Research by Jack O’Donnell We hope this blog post rings a bell in your telephoning memory. The early days: 1 to 2 digits Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Company started the first telephone service in Everett in mid-November, 1892. Managed by A.J. Clark , the office and switchboard were in Pioneer Drug […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS IN BELLINGHAM An article from THE EVERETT HERALD, MAY 6, 1911: GIRLS IN HAREM SKIRTS ARE RESCUED FROM CROWD –Bellingham, May 5, 1911 Two young women appeared on Holly Street yesterday afternoon in harem skirts and attracted such a following of hooting small boys and interested men that Deputy […]
Everett’s Evergreen Cemetery by Melinda Van Wingen Everett, the “City of Smokestacks,” was once home to dozens of pulp, paper, shingle, and lumber mills. The milltown culture died off by the late 20th century. Buoyed instead by a 1960s Boeing boom, businesses left the compact North Everett peninsula for the sprawling […]
Why Everett? New York City Our city was named at an 1890 dinner party in New York City. Charles Colby left his name on one of the most prominent streets in the new city. But his hungry son Everett Colby, just 15 years old, impressed the dinner guests with his appetite […]
Sunday April 19 from 2-4pm at the Port of Everett Waterfront Center in the Blue Heron Room. Maritime Historian Chuck Fowler will lead us on a visual presentation of Patrol and Rescue Boats in the Puget Sound with emphasis and updates on Everett and Snohomish. The Port of Everett will […]
The Everett Museum of History, an organization working to preserve a massive collection, will honor the Jack at a party from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 16 at the Everett Yacht Club. Cost is $20 for the event, which is both a retirement party and fundraiser to help the […]