NEW CHRONOLOGY


Everett and vicinity
6-4-1792 Capt. Geo Vancouver landed near Everett
1-22-1855 Pt. Elliot Treaty
1-14-61 Snohomish County formed
2-6-71 Lowell post office established
7-8-72 Jacobson Livingston filed Western New York plat
5-8-73 Lowell platted
11-25-73 Lowell School Dist. 5 formed from Snohomish School Dist 1
11-3-76 Dennis Brighams homestead entry
12-30-76 Erkine Kromer received a deed for his property
5-22-77 School District No. 10 (Port Susan, then Sunnyside) formed
11-15-85 Cyrus Knapp cut first shingle in county, lost a finger doing so     Herald 1-14-36
7-15-87 School Dist 24 which would later be named Everett School Dist formed from Dist 5 Lowell and Dist 10 Sunnyside
5-8-88 School District No. 28 formed
7-4-89 Joseph Pearsall found gold at Monte Cristo
7-17-90 Steamship Queen of the Pacific left Tacoma with Hewitt and Colby aboard to plan Everett.
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 file plat for Port Gardner  later withdrawn for Hewitt-Colby plans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 Colbys 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
12-14-91 Broadway School opened    Herald 1-14-36
12-24-90 Remarkable Document recorded at Snohomish
3-10-91 ? Seattle & Montana Railway incorporated, line would run along bayfront
3-12-91 major storm hit Puget Sound
4-91 Boughton E. Aldrich opened the Workingmens 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.
6-11-91 post office established
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 & Hendersons store on bayfront, Mrs. Mitchell postmistress
7-6-91 Dr. Wm. C. Cox arrived at Lowell, Everetts 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 Swalwells First Addition plat filed, triggering land rush on Riverside
9-11-91 first issue of the Port Gardner News (Everetts 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 (Seattle to Bellingham Bay) near East Stanwood which extended along Bayfront
10-15-91 contract for Bay View Hotel awarded would be first hotel
10-19-91 Basts 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, first pasenger train in Everett
12-91 Brue Bldg started
12-1-91 Swalwells Second Addition filed, one day $150,000 sold
12-3-91 Alex. McDougall, whaleback inventor, visit
12-4-91 First Methodist Episcopal Church chartered
12-10-91 Harts sawmill, Everetts 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.  I also have 12-17 for the date, brought materials for nail works, ship yard and neil works
12-26-91 lawsuit filed by Erskine Kromers heirs against Friday bros.
12-28-91 big windstorm
1-3-92 first Presbyterian service here
1-5-92 Henry Hewitt returned to Everett after California visit D.D.
1-5-92 Everett News reproter rode log down log chute in Lowell
1-9-92 whaleback Wetmore in Lowell to unolad paper mill machinery D.D.
1-14-92 photographer Frank LaRoche on his second visit to Everett to photograph townsite D.D.
1-14-92 Bay View Hotel opened
1-15-92 Bay View Hotel opened (owned by Everett Land Co.) D.D.
1-17-92 first Mass said in Everett by Fr. Lindner
2-6-92 Everett Land Co. filed Plat of Everett
2-12-92 Everett Land Co. moved from Lowell to Bayfront and gen mgr Duryee w/family engages apts at Bay View   Everett News
2-15-92 Casino Theatre, SW corner of California and Market (now Highland) Everett's first opened, closed May or June same year D.D.
2-15-92 J.J. Hill arrived in Everett, at banquet tomorrow in Bay View Hotel D.D.
2-17-92 Hill honored a gala at Bay View Hotel
3-1-92 lots in Everett Land Co. Plat of Everett began today D.D.
3-7-92 First Presbyterian Church organized
3-12-92 articles of incorporation for Everett & Monte Cristo Railroad filed D.D.
3-21-92 election naming the Committee of 21 D.D. Met at Hart Block on Hewitt LO
3-21-92 First National Bank of Everett started   Herald 2-28-53
3-24-92 prisoners trashed local jail D.D.
3-28-92 School District No. 61 formed
3-29-92 town's first major fire, on Chestnut St. D.D.
4-7-92 first Baptist Church organized here by Rov. E.G. Wheeler of the chapel car Evangel
4-7-92 Fireman's Ball at Gamel Hall to raise money for volunteer bucket brigade D.D.
4-9-92 Jack bone elected fire chelf, Lowell had first major fire, destroyed saloon bldg at Main & 2nd D.D.
4-11-92 Baptist cable car Evangel arrived in Everett D.D.
4-12-92 work began on Everett Ave. bridge D.D.
4-12-92 first train rolled into Lowell over 3S bridge D.D.
4-17-92 first service for First Presbyterian in new church on Maple
4-17-92 First Baptist Church of Everett organized 
4-18-92 J.J. Clark arrived in Everett D.D.
4-19-92 construction began on Swalwell Bldg D.D.
4-20-92 engines at pper mill in Lowell fird up for first time D.D.
4-21-92 first engine at nail factory in operation D.D.
4-21-92 Whaleback Wetmore back in Everett D.D.
4-21-92 dedication of First Presbyterian on Maple south of Hewitt
4-22-92 Everett Lodge 122 of Odd Fellows instituted
4-30-92 first bricks made by Chemical Sand Brick Co. here D.D.
5-1-92 Fireman's May Day Ball D.D.
5-5-92 first homicide at Fritz & Feeny's Everett Mug Saloon (later Bucket of Blood) NE corner Hewitt & Market D.D.
5-10-92 Belgain bark Orbis arrived with rods for nail factory  D.D.
5-11-92 The Pugest Sound Wire Nail & Steel Company (nail works) started  D.D. 
5-17-92 gala banquet for Henry Hewitt at Bay View Hotel D.D.
5-18-92 Charles Colby and Henry Hewitt toured Lowell paper mill    D.D.
5-27-92 J.J. Hill in town D.D.
6-12-92 Trinity Episcopal incorporated, church on Calif. near Wetmore ready by August
6-15-92 Everett C of C incorporated D.D.
6-18-92 crews finished paving Hewitt with wooden planks D.D.
6-20-92 first stage drama Uncle Tom's Cabin in warehouse at Spithill's Wharf  D.D.
6-27-92 X-10-U-8 Theatre, 3301 Hewitt opened, closed 1893, reoponed as Casino in late 93 or early 94  D.D. Footlights
6-29-92 first paper produced at Lowell mill    D.D.
7-1-92 The Great Ball at Bay View Hotel  D.D. 
7-4-92 first Independence Day celebration, foundation of McCabe Block (u.c.) used for pavillion D.D.
7-9-92 first fire fatality, 2800 Market  D.D. 
7-12-92 Whaleback Wetmore left with 5 new masts and a new color scheme   D.D.
7-19-92 rails of 3S and Seattle & Montana joined at tip of Everett peninsula D.D.
7-25-92 construction began on Sumner Iron Works   D.D.
8-4-92 first amateur theatrical by Trinity Episcopal church in vacant sotrefront of Hart Block D.D. 
8-8-92 Snohomish County Tribune founded
8-27-92 Sec of Interior John W. Noble welcomed with recption, tour of local industries and reception at Bay View Hotel D.D.
9-5-92 first Labor Day celebrated here with parade and fireman's benefit ball D.D.
9-8-92 Wetmore lost at sea near Coos Bay D.D.
9-19-92 estimated 30 Afro-Americans here, 20 organize an A-A People's Party Club   D.D.          
9-29-92 work began (brick layers started their work) on Puget Sound Reduction Co. smelter D.D.
10-4-92 J.J. Hill here D.D.
10-8-92 Neff & Mish shingle mill began operation on 14th St. Dock
11-8-92 founder of Bank of Evertt and the Everett Herald, John E. McManus became the first Democrzat elected state senator from county D.D.
11-12-92 old Monte Cristo Hotel opened
11-15-92 city phone system wnet into service D.D.
11-15-92 Chas Colby and family here for 5-day visit, stayed in M.C. Hotel  D.D.
11-18-92 reception for Colby at M.C. Hotel D.D.
11-26-92 Chas W. Wetmore here, first time in 3  years  D.D.
12-3-92 The First Natl. Bank of Everett opened in new office in recently completed Swalwell Bldg at Hewitt & Pine   D.D.
12-5-92 Everett Drama Club organized D.D.
12-8-92 The electric light plant at nailworks went into poeration D.D.
12-12-92 architect Frederick A. Sexton chosen to design new school in Lowell  D.D.
12-22-92 Clark Bldg scene of charity ball for local hospital D.D.
12-31-92  contract for an electric street railway awarded D.D.
1-4-93 Bay View Hotel caught fire about 1:30 P.m.  Schuyler Duryee journal
1-4-93 electric rr line who length of Hewitt announced, first envisioned to be horse drawn (1-25) Everett Times
1-6-93 Great Northern line completed at Scenic, 13 miles west of Stevens Pass
1-7-93 first train reached after last spike driven Everett Times on 1-11
1-25-93 J.J. Hill and son-in-law Samuel Hill reached Everett on GNRR Everett Times
1-25-93 question about whether Everett or Seattle would be GN terminus Everett Times
2-1-93 move to incorporate city started; 120 men working at Barge Works, -10.5 F temp. recorded
2-28-93 first train reach Lowell, but Hills had already been here?
3-1-93 First Congregational Church organized
4-7-93 Monroe and Jefferson schools named by school board board min. from that date
4-14-93 Hart Opera House on Riverside opened, active through summer of 1894, spradic use through about 1900 D.D. Footlights
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
5-8-93 old Monroe School first occupied source Everett Herald Dec. 28, 1893
6-16-93 Margaret Clark first graduate of Everett High School
6-27-93 NYSE crashed beginning the Panic of 1893
7-3-93 first Everett streetcars operated according to Alvin Petterson and newspaper accounts, Lisa Labovitch
7-3-93 large section of Dist 5 Lowell to Everett School Dist 24,moved south boundary of district from 35th to 52nd
2-22-94 Everett Highs first football game, against Snohomish
2-10-94 School Disrict No. 73 formed from portions of No. 28 and others
3-94-94 city hall ready for use
6-10-94 first gathering of what would become Womens Book Club at home of Mary Lincoln Brown
6-20-94 Central Opera House, 2919 Wetmore, opened, closed Feb. 1904  D.D.  Footlights
7-2-94 first official meeting of Woman's 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 City of Everett launched, parade down Hewitt followed (sank Gulf of Mexico 10-11-23)
11-6-94 county seat election
2-25-95 Colonial Tea Party held by Everett Woman's Book Club at Monte Cristo Hotel
3-95 Puget Sound Pulp and Paper Co. name changed to Everett Pulp and Paper Co.
4-26-95 first celebration of Arbor Day held in Everett, Herald 5-2-95
6-26-95 Woman's book Club picnic near Monte Cristo Hotel
11-5-95 Everett officially county seat, moved in 1897.
2-20-96 I also have 2-26-96 city founder Chas Colby died, in Newton Center, MA
1-7-97 Emma Yule elected as supt. of Everett Public Schools source school board minutes that date
4-21-98 Everett Public Library opened in old city hall building, 2900 Broadway, books had been house the McFarland home, 3100 Colby
5-19-98 Everett Colby a visitor, stayed with Knowlton family, 3131 Rockefeller (article in Evt News 5-21-98)
1-12-99 John D. Rockefeller in Everett and Snohomish, James J. Hill here then too
3-4-99 decision made to buy eleven lots west of Jeff School for grounds Legal Electors mtg, Board approval on March 6, 99
4-16-99 Everett aerie of Eagles instituted
2-7-00 St. Dominics Academy complete (addition on east side in 1907)
4-6-00 Wm Jennings Bryant in Everett nailworks campaigning for President
9-1-00 Bank of Commerce opened Hewitt at Pine    Herald 1-14-36
12-5-00 ordinance passed granting franchise Washington Gas and Electric Co.   Herald 1-14-36
2-11-01 first Everett Daily Herald published (there had been an earlier Everett Herald)
2-16-01 first issue of Everett Herald Weekly   Herald 1-14-36
2-22-01 Woman's Book Club Gentleman's Night at Monte Cristo Hotel
5-01-01 Nicholas B. Challacombe founded funeral home
5-1-01 first Everett YMCA opened
5-22-01 Evertt Fire Department started, had been volunteer    Herald 1-14-36
5-31-01 Everett organized a company of militia called Everett Rifles
6-24-01 Founders' Day Woman's Book Club fete at Fair Grounds (likely site now North Middle School)
8-19-01 Swedish Baptist Church organized
11-4-01 Everett Theater opened
9-1-01 First Methodist Church at Wall and Bdwy opened?
12-18-01 Everett Flour Mill opened on bayfront  Herald 6-29-76
3-19-02 Everett Woman's Book Club Gentleman's Night at Monte Cristo Hotel
6-12-02 Fr. Clasessens requested a Catholic hospital here
6-22-02 United Presbyterian Church and parsonage at 2701 Colby dedicated
7-01-02 Everett Trust and Savings opened its doors
8-23-02 Everett Central Labor Council celebrated completion of new Labor Temple on 2800 Lombard
1-10-03 Le Petit Theatre (aka La Petit or Le Petite), 2008 Hewitt, opened, closed circa 1905
1-17-03 Garner & Knoll Concert & Grill Rooms, under the Lobby Saloon, 1505 Hewitt opened presumably for short time D.D. Footlights
3-17-03 Everett Woman's Book Club Gentleman's Night at Monte Cristo Hotel
4-18-03 Handsome new stone arch at entrance to cemeter to be built (presumably lych gate), also extension being cleared, hedge around to be planted, Herald articl on this date
5-12-03 Washington Stove Works first in Everett Herald 5-11-63 P 12
5-18-03 Parlor Theatre, 2820 Wetmore (Parlor Hotel), opened, closed Oct. 1907  D.D. Footlights
5-23-03 Pres. T. Roosevelt in Everett
9-2-03 Washington Stove Works was starting up some of plant
10-28-1903 Knights of Columbus in Everett chartered, instituted on 11-29
12-1-03 first interurban between Everett and Snohomish
12-15-1903 Redmen Hall dedicated
12-15-03 Herald moved into building on Colby at Wall
12-25-03 Orpehum Theatre, 2118 Hewitt, opened for presumably less than a year   D.D. Footlights
1-24-04 beginning of St. Paul Lutheran Church, forerunner of Trinity Lutheran Church
3-15-04 Lumberman Saloon Theatre, 1309 Hewitt, opened for about two weeks
3-16-04 earthquake
3-19-04 Central Theatre, 2919 Wetmore former Central Opera, opened, later known as Orpheum, Dramsland, Acme, Bailey and People's, fire 1916 and demolished  D.D. Footlights
3-31-04 Lumberman Saloon Theatre, 1309 Hewitt, closed after about two weeks.
6-14-04 last day for old Monte Cristo Hotel, manager Ferriss moved to Mitchell Hotel, which was new
11-14-04 Crystal Theatre opened, closed shortly thereafter, location unknown D.D. Footlights
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, doors "thrown open" to public on 7-01 (Herald)
9-19-05 Carlson Bros. mill on Fourteenth St. Dcok partly detroyed by fire, loss of $15,000, H 9-19-25
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.
5-28-06 Orpheum Theatre, 2919 Wetmore, opened but closed the next month  D.D. Footlights
9-4-06 Brandon Theatre, 2919 Wetmore (former Central), closed November same year  D.D. Footlights
11-15-06 Scenic (former Parlor) Theatre, 1813 Hewitt, opened, active less than a year D.D. Footlights
11-19-06 Brandon reopened as Central Theatre again, 2919 Wetmore  D.D. Footlights
6-8-07 Grand Theatre, 1609 Hewitt, opened, in operation short period     D.D. Footlights
6-9-07 worlds 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
10-29-07 The Midway (theater), 2012 Hewitt, opened and closed within two months reopened Jan. 1908 a St. James  D.D. Footlights
11-1-07 Scenic Theatre, 2820 Wetmore, opened  D.D. Footlights
11-05-07 500 armed men here beat Indians who had been run out of Bellingham
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
8-31-08 first day for Washington School on first day of school that year
9-27-08 St. James Theatre opened in second location, on east side of 2900 block Rockefeller, had been at 2012 Hewitt, operated here about three years D.D. Footlights
10-1-08 Bell Flats, 2501 Colby, Everett first apartment house, ready for occupancy
10-1-08 Orpheum Theater opened, 2919 Wetmore, closed Jan. 1909 D.D. Footlights
10-7-08 Ruckers to build mausoleum in Evergreen Cemetery Herald on this date
10-8-08 grand opening of Landers 5c-10c-15c Store, 1818-1820 Hewitt
11-1-08 Grand Theatre, 1507-09 Hewitt opened; closed abut April 1916
11-5-08 Supt. ONeil 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
1-27-09 Dreamland Theatre, 2919 Wetmore opened, closed in May same year  D.D. Footlights
2-15-09 Pinehurst platted
5-17-09 Acme Theater, 2919 Wetmore, opened, closed winter of 1912-13
8-2-09 courthouse fire
8-16-09 School District No. 101 (North Creek) formed from a portion of No. 73
11-17-09 Star Theatre, 1810 Hewitt, opened, cloed June 1927  D.D. Footlights
1-3-10 Rose Theatre, 2922 Wetmore, opened, closed in 1927
1-28-10 students symbolically moved into new E.H.S., classes began three days later
3-9-10 clock started in new rebuilt courthouse
4-29-10 J.J. Hill in Everett
4-30-10 inaugural trip from Everett to Seattle on Interurban.
5-2-10 regular service started on the Seattle Everett Interurban
5-23-10 laundry workers struck all Everett plants
5-31-10 Colby Bldg. conflagration
5-31-10 Everetts first school had been remodeled into the Broadway Hotel
6-1--10 graduation of first class at Columbia College in their new building
7-11-10 first meeting of the Everett Motor Boat Club
8-10-10 Camano a total loss after running into City Dock
9-10-10 dedication of brick First Presbyterian Church, Rockefeller & Wall
10-23-10 Clarence Darrow spoke at the coliseum, Pacific and Wetmore
11-9-19 Farm Products at Calif and Lombard open, closed 1964
11-18-10 dedication of new Everett High School
11-19-10 opening of Farm Products, Calif. and Lombard, closed circa 1963
11-29-10 cluster lights began replaced arcade lights on s. side of 1600 Hewitt
1-7-11 Orpheum Theatre (Fox Orpheum), 1615 Hewitt, opened; closed 1929  D.D. Footlights
3-9-11 clock began working in courthouse
5-2-11 Providence School of Nursing open
5-12-11 Prov School of Nursing opened  which is it?
5-14-11 just open, inspection today, Commercial Hotel, 1908 Hewitt
7-26-11 first Milwaukee Rd. freight train in Everett (1-13-88 Herald)
8-8-11 Longfellow School first opened to 331 students
10-9-11 President Taft in Everett
11-4-11 Lon chaney Sr. with wife Cleva and son Creighton performed in Everett Theater
2-3-12 first EPP&PCo. picnic (at Silver Lake)
3-25-12 ground broken on Trinity Episcopal on 23rd near Hoyt, d. early 50s
4-12-12 large section of School Dist 5 Lowell to Everett School Dist 24
4-21-12 Milwaukee Rd. started passenger service to Everett
5-31-12 Henry M. Jackson born in Everett
8-16-12 Camano of mosquito fleet crahsed into City Dock
8-20-12 Everett Male Norwegian Chorus formed
9-30-12 Eugene V. Debs, who was running for president, in Everett
2-24-13 old Acme Theater, (Central Opera House) 2919 Wetmore, reopened as Bailey Theater, closed 4-5-13
3-22-13 Princess Theatre, 2822 Colby, opened, closed May 1919
4-4-13 Sumner Iron Works destroyed by fire. M.R.
5-6-13 People's Theater, 2919 Wetmore, formerly Bailey, Acme, Central, opened, is this correct? 
5-18-13 People's Theater, 2919 Theatre opned, active off and on until 1916, July 1916 fire, demolished D.D. Footlights
7-1-13 Everett's first aeroplane flight  see HE 2015 calendar
8-8-13 announcement new Sumner plant to be built for $31,884
8-23-13 had sarted working on the Mukilteo Blvd Herald this date
11-19-13 Gem Theatre, 2906 Hewitt opened, inoperations for about two years    D.D. Footlights
12-25-13 new Sumner Iron Works in Lowell ready
1-20-14 work started on bldg on nw corner Colby and Wall, I believe 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
2-18-14 Swedish Baptist Church, Hoyt and Everett, dedicated
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
4-9-14 work on Edgecomb cut-off of NP to put Everett on coast line to start soon
4-15-14 The Hub (a men's shop) now open
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
8-5-14 Mukilteo Blvd opened to the first road traffic between Everett and Mukilteo
5-15 Weyerhaeuser Mill B started with 100 men
7-2-14 Maroney flight on waterfront see HE 2015 calendar
8-5-14 road between Everett and Mukilteo opened, Margaret Riddle Sr. Focus, see 1940s
12-1-14 Broadway Theatre (former St. James), 2012 Hewitt, opened, closed May 1919
4-10-15 Everett Mukilteo road okay to travel H article on this date
7-14-15 Liberty Bell in Everett
12-20-15 Hayes Theatre, 1711-13 Hewitt, opened, closed about March 1917
1-31-16 big snow started, lasted 3 days, dumped over 30 inches
4-15-16 J.C. Penney Store #101 opened at nw corner of Colby at Wall    Herald 1-14-36
9-18-16 Everett Box fire today or yesterday
10-30-16 IWW beating at Beverly Park
11-4-16 Henry Prince opened cigar store at 1611 Hewitt, from Tacoma, he founded Everett Rotary
11-5-16 Everett Massacre
11-30-16 Rialto Theatre, 1509 Hewitt, formerly Grand, opened, closed in May of same year   D.D. Footlights
2-18-17 Henry J. Kaiser Jr. born here, home at 717 33rd
3-29-17 land for Riverdale Park (now Jackson) purchased from Everett Improvement Co.
4-5-17 Apollo Theater, former Hayes Theater, 1711-15 Hewitt opened, closed 1927
5-17-17 apparently this is when they were closing the train tunnel the half block from the alley to Oakes 
6-3-17 Chas A. Blackman, C.A. Blackman Shingle Mill at Blackman's Point, died in Everett (Journal)
7-22-18 Bailey addition along 10th from Grand to Bdwy opening to sell
7-13-18 Port of Everett created by special election
7-26-18 new Woolworths opened at 1614-16 Hewitt, had been at 1818 Hewitt
10-3-18 marjor fire at C.A. Blackman Shingle Mill (Journal)
10-8-18 Everett Health Board banned public gatherings due to Spanish flu
3-15-19 Charlie Allen set up the Garner and Allen agency for Hudson, Essex and Packard at the SW cor. California and Hoyt.
4-1-19 experimental radion station founded by Leese bros.
8-25-19 Providence School of Nursing moved into new quarters, not the brick building on Nassau; it came in 1929
1-1-20 Everett played Scott of Toledo Ohio at Bagshaw (then Athletic) Field 7-7
3-12-20 fire in dry kilns of Clough-Hartley Mill destroyed and damaged 2,000,000 shingles.
3-20-20 fire destroyed YMCA
7-1-20 Security Natl Bank of Everett established
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
2-22-21 Everett Armory cornerstone put in place
4-10-21 new Evertt YMCA dedicated
5-15-21 first service in new Trinity Episcopal church 2301 Hoyt
5-22-21 dedication of Trinity Episcopal
7-21-21 coroporation organized to build General Hosp  Herald 5-10-23 (two years later)
10-17-21  Everett Kiwanis began
2-16-22 Parklands Childrens Home moved from Parkland to old Columbia Coll. Bldg.
3-20-22 purchase of land for Silver Lake Park, $1500, from Thos Wilson Land  Co. 
4-29-22 Topliff Paine (for whom Paine Field is named) died, Everett News reported on May 5
6-4-22 Trinity Lutheran building at 24th and Lombard dedicated
8-25-22 first broadcast pf KFBL later KRKO (dont know about upper entry)
10-5-22 The Cave, ice cream shop, confectionary, lunch counter opened 1510 Hewitt
1-4-23 work started on apartment building NW cor Everett Ave. and Hoyt  Herald article 1-3-23
2-26-23 work started on funeral home NE cor California and Oakes  Herald article 2-24-23
2-28-23 work commenced on rebuilding Norton bridge between 33rd and 34th, had been closed about two years Herald article of same date
3-1-23 street car rails to begin being removed  1-8-23 Herald article
3-14-23 Rogers Bros pharmacy opened in Stone Fisher (Clark) Bldg above Ekho Drug Herald ad 3-13-23
3-17-23 Karas murders  Herald article 
3-24-23 first meeting of County Council of Parents and Teachers    Herald 1-14-36
3-29-23 Norton Ave. bridge reopned after two years closure Herald article
4-2-23 Everett men at state meet of KKK
4-5-23 last day for electric street car on Hewitt, Bayside run, began tearing up rails Herald on this date
4-6-23 Schucart Bros market, 2012 Hewitt, opened Herald article on 4-7-23
4-7-23 Waltons bought Rucker Mansion Herald article this date
4-9-23 excavation on new Providence Hospital to begin this week Herald article on this date
4-18-23 first convention of County Council of Parents and Teachers  Herald 1-14-36
5-6-23 dedication of Scottish Rite temple, presumably in old church on NE cor Oakes and Wall   Herald 5-6-23
6-23-23 Madrona Apts. at Rucker and Everett to be open next week
6-23-23 Everett Auto to be in new bldg 2714 Colby next week Herald
7-10-23 construction started on new Providence Hospital, Herald this date
7-22-23 cornerstone deciation Grace Methodist Episcopal church bldg 2402 Summit Herald 7-18-23
7-23-23 Piggly Wiggly store coming to Everett, 2801 Colby, Herald on this date
7-23-23 Stanton Hall purchased Commerce Phcy 1805 Hewitt, Herald on this date
7-31-23 story pole dedicated at California and Wetmore,
8-10-23 memorial service at Armory for recently departed President Harding
8-11-23 Piggly Wiggly storeopened at 2802 Colby, full page Herald ad on this date
8-23-23 4 police boxes installed on Hewitt  - at Bond, Nassau, Rucker, Oakes  Herald article on this date
9-6-23 old bridge at 18th St. to be removed, Herald article on this date
10-4-23 Herald P4 last bldg on Norway_pacific shipyard had been razed
10-11-23 City of Everett tanker (whaleback) sank off Florida Coast 10-12-23 H p 4, 10-11-23 H p1
10-14-23 new Providence Hosp. dedicated, cornerstone laid, see H 10-8-23 p1, H 10-15-23 p1, not completed until next May
10-17-23 EPL to open stn at Central Pulbic Market H 10-15-23 P4
10-21-23 Grace Methodist opened at 2402 Summitt see H 10-20-23 P1 
10-24-23 corner stone laid for new Providence Hospital by Bihsop O'Dea need to check this, a conflict
10-29-23 Chief Taro crash at Hewitt and Colby, H 10-30-23 p 1
10-31-23 GN locomotive accident, man killed
11-15-23 Weyerhaeuser moved into new building, reception following day, Herald articles 11-12 and later
11-23-23 Weyerhaeuser office bldg. open for inspection
12-5-23 city condemning land north of 12th and Bdwy for new Marysville highway
12-11-23 fire, Everett Theater
12-14-23 Herald headline Weyerhaeuser to start at once to build big mill (C) a hemlock plant
12-21-23 Grace Methodist Episcopal Church dedicated at 2402 Summitt
11-24-23 new Mukilteo Road now open Herald article on this date
12-27-23 H p4 ad on or about Jan 1 tomove into new Hodges Bldg
1-1-24 Buster Brown shoe store to move from 1814 to 1806 Hewitt
1-2-24 Hodges Bldg opened to tenants 
2-27-24 General Hospital on Colby dedicated, or possibly the next day; 
5-10-24 D.A. Duryee moved from 2821 Colby to 2814 Colby
8-31-24 Immaculate Conception School dedicated
5-12-24 new Providence Hospital opened
8-15-24 deomolition began old Monte Cristo Hotel (by this time old Providence Hospital)
8-29-24 Everett Theatre reopened after 1923 fire, fully remodeld, known as Fox Everett 1929-33  D.D. Footlights
10-24 Everett Clinic formally organized
1-14-25 Roland Hartley became 10th governor of WA
2-8-25 Our Savior's Lutheran moved into 24th and Hoyt from 2900 Lombard
2-22-25 Elks building dedicated check this
5-26-25 domolition completed on old Monte Cristo Hotel (by this time old Providence Hospital)
5-29-25 2nd Monte Cristo Hotel opened
6-10-25 contracts totaling nearly $1 million awarded for construction of the four bridges between Everett and Marysville
6-15-25 new fire stn 2 (2701 Oakes) to be ready for occupancy about
6-25-25 Bungalow Apts. at Pacific and Norton completed
7-4-25 Stevens Pass Hwy to open
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
9-20-25 new Our Savior's Lutheran Church bldg at 24th and Hoyt dedicated.
9-25-25 first Everett High School Kodak published this week
11-18-25 J.C. Penney moved into new Medical and Dental Bldg from Colby at Wall     Herald 1-14-36
12-31-25 Medical and Dental Building completed
1-21-26 Medical and Dental Building opened
2-2-26 announcement that starting immediately a third floor would be added to Interurban bldg and rest of basement would be excavated.
4-26 London Cafe, 2013 Hewitt installed city's first neon sign - removed in 1961
6-21-26 formal opening of Medical and Dental Bldg.
7-25-26 big Walton Mill fire
8-30-26 South Jr. opened
10-14-26 Vol. 1 No. 1 of South Jr. Lookout
10-26-26 Liberty Theater opened at 2822 Wetmore, closed in 1929  D.D. Footlights
10-27-26 Liberty Theater opened at 2822 Wetmore (doesn't match previous entry)
2-24-27 slag from smelter available for sale for alleys, streets and roads Herald article on this date
5-8-27 Rose Theatre, 2922 Wetmore, closed, had opened in 1910
7-23-27 last pavement put down on Everett-Marysville highway, see next entry is one wrong?
8-23-27 Marysville-Everett cutoff opened making direct road between two
8-27-27 official highway opening, is one of these two dates wrong?
6-19-27 Apollo Theatre, 1711-13 Hewitt closed, had opened 1917
12-22-27 Granada Theatre, 2926 Wetmore, opened  (Fox Granada 1929-33), a remodel of Rose Theatre, closed in 1954  D.D. Footlights
4-22-28 officially Everett Airport Field between Everett and Marysville, dedication
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 Rumbaughs Dept. Store, California and Wetmore
5-3-29 Liberty Theater, 2822 Wetmore, closed, had opened in 1926  D.D. Footlights
5-14-29 Deaconess Children's HOme 2120 Highland opened
5-17-29 Everett Zonta Club established
5-29-29 Balboa Theater opened D.D. Footlights
6-22-29 grand opening of Sear Roebuck se cor Colby and Evertt
10-22-29 Orpheum Theatre (Fox Orpheum), 1615 Hewitt, closed, had opened in 1911  D.D. Footlights
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 after $80,000 of remodeling (elaborate show windows done at this time) had been on Hewitt.
12-5-29 Montgomery Ward opened at 2818 Wetmore
1-21-30 Bank of Commerce merged with Everett Trust and Savings  Herald of 1-14-36 says it was 1-27-30
6-19-30 Labor Temple on Lombard dedicated
7-11-30 J.C. Penney new men's and boys' section            Herald 1-14-36
9-17-30 Puget Sound and Alaska Powder Co. explosion
4-29-31 Bethany Home started at 3322 Broadway
7-18-31 Garfield Playground donated by trustees of Playground Association of Everett
9-24-31 Dr. Cox, Everett's first doctor died
9-26-31 dedication of four more holes at EG&CC making it an 18-holer
10-1-31 Niemeyer Phcy moved from 1512 Hewitt to 2826 Colby
10-25-31 last 20 feet of pavement paved for 4-lane highway between Everett and Seattle
11-13-31 Wyatt J. Rucker died
11-26-31 (Thanksgiving) Bagshaw Field so named, previously referred to as Athletic Field
12-19-31 Clark Nickerson Mill ceased operations
2-15-32 first section of Legion Park given to city by A.B. and Harriet Clausen
5-4-32 Airship Akron over Everett  Raymond Fosheim diaries
6-5-32 Piston Service opened at 2930 Rucker, which formerly housed Bergman Tire Co.
6-8-32 dedication of new wading pool (including sculpture) at Forest Park by Eagles  See Herald 6-7-32p9, 6-8-32p7, 6-15-32p2
6-12-32 death of Wm. F. Brown early Everett surveyor, in Seattle age 84
6-15-32 Wm Buehrig took over Colby Bakery, 2101 Colby, from Mary Hall
6-23-32 The Hub, men's furnishings and workingmen's store, 1301 Hewitt, became quitting business sale
6-25-32 able to drive from Hoyt to E. Grand on new road n. end of city Herald 6-26-32p4
9-8-32 USS New York in Everett harbor
9-20-32 FDR in Everett campaigning for president
12-18-32 last Sunday Herald for decades, had started sometime after 1916
4-20-33 meteor passed over Everett and Puget Sound area
7-7-33 USS Constitution visited Everett
10-1-33 inauguration of new lighting for football field
10-13-33 formal opening of Owl Drug Store, Hewitt and Colby, after a remodel
5-24-34 USS Akron, a helium filled airship, came over Everett today - Fosheim
6-22-34 Walter P. Bell, Everett atty, former superior court judge and former WA State Atty Genl, died at home 2130 Rucker
7-12-34 KRKO radio came into being, other important dates preceded, see HistoryLink article
10-3-34 Everett Public Library on Hoyt dedicated
10-21-34 record wind storm
10-31-34 Buehring murder, 2101 Colby (See 1944 for solving)
12-14-34 opening of John J. Jerread Inc. Funeral Directors, Oakes and Wall in old Carnegie Building
1-1-35 highway department hoping to get started on Broadway Cutoff  12-4-1934
4-4-36 Pet Backlezos opened shoe repair shop probably at 2827 Colby, closed 3-28-70
5-9-36 Payless Food opened
5-29-36 School District No. 331 (Silver Lake) formed by consolidation of Districts 28, 61 and 73
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
8-29-36 first Tyee Salmon Roundup
9-10-36 work began on new airport south of town
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 Sheriffs office
7-15-37 Hellenthalls 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)
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 (Paine Field)
10-1-37 "I am glad to be in Everett again."  - President F.D. Roosevelt at Great Northern whistle stop Pacific Ave.
10-23-37 Everett Supermarket opened at northwest corner of Everett and Colby in remodeled building (Herald 10-22-31)
12-29-37 Clough Hartley Mill burned
2-1-38 concrete Norton Ave. viaduct at 22nd opened
5-1-38 Weyerhaeuser building moved upriver to Mill B, moved again in 1983, and in 2016
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 Cr. # 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
5-3-39 Edgewater Playground dedicated
5-4-39 Clark Nickerson mill fire
5-6-39 Lowell fire stn dedicated
5-27-39  Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Maritia or something like that of Norway were in Everett, sometime here drove through stump.
5-8-39 Joe King's tavern opened at 1309 Hewitt
7-6-39 Brewster's reopened after an extensive remodel ?
8-8-39 Woolworth's opened new store at 2824 Colby, Herald article 8-7-39, had been at 1616 block Hewitt
9-15-39 Eagles opened new home in Wisconsin Bldg
10-1-39 Pacific Hardware at Hewitt and Wetmore closed
10-7-39 Old 55 opened on 7309 Highway 99, 2 = mi. south of Everett lasted until 1965
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 after $50,000 of remodeling.  Had been across the alley
1-9-40 Evertt Civic Auditorium/gymnasium dedicated
3-3-40 Everett Brewery 3300 Smith destroyed by fire
3-14-40 undefeated Everett High School basketball team beat Oakville 64-19 to win state tournament
3-17-40 dedication of newly constructed First Church of United Brethren, 2005 Colby
4-26-40 demolition started about now on old wood trestle connecting Everett Ave. bridge with Ebey Is.
5-12-40 Riverdale Park dedicated
6-5-40 about to build Snohomish County Airport
6-7-40 Safeway had purchased land at 41st and Rucker for new store
7-23-40 Bill Long house moved from S. Everett to Alverson Blvd. Then I.W. Parsons house
8-30-40 with Pacific becoming part of the Stevens Pass Hwy., a traffic signal was needed at Pacific Ave. and Broadway
8-7-40 School District No. 331 divided between 24 and 101   needs clarification see entry for tomorrow
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
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
10-29-40 Everett Ice Arena opened at 2812 Norton
11-40 Henry M. Jackson elected to U.S. House of Representatives
1-28-41 Safeway store at SE cor. 19th and Broadway had opened.
1-31-41 View Crest Abbey under construction, 108 crypts, 400 niches, by Hans Solie, owners Zene Maulsby and A.D. Kenworthy, Herald article on or about
3-3-41  on or about  old Everett Brewery bdlg burned, b. 1906, Herald article
3-6-41 Singapore Cafe at 1705 Hewitt to open, note 8-3-41 entry
3-18-41 finishing five rooms on so. jr. that weren't when wings were added on, also new shrubbery
4-9-41 Hank Gaul's men's shop opened at ne cor Calif. and Colby
4-13-65 ? B&M opened at 2615 Colby about this time
5-25-41 brick chimney of old Fisherman's Packing Corps crashed into the beach during demolition. Had been part of nail works
6-24-41 new Safeway store at 1905 Broadway had opened.
7-22-41 Airfield formerly known as Snohomish County Airport named Paine Field honoring Topliff Olin Paine
7-25-41 small plane had made a forced landing at Tulalip
8-3-41 Meve's Restaurant opened this week at 1705 Hewitt, note 3-6-41 entry
8-11-41 Everett Air Base post office established, renamed Paine Field Branch Sept 1, 1941
8-19-40 on or about, Denney Apts, Everett and Colby to come down, owned by Dr. S.L. Caldbick owned
8-20-41 bridge at 3300 Norton had been declared unsafe, demo began week of 10-23, would be replaced by fill
9-1-41 Everett Air Base post office renamed Paine Field Branch
9-8-41 Everett Junior College opened in Lincoln School at 25th and Oakes, first classed
9-5-41 Great Northern freight engine left rails near Washington Gas & Electric Co. on Riverside
9-5-41 Northwest's newest voice was Everett radio station KEVE 1460 K.C.
10-16-41 fire destroyed Mayflower Apts., 2814 Grand  Could this mean 2614? Is this right date?
10-24-41 Friedlanders had taken over Wallgren's at 1603 Hewitt and planned to expand jewelry store
12-10-41 by this date black out hours were 1:30 to 7:45 a.m.
12-12-41 new Everett Pulp and Paper office building up up.
10-10-41 grand opening of Skateland at McDougall and California  Is this right date?
12-27-41 air-raid siren in place atop City Hall
12-28-41 air-raid observers atop Medical-Dental Bldg.
1-9-42 Walgren's 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., Marine Digest of 9-29-51 says 2-13-42
2-17-42 P-38 crashed near Silver Lake
2-22-42 permit for new bldg 2713 Colby $8,000
3-22-42 Paine P-38 crashed near Naketa Beach
3-23-42 about  contract for removal of streetcar rails, mainly on Colby, Broadway, Summit, but I would think Hewitt too  steel for war effort, Herald article about this time
5-2-42 Paine P-38 crashed near Edgewater Beach (could this be the same as the next crash entry?)
5-7-42 Paine P-38 crashed at Darlington beach
5-15-42 construction began on drydock Rebuilder - 9-29-51 Marine Digest
5-31-42 A.H.B. Jordan died, born 9-23-65
6-1-42 Diana's apparel opened 2802 1/2 Colby
6-27-42 about  new fountain at Hewitt and Colby (NW cor more on Hewitt) to replace old one car ran into, Herald article about this time
8-14-42 actress Veronica here to sell war bonds on county courthouse lawn and Paine Field
9-3-42 Lowell School Dist 5 dissolved, consolidated with Dist 24 to form new Everett School Dist No. 2
11-10-42 construction started on shipyard
1-22-43 Windsor Apts, on nw corner of Everett and Hoyt fire resulted in top floor being removed
1-31-43 first two vessels at Everett shipyard launched
4-22-43 Edgewater Park given to city by Arthur G. and Gertrude Sorenson and Leo and Laura Loken
4-27-43 Edgewater Park added to city system
6-7-43 EJC graduated inaugural class at First Presbyterian Church
6-15-43 first WAACs at Paine Field
7-1-43 City Beach at Pigeon Creek # 2 opened
7-3-43 beach pavilion at City Beach (Pigeon Creek #2, Howard Park)  opened
7-3-43 housing project under construction (Poplar, Larch etc.) front page Herald
7-16-43 grand opening of Safeway at 2708 Colby
8-28-43 war memorial dedicated on court house grounds
9-29-43 U.S.S. Everett (named for Everett) launched in Richmond, CA (stricken from list on 12-1-61)
12-22-43 fire of the year Windspr apts nw corner Everett and Hoyt.  Afterward top floor removed.
5-5-44 Eclipse Mill retail yard destroyed by fire
5-6-44 Ace Pursuiter reported Corporal Austin H. Ottley was first member of Paine Field black to be accepted for Air Cadet Training School.
5-6-44 View Ridge introduced in Herald ad
6-20-44 largest part of Legion Park including golf course donated by Earl Faulkner Post 6 of American Legion
9-7-44 new evidence in Buehrig murder 10-31-34  Henry Young in Alcatraz confessed, being charged along with Sherman Baxter, John Baker
12-15-44 Gulls Nest opened tonight, see EHS Kodak Dec. 16, 1955
3-13-45 Japanese balloon bomb landed near Paine Field reportedly
3-24-45 city dog pound officially opened at 3317 Hewitt Ave.
3-25-45 Bethel J. Rucker died (born 8-11-62) wife Ruby died 1-4-72
4-10-45 first hydraulic barker produced by Sumner Iron Works
4-15-45 military personnel at Paine Field deactivated. Bertrand Arcadia book p 58
8-1-45 Pigeon Creek #2 fill along Muk Blvd in last stages of completion, Herald article on this date
9-6-45 Boeing closed its wartime factories on SW cor Calif and Grand, and NE cor Pac and Rucker
9-18-45 Wm. R.and Archie G. Taft Jr. acquired control of KRKO
10-4-45 Jack Wong announced opening of China Cafe, 2822 Rockefeller
10-6-45 opening of Parker's Jewelry, 1710 Hewitt Ave.
11-16-45 open house at new location of Hatloe and Son, sw cor. California and Hoyt, had been at Hewitt and Oakes
12-14-45 grand opening of Walker's Fulton Market 2914 Hewitt
12-15-45 Hans Hagen Jeweler opened 2910 Rockefeller
12-18-45 The Sports Shop opened 2942 Colby
1-26-46 Coys Toys opened 2923 Colby
2-2-46 Joe Mitchell had purchased English's from W.H. English, 1405 Hewitt
2-6-46 Clark Park murder, Bernice Honrath attacked night before, died today
3-4-46 Nichols and Laaback had purchased and were remodeling into DeSoto agency building at 3001 Rucker
3-27-46 Zeek's Chicken Dinner Inn now  open on Hwy 99 2 miles south of Hewitt and Rucker
3-28-46 50 residences to be built in new neighbhorhood View Ridge 
4-5-46 first B&M opened at 2615 Colby
4-5-46 first annexation ever 65 acres in northeast part of city
4-19-46 small pox epidemic here
4-23-46 Co-op store opened at 3004 Bdwy 
4-26-46 grand opening of J&P store 2929 Colby
5-3-46 Penguin Cafe opened 2933 Colby
5-9-46 grand opening rhodes floral & garden shop 1915 bdwy
5-20-46 Gable Furniture Exchange at 2920 Hewitt
5-20-46 Barcott Paint in new location 2818 Hoyt
5-27-46 Weisfield & Goldberg Jewelry opened 2819 Colby
5-29-46 Stout's The cottage Inn opened 15th and Bdwy
6-1-46 Wold's Men's Shop opened at 2913 Colby
6-1-46 McCormack Furniture Exchange opened 2922 Rockefeller
6-4-46 Stan Mitchell opened Ekho Fountain at Hewitt and Wetmore
6-14-46 L&R Motors opened at 2501 Bdwy  Hudson dealers
6-23-46 earthquake
6-29-46 Nichols Laabeck DeSoto Plymouth dealership opened at 3001 Rucker
7-10-46 Monte Cristo Auto Co. exclusive dealers for Lincoln and Mercury 3002 Hoyt
7-26-46 Weisfield & Goldberg Jewelry opened about now at 2819 Colby
7-27-46 direct route to Mukilteo again there with recent opening of new Edgewater Creek bridge
8-23-46 Ralph's Food Center opened on northeast corner 41st and Bdwy
8-28-46 VFW Hall, 2711 Oakes Ave. dedicated today
9-9-46 Watson's Bakery, 1812 Hewitt, reopened today after extensive remodel
10-29-46 Life in Everett debuted at Granada Theater
10-31-46 J&P store at northeast corner 24th and Colby recently changed hands now Colby Market
11-16-46 USO building 2818 Wetmore became Earl Faulkner post of American Legion
12-15-46 grand opening of VFW Old Guard Post 2100 opened in new building at 2611 Oakes
12-20-46 The Monte Cristo Auto Co. grand opening, southwest corner Hoyt and Wall, Lincoln/Mercury dealers
12-20-46 Hwy 2 designation for former 10-A from Everett to Bonners Ferry
1-21-47 Edgewater Market opened
1-22-47 Picardy's opened at 1618 Hewitt, formerly Daniel's
1-30-47 B&M opened at sw cor Hewitt and Broadway, kept Hausmann's meats
2-3-47 Madison School opened
2-4-47 Brown's Food & Beverage Store opened at 1832 Walnut
2-14-47 Normanna Hall bldg., 2725 Oakes, opened today, formerly dedicated on 4-19
2-17-47 first GN Streamliner here, open to public on upper track
4-25-46 gala opening of Tradewell se cor 21st and Broadway
4-26-47 grand opening Carruthers and Whitehead furniture store, 2813 Hoyt
4-28-47 Herman's Men's Store, 2924 Colby, to be known as Harris Men's Shop
5-7-47 first helicopter landed at Paine Field
6-27-47 Van Winkle furniture opened ne cor Calif and Wetmore 
8-18-47 getting ready to adapt city name The Evergreen City
10-7-47 Sport Center, 1709 Hewitt, reopened after a seven week remodel
10-7-47 by this time 16th was an arterial from Wetmore to Broadway
10-7-47 part of Mukilteo Blvd replaced by the Pigeon Cr 2 fill renamed Wood Place
10-10-47 opening of Arown Diary and Fountain nw cor 17th and Broadway
10-21-47 new traffic signal had been installed at 16th and Broadway
10-31-47 Everett Memorial Stadium dedicated
11-21-47 announcement (Herald article) of 41st St. improvement, widening and extended from Colby to Bdwy on old interurban route
11-29-47 clock in front Peoples Natl. Bank, built for Security Natl. Bank toppled, replica dedicated at ECC 10-17-06
12-5-47 PUD purchase of Beverly Park Water Co. announced today
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
2-18-48 Great Northern train over seawall south of Mukilteo
3-5-48 grand opening new Standard stn nw corner Wetmore & Wall, prior was C&S Service, later was Courts Chevron, then Wall St. Bldg
4-3-48 P-40 to go atop Tony Dyres Bayview service Federal, Bond and Hewitt, would be there just short of 20 years
6-7-48 Chester Beard Shoes to open
6-9-48 President Harry S. Truman in Everett
8-26-48 apartment house fire, california and Norton
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
1-10-49 Whittier School opened
2-4-49 ship repair yard began on about this date at shipyard, 10-22-49 The Marine Digest
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
8-1-49 Rumbaugh-MacLain became a branch opertion of Bon Marche see Herald 5-20-49
9-1-49 PUD purchased electric system from Snohomish County and Camano Island
9-18-49 north part of Bethany on 3300 Bdwy dedicated.
10-31-49 operations suspended at shipyard keeping only a skeleton crew,  The Marine Diegst 10-22-49
11-17-49 41st recently opened between Colby and Broadway
5-16-50 Sky-Vu drive-in theater opened at 34th and Pine, closed 1957
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
8-21-50 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
10-24-50 Bud's Cafe at 3119 Bdwy opened
10-24-50 grading planned for 3700 block of Lombard
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
2-3-51 purchase of Rumbaugh-MacLain by Bon Marche announced today
2-16-51 Wellworth opened new retail store at 2725 Colby, had been at 2931 Bond
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, closed 1978 D.D. Footlights
4-19-51 B&M shopping center at 50th & Hwy 99 opened
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 Puget Sound Navigation Co. purchased by WSF.  Retired ferry Rosario eventually sold (1953) to Everett and converted to cannery at 3862 Railway Ave. on River
6-13-51 Rosemary the elephant arrived at Forest Park, would die Oct. 1955
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
12-1-51 Simpson Lumber Co. purchased Everett Pulp & Paper Co. for slghtly over $9 million
12-15-51 Ripple Tavern opened at Hewitt and Rockefeller
12-27-51 Port purchased Pier 1 from American Tug Boat Co.
1-19&20-52 Snowfair with ski jump at Forest Park
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 Bdwy
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 after full remodel and new marquee, triplexed in 1979
11-52 Henry M. Jackson elected to U.S. Senate
12-20-52 the drydock was moved away, Marine Digest article says 12-27-52
1-24 and 1-25  53 second annual ski jump at Forest Park
2-4-53 Harold Walsh and Frank Platt bought Murphy Motors and started dealership
3-18-53 Sears remodeled grand opening, including new garden center bldg  at SE Wetmore and Calif
4-1-51 Paine Field reactivated as joint-use airbase Bertrand Arcadia book p 65
4-23-53 Monte Cristo Hotel purchased by A.L. Dimsdale from Bennett Baldy
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 last day for the Balboa Theater  D.D. Footlights
5-14-53 cornerstone laid at Scott paper mill, 2nd machine announced
5-22-53 grand opening of Bob and Rays Shell at NE 38th and Bdwy
5-23-53 gr opening of Horizon Hts. so of Mukilteo
5-29-53 gr opening of Rays Delicatessen 1619 Bdwy
6-5-53 gr opening of Greenshields Industrial Supply 710 Hwy 99 No and Jeff's Draperies
and B&M Pet and Hobby Shop
6-9-53 widening of Bdwy underway
6-12-53 gr opening of Gustavson's Shell SW 26th Bdwy
6-19-53 gr opening of Stan Akins Flying A Service 2502 Bdwy
7-9-53 gr opening of Lyle Woods Mobilgas NE 20th and Bdwy
7-10-53 bathhouse at Maple Heights-Pigeon Cr. # 2, now Howarth was closed and being vandalized, bay 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 month
8-31-53 Weyerhaeuser Kraft mill started production this week; closed in 1992
9-2-53 gr opening of Evergreen Bowling Lanes
9-15-53 new traffic lights this month at 33rd &Bdwy and 37th & Bdwy
11-20-53 grand opening of Bon Marche's men's shop in remodeled Balboa Theater
12-5-53 major remodel of Betts Variety three day grand opening, on Everett at Highland, had opened in 1942
1-4-54 first meeting of what was to be Snohomish County Museum Association
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
5-15-54 5:02 a.m earthquake
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 Ray's 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
7-18-54 Everett's first official Soap Box Derby
7-21-54 east side of 2300 and 2400 blocks of Norton cleared and being leveled for a Scott Paper parking lot
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.
10-29-54 Everett Federal Savings and Loan Assn. under construction on southeast corner of Hoyt and Wall
11-15-54 Granada Theatre, 2926 Wetmore, closed, had opened in 1927   D.D. Footlights
11-16-54 dedication of VOA annex along Calif St. at Lombard
also apparently last show for the Granada Theater
11-25-54 noted new drive up mailbox at post office here
1-21-55 grand opening Multi-Flavor Ice Cream Drive-In, 3719 Rucker
4-18-55 Fighter Interceptor Squadron station at Paine Air Base (discontinued in 1960) Bertrand Arcadia book p 79
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 on 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 Bill's Richfield 3929 Broadway (perhaps on east side?)
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 1715 Bdwy opened (bldg was along Bdwy not McDougall), building barely lasted 15 yrs
8-25-55 remodeled Newberrys, 2814 Colby, reopened, Herald article 8-24-55
9-2-55 newly located new store for Karl's Shoes at 2820 Colby
9-8-55 new six-doctor clinic under construction on southeast corner of Pacific and Kromer (Herald caption on that date)
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, the first I believe
10-3-55 Julian's Styling Salon opened at 2625 Colby
10-4-55 Rosemary, Forest Park elephant, was dead, came here June 1951
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
2-1-56 Bond's Colonial Shop at 4302 Evergreen opened
2-1-56 tearing down the Delta Yards buildings
2-13-56 major fire at Herald that extended into the next day
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 Burch's Penguin Cafe at 2814 Wetmore, previously at 2933 Colby
4-26-56 Popp's 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
6-14-56 Twevle Futreliner buses arrived at Memorial Staudium for the 4-day GM Parade of Progress traveling exhibit on 3-year North American tour
6-15-56 grand opening Royal Drive-In Cleaners, 3510 Bdwy
6-15-56 grand opening Pardees Dine-In, 1021 Bdwy
7-11-56 Jerread's Funeral Home added Cassidy- to the front of the name
7-12-56 open house for new Travelodge, 3030 Bdwy
7-30-56 Al Larson's Paint Store moved from 19th & Bdwy to 1910 36th
8-3-56 Hulbert Mill fire
8-3-56 Equator left on the jetty this week, would stay there until 6-26-67
8-15-56 last Everett Yacht Club meeting in Black Prince modern addition and it was being taken apart
8-18-56 Robinson Marina opened
8-18-56 Equator left on jetty this week story?
8-31-56 Hall's 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 
9-6-56 Dominicans moved from Everett Ave. (old St. Dominics bldg) to Woodway I believe
9-27-56 new pink 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
11-14-56 Paine AFB  F-89D crashed near Hat Island, two airmen rescued from water.
11-22-56 GNRR oil tanks on waterfront near Maple Hts. being dismantled.
11-30-56 Hal Weir's Appliance & Edgewater TV grand opening new bldg, 4315-17 Rucker
11-30-56 grand opening Jerry Forshee's Signal stn on n.e. cor. of 41st & Colby
1-3-57 city council approved new stoplights at Pacific & Wetmore, Wall & Wetmore, Rucker & Calif., 47th & Evergreen.  52nd & Evergreen likely to follow
1-5-57 demolition of GN Delta roundhouse had begun
1-10-57 announcement that Woolworth would take entire corner replacing Brewsters
1-25-57 opening of Bing's drive-in 2515 Bdwy 
1-30-57 So. Jr. new music bldg opened this week, No. Jr.'s 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
2-26-57 construction of new Safeway supermarket at Madison and Highway 99 apparently going ahead
3-1-57 open house for new Alpine Cafeteria and Westerner Room at B&M Shopping Center
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 Buds Cafi, new building same location on Broadway
5-3-57 gala reopening of Sky Vu, but it couldn't have been for long as new warehouse was on site by year's 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
6-8-57 Norma and Dusty opened Carousel Music Center at 2510 Colby
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
7-20-57 NP began retirment of 3 remaining 1906 steam locomotives based at Everett NP yard, additional diesel powered units to be delivered to NP yard here soon (Herald)
7-21-57 KQTY radio stn went on the air
8-1-57 Pay 'n 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 Woolworth's store at Hewitt and Colby, started three days of celebration Herald 8-7-57
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
9-15-57 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, story in Herald actually dedicated on 9-24
9-25-57 Lee Crary, 8, of Edmonds escaped from his kidnapper George Edward Collins, north of Lake Stevens.
10-11-57 'Lights On' 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 'n 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 Woolworths
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
12-18-57 School District No. 101 dissolved, portions to District No. 2 (Everett) and District No. 417 (Bothell/Northshore)
1-1-58 annexation of Darlington and Queen Anne Additions on Mukilteo Blvd.
1-11-58 Norton Ave. overpass opened, connected waterfront to Alverson Blvd.
1-29-58 Tradewell at 4920 Evergreen Way opened
2-1-58 annexation of area out to Berkshire Dr.
2-13-58 Elgin Baylor of Seattle U played here, had last year too
2-21-58 first basketball game in new Everett Junior College gym
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
4-12-58 Norton viaduct opened I believe
4-19-58 Emerson School dedicated
5-18-58 Everett phone numbers went from 6 to 7 digits, i.e. BAview 6797 became ALpine 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, bought Barrs Leak
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
9-10-58 class started in new EJC north end campus
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
10-31-58 Vice President Richard Nixon at Paine Field
11-3-58 PUD moved from Pacific & Colby to California & Virginia
11-7-58 new stop light at 23rd & Walnut, lights on Walnut at 19th and Everett to follow soon
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 (sw corner), Madison & Evergreen (sw corner)
12-14-58 Colby Manor Nursing Home opened, 4230 Colby
1-13-59 23rd east of Broadway had been named an arterial
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
8-20-59 new stop light at Bothell Hwy and Bdwy Cutoff
8-28-59 Simpson Lumber co. merged its paper operations in Everett with Lee Paper Co. to become Simpson Lee Paper Co.
9-15-59 open house at new Herald plant
10-3-59 Glacier Bowl opened tonight at 9630 Hwy 99 S.
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
1-4-60 First Federal Savings and Loan Assn. moved into their new building southwest corner of Colby and Everett avenues.
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
3-1-60 321st Fighter Interceptor Squadron discontinued at Paine Air Base, had come in 1955, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 79
3-18-60 winning bidders buy 72 A (shipyard property) on waterfront Pacific Towboat, Scott, Western Gear who announced move to Evt Bob Mayer
4-10-60 First Baptist moved into new church at Pacific and Wetmore
4-21-60 Hodges Bldg fire (see Herald 4-22-60 p1)
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
7-10-60 dedication of the Music Bowl (not gazebo) in Clark Park
7-14-60 Viking Planing Mill on Mukilteo Speedway destroyed by fire.
7-15-60 grand opening of Fuller Paint & Glass Store, 3025 Rucker Ave.
9-7-60 first day of school ever at St. Mary Magdalen School, grades 1-4 only, to add a grade a year
9-27-60 Elks fire
10-10-60 Mildred Simpson elected in special election to become firs twoman as Everett City Commissioner (Finance)
10-15-60 new First Natl. Bank branch in Claremont opened
10-16-60 new Immaculate Conception convent and parish hall blessed
10-17-60 new traffic light at 52nd and Evergreen
10-23-60 St. Mary Magdalen building dedicated
10-24-60 new steeple put into place atop First Presbyterian Church
11-9-60 Sheriff Bob Twitchell found guilty of duty neglect
11-11-60 Elks moved into old Windmill bldg, 7418 Evergreen Way
11-16-60 Glengarry Inn (restaurant) between Everett and Marysville open by this date
11-20-60 new Parkland Children's Home dedicated 
11-22-60 Thorpe Furniture, 3015 Colby, quitting business
12-21-60 new part of Hwy 1-A opened this week between Bicycle Tree corner and new Snohomish River bridge
12-24-60 last day for Montgomery Ward store at 2819 Colby
1-6-61 open house new addition to YMCA
4-6-61 Butts Store building on Ebey Is. by trestle burned to the ground
4-9-61 dedication of new Central Christian Church at 26th and Hoyt.
5-2-61 Laruel Hieghts area voted for annexation
5-13-61 to be a traffic light by end of summer at Casino and Hwy 99
5-20-61 North Pacific Fair structures on Stock Show Rd. being razed.
5-30-61 new pool at Everett Golf and Country inaugurated
6-7-61 first Edgewater Casino annexation attempt failed
6-14-61 new traffic light installed at Beverly Dr. (75th) and Highway 99
6-30-61 new Hwy 1-A (now 9) bridge over Snohomish River opened
7-1-61 Jazwieck's miniature golf opened joining "Trainland"
7-7-61 decision to name Silver Lake park for Thornton Sullivan, present andlongtime Parks Board president
7-15-61 Slim's drive-in open on Hwy 99 near Paine Field cutoff
7-18-61 this week city's first neon sign taken down, at London Cafe, 2013 Hewitt, since 1926
7-21-61 grand opening of 5 Star Furniture, 3015 Colby
8-3-61 Montgomery Ward catalogue store opened at 2524 Colby
8-5-61 Arctic Circle Drive In opened at 6600 Evergreen
8-8-61 Herald ad selling off all of Bowen-Ingram Econo Mart, now insolvent
8-10-61 merger announced First Natl. Bank of Everett and Seattle-First Natl. Bank
8-15-61 county jail riot
8-25-61 Land Title Co. opened in new building at 5021 Claremont Ave.
9-5-61 Cascade H.S. opened I believe
9-7-61 roof being constructed at Memorial Stadium
9-16-61 voters approved annexation to Mukilteo Edgewater to Casino
9-18-61 former Gov. Mon Wallgren of Everett died
9-18-61 big warehouse fire Weyerhaeuser Mill A
9-26-61 new Madison Branch of Everett Public Library opened at East Dr. and Roseway
9-28-61 median installed this week along Bdwy from 12th to 26th, so no left turns except at 13th and 14th
10-18-61 traffic signal at California and Broadway changed to an amber blinking light
10-31-61 Western Gear announced gradual move to Everett, 100 already here  Bob Mayer
11-07-61 Western Gear tests, ready to ship 94' diameter turntable for Space Needel  Bob Mayer
12-1-61 USS Everett stricken from Navy list (launched 9-29-43)
12-7-61 former Sheriff Bob Twitchell and three co-defendents found guilty today of conspiring to run a prostitution in the county
12-21-61 Imperial 400 Motel opened (building torn down fall 2011)
2-4-62 small bomb blast at courthouse
2-27-62 Mukilteo rejected annexation to Everett, service extended to Lowell and Pinehurst, next entry might be wrong.
2-28-62 Lowell and Pinehurst officially became part of Everett after earlier annexation vote
3-15-62 last of Hulbert Mill burned by EFD
3-29-62 ground broken for new Everett clinic, 39th and Colby-Hoyt
3-30-62 dedication of new West Coast Telphone Co. building at 1800 41st
3-31-62 ongoing grand opening of House of Values (formerly Econo Mart) at 6220 Hwy 99 s.
4-1-62 ground broken for new Methodist Church at 36th and Colby
4-14-62 grand opening of Ray's Drive-In, 1401 Broadway
4-15-62 formal rededication of remodeled after fire Elks Club bldg; they were already in it
4-19-62 dedication of new entry to Trinity Lutheran Church
5-2-62 Treasure House opened in new location, 2714 Colby
5-7-62 Eclipse Mill fire
5-8-62 Ernst-Malmo official opening 4920 Evergreen Way
5-16-62 first Douglas gas station in state started pumping gas today at 6923 Evergreen Way, another followed in about three weeks on Hwy 99 N. south of Tower.
5-18-62 Western Gear move to Evertt complete with official address 2100 Norton Ave.  Bob Mayer
6-5-62 voters approved large annexation as far as 100th St., added 4600 residents
6-27-62 Bank of Everett chartered
7-9-62 grand opening of Bank of Everett in temporary quarters on 2700 Wetmore.
7-27-62 Chester Beard remodel and enlargement grand reopening
8-31-62 Lowell post office discontinued
9-1-62 Lowell post office replaced by Lowell Branch
9-11-62 Sumner Iron Works sold to black Clawson
9-15-62 East Crest Hills Community Club dedicated
10-12-62 Columbus Day Storm
10-20-62 Tyee Bowl grand opening and open house
11-14-62 B&M Everett Ave. and Broadway opened today
11-16-62 Maier Electric had grand opening in new location, 2607 Wetmore, had been at 2008 Hewitt
11-16-62 advertising in Herald for two new areas: Glenhaven and Impreial Hills off 7th Ave.
11-23-62 grand opening of Novak (formerly Dolloff) Oldsmobile
2-14-63 Super Shingle, last mill on 14th St. Dock was torched to make room for small boat moorage
2-14-63 Grand opening of Haggens Thriftway, formerly View Ridge Thriftway, at shopping center, Mukilteo and Olympic boulevards.
3-3-63 dedication of remodeled Flora Hall
3-25-63 K&H Printers reopened at 17th and Bdwy after being in the Commerce Block for years
4-6-63 Putt-A-Way miniature golf course at 7th and Hwy 99 across from Hilltop Drive-in opened
4-21-63 one-way street system went into effect, Calif w Lombard to Rucker, Wall e Rucker to Lombard, Hoyt n 32 to 26, Wetmore s 26 to 32 (these changed later)
4-22-63 cabin cruiser Blue Water sank in Pt. Gardner Bay
4-28-63 new First Methodist Church, 36th and Colby, offically consecrated
5-1-63 Hasler's or Hausler's Restaurant at 2913 Norton opened, by 6-11-63 it was closed
5-4-63 Perpetual Help convent dedicated
5-13-63 Everett Clinic opened in new location at 39th & Colby 
6-1-63 Everett Public Library remodel dedication
6-5-63 graduation at Cascade gym of first graduating class
6-6-63 Everett Trust was in new quarters, remodeled Montgomery Ward store, open house two days later
6-12-63 Meadowcroft and Carras had purchased Novak Olds GMC (formerly Dolloff) and renamed Holiday
6-13-63 open house at remodeled train station
7-4-63 remodeled armory dedicated
7-28-63 dedication of new middle building at Bethany home
7-31-63 Marion Joseph Bradburn of Everett arrested for threatening to kill JFK (see Herald 8-1-63 p 1)
8-9-63 dedication of new Bank of Everett bldg on Calif. at Wetmore (moved in on 7-29-63)
8-17-63 open house at Everett Ambulance and Doctors Service at 3702 Colby Ave.
9-14-63 by this time there were automatic scorers at Evergreen and Glacier Lanes
9-15-63 oepning of new parish Education Bldg of Central Lutheran Church
9-19-63 O.P. Nelson jeweler, 2934 colby, qutting business after 28 years here 
9-29-63 open house for library remodel
11-6-63 new cobra lights on Broadway lit
1-2-64 new manual traffic signal into opeartion at Bev Blvd and Madison St., Bev had right of way, similar to one at 35th and Rucker
1-14-64 destruction began today on Jefferson School; it took 11 days
2-28-64 Simpson Lee and Everett Improvement Co. donated Candy Cane Park (Lowell Park) to city.
3-15-64 3 day grand opening of Taco Time 3805 Rucker on site where Veltex station was, replaced by new building in 1995
4-3-64 Burch's Penguin Cafe, 2814 Wetmore, closed
4-17-64 grand opening of new Owl Rexall Store, 2823 Colby
4-25-64 St. Mary Magdalen convent dedicated
4-23-64 grand opening of remodeled Kress store, 2822 Colby 
6-1-64 Allen Buick became part of Holdiay Olds, Buick, GMC Inc.
6-12-64 grand opening of Mr. Kwid Kar Wash ne cor 36th and Broadway
6-12-64 Parks gained Harborview Park
6-28-64 new post office dedicated
7-22-64 opening of IGA Foodliner in Eastmont
7-23-64 90mm cannon moved into place at south end of Legion Park
8-1-64 demolition in progress on old First Methodist Church, Broadway at Wall.
10-26-64 Richard Nixon visited Everett, spoke to audience in Everett Theater
10-11-64 McCollum Park dedicated
11-7-64 Brothers Four played at Cascade High gym
10-7-64 Everett Park Dept crews planting evergreen trees in new aggregate cup-shaped planters, Herald
11-13-64 Herfy's at 5034 Claremont opened (2nd in chain)
11-21-64 grand opening of A&P at 6308 Evergreen Way
11-30-64 SeaMor Marina, 3878 Railway Ave., gutted by fire
12-12-64 Farm Products closed its doors after 60 years, believed to be the oldest grocery store in town (nw corn Calif. and Lombard)
12-13-64 new Jefferson School at Eastmont officially dedicated, had opened in fall
12-12-64 Farm Products, Calif at Lombard, closed on or near this day, opened 1910
12-19-64 Kash 'n Kart's grand opening in its new building 2201 36th St.
12-30-64 Dennys Restaurant, 2016 Hewitt opened
1-26-65 Skiff 99 Tavern burned, had been built as Glengarry Inn in 1959 I believe
1-29-65 Old 55 at 7308 Evergreen Way was closing and being moved, had opened in 1939
2-03-65 19.7 miles of Everett-Seattle freeway opened (Eastmont to University District)
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
4-10-65 courthouse Annex building razed built 1908
4-15-65 interchanges on I 5 at 128th, 220th, 236th opened
4-25-65 this week a crane pulled down the old sawmill, part of the Delta GN yards
5-18-65 relay station towers on 132nd being dismantled
8-9-65 former Sheraton Trading Post had been added to a remodeled Penneys and was ready to open
8-10-65 signage was completed for 23rd St. being an arterial from Wetmore to Broadway
8-14-65 new Bel-Air apartments, 2501 Rucker, ready for occupancy
9-29-65 Klein Motors at 52nd and Evergreen celebrating grand opening, first garage to move to south end
10-6-65 tround broken for Tyee Aircraft's $103,000 plant at Paine Field
11-10-65 grand opening of Town & Country (T&C) Foods in Eastmont
10-11-65 new Boys Club ready for dedication at 12th and Rainier
12-10-65 Jiff's drive-in now open at 4819 Evergreen Way.
12-25-65 Bon Marche parking garage under construction
12-29-65 announcement that a K Mart was coming to town
1-10-66 fire Maddocks Frozen Food Lockers 2120 Hewitt
3-4-66 Penney's Auto Center ne corner Pac. and Colby opened
3-30-66 Charles R. Denney Youth Center opened
4-13-66 Boeing unveiled 747 program
5-2-66 Boeing publicly said it was "considering" Paine Field for factory
5-17-66 Austin co. began soil sampling and limited clearing on Boeing site
6-16-66 preliminatry construction began at Everett Boeing site
6-17-18-66 Herald Boeing and City announce major factory at Paine Field
9-21-66 K Mart ready to open
9-26-66 Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey in Everett; flew over proposed Boeing site
10-12-66 demolition of old jail, 3017 Rockefeller, taking place; health dept. bldg next door at 3011 already down,
10-24-66 Bobby Kennedy had recently been at Everett Junior College
10-26-66 on or about flagpole on courthouse grounds being moved from between two maple trees to new plaza north of new building, Herald
10-28-66 last fire had flickered at city dump by this date, a landfill was replacing
11-10-66 spur connecting Boeing plant to railroad complete - steepest grade rail line in country
11-14-66 by this date it was announced Weyerhaeuser had ceased all open burning of refuse, instead landfill near Kraft Mill, 
12-17-66 By this date demolition had begun on the old Snohomish Co. Detention Home on court house block.
12-21-66 sky bridge betwen Bon Marche and new parking garage going up over Wetmore, Herald on or about this date
12-24-66 new architectural firm David Dykeman Jr. and Charles B. Ogden in Minor-Jones Bldg. 1712 Pacific  
1-3-67 first work started on Boeing 747, work started inside unfinished 747 plant
1-21-67 detention home being torn down, Granada Hotel being torn down, First Natl. Bank to be torn down.
3-28-67 construction had started on Puget Park Drive-In 128th and fwy
4-27-67 7-story addition going up at Gen'l Hosp.
4-27-67 Behars Furniture & Carpet to have grand opening starting tomorrow, 2100 Bdwy
5-1-67 Boeing 747 plant officially opened, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p87
5-4-67 old Garske Packing Plant 7214 Evgn Way burned while being razed
5-21-67 Bon Marche fire
6-26-67 Equator freed from Jetty this week.Had been there since 8-56
7-21-67 new courthouse wing dedicated five-story attached to Mission Bldg
7-26-67 final graduating class for General Hospital School of Nursing
8-5-67 about  Northwestern Lumber Co. ceasing operation on 15 acre site, purchased by E.A. Nord next door north, Herald article
8-14-67 Harborview Park leased annually from railroad
8-31-67 Jamison Mill destroyed by fire
9-2-67 old C-B mill destroyed by arson fire
10-7-67 Everett Assistant Guild became Everett Assistance League
11-26-67 new Immaculate Conception church consecrated
12-16-67 grand opening of Sea-First in new bldg., Hewitt & Colby
1-18-68 opening of freeway from 41st to the river
2-1-68 Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield played a concert at EvCC
2-13-68 P-40 being taken down from Tony Dyre's 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
3-16-68 Everett Plywood fire
4-24-68 Eagles (Wisconsin Block) at Hewitt and Hoyt gutted by firre
9-16-68 Valley View neighborhood opened this week
9-30-68 first Boeing 747 jumbo jet - the City of Everett - rolled out of Everett plant, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 92
12-12-68 demolition began on Granada Theater building
2-09-69 inaugural flight of first 747
2-19-69 Boeing became the county's biggest taxpayer
2-12-69 Sears moved to what would be Everett Mall
3-27-69 alumina dome on waterfront nearly completed Seattle Times
3-31-69 Bank of Everett branch at 4601 Elm began operations   Herald 6-29-76
4-8-69 new west bound trestle opened
4-9-69 grand opening of Fidelity Savings at northeast corner of Hewitt and Wetmore
4-26-69 quitting sale started for Van Winkle Furniture, 2731 Wetmore
4-29-69 Normanna Hall burned
5-2-69 Paul Alley camera shop, 2820 Colby, burned
5-7-69 Providence Hospital Nursing School builidng on 3100 Nassau being razed
5-14-69 new Safeway store opened on 4100 Rucker
5-14-69 Everett Marysville freeway opened from river across flats (Snohomish River to Ebey Slough - 4 miles)
5-27-69 last wigwam burner in Everett, Scott's on Norton, went down last week.
7-4-69 Der Wienerschnitzel, 5905 Evergreen Way to open in August
7-9-69 first 747 test flight, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 93
7-9-69 MacPherson's Realty had opened at 5917 Evergreen Way
7-10-69 Alumina Dome ready for first loading
7-11-69 beginning grand opening fiesta at Taco Bell, 5821 Evergreen Way
7-11-69 construction of Everett's first Mcdonald's had begun at 7416 Evergreen Way
7-30-69 fire in Monte Cristo lounge
9-20-69 Baker View Apts, 15th & Baker dedicated
10-13-69 Alumina Dome on waterfront dedicated
12-12-69 Boeing delivered first 747 (a 747-100) to Pan Am
1-5-70 five day open house started for First Federal Savings and Loan Assn. in their new building sw cor. Everett and Colby
1-14-70 Kentucky Fried Chicken now open at 4131 Rucker, KFC at 2702 Broadway had opened a few months ago
1-21-70 747 entered commercial servie with Pan Am
3-1-70 old Garfield School being demolished
3-2-70 Merger of Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Spokane, Portland and Seattle, and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy under Burlington Northern, would lead to close NP depot and yards and freight depot
3-10-70 grand opening of Safety Tire Service Co. 3002 Hoyt
3-24-70 fire South Junior auditorium
3-26-70 grand opening of Warehouse Food Store, 5231 Evergreen
3-27-70 grand opening of Shoreline Savings, 5029 Evergreen
3-28-70 last day for Pete Backlezos' shoe repair shop at 2827 Colby, had opened 4-4-36
4-24-70 Wallace Pontiac Cadillac grand opening at 7300 Evergreen Way
4-29-70 bronze figure sculpture put in place on courthouse campus
5-30-70 public opening of Highland Memorial Park
7-15-70 fire station at 16th and McDougall dedicated
9-19-70 Joe Pignataro grand opening at 3014 Rucker, had been Sevenichs
10-27-70 demo had stared for Everpark garage 2800 Hoyt
12-6-70 big fire Howarth Bldg
12-21-70 Everett Marine Ways near Pier 2 being dismantled
1-16-71 last Milwaukee R.R. freight train. the Everett local, pulled out of Everett
1-29-71 with name of Scott Paper Company recently changed to Scott, only Scott was now lit on the neon sign atop the digester building
1-31-71 open house at Purdy & Walters after a remodel
3-20-71 what could become Maggies Park at then west end of Everett Ave. would be completed in a week or so
3-26-71 one-way traffic on California and Wall reversed, California switched to eastbound and Wall to westbound
3-29-71 temporary mall going up on 2800 Colby, called April Park
4-23-71 Peoples Park (Jordan Park) dedicated (Herald 4-22-71), see 5-11-71, wonder which is right
5-7-71 Garfield School being razed
5-11-71 Jordan Park between 13th and 14th on waterfront was completed, dedication came later during Salty Sea Days, see 4-23-71
5-13-71 White Front opened, building would later become Bon Marche at Everett Mall (article about building it 1-28-70)
5-14-71 water tower at Eclipse Mill taken down, office building to go on space
6-12-71 Friedlander fire that destroyed the second story of the Realty Bldg 
6-12-71 dedication services for Forest Park Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 4132 Federal
6-21-71 decision made to close Longfellow School for coming school year
6-24-71 Fidelity Mutual Savings Bank had purchased Colby and Hewitt buildings on Sw corn Hewitt and Colby
6-30-71 J.K. Gill purchased Black & King, 2944 Colby and completed inventory
7-1-71 Zip 98201, changed to this as well as 98203, 98204 and 98205  Herald story 2-24-71
7-3-71 Newberrys to close and had to vacate by this date (ad 6-28-71)
7-22-71 traffic  discontinued permanently on 3000 Rockefeller for new courthouse construction and mall
7-23-71 Behars furniture, 2105 Broadway, had undergone another major remodel since 1967
8-13-71 Realty Bldg being rebuilt as single story bldg after fire
8-13-71 Quigley Clinic bldg Hewitt & Grand being demolished
8-23-71 Everpark garage would be open next week
8-27-71 had been decided that OLPH and SMM would drop 9th grade, IC did last year when public schools went to 4 year high schools
9-10-71 last day for Spudnut Shop, 3016 Colby, opened 1948
9-30-71 tearing down Northern Pacific freight office building to enlarge B&M at Everett Ave. and Broadway
10-20-71 dedication of improved Howarth Park
11-3-71 Holiday Olds went out of business
11-4-71 Laycock Motors in place of Holiday Olds
11-17-71 new Safeway on 1700 Broadway open, old building next to Broadway being demolished
11-18-71 The Daisy opened this week in Colby Bldg, Millers had moved out months ago
11-23-71 Fashion Fabrics now open where Newberrys had been at 2814 Colby
11-25-71 announcement from fire department that all rooms above first floor in Monte Cristo Hotel would have to be vacated due to code violations etc.
3-7-72 Edward Hartley, Bayside Shingle, Hartley Shingle and genl manager of Clough-Hartley Co. died in Everett Hospital (Herald)
4-14-72 Equator placed on the Natl. Register (first Everett property so listed)
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, grand opening was 5-18
5-12-72 Wallace Pontiac-Cadillac 7300 Evergreen Way quitting business
5-22-72 B&M grand reopening of enlarged store to Broadway, 2615 Broadway
5-27-72 dedication of Walter E. Hall Park
5-29-72 rest area in south Everett on freeway nearly ready for use
6-23-72 A&W had reopened in new building at same location 4532 Evergreen
7-20-72 Pier 2 being demolished
8-1-72 rest area in south Everett on freeway opened today
10-4-72 Simpson Lee mill now closed see Herald on this date
11-9-72 about 25 Indians who occupied BIA offices in Fed Bldg yesterday ousted today
12-15-72 Herald article about Everett Mall going up
2-9-73
3-19-73 new six-story courthouse bldg now open to public
5-27-73 etermal flame on granite monument dedicated at county courthouse mall
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
2-15-74 Cinema I, II, III opened 1512 S Bdwy (in Everett Mall) opened D.D. Footlights
4-8-74 Everett Trust and Savings officially opened in new large brick bldg 4200 Rucker
2-17-75 demolition of Colby Bldg began this week
3-20-75 Everett Herald reported that Western Gear built the machinery used by Hughes Glomar Explorer to raise sunket Soviet submarine
6-11-75 Lions Park dedicated
6-14-75 Country Kitchen opened in new bldg on southwest corner of 41st and Colby
7-31-75 fire tuerks 3802 bdwy Herald
10-15-75 Everett Fred Meyer opened
2-16-76 former Woolworth building at Hewitt and Colby being demolished
3-25-76 foundation work being done on Cascade Bank bldg NW Hewitt & Colby
3-31-76 first girder in 'Erector Set' 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
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
7-13-76 demolition of Everett Plywood (Robinson), had been closed last fall
7-28-76 Greg's 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
1-1-77 Everett Trust and Savings Bank became Olympic Bank
1-21-77 Weyerhaeuser Mill C closed today
3-22-77 David Dilgard and Margaret Riddle started the Northwest Room at the Everett Public Library
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
4-22-78 Lloyd Hardware auction
1-27-79 rededication of Civic Auditorium
2-2-79 four-way traffic signals and stop signs to go at Murphy's Cor.
2-4-79 Chinese vice premier Ten Hsiao-ping at 747 plant
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
6-22-79 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
9-25-79 overturned BN tank car with liquid propane, Colby, Pacific, Walnut Everett, evacuated.
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
1-1-80 $18 million marina on Everett waterfront completed
1-24-80 dental office bldg started at northwest corner 35th and Colby
4-15-80 Erickson Bros Furniture bldg at 2810 Bdwy burned to ground
6-30-80 Deaconess Childrens 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
9-12-80 James J. Hill Park, Hewitt & Broadway, dedicated
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
1-16-81 Bill Dobler sold Chaffee's
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
4-5-81 first Sunday paper for 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
7-29-81 Wave II, part of revitalization program in mid 1970s, was moved this week from the east side of 2800 Colby, to the boat launch park on the waterfront.
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
10-20-81 Everett Pacific Hotel, Pacific and Pine, opened
10-31-81 W.T. Preston retired
1-10-82 Jim Casey last column in Herald, moved to editor
1-27-82 Nedra Blooms 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 Chaffee's closing store at Everett Mall, had operated 18 months
2-26-82 Foremost Dairy 52nd & Evergreen closed, 36 yrs. old
3-17-82 decision made to change parts of E. Grand, Walnut, Alverson and Norton to Marine View Dr. (E & W)
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
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)
6-29-82 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
9-23-82 new wing now opened at View Ridge School
9-30-82 dedication of View Ridge School Special Services Wing(ground broken 6-10-81)
10-20-82 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
11-7-82 USA Today hit newsstands
11-15-82 Washington State Lottery started
11-29-82 3 Fed. judges ruled taking Everett out of 2nd District unconstitutional
12-20-82 fire at General Hospital
1-29-83 General Hospital 4-story Critical Care Tower opened
3-23-83 first 747-300 delivered  - to Swissair Bob Mayer
3-29-83 Everett reinstated into the 2nd Congressional District
5-13-83 The two smokestacks at Weyerhaeuser Mill B knocked down by explosives
6-7-83 counterbalance was being blown up on the old Ebey Is. Jack Knife Bridge, new adjacent bridge built in 1976
7-5-83 blaze destroyed four bldgs on ne cor of Hewitt and Norton
9-01-83 Sen. Henry M. Jackson died
9-7-83 Sen Jackson's funeral at Presbyterian Church, majority of Senate, House and Supreme Court here,  H. Kissinger, G.H.W. Bush, Ted Kennedy present
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 Jackson, christened by Anna Marie Jackson, in Groton, Conn.
11-3-83 Olsons bought B&M at Everett Ave. & Bdwy
11-23-83 off shore drilling rig docked this week near foot of Pacific Ave.
3-7-84 announcement Olympic Bank to become part of First Interstate
3-16-84 recent groundbreaking for Everett Marina Village
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
9-84 dedication of Broadway Plaza Apts.
9-8-84 canvas top removed from Forest Park pool, permanent roof would replace
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
1-6-85 old Alvin Apts, 2614 Wetmore burned, one fatality, torn down soon after
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
5-2-85 storm that destroyed elm tree 2130 rucker Herald 5-2-85
5-9-85 Hurds mens store closed
5-11-85 Kasch Park dedicated
5-16-85 beginning of closing sale at Hurd's Store for Men, 2802 Colby
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
7-5-85 two fires on Jetty Is.
7-27-85 new Pay 'n Save opened today at Everett Mall Plaza, sixth in county
1-25-86 last day for J.C. Penneys store
4-9-86 building at s.w. corn. Hewitt and Rockefeller burned
6-10-86 Montes at Colby and California announced it would close soon, Scattergoods had moved from 2609 to 2802 Colby
6-27-86 Honeywell Harbour Pointe facility opened
6-29-86 grand opening of BEST, formerly Jafco
9-27-86 Eli Creekmore died
10-26-86 police shakedown starting at shantytown along Snohomish River from about 38th south
12-31-86 Western Gear closes for good for Navy  Bob Mayer
1-13-87 old Murphy Corner Grocery bulldozed.
1-20-87 old Getchell house in Lowell being dismantled
2-16-87 student union bldg at ECC burned - arson, firefighter Gary Parks died
6-6-87 groundbreaking for Kasch Park
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.s first professional hit, a homerun that landed at 38th and Lombard
7-17-87 grand opening of Cascade Plaza, 76th and Evergreen, stores: Mervyn's, Lipman's, That's My Baby
7-28-87 Sno Co Airport officially dedicated new runway 16L-34R, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 116
8-5-87 work had started on Everett Mall expansion that included food court
9-25-87 last day for Hall's Pharmacy, 2724 Colby
10-26-87 fire at abandoned bark storage building at Weyerhaeuser river property
11-09-87 groundbreaking for Navy
11-15-87 Ocean Odyssey oil drilling platform left Everett after spending nearly 2 years on waterfront
4-9-88 Grand opening for Pioneer Tails development in se Everett
5-1-88 Bakers sold the ambulance business to Shannon
5-30-88 Veterans' memorial in front of old city hall dedicated
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
10-16-88 Gary Parks Bldg at ECC dedicated
10-31-88 VOA new human service center on sw Calif and Bdwy open to public
11-19/20 88 grand opening of Washington Oakes retirement home
1-26-89 first 747-400 delivered - to Northwest Airlines Bob Mayer
3-13-89 high school and middle school students in Everett School Dist. no longer required to take showers.
3-22-89 3201 Hoyt Norman House burned, one fatality
9-28-89 Everett Theater, now triplexed, closed  D.D. Footlights
11-17-89 Upper Ridge Rd closed north of 73rd St.
8-15-90 Everett's first Starbucks, 2615 Bdwy
8-23-90 modified 747 delivered for use as Air Force One
12-8-90 old ice arena 2800 Norton burned destroyed
5-14-91 2214 Bdwy fire
6-7-91 first graduating class (8) at Holy Cross (now Archbishop Murphy) High School
8-10-91 addition to Everett Public Library completed
9-05-91 ribbon cutting for Navy
10-10-91 Everett Public Library addition dedication
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 (not to be confused with county museum)
2-23-93 President Bill Clinton at Everett Boeing plant
8-6-93 inagural opening of Everett Community Theater, gala grand opening a week later
9-10-93 Everett Theater reopened by Everett Theatre Society  D.D. Footlights
11-19-93 1,000th 747 delivered
3-1-94 Providence and General hospitals merged 
6-11-94 grand reopening of Monte Cristo Hotel
6-23-94 Eagle Hardware opened on  at 2505 Pacific Ave. near Fulton St.  Later it became Lowes.
12-3-94 dedication of Hnery M. Jackson H.S. in Mill Creek
2-9-95 Morrie Olson sold Olsons Food Stores to Max Food stores
4-18-95 film Assassins being filmed at Evergreen Cemetery
6-21-95 demo began on administration bldg (an abomination) in front of main bldg at EHS; it was hated by all, or was it 6-2-95
7-18-95 announcement that Kimberly Clark would buy Scott Paper
9-30-95 Everett High School rededicated
1-8-97 USS Abraham Lincoln first arrived (had been in Bremerton)
4-8-97 Coastal Community Bank opened on Colby about now
9-30-97 Removal of Mukilteo Tank Farm Bertrand Arcadia book p69
10-28-97 groundbreaking for Westview Bldg, Lombardi's Cucina
2-28-01 Nisqually Earthquake, centered farther south but shook Everett
4-30-01 workers safety monument dedicated on courthouse west lawn
5-21-01 Victor David convicted of second degree assault for keeping his wife in a boat near Priest Point
5-26-01 4007 Wetmore burned
9-11-01 two Everett-built 767s destroyed in terrorist attack
11-14-01 Pacific Ave. overpass opened
1-17-02 Lowell Snohomish River Road opened after being closed for six years
1-30-02 new Safeway at 41st & Rucker opened, other store on site closed yesterday,  Larry ODonnell was the last customer in the old store and the first in the new
1-31-02 first meeting of what  would become Historic Everett, at home of Loretta Balduan
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
1-31-03 Wetmore between 26th and 37th returned to two-way street.  Section  between 19th and 26th was last  fall about when those blocks on Hoyt were.
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 r.r. 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. Extension to Hwy 9 opened today
9-8-03 Assistance League in new building about 5100 Evergreen Wy
9-16-03 2 gantries offloaded on port today
9-27-03 new Everett (ice) Arena opened to public
10-16-03 Paine air-traffic control tower opened (No. 3) official dedication on 10-31 Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 121
8-27-04 John Kerry at Everett Events Center
10-27-04 Childrens Museum Imagine opened southeast corner of Hoyt and Wall
12-5-04 Grand Opening of Lamoureux Bldg, sw corner 19th & Wetmore
1-23-05 Plasma center building at Calif. and Hoyt burned
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
4-19-06 China President Hu in Everett and vicinity
5-17-06 Everetts 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
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 11-29-47
12-1-06 Silver Lake QFC last day
1-1-07 Whitehorse Hall  ECC opened
1-10-07 last day for Crown Image 3231 Bdwy, but it stayed open and then moved next door before closing for good in 2010
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
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
11-15-07 announcement that Everett Stn was top choice for UW north branch campus
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
6-25-08 2721 Wetmore destroyed by fire
9-13-08 Jimmy Z, 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
2-23-09 last game in EJC gym recently - get exact date, building razed later in year
11-2-09 State Rte. 529 between Everett and Marysville named Yellow Ribbon Highway, also have seen 11-5 as the date
11-30-09 Community Transit Swift Buses start between Everett Station and Aurora Village
12-15-09 787 Dreamliner made first flight from Paine Field, Bertram Arcadia Paine book p95
1-29-10 last performance of Everett Symphony, it came back with different organizaiton
2-8-10 747-8 first flight, Everett
6-15-10 Port commissioners voted unanimously to destroy the Collins Bldg., destruction began two days later
6-28-10 demolition of Redmen Hall (1958), 1611 California St., began this week
9-1-10 Theodore Ohms shot at officers and fled scene on I-5, caught behind 7103 Olympic Dr.
9-7-10 aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln left Everett
9-7-10 area around Everpark garage denuded by cutting down 9 trees on hoyt and 2 on california
10-15-10 Mormon church in Harbour Pointe destroyed by fire
10-16-10 Paine Field's west entrance named Bernie Webber Dr., Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 127
12-23-10 announcement Everett Police Chief Jim Scharf retiring, successor Kathy (Solie) Atwood first woman
2-18-11 Claremont post office apparently closed
4-30-11 grand opening of Schack Art Center, 2921 Hoyt
5-12-11 Gov. Gregoire signed bill bringing WSU to ECC campus
6-14-11 grand opening of new Providence Regional Center, 1700 13th St.
8-12-11 first 747-8 delivered
12-7-11 last departure of USS Lincoln
2-17-12 President Obama spoke in Everett at Boeing plant
3-9-12 USS Nimitz arrived at new home Everett
4-15-12 last day for Kimberly Clark mill,
5-30-12 dedication and unveiling of statue of Sen. Henry M. Scoop Jackson at Grand Ave. Park across from his home (tomorrow centennial of his birth) 
8-12-12 old (1950s) section of View Ridge School torn down now, 1982 addition torn down last year, new building ready for start of school this fall.
11-8-12 one fatality fire destroyed McCrossen Bldg
12-19-12 city council voted to rename old city hall for former mayor Bill Moore
1-12-13 old digester bldg at K-Clark-Scott-Soundview destroyed today during demolition of entire mill
2-17-13 Pres Obama spoke at Boeing plant
4-23-13 dedication of new View Ridge Elementary School building
4-29-13 first Everett Herald printed at Paine Field
8-29-13 Runway 16L-34R clebrated reopening
9-10-13 Port of Everett accept transfer of Tank Farm from USAF Bertrand Arcadia book p 69
10-1-13 Air Guard at Paine Field officially decommissioned, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 83
10-18-13 U.S. Air Force tank farm on Mukilteo waterfront was officially taken over by Port of Everett.
10-31-13 Everett-based frigate USS Ford decommissioned
11-19-13 Everett School district in their new headquarters building at 3900 Bdwy
12-15-13 one fatality fire in Hodges Bldg
1-12-14 first service of Mars Hill church in old Armory building
1-28-14 Air Force announced ti would use Everett-built 747-8 for Air Force One
3-30-14 last day Herald in building at 2700 Grand, moved to 1800 41st
6-19-14 dedication of new school district ad center on Bdwy near 41st
7-1-14 WSU took control of Univesity Center at ECC today
7-30-14 Hampton Inn opened at 2931 W Marine View Dr.
9-12-14 first license marijuana retailer in Everett ready to open soon at 1824 Broadway.  Tribune 9-10-14 p1
9-13-14 City Hall rededicated as William E. Moore Historic City Hall
12-16-14 1,500th 747 delivered
1-23-15 scheduled decommisioning of USS Rodney M. Davis at Naval Station
1-23-15 USS Rodney M Davis dcommissioned in formal ceremony here (27 years old), last frigate in fleet
3-4-15 Haggen's opened in old Super Safeway Store at 75th and Evergreen (old Everett Motor Movie site)
3-25-15 Rodney Davis towed to Bremerton to be sold to a foreign navy
12-8-15 2800 Broadway reopened today with completion of new bridge over the railroad tracks
12-14-15 Everett Motel, 1115 Broadway has been torn down, cleaning debris now
1-21-16 Boeing announced another 747 production rate cut, starting Sept. 6 planes a year CHECK THIs-
1-26-16 Fosket bldg NE cor. 12th and Bdwy now demolished, tavern two doors north went a litte before, but after Everett Motel
3-2-16 first 727 ever built made final trip from Everett to Seattle
7-13-16 Boeing celebrated centennial
7-14-16 Fortive, a Fortune 500 co., opened at 6920 Seaway Blvd.
7-15-16 Weyerhaeuser Bldg. moved to its fourth location
10-5-16 Smith St. Mill or Buse mill off 36th east of Smith is being dismantled
10-28-16 Courtyard by Marriot hotel at Colby and Wall opened
12-13-16 Dutch Bros. Coffee opened at 2202 Broadway
12-14-16 Popeye's restaurant opened 6502 Evergreen Way (site of old Grove Tavern) building gone now
2-28-17 last day for China Doll restaurant 3001 Broadway  It reopened under a new name
8-15-17 open house neW building WSU N Puget Sound at Everett, University Center, 915 Broadway, classes to start later in month
8-19-17 open house at new Funko headquarters 2802 Wetmore
9-25-17 2931 Broadway destroyed by fire
2-6-18  soft official first day at Grand Marketplace? 2900 Grand, closed Sept. 14 same year
3-1-18 ribbon cutting grand opening of Grand Marketplace 
4-30-18 demolition began on old Everett School District office building, 4700 Colby, portables first
6-9-18 groundbreaking for new YMCA, 4730 Colby where school district office was
9-22-18 Judd and Black in old Bast and Russell buildings, northeast corner Hewitt and Maple, destroyed by fire.
1-29-19 Everett an answer on Jeopardy aired tonight
2-11-19 first modern era scheduled flight from Paine Field, Everett to Las Vegas on Alaska, didn't happen
3-4-19 first flight from Paine Field, 10:00 a.m. Alaska Airlines 2878 to Portland 
4-18-19 open house at new Cocoon House 3530 Colby, first tenants moved in next day
7-13-19 Judd&Black bldgs (Bast and one east) all but finished being torn down after fire Herald 7-13-19
9-4-19 students in new building at North Middle, only part of 1981 bldg saved gym, Herald 9-6-19
9-5-19 Sears at Everett Mall to close by end of year, opened 1969, Herald article on this date
9-13-19 Index Hall at ECC gone down to foundation, debris there
9-21-19 decommissioning of old YMCA at California and Rockefeller and march to new Y about 47th and Colby, old still open and new not yet open
9-30-19 single-use plastic ban went into effect here today
10-2-19 formal opening of Indigo Hotel 1028 13th St., soft opening earlier
11-16-19 last day for YMCA at California and Rockefeller
11-23-19 ribbon cutting for new Colby YMCA
12-1-19 new YMCA on south Colby to open






Snohomish County

7-5-61 first post office in county established at Mukilteo
7-4-89 Monte Cristo named by Joseph Pearsall
3-22-90 Wallace platted - name changed to Startup in 1901
3-19-90 Monroe post office established
6-23-91 Hartford townsite filed 
8-26-91 Silverton christened as a town
12-8-91 Index post office established
6-2-92 Stanwood big fire
3-2-93 Monte Cristo townsite filed
7-22-93 Index big fire
8-22-02 Silvana big fire
5-25-03 Arlington incorporated
4-1-04 Meadowdale named by Robert Maltby
8-6-04 Meadowdale post office established, discontinued 4-30-39
6-28-05 Sultan incorporated officially, voting was on 6-10, filing at county level on 6-19, registered on this date
2-8-08 Lake Stevens platted
4-9-09 Lakewood (English) post office established
5-30-10 great fire of Snohomish
7-30-10 Seattle Heights  post office established
5-7-11 first airplane flight in county at Harvey Park, Snohomish
9-11-11 Monroe High School opened
1-22-14 Tulalip Tribes celebrated completion of longhouse
3-21-16 Lake Stevens post office established
7-2-21 Big Four Inn opened, burned 1949
4-24-23 Pilchuck Julia died,  about 83 years old  Herald article on this date
5-1-23 Edmonds Kingston ferry to begin
11-18-23 Birmingham name changed to Warm Beach
12-22-23 new power lines in Silver Lake area and from Marysville to Edgecomb H 12-24-23 p5
12-29-24 new Snohomish H.S. gym completed  Herald 1-1-24 P. 12
1-26-25 proposed work on ndw county farm structure to replace frame structure, Monroe
5-30-26 Memorial Day Al Faussett rode spruce log over Sunset Falls
9-6-26 Labor Day Al Faussett rode a log over Eagle Falls
10-25-27 Hwy 99 completed near 164th
12-2-27 Bicycle Tree near Snohomish toppled
3-17-28 Mukilteo School burned
9-14-28 new Rosehill School in Mukilteo dedicated
6-1-29 opening day for Hillcrest Course, later Cedarcrest
6-15-29 opening day for Edgewater golf course between Everett and Marysville where Buse Mill is in 2018
9-12-31 paved road from Alderwood Manor to Highway 99 recently completed
6-15-34 Alderwood Water District groundbreaking at s.w. corner of 13th (Meadow Rd.) & 164th (Martha Lake Rd.)
7-17-34 bridge opened over s. Fork Stilly east of Granite Falls
3-12-36 Rexs 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
6-4-36 fire destroyed old Clough Lumber Mill in Stanwood
8-19-36 new Verlot bridge dedicated, program following at Canyon Cr. Lodge
7-30-37 Barker-Knapp Tie Mill in Hartford destroyed by fire
12-30-37 train derailed by mudslide near Monroe
2-10-38 first Canyon Creek Lodge burned to ground, rebuilt
4-30-39 Meadowdale post office discontinued, established 8-6-04
5-27-39 Norwegian crown prince and princess rode through cedar stump in its new (third) location alongside then-new Hwy 99
8-11-39 Monroe Jr. High finished
8-31-40 Arlingtons municipal airport became a navy airport
10-21-41 Marysville Bank had moved from 2nd and State to new building at 4th and State
12-1-41 Barlow Darrington part of Mt. Loop Hwy about finished
6-26-43 US Naval Aux air Stn Arlington dedicated
7-22-43 Stanwood Shipyard launched first ocean-going barge
1-27-44 East Stanwood Lincoln High strike
3-23-44 Monroe flax mill destroyed by fire, the Carnation condensory
9-26-45 Darrington became an incorporated town
1-24-46 marysville theater to be remodeled
4-18-46 Russian tanker leaking oil of Kayak Point
4-5-46 Snohomish airfield nearing completion
11-2-46 Smokey Point opened in building formerly housing Rex's Place (see 10 years earlier)
3-14-47 fire destroyed Russell Haggard's gas stn on ne cor Alderwood-Edmonds Rd and Hwy 99, reportedly first bldg in Lynnwood
4-26-47 Hank Gaul's Shop for Men opened at First and Cedar, Snohomish
4-27-47 Arlington Airfield rededicated to peace time
5-8-47 Mukilteo incorporated
2-18-48 mail train pushed into Sound south of Mukilteo
6-1-48 Sno-King Drive In movie opened.
6-16-48 Lynnwood post office established
4-1-49 county farm, count hosp became count's first Grade A NursingHome in addition to hosp, Monroe
9-7-49 Big Four Inn burned, opened 1921
5-01-51 Union Oil Refinery in Edmonds about to open
5-02-51 highway between Monroe and Sultan about finished
6-1-51 last original mill in Edmonds closed
9-1-51 Cedar Valley Grange bldg moved to another location over summer
9-12-52 Highway 1-A opened between Snohomish and Vernon Road 5.3 miles
8-20-53 riot at Monroe Reformatory, set buildings ablaze, one killed
9-4-53 Martha Lake and Mountlake Terrace schools to open this fall
10-1-53 by now route out of Marysville to Tulalip was changed from 8th to 4th
10-31-53 Warm Beach Post Office, located in Morrison General Store, closed
11-23-54 incorporation vote okayed for MLTerrace
7-23-54 Marysville B&M under construction
10-28-054 new Red Bridge up, new bridge at Verlot still under construction
10-30-54 east lanes of Marysville bypass opened
11-23-54  vote for MLTerrace incorporation
12-6-54 other 2 lanes of Marysville bypass opened.
12-5-54 W.A. Irwin, who named Alderwood Manor died at 90
1-19-55 nearing completion the Snohomish turn off that bypassed Cavaleros Corner at east end of trestle
8-27-55 Granite Falls fishway dedicated
1-5-56 serious road slide at Woodway
3-2-56 2 F-89 fighters crashed near Darrington killing 4, discovered 6-21-56
8-9-56 new bridge over Pilchuck River on Robe Menzel Road, or Menzel Lake Rd?
8-24-56 turnoff to Snohomish at east end of trestle eliminating Cavaleros Corner opened this week.
1-7-57 Edmonds new Great Northern passenger station opened
1-27-57 open house for new St. Pius School in MLTerrace
2-20-57 Edmonds' Brokkside Inn destroyed by fire
5-30-57 shaft to Pilchuck Julia, GAR cem., Snohomish, dedicated
6-11-57 new pool nearing completion at Camp Sevenich
1-26-58 Arlington hospital dedicated
2-18-58 Woodway incorporated
2-25-58 dedication of new Edmonds High School (at Holmes Corner)
4-16-58 E. Sunnyside School torched by fire departments
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 Hwy 1-A opened from Lake Stevens to Getchell Road.
11-8-58 new Purdy and Dawson funeral home in Snohomish
12-23-58 11 mi. of 4 lane hwy opened from Little Pilchuck Hill to Conway, could go from Columbia R. to Burlington on 4 lanes on Hwy 99
1-17-59 new Thomle Bridge over Stillaguamish recently completed
5-13-59 night fire at Reinell Boatworks in Marysville
5-24-59 El Rancho (formerly Ranch and Doc Hamiltons) road house at 220th and Hwy 99 destroyed by fire,
7-7-59 30 hostages held at knifepoint at Monroe Reformatory, rescued
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
12-31-59 announcement of new shopping center in Lake Stevens (Frontier Village)
6-15-60 Frontier Village B&M opened?, post office there established
6-17-60 Warm Beach Camp and Conference Cetner officially opened.
7-12-60 fire downtown Monroe
7-23-60 announcement of new stop light to be installed at 220th and Hwy 99
9-20-60 new weigh station opened on west side of Hwy 99 north of Marysville
10-28-60 fire dept. burned old 3-story Leland Hotel in Darrington
12-14-60 Hazel Oelrich, Sultan, daughter of banker escaped from kidnapper
1-21-61 Garland Hot Sprs. Lodge burned
8-26-61 Green Valley Airfield on Burn Rd. dedicated
9-5-61 Spruce, Maplewood and Meadowdale Jr. in Edmonds School District
9-29-61 Hwy 1-A from Hunter Rd. to Division St. Arlington dedicated, might double check
12-19-61 Herald noted that 134 foot smoke stack at Monroe Reformatory dynamited
12-20-61 Meadowdale Jr. High dedicated
4-21-62 two in MLTerrace on U.S. Air Force crash for opening of Century 21 World's Fair in Seattle
5-22-62 grand opening of restaurant seciton of Taylor's Ferry Lunch, Mukilteo 
6-4-62 first concert of Cascade Symphony founded  by Robt. Anderson in April 1962, passed on 5-11-12 at 94
6-8-62 Jennings family gave land to Marysville for park
8-9-62 completed on Arlington-Darrington Hwy: Hazel by-pass, Fortson to White Horse
11-5-62 dedication of Lake Stevens Jr. High
10-12-62 planned dedication for Wayside Chapel between Monroe and Sultan
11-8-62 dedication of Seaview Hts. Elem., Edmonds
11-8-62 ribbon cutting of new seciton 1-Y east from Stanwood
11-15-62 grand opening of Lynn Village Furniture, 19215 Hwy 99
11-16-62 Willard Wyatt Bridge over Sky at Sultan dedicated
11-17-62 Edmonds Civic Center dedicated
11-29-62 downtown Alderwood Manor became part of Lynnwood
2-28-63 grand opening of new Safeway, 4th and State, Marysville
3-1-63 Great Northern Railway company greenhouse in Monroe was closed today after 37 years
3-6-63 county park and recreation dept. had been created.
3-11-63 Cedarcrest clubhouse destroyed by fire
4-16-63 North Lynnwood branch post office, Hwy 99 and 176th
5-22-63 grand opening of Lynn Theatre, Lynnwood
7-5-63 Marysville Shake Co. burned
9-15-63 Cheetah Plastic Co. plant on Marshall Rod. three miles north of Marysville fire
9-23-63 opening date for new Moose Lodge, Marysville
9-30-63 Lynnwood Elementary opened
10-19-63 dedication of new Peterson Bridge over Stillaguamish and Larson Bridge on Happy Hollow Road
11-21-63 Madrona Jr. High dedicated
12-9-63 Lynnwood Elementary formally dedicated
1-31-64 Alderwood Manor Post Office closed as an independent and opened next day as a Lynnwood branch.
6-3-64 direct nation-wide dialing now available to WCTC Halls Lake exchange
8-22-64 grand opening of King Charley's drive-in, Hwy 1-A and John Jump Rd.
8-29-64 a contract had been signed between Seattle garbage co. and Tulalip tribes to use tidelands southwest of Marysville for a sanitary fill (Herald front page)
8-29-64 grand opening of Wayne's Village Inn, Snohomish
9-63-64 Scott Forestry Trail off Getchell Road dedicated
9-16-64 work going on six miles of Arlington Darrington highway
9-20-64 dedication of Holy Rosary School, Edmonds
11-21-64 grand opening of Town and Country Dodge 20600 Highway 99
11-22-64 Lake Stickney School dedicated.
2-02-65 Brier incorporated
2-10-65 Monroe-Bothell cutoff opened near this time
2-11-65 Monroe-Woodinville cutoff opened
3-21-65 dedication of new First Assembly of God bldg, Marysville
4-15-65 traffic signal at Hwy 99 and 176th (this might've been 1966)
5-4-65 Marsyville School Board had decided to demolish 1931 Lincoln School building damaged in earthquake
9-25-65 dedication of Island Crossing overpass and diamond approaches to freeway
1-8-66 new Lynnwood Elks dedicated
6-20-66 3-alarm fire had detoryed Bell Sign co., 20629 Hwy 99, Lynnwood
6-24-66 new Chappell Bridge now open on Jordan Rd. just north of Granite Falls.
10-23-66 deer hunter discovered wreckage of Paine Field P-39 Aircobra on Green Mt. near Granite Falls, plane crashed 1942/43
11-4-67 Oak Hts. Elem opened this week, after double shifting with Martha Lake Elem.  Herald article
3-18-68 Canyon Creek Lodge burned 
5-9-68 Oak Heights Elem. dedicated, had opened for students previous fall after double shifting with Martha Lake
8-26-68 groundbreaking for Martha Lake Community Clubhouse
8-31-68 3 day Sky River Rock Festival near Sultan
12-4-68 Lynnwood Fred Meyer opened
2-2-69 Darrington's Pioneer Hotel burned
6-6-69 Great Northern crash in Marysville killed two and destroyed depot
8-5-69 I 405 opened from Swamp Cr to Woodinville to two-way traffic on the northbound lanes, under construction since Apirl 1967
9-9-69 announcement that cedar stump would move to rest area
10-17-69 dedication of new highway to Stanwood
10-18-69 Mays Pond opened
12-11-69 grand opening of Lakeside Gardens, 13515 Manor Way on Lake Stickney
1-7-70 Losvar's Mukilteo Boathouse to close.
1-14-70 Taylor's Landing in Mukilteo had undergone a major remodel
1-31-70 21 Oaks to open this weekend
7-27-70 Totem Beach resort, in business since 1941, was closing down.
1-26-71 Sunnycrest School dedicated about this time
3-30-71 Mission Beach fire claimed four summer homes
4-21-71 old Losvar boathouse had been destroyed.  New Apts to be built on site this summer.
6-5-71 Bicycle tree (across from original Bicycle tree) pretty much destroyed by arson
8-21-71 final flag ceremonies held at Camp Sevenich
11-13-71 first Losvar apartments ready for inspection
12-3-71 new Marysville post office opened
12-30-71 Clinkerdagger, Bickerstaff and Pett's Publick House was now open on 244th
1-6-72 Bickford Motors grand openings at new location 
1-23-72 new Stanwood High School dedicated
3-13-72 fire in East Everett Community Church, formerly East Everett School
5-26-72 exit 202 sign added to freeway at 116th st.  apparently first on sign for this new numbering system
5-29-72 rest areas north of Smokey Point now in use
6-5-72 new bridge over Deer Creek at Oso opened, next day they began dismantling old
6-24-72 grand opening of new Granite Falls library
7-1-72 Lake Connor Park to open where Camp Sevenich was, Herald 6-17-72
10-1-72 Cascade Valley Medical Center attached Cascade Valley Hosp., 326 S. Stillaguamish, Arlington, opened doors today
10-11-72 Lynnwood post office moved to new one at 6817 208th from 19725 Scriber Lake Road
3-18-76 old Jacob Erickson house on 9th in Edmonds about to be destroyed
5-30-76 Floral Hills had new bldg ready, old had burned
4-07-77 about this time Goldbar became Gold Bar
12-15-78 liquor sales began at Tulalip Smoke Shop
6-7-79 announcement of new Lake 22 trailhead
6-8-79 Thrasher's Corner about get a stoplight
6-12-79 old Darigold building just south of Snohomish burned
8-25-79 Lynn O'Beirn died, husband Karl M. named Lynnwood after her, born 11-17-93
9-17-79 announcement that Mt. Pilchuck ski area had ceased operations.
10-4-79 Alderwood Mall opened
3-23-80 old truss bridge closed between Silvana and Stanwood, being replace by new bridge
9-3-80 riot at Monroe Reformatory
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
3-18-81 recent filming of Bustin Loose in Snohomish
10-6-81 24 BN cars derailed north of Marysville
11-16-81 Dawson City mall opened on Hwy 99, Edmonds
4-14-82 Campbell Clearview murders
6-5-82 dedication of Picnic Pt. pedestrian overpass
6-7-82 fire destroyed Country Gentleman restaurant on Lake Stickney
9-22-82? dedication of first museum in Monroe
11-4-82 Hwy 525 between Alderwood Mall and Hwy 99 soon to open
11-26-82 Chas Rodman Campbell convicted of murder
11-26-82 grand opening Mitchell's Granite Falls Phcy
1-3-83 Lakewood High School opened
5-25-83 Halls Lake name dropped on south county phone book after 20 years
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
9-18-83 Avenue D Bridge, Snohomish, demolition expected to begin in a few days.
10-23-83 Snohomish Hwy 2 bypass opened today or yesterday
11-13-83 23 buildings being built as Sauk-Suiattles returned to their native home on the Sauk Prairie
11-23-83 two women killed in Marysville at gas stn when gasoline caught fire,their husbands died later. I don't think this date is right - I think it was earlier
9-13-84 new Avenue D bridge opened in Snohomish
9-14-84 big fire at the cedar stump at the rest area north of Smokey Pt.
11-20-85 fire gutted Bayliner boat plant in Arlington 
5-24-86 Hat Slough bridge removed
8-17-86 last night for the Sno-King Drive-In
1-5-87 212th extension from MLTerrace to Poplar and Larch opened
1-17-87 Herald article that Pilchuck Mountain's name had formally been changed to Mount Pilchuck
7-28-87 other downtown Marysville water tower toppled to make way for mall
10-1-87 Bryant landfill (since 1960s) closed and transfer station nearly Arlington airport opened
11-4-87 fire at Drive-in Swap Shop, Lynnwood, 17325 Hwy 99
12-5-87 Edmonds High School grandstand demolished (about 30 yrs old)  (another replaced)
6-16-88 new bridge opened over Quilceda Cr. on Marine Dr.
6-23-88 Pay 'n Save store opened in Marysville Towne Center Mall, joined one in Marysville Plaza that opened about 14 yrs ago
1-29-89 cold storage plant fire in Monroe
8-29-89 2 small planes collided near Snohomish, killing 4
12-7-91 plane collision near Snohomish killed 7
11-1-92 last night for the Thunderbird Drive-in Theater in Marsville
6-3-95 Chicken Drive-In near Frontier Village flew the coop!
11-29-95 big flooding at Sultan
4-28-96 Twin City food plant destroyed
4-27-98 fire Arlington Manor 8 died
5-26-01 old part of (1953) of old Martha Lake Elementary burned today, rest was torn down at a later time
9-8-03 old bridge to Bryant in Arlington being dismantled, closed 4 yrs. ago when new bridge built, built reportedly in 1924
3-14-04 Heritage Park in Lynnwood (Alderwood) dedicated
3-16-04 Superintendent's Cottage in Heritage Park dedicated by Marie Little
12-31-04 last day for Royal Fork restaurant in Marysville
8-21-07 work began on Skotdal's KRKO towers southeast of Snohomish
10-26-07 Mt. Loop Hwy north of Barlow opened today after being closed since 2003
1-18-08 Dairy Queen on 91st near Lake Stevens burned
1-19-08 Granite Falls High School dedicated
6-20-08 Tulalip Hotel opened
7-1-08 new straightened section of Hwy 9 north of Arlington between Scholman Rd and 252nd recently opened
11-21-09 Amtrak service to Stanwood
12-30-09 annexation taking Marysville to 56,000 actually more
12-31-09 annexation taking Lake Stevens to 24,000
6-17-10 new Boundary Bridge near Darrington dedicated
7-23-10 fire at former Welco Lumber mill in Marysville
10-7-10 demolition of Lynnwood High School going on
11-19-10 Granite Falls truck bypass opened.
2-5-11 new Rosehill Center in Mukilteo dedicated
8-9-11 inauguration of Hibulb Center Tulalip
9-24-11 Brightwater Waste Treatment grand opening
12-25-11 Startup old Baptist Church fire, later torn down
4-1-12 Marysville Armed Forces Reserve Center opened
4-13-12 8:00 pm closure of old Ebey Slough bridge, opened in 1927.
4-16-12 first day for new Ebey Is. bridge, 
4-19-12 Tulalip Cabela's opened
11-3-12 Centennial Trail from Bryant to north county line dedicated
11-24-12 156th bridge near Smokey Point "opened a week ago" Herald
4-25-13 last day fro Robin Hood Lanes, 9801 Edmonds Way, opened in 1960 - Herald
9-16-13 Bickford Ave. flyover bridge opened to traffic today
9-29-13 Flowing Lake Gold Course (1995) closed, Wellington Hills and bellinger Lake also closed this year
2-22-14 Doleshel Park to open in Marysville
3-22-14 Oso mudslide
4-22-14 President Obama in Oso
5-7-14 fire Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, MLTerrace
10-24-14 shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck H.S.
10-25-14 reopening dedication of Suiattle River Road, had been closed since 2003 floods
3-2-15 Valley General Hospital became Evergreen-Health Monroe
4-8-15 Manor Hardware bldg Lynnwood destroyed
4-21-15 sailboat abandoned on Mukilteo beach
6-2-16 Cascade Hospital of Arlington joined Skagit Hospital of Mount Vernon
1-3-17 new Lynndale Elementary opened, replaced former bldg, new Alderwood Middle opened on 172nd
2-18-17 Marysville Village Cafe burned
3-30-17 tornado in Monroe
4-22-17 ribbon cutting for Qwuloolt trail in Marysville
6-10-17 open house for new Food Commons at MPHS
10-19-17 after 54 yrs A House of Clocks on Hwy 99 N. Lynnwood having a closing sale
12-31-18 Arlington, Edmonds and Lynnwood killing off dead end signs  Herald article on this date
9-3-19 ground broken for Lynnwood link of mass transit  Herald article this same week












Beyond Snohomish County


1-6-93 last spikes of GN RR driven 13 mi. w. of Stevens Pass summit
6-23-91 Hartford townsite filed 
3-1-10 Wellington Disaster, GN relief train carrying doctors and nurses from Everett, plus other rescue workers arrived in Scenic late in day
Rescue party began trek to Wellington (Northwest Disaster book)
7-11-25 highway over Stevens Pass officially opened
1-12-29 Cascade Tunnel dedicated
1-16-40 Snoqualimie ski lodge fire
8-04-50 Pine Canyon Road between Orondo and Waterville officially opened
12-12-46 part of bluff recently fell off Possession Point, Whidbey Is.
8-18-47 last day publication of Seattle Star newspaper
7-9-49 Sea-Tac Airport dedicated
4-21-50 Northgate Mall opened
10-19-50 new Tacoma Narrows bridge opened
10-30-50 Seattle Veterans Hospital nearing completion
2-20-53 KTNT about to start broadcasting TV to join KING
4-4-53 Alaska Way Viaduct opened in Seattle - Battery Street Subway (Tunnel) opened following year, closed 2019
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
8-26-53 Skagit bridge connecting downtown Mt. Vernon and Westside torn down to be replaced
9-10-53 experimental air mail service between Chi & NYC   and Chi&Wash.D.C.
10-28-53 6 miles of 4-lane highway opened over Snoqualmie Pass today
7-22-54 bridge between Pasco-Kennewick (upstream from both downtowns) to be ready for traffic later this month
12-22-55 new highway opened bypassing Centralia and Chehalis
7-31-56 last electric car over Stevens Pass for GN, diesel afterward
2-22-57 Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Brown erected a sign announcing new town, George, WA
9-4-57 new road between Ohanepecoch and Paradise at Mt. Rainier
9-1-59 WSC to become WSU
12-5-60 5.2 miles of Bellingham freeway dedicated, perhaps from Samish Way north
8-12-61 Hood Canal Bridge opened  would last until 2-13-79
10-10-62 13.5 miles of 6-lane highway opened between Midway and Fife
7-1-63 ZIP Codes went into effect nationally
7-22-63 Frederick and Nelson opened at Aurora Village
8-28-63 Evergreen Point floating bridge to be opened to traffic today
9-21-63 Seven Cedars dance hall in Mt. Vernon destroyed by fire.
2-9-70 Stevens Pass Inn and adjoining ski shop chalet destroyed by fire
12-8-70 big fire Skykomish
2-13-79 Hood Canal Bridge (1961) western section broke off in a storm and sank
9-29-80 Aurora village was now an enclosed mall
7-30-81 5 mi. of I-90 westbound opened just west of Snoqualmie summit
10-23-82 Hood Canal floating bridge reopened
6-18-84 announcement that Shoreline H.S. would close next school year 
5-13-05 Mountaineers Lodge at Snoqualmie Summit burned (1948)
8-17-06 overpass at Hwy 532 and Fales-Echo Lk. Rd. opened
3-17-09 last issue of Seattle Post Intellingencer
6-1-12 liquor sales went private in state
5-23-13 I-5 Skagit River bridge collapsed
9-15-13 I-5 Skagit River bridge reopened today with permanent fix, temporary fix in meantime, trusses will be raised
1-11-19 last day for Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, viaduct opened 1953