@@jaminova_1969Its the extremist left / extreme woke culture that is metastasizing in Seattle. They realized that the city is filled with people that turn a blind eye to their antics and don't want to be called out as racist or anti-homeless, all the while just sitting from their homes watching their catalytic converters, homes getting broken into/ cars getting stolen. I see multiple crimes a day and can do nothing as the police are already taxed to the point that they will not come out unless its a life or death situation. Yes, lets defund the police and see how far the rabbit hole really goes.
Born in California, but I grew up in Washington and more than 51 years later, I still live here. Although our politics are no better or worse than the rest of the nation, one can't deny the beauty of the state I love and call home.
Me too Ronald....I have been here on and off (more on than off) for 45 years ...The beauty of this state is what keep me here ....AS LONG AS I CAN PAY THE TAXES !!....ERRRR..
Moved to Kent, just south of Seattle in 1972. I've been to lots of the places in this video. SO much has changed since then. I now live on the East side. Still pretty cool over here. ✌️👽
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Proud Washingtonian! Born and raised in Vancouver! 2:23 I guess they didn't mind you jumping from the Space Needle back then. Look at how low that barrier is! 27:02 I've been there. Gorgeous house to tour. It's in Tumwater Falls Park. So Crosby, you mention the small town of Pe Ell and just briefly mention Fort Vancouver? You could of at least showed us views of it. The city of Vancouver is huge now. The 4th largest city in the state plus a brand spanking new waterfront to enjoy.
> 2:23 I guess they didn't mind you jumping from the Space Needle back then. Look at how low that barrier is! Nobody had been stupid enough to jump, and nobody in that age thought rational people would be. Then someone did a few years later, and they put the 20 foot high chain link fences up.
@@steadydropnem LOL...to continue with the the homelessness and drug issues! Sure, go ahead...idiots. Why not try to find a middle ground that supports the majority of the population?
The PNW blows. It’s history sucks. Logging industry and the place people too big of pussies to stay in AK winter during the gold rush. Not to mention where all AK prostitutes went. 🖕🏽💩👎🏽
Mt St.Helens sister mountain is Mt.Fuji.It was very beautiful before May 18,1980.I was stationed at North Cascade National Park.I was at Mt.St.Helens. Bing grandfather was a founder of Portland.Bing cherries are named for him
What a time reversal and beautiful though in black and white, the pallet of Colors can't be true in that, they don't show the exceeding astonishing different shades of all the colors. The 1960's were a much different time.
You know this is one reason why I love Washington State and this film me back in 1968 proves it but all those places like long acres well long as Chris is not around anymore it's been replaced by emerald Downs and Seattle basically emerald Downs is in Auburn now. So basically that's just it. But there are still a lot of places. But right now here in 2022 our little town of Seattle Washington is going straight to hell. And it's done it with homeless encampments drugs like fentanyl and everything else. But this is just a far cry for what it was like back in 1968. But I can tell you this in 54 years Seattle has gone from a nice town to live in to Italian hardly even know it all anymore.
Love that vid. One other quick comment, I think folks forget how gritty the city was then, it was all bars and strip joints even right by Pike Place, alcoholics all over the place, not to mention this was before all the pollution clean up so there were garbage dumps all over and sewage in the lakes - lets be careful wishing for the "good ole days".
Great clip. Too funny how all the trolls flock to clips like this to bemoan how "Seattle is dying.." blah blah blah. Seattle was the fastest growing big City in 2020, and remains a huge draw for people looking to improve their lives.
Yes you are right !! .. but if we don't do something about our city leaders quick ... that dream and goal will be lost forever ....just sayin....PS..I'm not a troll ...just a guy who is saddened to the core watching what has happened to this fine city ..
@@DavidVanHelden1 I think it's important to separate out what has happened to this City from the fallout from COVID (most of downtown businesses shuttered, and most of the downtown workers working from home). I think a lot of this will improve as people start to return to work, and businesses return. This is an issue with many US cities, not just Seattle. Homelessness and mental health and addiction are also not only a problem in Seattle. What is true is that Seattle has the most services to provide for people like that, so many come here from other parts of the region that have no services to provide, and will even transport people to Seattle. All serious concerns, but for people who think everything in Seattle was great in the 70's and 80's, it wasn't. Downtown was not a great place to be then. I used to work at the Pike Place Market, and walk to 3rd Avenue to catch a bus, and I can tell you it was not safe. Nor was Pioneer Square or along the Waterfront. So are there problems? Sure.. but nothing is "dying", that is a crutch for nostalgic people who have a unrealistically rosy view of the past.
@@absea7918 Please Don't use COVID as a excuse for a democratic run city that the Democrats were running into the ground long before "COVID" ... ALL city's have danger and will always have it...what is going on now is nothing short of disgusting and people should not run around making excuses for it.....just sayin.......
@@absea7918 And one other thing ... THE 70s 80s AND 90s WAS a great times in SEATTLE and all of Western Washington....from the sounds of it you just didn't know how to have fun ....... how dare you ...
My fingers are getting tired to respond to all the people that see it for what it is now...We should start a club "The way it was"...or something ...I live in Lebam Washington now....But the whole state is my home and I feel so alone that nobody around here "gets it" .......Thank You all for letting me know that the good old people are still here ....
I'm from there and I'll tell you this when you lived there you don't appreciate it but you totally get tired of the rain. It's good in small dosages - oh wait ! It's ruined now.
I here ya ... K Anon .... I want back what is was not so long ago even .... I loved the 80s and 90s ...Hell I want back what it was just 8 years ago /....................
I moved there in 2008 and spent the next 12 years mesmerized by the natural splendor and depressed at the way the cities had become over run by the dregs of society. What a shame. I'll never go back.😥
How many people here talking about how bad Washington is now have ever actually been here? Let alone lived here for years? Yeah, Seattle is tough to live in now, but it’s not homeless that are the problem, it’s all the millionaires that kick everyone else out and don’t want to invest in public infrastructure (like, for example, prisons to put criminals in). The rich don’t care if public parks have homeless in them - they never go to public parks, they go to their vacation homes. No one wants to defund the police more that the rich, who have their own security, and don’t like paying taxes. Everyone’s so disparaging of the homeless but do you have a million dollars in cash? No? Then if you were here, *you would be homeless*.
@@PeriscopeFilm ... Those kind of lines were from old films getting damaged in their cannisters back in the early days of Hollywood. In the last 20 years ago or so, people add them to way newer videos to give it the nostalgic touch. Maybe your copy really did get damaged but I doubt it
I just heard about some new riot or peacful protest so this is an eye opening experience to me... if the " stars " of our time all came together and actually said that riots and blaming cops when it its actualy the crimnials fault when things go bad ....i wonder what bing crosby would think of this place now for one but i also wonder how much good could happen in such a beautiful place... such a shame what it is now
To all those people who are complaining in the comment section that "Seattle is not what it used to be" just remember that Seattle was considered the Detroit of the West Coast when Boeing had massive layoffs in the mid 70's. People were moving out in droves until the music scene came in the 80's and 90's. Then Seattle became the most popular place on Earth and brought every rich hipster to the area. Driving up the real estate market only to create a housing crisis for the average homeowner and renter. That's why Seattle is like a homeless takeover today.
Well "Der Bingle" may have lived in the Spokane area for 21 years, but he sure mispronounced several place names! My family had a lake cabin very near to Bing's home on Hayden Lake in Idaho. Bing had the best Chris Craft on the lake, and he and his family would slowly cruise around the lake and wave at all of us out on our docks. Life in the past was good. Until Liberals took over and destroyed the future. If you are a Liberal Democrat, and you watched this video, tell us......honestly: Is your vision of life better than what you saw here?
My grandfather moved to Washington in the late 60s. Most if not all blacks lived in the CD aka Central District unfortunately genderfication Most of us had to move.
![Seattle [promotional film], 1961](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZJrvD34iDFI/mqdefault.jpg)
I was born and raised in Seattle and as far as I’m concerned, Washington State is the Best.
02:53 Nice shot of Mt St Helen before the eruption.
I lived in Seattle when she blew her top,...filthy grey ash everywhere.
This is a Washington state treasure! Made me tear up
Today is better.... You need start selling drugs 😆 make that $$$$ live lavish
I was born in N.Y.C. grew up in N.J. Washington State is the place for me.
I wish it was like this now
@@brasidas33 The entire Westcoast is like that now. Thanks for nothing Democrats!
@@jaminova_1969 Sad :(
@@jaminova_1969Its the extremist left / extreme woke culture that is metastasizing in Seattle. They realized that the city is filled with people that turn a blind eye to their antics and don't want to be called out as racist or anti-homeless, all the while just sitting from their homes watching their catalytic converters, homes getting broken into/ cars getting stolen. I see multiple crimes a day and can do nothing as the police are already taxed to the point that they will not come out unless its a life or death situation. Yes, lets defund the police and see how far the rabbit hole really goes.
Me too.
@@greenrolaids of the parties, only 6% are far right, 8% far left. Such a small portion, can do massive damage.
Glad I was raised in this beautiful state.
This is very relaxing, I love living in Washington
This is the Washington I grew up with.
Born in California, but I grew up in Washington and more than 51 years later, I still live here. Although our politics are no better or worse than the rest of the nation, one can't deny the beauty of the state I love and call home.
Me too Ronald....I have been here on and off (more on than off) for 45 years ...The beauty of this state is what keep me here ....AS LONG AS I CAN PAY THE TAXES !!....ERRRR..
back when seattle was a nice place to visit or live, some of us still have that hope seattle will get better
i was there in 1982 [well fort lewis] when i was with the british army and i loved it lol
It’s still nice. It’s just really expensive.
Moved to Kent, just south of Seattle in 1972. I've been to lots of the places in this video. SO much has changed since then. I now live on the East side. Still pretty cool over here. ✌️👽
Idk back then Seattle had lots of crime and not enough jobs.
Seattle has always had a seedy underbelly.
I grew up seeing Bing, and it spooks me that I'm the same age he was when he made this travelogue.
For a minute there I was proud to be here, but then after I was like ahhnoo I'm still moving!!
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Sweet film, and hearing Bing’s narration is wonderful. Natures beauty remains.
Amazing seeing Seattle in the 1920’s and 30’s when my folks were young. Had no idea there were so many car and aggressive driving even back then.
Corner of Broadway and university in the Spokane valley, the house he grew up in is still there
Walked by it a thousand times.
I was just in the Olympics. Too cool.
Bing Crosby is from my home city.
Wow...this is wonderful,,Bing Crosby , too !
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Beautiful.
Proud Washingtonian! Born and raised in Vancouver!
2:23 I guess they didn't mind you jumping from the Space Needle back then. Look at how low that barrier is!
27:02 I've been there. Gorgeous house to tour. It's in Tumwater Falls Park.
So Crosby, you mention the small town of Pe Ell and just briefly mention Fort Vancouver? You could of at least showed us views of it.
The city of Vancouver is huge now. The 4th largest city in the state plus a brand spanking new waterfront to enjoy.
> 2:23 I guess they didn't mind you jumping from the Space Needle back then. Look at how low that barrier is!
Nobody had been stupid enough to jump, and nobody in that age thought rational people would be. Then someone did a few years later, and they put the 20 foot high chain link fences up.
I live in the next town south of Pe Ell ...Lebam ....
I'm a tacoman!
It brings tears to my eyes that Washington State is not like it was when Bing filmed this .....But thanks for the memories ....
Entire USA is not like it was. Duhhhhh we in the future now homie and we lit🔥🔥🔥💊💊💉
1968 - what a year!
I was a kid when we moved there in 1968. Always loved Seattle.
Seattle was truly a gem. Before it turned to literal sh*t. Makes me ill.
@@Patriotgal1 vote Democrat 2024💙💙
#Tacoma253
@@steadydropnem LOL...to continue with the the homelessness and drug issues! Sure, go ahead...idiots. Why not try to find a middle ground that supports the majority of the population?
Soon you wont be allowed to see how great the past was.
@@CommanderLongJohn What's with the Stars of David, pal?
So true.
What do you mean?
My state has so much history and its actually amazing
It is the RECENT history of this state that is shameful and embarrassing .................
The PNW blows. It’s history sucks. Logging industry and the place people too big of pussies to stay in AK winter during the gold rush. Not to mention where all AK prostitutes went. 🖕🏽💩👎🏽
Very nostalgic 💞
I moved to the Seattle area because of the beauty. I left because of the crime.
Mt St.Helens sister mountain is Mt.Fuji.It was very beautiful before May 18,1980.I was stationed at North Cascade National Park.I was at Mt.St.Helens. Bing grandfather was a founder of Portland.Bing cherries are named for him
I was born in 1968 Bellevue WA. Overlake Hospital.
Snow was on the ground that day.
I would mind living around this time, things changed in Washington .
Best place to be if you’re someone who loves nature. All four biomes, all four seasons. Olympic Rainforest, Forks. We’re just an iconic state 😌
2 seasons. Rainy and sunny for 2.5 months
Seattle had so much potential in the 60's.
oh! i am in university place/tacoma! that's amazing! i am loving this history
Spokane, my home town. I hope nobody else moves here.
Sometimes I miss Spokane, but not when I have to work in a Walk-in freezer. :)
@@hoodagooboy5981 Some days I miss Vegas, but not when I walk into a blast furnace. 8^)
No kidding. Well 111F later this week, so maybe it will scare some people away.
@@mercator79 Not a chance in hell, literally. Vegas is a shit magnet.
Totally agree. The hippies can stay on the west coast
Seattle Washington Seahawks For life
Never knew Bing was from Spokane!❤❤
I wonder what Bing would think about the Seattle of 2022?
What a time reversal and beautiful though in black and white, the pallet of Colors can't be true in that, they don't show the exceeding astonishing different shades of all the colors. The 1960's were a much different time.
I used to like this comment section, but a bunch of whiny, negative people ruined it.
Sounds kinda whiny, ironic
Soy tan afortunada de vivir en lakewood wa ❤️❤️❤️ el estado de Wa es una verdadera presiocidad 🌺
Where are all the tents full of junkies and used needles?
So sad because this Washington no longer exists...
26:48 for my Tacoma peeps
You know this is one reason why I love Washington State and this film me back in 1968 proves it but all those places like long acres well long as Chris is not around anymore it's been replaced by emerald Downs and Seattle basically emerald Downs is in Auburn now. So basically that's just it. But there are still a lot of places. But right now here in 2022 our little town of Seattle Washington is going straight to hell. And it's done it with homeless encampments drugs like fentanyl and everything else. But this is just a far cry for what it was like back in 1968. But I can tell you this in 54 years Seattle has gone from a nice town to live in to Italian hardly even know it all anymore.
Love that vid. One other quick comment, I think folks forget how gritty the city was then, it was all bars and strip joints even right by Pike Place, alcoholics all over the place, not to mention this was before all the pollution clean up so there were garbage dumps all over and sewage in the lakes - lets be careful wishing for the "good ole days".
things haven't improved much tho. just a different kind of gritty i feel.
Great clip. Too funny how all the trolls flock to clips like this to bemoan how "Seattle is dying.." blah blah blah. Seattle was the fastest growing big City in 2020, and remains a huge draw for people looking to improve their lives.
Yes you are right !! .. but if we don't do something about our city leaders quick ... that dream and goal will be lost forever ....just sayin....PS..I'm not a troll ...just a guy who is saddened to the core watching what has happened to this fine city ..
@@DavidVanHelden1 I think it's important to separate out what has happened to this City from the fallout from COVID (most of downtown businesses shuttered, and most of the downtown workers working from home). I think a lot of this will improve as people start to return to work, and businesses return. This is an issue with many US cities, not just Seattle. Homelessness and mental health and addiction are also not only a problem in Seattle. What is true is that Seattle has the most services to provide for people like that, so many come here from other parts of the region that have no services to provide, and will even transport people to Seattle. All serious concerns, but for people who think everything in Seattle was great in the 70's and 80's, it wasn't. Downtown was not a great place to be then. I used to work at the Pike Place Market, and walk to 3rd Avenue to catch a bus, and I can tell you it was not safe. Nor was Pioneer Square or along the Waterfront. So are there problems? Sure.. but nothing is "dying", that is a crutch for nostalgic people who have a unrealistically rosy view of the past.
@@absea7918 Please Don't use COVID as a excuse for a democratic run city that the Democrats were running into the ground long before "COVID" ... ALL city's have danger and will always have it...what is going on now is nothing short of disgusting and people should not run around making excuses for it.....just sayin.......
@@absea7918 Please wake up and see what is REALLY important .........
@@absea7918 And one other thing ... THE 70s 80s AND 90s WAS a great times in SEATTLE and all of Western Washington....from the sounds of it you just didn't know how to have fun ....... how dare you ...
Mt. St. Helens "before" pic
My fingers are getting tired to respond to all the people that see it for what it is now...We should start a club "The way it was"...or something ...I live in Lebam Washington now....But the whole state is my home and I feel so alone that nobody around here "gets it" .......Thank You all for letting me know that the good old people are still here ....
born and raised in seattle, too bad its one big dirty needle bag now tho :(
27:45 shout out to Pend Oreille and the NPOV! Go Rangers! ✌️👽
Going to ione this weekend, pend oreille is a beautiful county
I'm from there and I'll tell you this when you lived there you don't appreciate it but you totally get tired of the rain. It's good in small dosages - oh wait ! It's ruined now.
I here ya ... K Anon .... I want back what is was not so long ago even .... I loved the 80s and 90s ...Hell I want back what it was just 8 years ago /....................
One of my favorite family vacations was to this gorgeous state. A progressive Gem amongst a knuckle-dragging right wing Region.
What went wrong?
Democrat's
Liberals
Californians
Libs but at least we don't have conservatives running it
Damn 🤔
I moved there in 2008 and spent the next 12 years mesmerized by the natural splendor and depressed at the way the cities had become over run by the dregs of society. What a shame. I'll never go back.😥
💊💊💊💉💉💉💰💰💵🔫🔫
Poor Bing would roll over in his grave if he saw all that is happening now.
Not sure if a single minority is in this video except for the help...
How many people here talking about how bad Washington is now have ever actually been here? Let alone lived here for years? Yeah, Seattle is tough to live in now, but it’s not homeless that are the problem, it’s all the millionaires that kick everyone else out and don’t want to invest in public infrastructure (like, for example, prisons to put criminals in). The rich don’t care if public parks have homeless in them - they never go to public parks, they go to their vacation homes. No one wants to defund the police more that the rich, who have their own security, and don’t like paying taxes. Everyone’s so disparaging of the homeless but do you have a million dollars in cash? No? Then if you were here, *you would be homeless*.
There was so much snow on Rainier. The planet is dying :( They had "Feel free to hunt" signs! WTF!! I was born in the wrong time!
Why do you have to add those old vintage lines? That was 1968 not 1918, sheesh.
What are you talking about? What lines? You mean scratches on the film? Those are baked in.
@@PeriscopeFilm ... Those kind of lines were from old films getting damaged in their cannisters back in the early days of Hollywood. In the last 20 years ago or so, people add them to way newer videos to give it the nostalgic touch. Maybe your copy really did get damaged but I doubt it
You don’t seem to understand that everything on our channel originates from movie films and are scanned on a motion picture scanner !
@@PeriscopeFilm ... Well obviously Periscope added them recently to give it that artistic license of a false nostalgia.
I just heard about some new riot or peacful protest so this is an eye opening experience to me... if the " stars " of our time all came together and actually said that riots and blaming cops when it its actualy the crimnials fault when things go bad ....i wonder what bing crosby would think of this place now for one but i also wonder how much good could happen in such a beautiful place... such a shame what it is now
Well he praised that one town for being "Progressive" in his description of it. So I guess he'd love it!
He is a native of Spokane wa
It’s missing all the trash, homeless, and used needles all over the place.
Fun fact mountain Rainer : is the youngest volcano in the ring of fire 🔥 it will explode one day just like mountain st.Helen ! I 👋
Its real name is Tahoma
My birthplace. So much family history there. We're all gone from there now. A nightmare city . A disgrace.
To all those people who are complaining in the comment section that "Seattle is not what it used to be" just remember that Seattle was considered the Detroit of the West Coast when Boeing had massive layoffs in the mid 70's. People were moving out in droves until the music scene came in the 80's and 90's. Then Seattle became the most popular place on Earth and brought every rich hipster to the area. Driving up the real estate market only to create a housing crisis for the average homeowner and renter. That's why Seattle is like a homeless takeover today.
What used to be...
Was just in Seattle, saw a homeless smoking crack freely out in the open and another taking a crap staring at people dead in the eye.😵💫
I saw a lady with a blanket spread out on the sidewalk sitting cross-legged smoking meth like she was having a meth picnic.
Sad .. lives being destroyed
Well "Der Bingle" may have lived in the Spokane area for 21 years, but he sure mispronounced several place names! My family had a lake cabin very near to Bing's home on Hayden Lake in Idaho. Bing had the best Chris Craft on the lake, and he and his family would slowly cruise around the lake and wave at all of us out on our docks. Life in the past was good. Until Liberals took over and destroyed the future.
If you are a Liberal Democrat, and you watched this video, tell us......honestly: Is your vision of life better than what you saw here?
Why are you addressing them like they have souls?
What about just Democrat? Not liberal democrats?
Did you see the monorail yep we paid alot of taxes for it over and over and still the north west is in last place for light rail
Wake up david ... that was for amusement not transportation purposes ..
That has been gone for some time now, it was built as part of the World's Fair along with the Space Needle and Pacific Science Center.
He would throw up if he knew what it's like now
Nice to see places before they become hell holes
where's all the homeless?
Where are you ? ...
They weren't born yet and their parents were still normal people.
Ya our state was so great before amazon and liberal ideology that has ruined Washington state but I have tye memory of what it once was
So sad about Spokane....graffiti, homeless, grey skies....
Spokane, too?!
When did the other races come to Washington ? All I see is white people and one Portuguese fisherman
My grandfather moved to Washington in the late 60s. Most if not all blacks lived in the CD aka Central District unfortunately genderfication Most of us had to move.
@@IronsitePistols You mean Whyte druggie
You MUST look with better eyes my friend ...
They were always here, they just didn’t film them for this (by total coincidence, I’m sure). Bruce Lee lived in Seattle around this time.
It sucks now!🤥