Washington, The Evergreen State, 1950

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15 жыл бұрын

A tour of the state of Washington in the 1950s. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

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@denisenichols6505 Жыл бұрын

Do any of you native Seattleites remember the sign by Boeings that said " Last one leaving Seattle,turn out the lights." ?

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

Yes..that was around 1970, when Boeing cut around 30,000 jobs--a huge blow to the local economy..this was before our hero, Bill Gates, invented Microsoft!

@leekoss7083 8 ай бұрын

That was when 33,000 or so Boeing employees lost their jobs overnight when Congress pulled the plug on research for a US supersonic transport jet-1970 or 1971. My dad, an engineer, was transferred from Seattle to the Washington DC office of Boeing in the summer of 1967. He was one of these workers. It was a challenging time for our family. I loved growing up in Seattle 1958-1967. Gratefully I’ve been back twice. It’s time to go back-maybe Summer, 2024. We grew to love the East Coast, Virginia and Delaware - but Seattle was special for sure. ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

@stanburdick9708 5 ай бұрын

I sure do and remember it being the best yrs of my life !!! Now nothing but a glass garbage dump $hit hole😡

@northwestprof60 2 ай бұрын

that wouldn't come until 18 years after this came out

@suzilindblad5207 2 ай бұрын

I do! I was a kid at the time so i didn't really understand it.

@NWBushman 13 жыл бұрын

I love seeing the history of where I live. Thanks for sharing.

@kevinlee6672 3 жыл бұрын

I'm reading your comment 9 years later. That's history in itself 😁

@cvxskull3134 2 жыл бұрын

10 years ago wow

@jamesleyda365 Жыл бұрын

I'm reading it 11 years now

@slushygirlkawaii2406 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve lived in Whidbey Island (Oak Harbor), and currently live in Lake Stevens, Washington. I love history and although this wasn’t too long ago I’m still fascinated by this.

@hmtnhk Жыл бұрын

A long gone state, country and world!!

@leeyaferguson9019 22 күн бұрын

I live N.E.WASHINGTON in a small town it's still good. Very small.

@Unreissued 4 жыл бұрын

Those forestry shots are crazy.

@TairnKA 22 күн бұрын

I grew up in Yakima and other than a few years away, have spent most of my life in the "Greater Seattle" region. ;-)

@PRO4XKEV 20 күн бұрын

This was back in the better days. I grew up in Edmonds 1960's-1980's.. moved to Lake Stevens in 1993 and currently still reside here. Time has ruined our cities and this State, Homeless people everywhere, crime is out of control, drug usage, and traffic is nuts.

@Kyle-uz1rp 19 күн бұрын

You mean the communist socialists ruined our nation and our state? Yea they really did.

@MrBilly235 15 күн бұрын

You can thank Democrats....

@PRO4XKEV 15 күн бұрын

@@MrBilly235 Indeed.

@joshldyer Жыл бұрын

beaches were far from warm in washington in the 50s

@leekoss7083 8 ай бұрын

You are totally correct. I remember Seattle’s beaches as littered with kelp and with very cold water. One time my mom, an RN, took my sisters and me swimming in the Sound near a water treatment plant. She said that this was where the Sound was cleanest. It was a small sandy beach. ❤❤🎉🎉🎉

@aceykrew5207 3 жыл бұрын

I live on the Olympic peninsula and it's still beautiful over here. Thanks to the protection of the national Forest which is my backyard. And the Hoh rain forest.

@markn.reprisal9472 2 жыл бұрын

Your face is lopsided. It looks like you were in a machete fight!!!

@adrianmendoza9135 Жыл бұрын

How do you afford it nowadays? My heartaches to not be able to live in my home but seeing others enjoy it gives me hope there’s a chance for good change

@cougsjohnson1 2 ай бұрын

Proof that Yakima used to be really Nice & Clean Gem of a City !!

@gorgecoach 3 жыл бұрын

fabulous

@SeanNewhouse-mv9ez 6 ай бұрын

My dad, his siblings still in kentucky and gpts would still be in Montana for the next couple yrs

@chrisyarbrough785 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful state but the people have lost it

@user-ew2pg2nq7s 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful 🌷🌷

@mohammedalfatlawi9476 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful 🌷🌹

@aceykrew5207 3 жыл бұрын

I just went to Ruby beach last weekend.

@mohammedalfatlawi9476 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful state

@posi8925 2 жыл бұрын

I live in Walla Walla it is a beautiful town❤

@flautalee3090 5 ай бұрын

I didn’t see it (the sign mentioned below) but sure knew about it. Boeing transferred my Dad to Washington DC in 1967. Talk about virtue shock!

@dineshpuma3213 11 жыл бұрын

Omg...our Seattle!

@stanburdick9708 5 ай бұрын

Has turned into one big $hit hole😡😡😡

@user-ew2pg2nq7s 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Seattle Washington 🌹

@jaysaini955 3 жыл бұрын

and its shit, thanks bud

@dombefaded 3 жыл бұрын

i live in a place called port orchard it’s like 10 mins away from the bremerton shipyard and i can see seattle from where i live across the water

@AyayronBalakay 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaysaini955 loool

@jaysaini955 2 жыл бұрын

@@AyayronBalakay Meh

@AyayronBalakay 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaysaini955 one man's trash is another man's treasure

@TheTferrer 2 жыл бұрын

Those were the days when fishing was still safe. These days, eat fish at your own risk!

@thewizzla 3 жыл бұрын

This is gold. Great upload. Im glad that digitized this cant deteriorate anymore. Film is beautiful but a shitty storage medium.

@MForever427 12 жыл бұрын

GOOOOOOO WASHINGTON!

@ralphpercy4846 4 жыл бұрын

Blackbears used to be friendly?.. interesting

@ralphpercy4846 4 жыл бұрын

they train Rangers to make sure they take your money

@suzilindblad5207 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@ashledashnaw2575 2 жыл бұрын

No, just people were more respectful and not so dumb. So they didn't get attacked as easily

@jasonyoung9249 2 жыл бұрын

That’s because people fed them. They say not to now.

@WendyAllen-df5yg 7 ай бұрын

That's so true

@HeatherB81 4 жыл бұрын

So funny how there are always people who find something negative to say about everything 🤣 How about just enjoying an old film showing our beautiful state? It is a completely unbiased look at the state... not political .

@ashledashnaw2575 2 жыл бұрын

It will always be political. Especially since society has been destroyed so much that all respect has been lost by others. Everything is destroyed, dirty, filled with drug addicts, and no one respects anyone anymore.

@WendyAllen-df5yg 7 ай бұрын

I agree 100% with you it's really a choice isn't it😊

@theangrykitten 2 жыл бұрын

Totally skipped over Bremerton… “…Across the water from Seattle is Brem-Everett…”

@Sennmut 3 жыл бұрын

Any chance of a better soundtrack? Also, what year is the Apple Blossom Queen from?

@ashledashnaw2575 2 жыл бұрын

This is the original soundtrack, why would you want to change it? This video is from 1950, so therefore that is when the apple blossom queen is from. You can find their pictures in the museum. Feel free to check it out

@Sennmut Ай бұрын

@@ashledashnaw2575 It skips alot. That's why I asked.

@ralphpercy4846 4 жыл бұрын

30 years before st helens took a sht

@dagmermias688 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful seattle (evergreen) where I live wow !

@willowdog5084 3 жыл бұрын

i wasn't even alive when this came out lol

@sanandreasfan4157 2 жыл бұрын

I was lol

@ashledashnaw2575 2 жыл бұрын

Unless your 72 years old at least, no you weren't.

@alexandersupertramp7353 Жыл бұрын

Nice bit on my hometown of Bremerton. Subtle yet to the point

@jamesleyda365 Жыл бұрын

Moses Lake WA here, 11 more years later

@juancarlosmontes 2 жыл бұрын

So in 1950's Washington, citizens could play with the wild bear cubs. That's pretty cool. All kidding aside, it would have been nice had there been a shout-out to the Native fisherman. There's nothing like the fresh seafood from the Reservation. I remember often getting a wide variety of it amazingly cheap in the 80's.

@lindakay9552 2 жыл бұрын

My papa was born in Oroville. He fished Sockeye all over the state. And my dad smoked salmon all summer long.

@WendyAllen-df5yg 7 ай бұрын

Yes you are right. Heaven

@willowdog5084 3 жыл бұрын

2:00 5:55 15:00 this is for an assignment so don't worry abt it

@AyayronBalakay 2 жыл бұрын

i am very worried

@jenniferhansen3622 4 ай бұрын

So, it's been two years now. What grade did you get on your assignment?

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

What is wrong with this otherwise excellent retro-documentary about the wonders of my home state?..the soundtrack skips like crazy!

@SeanNewhouse-mv9ez 6 ай бұрын

Vintage editing and film age that ebbs in and out

@user-ho2pf5mj5g 5 ай бұрын

💚🪲🎄🎄🎄

@cunderw12 19 күн бұрын

I think they forgot to teach sustainability to their people. All of this could still be here if they were taught how to manage, and take care of it. & possibly thought of their future generations. As long as the NR are available there’s still time to change!

@mrsandmom5947 7 жыл бұрын

Seattle Born

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

Me too...76yo now...we surely have now seen the good, the bad, and the ugly now, right?..I am lucky to be living when I did, and now do not regret my eventual death...the beauty around me is withering anyway.

@flautalee3090 5 ай бұрын

Seattle raised. My parents moved to Seattle Christmas 1958-I just turned 4. Boeing moved us back to the East Coast just before Thanksgiving 1967. I think of the most important years of my raising being in Seattle. My parents were so happy in Seattle. We ALL were. I’ve been back to Seattle three times as an adult. It’s time to go back and to see my BFF from Grade 2. ❤

@kevinlee6672 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if people back then would have ever thought Washington Seattle would have a new lawless city called CHAZ (CHOP).

@ashledashnaw2575 2 жыл бұрын

That's not a thing anymore

@alexandersupertramp7353 Жыл бұрын

Yo, Kevin! How far back do you want to go!?! How about Seattle being an alcohol infested Whore House!?! But that's ok, huh?

@lightningbuster 2 жыл бұрын

Well that was kind of lame, kinda just skimmed right over Vancouver. We’re only the fourth largest city in the state!

@jaysaini955 3 жыл бұрын

Back when this state was awesome, now all gone :/

@dombefaded 3 жыл бұрын

not all of it the vide mentioned a place called hamma hamma i still go camping there every year and it’s beautiful. sad thing is half of it was lost in a forest fire but the other half still looks great

@jaysaini955 3 жыл бұрын

@@dombefaded Ah, but the city itself is gone my man.

@aceykrew5207 3 жыл бұрын

Not the Olympic peninsula

@jaysaini955 3 жыл бұрын

@@aceykrew5207 ?

@dombefaded 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaysaini955 true that

@boaz9208 5 жыл бұрын

What a nice advertisement for the beautiful land of our 42nd state, then recently conquered and ripe for the taking, surging with population growth and resettlement that has continued to this day.

@Bruceillest101 2 жыл бұрын

Now that we are feeling the effects of global warming. It's so sad seeing those giant trees get cut down.

@jamesfreeman5231 Жыл бұрын

the mountain exploded and poo'd everywhere lol i think some people died

@curbozerboomer1773 Жыл бұрын

48 people!

@ashledashnaw2575 2 жыл бұрын

Yakima is no longer clean. It's so full of drug addicts

@AyayronBalakay 2 жыл бұрын

shhhh lets just pretend its awesome still

@ashledashnaw2575 2 жыл бұрын

@@AyayronBalakay I wish it was

@AyayronBalakay 2 жыл бұрын

@@ashledashnaw2575 yeah me too

@lightningbuster 2 жыл бұрын

I have a good friend who came from Yakima and he tells me all of the crazy stories.

@hmtnhk Жыл бұрын

Just look at the demographic profile in the video and what's now....period.

@mobymagg 4 жыл бұрын

The sky is dark blue ( 20:25 ), the way it used to be; the way it naturally would be, if the aerial spraying wasn't going on. These travel archive films show the natural sky before the white lines were put everywhere to create artificial clouds for weather modification.

@Milkmans_Son 4 жыл бұрын

Literally every other time it shows the sky it's washed out almost to the point of being white, including the shot of the same sky at grand coulee two seconds later at 20:28. Please explain.

@Unreissued 4 жыл бұрын

Lmaooooooo

@quark8571 2 жыл бұрын

Source?

@ashledashnaw2575 2 жыл бұрын

You're a paranoid conspiracy theorist.

@lightningbuster 2 жыл бұрын

You probably think the earth is flat too.