SEATTLE 1950's street scenes in color!

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3 жыл бұрын

Some neat scenery of puget sound and typical seattle moody looking skies bridges and cars from the era. Pike place market makes a cameo

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@davidboyce8683 Жыл бұрын

The good old days before it was full of crime and druggies...RIP .

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

This is powerful, and precious, film!...Notice how large the Smith Tower seems...today, you can hardly find it, buried among the many high-rising building that have been constructed over the last 65 years. Judging from the autos I see, this film was likely shot in 1954 or so. I was eight years old then!...The Aurora Bridge was looking magnificent, right!...It looks like whoever was filming, wound up in Ballard!...So glad that some folks had the money, and the time, to film this great stuff with their 8mm silent cameras!...My folks could not afford such a luxury...but luckily, and uncle of mine owned one, so we do have a few, very treasured rolls of film from this time frame...in the 70s, my brother bought one of those newfangled, boxy, wear it on your shoulder video cameras, that were a great step forward in personal video tech!

@denisenichols6505 Жыл бұрын

Wow! What a great blast from the past! I grew up in Seattle. Lived 2 blocks from Lake Washington, down by Seward Park.I live in GA. now.Get homesick even tho Ive lived away for some time.The only thing I don't miss is those Grey skies and rain ! Lol . I'm 71 now and that constant rain is hard on the bones! Thxs for posting these great pics. : )

@stanburdick9708 Жыл бұрын

Clouds and rain are just part of seattle my dear...... And btw belive me you don't want to come back here!!!!!yes its gotten that bad!

@mrsandmom5947 Жыл бұрын

I remember Seattle looking like that in the 60’s too. A lot of older 50’s cars still being driven. We walked everywhere.

@SeanNewhouse-mv9ez 6 ай бұрын

My great aunt dot and her husband john piccolo who worked at the shipyards lived in West seattle then and many years afterwards Nice to look through the mirror of time at an era that always seemed to hover over my own to a certain degree of my gen x memories, I grew up when it was like the OLD was meshing with the NEW These videos are sure a good way for ppl to historically connect with one another

@stanburdick9708 Жыл бұрын

Grew in the Seattle area the 50s wound up on north queen in the 60s and recognize every place you showed here and much much more. Blows my mind someone was smart enuff to take moving pix of those areas and wish their was more.....these are fantastic.....

@mrsandmom5947 Жыл бұрын

I have slides that my dad took in the 50’s and 60’s. I remember the Olympia beer signs or billboards.

@robertmchugh4639 Жыл бұрын

I was born and raised in Seattle and still live here. I can, in some areas, walk for whole city blocks, and not recognize a single thing. I loved Seattle. Some of my most beautiful memories are here. The area in the Puget Sound was one of the most beautiful places in the country.

@joshldyer Жыл бұрын

imagine what it was like to be a native american that saw the best land in hundreds of miles stolen, and the main river the duwamish turned into a superfund toxic waste dumb by boeing . your glasses are rose colored for sure

@psymi-hk1fp Жыл бұрын

@@joshldyer quit distorting history. Natives signed the land over to USA in 1855 and I dont think any who remembered that time were still living by the time Boeing Plant 2 helped win WW2. In fact, most of the native population was dead from disease before whites even showed up in the 1850s. I said most, not all. By some estimates it was 90 percent though. But if you want to live in the stone age and romanticize their culture, it's a free country. The Duwamish had a caste system like all Salish people including slavery.

@robertmchugh4639 Жыл бұрын

@@joshldyer I live in now. I'm not interested in fantasy. I'm too busy living my own life.

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

I am with you on that, Robert!...I spent two years at a Naval Station in "beautiful weather" San Diego, over 50 years ago...and could not wait to return to my hometown, Seattle....I actually enjoy the essentially mild climate, and the natural beauty of the region is stunning...Seattle has it's own ambiance, that long-term residents can feel in their bones.

@daveb2280 Жыл бұрын

@@joshldyer Learn PNW history before parroting ignorant talking points.

@d.martin7692 Жыл бұрын

Before the freeway Highway 99 with the Aurora Bridge was the main thoroughfare. I used to stare out the car window at some of the signage along Aurora like the washer woman, the cement elephant and the twin teepees.

@nicholaschard7143 Жыл бұрын

I remember the was lady on top of the roof on Aurora Ave.n. located on the west side of Aurora about 3 blocks north of the old battery street subway and the large neon " SHELL" sign on the west side of Aurora right across the street from the" DAGS " hamburger drive-in . That's back when 99 was the freeway the scenic route, Hats and boots Texaco station, Twin Tee Peepees restaurant where Harlan Sanders perfected his chicken recipe.

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

@@nicholaschard7143 I lived in N. Seattle for many years, and ate occasionally at Twin Teepees!...and Greenlake was like my own backyard park!...Few people even know about Harlan Sanders being a cook at that unique restaurant...However, he moved East around 1940 or so, before he really had perfected his style of cooking chicken...What a shame, that those Teepees were bulldozed a few years ago!..Seattle does not respect it's past.

@ytsui0 2 ай бұрын

3:48 The current Starbucks HQ building was a Sears department store, I doubt a new department store will open in I district soon..

@user-ge5ft3tj1p 11 ай бұрын

this film was likely shot in 1954 or so

@nicholaschard7143 Жыл бұрын

Good shot of the lost Northern Pacific's jackknife bridge in the Fremont cut at 3:20 the bridge was demolished in December of 1976

@globalvideoexpert9447 Жыл бұрын

Before CHAZ/CHOP

@globalvideoexpert9447 Жыл бұрын

@@omi_god You okay? You sound emotional

@JKevin1977 Жыл бұрын

Wow the Smith Tower and the Ghostbusters building on Beacon Hill are still standing

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

The Smith Tower was built in 1914...and still looks great, although a little too "phallic", right? lol...that building was once the tallest edifice West of the Mississippi River, and North of San Francisco. Nowadays, you can barely find it, it is buried among the new, taller buildings that have been build since the 1960s.

@AdventureStones-zm4gd 2 ай бұрын

Wait a minute, where's all the homeless people and drug attics at?

@durandjohnson1321 3 жыл бұрын

Makes me want to cry!

@Coco-xw3wp 2 жыл бұрын

Why?

@Legozahar1 2 жыл бұрын

@@Coco-xw3wp because that's when Seattle was once a beautiful city.

@loge10 Жыл бұрын

Can I add my agreement and pain? I live there for my twenties, from 1976 to 1985. They were the happiest years of my life and I am heartbroken about what Seattle became, mostly due to Big Tech.

@denisenichols6505 Жыл бұрын

You must have lived there also.

@russellhopson1658 Жыл бұрын

I can remember being a kid in the 70s. Going to Seattle and they had bridges that went no place. They just ended out into no where land. Sorry know that has nothing to do with the 50s. Lol

@ghostlyimageoffear6210 Жыл бұрын

I remember that too, unfinished bridges, maybe waiting for population growth or financing?

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 Just a couple of freeway ramps, that for some reason, were never actually needed!

@hebneh Жыл бұрын

The newest model cars I could spot were 1955.

@thomasthompson6378 Жыл бұрын

The I-5 bridge in the background at 5:51 was not commenced until 1962-63.

@thomasthompson6378 Жыл бұрын

Is that the Fremont Bridge at 1:35?

@Chef_Jeff69 5 күн бұрын

Yes it is!

@Jeff-uj8xi Жыл бұрын

At 4:40 there is a nice shot of a PCF-Brill trolley coach in the yellow paint scheme.

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

One of my closer friends, back in the 1960s, had a step-father who retired from Seattle Transit, as their #1 driver a couple of decades ago...he had like 52 years of service!...and remember, when those trolleys would occasionally lose their contact poles, and the driver would have to jump out, in traffic, to re-connect those weird power poles to the overhead electrical wires?...a strange sight to see!

@patrickmoriarty7273 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic

@rene29200 2 жыл бұрын

❤️😎😻👍

@DannyManny98 Жыл бұрын

No sound?

@hebneh Жыл бұрын

This is amateur movie film, either 16mm or 8mm (more likely). Only professionals could afford to use film with sound, which required expensive professional equipment. Thus, home movies like this did not have sound.

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

@@hebneh Good explanation...it took the development of the personal video cameras, in the 1970s, to allow video with sound.

@AmericanGypsy206 2 ай бұрын

I was born and raised in Seattle and I go downtown weekly and I could tell you this much the the BLM and now the Palestine protesters make everything unlivable. Seattle used to be beautiful, but it started to go downhill in the 90s