2025 Historic Everett Calendar

Historic Everett proudly presents our 2025 calendar featuring the memorable days of ‘Cruising Colby Avenue’. For decades residents and visitors from all over Snohomish County have participated in the ritual of the ‘cruise’ or as it was also coined, “tooling”. There have been various iterations of the ‘cruise’, but each year on the same streets in Downtown Everett the roar of engines and the heavy smell of burning fuel draws people, and memories are made on Colby Avenue.

Visit Neal’s Barber Shop or Burkett’s Gifts on Colby Ave for your copy, or order below to have a calendar mailed to you.

Upcoming 2024 Events!

The Everett Massacre Story

Sunday, November 3, 2024, 6:00–8:00pm

Artisan’s Books and Coffee, 1802 Hewitt Ave, Everett, WA

Five IWW members (Industrial Workers of the World, often called “Wobblies”) and two deputies die in a gun battle dubbed the Everett Massacre on November 5, 1916. Join us and historian Steve Bertrand to explore why those aboard the Verona and those on the City Dock found themselves in a gunfight.

We’ll share a “Soup Line” including two types of chili, cornbread, salad and dessert.

$15 Members and Guests (you can use PayPal below). RSVP by email historiceverett@gmail.com or call Andrea at 425-870-6699.

Try our new Evergreen Cemetery online tour

The new Evergreen Cemetery web page has several hundred grave sites with stories and vintage photos. The accompanying map can be used on your phone (and will show where you are if you enable location service). There are several tours, or you can select “All Sites”. For example, try the the map focused on lumber barons and bankers.

Clark Park Gazebo

Clark Park Gazebo slated to be removed

Clark Park, Everett’s oldest Park, with its 103-year-old Gazebo designed by noted architect Benjamin Turnbull, has been on the Everett Register of Historic Places since1993. The City of Everett wants to remove the Gazebo and install a dog park, due to safety concerns and agrees demolition of the Gazebo is not going to solve the issues in Clark Park.

The Show Must Go On!

Historic Everett presents… “The Show Must Go On!” coloring book, reminiscence of theatrical arts in Everett. Illustrated by local artist Elizabeth Person, it’s produced in conjunction with the City of Everett’s Cultural Arts Grant program.

We look back at movie theater marquees that dotted the streets of downtown, The Historic Everett Theatre, Poetry, the spoken art performed at local coffee shops and the Everett Public Library, Betty Spooner’s famous ‘School of the Dance’, the iconic bronze statue of Mike Jordan that greets guests in front of Everett Performing Arts, and more.

Look for this delightful coloring book available in local stores or here on website.