Driving On WA SR-527 South/North In 1983 (Bothell, Mill Creek, Everett)

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Жыл бұрын

Back in 1983, The Washington State Department of Transportation drove South/North on SR-527 and recorded video to document the highway. This was part of a project that photographed/videotaped the states highways every couple of years. This video now resides at The Washington State Archives who were kind enough to share it.
Southbound: 0:04
Northbound: 21:59

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@timothyschwartz8034 Жыл бұрын

I can't get over the 4 way stop at 132nd. It's such a huge and busy interchange now. I think I would have liked it better here back then with more trees and less people...

@dkdunlap59 Жыл бұрын

I remember when Murphy's Corner was a 2-way stop. The Bothell-Everett Hwy. didn't have to stop.

@-fuk57 2 ай бұрын

I used to race down 132nd to the end before it connected with SR 9. We would sometimes party at the Buffalo Farm on weekends.

@pacnwguy9056 12 күн бұрын

I must be in an odd mood today, watching this brought back so many memories and got me misty-eyed. Thank you for this!

@meteorologist4life Жыл бұрын

Being that I live just off SR-527, I love to see how it looked 40 years ago! Would also love to see SR-96

@highwayvideos3434 Жыл бұрын

Should have SR-96 posted in the next few weeks =).

@Theospeak1 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting these videos, they're a treasure! Yeah, even if the video isn't that great on some of them, please keep posting.

@Rudenko3 Жыл бұрын

Between SR-524 and I-405 it's completely unrecognizable. insane growth

@eauhomme 7 ай бұрын

Interesting seeing the woods on the right up to 3:25. Now there's Winco, Costco, and probably not a single tree left. Reached Silver Lake so quickly that I wasn't sure something was skipped. Now there is so much stuff and so many lights in that drive that it seems to take twice as long. 6:15 Murphy's Corner as a 4-way stop with nothing around it. If I didn't know any better, I'd think we were in Carnation. 50mph speed limit? Not anymore. 9:06 Entering the beginnings of Mill Creek, which started around 1982. Didn't realize the McDonalds and Shari's had already been built. Is there anywhere on this stretch where you could have residential mailboxes on the shoulder today? 14:30 Thrasher's Corner? I lived there in 1989 and I couldn't recognize it. Major growth just in the 8 years since Mill Creek started getting built. And now, of course, even more.

@user-pu2ho4ip3d 7 күн бұрын

I remember at Murphy's corner.It was only a T in the road. Across from murphy's was another service station. No four way stop, and only gravel roads. I went to Silver Lake Elementary school. And I remember when it first got black topped.

@user-pu2ho4ip3d 7 күн бұрын

I remember when all these roads were nothing but gravel. There was no freeway. 21:38 Used to be a big stump at this stop light in Bothell. Then, if you made a right into Kenmore, the road was red brick. Straight ahead at that same spot , used to be a giant old red second hand store. Down long river. Safeway was at your right. If I only had a camera back then when I was a kid. Shockingly different. A Veteran. Age 67.

@seattlethen1145 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic fantastic! I was a teen transitioning from Seattle around these years.. Skate Deck, Campbell’s at Silver Lake Old Everett Transit busses. I’ll share and post credit / link to your channel. Great stuff.

@seattlethen1145 Жыл бұрын

Again, fantastic uploads! I’ve shared edits on my IG, crediting and pointing a link to here. Hopefully has resulted in good added traffic (🥁pun intended). Regards!

@BradTheProducer Жыл бұрын

I would love to see footage of old downtown Bothell up and down the Main Street corridor from those days. It's surreal spotting certain things that are still there, but then seeing so much that isn't any more. Right around 22:20, I THINK I see where Music & Arts is now, down that street. It's so different.

@jacuzzi8898 Жыл бұрын

I was pretty sure around 9:30 that it was getting close to 164th, when I saw the McDonalds that confirmed it. Some things never change 😂

@silverwing4222 Жыл бұрын

I love this thank you so much! Brings back memories

@1015nsot Жыл бұрын

Amazing! Canyon Park was just a field! 19th Ave is lined with trees! @highwayvideos do you have any clips of west/east 128th/132nd st from Paine Field to Mill Creek/Snohomish? Curious to see what that area looked like around Buffalo Farm

@highwayvideos3434 Жыл бұрын

I am planning to upload SR-96 which would be the closest.

@XTenjikuroninX Жыл бұрын

Wish Silver Lake was this empty nowadays lol

@evanchapmanfanman 15 күн бұрын

What a beautiful place silver lake once was, I grew up around that lake and I’ve watched the area slowly deteriorate. Not one homeless person in sight and the roads look to be in much better shape. Sad to see what was once a beautiful place become ruined by big development, poor city leadership and the homeless influx.

@bewareofsasquatch Жыл бұрын

I love the videos! The Everett/Silver Lake ones was great. What a trip! These videos are older than me.

@al69420 Жыл бұрын

Is ur name a reference to the old Cory Kennedy skate video?

@anthonysiler4938 Жыл бұрын

Holy crap, what the hell happened to everett?? It was actually beautiful at one time.

@al69420 Жыл бұрын

@Mike-mp1hk 8 ай бұрын

Drugs and gangs from Tacoma taking over the "Jungle" or lil Chicago as they used to call it back in the day. The dump of an apartment complex, located behind the Everett Mall. They had a huge influence on Everett becoming the turd it is now. I grew up visiting the Jungle from 89-2003, I lived most my life in north Everett. My mom had friends that lived there, so we had to visit, and we ended up moving there in 2000. I got away from Everett in 2003 and have never moved back, you could not pay me to live there. I can't believe they put apartment complexes on the old dump in north Everett, east of I-5. That city gives me bad memories even driving through it on I-5!