Seattle [promotional film], 1961

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11 жыл бұрын

Color with sound. A 1961 promotional film produced by Seattle City Light. Narrated by Mayor Gordon Clinton, this film relates a wide-ranging view of Seattle, and attempts to portray it as a growing, industrially progressive, and commercially robust metropolis. Subjects covered include Alki Point, ferries, the Ballard locks, Aurora Bridge, Lake Union, SeaTac Airport, the road infrastructure, the educational system, and notable buildings.
Item 17, Record Series 1204-05, Seattle Municipal Archives

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@eddiesimms9301 Жыл бұрын

What I WOULDN'T give to have that City back that I and my siblings were born and RAISED in........GOD BLESS THAT CITY OF SEATTLE!!!

@brendanmcnally9145 Жыл бұрын

It was really an amazing place, especially by today's standards. I haven't been back in many many years. I'm afraid of what I'd find

@bonniebluebell5940 2 ай бұрын

Our CIVILIZATION is systematically being destroyed. We need the will power of GOD ALMIGHTY to save it now. DEUS VULT!

@mrsandmom5947 Жыл бұрын

Born there in 1962. Loved Seattle. My dad worked at Boeing.

@patsalas5170 11 ай бұрын

11:15....the Seattle art museum in volunteer park....I lived right down the street on Capitol Hill and would walk there often in the early 1970s...saw so many great musicians and concerts in my time in Seattle...graduated UW 1975

@harperwelch5147 2 жыл бұрын

Ok, the highlights for me: Gasworks when it wasn’t a park, the Post Intelligencer Globe, my junior high school Eckstein, the Duwamish River valley before it was paved, the now gone nuclear center at UofW, several unmemorable modernist “skyscrapers”, and the fabulous hydroplanes at Seafair. My family moved to Seattle in 1962, year of the Fair. I miss what Seattle once was.

@brendanmcnally9145 3 жыл бұрын

I remember Mayor Gordon Clinton. He lived on the street behind where we lived on 38th and 65th. That was a long time ago!

@thomasthompson6378 Жыл бұрын

My family lived not too far from you -- on 32nd NE and NE 77th St.

@RapidFireRetro 6 жыл бұрын

It''s crazy how much of this video is still accurate of the city over 57 years later. Only discrepancies are some official locations (like the SAM) and the analysis of the general populous.

@loge10 3 жыл бұрын

I live there in my 20s, from 1976 to 1985. My favorite city, at least as it was then. I feel sad and angry as to what Seattle has become.

@markpreston6930 2 жыл бұрын

A ranch dressing and Led Zeppelin reruns disaster area.

@MrBobDobolina Жыл бұрын

It was a very special place for a very long time.

@claudieduran3418 2 жыл бұрын

When I first saw Seattle, WA. It was like a breath of fresh clean air 💨. Four summer vacation 🎄. I have seen other cities. In 1983, the EPA was cleaning up the air. Possibly. IT looked like they polished and shined it. The temperature was 70 degrees. I became homeless myself. But not one homeless Camp. Government housing everything The people 👫 much nicer.

@CineRocco 11 жыл бұрын

That was great. Thank you for posting it.

@leadersuccess3761 5 жыл бұрын

God bless Seattle.

@SeattleArchives 9 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it is University Avenue in the University District. Benton's had a clock at one point. And there are two photographs from 1964 with the parade in the University District, in front of Ness Florists. clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?S1=seafair&S2=&S3=&l=20&Sect7=THUMBON&Sect6=HITOFF&Sect5=PHOT1&Sect4=AND&Sect3=PLURON&d=PHO2&p=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fclerk.seattle.gov%2F~public%2Fphot1.htm&r=5&f=G

@griesTheGries 2 жыл бұрын

so nice!!!......I was a 9th grader...at Sharples Jr. High.....

@OrsonBuggy1958 18 күн бұрын

SAM moved into the old J.C. Penny's so what is the old art museum now?

@chrisrj9871 5 жыл бұрын

One year before the Space Needle... Looks weird without it at the beginning.

@TimesThree333 9 жыл бұрын

At 11:30 they show the Seafair parade. Can anyone identify where in Seattle the parade is taking place? There is a standing clock on the left side, and I've seen an identical clock in Greenwood, near 85th and Greenwood Avenue. Is this where the parade was happening?

@sldulin 5 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that is on University Way, looking north with the light at 45th. That was the Benton Jewelry clock.

@harperwelch5147 2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure that street clock was in front of a jewelry store on 5th Ave. Maybe Friedlanders Jewelers.

@whatsup6005 6 жыл бұрын

Does anyone have a clue which area is being depicted at 6:50? Curious which part of South Seattle they are referring to. Thank you.

@sempervirens2064 5 жыл бұрын

looks near where old Black River came out from Renton into Tukwila/Seattle. If I had to guess I think camera pans from NW looking toward the hill SR 900 (MLK Way) comes over from Seattle into Renton and camera finishes pointing east toward Renton and Cascade foothills www.google.com/maps/@47.4759693,-122.249437,3a,75y,321.41h,105.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snqnE-NDeBfZEjgs01QaBMg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

@markanderson6707 4 жыл бұрын

@@sempervirens2064 That was my impression too. The final glimpse of Tiger Mtn orients the scene.

@MrBobDobolina Жыл бұрын

I thought it looked like Allentown, just south of Boeing field.

@madmurdock2968 Жыл бұрын

8:47 elephant car wash- Denny way

@bloodsurf69 4 жыл бұрын

I remember when the Puget Sound had Jelly Fish and Star Fish in it. Now it's dead

@stanburdick9708 Жыл бұрын

80% of Seattle is dead and gone......how terrible

@IanLucero 7 жыл бұрын

This is awesome but you really need to remove the stabilization. It make the footage look horrible. I'm not kidding.

@Glissader98133 7 жыл бұрын

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@z777z99 4 жыл бұрын

the water must have been so clean and nice to swim in back in the day, we really destroyed the sound. even the salmon will soon be gone

@markanderson6707 4 жыл бұрын

The water was terrible when this was being filmed, Lake Washington in particular, the waters around the outfall at Rainier Beach being festively dotted with condoms, apparently flushed down the drain. Fish guts, we told my little brother: Those are fish guts.

@homernoy Жыл бұрын

Raw sewage was emptied directly into all bodies of water at that time. Not a good era to swim.

@hib723 Жыл бұрын

the water was very dirty in lake washington and eliot bay until the 80's.

@robertbrouillette6767 Жыл бұрын

I went to Seattle in 1970 and at first I didn’t like it. That was until the beautiful spring of 1971 and fell in love with it. It was beautiful until the Californians came up in the 90s. Then it just grew out of control. I left in 1994. Now the drugs and homeless are everywhere.