Driving On WA SR-2 West In 1983 (Monroe) 

About 30 years ago I lived just east of Goldbar, big holiday weekends were awful for traffic! One was careful to stock up on smokes, t.p. and groceries! Once to Startup could get onto the Kellog Lk. road and go way around, but really long drive for incidentals.

​@@BillKibby1just moved from out there. Lol only thing that's changed is I don't buy smokes any more!

It also used to go through Main Street in Monroe

I grew up in Everett and played golf often at Snohomish GC. .. circa 1978-83… I remember having to cut thru town. You can even see the old Harrington Chevrolet dealership on what is just 2nd Street. Same building is now furniture store.

There was big federal $$$ to do the same for Monroe, until swindled by the state. 40 years later Monroe at 5:00PM would have appreciated it. Fun to see the route through Snohomish, I had ridden on that years ago but forgot exactly where it was. This went about 2 miles from my current location north of Snohomish.

​@BillKibby1 kind of a blessing, the bypass took all the money out of snohomish. Traffic might be shit in monroe but it's amazing how much it's expanded.

It's been there since I was a little kid so you know it's been along time.I love going there still.Its not over crowded and I feel your right there with God because you survived coming 0ff that highway to get there...lol.For real I will never stop going there.Its pretty much the only piece of history around here

You had to take the exit halfway across the tressel to go under it and then you can go up the super steep hill from the bottom

The town of Lake Stevens existed then, but it was WAY smaller than these days

It seems in general people just weren't driving that fast at the time. As for the driver of this vehicle, the bumpiness and the slow acceleration makes me think they were in a less powerful vehicle with a less-than-awesome suspension, and they were probably also driving more slowly to allow the camera to see things. It's too bad the camera was pointed mostly toward the ground through the drive. Made it a little harder to see some of the sights in Monroe and Snohomish.

I think the camera was attached to the outside of the car so likely they were afraid to go too fast.

No one was in hurry to do anything back then.Once you got to everett it got faster so people just took there time out here without a care in the world and plus they valued their lives alot more back then.Not now it's a race track and ya flip a coin to get out there safe and that's if they let you in.

slow on purpose. this is a Washington State Department of Transportation filmed for posterity.

I believe it was bank of America wasnt it? That's when they put the building in and then moved the vault from the old location down main street.

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