Around Seattle (1992) 

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That lack of traffic could make me cry. It's almost 7 PM right now, the idea of I-5 looking THAT empty is absurd. Early 90's Seattle.....

GRUNGE ERA SEATTLE cant get more 1990s than that.

Grunge era too!

I miss this Seattle!

My first ever trip to the USA was to Seattle in July/august 1992, as a 15 year old, spending one month with an American family as way of an exchange program, who lived in Woodinville. I remember driving down that exact highway in the beginning of this video and seeing my first skyscrapers, just one month before this video was made. Amazing memories;-)

Never been there, but I miss it like I was born there. This city feels like home

My family moved to Seattle in 2007 and seeing this makes me think 2007 Seattle was much closer to 92 Seattle than 2021 Seattle. I know things had changed even by then but nothing compared to today.

Aah, the land of grunge and coffee.

Seattle summer of 1987 living in Whittier Heights-Ballard. Skateboarding everyday, hanging out at Fallout Records & Skates, riding the bricks of Red Square..saw Nirvana at the Ballard Firehouse. Seattle, Olympia and Portland in the late eighties early 1990’s had a great music scene. Minneapolis also had a thriving music scene as well that had started earlier.

I moved here in 1978 when the city still looked very much like this. Such a beautiful city. It has since become a hell-hole.

Me, a 20 years old Italian guy, in 1992: I'd like to see Seattle, the city of Grunge! Me, a middle-aged Italian man, in 2020: that's what Seattle was like in 1992!

Wow. This was exactly 15 years before I was born. Seattle has changed so much, I would kill to have been my dad who lived in Seattle in this time.

I lived there from Dec. 1991- Dec. 1992. I remember seeing a 4wd Cadillac from Alaska on the big bridge over the harbor. I have vhs if it somewhere.

I moved into the YMCA on 5th & Cherry(?) in 1990 after I finished college in New England having been born and raised on Long Island, New York in 1967. Moved next to 8th and Spring: The Lowell-Emerson. It was down to Chandler’s Bay in Kent, then back up to Ballard from there. I then departed the Pacific Northwest and drove back to Port Washington, LI, NY in 1995 after Kurt died. I entered the local seminary to begin study to become a Roman Catholic Priest. My experience in Washington inspired me. I was ordained in 2002 and left with no faith in 2018. I now deal in granite…tombstones and mausoleums. A young father in his 40s died leaving a family. He chose for his epitaph (you normally get 1 line) Pearl Jam’s “Oh, I’m a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love”. It took me way back. Those kids had a wonderfully appreciative father.

The tallest building west of The Mississippi used to be the Smith Tower which is also seen in this video. It was the tallest for a long time, built by the same Smith as Smith-Corona typewriters and also Smith & Wesson handguns (the Wesson of that is also Wesson Oil for cooking). A little trivia there for ya.

Back when all the street lights were the orange high pressure sodium fixtures, and when most of the cars had rear passenger door ash trays. And not a single smart phone in sight.

I lived in the Seattle area from July of 89 through January 1993. Seemed a lot more calm and safe back then.

So beautiful. I can almost feel that crisp, cold air!

I definitely miss what Seattle used to be. :/

Music was from Bumbershoot festival, annual music festival at Seattle Center the first weekend in September. Monday, September 7 was the final day of the festival that year.

To think that Kurt Cobain or Chris Cornell could've been driving by in any one of those cars.

This clip documents the last of the great period of Seattle. After 1992, Seattle begins its slow descent (with each subsequent mayor and city council) into a tragic, hellish nightmare over the next 18 years. My heart breaks for my lost, broken Emerald City. So sad. I am glad my parents are not alive anymore to witness the destruction of a once-functioning, beautiful city.

Just made this drive earlier in the week. Almost all of the highway embankments, bridges and overpasses are covered in graffiti now, even the backs of the highway signs. I miss this era, it seemed like anything we set your minds to was possible.

Happy 30 year anniversary for making this video! September 7, 1992

I would love to go back to the top of the Space Needle and the Bank of America building again. I went to the Space Needle when I was an infant (40 years ago). I went to the top floor of the Bank of America building in 3rd grade or so.

Omg, he went from exit 157 to Seattle real quick, so much traffic now smh

Right around the time I was attending UW;. Lots of memories! Thank you for this!

Best city in USA ever.

and some of those cars are still on the road today!

I am from Seattle. I was 6 years old when this was filmed.

Love that shot “looking west on that main highway 90 looking out to Bellevue Island”! 😉 Seriously though thank you for shooting and posting this! Love it!

I’ve recently left the Pacific Northwest after living there for my whole life, I decided to see how the big cities looked liked before I was born. The first few seconds I said out loud: “Dang I-5 looks empty.”

I wish traffic was like this nowadays. It'll make driving around in the area during the weekdays much more enjoyable. With so many people moving up here and causing these traffic jams to happen, it's impossible to enjoy life having to drive around freely.

Thanks for this. I had forgotten what a beautiful place Seattle was.

1:56 a shot from the opening scene of McQ, 20 years later. The old express lane sign is still there!

No internet, grunge is at it's peak, simple times.

This is awesome, literally a few weeks later I drove that for the first time and stayed in the downtown area til 1998..it was a good time to be there

Kurt❤❤

No CHAZ. Welcome to paradise

Wow the traffic is beautiful. I hate the traffic nowadays

Wow, the time and birthplace of my favorite band Alice in Chains. Greetings from Chile ❤

I had to move out so long ago thx for the nostalgia trip

Seattle have a late NBA team called the SuperSonics. Back in the '90s the SuperSonics were an awesome team. In 2008, the SuperSonics were moved to OKC and became the Thunder as a successor.

Omg looks exactly the same minus the dome it’s been long gone since then !

Seattle was beautiful till 90s

I want to go back

This is so vaporwave!

Oh my god 😭this is what I know about Seattle… I was 18 years old

I came here for grunge

3:45 Not facing west. That is Lake Union and they are facing east and northeast...and that is I-5 not I-90... Bellevue Island? haha! probably meant Mercer Island.

Love this city

This is crazy, just a few days before I was born in Seattle

Video quality here is awesome

C.Cornell still had long curly hair 🖤

back when it was actually a nice place to reside

Did u all know ray Charles actually lived in Seattle for a bit and was involved in the jazz scene in the late 40s? Seattle and Washington state in general has always been fascinating to me. Very beautiful mix of terrain. It also gets this mysterious vibe bc the state is kinda isolated in the corner of the country... Visited many times but haven't been since 2017... Last time I went was just depressing... It's time to clean the streets.

Cool a time capsule

Downtown Seattle looks so small compared to now.

Now Seattle became south central LA Detroit, Oakland, New York and Wakanda together

Looks perfect for that time, Supersonics are still there, the city is doing good

Imagine how much cleaner it was back then!!!

Funny seeing the kingdome there , great video .

Wow, no HOV lane coming into town by Boeing Field. Too bad you missed the brewery. Was the R gone by then? I miss that Seattle. I just turned 26 a couple of days before this was shot and had just bought a small house off Sandpoint Way.

3:54 >looking at i5 >"that's the main highway 90 that heads out to uhh...Bellevue Island" almost

That traffic on I-5 looked doable to drive in. Today I avoid I-5 as much as possible. Traffic here is now HORRENDOUS.

Still looks the same haha I go through that freeway alot

ALICE IN CHAINS

Does anyone know what song is on the radio 0:14? I would be grateful

LLAG LLDO Seattle Legends🕊

♥️♥️♥️♥️ awesome thank you for this video 👍👍

Seattle 2021 not looking this good at the moment :(

Could I please have your permission to use a few seconds of your footage (without audio) for a video I'm making about Seattle in the 80s & 90s?

Unrecognizable

Beautiful 🌷🌹

Hi! Are you the original owner of this video? I am looking for the copyright holder. Thanks!

The skyline was way smaller back then

Thanks for this video🐐

Awesome footage!

Did you know anyone named Demri Parrott?

The Kingdome...

Brooo it looks exactly the same😂

Did you capture a ufo starting at 44 seconds going for about 10 seconds looks like metallic orb

I love this city

Roads still look the same to this day

lol no one is looking down at there smart phones in this video folks.

Am I hearing Ann Wilson's lovely voice on the radio?

You should have stopped by mom and dad's in Ballard, we could have playing basketball

Everett, Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia is crowded with people. Too many people for me which is why I dont live in any of these cities anymore. It didnt use to be that way. I cant imagine what it will be like in 2050. Im glad I wont be around to see it. Theres way too many people in the world today as it is.

Nirvana!

Where’s the traffic??? Oh yeah, this was well before Amazon took over. I bet this city was really cool in 92.

Crazy

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I love this video you still can stabiluze it

The prior yrs before the wonderful town was destroyed and turned to $hit......how terrible😡

2023, Seattle looks pretty much the same as 1992

Pearl Jam rules!!!!!!

I don’t miss the King Dome.

I moved here in 91. I'm leaving here in 2020. 3 am traffic jams, homeless camps like Calcutta, rampant crime, feces in the streets, corrupt police, a complete disregard for the Constitution, and a socialist on the city council. I'm moving back to America. Mt Rainier can bury Seattle and nothing of value would be lost. Once I leave, that is.

Seattle SUCKS.