! The Cascades are really a chain of volcanoes that have erupted before and will do so again.
1:57 "The two states of Oregogon and Washington" lmao
What a gem! Thank you for digging up these priceless classics :-)
It's great isn't it!
Really enjoy these old films.
3:10 Portland looks so small back in the 50's. Now, there's expensive apartment buildings going up everywhere.
Back then, the Pearl District was just railyards.
And it was beautiful!
Portland is a big dump ruined by liberals now.
Before Amtrak. When passenger trains were something to enjoy. Now it's not much more than a slightly safer bus.
Many years before Brandon. Great to reminisce back to 1952.
Why bring politics into this? The rail passage still exists. All of it. It’s known as the Empire Builder. Chicago to Portland and then Portland to Seattle. Scenery is still there too, and as pretty as ever. And the Empire Builder is an ansolutely gorgeous train.
Ah! Yes! Tillamook Cheese @11:46. Some of my earliest childhood memories was from a family visit to that processing facility in the 1950s.
I recall being a cool, damp, overcast morning; with a long outdoor conveyor belt of milk cans being moved from trucks into the building.
I vividly recall the processing vats of stirring milk with the stench emanating from the process; very unappetizing. I guess sanitation wasn't much of an issue back then, as the touring visitors could walk by those open vats just several feet away.
At the end of the tour the visitors could sample the various cheeses Tillamook offered. I recall various styles of cheeses were displayed in a glass case identical to what you'd see at grocers' meat market section; where Tillamook employees, dressed like meat market butchers, would access the cheeses of the visitors' choosings; slicing the samples for the visitors to taste.
I remember the cubes on toothpicks!
Still my favorite cheeses!
I remember people telling me about how they used to do the tours then.
I think it was around ‘67 or ‘68 they stopped due to health and safety concerns.
Love the positivity!
Union Pacific had their own in-house film production department and their productions, like this, were all first rate! Gee, maybe I can find a film copy of this someday.
you can downlaod this to your laptop for free
17:38 Mount St. Helens and Spirit Lake looked very different 30 years later
Great film, but this makes me sad when I look at what Portland has become over the last few years.
Hipsters and heroin addicts now........
Sad to be reminded that America was once great.
The Chinese great work on the Pacific.
17:36 mount st helens before the eruption in 1980
i was like. ummmm.... the peaceful mountain of Mt St Helens. Lolz
Really beautiful.
"Northwest cheeses are famed for their variety, taste and goodness."
Goodness??
Yes, goodness.
Did they have to move the parade away from the homeless camps and heroin addicts brought to them by the democrats in the 50's?
You mean the public celebration of diversity and equity?
And the redneck values live on in the great NW
@@nikmills you know I am 1000s of miles from Portland, living in W. Europe and witnessing the same festivities around here. Have we all been scr3wed by the same kind of people?
Portland. Pre- Bolschivic.
Indeed...Amen!!
6:22 ERROR, UP never ran a thru Chicago to Seattle train. Service between Portland and Seattle was provided by the Pool Trains with the GN and the NP.
Well, it's the UP's fault, since they did the film? I do believe, however that they had a thru sleeping car?
@TJ of Someplace Being historically accurate IS a point.
It've been neat if they never tore up the tracks by tetonia, but that's just business.
Ory gun, not Ora gone.
Where is the Space Needle?
Still in its box.
Did A Union Pacific Passenger Streamlined Train Went To Oregon?
City of Portland
Ore-gun
O-re-gone
Where's the steam locomotives, didn't Union Pacific steam ended on the Northwestern District in December 1955
It's Or-E-Gun, not OR-E-Gone.
Haha, yeah I noticed that too.
But they got Willamette correct. lol
Lol, This guys obviously not a Oregon native!.... O-re-gone! 🤪
It's Or-e-gun with a soft "e".
A whopping 45 seconds of trains Boo hoo
Woo hoo
What happened to the steam locomotive
Evolution and innovation of technology. I personally love the older steam locomotive designs much more than the simpler, blocky ones we have today.
I’m leave in Oregon, Portland
You missed your calling as a great writer.
@@nikmills I thinks he may be new round town
Oregone
After the third time he said "Ore-GAHHN" I had to turn it off. Ugh.
So delicate
Me too 😆
The amount of ads you're putting in this videos make me not want to watch any of them at all
Ads? What ads? There are ads?
(Am using the freeware Adblock Plus)
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"Empire" ? Conquered by Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, or the British perhaps?
Epic fail........ORE E GONE!!!!
I was ready to enjoy this... but I cannot listen to him say Oregon. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on-end. \s