Dang, I drive those streets almost daily and while much has changed much of it is still exactly the same. I was 12 when this was filmed and living in NE Salem at the time. Man time flies, now I’ve been married almost 19 years and have kids of my own.
I remember having so much fun at the hydrotubes! They are closed? Thats sad! It was great, you could go during winter! I have not been back to Salem in years ....
Do you remember the days they started to close because people got injured? It was amazing as a kid. I still remember the last time I went as my friends heard someone stuck razor blades inside the seems from the outside and I highly doubt it was true but back then we were kids and believed EVERYTHING! 😂
My man Peter had a CRX 👏🏼👍🏻. Man I had forgotten about that water slide and what used to be the new hamburger joint I think it was HOT N NOW? what a fun memory to see. Thank you 🙏🏼
4:24 The old Hydrotube! I got in there and explored a few times when I was a kid before they finally demolished it. I remember the pool was full of trash and broken appliances from the snack bar and you could see in some of the rooms where homeless people had bedded down in there at various times. There were even a few long-abandoned arcade cabinets and a broken pinball machine in the arcade section. The entrance to the actual waterslides up on top of the building had a bunch of pigeons living in it. I found a set of kid's fingerless skater gloves in one of the old lockers that had probably been there since the mid-80s.
Thanks for sharing that’s wild. I’m a bit older than you but I stopped going as the rumors were some girl got cut up by someone who stuck razor blades inside between the tube seems. I doubt it was true but when I was a teen it put the fear of God in is ever going back to the hydrotube!
Dang, I drive those streets almost daily and while much has changed much of it is still exactly the same. I was 12 when this was filmed and living in NE Salem at the time. Man time flies, now I’ve been married almost 19 years and have kids of my own.
I remember having so much fun at the hydrotubes! They are closed? Thats sad! It was great, you could go during winter!
I have not been back to Salem in years ....
Do you remember the days they started to close because people got injured? It was amazing as a kid. I still remember the last time I went as my friends heard someone stuck razor blades inside the seems from the outside and I highly doubt it was true but back then we were kids and believed EVERYTHING! 😂
@ol-man-duffyj688 I don't remember people getting hurt.
This is so cool. I was 1 at the time living on cherry ave in Keizer. I Love this little town and It has changed so much
My man Peter had a CRX 👏🏼👍🏻. Man I had forgotten about that water slide and what used to be the new hamburger joint I think it was HOT N NOW? what a fun memory to see. Thank you 🙏🏼
4:24 The old Hydrotube! I got in there and explored a few times when I was a kid before they finally demolished it. I remember the pool was full of trash and broken appliances from the snack bar and you could see in some of the rooms where homeless people had bedded down in there at various times. There were even a few long-abandoned arcade cabinets and a broken pinball machine in the arcade section. The entrance to the actual waterslides up on top of the building had a bunch of pigeons living in it. I found a set of kid's fingerless skater gloves in one of the old lockers that had probably been there since the mid-80s.
Thanks for sharing that’s wild. I’m a bit older than you but I stopped going as the rumors were some girl got cut up by someone who stuck razor blades inside between the tube seems. I doubt it was true but when I was a teen it put the fear of God in is ever going back to the hydrotube!
So cool,great memories! Just moved back to Salem. Miss those days!🥺 Was happily married and My Mom was still alive!
Back when there wasn't so much traffic in Keizer. They were just starting to build McDonald's by Fred Meyer then. Bob's Hamburgers !!!!
You remember the brand new HOT N NOW burger joint on River road back then? They were blue and red and had two drive through and no walk ins
@@ol-man-duffyj688 I don't remember that one at all. Where was that?
It’s the building at 6:30 & 6:31 in this video. Used to have two drive through that went on each side of the building in the center. 👍🏻
Those BIG WHITE BOXES in parking lots were newspaper recycled boxes as back then everyone still got the news in the daily papers.
What is that massive wall at the end of the video in downtown Salem??????
Truett brothers cannery warehouse
Great view of the old Keizer Safeway and Sprouse that faced north on the same lot it's on now. Just after Pietro's Pizza was removed.