Left Lane is for passing, not lollygagging. Even if you're going the speed limit, it's illegal to dog it in the left lane unless you're moving faster than the traffic in the lane that's right of you
Speed Limit 55. Id almost forgotten about those days. The funny thing is I-5 was designed for a 75 mph speed limit except in a few places. People were such selfish drivers, the speed limit was set at 55 in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Also: we used to have Rest Area/Stops all over this country. So many have been closed because big business lobbied for the privatization of Rest Stops and now they are for profit. Washington still holds onto the Rest Areas so far... but privatization will arrive.
Born January 83. Lived and worked in Shoreline or Seattle my whole life. Grew up in Shoreline. Never lived outside of King county, or East of Aurora for that matter. I remember a lot of these scenes. Besides all the changes, what sticks out to me are all the places selling R.V.s, truck canopies, and all the VW Beetles on the road or for sale. R.I.P. the Viaduct. I didn’t appreciate back then how cheap gas was!
Could you imagine the stoplight at HWY 16 and 19th street today? hahaha....I almost stacked up a truck at that light back in 89 making a trip to Target without finishing my brake job first.
Did the person who recorded these work for Washington DOT or something? I love the historical implications of all of these being put on youtube to save forever, but curious as to why they recorded these. I find these super fascinating.
Haha! I remember this! I remember when 167 was a two way highway and they were building the other side to the left (southbound) still to make it a proper north and south divided highway!!! You can tell they are already possibly flattening that land over there for the southbound. Vivid memories. I would have been 7 in 82.
Omg before the mall. That was a farm on the right. Also right before the freeway overpass, to the right was a tree farm. I was looking for our scout or our celica going opposite direction of you this whole video because this is where i grew up from 3 years old to beginning 8th grade, so we were there during your video. I went to the coop (preschool) on the left side of the road from firgrove elementary on the right for kindergarten. And then they built pope elementary up the hill and farther down passed 144th. We lived up the hill on 118th off of 144th at the left turn of the cider press on the right. The only thing i didn’t realize is that 144th didn’t have a light! I can’t even imagine this. This became one of the worst intersections for crashes up there even with lights. This brings back memories. I remember it being this woodsy and rural. I also remember that 7-11 on the left (76 on the right) because we would go there for slurpees of course. Once you get past the thunder field bar (?) on the right, i get lost. We didn’t go that way much except to go to mt. Rainier, northwest trek, or the landfill.
Use your ashtray. Also on 8/15/88 it is possible my mom was preparing her classroom for headstart/eceap at the parkland school that you passed if there was a rust red/orange scout parked out front there. We used to go to the dairy dell for lunch and snack if we had to help her in her classroom too. Spanaway, we spent a lot of time at sprinker ice skating rink with lessons. and then when i was in high school our tennis finals were at the sprinker tennis courts because they were inside. Also after high school i got a job at spinning wheels roller palace which i believe was on 133rd and that was 5 years after your film here. Lastly, i grew up in south hill/puyallup so i believe the road we would take would have been south on south hill and eventually it would have hit this sr-7 on one of those eatonville/puyallup meetups. We did go to mt. Rainier a lot in nice weather and in snow while growing up.
13:26 I remember that BP and the corner of 112th and Pac Ave! If I remember right it got torn down because one of it's tanks was leaking and it was a huge cleanup. Now it's an AutoZone.Did a car wash fund raiser there at some point in the '90s.
Love to see glimpses of Kingston--though my folks didn't move out to the Peninsula til 1989... It's kind of a shame to get such brief/passing glimpses of the old Red Apple Market complex, Kingston Inn, etc. etc. I had no idea the old "Community Center" was a Church, or that it was painted Red and not blue! :)
interesting that last bit of 16 between Union and Sprague looks pretty similar today. But the overpass over the valley is completely different now. It was cool to see the Tacoma Mall there with what I assume was the old theater where I watched Independence Day!
Drivers were no better back then. Look at the number of clueless lane changes and turns, (without signaling) on Rainer from Sea thru Renton. Also forgot there was no exit at 212th back then.
Father retired Ft Lewis in '83. Wow! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! ..... Small 7-11 on 176th and Pac Ave. Dragon's Lair inside. Honda motorcycle shop on the left. Winchell's Donuts just a little further down. Machine shop on the right could build a big block that would spin 7k. The smell of fresh rain air, and fir trees. Paradise Bowling if there's no league that night. Sticky feet at the Parkland Theatre. PLU swimming near by. Tiny's Tire. No Frugal's or Fox's yet? Coy's Furniture... Friend sold it for a few mill and bought a nice piece of land. GMC Truck center... Wonder if they're still in biz? Ahhh, the Calico Cat motel! Wagon Wheel. Little Park. Spanaway Speedway. Woods before they cut them down to build a new elementary. The smell of 2 stroke dirt bikes and their exhaust echoing in the woods. I wonder if Kelly knew that first kiss blew my socks off?! I was walking on clouds all day!
‘Shroom Fields! Top of Seattle Hill Rd near 44th Ave SE. Outdoor parties, dozens & dozens of people, bonfires, loud music, 4-wheelin’… Not a neighbor nearby to bother. Those were the days.
My main question is... Who was the idiot who designed a freeway that goes from 4 lanes to 2 lanes as it passes under a convention center through downtown Seattle?
