





1700s 1800s 1-14-61 Snohomish County formed 7-8-72 Jacobson Livingston filed Western New York plat 5-8-73 Lowell platted 11-3-76 Dennis Brigham's homestead entry 12-30-76 Erkine Kromer received a deed for his property 7-4-89 Joseph Pearsall found gold at Monte Cristo 1890 8-22-90 Rucker bros. file plat for Port Gardner; later withdrawn for Hewitt-Colby plans 9-1-90 Hewitt filed a bond on bayfront side of now Everett began acquiring property 10-90 circa Decision to name city after Charles Colby's son Everett 11-90 mid month stock market panic 11-19-90 Articles of incorporation for Everett Land Co. 11-26-90 Ruckers transferred property to Hewitt 11-29-90 Remarkable Document drawn where Ruckers transferred property to Hewitt for industrial guarantees 12-24-90 Remarkable Document recorded at Snohomish 1891 3-12-91 major storm hit Puget Sound 4-91 Boughton E. Aldrich opened the Workingmen's Grocery at Pacific and Chestnut site 5-7-91 Puget Sound Pulp & Paper Co. incorporated, later would build mill at Lowell 5-23-91 whaleback steamer C.W. Wetmore launched in W. Superior bound for Everett 5-30-91 tracklaying started on Seattle & Montana R.R. 6-91 P.K. Lewis opened a store on bayfront 7-91 recession of 1890 continuing? 7-91 pop. about 35 on Everett peninsula 7-1-91 first post office in Miley & Henderson's store on bayfront, Mrs. Mitchell postmistress 7-6-91 Dr. Wm. C. Cox arrived at Lowell, Everett's first physician 7-28-91 Wm. G. Swalwell incorporated Swalwell Land Loan and Trust Co. 9-91 Monte Cristo Hotel started construction 9-9-91 Swalwellís First Addition plat filed, triggering land rush on Riverside 9-11-91 first issue of the Port Gardner News (Everettís first paper in Lowell) 9-16-91 work began on whaleback plant 9-23-91 Mitchell Land & Improvement filed a plat opening up new sections of Riverside 9-28-91 Articles of incorporation for the Pacific Steel barge Co. filed (whaleback plant) 10-12-91 last spike driven on Seattle & Montana which extended along Bayfront 10-15-91 contract for Bay View Hotel awarded would be first hotel 10-19-91 Bastís brickyard on northern tip began production 10-22-91 Henry Hewitt celebrated 50th birthday, contract awarded for Everett Hotel 10-25-91 circa Henry Hewitt orders a second story on Broadway School 10-91 late photographer Frank LaRoche here 11-7-91 first saloon Gem 11-20-91 Chas Colby and Colgate Hoyt visit 11-27-91 Seattle & Montana opened 12-91 Brue Bldg started 12-1-91 Swalwell's Second Addition filed, one day $150,000 sold 12-3-91 Alex. McDougall, Whaleback ship inventor, visit 12-4-91 First Methodist Episcopal Church chartered 12-10-91 Hart's sawmill, Everett's first, fired up 12-14-91 Broadway School opened 12-15-91 contract for grading Pacific awarded 12-21-91 whaleback Wetmore arrived in Everett 12-26-91 lawsuit filed by Erskine Kromer's heirs against Friday bros. 12-28-91 big windstorm 1892- 1-17-92 first Mass said in Everett by Fr. Lindner 3-7-92 First Presbyterian Church organized 4-17-92 first service for First Presbyterian in new church on Maple 4-21-92 dedication of First Presbyterian on Maple north of Hewitt 6-12-92 Trinity Episcopal incorporated, church on Calif. near Wetmore ready by August 8-8-92 Snohomish County Tribune founded 1893- 3-1-93 First Congregational Church organized 1-6-93 Great Northern line completed near Stevens Pass 4-23-93 apparently first dedication of old OLPH church, blessed by Bishop Junger 4-27-93 charter to incorporate Everett approved; Thomas Dwyer elected first mayor 5-8-93 Everett incorporated 6-16-93 Margaret Clark first graduate of Everett High School 1894- 2-22-94 Everett Highís first football game, against Snohomish 6-10-94 first gathering of what would become Women's Book Club at home of Mary Lincoln Brown 7-2-94 first official meeting of Womenís Book Club at Monte Cristo Hotel 9-26-94 block for Clark Park (City Park) purchased from Everett Land Co. for $21,535, park established next day. Renamed Clark Park in 1931 9-27-94 first 10 acres of Forest Park purchased for $4300 10-24-94 whaleback ship City of Everett launched, parade down Hewitt followed (sank Gulf of Mexico 10-11-23) 1895-1899 3-95 Puget Sound Pulp and Paper Co. name changed to Everett Pulp and Paper Co 11-5-95 Everett officially county seat, moved in 1897. 4-21-98 Everett Public Library opened in old city hall building, 2900 Broadway, books had been house the McFarland home, 3100 Colby 1900s 4-6-00 Wm Jennings Bryant in Everett nailworks campaigning for President 5-01-01 Nicholas B. Challacombe founded funeral home 5-1-01 first Everett YMCA opened 8-19-01 Swedish Baptist Church organized 6-12-02 Fr. Clasessens requested a Catholic hospital here 6-22-02 United Presbyterian Church and parsonage at 2701 Colby dedicated 5-23-03 Pres. T. Roosevelt in Everett 10-28-1903 Knights of Columbus in Everett chartered, instituted on 11-29 12-15-1903 Redmen Hall dedicated 3-16-04 earthquake 6-14-04 last day for old Monte Cristo Hotel, manager Ferriss moved to Mitchell Hotel, which was new 12-18-04 dedication of Immaculate Conception church 3-1-05 Providence Hospital first received patients in old Monte Cristo Hotel building 7-03-05 Carnegie Library at Oakes and Wall opened 2-11-06 beginning of weeklong celebration of opeping of First Cong. Ch at Everett and Rockefeller, from 2915 Cedar 3-1-06 light started operating in new Mukilteo lighthouse 3-26-06 Grand Ave. Park given to city by Everett Improvement Co. 6-9-07 worldís first drive-in service station opened this week in Seattle 7-2-07 Everett Yacht Club founded 9-1-07 Henning Block (south part) on 2815-17 Colby opened, Powell (north part) to come in 1910 4-1-08 5 fatality accident at shingle mill boiler explosion, site now west of Evergreen near 52nd 5-28-08 Atlantic Fleet in Everett 10-1-08 Bell Flats, 2501 Colby, Everett first apartment house, ready for occupancy 10-8-08 grand opening of Landers' 5c-10c-15c Store, 1818-1820 Hewitt 11-5-08 Supt. O'Neil of Great Northern said tunnel under city to be concreted 11-20-08 Red Front Clothing Store bankruptcy sale going on, 1512 Hewitt 12-12-08 Columbia College about half constructed, postponed to next fall 8-2-09 Snohomish County Courthouse fire 1910s 2-29-10 inaugural trip from Everett to Seattle on Interurban. 3-1-10 Wellington Disaster 4-29-10 J.J. Hill in Everett 5-2-10 regular service started on the Seattle Everett Interurban 5-31-10 Everettís first school had been remodeled into the Broadway Hotel 7-11-10 first meeting of the Everett Motor Boat Club 9-10-10 dedication of brick First Presbyterian Church, Rockefeller & Wall 3-9-11 clock began working in courthouse 5-2-11 Providence School of Nursing opened 10-9-11 President Taft in Everett 3-25-12 ground broken on Trinity Episcopal on 23rd near Hoyt, d. early 50s 4-21-12 Milwaukee Rd. started passenger service to Everett 5-31-12 Henry M. Jackson borned in Everett 4-4-13 Sumner Iron Works destroyed by fire 12-25-13 new Sumner Iron Works in Lowell ready 1-20-14 work started on bldg on nw corner Colby and Wall, Strand Hotel to north about to be built too 1-26-14 Jacknife Bridge on Ebey Is. about ready, first of the Strauss bascule type in Puget Sound area 4-1-14 Brodeck Filed Clothing Co., opened new store, 1711-13 Hewitt 4-3-14 bankrupt sale D. Poplack Clothing Co., 1922 Hewitt 4-3-14 quitting business sale Workingmen's Store, 2014 Hewitt 5-16-14 D. Wrd King spoke at Commercial Club about Good Roads 6-23-14 NP passenger train left for Monte Cristo, first time since 1908 5-15 Weyerhaeuser Mill B started with 100 men 7-14-15 Liberty Bell in Everett 8-5-14 road between Everett and Mukilteo opened 1-31-16 big snow started, lasted 3 days, dumped over 30 inches 10-30-16 IWW beating at Beverly Park 11-5-16 Everett Massacre 2-18-17 Henry J. Kaiser Jr. born here, home at 717 33rd 5-17-17 apparently this is when they were closing the train tunnel the half block from the alley to Oakes 7-22-18 Bailey addition along 10th from Grand to Bdwy opening to sell 7-26-18 new Woolworths opened at 1614-16 Hewitt, had been at 1818 Hewitt 10-8-18 Everett Health Board banned public gatherings due to Spanish flu 8-25-19 Providence School of Nursing moved into new quarters, not the brick building on Nassau; it came in 1929 1920s 3-20-20 fire destroyed YMCA 8-17-20 radio stn KRKO first went on air, see comment lower a couple 8-29-20 cornerstone laid for brick Trinity Episcopal, 23rd and Hoyt 1-1-21 Everett 16, E. Cleveland Tech. 7, at Bagshaw Field for mythical US championship 4-10-21 new Evertt YMCA dedicated 5-22-21 dedication of Trinity Episcopal 7-2-21 Big Four Inn opened 2-16-22 Parkland's Children's Home moved from Parkland to old Columbia College Bldg. 6-4-22 Trinity Lutheran building at 24th and Lombard dedicated 8-25-22 first radio broadcast of KFBL later KRKO (don't know about upper entry) 6-23-23 Madrona Apts. at Rucker and Everett to be open next week 8-1-23 story pole dedicated at California and Wetmore 11-23-23 Weyerhaeuser office bldg. open for inspection 1-2-24 Hodges Bldg opened to tenants 2-27-24 General Hospital on Colby dedicated; new Providence building followed soon 8-31-24 Immaculate Conception School dedicated 5-12-24 new Providence Hospital opened 10-24 Everett Clinic formally organized 5-29-25 2nd Monte Cristo Hotel opened 6-25-25 Bungalow Apts. at Pacific and Norton completed 7-11-25 highway over Stevens Pass officially opened 8-8-25 2026 Rucker, old David Clough house, remodeled in 7-unit Lucerne apts. after being vacant for 10 years 9-6-25 Perpetual Help church and school dedicated 12-31-25 Medical and Dental Building completed 5-30-26 Al Faussett rode spruce log over Sunset Falls 8-23-27 Marysville-Everett cutoff opened making direct road between two Labor Day 26 Al Faussett rode a log over Eagle Falls 10-25-27 Hwy 99 completed near 164th 3-17-28 Mukilteo School burned 4-19-29 Rumbaughs opened 4-22-28 officially Everett Airport Field between Everett and Marysville 9-14-28 new Rosehill School in Mukilteo dedicated 1-12-29 Cascade Tunnel completed 1-15-29 foundation work began today on new Sears Roebuck bldg 4-13-29 grand opening of Pioneer United Dairies in new bldg at 2531 Broadway 4-19-29 grand opening of Rumbaughís Dept. Store, California and Wetmore 10-23-29 Mon "Wally" Wallgren won national amateur billiard championship at Elks Club here 11-22-29 new city hall open to public 11-26-29 Fisher store in Powell-Henning blocks on Colby opened (elaborate show windows done at this time) 12-5-29 Montgomery Ward opened at 2818 Wetmore 1930s 9-17-30 Puget Sound and Alaska Powder Co. explosion 4-29-31 Bethany Home started at 3322 Broadway 9-12-31 paved road from Alderwood Manor to Highway 99 recently completed 10-25-31 last 20 feet of pavement paved for 4-lane highway between Everett and Seattle 11-26-31 (Thanksgiving) Bagshaw Field so named, previously referred to as Athletic Field 2-15-32 first section of Legion Park given to city by A.B. and Harriet Clausen 9-20-32 FDR in Everett campaigning for president 7-7-33 USS Constitution visited Everett 10-13-33 formal opening of Owl Drug Store, Hewitt and Colby, after a remodel 6-15-34 Alderwood Water District groundbreaking at s.w. corner of 13th (Meadow Rd.) & 164th (Martha Lake Rd.) 10-3-34 Everett Public Library on Hoyt dedicated 3-12-36 Rexís Place grand opening (northeast corner at Smokey Point) 3-27-36 work started this week removing more than 40 mi. of rail between Hartford and Monte Cristo 5-9-36 Payless Food opened 6-29-36 Wyerhaeuser Pulp Mill (Mill A) opened on bay front 7-36 new office building for D.A. Duryee, 2715 Colby 7-3-36 Black Prince dedicated as part of official mtg room, Everett Yacht Club, razed '56 7-15-36 work to start on new Everett airport 8-19-36 new Verlot bridge dedicated, program following at Canyon Cr. Lodge 8-29-36 first Tyee Salmon Roundup 1-11-37 body of kidnapped Tacoma boy Charles Mattson found 4 1/2 miles south of Everett 7-10-37 WPA sponsored indexing of fingerprints at Sheriff's office 7-15-37 Hellenthalís opened at 2716 Colby 7-17-37 Legion Park Golf Course opened 7-22-37 plans to immediately finish new playfield at 12th and Oakes 7-24-37 first tee-off at Legion Golf Course (Muni) 7-30-37 Barker-Knapp Tie Mill in Hartford destroyed by fire 9-3-37 remodeling of main floor of Hewitt Block-Silverstone bldg under way, would house Silverstone Apparel and Holmes Candy 9-14-37 "unofficial" first landing at new Everett airport 10-1-37 "I am glad to be in Everett again." - President F.D. Roosevelt at Great Northern whistle stop Pacific Ave. 12-29-37 Clough Hartley Mill burned 2-1-38 concrete Norton Ave. viaduct at 22nd opened 2-10-38 first Canyon Creek Lodge burned to ground, rebuilt 5-1-38 Weyerhaeuser building moved upriver to Mill B, moved again in 1983 1-3-39 west wall being removed from old EHS gym for new study hall, old auditorium to become library 1-10-39 discussion on what to do about old Pigeon Creek #2 trestle that was closed last fall 2-20-39 last southbound train on the Everett Seattle Interurban 2-6-39 work to begin on Floral Hall about this time 5-4-39 Clark Nickerson mill fire 5-6-39 Lowell fire stn dedicated 5-8-39 Joe King's tavern opened at 1309 Hewitt 7-6-39 Brewsterís reopened after an extensive remodel 8-8-39 Woolworthís opened new store at 2824 Colby, had been on 1600 block Hewitt 8-11-39 Monroe Jr. High finished 10-1-39 Pacific Hardware at Hewitt and Wetmore closed 10-7-39 Old 55 (Interurban Train) opened on 7309 Highway 99, 2 miles south of Everett 10-9-39 opening of Castle Drug Co. Store # 2 in Grand Central Market, 2801 Wetmore 11-9-39 Montgomery Ward opened new store at 2813-19 Colby 1940s 3-14-40 undefeated Everett High School basketball team beat Oakville 64-19 to win state tournament 4-26-40 demolition started about now on old wood trestle connecting Everett Ave. bridge with Ebey Is. 5-12-40 Riverdale Park dedicated 7-23-40 Bill Long house moved from S. Everett to Alverson Blvd. 8-8-40 Silver Lake School District dissolved to become parts of Everett, Mukilteo, Snohomish, Bothell and North Creek 8-30-40 fill on Kromer between Pacific and Laurel to open soon, old bridge dismantled in December of 1938, fill came from reservoir near Federal 8-31-40 Arlingtonís municipal airport became a navy airport 9-23-40 fire destroyed empty Dell shingle mill at Maple Heights 10-21-40 tearing down Fisherman's Packing Corp. which had been Everett Packing Co. and originally the nail works 11-40 Henry M. Jackson elected to U.S. House of Representatives 9-41 Everett Junior College opened 12-1-41 Barlow Darrington part of Mt. Loop Hwy about finished 1-9-42 Walgrenís changed to Friedlander and Sons 1-23-42 enlarged Penney store opened 1-25-42 Paine Field plane crashed damaging 1521 Grand and 1518 Rucker 2-16-42 ground broken for shipyard, Everett Pacific Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. 2-17-42 P-38 crashed near Silver Lake 11-10-42 construction stared on shipyard 4-27-43 Edgewater Park added to city system 6-15-43 first WAACs at Paine Field 6-26-43 US Naval Aux air Stn Arlington dedicated 7-1-43 City Beach at Pigeon Creek # 2 opened 7-3-43 beach pavilion at City Beach opened 7-22-43 Stanwood Shipyard launched first ocean-going barge 8-28-43 war memorial dedicated on court house grounds 9-29-43 U.S.S. Everett launched in Richmond, CA (stricken from list on 12-1-61) 1-27-44 East Stanwood Lincoln High strike 3-13-45 Japanese balloon bomb landed near Paine Field reportedly 9-18-45 Wm. R.and Archie G. Taft Jr. acquired control of KRKo 2-6-46 Clark Park murder, Bernice Honrath attacked night before, died today 4-5-46 first B&M opened at 2615 Colby 4-19-46 small pox epidemic here 7-26-46 Weisfield & Goldberg Jewelry opened about now at 2819 Colby 8-28-46 VFW Hall, 2711 Oakes Ave. dedicated today 2-14-47 Normanna Hall bldg., 2725 Oakes, opened today 11-1-47 Everett Memorial Stadium dedicated 11-29-47 clock in front Peoples Natl. Bank, built for Security Natl. Bank toppled, replica dedicated at ECC 10-17-06 1-1-48 opening of Fire Stn No. 4 at Forest Park 2-1-48 first Power Squadron unit formed in Everett 2-12-48 by this date 7 barges had been sunk at north bank of Snohomish R. for a breakwater 3-5-48 grand opening new Standard stn nw corner Wetmore & Wall, prior was C&S Service, later was Courtís Chevron, then Wall St. Bldg 4-3-48 P-40 to go atop Tony Dyreís Bayview service Federal, Bond and Hewitt, would be there just short of 20 years 6-1-48 Sno-King Drive In movie opened. 6-7-48 Chester Beard Shoes to open 6-9-48 President Harry S. Truman in Everett 8-28-48 37th newly paved from Rucker to Broadway about to open 9-13-48 Pay-n-Save Drugs opened at 2711 Colby 11-13-48 plans announced to remodel Howarth bldgs on 1600 Hewitt with one look 12-6-48 Spudnut Shop, 3016 Colby, opened, closed 1971 6-10-49 August Mardesich boat accident 6-11-49 grand opening, Cannon's Richfield, 41st & Rucker 6-17-49 grand opening of Hans Hagen Jeweler at new store, 2921 Colby 7-14-49 polio epidemic here 7-23-49 Immanuel Lutheran Church at 26th and Lombard dedicated 9-1-49 PUD purchased electric system from Snohomish County and Camano Island 9-7-49 Big Four Inn burned 9-16-49 north part of Bethany on 3300 Bdwy dedicated. 11-17-49 41st recently opened between Colby and Broadway 1950- 5-16-50 Sky-Vu drive-in theater opened at 34th and Pine 7-11-50 Rip Van Winkle Motel at 23rd & Bdwy about to open 7-11-50 Medical Center at NW Hoyt and Pacific under construction 7-11-50 SE corner of Hoyt & California leveled for new parking garage, near completion Nov. 29 7-14-50 fire station at Beverly Blvd. & Madison new 8-02-50 Anita Shop at Colby & California about to open 8-04-50 Pine Canyon Road between Orondo and Waterville officially opened 8-21-50 stop light at Hewitt & Rockefeller, 4th on Hewitt, 17th in city 9-50 last strings of lights taken down on Hewitt in Riverside and replaced with cobras 9-6-50 open house for remodeled Eagles Bldg, Hewitt & Hoyt - started 9/49 10-18-50 city okayed a light for 41st & Colby 10-19-50 new Tacoma Narrows bridge opened 10-24-50 Bud's Cafe at 3119 Bdwy opened 10-24-50 grading planned for 3700 block of Lombard 10-30-50 Seattle Veterans' Hospital nearing completion 11-08-50 first walk-wait pedestrian signal installed at NE Hewitt and Colby, others to follow 11-29-50 new building n.w. corner Pacific and Hoyt near completion 1951- 4-01-51 tax token no longer used 4-04-51 open house at Safeway 3700 Bdwy, open the following day 4-12-51 Everett Motor Movie opened 4-19-51 B&M shopping center at 50th & Hwy 99 opened 5-01-51 Union Oil Refinery in Edmonds about to open 5-02-51 highway between Monroe and Sultan about finished 5-04-51 Stadium Service station at 3930 Bdwy opened 5-25-51 Eleanor Butler wing on General Hospital dedicated (two-story addition only on the east side of the main building) 6-1-51 last original mill in Edmonds closed 6-13-51 Rosemary the elephant arrived at Forest Park 7-18-51 Bill and Ada Pilz donated what is now Doyle Park at 35th and Grand to school district 8-17-51 Duffy Drug on 1600 Bdwy grand opening 9-1-51 Cedar Valley Grange bldg moved to another location over summer 12-15-51 Ripple Tavern opened at Hewitt and Rockefeller 12-27-51 Port purchased Pier 1 from American Tug Boat Co. 1952- 2-01-52 construction started on addition on west side of Scott Paper administration bldg 2-12-52 work under way on Scott paper mill building 2-25-52 Fairmont school opened 4-14-52 old Lowell school being torn down 7-14-52 Rip Van Winkle Motel sign hoisted into place last week 7-23-52 1505-07 Hewitt to be torn down 7-28-52 traffic signal request at Hewitt & Hoyt, also considering 25th & Bdwy and Hewitt & Walnut 7-29-52 locust trees on 3000 Rockefeller west side all went except southernmost for new courthouse addition, it went later too for another addition 7-30-52 workers began pouring concrete for Reservoir 5 at Dogwood and 50th 8-2-52 last day for Don Winslow in the Herald comics 8-08-52 first open house at Horizon Heights 9-8-52 first day for Gene Autry in Herald comics 9-52 Hawthorne School opened 9-11-52 13th being paved including sidewalks from Wetmore to Broadway 9-12-52 Highway 1-A opened between Snohomish and Vernon R. 5.3 miles 9-21-52 Roland Hartley died 9-27-52 last day for Mutt and Jeff in Herald comics 9-29-52 first day for Scorchy Smith in Herald comics 10-2-52 President Truman here at Pacific Ave. yards 10-6-52 Republican hopeful Eisenhower here at Pacific Ave. yards 10-8-52 Everett Theater reopened 11-52 Henry M. Jackson elected to U.S. Senate 12-20-52 the drydock was moved away 1953- 2-20-53 KTNT about to start broadcasting TV to join KING 3-18-53 Sears remodeled grand opening, including new garden center bldg on sw corner of Everett and Wetmore 4-24-53 blinker at Madison and Hwy 99 (Evergreen Way) replaced with a stop and go signal 4-26-53 youth building addition to First Presbyterian Church dedicated 5-5-53 new stoplight at corner of Hwy 99 and Broadway Cutoff (Evergreen Way and Everett Mall Way) 5-12-53 apparently the last day for the Balboa Theater 5-14-53 cornerstone laid at Scott paper mill, 2nd machine announced 5-22-53 grand opening of Bob and Rayís Shell at NE 38th and Bdwy 5-23-53 gr opening of Horizon Hts. so of Mukilteo 5-29-53 gr opening of Rayís Delicatessen 1619 Bdwy 6-5-53 gr opening of Greenshields Industrial Supply 710 Hwy 99 No and Jeffís Draperies and B&M Pet and Hobby Shop 6-9-53 widening of Bdwy underway 6-12-53 gr opening of Gustavsonís Shell SW 26th Bdwy 6-19-53 gr opening of Stan Akins Flying A Service 2502 Bdwy 7-9-53 gr opening of Lyle Wood's Mobilgas NE 20th and Bdwy 7-10-53 bathhouse at Maple Heights-Pigeon Cr. # 2, now Howarth was closed and being vandalized, water was polluted 7-23-53 grand opening of Dave Gilleland's trapezoidal Union 76 station SE cor 41st and Rucker 7-24-53 grand opening of Topper Motel 7-31-53 Suzie Q. Smith had joined funnies this mo 8-10-53 first day of KMO Channel 5? to join KING Ch 4 (then) and KTNT TacomaCh11 8-15-53 now a new road onto Whidbey Is. from Columbia Beach 8-18-53 fire at Playland 8-20-53 riot at Monroe Reformatory, set buildings ablaze, one killed 8-26-53 Skagit bridge connecting downtown Mt. Vernon and Westside torn down to be replaced 8-31-53 Weyerhaeuser kraft mill started production this week; closed in 1992 9-2-53 gr opening of Evergreen Bowling Lanes 9-4-53 Martha Lake and Mountlake Terrace schools to open this fall 9-10-53 experimental air mail service between Chi & NYC and Chi&Wash.D.C. 9-15-53 new traffic lights this month at 33rd &Bdwy and 37th & Bdwy 10-1-53 by now route out of Marysville to Tulalip was changed from 8th to 4th 10-28-53 6 miles of 4-lane highway opened over Snoqualmie Pass today 11-20-53 grand opening of Bon Marche's men's shop in remodeled Balboa Theater 1954- 1-14-54 new red and white stop signs to replace yellow signs 2-1-54 A.G. Sorenson Real Estate and Insurance moved to 1707 Hewitt and changed name to Sorenson Realty 3-19-54 day declared Elisabeth Kempkes Day for long time teacher by Mayor Unzelman 4-9-54 announcement of Everett Mutual Listing Service for realtors 5-12-54 Rucker Hill Park donated by Ruby and Jasper Rucker and Margaret Rucker-Armstrong 6-1-54 big annexation vote—failed 6-8-54 small boat launch at 14th St. 6-11-54 grand opening of Goodwill store, 2726 Lombard 6-21-54 baseball playfield at 48th and Colby dedicated 6-28-54 new Broadway Cutoff to open this week 7-2-54 Rayís Union 76 opened at 37th and Broadway 7-15-54 grand opening of Harbin's Richfield 40th and Broadway (3930) 7-16-54 Bond Street power station destroyed by fire 7-16-54 Meadowmoor plant at 52nd and Evergreen remodeled, new trademark Medosweet 7-21-54 east side of 2300 and 2400 blocks of Norton cleared and being leveled for a Scott Paper parking lot 7-22-54 bridge between Pasco-Kennewick (upstream from both downtowns) to be ready for traffic later this month 7-23-54 Marysville B&M under construction 8-6-54 First Natl. Bank of Everett drive-in branch opened, 2900 block Hoyt, open house, opened on 8-9 9-7-54 first day of school at View Ridge School 10-22-54 new health rooms and boys locker rooms being added to South Jr. gym, expected to be completed in Nov. 10-28-054 new Red Bridge up, new bridge at Verlot still under construction 10-29-54 Everett Federal Savings and Loan Assn. under construction on southeast corner of Hoyt and Wall 10-30-54 east lanes of Marysville bypass opened 11-16-54 dedication of VOA annex along Calif St. at Lombard also apparently last show for the Granada Theater 11-23-54 vote for MLTerrace incorporation 11-25-54 noted new drive up mailbox at post office here 12-6-54 other 2 lanes of Marysville bypass opened. 1955- 1-21-55 grand opening Multi-Flavor Ice Cream Drive-In, 3719 Rucker 4-20-55 traffic signal at Everett and Wetmore 4-23-55 repaving Rucker from 19th to Everett and later Hewitt between Broadway and Virginia, this would leave few blocks with brick streets 5-55 somewhere about here the median was removed from 19th from Rucker to Bdwy 5-12-55 noted that Everett Pulp and Paper Co. was changing name to Simpson Paper Co. had been purchased by Simpson in 1952 5-31-55 stop light installed this afternoon at Everett and Rucker 6-4-55 GN 80-ft chimney at Delta yards coming down. 6-5-55 open house at new Lillian Abramson nursing home, 2120 Madison 6-9-55 98 degrees, buckled pavement on 41st, hottest day on record for years 6-16-55 Security State Bank open house at 50th and Claremont 6-17-55 grand opening Dickson and Cressell new Chevron station 1601 Broadway 6-18-55 grand opening Billís Richfield 40th and Broadway 6-28-55 paper machine 4 went into operation today at Scott Paper 6-8-55 grand opening Mel's Cafe, 3201 Rucker 7-29-55 grand opening of Sea Horse Snack Bar and Delicatessen in Mukilteo 8-15-55 2 portables to join a 3rd at So. Jr., 5 going up at Madison, 5 at Lowell 8-16-55 12 oz. and 16 oz. Coca Cola being sold in Everett area this week 8-17-55 new Safeway at 1700 Bdwy opened (bldg was along Bdwy not McDougall) 8-25-55 remodeled Newberrys, 2814 Colby, reopened 8-27-55 Granite Falls fishway dedicated 9-2-55 newly located new store for Karlís Shoes at 2820 Colby 9-10-55 old Jackson School being razed 9-10-55 new Yield-Right-of-Way sign on 32nd at Colby 9-17-55 first direct dial non-long distance service between Everett and Marysville 9-21-55 Everett Music and TV Co. opened at 2625 Colby 10-1-55 open house at Eastmont. Five new houses under construction 10-3-55 Julianís Styling Salon opened at 2625 Colby 10-14-55 Temwalt Terrace being developed (Jade and Oklahoma off McDougall) 11-04-55 new bldg for Sager Construction at 2911 Bond St. 11-06-55 View Ridge School dedicated 11-11-55 4 signs up at gateways like totem, traffic contest between Everett and Yakima 1956- 2-1-56 Bondís Colonial Shop at 4302 Evergreen opened 2-1-56 tearing down the Delta Yards buildings 2-13-56 major fire at Herald 3-2-56 2 F-89 fighters crashed near Darrington killing 4, discovered 6-21-56 3-3-56 Everett Trust and Savings opened new branch at 1801 Broadway 3-29-56 new PUD substation started this week on Paine between 34th and 35th 3-31-56 last day for Payless Food Store, 2714 Colby 4-11-56 hangar doors installed at Alaska Airlines, Paine Field 4-18-56 Carl Wilson Elliot believed to be Clark Park (10 yrs. ago) murderer 4-19-56 new Burchís Penguin CafÈ at 2814 Wetmore, previously at 2933 Colby 4-26-56 Poppís Cleaners moved to 1409 from 1407 Hewitt 5-3-56 new traffic signal at 41st & Bdwy, 2nd traffic activated in Pacific Coast 5-6-56 new Doctor Clinic at Pacific and Kromer dedicated 5-18-56 open house Natl. Cash Register Co. in new bldg, 2520 Colby 5-19-56 mill blaze, Everett Lumber Co., foot of Railroad Ave. 5-19-56 train wreck at 14th and Norton. 6-7-56 Ross Bootery began closing out sale after 26 years at 2812 Colby 6-15-56 grand opening Royal Drive-In Cleaners, 3510 Bdwy 6-15-56 grand opening Pardeeís Dine-In, 1021 Bdwy 7-11-56 Jerreadís Funeral Home added Cassidy- to the front of the name 7-12-56 open house for new Travelodge, 3030 Bdwy 7-30-56 Al Larsonís Paint Store moved from 19th & Bdwy to 1910 36th 7-31-56 last electric car over Stevens Pass for GN, diesel afterward 8-3-56 Hulbert Mill fire 8-3-56 Equator left on the jetty this week, would stay there until 6-26-67 8-9-56 new bridge over Pilchuck River on Robe Menzel Road, or Menzel Lake Rd? 8-15-56 last Everett Yacht Club meeting in Black Prince ñ modern addition and it was being taken apart 8-18-56 Robinson Marina opened 8-18-56 Equator left on jetty this week story? 8-24-56 turnoff to Snohomish at east end of trestle eliminating Cavalero's Corner opened this week. 8-31-56 Hallís Phcy opened their new store in the new lobby of the new part of the Medical and Dental Bldg. 9-1-56 last class graduated from Providence School of Nursing 9-15-56 old parish hall at Trinity Episcopal Church being dismantled 9-19-56 Ross Bootery, 2812 Colby, going out of business soon 9-21-56 S. Colby had new lights from 32nd to 52nd and new paving from 46th to 52nd 9-27-56 new neon sign recently erected atop Scott Paper Co. 10-21-56 declared Natural Gas Week for Everett with coming of natural gas 10-26-56 grand opening Westview Cafeteria 3rd floor Medical & Dental Bldg. 11-4-56 Morris the Florist opened at 5626 Hwy 99 So. 11-9-56 Van Winkles Furniture reopening after adding a story to bldg at n.e. corner Wetmore and California 11-22-56 GNRR oil tanks on waterfront near Maple Hts. being dismantled. 11-30-56 Hal Weirís Appliance & Edgewater TV grand opening new bldg, 4315-17 Rucker 11-30-56 grand opening Jerry Forshee's Signal stn on N.E. corner of 41st & Colby 1957- 1-5-57 demolition of GN Delta roundhouse had begun 1-7-57 Edmonds new Great Northern passenger station opened 1-10-57 announcement that Woolworth would take entire corner replacing Brewsters 1-25-57 opening of Bingís drive-in 2515 Bdwy 1-27-57 open house for new St. Pius School in MLTerrace 1-30-57 So. Jr. new music bldg opened this week, No. Jr.ís came later 2-4-57 opening of Farm Service Store (Co-op), Hewitt and State 2-10-57 groundbreaking for General Parish Hall, Trinity Episcopal 2-19-57 groundbreaking for new north end EJC campus 2-22-57 Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Brown erected a sign announcing new town, George, WA 3-6-57 Olivia Park School opened recently 3-9-57 grand opening Alpine Cafeteria in B&M Shopping Center opened to public 3-4? 3-14-57 Penneys remodel with escalators ready, grand reopening 4-12-57 Chuck Lee Swim School opened in old Granada Theater 4-19-57 Welk Music moved from 2607 to 2609 Colby 4-23-57 grand opening of Budís CafÈ, new building same location on Broadway 5-3-57 gala reopening of Sky Vu, but it couldnít have been for long as new warehouse was on site by yearís end 5-10-57 grand opening of Tuerks Stadium Drive-In, 38th and Broadway 5-15-57 grand opening of The Sea Horse restaurant in Mukilteo 5-30-57 shaft to Pilchuck Julia, GAR cem., Snohomish, dedicated 6-8-57 Norma and Dusty opened Carousel Music Center at 2510 Colby 6-11-57 new pool nearing completion at Camp Sevenich 6-28-57 Riverside Lumber, 2914 Walnut, burned 7-10-57 Mukilteo boat launch officially opened after being now for about a month 7-16-57 Binyon Optometrists opened new store at 2625 Colby, had been a block south 7-19-57 Tyee Bowl grand opening 7-21-57 KQTY radio station went on the air 8-1-57 Pay ën Save Drugs, 2709-11 Colby to expand into 2713 where Binyon Optical was; Binyon moved a block north 8-3-57 new clinic under construction on northeast corner of 32nd and Colby 8-7-57 concrete lamp post taken down at Wall and Hoyt in front of Monte Cristo as city changed to new mercury-vapor system 8-8-57 grand opening for expanded Woolworthís store at Hewitt and Colby 8-8-57 grand opening of Thom McAn shoe store at 2808 Colby 8-8-57 open house for new Simpson Paper office bldg on 2nd 8-30-57 first of new street light poles erected at Wall and Wetmore by City Hall 8-30-57 grand opening of Everett Sportsmen's club 1905 Hewitt 9-4-57 new Edsel in Hutchings Motors showroom 9-4-57 new road between Ohanepecoch and Paradise at Mt. Rainier 9-15-57 first direct distance dialing from Everett to Seattle and a number of places from Issaquah to Edison 9-20-57 gr reopening of Friedlanders in newly remodeled Realty Bldg, Hewitt & Colby 9-22-57 new Trinity Episcopal Parish Hall dedicated 9-25-57 Lee Crary, 8, of Edmonds escaped from his kidnapper George Edward Collins, north of Lake Stevens. 10-11-57 ìLights Onî celebration with new overhead streetlights downtown 10-11-57 new dining room and Derby Room opened at Turf, 1712 Hewitt 10-17-57 new music building at North Junior now in use 10-21-57 open house for new and remodeled Pay ën Save 11-20-57 Longfellow school multi-purpose room dedicated, Sen. Jackson spoke 11-26-57 Gov. Roselini here to cut ribbon at new Public Assistance Bldg, 2821 Grand 12-2-57 formal opening of Arthur Murray studio above Woolworthís 12-11-57 new Safeway opened on Evergreen Way just south of Madison 12-13-57 grand opening of Evergreen Drug on old Safeway building at 41st & Rucker 12-30-57 open house at Coast Truck Line new terminal, 34th & Pine, where Sky-Vu was 1958- 1-11-58 Norton Ave. overpass opened, connected waterfront to Alverson Blvd. 1-26-58 Arlington hospital dedicated 1-29-58 Tradewell at 4920 Evergreen Way opened 2-1-58 annexation of area out to Berkshire Dr. 2-6-58 USS Nautilus in Everett 2-13-58 Elgin Baylor of Seattle U played here, had last year too 2-18-58 Woodway incorporated 2-21-58 first basketball game in new Everett Junior College gym 2-25-58 dedication of new Edmonds High School (at Holmes Corner) 3-14-58 launched this week 2nd street light project, Hewitt from Grand to Hoyt and from Wetmore to Virginia, Rucker from Everett to Pacific 3-14-58 Robinson Marina grand opening 4-16-58 E. Sunnyside School torched by fire departments 4-19-58 Emerson School dedicated 5-18-58 Everett phone numbers went from 6 to 7 digits, i.e. BA 6797 became AL 2-6797 6-2-58 first atomic submarine USS Nautilus S SN-571 visited Everett overnight before sailing to Seattle and then secretly sailing to the Arctic 6-21-58 deal recently signed for new Everett sewage lagoon 7-25-58 grand opening of Down Towner in old Imperial Cafe 7-27-58 dedication on new Congregational Church, Everett & Rockefeller, began in old church and ended in new church 9-3-58 first day for Evergreen Jr. High, dedication next April 9-24-58 from ad: Ross Winde leaving 3002 Hoyt for 2501 Broadwy 10-10-58 lights approved for Calif. and Rock, Pacific and Rock., Pacific and Hoyt 10-14-58 Herald issue with new EJC dediccation 10-20-58 warehouse blaze, Hogland Transfer, 32 & McDougall 10-20-58 2 lanes of Hwy 99 from Stimsons Crossing to Stillaguamish R. opened today 10-22-58 Lakewood Elem. School had been completed 11-1-58 dedication of new Marysville post office 11-3-58 PUD moved from Pacific & Colby to California & Virginia 11-3-58 Hwy 1-A opened from Lake Stevens to Getchell Road. 11-7-58 new stop light at 23rd & Walnut, lights on Walnut at 19th and Everett to follow soon 11-8-58 new Purdy and Dawson funeral home in Snohomish 11-10-58 Everett Ave. to be resurfaced between Bdwy and Walnut and the dirt (it had been originally planned and used as a blvd) center stripe removed 11-28-58 open house in new PUD building 12-1-58 free right turn reinstated in Everett, had been last year, but state had ruled as unlawful 12-4-58 GallenKamp's Shoes opened, 2804 Colby 12-10-58 Benson's Camera opened today at 1611A Hewitt 12-11-58 first 2 Carter gas stns in Everett, 23rd & Bdwy, Madison & Evergreen 12-14-58 Colby Manor Nursing Home opened, 4230 Colby 12-23-58 11 mi. of 4 lane hwy opened from Little Pilchuck Hill to Conway, could go from Columbia R. to Burlington on 4lanes on Hwy 99 1959- 1-13-59 23rd east of Broadway had been named an arterial 1-17-59 new Thomle Bridge over Stillaguamish recently completed 1-21-59 decesion made recently to close Jefferson School 2-20-59 had just removed interurban rails on 3000 Colby 2-26-59 flowering trees to be planted on Grand, Rucker, Hoyt, Colby from 10th to Alverson, and on Alverson 2-27-59 PUD neon sign being put into place near Hewitt on PUD property 3-7-59 new Herald building open 3-9-59 Claremont post office opened, dedication on the 28th 3-16-59 Peoples Bank opened in new building se corner Hewitt & Rockefeller 4-5-59 Evergreen Jr. High dedicated, opened last September 4-14-59 Lynnwood incorporated 5-5-59 Pier 3 given to Port of Everett by Great Northern Railway 5-13-59 spectacular morning fire at Olympic Motel, 5230 Evergreen Way 5-13-59 night fire at Reinell Boatworks in Marysville 5-24-59 ElRancho road house at 220th and Hwy 99 destroyed by fire 7-7-59 30 hostages held at knifepoint at Monroe Reformatory, rescued 8-20-59 new stop light at Bothell Hwy and Bdwy Cutoff 9-1-59 WSC to become WSU 9-15-59 open house at new Herald plant 10-3-59 Glacier Bowl opened tonight at 9630 Hwy 99 S. 10-19-59 Boeing 707 crashed near Oso 10-29-59 Hwy 1-A between Lake Stevens and Arlington officially opened today 10-31-59 Snoline YMCA on 212th dedicated 11-12-59 Beverly Elementary dedicated 11-14-59 Econo-Mart opened at Evergreen Wy and Pecks Dr 11-15-59 Olivia Park Elementary dedicated 11-21-59 new Greyhound bus depot at Pacific and Hoyt dedicated 12-2-59 new Safeway at nw cor. of Everett and Colby dedicated 12-3-59 Madison Square, on west side of Evergreen Way just south of Madison St. dedicated 12-17-59 new Scott Paper Co. three-story warehouse recently put into service. 19-19-59 first street trees at Everett and Colby avenues, new Everett Savings and Loan Assn bldg. 12-19-59 Everett Aerie No. 13 presented Ten Commandments monolith for conspicuous display at City Hall, first in state 12-23-59 Chapman Apts. (old Summit Hotel) 3114 Oakes, burned 12-23-59 new traffic light Calif. and Bdwy. It didn't last 12-31-59 Madison area joined city, first major annexation 12-31-59 announcement of new shopping center in Lake Stevens (Frontier Village) 1960s 1-14-60 grand opening of First Federal Savings in new building on southwest corner of Colby and Everett avenues. 2-9-60 Albertson's at Madison and Evergreen opened 2-10-60 Tradewell celebrating grand opening of Evergreen Way store 4-21-60 Hodges Bldg fire 4-29-60 Prescription Optical opened in Pacific & Colby bldg 4-29-60 Walt's Milk House opened at 44th and Rucker 4-29-60 signs going up this week in Madison area for street name changes like Beech, Sycamore, Tamarack and Allen 4-30-60 groundbreaking for new buildings at Parkland Lutheran Children's home 4500 Federal 5-1-60 Ford dealership Hutchings Motors became Klein Motors 5-5-60 Super Shingle dry kiln fire 5-21-60 Bowen-Ingram (5320 Evergreen Way) and Econo-Mart (6220 Evergreen Way) merged under the Bowen-Ingram name at the Econo-Mart location 6-7-60 first sewage into new Smith Is. lagoon 6-8-60 oepening of H.O. Seiffert Home & Handyman's Center on Hewitt east of Broadway 6-15-60 B&M Frontier Village opened 6-29-60 Tradewell, 2015 Broadway opened 9-27-60 Elks fire 10-16-60 new Immaculate Conception convent and parish hall blessed 10-23-60 St. Mary Magdalen building dedicated 8-12-61 Hood Canal Bridge opened ñ would last until 2-13-79 9-61 Cascade H.S. opened 12-1-61 USS Everett stricken from Navy list (launched 9-29-43) 6-27-62 Bank of Everett chartered 5/63 Perpetual Help convent dedicated 5-11-63 Everett Clinic, 39th & Colby to open 5-22-63 grand opening of Lynn Theatre, Lynnwood 6-1-63 Everett Public Library remodel dedication 8-9-63 dedication of new Bank of Everett bldg on Calif. at Wetmore 9-29-63 open house for library remodel 1-14-64 Jefferson School completely destroyed; it took 11 days 4-25-64 St. Mary Magdalen convent dedicated 4-29-64 remodeled Kress store about the open this week 2-28-64 Simpson Lee and Everett Improvement Co. donated Candy Cane Park (Lowell Park) to city. 11-13-64 Herfyís at 5034 Claremont opened 12-30-64 Dennys Restaurant, 2016 Hewitt opened 2-02-65 Brier incorporated 2-03-65 19.7 miles of Everett-Seattle freeway opened (Eastmont to University District) 2-11-65 Monroe-Woodinville cutoff opened 3-24-65 Penneys Auto Center on 3000 Colby opened 4-29-65 earthquake 6-30-65 Head Start program for children started in Everett 8-10-65 addition to Penneys in old Sheraton Trading Post bldg. Calif.&Hoyt 10-3-65 Double K Food at 41st & Hoyt opened 11-10-65 grand opening of Town & Country (T&C) Foods in Eastmont 12-25-65 Bon Marche parking garage under construction 12-29-65? announcement that a K Mart was coming to town 9-21-66 K Mart ready to open 1-3-67 first work started on Boeing 747 5-22-67 Bon Marche fire 6-26-67 Equator freed from Jetty this week.Had been there since 8-56 7-26-67 final graduating class for General Hospital School of Nursing 8-14-67 Harborview Park leased annually from railroad 10-2-67 old C-B mill destroyed by arson fire 11-26-67 new Immaculate Conception church consecrated 12-16-67 grand opening of Sea-First in new bldg., Hewitt & Colby 2-13-68 P-40 being taken down from Tony Dyreís Bayview service at Federal, Bond, Hewitt, after being there nearly 20 years, it was restored and flew again 2-28-68 Wiggums Hollow Park acquired 3-18-68 Canyon Creek Lodge burned (within a day or two) 12-4-68 Lynnwood Fred Meyer opened 2-09-69 inaugural flight of first 747 4-24-68 Eagles burned 2-12-69 Sears moved to what would be Everett Mall 4-69 west bound trestle opened 5-14-69 Everett Marysville freeway opened from river across flats (Snohomish River to Ebey Slough 9-9-69 announcement that cedar stump would move to rest area 9-20-69 Baker View Apts, 15th & Baker dedicated 10-13-69 Alumina Dome on waterfront dedicated 10-17-69 Mays Pond opened 1970s 5-13-71 White Front opened 9-10-71 last day for Spudnut Shop, 3016 Colby, opened 1948 8-13-71 Realty Bldg being rebuilt as single story bldg after fire 8-13-71 Quigley Clinic bldg Hewitt & Grand being demolished 10-20-71 dedication of improved Howarth Park 11-16-71 First Natl. Bank of Everett merged with Seafirst? couldnít be, check on this 11-18-71 The Daisy opened this week in Colby Bldg, Millers had moved out months ago 4-14-72 Equator placed on the Natl. Register 4-18-72 announcement of new 7-story bldg on w. side of 2900 Wetmore, never happened 4-20-72 demolition began on American Hotel building, n.w. corner Hewitt and Oakes 5-5-72 Goodyear in new bldg Hewitt & Hoyt 5-27-72 dedication of Walter E. Park 7-20-72 Pier 2 being demolished 9-18-73 acquisition of Lions Park 1-15-74 Sheriff Don Jennings, wife and mother-in-law murdered near Mazatlan 2-09-74 smokestack at Simpson Lee (Everett Pulp and Paper) in Lowell came down 2-17-75 demolition of Colby Bldg began this week 6-11-75 Lions Park dedicated 6-14-75 Country Kitchen opened in new bldg on southwest corner of 41st and Colby 10-15-75 Everett Fred Meyer opened 2-16-76 former Woolworth building at Hewitt and Colby being demolished 3-18-76 old Jacob Erickson house on 9th in Edmonds about to be destroyed 3-25-76 foundation work being done on Cascade Bank bldg NW Hewitt & Colby 3-31-76 first girder in ìErector Setî at Hewitt & Colby put into place 4-02-76 new Pizza Pete at SE 41st & Hoyt 4-29-76 celebration downtown, Hewitt & Colby trees etc., sculpture, Erector Set, opening of Place Two (in old Kress) and Jay Jacobs (in old Newberry- Fashion Fabric) 5-1-76 downtown revitalization grand opening 5-19-76 Tightrope walker walked from Cascade Savings Bldg. across to Olympic Bank 5-30-76 Floral Hills had new bldg ready, old had burned 6-01-76 Holdiay Inn was remodeling into the Polynesian pool area 6-10-76 city council voted to send the three bears at Forest Park to Sequim 7-28-76 Gregís Apts on 2500 Colby burned 11-17-76 2 killed, 3 injured at Scott Paper by sulfur dioxide 12-9-76 Cascade Savings bldg at Hewitt and Colby completed 12-26-76 Mark Nesse named new Everett Public Library today, Pat McClain also came to town about this time with the Chamber of Commerce 1-21-77 Weyerhaeuser Mill C closed today 4-07-77 about this time Goldbar became Gold Bar 5-07-77 upper floor added to Topper Motel 5-07-77 ads about new area Kamiak 6-23-77 traffic signal being added at Norton & California 7-31-77 grand opening of Windsong, neighborhood east of Silver Lake 2-14-78 Washington Post acquisition of Herald announced today 4-21-78 Lloyd Hardware auction 1-27-79 rededication of Civic Auditorium 2-2-79 four-way traffic signals and stop signs to go at Murphyís Cor. 2-4-79 Chinese vice premier Ten Hsiao-ping at 747 plant 2-13-79 Hood Canal Bridge (1961) western section broke off in a storm 2-18-79 Everett Theater closed to be converted into triplex 2-20-79 last EHS basketball game in the original pit gym back of auditorium 3-2-79 final closure of Weyerhaeuser Mill B 3-31-79 stoplight at 52nd and Broadway 6-7-79 announcement of new Lake 22 trailhead 6-8-79 Thrasherís Corner about get a stoplight 6-12-79 old Darigold building just south of Snohomish burned 6-22-79 Northeast Everett Neighborhood Association formed 6-30-79 paint supply bldg nw corner Wall and Grand burned 7-2-79 rededication of City Hall 7-9-79 traffic signal at Holly Dr. and Evergreen Way 7-10-79 Pier 3 destroyed by fire 7-24-79 first organizational meeting of Port Gardner Association 8-25-79 Lynn O'Beirn died, husband Karl M. named Lynnwood after her 9-17-79 announcement that Mt. Pilchuck ski area had ceased operations. 9-25-79 overturned BN tank car with liquid propane, Colby, Pacific, Walnut Everett, evacuated. 10-4-79 Alderwood Mall opened 10-29-79 Frontier Bank grand opening of building on Evergreen Way 11-25-79 noted Arnie's a new restaurant in Mukilteo 12-10-79 new Fidelity Bank opened in new building on sw corner of Hewitt and Colby 2-13-79 Hood Canal bridge sank 1980- 1-24-80 dental office bldg started at northwest corner 35th and Colby 3-23-80 old truss bridge closed between Silvana and Stanwood, being replace by new bridge 4-15-80 Erickson Bros Furniture bldg at 2810 Bdwy burned to ground 6-30-80 Deaconess Childrenís Home closed after 82 years 7-4-80 Delta Apts, 1427 Chestnut destroyed by fire 8-1-80 Frederick & Nelson opened at the Everett Mall 9-3-80 riot at Monroe Reformatory 9-12-80 James J. Hill Park, Hewitt & Broadway, dedicated 9-29-80 Aurora village was now an enclosed mall 10-2-80 Jafco store in Everett on north Broadway opened 12-4-80 Brandywine Jewelers opened at 2806 Colby 12-10-80 500th 747 rolled off the line 12-12-80 Weyerhaeuser Mill A shut down 12-25-80 storms lead to flooding in Index, closed road to Monte Cristo, wiped out a lane just west of Camp Silverton, wiped out some of road west of Boardman Creek bridge 1981- 1-16-81 first basketball game in new gym across Wetmore for E.H.S. 1-24-81 fire destroyed Everett Community Church, 2532 Colby, I may be off a day or two on this 3-14-81 Saturday Herald moved to morning edition 3-18-81 recent filming of "Bustin' Loose" in Snohomish 4-5-81 first Sunday paper for The Herald 4-15-81 Kidney center on Pacific Ave. opened 5-14-81 city, school district proposed property swap in Clark Park 5-20-81 Everett Tribune started 6-20-81 Joe Dutcher's Tavern closed this week. (bldg went on to be something else for a time) 6-1-81 Newland Construction absorbed Sanford Wright Construction 6-5-81 Everett and Edmonds Community Colleges formally split today 6-17-81 name of Bomarc Park changed to William Kasch Park 7-30-81 5 mi. of I-90 westbound opened just west of Snoqualmie summit 8-4-81 first Boeing 767 rolled out 8-20-81 hobo boy Little Dickie died after being hit by a train 10 days earlier 8-23-81 bus terminal switched to area by Everpark garage 10-6-81 24 BN cars derailed north of Marysville 10-20-81 Everett Pacific Hotel, Pacific and Pine, opened 10-31-81 W.T. Preston retired 11-16-81 Dawson City mall opened on Hwy 99, Edmonds 1982- 1-10-82 Jim Casey last column in Herald, moved to editor 1-27-82 Nedra Bloomís last column in Herald 2-25-82 City Council moved toward new street name Marine View Dr. out of parts of Norton, Alverson, Walnut, E. Grand 2-26-82 Chaffeeís closing store at Everett Mall, had operated 18 months 2-26-82 Foremost Dairy 52nd & Evergreen closed, 36 yrs. old 3-25-82 Jayna Celeste Alflen last baby born at Providence before obstetrics moved to General (changed after merger) 4-2-82 Big Top at View Ridge recently put into place 4-6-82 voters okayed paramedics in Everett 4-14-82 Campbell Clearview murders 5-2-82 Port Gardner Neighborhood to plant Douglas fir trees 5-16-82 vandals torched stump house at Legion Park 5-21-82 blaze destroyed much of Mill B which was being dismantled (dated to 1915) 6-5-82 dedication of Picnic Pt. pedestrian overpass 6-7-82 fire destroyed Country Gentleman restaurant on Lake Stickney 6-29-82 judge ordered 215 buried at bankrupt Highland Memorial Park Cemetery moved to Evergreen Cemetery 7-21-82 new Medic I van started responding to life and death emergencies 7-14-82 Snohomish Co. passed Spokane Co. to become third in pop. with 356,400 9-21-82 first 747-300 rolled out today 9-22-82? dedication of first museum in Monroe 9-23-82 new wing now opened at View Ridge School 9-30-82 dedication of View Ridge School Special Services Wing(ground broken 6-10-81) 10-23-82 Hood Canal floating bridge reopened 10-20-82 Al-Ind-Esk-A-Sea caught fire, sank 44 hours later 10-22-82 Colby had been changed from 4 lanes to 2 between 23rd and 34th, more parking 11-4-82 Hwy 525 between Alderwood Mall and Hwy 99 soon to open 11-7-82 USA Today hit newsstands 11-15-82 Washington State Lottery started 11-26-82 Chas Rodman Campbell convicted of murder 11-26-82 grand opening Mitchellís Granite Falls Phcy 11-29-82 3 Fed. judges ruled taking Everett out of 2nd District unconstitutional 12-20-82 fire at General Hospital 1983- 1-3-83 Lakewood High School opened 1-29-83 General Hospital 4-story Critical Care Tower opened 3-29-83 Everett reinstated into the 2nd Congressional District 5-13-83 The two smokestacks at Weyerhaeuser Mill B knocked down by explosives 5-25-83 Halls Lake name dropped on south county phone book after 20 years 6-7-83 counterbalance was being blown up on the old Ebey Is. Jack Knife Bridge, new adjacent bridge built in 1976 6-13-83 first letters and numbers called at new Tulalip Bingo parlor 8-21-83 Lockheed L-18 Learstar carrying 26 people crashed near Silvana 9-01-83 Sen. Henry M. Jackson died 9-18-83 Avenue D Bridge, Snohomish, demolition expected to begin in a few days. 9-83, Weyerhaeuser office moved, had been moved 5-1-38 10-13-83 Weyerhaeuser Mill A smokestack came down 10-15-83 Navy launched new sub, Henry M. Jackson, christened by Anna Marie Jackson, in Groton, Conn. 10-23-83 Snohomish Hwy 2 bypass opened today or yesterday 11-3-83 Olsons bought B&M at Everett Ave. & Bdwy 11-13-83 Twenty-three buildings being built as Sauk-Suiattles returned to their native home on the Sauk Prairie 11-23-83 off shore drilling rig docked this week near foot of Pacific Ave. 11-23-83 two women killed in Marysville at gas stn when gasoline caught fire, I believe their husbands died later. 1984- 3-7-84 announcement Olympic Bank to become part of First Interstate 3-16-84 recent groundbreaking for Everett Marina Village 6-18-84 announcement that Shoreline H.S. would close next school year 6-19-84 first Everett Giants game in Everett 6-11-84 Haggen foods had opened what it believe to be the largest supermarket in the state, TOP Foods near Everett Mall 9-8-84 canvas top removed from Forest Park pool, permanent roof would replace 9-13-84 new Avenue D bridge opened in Snohomish 9-24-84 tire fire 10-24-84 Anthony's Homeport officially opened in Everett Marina Village 10-31-84 Pelican Pete's Restaurant opened in Everett Marina Village 11-14-84 Video West opened 25th & Bdwy 12-31-84 Lowell Community Church fire 1985- 1-28-85 Olympic Bank taken over by First Interstate Bank of Washington 2-8-85 fire fatalities men, 3826 Colby, Everett, 21029 67th Lynnwood 4-22-85 Weyerhaeuser announced permanent closure of Mill E (built in 1971) last Weyerhaeuser sawmill in Everett 5-9-85 Hurdís menís store closed 5-11-85 Kasch Park dedicated 6-7-85 Everett at 54 degrees at noon, coldest spot in the lower 48 states 6-18-85 announcement that J.C. Penney would close downtown Everett store 6-26-85 Trident sub USS Henry M. Jackson visited Everett 11-22-85 fire gutted Bayliner boat plant in Arlington near this date 1986-1989 4-9-86 building at s.w. corn. Hewitt and Rockefeller burned 2-16-87 student union bldg at ECC burned - arson, firefighter Gary Parks died 6-14-87 closing ceremony for Perpetual Help School(open in 1925), in fall it would merge at Immaculate 6-17-87 Ken Griffey Jr.ís first professional hit, a homerun that landed at 38th and Lombard 11-09-87 groundbreaking for Navy 9-7-88 Holy Cross (now Archbishop Murphy) High School opened in old Our Lady of Perpetual Help school building 9-7-88 Langus Riverside Park dedicated 1990s 10-10-91 Everett Public Library addition dedication 12-05-91 ribbon cutting for Navy 7-26-92 last official air fair at Paine Field sponsored by Lynnwood Rotary, fairs did take place the following two summers 3-29-92 Weyerhaeuser Kraft mill closed; opened in 1953 10-17-92 grand opening of Everett city museum 2-23-93 President Bill Clinton at Everett Boeing plant 3-1-94 Providence and General hospitals merged 6-10-94 grand reopening of Monte Cristo Hotel 12-3-94 dedication of Henry M. Jackson H.S. in Mill Creek 2-9-95 Morrie Olson sold Olson's Food Stores to Max Food stores 4-18-95 film Assassins being filmed at Evergreen Cemetery 6-3-95 Chicken Drive-In near Frontier Village flew the coop! 7-18-95 announcement that Kimberly Clark would buy Scott Paper 9-30-95 Everett High School rededicated 11-29-95 big flooding at Sultan 4-28-96 Twin City food plant destroyed 1-8-97 USS Abraham Lincoln arrived 4-8-97 Coastal Community Bank opened on Colby about now 10-28-97 groundbreaking for Westview Bldg, Lombardi's Cucina 2000-2001 5-26-01 old part of (1953) of old Martha Lake Elementary burned today, rest was torn down at a later time 5-26-01 4007 Wetmore burned 9-11-01 two Everett-built 767s commercial airplanes destroyed in terrorist attack 2002- 1-30-02 new Safeway at 41st & Rucker opened, other store on site closed yesterday, Larry OíDonnell was the last customer in the old store and the first in the new 2-4-02 dedication of new Everett Station 2-27-02 incorporation of Historic Everett 4-02-02 Scottish Rite Temple NE Oakes & Wall destroyed today as part of clearing for new hockey rink that destroyed all on this block and that to the east 5-02 new maternity wing opened at Providence Everett Medical Center on Mothers Day 8-27-02 Hoyt between 19th & 26th returned to two-way street 9-07-02 new fire station under construction at Madison and Bev. Blvd replacing old already destroyed 2003- 1-31-03 last day for Window Restaurant on 1800 Broadway west side, Town House on east side of 2200 Broadway closed earlier this month 3-20-03 Hoyt between 26th and 32nd returned to two way today. Between 19th and 26th had been earlier this year. Between 32nd and 37th some time ago. 3-25-03 California returned to two way between Rockefeller and Rucker 4-16-03 Everett Ave. overpass over railroad at west end opened (also referred to as Calif. St. overpass) 5-6-03 Lincoln arrived back in Everett "after" Iraq war, parade the following Sat. 5-9-03 132nd St. Ext. opened today 9-8-03 Assistance League in new building about 5100 Evergreen Wy 9-8-03 old bridge to Bryant in Arlington being dismantled, closed 4 yrs. ago when new bridge built, built reportedly in 1924 9-16-03 2 gantries offloaded on port today 9-27-03 new Everett (ice) Arena opened to public 2004- 3-16-04 Superintendent's Cottage in Heritage Park dedicated by Marie Little 8-27-04 John Kerry at Everett Events Center 10-27-04 Childrenís Museum Imagine opened southeast corner of Hoyt and Wall 12-5-04 Grand Opening of Lameroux Bldg, sw corner 19th & Wetmore 2005- 6-3-05 new office bldg and new jail bldg on county campus dedicated 8-20-05 tearing down Safeway-Eagles bldg on 3700 Bdwy, built 1950-1 9-4-05 trial liquor sales on Sunday 11-12-05 3030 Grand/1221 Pacific destroyed today 11-30-05 hotel at 3105 Pine reopened as Holiday Inn, formerly Everett Pacific, Ramada, Howard Johnsons 12-17-05 Future of Flight opened at Paine Field 5-13-05 Mountaineers Lodge at Snoqualmie Summit burned (1948) 2006- 5-17-06 Everett's first Wal-Mart opened at 11400 Evergreen Way, 3rd in county, to be 6 6-27-06 right hand exit opened northbound at Exit 192 Broadway 6-30-06 Everett at 101,100 6-30-06 Bank of Everett opened at 2722 Colby 8-8-06 Collins Casket building placed on Natl. Register 8-17-06 overpass at Hwy 532 and Fales-Echo Lk. Rd. opened 9-1-06 Cogswell College closed 10-16-06 clear cutting of I-5 median north of 112th began today 10-17-06 dedication of clock at ECC modeled after one once at Citizens Bank, 2927 Colby, taken down by Peoples Natl Bank 12-1-06 Silver Lake QFC grocery store closes 2007- 1-10-07 last day for Crown Image 3231 Bdwy, but it stayed open 1-21-07 grand opening of new community center bldg, First Baptist, 3100 Wetmore 2-19-07 new 41st St. bridge over I-5 opened 3-15-07 former Rep. Jack Metcalf died at 79 5-4-07 Puget Sound Christian to close next week, 57-year-old college from downtown from MLTerrace three years ago 5-8-07 traffic signal began operation at 20th (E. Hewitt) and 79th (Fairview) 6-18-07 Providence Regional Cancer Partnership at 1717 13th opened ? 6-18-07 new liquor store at 2027 Bdwy opened 7-8-07 first Boeing 787 Dreamliner rolled off the line 7-26-07 new northbound lane on I-5 on rt. side from 41st to Hwy 2 8-7-07 Pilchuck Hall at ECC torn down, built 1958, half of Glacier Hall to go next 8-21-07 work began on Skotdal's KRKO towers southeast of Snohomish 9-7-07 Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson American Legion Post 6 grand opening, 1212 CA 9-19-07 Topper Motel being razed 9-22-07 re-dedication of Kiwanis Park, 36th & Rockefeller, 4th incarnation in my memory 10-4-07 boat Heron being dismantled near old Kraft Mill site, osprey nest on mast moved 10-26-07 Mt. Loop Hwy north of Barlow opened today after being closed since 2003 11-15-07 announcement that Everett Station was top choice for UW north branch campus 2008- 1-18-08 Dairy Queen on 91st near Lake Stevens burned 1-19-08 Granite Falls High School dedicated 1-21-08 demolition begun on Elks Building 3-31-08 demolition to begin this week on the waterfront net sheds 5-21-08 first 777 Freighter unveiled 6-20-08 Tulalip Hotel opened 6-25-08 2721 Wetmore destroyed by fire 7-1-08 new straightened section of Hwy 9 north of Arlington between Scholman Rd and 252nd recently opened 9-13-08 Jimmy Z's, 1712 Hewitt, closed after 25 years 10-11-08 Trinity Lutheran College dedicated (in old Rumbaugh/Bon Marche building) 10-15-08 Glacier Peak H.S. dedicated 2009- 2-23-09 last game in EJC gym recently/ building razed later in year 3-17-09 last issue of Seattle Post-Intellingencer newspaper in print; Internet version continues publishing 11-21-09 Amtrak service to Stanwood 11-30-09 Community Transit Swift Buses start between Everett Station and Aurora Village 12-30-09 annexation taking Marysville to 56,000 actually more 12-31-09 annexation taking Lake Stevens to 24,000 2010- 1-29-10 last performance of Everett Symphony 2-8-10 Boeing's 747-8 first test flight at Paine Field
Updated by Jack O'Donnell 5/10. Photo courtesy Everett Public Library NW Room. |
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