In 1955 my grandfather made a trip to Seattle, WA during his time with the Naval Air Reserve. He brought his 16mm camera along and captured these great images.
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It doesn't always mean you hate it. Some who are not interested in the topic use the downvote mechanism to indicate to RU-vid that they just don't want to see stuff like this in their future recommendations.
See, you said “pre-eruption of Mt St. Helens” 6 people disagree. Actually it never erupted. At least that’s the conspiracy. There was a catastrophic land slide from a nuclear device inside. Kim jong hung blew up a mountain in N Korea too but it caved inward not outward. Yeah.
So nice to take a step back in time, when Seattle was more quiet and uncrowded - heck, you could even find a place to park back then! This was before I-5 through Seattle even existed. And, this was about 7 years before the '62 Worlds Fair put Seattle on the map, so to speak. I have fond memories of NAS Sand Point... my dad took us kids there to see the Blue Angels perform, in 1966. I still have all of dad's color slides of that performance. Most impressive thing I'd ever seen (and still rates up there to this day). It's weird visiting there today, w/o the Navy activity. A beehive without the bees?Loved the views of the UW campus... I wonder why there was nary a soul in sight? Must've been a Sunday or holiday. Also strange to see it without the famous cherry trees.I wish there were more aerial videos like this, of the Puget Sound area from back in the day. Maybe I could even spot my house and yard, up north of Seattle. In any case, thanks for posting this, and thanks to your grandfather for being a great guy with a home movie camera! I've enjoyed the other clips you've posted, too.
Hello there, wasserdagger, I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content. It sounds like you have some incredible photographs. I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book. Thank you for considering.
i kind of like it better without the cherry trees. better sightlines to appreciate the architecture. that massive coast redwood on the red square side wasnt planted yet either.
I've just come across this and... I've never really been the kind of person to repeatedly watch anything but I just did. I think I watched it over and over again, transfixed, maybe 8 or 9 times. I can't describe how utterly engrossing it is. I don't know why. But after a bad day, this has made everything go away and I feel like I'm there, in 1955.
My great grandparents founded the small city of Silverdale WA., in the 1800s and right now I'm sitting in Saint James Cathedral on Seattle's First Hill. This is some absolutely great footage. Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much for sharing this. I don't see comments identifying downtown locations, so here you go: First scene is west from 3rd and University. Building on immediate right is Pantages/Palomar theater, appears in my book Lost Seattle. Second scene is looking north on 7th from Spring. Third is looking west from 7th and Spring. At :20 we're looking down Spring from btw 9th and 10th. Then to UW, shot of Quad pre-cherry trees, then Sand Point NAS (also in my book).
Rob Ketcherside The Pantages/Palomar theater opened in 1915 and closed in 1965. It's now a multi-story parking lot. The building that occupied that space before the theater was there was a church called the Old Plymouth Church. You can read more about it here. pauldorpat.com/2009/08/30/seattle-now-then-the-pantages-palomar/
Jack Hydrazine Right, have that on page 88 of my book Lost Seattle, and thank Paul Dorpat by name on the opening page ;) At any rate, I hope the location identification is useful to folks over time.
My grandparents moved to Seattle in 1962 and still live in the same house today... it's crazy that this is what they saw when they rolled in. Dang they've lived there forever
If there was a better year to live in Seattle, I would like to know it. Folks who lived in Seattle in the 1950s and 60s cannot find another place even remotely comparable.
Thanks for sharing this! I've lived in the Puget Sound area since the late sixties. It's STILL a beautiful place, despite the commenters who insist on politicizing everything in support of their dismal, alt-right worldview.
Seattle is full of heroin and meth addict bums who shit in the streets, rape women, throw trash everywhere, trample restored native plants in greenbelts, assault tourists, and give us the highest property crime of any big city in USA. And we're only wasting a $1 billion per year catering to these loser drug addict vagrant bums. It's a beautiful place despite the left wing loons and their pet drug addict bums.
Thank you so much for sharing! As someone who grew up in Seattle and the surrounding area who was born in the 80's, it is really cool to see how the city changed in shape and size over the years.
Hello there, Lynn I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content. If you have any stories or images you would like to share, we would be very grateful for the content. I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book. Thank you for considering.
Awesome, this is the Navy of my father's prime. He served during WWII and mustered out then reupped in the 50's and retired as a Chief Petty Officer with 20 years in. He mostly was on the east coast but he was flown to this very base as a trouble shooter on a problem with a P2V Neptune.
Great memories of Sand Point Naval Air Station. My father, Kenneth Magelssen, was a Naval officer and flew PBY's from Sand Point until his untimely death in 1962. My memories include the movie theater, swim team, officers' and enlisted mens' beach, dinner and dancing at the officers' club, building a sailboat in the hangar designated for woodworking, flight lunches my Dad would bring home, the teen dances, scuba diving club Neptune's Court ! Oh, those were special days. Wonder what my Dad would think now if he knew part of the air strip is a dog park . . Thanks for sharing that wonderful video !!!!
I grew up with a view of the north end of Lake Washington, 1963 +, on top of that ridge of land west of Bothell Way. North of 160th. Air traffic coming out out of Sand Point would be eye level or somewhat higher as it passed our house. Lots of airplanes daily. I don’t remember seeing any PBY's. Too bad, love those. There were lots of flying boxcars though, and those weird helicopters with two intermeshing rotors (Husky's?). They were the loudest things. You could here them coming and going long after they were out of sight.
Eleven years after this was shot, BOAC Flight 911 would crash near Japan's Mount Fuji, a mountain much like Mount Ranier, and 113 people died because clear-air turbulence around the mountain broke up the Boeing 707. I wonder if pilots even dare to get this close to the Mount Ranier anymore because of the hard lessons learned in that crash.
Hello there, Michael, I'm writing on behalf of the Friends of Magnuson Park, a non-profit organization that advocates for the historic preservation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. We are currently developing a book of archival images from the Navy Base days and are collecting content. If you have any photographs or memories from your father's time on the Base, I wonder if you would consider sharing them with us? We would gladly attribute the photos to your family in the published book. Thank you for considering.
2:11 shows PB4Y number 201. That's the one that crashed and sunk in Lake Washington in 1956. It looks like the plane that took off in the film is number 202. Look for the video titled "Rebreather diving the PB4Y bomber wreck in Lake Washington".
Pre skyscrapers. Pre space needle. What a beautiful place it was. Of course this was a rare sunny day, unseen are the more common dreary drizzly days that seem to have no end. But that's what helps keep Seattle clean I guess. Unlike L.A. .
So cool watching the takeoff from Sand Point Navy Station in a PB4Y! Neat to be in a military plane where they were allowed to fly so low over the Sound and near the mountain!
I love the UW Campus. We used to go over there and party with the college people. It was so much fun. This was in the early 2000s tho. Like 04 -05. But yeah the students loved us coming out there . We was from areas that they admired in a way. So when would come visit us ,we welcome all ofem them like our own ,just like they do with us . Love UW.
Wow! I didn't know that these famous cherry trees at UW Quad were not even there in 1955!!! According to the Internet, these cherry trees were transplanted from the Washington Park Arboretum to UW when construction on Highway 520 began in the ‘60s!..
Meng i remember when the lumber yard in ballard caught fire. i just lived a few blocks north of it , never saw so much fire and smoke. the year was 1959.
Amazing footage, THANKS for posting! That was Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point. The aircraft he was aboard was a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, the land-based naval B-24 variant. We found one on the bottom of Lake Washington in the early 1980's, about 160' down--it is a great dive! www.fennent.com/images/ImageGallery/planes/pb4y2-1.htm
Watching these videos from the fifties, and early sixties of many of America's big cities, it breaks my heart to see these beautiful, and grand examples of human ingenuity, and prosperity reduced to filthy, trashy, crime ridden third world slums, with the dirty corrupt politicians running them only caring about money, and power, instead of caring if their cities are good clean, and safe places to live, work, and play for the residents who work hard, pay taxes, and obey the law.
I grew up in Seattle though there is not much resemblance to the pictures except perhaps the Renton Airport, the mountains and the peninsula .....The coast is beautiful in the Olympic region. We moved 10 years ago because of uncontrolled growth and property tax increases. We go back once every two years or so, in the summer which is wonderful. Glad to visit and see the beauty, but not unhappy that we live now where we have sun most of the time and little or no traffic. Thanks so much for the film. I remember a lot of this.
Good riddance Sandy. Make money or get out. This is how the Duwamish felt as well when you whites moved in. Have fun in that floridian shit hole you're in!
