Thank you for sharing! I was on the board a few years back for Seattle Skating Club and there are photos of these shows all over the office. It is great to see a video. I was the Secretary at the time. The minutes were such a treasure to read. History is so wonderful!

Excellent song for the Legend in black

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

Before America got soft and all liberal Seattle and other cities downtown or very vibrant and lively now there’s crackheads gang bangers and homeless people everywhere and you have to be careful where you go back Trump!

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

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

Yep

I wish I had a chance to go to the Kingdome before the Seahawks switched to a glorified high school stadium.

Looking in the very window of time it was all very real About 20 yrs before my gma & gpa moved to burien, I recall being excited to go to Seattle when wed visit them Bring back these vintage businesses, signs and neon signs just modernized but without ruiniation of the originals

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

Good day. awesome content!

My Name, has been entered 2 thy Book. I wrote It!. Cuz I thunked ITT!.

Best trials spot on the whole world! I am coming to you Seattle all the way from 🇭🇷

Loved this!!!!!!!!!! In gratitude.

Wow, very cool to see this! I drove it one last time, two days before they closed it for good.😢

Thank you for this! I grew up just east of Aurora Village 68'-71' on the corner of N200th and Wallingford before moving to Edmonds. I remember this area well, but has changed so much in recent years, wow!

They'll never see this again.

As a kid at Playland I used a putter like a driver and on my backswing I opened up a kids head behind me. After a few stitches he was OK

Great video although I think the title should be the remodel of the Ballard Bridge. The mill on the west side of the north end of the bridge was always a source of amazement to me. Men would push the logs with long poles to a device that pulled them up and into the mill. To a little kid this was magic and something that I always looked for when we crossed the bridge southbound.

this film was likely shot in 1954 or so

I'm sure the view was really pretty for the drivers, but the viaduct was definitely an eyesore for everyone else. So glad they tore it town.

Get rid of the music and then I will give this a thumbs up.

I am Japanese and living in Mountlake Terrace since 2001. I LOVE this place. Thank you for the video😍

You might want to learn how to hold a camera in the LANDSCAPE mode instead of up and down (like most rookies do)

I went to the first official event there, and many thereafter! Watched Pele' beat the Sounders in 1976 if I remember correctly!

5:40 Yep. It’s much more beautiful, healthy and kind to our planet now…then back in the old days. 😳🙄

My hometown. It’s changed A LOT.

Someone should upscale this and add color

When I tuned in I expected to see construction crews tearing out the old and putting in the new. Railroads have been downsizing all over the country for years.

I went to Seattle last October (2022) and looked up at the Needle from the ground (have a severe fear of heights which prevented me from going to the top). It was impressive and I can only imagine what it would have been like to see it for the first time at the Fair

At 1:50 there is motel, but the name of the motel is cut off in the picture. Does anyone know the name of the motel and / or the location?

Carmel corn store at Aurora Village was mouth watering!!

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

The music made this video stand out. This is when America had swagger 💢

The subdivision at the center at 2:20 (and shown behind Ballinger terrace again at 2:34) is where I learned to drive! I remember how I always liked that neighborhood because of how well-kept and unpretentious the simple, single-story postwar homes there seemed, in contrast to the gaudy McMansions that were being built all over the place at the time (and the cookie cutter 5-over-1 apartment blocks popping up in this area recently aren't much better).

My dad smoked meth under that bridge. 🥰

Wonder what their pronouns were? 🤔

The black and white appears to be 1930s.

2:00 Ahh Burt's Shoes. I bought a pair of limited edition Nike Airs back in the day from them.

Going northbound on what was U S 99. I-5 hadn’t been built yet. Been through the tunnel and the viaduct a gazillion times.

I absolutely love a vintage flashing neon sign.

Good by Seattle you were good while it lasted.😜😜😜

3505 densmore ave n two blocks up from gas works park was my house, moved there in 1972 i was 5 , i knew about playland , at least we had the aurora drive in 😊

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

Is that the Fremont Bridge at 1:35?

27:54 why are they all lined up?

Part of the footage at 6:56 may have been taken at the Orpheum Theatre around May or June 1949, as the Randolph Scott movie "Canadian Pacific" came out that time.

Thar Exxon station on 185th near Aurora (2:03) became the base for North End Taxi for many years.

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!

That area looks a lot better without the Viaduct.