Everett Washington -- chronology of its history

By Jack O'Donnell and David Dilgard

  
Everett and vicinity
05-30-1792 Capt. Vancouver landed at Mukilteo for two days
06-04-1792 Capt. Geo Vancouver landed near Everett
01-22-1855 Pt. Elliot Treaty
01-14-1861 Snohomish County formed
03-25-1863 Emma Yule born in Red Oak IA, died Los Angeles 4-16-1839 Deb Fox HistoryLink
02-06-1871 Lowell post office established
07-08-1872 Jacobson Livingston filed Western New York plat
05-08-1873 Lowell platted
11-25-1873 Lowell School Dist. 5 formed from Snohomish School Dist 1 (fifth in county
11-03-1876 Dennis Brighams homestead entry
12-30-1876 Erkine Kromer received a deed for his property
05-22-1877 School District No. 10 (Port Susan, then Sunnyside) formed
11-15-1885 Cyrus Knapp cut first shingle in county, lost a finger doing so Herald 1-14-1836
07-15-1887 School Dist 24 which would later be named Everett School Dist formed from Dist 5 Lowell and Dist 10 Sunnyside
05-08-1888 School District No. 28 formed
07-04-1889 Joseph Pearsall found gold at Monte Cristo
07-17-1890 Steamship Queen of the Pacific left Tacoma with Hewitt and Colby aboard to plan Everett.
08-22-1890 Rucker bros. filed plat for Port Gardner  later withdrawn for Hewitt-Colby plans
09-01-1890 Hewitt filed a bond on bayfront side of now Everett began acquiring property
10-01-1890 circa Decision to name city after Charles Colby's son Everett (sometime during October)
11-01-1890 mid month stock market panic (sometime during November)
11-19-1890 Articles of incorporation for Everett Land Co.
11-26-1890 Ruckers transferred property to Hewitt
11-29-1890 Remarkable Document drawn where Ruckers transferred property to Hewitt for industrial guarantees
12-24-1890 Remarkable Document recorded at Snohomish
03-10-1891 ? Seattle & Montana Railway incorporated, line would run along bayfront
03-12-1891 major storm hit Puget Sound
04-01-1891 Boughton E. Aldrich opened the Workingmen's Grocery at Pacific and Chestnut site (sometime during April)
05-07-1891 Puget Sound Pulp & Paper Co. incorporated, later would build mill at Lowell
05-23-1891 whaleback steamer C.W. Wetmore launched in W. Superior, WI bound for Everett
05-30-1891 tracklaying started on Seattle & Montana R.R., on Everett waterfront between Seattle and Fairhaven (Bellingham)
06-11-1891 post office established
06-01-1891 P.K. Lewis opened a store on bayfront (sometime during June)
07-01-1891 recession of 1890 continuing ? (sometime during July)
07-01-1891 pop. about 35 on Everett peninsula (sometime during July)
07-01-1891 first post office in Miley & Hendersons store on bayfront, Mrs. Mitchell postmistress
07-06-1891 Dr. Wm. C. Cox arrived at Lowell, Everett's first physician
07-28-1891 Wm. G. Swalwell incorporated Swalwell Land Loan and Trust Co.
09-01-1891 Monte Cristo Hotel started construction (sometime during September)
09-09-1891 Swalwells First Addition plat filed, triggering land rush on Riverside
09-11-1891 first issue of the Port Gardner News (Everett's first paper in Lowell)
09-16-1891 work began on whaleback plant
09-23-1891 Mitchell Land & Improvement filed a plat opening up new sections of Riverside
09-28-1891 Articles of incorporation for the Pacific Steel Barge Co. filed (whaleback plant)
10-12-1891 last spike driven on Seattle & Montana (Seattle to Bellingham Bay) near East Stanwood which extended along Bayfront
10-15-1891 contract for Bay View Hotel awarded, would be first hotel
10-19-1891 Bast's brickyard on northern tip began production D.D. Everett News 10-23-1891
10-22-1891 Henry Hewitt celebrated 50th birthday, contract awarded for Everett Hotel
10-25-1891 circa Henry Hewitt orders a second story on Broadway School
10-01-1891 late photographer Frank LaRoche here (sometime during October)
11-07-1891 first saloon Gem
11-20-1891 Chas Colby and Colgate Hoyt visit
11-27-1891 Seattle & Montana opened, first passenger train in Everett
12-01-1892 Brue Bldg, 3420 Everett started (sometime during December)
12-01-1891 Swalwells Second Addition filed, one day 150000 sold
12-03-1891 Alex. McDougall, whaleback inventor, visit
12-04-1891 First Methodist Episcopal Church chartered
12-04-1891 full service along Seattle & Montana line
12-10-1891 Hart's sawmill, Everett's first, fired up
12-14-1891 Broadway School opened Herald 1-14-1836, Emma Yule launched her teaching career here Deb Fox HistoryLink
12-15-1891 contract for grading Pacific awarded
12-21-1891 whaleback Wetmore arrived in Everett. I also have 12-17 for the date, brought materials for nail works, ship yard and neil works
12-26-1891 lawsuit filed by Erskine Kromer's heirs against Friday bros.
12-28-1891 big windstorm
01-03-1892 First Presbyterian service here
01-05-1892 Henry Hewitt returned to Everett after California visit David Dilgard
01-05-1892 Everett News reproter rode log down log chute in Lowell
01-09-1892 whaleback Wetmore in Lowell to unolad paper mill machinery David Dilgard
01-14-1892 photographer Frank LaRoche on his second visit to Everett to photograph townsite D.D.
01-14-1892 Bay View Hotel opened
01-15-1892 Bay View Hotel opened (owned by Everett Land Co.) David Dilgard
01-17-1892 first Mass said in Everett by Fr. Lindner
02-06-1892 Everett Land Co. filed Plat of Everett
02-12-1892 Everett Land Co. moved from Lowell to Bayfront and gen mgr Duryee w/family engages apts at Bay View Everett News
02-15-1892 Casino Theatre, SW corner of California and Market (now Highland) Everett's first opened, closed May or June same year David Dilgard
02-15-1892 J.J. Hill arrived in Everett, at banquet tomorrow in Bay View Hotel D.D.
02-17-1892 Hill honored a gala at Bay View Hotel
02-19-1892 Emma Yule appointed Everett's first principal Deb Fox HistoryLink
03-01-1892 lots in Everett Land Co. Plat of Everett began today David Dilgard
03-07-1892 First Presbyterian Church organized
03-12-1892 articles of incorporation for Everett & Monte Cristo Railroad filed David Dilgard
03-21-1892 election naming the Committee of 21 Met at Hart Block on Hewitt David Dilgard
03-21-1892 First National Bank of Everett started Herald 2-28-1853
03-24-1892 prisoners trashed local jail David Dilgard
03-28-1892 School District No. 61 formed
03-29-1892 town's first major fire, on Chestnut St. David Dilgard
04-07-1892 first Baptist Church organized here by Rov. E.G. Wheeler of the chapel car Evangel
04-07-1892 Fireman's Ball at Gamel Hall to raise money for volunteer bucket brigade David Dilgard
04-09-1892 Jack Bone elected fire chief, Lowell had first major fire, destroyed saloon bldg at Main & 2nd David Dilgard
04-11-1892 Baptist cable car Evangel arrived in Everett David Dilgard
04-12-1892 work began on Everett Ave. bridge David Dilgard
04-12-1892 first train rolled into Lowell over 3S bridge David Dilgard
04-17-1892 first service for First Presbyterian in new church on 2900 block west side Maple
04-17-1892 First Baptist Church of Everett organized
04-18-1892 J.J. Clark arrived in Everett David Dilgard
04-19-1892 construction began on Swalwell Bldg David Dilgard
04-20-1892 engines at paper mill in Lowell fired up for first time David Dilgard
04-21-1892 first engine at nail factory in operation David Dilgard
04-21-1892 Whaleback Wetmore back in Everett David Dilgard
04-21-1892 dedication of First Presbyterian on Maple south of Hewitt
04-22-1892 Everett Lodge 122 of Odd Fellows instituted
04-30-1892 first bricks made by Chemical Sand Brick Co. here David Dilgard
05-01-1892 Fireman's May Day Ball David Dilgard
05-05-1892 first homicide at Fritz & Feeny's Everett Mug Saloon (later Bucket of Blood) NE corner Hewitt & Market David Dilgard
05-10-1892 Belgain bark Orbis arrived with rods for nail factory David Dilgard
05-11-1892 The Pugest Sound Wire Nail & Steel Company (nail works) started David Dilgard
05-17-1892 gala banquet for Henry Hewitt at Bay View Hotel David Dilgard
05-18-1892 Charles Colby and Henry Hewitt toured Lowell paper mill David Dilgard
05-27-1892 J.J. Hill in town David Dilgard
06-12-1892 Trinity Episcopal incorporated, church on Calif. near Wetmore ready by August
06-15-1892 Everett C of C incorporated David Dilgard
06-18-1892 crews finished paving Hewitt with wooden planks David Dilgard
06-20-1892 first stage drama Uncle Tom's Cabin in warehouse at Spithill's Wharf David Dilgard
06-27-1892 X-10-U-8 Theatre, 3301 Hewitt opened, closed 1893, reoponed as Casino in late 93 or early 94 David Dilgards Footlights
06-29-1892 first paper produced at Lowell mill David Dilgard
07-01-1892 The Great Ball at Bay View Hotel David Dilgard
07-04-1892 first Independence Day celebration, foundation of McCabe Block (u.c.) used for pavillion David Dilgard
07-09-1892 first fire fatality - William Billy the Fiddler Burton Red Front Dace Hall on 2800 Market, Firefighter J.K. Druker died 7-15-1892 David Dilgard Milltown Footlights, Fire Boys
07-12-1892 Whaleback Wetmore left with 5 new masts and a new color scheme David Dilgard
07-19-1892 rails of 3S and Seattle & Montana joined at tip of Everett peninsula David Dilgard
07-25-1892 construction began on Sumner Iron Works David Dilgard
08-04-1892 first amateur theatrical by Trinity Episcopal church in vacant sotrefront of Hart Block south side 3300 block Hewitt David Dilgard
08-08-1892 Snohomish County Tribune founded
08-27-1892 Sec of Interior John W. Noble welcomed with recption, tour of local industries and reception at Bay View Hotel David Dilgard
09-05-1892 first Labor Day celebrated here with parade and fireman's benefit ball David Dilgard
09-08-1892 Wetmore lost at sea near Coos Bay, OR David Dilgard
09-19-1892 estimated 30 Afro-Americans here, 20 organized an A-A People's Party Club David Dilgard
09-29-1892 work began (brick layers started their work) on Puget Sound Reduction Co. smelter David Dilgard
10-04-1892 J.J. Hill here David Dilgard
10-08-1892 Neff & Mish shingle mill began operation on 14th St. Dock
10-08-1892 meeting to organize Bayside firefighters Fire Boys
11-02-1892 first rails for Everett and Monte Cristo R.R. arrived in Everett, via Cape Horn, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
11-08-1892 founder of Bank of Evertt and the Everett Herald, John E. McManus became the first Democrat elected state senator from county David Dilgard
11-12-1892 old Monte Cristo Hotel Kromer and Pacific opened
11-15-1892 city phone system wnet into service David Dilgard
11-15-1892 Chas Colby and family here for 5-day visit, stayed in Mont Cristo Hotel David Dilgard
11-18-1892 reception for Colby at Monte Cristo Hotel David Dilgard
11-26-1892 Chas W. Wetmore here, first time in 3 years David Dilgard
12-03-1892 The First Natl. Bank of Everett opened in new office in recently completed Swalwell Bldg SW corner Hewitt & Pine David Dilgard
12-05-1892 Everett Drama Club organized David Dilgard
12-08-1892 The electric light plant at nailworks went into operation David Dilgard
12-12-1892 architect Frederick A. Sexton chosen to design new school in Lowell David Dilgard
12-22-1892 Clark Bldg at SE corner of Hewitt and Wetmore scene of charity ball for local hospital David Dilgard
12-31-1892 contract for an electric street railway awarded David Dilgard
01-04-1893 Bay View Hotel on Bond caught fire about 0.0625 P.m. Schuyler Duryee journal
01-04-1893 electric railroad line whole length of Hewitt announced, first envisioned to be horse drawn (1-25) Everett Times
01-06-1893 Great Northern line completed at Scenic, 13 miles west of Stevens Pass
01-07-1893 first train reached after last spike driven Everett Times on 1-11
01-25-1893 J.J. Hill and son-in-law Samuel Hill reached Everett on GNRR, Everett Times
01-25-1893 question about whether Everett or Seattle would be GN terminus, Everett Times
02-01-1893 move to incorporate city started; 120 men working at Barge Works, -10.5 F temp. recorded
02-28-1893 first train reached Lowell, but J.J. Hills had already been here?
03-01-1893 First Congregational Church organized
04-07-1893 Monroe and Jefferson schools named by school board board min. from that date
04-14-1893 Hart Opera House on Riverside opened, active through summer of 1894, spradic use through about 1900 David Dilgard Footlights
04-23-1893 apparently first dedication of old OLPH church, blessed by Bishop Junger
04-27-1893 charter to incorporate Everett approved; Thomas Dwyer elected first mayor
05-08-1893 Everett incorporated Sheriff Legacy Book says 5-4 which is it
05-08-1893 old Monroe School first occupied source Everett Herald Dec. 28, 1893
06-16-1893 Margaret Clark first graduate of Everett High School
06-27-1893 NYSE crashed beginning the Panic of 1893
06-29-1893 last spike in Everett and Monte Cristo line 6-29-1893
07-03-1893 first Everett streetcars operated according to Alvin Petterson and newspaper accounts, Lisa Labovitch
07-03-1893 large section of Dist 5 Lowell to Everett School Dist 24, moved south boundary of district from 35th to 52nd
09-06-1893 first scheduled train on Everett and Monte Cristo R.R. reached Monte, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
02-22-1894 Everett High's first football game, against Snohomish
02-10-1894 School Disrict No. 73 formed from portions of No. 28 and others
03-01-1894 city hall ready for use
06-10-1894 first gathering of what would become Womens Book Club at home of Mary Lincoln Brown
06-20-1894 Central Opera House, 2919 Wetmore, opened, closed Feb. 1904 Dsvid Dilgard Footlights
07-02-1894 first official meeting of Woman's Book Club at Monte Cristo Hotel
08-01-1894 Frederick Gates arrived in Evertt to investigate and manipulate Rockefeller's interests, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
09-26-1894 block for Clark Park (City Park originally) purchased from Everett Land Co. for $21,535, park established next day. Renamed Clark Park in 1931
09-27-1894 first 10 acres of Forest Park purchased for 4300
10-24-1894 whaleback City of Everett launched, parade down Hewitt followed (sank Gulf of Mexico 10-11-1823)
10-25-1894 Washington Hotel at Pacific and Maple destroyed by fire Herald?
11-06-1894 county seat election
11-12-1894 Everett Woman's Book Club petitioned city for a free public library Sheriff Legacy Book
02-25-1895 Colonial Tea Party held by Everett Woman's Book Club at Monte Cristo Hotel
03-01-1895 Puget Sound Pulp and Paper Co. name changed to Everett Pulp and Paper Co. (sometime during March)
04-26-1895 first celebration of Arbor Day held in Everett, Herald 5-2-1895
05-04-1895 Ruckers' blooded cattle now on farm near Snohomish after last week of April all cattle moved out of Everett off all lands east of Bdwy from 24th and 32nd and west of Broadway from 19th to 36th, Rosie Weborg Herald 9-15-1956
06-26-1895 Woman's book Club picnic near Monte Cristo Hotel
11-05-1895 Everett officially county seat, moved in 1897
02-20-1896 I also have 2-26-1896 city founder Chas Colby died, in Newton Center, MA
01-07-1897 Emma Yule elected as superintendent of Everett Public Schools source school board minutes that date
04-21-1898 Everett Public Library opened in old city hall building, 2900 Broadway east side, books had been housed the McFarland home, 3100 Colby
05-19-1898 Everett Colby, a visitor, stayed with Knowlton family, 3131 Rockefeller (article in Evt News 5-21-1898)
01-12-1899 John D. Rockefeller in Everett and Snohomish, James J. Hill here then too
03-04-1899 decision made to buy eleven lots west of Jefferson School for grounds Legal Electors mtg, Board approval on March 6, 99
04-16-1899 Everett aerie of Eagles instituted
02-07-1900 St. Dominic's Academy north side of Everett between Fulton and Cedar complete (addition on east side in 1907)
04-06-1900 Wm Jennings Bryant in Everett nailworks on waterfront campaigning for President
09-01-1900 Bank of Commerce opened Hewitt at Pine Herald 1-14-1936
10-07-1900 first passenger train through Everett tunnel Walt Grecula Delta GN material
12-05-1900 ordinance passed granting franchise Washington Gas and Electric Co. Herald 1-14-1936
02-11-1901 first Everett Daily Herald published (there had been an earlier Everett Herald)
02-14-1901 milling began at flour mill on bay front Herald 2-13-1901 see 12-18-1901 entry?
02-16-1901 first issue of Everett Herald Weekly Herald 1-14-1936
02-22-1901 Woman's Book Club Gentleman's Night at Monte Cristo Hotel
03-08-1901 contract let for fire station at 2818 Maple
05-01-1901 Nicholas B. Challacombe founded funeral home
05-01-1901 first Everett YMCA wooden building on NW corner California and Rockefeller opened
05-22-1901 Evertt Fire Department started, had been volunteer Herald 1-14-1936
05-31-1901 Everett organized a company of militia called Everett Rifles
06-24-1901 Founders' Day Woman's Book Club fete at Fair Grounds (likely site now North Middle School)
07-19-1901 opera house fire Fire Boys
08-19-1901 Swedish Baptist Church organized
11-04-1901 Everett Theater 2811 Colby opened
09-01-1901 First Methodist Church at Wall and Bdwy opened?
12-18-1901 Everett Flour Mill opened on bayfront Herald 6-29-1976 see2-14-01 entry? Closed in 1921 Herald 11-1-1955 Rosie Weborg article
12-29-1901 Weyerhaeuser purchast of Bell Nelson Mill, M.R. HistoryLink
03-12-1902 Rice Lumber Co. changed its name to Ferry-Baker Lumber Co. Named for William Ferry, pres, and Fred K. Baker, general manager
03-19-1902 Everett Woman's Book Club Gentleman's Night at Monte Cristo Hotel
06-12-1902 Fr. Clasessens of OLPH requested a Catholic hospital here
06-22-1902 United Presbyterian Church and parsonage at 2701 Colby dedicated
07-01-1902 Everett Trust and Savings opened its doors
08-05-1902 Norwegian Male Chorus began
08-23-1902 Everett Central Labor Council celebrated completion of new Labor Temple on east side 2800 Lombard
01-10-1903 Le Petit Theatre (aka La Petit or Le Petite), 2008 Hewitt, opened, closed circa 1905
01-17-1903 Garner & Knoll Concert & Grill Rooms, under the Lobby Saloon, 1505 Hewitt opened presumably for short time D.D. Footlights
03-17-1903 Everett Woman's Book Club Gentleman's Night at Monte Cristo Hotel
04-08-1903 start of first Weyerhaeser Mill in Everett on the former Bell-Nelson mill site, Margaret Riddle HistoryLink
04-18-1903 Handsome new stone arch at entrance to cemeter to be built (presumably lych gate), also extension being cleared, hedge around to be planted, Herald article on this date
05-12-1903 Washington Stove Works first in Everett Herald 5-11-1963 P 12
05-18-1903 Parlor Theatre, 2820 Wetmore (Parlor Hotel), opened, closed Oct. 1907 David Dilgard Footlights
05-23-1903 Pres. T. Roosevelt in Everett
08-02-1903 Wheeler Osgood and Co. sawmill shingle mill burned to the ground. It was on river near Ferry Baker Fire Boys
09-02-1903 Washington Stove Works was starting up some of plant
09-09-1903 F.H. Brownell received a deed from Henry Hewitt transfering the old chamber of commerce property southeast corner Oakes and Wall to library board for new Carnegie library
09-13-1903 first service of of prerunner of Trinity Lutheran Church, organized as St. Paul Lutheran Church 1-24-1904 Herald article 1-16-1954
10-28-1903 Knights of Columbus in Everett chartered, instituted on 11-29
12-01-1903 first interurban between Everett and Snohomish
12-15-1903 Redmen Hall dedicated
12-15-1903 Herald moved into building on Colby at Wall
12-25-1903 Orpehum Theatre, 2118 Hewitt, opened for presumably less than a year David Dilgard Footlights
01-24-1904 beginning of St. Paul Lutheran Church, forerunner of Trinity Lutheran Church, first service 9-13-1904 Herald article 1-16-1954
03-15-1904 Lumberman Saloon Theatre, 1309 Hewitt, opened for about two weeks
03-16-1904 earthquake
03-19-1904 Central Theatre, 2919 Wetmore former Central Opera, opened, later known as Orpheum, Dramsland, Acme, Bailey and People's, fire 1916 and demolished David Dilgard Footlights
03-31-1904 Lumberman Saloon Theatre, 1309 Hewitt, closed after about two weeks.
05-24-1904 Farewell tour of Geo H. Cohen playing with his bros at Everett Theater, Footlights, David Dilgard
06-14-1904 last day for old Monte Cristo Hotel, manager Ferriss moved to Mitchell Hotel, which was new
11-14-1904 Crystal Theatre opened, closed shortly thereafter, location unknown David DilgaRD Footlights
12-18-1904 dedication of Immaculate Conception Church
03-01-1905 Providence Hospital first received patients in old Monte Cristo Hotel building
03-18-1905 Everett Tennis Club planning to move from county fair grounds to a point nearer center of city Seattle Times 4-19-1905 P. 3, see also entry 4-4-1905
04-04-1905 Everett Tennis Club had decided to lease and put in three courts on 2900 Hoyt s end e side for 1000 Seattle Times 4-5-1905 P
07-03-1905 Carnegie Library at Oakes and Wall opened, doors thrown open to public on 7-01 (Herald)
09-19-1905 Carlson Bros. mill on Fourteenth St. Dcok partly detroyed by fire, loss of $15,000, Herald 9-19-1925
01-18-1906 annual mmeting First Congregational Church in brand new building on nw cor of Everett Ave. and Rock Ave. Herald 2-17-1906
02-11-1906 beginning of weeklong celebration of opeping of First Congregational at northwest corner of Everett and Rockefeller, from 2915 Cedar
#VALUE! Grand Ave. Park given to city by Everett Improvement Co.
05-28-1906 Orpheum Theatre, 2919 Wetmore, opened but closed the next month David Dilgard Footlights
06-06-1905 first services in new church at 2702 Rockefeller for Ebeneezer United Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation (forerunner of Central Lutheran) Central Cenntennial booklet
09-04-1906 Brandon Theatre, 2919 Wetmore (former Central), closed November same year David Dilgard Footlights
11-15-1906 Scenic (former Parlor) Theatre, 1813 Hewitt, opened, active less than a year David Dilgard Footlights
11-19-1906 Brandon reopened as Central Theatre again, 2919 Wetmore David Dilgard Footlights
06-08-1907 Grand Theatre, 1609 Hewitt, opened, in operation short period David Dilgard Footlights
07-02-1907 Everett Yacht Club founded
09-01-1907 Henning Block (south part) on 2815-17 Colby opened, Powell (north part) to come in 1910
10-29-1907 The Midway (theater), 2012 Hewitt, opened and closed within two months reopened Jan. 1908 as St. James David Dilgard Footlights
11-01-1907 Scenic Theatre, 2820 Wetmore, opened David Dilgard Footlights
11-05-1907 500 armed men here beat Indians who had been run out of Bellingham
04-01-1908 5 fatality accident at shingle mill boiler explosion, site now west of Evergreen near 52nd
04-27-1908 Lundgren Shingle Mill fire Fire Boys
05-28-1908 Atlantic Fleet in Everett
08-10-1908 Everett (Tennis Club) host to North Pacific International Tennis Assn this week 2900 Hoyt 1500 Wall corner where M.C. Hotel is and north Herald
08-31-1908 first day for Washington School on first day of school that year
09-20-1908 fire Puget Sound Timber and Prserving Co. - creosote plant in Lowell lots of explosions Fire Boys
09-27-1908 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
10-01-1908 Bell Flats, 2501 Colby, Everett first apartment house, ready for occupancy
10-01-1908 Orpheum Theater opened, 2919 Wetmore, closed Jan. 1909 David Dilgard Footlights
10-07-1908 Ruckers to build mausoleum in Evergreen Cemetery Herald on this date
10-08-1908 grand opening of Landers' 5c-10c-15c Store, 1818-1820 Hewitt
11-01-1908 Grand Theatre, 1507-09 Hewitt opened; closed about April 1916
11-05-1908 Supt. O'Neil of Great Northern said tunnel under city to be concreted
11-20-1908 Red Front Clothing Store bankruptcy sale going on, 1512 Hewitt
12-12-1908 Columbia College about half constructed, postponed to next fall
01-27-1909 Dreamland Theatre, 2919 Wetmore opened, closed in May same year David Dilgard Footlights
02-15-1909 Pinehurst platted
05-17-1909 Acme Theater, 2919 Wetmore, opened, closed winter of 1912-13
06-30-1909 Great Northern moving from frame structure to magnificent new building Herald this date
08-02-1909 courthouse fire and others History Link
08-16-1909 School District No. 101 (North Creek) formed from a portion of No. 73
10-02-1909 John C. Denney let contract for new Denney Apts, sw cor Evt and Colby, Turnbull design, 3 stories, 11 4-rm flats, house to be moved around corner to face Evt
11-17-1909 Star Theatre, 1810 Hewitt, opened, cloed June 1927 David Dilgard Footlights
12-11-1909 dedication of Gospel Tabernacle of Christian and Mission Alliance new church, 2131 Colby. Herald 12-10-1909
12-18-1909 dedication of Gem Tavern, opening 2906 Hewitt.
01-03-1910 Rose Theatre, 2922 Wetmore, opened, closed in 1927
01-28-1910 students symbolically moved into new E.H.S., classes began three days later
03-09-1910 clock started in new rebuilt courthouse
04-29-1910 J.J. Hill in Everett
04-30-1910 inaugural trip from Everett to Seattle on Interurban.
05-02-1910 regular service started on the Seattle Everett Interurban
05-23-1910 laundry workers struck all Everett plants
05-31-1910 Colby Bldg. conflagration
05-31-1910 Everett's first school had been remodeled into the Broadway Hotel
06-01-1910 graduation of first class at Columbia College in their new building
07-07-1910 fire Everett Fish Co. smokehouse Fire Boys
07-11-1910 first meeting of the Everett Motor Boat Club
08-10-1910 Camano a total loss after running into City Dock
09-10-1910 dedication of brick First Presbyterian Church, northwest corner Rockefeller & Wall
10-23-1910 Clarence Darrow spoke at the coliseum, southwest corner Pacific and Wetmore
11-09-1910 Farm Products northwest corner of California and Lombard open, closed 1964 see 11-19 ?
11-18-1910 dedication of new Everett High School
11-19-1910 opening of Farm Products, Calif. and Lombard, closed circa 1963 see 11-09 needs clarification
11-29-1910 cluster lights began replaced arcade lights on s. side of 1600 block Hewitt
01-01-1911 Everett went dry, hurt city budget including fire dept. Fire Boys
01-07-1911 Orpheum Theatre (Fox Orpheum), 1615 Hewitt, opened; closed 1929 David Dilgard Footlights
03-09-1911 clock began working in courthouse
05-02-1911 Providence School of Nursing open
05-12-1911 Prov School of Nursing opened which is it?
05-14-1911 just open, inspection today, Commercial Hotel, 1908 Hewitt
07-26-1911 first Milwaukee Rd. freight train in Everett (1-13-1988 Herald)
08-08-1911 Longfellow School first opened to 331 students
10-09-1911 President Taft in Everett
11-04-1911 Lon chaney Sr. with wife Cleva and son Creighton performed in Everett Theater
12-09-1911 Fire dept. bought first motorized fire truck Fire Boys
02-03-1912 first EPP&PCo. picnic (at Silver Lake)
03-25-1912 ground broken on Trinity Episcopal on south side 23rd near Hoyt, d. early 50s
04-12-1912 large section of School Dist 5 Lowell to Everett School Dist 24
04-15-1912 voters chose commission over mayor/council form of govt. which would last until 1968
04-21-1912 Milwaukee Rd. started passenger service to Everett, Herald article on 4-19-1912 and scedule 4-20-1912
05-31-1912 Henry M. Jackson born in Everett
08-16-1912 Camano of mosquito fleet crahsed into City Dock there is an earlier entry which one is right?
08-20-1912 Everett Male Norwegian Chorus formed
09-30-1912 Eugene V. Debs, who was running for president, in Everett
09-30-1912 blaze gasoline boat Kathryn R. Fire Boys
10-15-1912 EFD got first hose-chemical motor-driven truck Fire Boys
02-24-1913 old Acme Theater, (Central Opera House) 2919 Wetmore, reopened as Bailey Theater, closed 4-5-1913
03-22-1913 Princess Theatre, 2822 Colby, opened, closed May 1919
04-04-1913 Sumner Iron Works destroyed by fire. M.R.
05-06-1913 People's Theater, 2919 Wetmore, formerly Bailey, Acme, Central, opened, is this correct?
05-18-1913 People's Theater, 2919 Theatre opned, active off and on until 1916, July 1916 fire, demolished David Dilgard Footlights
07-01-1913 Everett's first aeroplane flight see Historic Everett 2015 calendar
08-08-1913 announcement new Sumner plant to be built for 31884
08-23-1913 had sarted working on the Mukilteo Blvd Herald this date
11-19-1913 Gem Theatre, 2906 Hewitt opened, in operation for about two years David Dilgard Footlights
12-25-1913 new Sumner Iron Works in Lowell ready
01-20-1914 work started on bldg on nw corner Colby and Wall, I believe Strand Hotel to north about to be built too
01-26-1914 Jacknife Bridge on Ebey Is. about ready, first of the Strauss bascule type in Puget Sound area
02-18-1914 Swedish Baptist Church, northeast corner Hoyt and Everett, dedicated
04-01-1914 Brodeck Filed Clothing Co., opened new store, 1711-13 Hewitt
04-03-1914 bankrupt sale D. Poplack Clothing Co., 1922 Hewitt
04-03-1914 quitting business sale Workingmen's Store, 2014 Hewitt
04-15-1914 The Hub (a men's shop) now open
05-16-1914 D. Ward King spoke at Commercial Club about Good Roads
06-23-1914 NP passenger train left for Monte Cristo, first time since 1908
08-05-1914 Mukilteo Blvd opened to the first road traffic between Everett and Mukilteo
#VALUE! Weyerhaeuser Mill B started with 100 men
07-02-1914 Maroney flight on waterfront see Historic Everett 2015 calendar
08-05-1914 road between Everett and Mukilteo opened, Margaret Riddle Sr. Focus, see 1940s
12-01-1914 Broadway Theatre (former St. James), 2012 Hewitt, opened, closed May 1919
04-10-1915 Everett Mukilteo road okay to travel H article on this date
07-14-1915 Liberty Bell in Everett
12-20-1915 Hayes Theatre, 1711-13 Hewitt, opened, closed about March 1917
01-01-1916 Clarence Zimmerman of Everett kiced off the Tournament of Roses game in Pasadena, considered the best player on victorious WSC who defeated Brown
01-31-1916 big snow started, lasted 3 days, dumped over 30 inches
04-15-1916 J.C. Penney Store #101 opened at nw corner of Colby at Wall moved from here to nw corner California and Colby in 1925 Herald 1-14-1936
09-18-1916 Everett Box fire today or yesterday
10-30-1916 IWW beating at Beverly Park
11-04-1916 Henry Prince opened cigar store at 1611 Hewitt, from Tacoma, he founded Everett Rotary
11-05-1916 Everett Massacre
11-30-1916 Rialto Theatre, 1509 Hewitt, formerly Grand, opened, closed in May of same year David Dilgard Footlights
02-18-1917 Henry J. Kaiser Jr. born here, home at 717 33rd
03-29-1917 land for Riverdale Park (now Jackson) purchased from Everett Improvement Co.
04-05-1917 Apollo Theater, former Hayes Theater, 1711-15 Hewitt opened, closed 1927
04-06-1917 EHS boys Red Spence, Roscoe Spence, Thonrton A. Sullivan, Karl Hultman, Clarence Eddy enlisted in Marine Corps, same day Pres. Wilson declared war on Germany, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
04-21-1917 Mayor D.D. Merrill received an offer from Boy Scouts offering services during national peril of war, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
04-25-1917 Elks organized a patriotic parade downtown - large number of viewers and participants, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
05-17-1917 apparently this is when they were closing in the train tunnel the half block from the alley to Oakes
06-03-1917 Chas A. Blackman, C.A. Blackman Shingle Mill at Blackman's Point, died in Everett (Journal)
06-12-1917 city school chidren donated 632.79 to suffering women and children in war zone, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
10-27-1917 Lawrence Willimas, first African-American man in city to be called for military service, left for Camp Lewis, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
01-08-1918 school board voted discontinuation of teaching German at EHS, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War.
04-29-1918 H.E. Stepens o GNR ticket office here received orders to close Colby office, uptown office of Milwaukee Rd also being closed under orders from D.C. Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
06-18-1918 city council passed anti-loafing ordinance, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
07-22-1918 Bailey addition along 10th from Grand to Broadway opening to sell
07-13-1918 Port of Everett created by special election
07-26-1918 new Woolworths opened at 1614-16 Hewitt, had been at 1818 Hewitt
10-03-1918 marjor fire at C.A. Blackman Shingle Mill (Journal) Fire Boys
10-08-1918 Everett Health Board banned public gatherings due to Spanish flu
10-26-1918 Jay Blackman died at 3 am due to Spanish Influenza, he was son of Chas Blackman principal at Blackman Mill, a major fire at this mill about this time also
10-29-1918 69 new Spanish Flu cases reported in town, 86 previous day, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
11-05-1918 state board of health issued regulation ordering all to wear gauze masks due to Flu, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
02-01-1919 Tag Day observed here in order to secure money to plant trees along Pac Hwy commemorating work of county servicemen, Mason, Wm, Sno Co in the War
03-26-1919 The Ebeneezer English Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2701 Rockefeller, orgnized here, accept by Norwegian Lutheran Church of America 7-18-1919
03-15-1919 Charlie Allen set up the Garner and Allen agency for Hudson, Essex and Packard at the SW cor. California and Hoyt.
04-01-1919 experimental radion station founded by Leese bros.
08-25-1919 Providence School of Nursing moved into new quarters, not the brick building on Nassau; it came in 1929
09-14-1919 Battleship USS Idaho in Everett for 5 days
01-01-1920 Everett played Scott of Toledo Ohio at Bagshaw (then Athletic) Field 7-7
03-12-1920 fire in dry kilns of Clough-Hartley Mill destroyed and damaged 2000000 shingles.
03-12-1920 grand opening Central Market Schuchart Bros 2923 Colby Herald this date
03-20-1920 fire destroyed YMCA (built 1901) Fire Boys
07-01-1920 Security Natl Bank of Everett established
08-17-1920 radio stn KRKO first went on air, see comment lower a couple
08-29-1920 cornerstone laid for brick Trinity Episcopal, southwest corner 23rd and Hoyt
09-17-1920 grand opening The Good East Cafe and Bakery 2810 Colby Herald this date
01-01-1921 Everett 16, E. Cleveland Tech. 7, at Bagshaw Field for mythical US championship
02-22-1921 Everett Armory cornerstone put in place
04-10-1921 new Everett YMCA dedicated
05-15-1921 first service in new Trinity Episcopal church 2301 Hoyt
05-22-1921 dedication of Trinity Episcopal
07-21-1921 corporation organized to build General Hospital Herald 5-10-1923 (two years later)
07-26-1922 Totem pole erected at corner of California and Wetmore  Herald 7-27-1922
10-12-1921 Doors thrown open to new Knights of Columbus bldg at 1611 Everett Ave. (later Masonic Temple) H article 10-1-1921
10-17-1921 Everett Kiwanis began
12-11-1921 Interurban to Snohomish stopped for a few days due to flooding Herald this date
02-15-1922 Burnett Bros Jewelers to buy Kamerman's Herald this date.
02-16-1922 Parkland's Children's Home moved from Parkland to old Columbia Coll. Bldg.
02-18-1922 14 young orphans from Parkland arrived to the old Columbia Coll. Bldg. (1909-1919) Herald article 2-20-1922
02-24-1922 first early Everett retailer J.J. Clark died at 83 Herald 2-25-1922, Clark Park name for him and Clark Mansion stands at ne cor 22nd and Rucker
03-20-1922 purchase of land for Silver Lake Park, $1500, from Thos Wilson Land Co.
04-29-1922 Topliff Paine (for whom Paine Field is named) died, Everett News reported on May 5
06-04-1922 Trinity Lutheran building at northwest corner 24th and Lombard dedicated Herald article 1-16-1954
08-25-1922 first broadcast pf KFBL later KRKO (don't know about upper entry)
10-05-1922 The Cave, ice cream shop, confectionary, lunch counter opened 1510 Hewitt
01-04-1923 work started on apartment building NW cor Everett Ave. and Hoyt Herald article 1-3-1923
02-26-1923 work started on funeral home NE cor California and Oakes Herald article 2-24-1923
02-28-1923 work commenced on rebuilding Norton bridge between 33rd and 34th, had been closed about two years Herald article of same date
03-01-1923 street car rails to begin being removed 1-8-1923 Herald article
03-14-1923 Rogers Bros pharmacy opened in Stone Fisher (Clark) Bldg above Ekho Drug Herald ad 3-13-1923
03-17-1923 Karas murders Herald article
03-24-1923 first meeting of County Council of Parents and Teachers Herald 1-14-1936 see later entry which is right
03-29-1923 Norton Ave. bridge reopened after two years closure Herald article
04-02-1923 Everett men at state meet of KKK
04-05-1923 last day for electric street car on Hewitt, Bayside run, began tearing up rails Herald on this date
04-06-1923 Schucart Bros market, 2012 Hewitt, opened Herald article on 4-7-1923
04-07-1923 Waltons bought Rucker Mansion Herald article this date Ruckers would then move into Walton house 2601 Hoyt
04-09-1923 excavation on new Providence Hospital to begin this week Herald article on this date
04-18-1923 first convention of County Council of Parents and Teachers Herald 1-14-1936 see earlier entry which is right
05-06-1923 dedication of Scottish Rite temple, presumably in old church on NE cor Oakes and Wall Herald 5-6-1923
05-19-1923 Weyerhaeuser to build a new office building at Mill A Herald this date
06-23-1923 Madrona Apts. at nw corer Rucker and Everett to be open next week
06-23-1923 Everett Auto to be in new bldg 2714 Colby next week Herald
07-10-1923 construction started on new Providence Hospital, Herald this date
07-22-1923 cornerstone deciation Grace Methodist Episcopal church bldg 2402 Summit Herald 7-18-1923
07-23-1923 Piggly Wiggly store coming to Everett, 2801 Colby, Herald on this date
07-23-1923 Stanton Hall purchased Commerce Phcy 1805 Hewitt, Herald on this date
07-31-1923 story pole dedicated at California and Wetmore,
08-10-1923 memorial service at Armory for recently departed President Harding
08-11-1923 Piggly Wiggly store opened at 2802 Colby, full page Herald ad on this date
08-23-1923 4 police boxes installed on Hewitt - at Bond, Nassau, Rucker, Oakes Herald article on this date
09-06-1923 old bridge at 18th St. to be removed, Herald article on this date
10-04-1923 Herald P4 last bldg on Norway_pacific shipyard had been razed
10-11-1923 City of Everett tanker (whaleback) sank off Florida Coast 10-12-1923 H p 4, 10-11-1923 H p1
10-14-1923 new Providence Hosp. dedicated, cornerstone laid, see H 10-8-1923 p1, H 10-15-1923 p1, not completed until next May
10-17-1923 EPL to open stn at Central Pulbic Market H 10-15-1923 P4
10-21-1923 Grace Methodist opened at 2402 Summitt see H 10-20-1923 P1
10-24-1923 corner stone laid for new Providence Hospital by Bihsop O'Dea need to check this, a conflict
10-29-1923 Chief Taro crash at Hewitt and Colby, H 10-30-1923 p 1
10-31-1923 GN locomotive accident, man killed
11-15-1923 Weyerhaeuser moved into new building, reception following day, Herald articles 11-12 and later
11-23-1923 Weyerhaeuser office bldg. open for inspection
12-05-1923 city condemning land north of 12th and Bdwy for new Marysville highway
12-11-1923 fire, Everett Theater, Midnight Alarm playing across the alley at the Granada! Footlights, David Dilgard
12-14-1923 Herald headline Weyerhaeuser to start at once to build big mill (C) a hemlock plant
12-21-1923 Grace Methodist Episcopal Church dedicated at 2402 Summitt
11-24-1923 new Mukilteo Road now open Herald article on this date
12-01-1923 grand opening White House Public Market Hewitt and Oakes, Herald 11-29-1923
12-27-1923 H p4 ad on or about Jan 1 to move into new Hodges Bldg
01-01-1924 Buster Brown shoe store to move from 1814 to 1806 Hewitt
01-02-1924 Hodges Bldg opened to tenants
01-02-1924 resolution for new Stock Show Road (now 112th) Everett Herald this date
02-09-1924 Brodeck and Field, Hewitt and Wetmore modernized Herald
02-11-1924 grand opening Maize Cafe 2933 46026 Colby Herald 2-11-1924
02-27-1924 General Hospital on Colby dedicated, or possibly the next day;
03-13-1924 ground had been broken for the exposition center near Silver Lake (Stock Show Rd) Herald article on this date
05-07-1924 Everett Public Library bookmobile first hit the streets of Everett Herald article 5-8-1924
05-10-1924 D.A. Duryee moved from 2821 Colby to 2814 Colby
05-12-1924 new Providence Hospital opened
07-03-1924 opening of Independent Cab Co. Herald 1-11-1956
07-14-1924 Lucas Furniture opened in larger quarters at 2823-25 Wetmore, had been at 1120 Hewitt
08-15-1924 demolition began old Monte Cristo Hotel (by this time old Providence Hospital)
08-16-1924 or near E.A. Nord started at northwest corner of Hewitt and Bdwy Herald article 10-16-1964
08-29-1924 Everett Theatre reopened after 1923 fire, fully remodeled, known as Fox Everett 1929-33 David Dilgard Footlights
08-31-1924 Immaculate Conception School dedicated
08-31-1924 0.208333333333333 a.m. Abe Glassberg and two others started the first crossing of Stevens Pass by car
10-01-1924 Everett Clinic formally organized (some time in Oct)
11-14-1924 grand opening announcement Pete's Tire Hewitt and Rucker Herald this date
11-26-1924 grand opening of Arena Bowling Alleys, 4 alleys, California and Hoyt Herald
01-14-1925 Roland Hartley became 10th governor of WA
01-25-1925 new fire station Oakes at California Fire Boys
01-31-1925 grand opening of Monte Cristo Market 2818 Colby Herald 1-30-1925
02-08-1925 Our Savior's Lutheran moved into ne cor 24th and Hoyt from 2900 Lombard
02-22-1925 Elks building dedicated check this
02-28-1925 Central Bldg to be built Herald this date
04-08-1925 grand opening of Salvation Army Social Dept Store 2716 Broadway Herald 4-7-1925
04-11-1925 formal opening of new Owl Drug Store Hewitt and Colby Herald 4-10-1925
05-09-1925 grand opening of Bungalow Inn Annex Herald 5-6-1925
05-26-1925 demolition completed on old Monte Cristo Hotel (by this time old Providence Hospital)
05-29-1925 2nd Monte Cristo Hotel opened, first long distance remote control broadcast from Seattle's KOFA from hotel, Sheriff Legacy Book and HistoryLink article
06-10-1925 contracts totaling nearly 1 million awarded for construction of the four bridges between Everett and Marysville
06-15-1925 new fire stn 2 (2701 Oakes) to be ready for occupancy about
06-25-1925 Bungalow Apts. at sw corner Pacific and Norton completed
07-04-1925 Stevens Pass Hwy to open
07-11-1925 Stevens Pass opened, connected Everett to Spokane, Heralds on date and near
08-08-1925 2026 Rucker, old David Clough house, remodeled in 7-unit Lucerne apts. after being vacant for 10 years
08-26-1925 first day of races with full grandstand at new Silver Lake fairgrounds Juleen photos EPL 438, 439, 440
08-30-1925 buildings under construction at new Silver Lake fairgrounds Juleen photos EPL 4449, 450
09-02-1925 American Christian School opened at 23rd and Cedar, renamed Everett Christian School in 1955
09-06-1925 brick Perpetual Help church and school dedicated
09-12-1925 grand opening Weisfield & Goldberg Jewelry 1707 Hewitt, Herald 9-10-1925
09-20-1925 new Our Savior's Lutheran Church bldg at 24th and Hoyt dedicated.
09-25-1925 first Everett High School Kodak published this week
09-23-1925 new fire station 2801 Oakes, 3000 Everett Citizens inspected it Herald on this date
10-31-1925 fire stn at 3102 Hewitt occupied - closed 1964 with freeway construction
11-04-1925 200000 Central Bldg ready for tenants Herald on this date
11-18-1925 J.C. Penney moved into new Medical and Dental Bldg from Colby at Wall Herald 1-14-1936
12-31-1925 Medical and Dental Building completed
01-21-1926 Medical and Dental Building opened
02-02-1926 announcement that starting immediately a third floor would be added to Interurban bldg and rest of basement would be excavated.
03-06-1926 Brodeck-Field last day at northeast corner Hewitt and Wetmore Herald 3-5-1926
03-08-1926 Brodeck-Field first day in Central Bldg Herald 3-5-1926
04-07-1926 Central Lutheran Church so name after several earlier names Central Centennial booklet
04-10-1926 Mon C. Walgren Jeweler and Optometrist opened 1714 Hewitt, Herald 4-9-1926
04-15-1926 crew of carpenters began construction of new ball park at Riverside I believe Herald
04-01-1926 London Cafe, 2013 Hewitt installed city's first neon sign - removed in 1961 (some time in April)
05-29-1926 Thomas Tamale Parlor 2823 46024 Rockefeller Herald this date
06-21-1926 formal opening of Medical and Dental Bldg.
07-17-1926 grand opening Peoples Shoe Stores Co., 1712 Hewitt, Herald 7-16-1926
07-25-1926 big Walton Mill fire Fire Boys
08-01-1926 fires H.O. Seiffert, Landsdown plant, Everett Millwork Co., 6 houses
08-30-1926 South Jr. opened
09-25-1926 Stan - Lees Stylish Apparel for Women, 2936 Colby Herald 9-24-1926
10-14-1926 Vol. 1 No. 1 of South Jr. Lookout
10-17-1926 Central Lutheran new sanctuary at 2702 Rockefeller dedicated Central Centennial booklet
10-26-1926 Liberty Theater opened at 2822 Wetmore, closed in 1929 David Dilard Footlights
10-27-1926 Liberty Theater opened at 2822 Wetmore (doesn't match previous entry)
02-24-1927 slag from smelter available for sale for alleys, streets and roads Herald article on this date
05-08-1927 Rose Theatre, 2922 Wetmore, closed, had opened in 1910
06-19-1927 Apollo Theatre, 1711-13 Hewitt closed, had opened 1917
06-23-1927 first alarm at new Bayside fire station 1701 Norton, Herald 3-25-1967 article
07-23-1927 last pavement put down on Everett-Marysville highway, see entry two below is one wrong?
08-07-1927 fire H.O. Seiffert, photo in Verne Sievers album now at EPL
08-23-1927 Marysville-Everett cutoff opened making direct road between two
08-25-1927 Lou Goffee now running shoe repair shop at 2819 Wetmore
08-27-1927 official highway opening
10-26-1927 pacific hwy opened between Everett and Seattle, 14 mi. from King Co. line to Evt city limits (then 52nd) Lost Roadhouses of Seattle says 10-15-1927
10-28-1927 grand opening Economy Shoe Store, 2811 Colby, Herald 10-25-1927
12-10-1927 grand opening of Shanghai Cafe, 1409 Hewitt, new chop suey place Herald
12-22-1927 Granada Theatre, 2926 Wetmore, opened (Fox Granada 1929-33), a remodel of Rose Theatre, closed in 1954 David Dilgard Footlights
04-22-1928 officially Everett Airport Field between Everett and Marysville, dedication
05-08-1928 fire Jamison Lumber and Shingle Co. 5.5 million shingles lost Fire Boys
01-15-1929 foundation work began today on new Sears Roebuck bldg se corner Everett and Colby
02-20-1929 opening day for Duffy Drug, 1831 Bdwy Herald 2-19-1929
04-13-1929 grand opening of Pioneer United Dairies in new bldg at 2531 Broadway
04-19-1929 grand opening of Rumbaugh's Dept. Store, sw cor California and Wetmore
05-03-1929 Liberty Theater, 2822 Wetmore, closed, had opened in 1926 D.D. Footlights
05-14-1929 Deaconess Children's Home 2120 Highland opened
05-17-1929 Everett Zonta Club established
05-29-1929 Balboa Theater opened as Fox Balboa 2812 Colby David Dilgard Footlights
06-15-1929 opening of Edgewater Golf Course 9-hole on Smith Island Neil Anderson
06-22-1929 grand opening of Sear Roebuck se cor Colby and Everett, 2701 Colby Herald -14-29
07-29-1929 Totem pole raised on triangle between 44th, Rucker and Hwy 99 Herald this date
10-22-1929 Orpheum Theatre (Fox Orpheum), 1615 Hewitt, closed, had opened in 1911 David Dilgard Footlights
10-23-1929 Everett Theater new sign as just Fox theater which changed back to Everett in 1933 David Dilgard Footlights
10-23-1929 Mon Wally Wallgren won national amateur billiard championship at Elks Club here
11-22-1929 new city hall open to public
11-26-1929 Fisher store in Powell-Henning blocks 2813-19 Colby opened after $80,000 of remodeling (elaborate show windows done at this time) had been at 1704-6-8 Hewitt Herald, closed in 1932
12-07-1929 Montgomery Ward opened in new building at 2818 Wetmore Herald 12-5-1929, also possibly 11-9 Herald 11-8
01-01-1930 Sevenich Chevrolet Co. formed Herald 1-14-1936
01-21-1930 Bank of Commerce merged with Everett Trust and Savings Herald of 1-14-1936 says it was 1-27-1930
04-28-1930 fire again Bay View Hotel Fire Boys
08-25-1930 Ekho Drug opened at 1702 Hewitt Herald 8-24-1930
08-31-1930 Milwaukee Rd passenger service for Everett ended and was replaced by an 18-passenger Studebaker painted co. colors orange and maroon, Allen Miller Milwaukee Rd historian
06-19-1930 Labor Temple on Lombard dedicated
07-23-1930 Puget Sound Pulp and Timber mill ready to start Seattle Times article 7-23-1930
07-11-1930 J.C. Penney new men's and boys' section Herald 1-14-1936
08-30-1930 Milwaukee Road stopped passenger service to Everett website
09-17-1930 Puget Sound and Alaska Powder Co. explosion Fire Boys
04-29-1931 Bethany Home started at 3322 Broadway
06-18-1931 official opening of Kress store, 2822 Colby
07-18-1931 Garfield Playground donated by trustees of Playground Association of Everett
09-24-1931 Dr. Cox, Everett's first doctor died
09-26-1931 dedication of four more holes at EG&CC making it an 18-holer
10-01-1931 Niemeyer Phcy moved from 1512 Hewitt to 2826 Colby
10-25-1931 last 20 feet of pavement paved for 4-lane highway between Everett and Seattle
11-04-1931 peacocks had been added at Forest Park Herald on this date p 15
11-13-1931 Wyatt J. Rucker died
11-26-1931 (Thanksgiving) Bagshaw Field so named, previously referred to as Athletic Field
12-19-1931 Clark Nickerson Mill ceased operations
02-04-1932 Fisher Co. at 2813 Colby to close
02-15-1932 first section of Legion Park given to city by A.B. and Harriet Clausen
02-27-1932 last day for Fisher Co. 2813-19 Colby, had opened here in 929 Herald 2-24-1932
03-01-1932 street cars disappeared with closure of Bdwy line (the first) Herald 2-28-1932
05-04-1932 Airship Akron over Everett Raymond Fosheim diaries
06-05-1932 Piston Service opened at 2930 Rucker, which formerly housed Bergman Tire Co.
06-08-1932 dedication of new wading pool (including sculpture) at Forest Park by Eagles See Herald 6-7-32p9, 6-8-32p7, 6-15-32p2
06-12-1932 death of Wm. F. Brown early Everett surveyor, in Seattle age 84
06-15-1932 Wm Buehrig took over Colby Bakery, 2101 Colby, from Mary Hall
06-23-1932 The Hub, men's furnishings and workingmen's store, 1301 Hewitt, quitting business sale
06-25-1932 able to drive from Hoyt to E. Grand on new road n. end of city Herald 6-26-32p4
08-07-1932 grand opening of Simpson Ford, 3102 Rucker, Herald of that date
09-08-1932 USS New York in Everett harbor
09-20-1932 FDR in Everett campaigning for president
12-18-1932 last Sunday Herald for decades, had started sometime after 1916
03-06-1933 Purdy and Walters i new building at 1702 Pacific Herald this date
04-20-1933 meteor passed over Everett and Puget Sound area
07-07-1933 USS Constitution visited Everett
10-01-1933 inauguration of new lighting for football field
10-13-1933 formal opening of Owl Drug Store, nw cor Hewitt and Colby, after a remodel Herald this date
10-20-1933 Dickson and Trotter annnounced opening of Rotary Baker 2809 Colby Herald 11-18-1933, enlarged in 1937
05-24-1934 USS Akron, a helium filled airship, came over Everett today - Fosheim
06-22-1934 Walter P. Bell, Everett atty, former superior court judge and former WA State Atty Genl, died at home 2130 Rucker
07-05-1934 Lowell volunteer fire dept. launched
07-12-1934 KRKO radio came into being, other important dates preceded, see HistoryLink article
10-03-1934 Everett Public Library on Hoyt dedicated
10-12-1934 opening of Tradewell 1711 Hewitt former location of Piggly Wiggly Herald 10-10-1934
10-21-1934 record wind storm
10-31-1934 Buehring murder, 2101 Colby (See 1944 for solving)
12-14-1934 opening of John J. Jerread Inc. Funeral Directors, se cor Oakes and Wall in old Carnegie Building
01-01-1935 highway department hoping to get started on Broadway Cutoff 12-4-1934
05-08-1935 Longshoremen began a strike that would last 83 days, Herald
05-16-1935 Roxy Theater opened Herald 5-15-1935
01-01-1936 Dolloff Used car moved to lot on 1800 Hewitt n side w of alley, Herald 1-4-1936
01-03-1936 McLinton Cafe opened and joined cigar store, 1709 Hewitt, Herald 1-2-1936
01-06-1936 work on Legion park
01-14-1936 final link in trestle Herald 1-3-1936
01-17-1936 16th to be repaved from Rockefeller to Walnut by Templeton Co. Herald this date
01-23-1936 19th to be repaved from Rucker to Walnut Herald this date
02-01-1936 Ken Tucker to beome Professional at Everett Golf & Country Club. Herald 1-29-1936 P6
04-04-1936 Pet Backlezos opened shoe repair shop probably at 2827 Colby, closed 3-28-1970
04-16-1936 Mode o' Day in Everett at 2812 Colby, in 1950 to move to 2730 Colby but didn't -went to 2727 46024 Colby
04-25-1936 opening of new fountain 1405 Hewitt Herald
05-09-1936 Payless Food opened
05-29-1936 School District No. 331 (Silver Lake) formed by consolidation of Districts 28, 61 and 73
06-29-1936 Wyerhaeuser Pulp Mill (Mill A) opened on bay front
07-18-1936 new D.A. Duryee office 2715 Colby now completed Herald
07-01-1936 new office building for D.A. Duryee, 2715 Colby (some time in Jul)
07-03-1936 Black Prince dedicated as part of official mtg room, Everett Yacht Club, razed 1956
07-15-1936 work to start on new Everett airport (Paine Field}
08-29-1936 first Tyee Salmon Roundup
09-10-1936 work began on new airport south of town (Paine Field)
10-09-1936 new Safeway store 4106 Rucker to open Herald
10-10-1936 Newberry store opened at 2814-16 Colby Herald 10-9-1936
01-11-1937 body of kidnapped Tacoma boy Charles Mattson found 4 46024 miles south of Everett
06-12-1937 Hatloes opened a store at 1802 Hewitt Ave.
06-04-1937 new Safeway 2708-12 Colby Herald
07-10-1937 WPA sponsored indexing of fingerprints at Sheriff's office
07-15-1937 Hellenthalls opened at 2716 Colby
07-17-1937 Legion Park Golf Course opened
07-22-1937 plans to immediately finish new playfield at 12th and Oakes
07-24-1937 first tee-off at Legion Golf Course (Muni)
08-12-1937 Hoyt to be connected to Pacific Hwy on road to be known as Alverson Blvd Herald on this date
09-03-1937 remodeling of main floor of Hewitt Block-Silverstone bldg under way, would house Silverstone Apparel and Holmes Candy
09-14-1937 unofficial first landing at new Everett airport (Paine Field)
10-01-1937 "I am glad to be in Everett again."  - President F.D. Roosevelt at Great Northern whistle stop Pacific Ave.
10-23-1937 Everett Supermarket opened at northwest corner of Everett and Colby in remodeled building (Herald 10-22-1931)
12-29-1937 Clough Hartley Mill burned
02-01-1938 concrete Norton Ave. viaduct at 22nd opened
04-02-1938 Walgreen Drug Store opened at 2802 Colby Herald 4-1-1938
05-01-1938 Weyerhaeuser building moved upriver to Mill B, moved again in 1983, and in 2016
01-03-1939 west wall being removed from old EHS gym for new study hall, old auditorium to become library
01-10-1939 discussion on what to do about old Pigeon Cr. # 2 trestle that was closed last fall
02-20-1939 last southbound train on the Everett Seattle Interurban
02-06-1939 work to begin on Floral Hall in Forest Park about this time
04-03-1939 Edgewater Playground dedicated Herald article on 4-1-1939
04-16-1939 Emma Yule died in Los Angeles, buried in Evergreen Cemetery Deb Fox HistoryLink born 3-25-1963 in Red Oak, IA
05-04-1939 Clark Nickerson mill fire
05-04-1939 EFD started using radio Fire Boys
05-06-1939 Lowell fire stn dedicated
05-27-1939 Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway were in Everett, sometime here drove through stump north of town
05-08-1939 Joe King's tavern and Coast - Inn Cafe opened at 1309 Hewitt, Where Old Friends Meet Herald
06-16-1939 first airplane based at new county airport Herald this date
06-24-1939 Legion Park golf course opened wit full 18 holes Herald, dedication was 7-1-1939
07-06-1939 Brewster's reopened after an extensive remodel could be story in Herald 7-5-1939
08-08-1939 Woolworth's opened new store at 2824 Colby, Herald article 8-7-1939, had been at 1616 block Hewitt
08-17-1939 cornerstone laying service for United Brethren Church, 2001 Colby, Herald article 8-28-1939
09-15-1939 Eagles opened new home in Wisconsin Bldg
09-21-1939 Pacific Hardware 1701 Hewitt going out of business Herald ad this date
10-01-1939 Pacific Hardware at Hewitt and Wetmore closed
10-07-1939 Old 55 opened on 7309 Highway 99, 2 mi. south of Everett lasted until 1965
10-09-1939 opening of Castle Drug Co. Store # 2 in Grand Central Market, 2801 Wetmore
10-10-1939 Hatloes opening a story 1802 Hewitt Herald 10-9-1939
11-09-1939 Montgomery Ward opened new store at 2813-19 Colby after 50000 of remodeling. Had been across the alley
11-25-1939 Block's Shoes opening at 2804 Colby Herald 11-24-1939
01-06-1940 Hewitt Ave bridge under construction. Hoped to be open by 6-6-1940 Herald article
01-09-1940 Everett Civic Auditorium/gymnasium dedicated
03-03-1940 Everett Brewery 3300 block Smith destroyed by fire conflict see 3-3-1941
03-14-1940 undefeated Everett High School basketball team beat Oakville 64-19 to win state tournament
03-17-1940 dedication of newly constructed First Church of United Brethren, 2005 Colby
04-26-1940 demolition started about now on old wood trestle connecting Everett Ave. bridge with Ebey Is.
05-12-1940 Riverdale Park dedicated Everett Parks book
06-05-1940 about to build Snohomish County Airport
06-07-1940 Safeway had purchased land at 41st and Rucker for new store
06-12-1940 Tillies Fine Food opened in new location, 2723 Colby
06-22-1940 new Hewitt Ave. bridge dedicated Herald 1-1-1941
07-21-1940 new Gilmore gas station 1831 Colby Herald 7-19-1940
07-23-1940 500 Alverson later Bill Long house moved from S. Everett to Alverson Blvd. Then I.W. Parsons house
08-30-1940 with Pacific becoming part of the Stevens Pass Hwy., a traffic signal was needed at Pacific Ave. and Broadway
08-07-1940 School District No. 331 divided between 24 and 101 needs clarification see entry for tomorrow
08-08-1940 Silver Lake School District dissolved to become parts of Everett, Mukilteo, Snohomish, Bothell and North Creek
08-30-1940 fill on Kromer between Pacific and Laurel to open soon, old bridge dismantled in December of 1938, fill came from reservoir near Federal
09-23-1940 fire destroyed empty Dell shingle mill at Maple Heights
10-21-1940 tearing down Fisherman's Packing Corp. which had been Everett Packing Co. and originally the nail works
10-29-1940 Everett Ice Arena opened at 2812 Norton
11-01-1940 Henry M. Jackson elected to U.S. House of Representatives (some time in Nov)
11-11-1940 H.W. Wood, Dodge Plymouth dealer at 2902 Rucker, became Safeway Motors today,
01-24-1941 new Safeway 1905 Bdwy opened Herald 11-25-1941
01-28-1941 Safeway store at SE cor. 19th and Broadway had opened.
01-31-1941 View Crest Abbey under construction, 108 crypts, 400 niches, by Hans Solie, owners Zene Maulsby and A.D. Kenworthy, Herald article on or about
02-13-1941 permit for new Richfield gas station 2801 Broadway
03-03-1941 on or about old Everett Brewery bdlg burned, b. 1906, Herald article conflict see 3-3-1940
03-06-1941 Singapore Cafe at 1705 Hewitt to open, note 8-3-1941 entry
03-18-1941 finishing five rooms on so. jr. when wings were added on, also new shrubbery
04-09-1941 Hank Gaul's men's shop opened at ne cor Calif. and Colby
04-13-1965 ? B&M opened at 2615 Colby about this time
05-25-1941 brick chimney of old Fisherman's Packing Corps crashed into the beach during demolition. Had been part of nail works
06-24-1941 new Safeway store at 1905 Broadway had opened.
06-21-1941 new Signal gas station Herald 6-20-1941
07-22-1941 Airfield formerly known as Snohomish County Airport named Paine Field honoring Topliff Olin Paine
08-03-1941 Meve's Restaurant opened this week at 1705 Hewitt, note 3-6-1941 entry
08-09-1941 Denney Apts on SW corner Evt and Colby to make way for progress (to be destroyed) Herald
08-11-1941 Everett Air Base post office established, renamed Paine Field Branch Sept 1, 1941
08-19-1940 on or about, Denney Apts, sw cor Everett and Colby to come down, owned by Dr. S.L. Caldbick owned
08-20-1941 bridge at 3300 Norton had been declared unsafe, demo began week of 10-23, would be replaced by fill
09-01-1941 Everett Air Base post office renamed Paine Field Branch
09-08-1941 Everett Junior College opened in Lincoln School at 25th and Oakes, first classed
09-05-1941 Great Northern freight engine left rails near Washington Gas & Electric Co. on Riverside
09-05-1941 Northwest's newest voice was Everett radio station KEVE 1460 K.C. lasted just a few years
10-16-1941 fire destroyed Mayflower Apts., 2814 Grand Could this mean 2614? Is this right date?
10-24-1941 Friedlanders had taken over Wallgren's at 1603 Hewitt and planned to expand jewelry store Herald this date
12-10-1941 by this date black out hours were 0.0625 to 0.322916666666667 a.m.
12-12-1941 new Everett Pulp and Paper office building up.
10-10-1941 grand opening of Skateland at ne cor McDougall and California Is this right date?
12-27-1941 air-raid siren in place atop City Hall
12-28-1941 air-raid observers atop Medical-Dental Bldg.
01-09-1942 Walgren's changed to Friedlander and Sons
01-23-1942 enlarged Penney store opened
01-25-1942 Paine Field plane crashed damaging 1521 Grand and 1518 Rucker
02-16-1942 ground broken for shipyard, Everett Pacific Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Marine Digest of 9-29-1951 says 2-13-1942
02-17-1942 P-38 crashed near Silver Lake
02-22-1942 permit for new bldg 2713 Colby 8000
03-22-1942 Paine P-38 crashed near Naketa Beach
03-23-1942 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
05-02-1942 Paine P-38 crashed near Edgewater Beach (could this be the same as the next crash entry?)
05-07-1942 Paine P-38 crashed at Darlington beach
05-15-1942 construction began on drydock Rebuilder - 9-29-1951 Marine Digest
05-31-1942 A.H.B. Jordan died, born 9-23-1965
06-01-1942 Diana's apparel opened 2802 46024 Colby
06-27-1942 about new fountain at Hewitt and Colby (NW cor more on Hewitt) to replace old one car ran into, Herald article about this time
08-14-1942 actress Veronica Lake here to sell war bonds on county courthouse lawn and Paine Field
09-03-1942 Lowell School Dist 5 dissolved, consolidated with Dist 24 to form new Everett School Dist No. 2
11-10-1942 construction started on shipyard
01-22-1943 Windsor Apts, on nw corner of Everett and Hoyt fire resulted in top floor being removed, ended Capt. Arvid Johnson's career (he later became mayor) Fire Boys 12-23-1943 which is right
01-31-1943 first two vessels at Everett shipyard launched
04-22-1943 Edgewater Park given to city by Arthur G. and Gertrude Sorenson and Leo and Laura Loken
04-27-1943 Edgewater Park added to city system
06-07-1943 EJC graduated inaugural class at First Presbyterian Church
06-15-1943 first WAACs at Paine Field
07-01-1943 City Beach at Pigeon Creek # 2 opened
07-03-1943 beach pavilion at City Beach (Pigeon Creek #2, Howard Park) opened so which date
07-03-1943 housing project under construction (Poplar, Larch etc.) front page Herald
07-16-1943 grand opening of Safeway at 2708 Colby
08-28-1943 war memorial dedicated on court house grounds
09-29-1943 U.S.S. Everett (named for Everett) launched in Richmond, CA (stricken from list on 12-1-1961)
12-22-1943 fire of the year Windspr apts nw corner Everett and Hoyt. Afterward top floor removed. see 1-22-1943 which is riht
05-05-1944 Eclipse Mill retail yard destroyed by fire
05-06-1944 Ace Pursuiter reported Corporal Austin H. Ottley was first member of Paine Field black to be accepted for Air Cadet Training School.
05-06-1944 View Ridge introduced in Herald ad
06-20-1944 largest part of Legion Park including golf course donated by Earl Faulkner Post 6 of American Legion
09-07-1944 new evidence in Buehrig murder 10-31-1934 Henry Young in Alcatraz confessed, being charged along with Sherman Baxter, John Baker
12-15-1944 Gulls Nest opened tonight upstairs from 1707 Hewitt, see EHS Kodak Dec. 16, 1955
02-03-1945 KRKO radio open house in new building w side of Pacific Hwy N s of 7th Herald this date
03-12-1945 Japanese balloon bomb landed about a quarter mile west of Glenwood fire station Herald article 3-12-1915
03-13-1945 Japanese balloon bomb landed near Paine Field reportedly could be confused with above
03-24-1945 city dog pound officially opened at 3317 Hewitt Ave.
03-25-1945 Bethel J. Rucker died (born 8-11-1962) wife Ruby (Brown) died 1-4-1972
04-10-1945 first hydraulic barker produced by Sumner Iron Works
04-15-1945 military personnel at Paine Field deactivated. Bertrand Arcadia book p 58
08-01-1945 Pigeon Creek #2 fill along Muk Blvd in last stages of completion, Herald article on this date
09-06-1945 Boeing closed its wartime factories on SW cor Calif and Grand, and NE cor Pac and Rucker
09-18-1945 Wm. R.and Archie G. Taft Jr. acquired control of KRKO
10-04-1945 Jack Wong announced opening of China Cafe, 2822 Rockefeller
10-06-1945 opening of Parker's Jewelry, 1710 Hewitt Ave.
11-16-1945 open house at new location of Hatloe and Son, sw cor. California and Hoyt, had been at Hewitt and Oakes
12-14-1945 grand opening of Walker's Fulton Market 2914 Hewitt
12-15-1945 Hans Hagen Jeweler opened 2910 Rockefeller
12-18-1945 The Sports Shop opened 2942 Colby
01-17-1946 srvice began under newly created Snohomish County PUD, Herald article 1-1-2021
01-26-1946 Coys Toys opened 2923 Colby
02-02-1946 Joe Mitchell had purchased English's from W.H. English, 1405 Hewitt
01-13-1946 installation of church bells in memory of Clifford Newton, 2936 Rockefeller Ave.
02-06-1946 Clark Park murder, Bernice Honrath attacked night before, died today
03-04-1946 Nichols and Laaback had purchased and were remodeling into DeSoto agency building at 3001 Rucker
03-04-1946 Associated made its first piece of concrete pipe
03-27-1946 Zeek's Chicken Dinner Inn now open on Hwy 99 2 miles south of Hewitt and Rucker
03-28-1946 50 residences to be built in new neighbhorhood View Ridge
03-29-1946 Reinertson to open a new Veltex gas station 6128 Evergreen Herald this date
04-05-1946 first B&M opened at 2615 Colby
04-05-1946 first annexation ever 65 acres in northeast part of city
04-19-1946 small pox epidemic here
04-23-1946 Co-op store opened at 3004 Bdwy
04-26-1946 grand opening of J&P store 2929 Colby
05-03-1946 Penguin Cafe opened 2933 Colby
05-09-1946 grand opening Rhodes floral & garden shop 1915 bdwy
05-20-1946 Gable Furniture Exchange at 2920 Hewitt
05-20-1946 Barcott Paint in new location 2818 Hoyt
05-27-1946 Weisfield & Goldberg Jewelry opened 2819 Colby
05-29-1946 Stout's The cottage Inn opened nw cor 15th and Bdwy
06-01-1946 Wold's Men's Shop opened at 2913 Colby
06-01-1946 McCormack Furniture Exchange opened 2922 Rockefeller
06-04-1946 Stan Mitchell opened Ekho Fountain at se cor Hewitt and Wetmore
06-14-1946 L&R Motors opened at 2501 Bdwy Hudson dealers
06-23-1946 earthquake
06-29-1946 Nichols Laabeck DeSoto Plymouth dealership opened at 3001 Rucker
07-10-1946 Monte Cristo Auto Co. exclusive dealers for Lincoln and Mercury 3002 Hoyt
07-26-1946 Weisfield & Goldberg Jewelry opened about now at 2819 Colby
07-27-1946 direct route to Mukilteo again there with recent opening of new Edgewater Creek bridge article Herald 1946
08-23-1946 Ralph's Food Center opened on northeast corner 41st and Rucker
08-28-1946 VFW Hall, 2711 Oakes Ave. dedicated today
09-09-1946 Watson's Bakery, 1812 Hewitt, reopened today after extensive remodel
10-29-1946 Life in Everett debuted at Granada Theater
10-31-1946 J&P store at northwest corner 24th and Colby recently changed hands now Colby Market
11-16-1946 USO building 2818 Wetmore became Earl Faulkner post of American Legion
12-15-1946 grand opening of VFW Old Guard Post 2100 opened in new building at 2711 Oakes
12-20-1946 The Monte Cristo Auto Co. grand opening, southwest corner Hoyt and Wall, Lincoln/Mercury dealers
12-20-1946 Hwy 2 designation for former 10-A from Everett to Bonners Ferry
01-21-1947 Edgewater Market opened
01-22-1947 Picardy's opened at 1618 Hewitt, formerly Daniel's
01-30-1947 B&M opened at sw cor Hewitt and Broadway, kept Hausmann's meats
02-03-1947 Madison School opened
02-04-1947 Brown's Food & Beverage Store opened at 1832 Walnut
02-14-1947 Normanna Hall bldg., 2725 Oakes, opened today, formerly dedicated on 4-19
02-17-1947 first GN Streamliner here, open to public on upper track
03-11-1947 birth of 14th St. fill plan Herald this date
04-25-1947 gala opening of Tradewell se cor 21st and Broadway
04-26-1947 grand opening Carruthers and Whitehead furniture store, 2813 Hoyt
04-28-1947 Herman's Men's Store, 2924 Colby, to be known as Harris Men's Shop
05-07-1947 first helicopter landed at Paine Field
06-01-1947 dedication of new neon sign and chimes, Bethel Baptist Church, 2625 Hoyt, Herald 5-31-1947
06-27-1947 Van Winkle furniture opened ne cor Calif and Wetmore
08-15-1947 grand opening Stadium Market 3th and Bdwy nw cor Herald 8-14-1947
08-18-1947 getting ready to adapt city name The Evergreen City
10-07-1947 Sport Center, 1709 Hewitt, reopened after a seven week remodel
10-07-1947 by this time 16th was an arterial from Wetmore to Broadway
10-07-1947 part of Mukilteo Blvd replaced by the Pigeon Cr 2 fill renamed Wood Place
10-10-1947 opening of Arown Diary and Fountain ne cor 17th and Broadway
10-21-1947 new traffic signal had been installed at 16th and Broadway
10-31-1947 Everett Memorial Stadium dedicated
11-21-1947 announcement (Herald article) of 41st St. improvement, widening and extended from Colby to Bdwy on old interurban route
11-29-1947 clock in front Peoples Natl. Bank, built for Security Natl. Bank toppled, replica dedicated at ECC 10-17-1906
12-05-1947 PUD purchase of Beverly Park Water Co. announced today
01-01-1948 opening of Fire Stn No. 4 at Forest Park, 701 Muk Blvd Fire Boys
01-26-1948 grand opening of Coys Toys, 2923 Colby, later moved to 2605 Colby
02-01-1948 first Power Squadron unit formed in Everett
02-12-1948 by this date 7 barges had been sunk at north bank of Snohomish R. for a breakwater
03-05-1948 grand opening new Standard stn nw corner Wetmore & Wall, prior was C&S Service, later was Court's Chevron, then Wall St. Bldg
04-03-1948 P-40 to go atop Tony Dyre's Bayview service Federal, Bond and Hewitt, would be there just short of 20 years
05-09-1948 fire Bayside Iron Works Fire Boys
06-07-1948 Chester Beard Shoes to open
06-09-1948 President Harry S. Truman in Everett
08-26-1948 apartment house fire, California and Norton
08-28-1948 37th newly paved from Rucker to Broadway about to open
09-13-1948 Pay 'n Save Drugs opened at 2711 Colby
10-07-1948 New Olivia Park Food Market on Hwy 99 and Broadway Cutoff intersection ready for business Herald this date
11-02-1948 now wrecking Wright's Winery warehouse 3317 Colby Herald ad for Abel Cook Matheny on this date
11-13-1948 plans announced to remodel Howarth bldgs on 1600 Hewitt with one look
12-06-1948 Spudnut Shop, 3016 Colby, opened, closed 1971
01-10-1949 Whittier School opened
02-04-1949 ship repair yard began on about this date at shipyard, 10-22-1949 The Marine Digest
03-25-1949 grand opening GalenKamp shoe store Herald 3-24-1949
06-10-1949 August Mardesich boat accident
06-11-1949 grand opening, Cannon's Richfield, nw cor 41st & Rucker
06-17-1949 grand opening of Hans Hagen Jeweler at new store, 2921 Colby
07-14-1949 polio epidemic here
07-24-1949 Immanuel Lutheran Church ne cor 26th and Lombard dedicated,
08-01-1949 Rumbaugh-MacLain became a branch operation of Bon Marche see Herald 5-20-1949 see 2-3-1951 ?
09-01-1949 PUD purchased electric system from Snohomish County and Camano Island
09-18-1949 north (brick) part of Bethany on west side 3300 Bdwy dedicated.
10-31-1949 operations suspended at shipyard keeping only a skeleton crew, The Marine Diegst 10-22-1949
11-17-1949 41st recently opened between Colby and Broadway
02-26-1950 Rucker Hill landslide covered tracks and closed Mill A Herald 2-27-1950
03-30-1950 Fred and Bob Peterson grand opening 3612 Colby Herald this date
05-16-1950 Sky-Vu drive-in theater opened at 34th and Pine, closed 1957
07-11-1950 Rip Van Winkle Motel at se cor 23rd & Bdwy about to open
07-11-1950 Medical Center at NW Hoyt and Pacific under construction
07-11-1950 SE corner of Hoyt & California leveled for new parking garage, near completion Nov. 29 this parking garage gave way for Ever Park
07-14-1950 fire station at se cor Beverly Blvd. & Madison new
08-02-1950 Anita Shop at se cor Colby & California about to open
08-21-1950 stop light at Hewitt & Rockefeller, 4th on Hewitt, 17th in city
09-01-1950 last strings of lights taken down on Hewitt in Riverside and replaced with cobras (some time in Sept)
09-06-1950 open house for remodeled Eagles Bldg, nw cor Hewitt & Hoyt - started 9/49
10-18-1950 city okayed a light for 41st & Colby
10-24-1950 Bud's Cafe at 3119 Bdwy opened
10-24-1950 grading planned for 3700 block of Lombard
11-08-1950 first walk-wait pedestrian signal installed at NE Hewitt and Colby, others to follow
11-29-1950 new building n.w. corner Pacific and Hoyt near completion
02-03-1951 purchase of Rumbaugh-MacLain by Bon Marche announced today see 8-1-1949?
02-16-1951 Wellworth opened new retail store at 2725 Colby, had been at 2931 Bond
04-01-1951 tax token no longer used
04-04-1951 open house at Safeway west side 3700 Bdwy, open the following day
04-12-1951 Everett Motor Movie opened, closed 1978 David Dilgard Footlights
04-19-1951 B&M shopping center at 50th & Hwy 99 opened
05-04-1951 Stadium Service station at 3930 Bdwy opened
05-25-1951 Eleanor Butler wing on General Hospital dedicated (two-story addition only on the east side of the main brick building)
06-01-1951 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
06-13-1951 Rosemary the elephant arrived at Forest Park, would die Oct. 1955
07-18-1951 Bill and Ada Pilz 3324 Grand donated what is now Doyle Park at nw cor 35th and Grand to school district
08-18-1951 Duffy Drug on 1600 Bdwy grand opening moved from 1831 Bdwy Herald 7-18-1951
12-01-1951 Simpson Lumber Co. purchased Everett Pulp & Paper Co. for slghtly over 9 million
12-15-1951 Ripple Tavern opened at sw cor Hewitt and Rockefeller
12-27-1951 Port purchased Pier 1 from American Tug Boat Co.
01-14-1952 new Fairmont Elementary almost ready to open Herald this date
01-19-1952 Snowfair with ski jump at Forest Park (two days)
02-01-1952 construction started on addition on west side of Scott Paper administration bldg
02-12-1952 work under way on Scott paper mill building
02-25-1952 Fairmont School opened
04-04-1952 grand opening of Jack's Men's Store 1820 Hewitt Herald ad
04-14-1952 old Lowell school being torn down
07-14-1952 Rip Van Winkle Motel sign hoisted into place last week
07-23-1952 1505-07 Hewitt to be torn down
07-28-1952 traffic signal request at Hewitt & Hoyt, also considering 25th & Bdwy and Hewitt & Walnut
07-29-1952 locust trees on 3000 Rockefeller west side all went except southernmost for new courthouse addition, it went later too for another addition
07-30-1952 workers began pouring concrete for Reservoir 5 at Dogwood and 50th
08-02-1952 last day for Don Winslow in the Herald comics
09-08-1952 first day for Gene Autry in Herald comics
09-01-1952 Hawthorne School opened (some time in Sept)
09-11-1952 13th being paved including sidewalks from Wetmore to Bdwy
09-21-1952 Roland Hartley died
09-27-1952 last day for Mutt and Jeff in Herald comics
09-29-1952 first day for Scorchy Smith in Herald comics
10-02-1952 President Truman here at Pacific Ave. yards
10-06-1952 Republican hopeful Eisenhower here at Pacific Ave. yards
10-08-1952 Everett Theater reopened after full remodel and new marquee, triplexed in 1979
11-01-1952 Henry M. Jackson elected to U.S. Senate (sometime in Nov)
12-20-1952 the drydock was moved away, Marine Digest article says 12-27-1952
01-24-1953 second annual ski jump at Forest Park (two days)
02-04-1953 Harold Walsh and Frank Platt bought Murphy Motors and started dealership
03-18-1953 Sears remodeled grand opening, including new garden center bldg at SE Wetmore and Calif
04-01-1951 Paine Field reactivated as joint-use airbase Bertrand Arcadia book p 65
04-23-1953 Monte Cristo Hotel purchased by A.L. Dimsdale from Bennett Baldy
04-24-1953 blinker at Madison and Hwy 99 (Evergreen Way) replaced with a stop and go signal
04-26-1953 youth building addition to First Presbyterian Church dedicated
05-05-1953 new stoplight at corner of Hwy 99 and Broadway Cutoff (Evergreen Way and Everett Mall Way)
05-12-1953 last day for the Balboa Theater David Dilgard Footlights
05-14-1953 cornerstone laid at Scott paper mill, 2nd machine announced
05-22-1953 grand opening of Bob and Ray's Shell at NE 38th and Bdwy
05-29-1953 grand opening of Ray's Delicatessen 1619 Bdwy
06-05-1953 grand opening of Greenshields Industrial Supply 710 Hwy 99 No and Jeff's Draperies and B&M Pet and Hobby Shop
06-09-1953 widening of Broadway underway
06-12-1953 grand opening of Gustavson's Shell SW 26th Bdwy
06-19-1953 grand opening of Stan Akins Flying A Service 2502 Bdwy
07-09-1953 grand opening of Lyle Wood's Mobilgas NE 20th and Bdwy
07-10-1953 bathhouse at Maple Heights-Pigeon Cr. # 2, - now Howarth - was closed and being vandalized, bay water was polluted
07-23-1953 grand opening of Dave Gilleland's trapezoidal Union 76 station SE cor 41st and Rucker
07-24-1953 grand opening of Topper Motel
07-31-1953 Suzie Q. Smith had joined funnies this month
08-31-1953 Weyerhaeuser Kraft mill started production this week; closed in 1992
09-02-1953 grand opening of Evergreen Bowling Lanes
09-15-1953 new traffic lights this month at 33rd & Bdwy and 37th & Bdwy
09-20-1953 groundbreaking for new west addition on Trinity Lutheran Church Herald article 9-21-1953
11-20-1953 grand opening of Bon Marche's men's shop in remodeled Balboa Theater
12-05-1953 major remodel of Betts Variety three day grand opening, on sw cor Everett at Highland, had opened in 1942
12-14-1953 old trestle over Pigeon Creek collapsed recently (replaced by fill on Muk Blvd) Herald this date
01-04-1954 first meeting of what was to be Snohomish County Museum Association
01-14-1954 new red and white stop signs to replace yellow signs
01-24-1954 50th anniversary of Trinity Lutheran Church and beginning of week long celebraton Herald article 1-16-1954
02-01-1954 A.G. Sorenson Real Estate and Insurance moved to 1707 Hewitt and changed name to Sorenson Realty
02-08-1954 Port plan to fill 2000 acres west of Jetty for industrial sites, to include yacht basin, fishing fleet basin, seaplane base and airport Herald this date
03-19-1954 day declared Elisabeth Kempkes Day for long time teacher by Mayor Unzelman
03-28-1954 dedication of new neon sign Bethany Temple 2531 Lombard Herald 3-27-1954
04-09-1954 announcement of Everett Mutual Listing Service for realtors
05-12-1954 Rucker Hill Park donated by Ruby and Jasper Rucker and Margaret Rucker-Armstrong
05-15-1954 5:02 a.m earthquake
06-01-1954 big annexation vote failed
06-08-1954 small boat launch at 14th St.
06-11-1954 grand opening of Goodwill store, 2726 Lombard
06-21-1954 baseball playfield at 48th and Colby dedicated
06-28-1954 new Broadway Cutoff to open this week (today this is north bound lanes of I-5)
07-02-1954 Ray's Union 76 opened at sw cor 37th and Broadway
07-15-1954 new fire station se corn Beverly Blvd and Madison dedicated, Herald story 7-14-1954
07-15-1954 grand opening of Harbin's Richfield 40th and Broadway -3930 ?
07-16-1954 Bond Street power station destroyed by fire
07-16-1954 Meadowmoor plant at ne cor 52nd and Evergreen remodeled, new trademark Medosweet
07-18-1954 Everett's first official Soap Box Derby
07-21-1954 east side of 2300 and 2400 blocks of Norton cleared and being leveled for a Scott Paper parking lot
08-06-1954 First Natl. Bank of Everett drive-in branch opened, 2900 block Hoyt west side, open house, opened on 8-9
09-07-1954 first day of school at View Ridge School
10-22-1954 new health rooms and boys locker rooms being added to South Jr. gym, expected to be completed in Nov.
10-29-1954 Everett Federal Savings and Loan Assn. under construction on southeast corner of Hoyt and Wall
11-15-1954 Granada Theatre, 2926 Wetmore, closed, had opened in 1927 David Dilgard Footlights
11-16-1954 dedication of VOA annex along Calif St. at Lombard
11-16-1954 apparently last show for the Granada Theater
11-25-1954 noted new drive up mailbox at post office here
12-04-1954 new west addition well under way on Trinity Lutheran Church Herald this date
01-21-1955 grand opening Multi-Flavor Ice Cream Drive-In, 3719 Rucker
03-02-1955 Civil Defense hosted first meeting in a series at Hawthorne School to discuss preparedness in case of H Bomb attacks in Everett Herald 3-1-1955
04-18-1955 Fighter Interceptor Squadron station at Paine Air Base (discontinued in 1960) Bertrand Arcadia book p 79
04-20-1955 traffic signal at Everett and Wetmore
04-23-1955 repaving Rucker from 19th to Everett and later Hewitt between Broadway and Virginia, this would leave few blocks with brick streets
05-01-1955 somewhere about here the median was removed on 19th from Rucker to Walnut (sometime in May)
05-12-1955 noted that Everett Pulp and Paper Co. was changing name to Simpson Paper Co. had been purchased by Simpson in 1952
05-31-1955 stop light installed this afternoon at Everett and Rucker
06-04-1955 GN 80-ft chimney at Delta yards coming down.
06-05-1955 open house at new Lillian Abramson nursing home, 2120 Madison
06-09-1955 98 degrees, buckled pavement on 41st, hottest day on record for years
06-16-1955 Security State Bank open house at sw cor 50th and Claremont
06-17-1955 grand opening Dickson and Cressell new Chevron station 1601 Broadway
06-18-1955 grand opening Bill's Richfield 3929 Broadway (perhaps on east side?)
06-28-1955 paper machine 4 went into operation today at Scott Paper
06-08-1955 grand opening Mel's Cafe, 3201 Rucker
07-29-1955 grand opening of Sea Horse Snack Bar and Delicatessen in Mukilteo
07-31-1955 Carter drug had moved to 2227 Bdwy, after having been at 2215 Bdwy since 1947 Herald
08-15-1955 2 portables to join a 3rd at So. Jr., 5 going up at Madison, 5 at Lowell
08-16-1955 12 oz. and 16 oz. Coca Cola being sold in Everett area this week
08-17-1955 new Safeway at 1715 Bdwy opened (bldg was along Bdwy not McDougall), building barely lasted 15 yrs
08-25-1955 remodeled Newberrys, 2814 Colby, reopened, Herald article 8-24-1955
09-02-1955 newly located new store for Karl's Shoes at 2820 Colby
09-08-1955 new six-doctor clinic under construction on southeast corner of Pacific and Kromer (Herald caption on that date)
09-10-1955 old Jackson School on Norton being razed
09-10-1955 new Yield-Right-of-Way sign on 32nd at Colby
09-17-1955 first direct dial non-long distance service between Everett and Marysville
09-21-1955 Everett Music and TV Co. opened at 2625 Colby
10-01-1955 open house at Eastmont. Five new houses under construction, the first I believe
10-03-1955 Julian's Styling Salon opened at 2625 Colby
10-04-1955 Rosemary, Forest Park elephant, was dead, came here June 1951
10-14-1955 Temwalt Terrace being developed (Jade and Oklahoma off McDougall)
11-04-1955 new bldg for Sager Construction at 2911 Bond St.
11-06-1955 View Ridge School dedicated
11-11-1955 4 signs up at gateways like totem, traffic safeyty contest between Everett and Yakima
11-12-1955 open house completely furnished at new Eastmont District Herald
02-01-1956 Bond's Colonial Shop at 4302 Evergreen opened
02-01-1956 tearing down the Delta Yards buildings
02-13-1956 major fire at Herald that extended into the next day
03-03-1956 Everett Trust and Savings opened new branch at 1801 Broadway
03-29-1956 new PUD substation started this week on Paine between 34th and 35th
03-31-1956 last day for Payless Food Store, 2714 Colby
04-11-1956 hangar doors installed at Alaska Airlines, Paine Field
04-18-1956 Carl Wilson Elliot believed to be Clark Park (10 yrs. ago) murderer
04-19-1956 new Burch's Penguin Cafe at 2814 Wetmore, previously at 2933 Colby
04-26-1956 Popp's Cleaners moved to 1409 from 1407 Hewitt
05-03-1956 new traffic signal at 41st & Bdwy, 2nd traffic activated in Pacific Coast
05-06-1956 new Doctor Clinic at se cor Pacific and Kromer dedicated
05-18-1956 open house Natl. Cash Register Co. in new bldg, 2520 Colby
05-19-1956 mill blaze, Everett Lumber Co., foot of Railroad Ave.
05-19-1956 train wreck at 14th and Norton. Herald 5-21-1956
06-07-1956 Ross Bootery began closing out sale after 26 years at 2812 Colby
06-14-1956 Twevle Futreliner sp? buses arrived at Memorial Staudium for the 4-day GM Parade of Progress traveling exhibit on 3-year North American tour
06-15-1956 grand opening Royal Drive-In Cleaners, 3510 Bdwy
06-15-1956 grand opening Pardee's Dine-In, 1021 Bdwy
07-11-1956 Jerread's Funeral Home added Cassidy to the front of the name
07-12-1956 open house for new Travelodge, 3030 Bdwy
07-30-1956 Al Larson's Paint Store moved from 19th & Bdwy to 1910 36th
08-03-1956 Hulbert Mill fire
08-03-1956 Equator left on the jetty this week, would stay there until 6-26-1967
08-15-1956 last Everett Yacht Club meeting in Black Prince modern addition and it was being taken apart
08-18-1956 Robinson Marina opened
08-18-1956 Equator left on jetty this week story?
08-31-1956 Hall's Phcy opened their new store in the new lobby of the new part of the Medical and Dental Bldg.
09-01-1956 last class graduated from Providence School of Nursing ?
09-15-1956 old parish hall at Trinity Episcopal Church being dismantled
09-19-1956 Ross Bootery, 2812 Colby, going out of business soon
09-21-1956 S. Colby had new lights from 32nd to 52nd and new paving from 46th to 52nd
09-06-1956 Dominicans moved from Everett Ave. (old St. Dominics bldg) to Woodway I believe
09-27-1956 new pink neon sign recently erected atop Scott Paper Co.
10-21-1956 declared Natural Gas Week for Everett with coming of natural gas
10-26-1956 grand opening Westview Cafeteria 3rd floor Medical & Dental Bldg.
11-04-1956 Morris the Florist opened at 5626 Hwy 99 So.
11-09-1956 Van Winkles Furniture reopening after adding a story to bldg at n.e. corner Wetmore and California
11-14-1956 Paine AFB F-89D crashed near Hat Island, two airmen rescued from water.
11-22-1956 GNRR oil tanks on waterfront near Maple Hts. being dismantled.
11-30-1956 Hal Weir's Appliance & Edgewater TV grand opening new bldg, 4315-17 Rucker
11-30-1956 grand opening Jerry Forshee's Signal stn on n.e. cor. of 41st & Colby
01-03-1957 city council approved new stoplights at Pacific & Wetmore, Wall & Wetmore, Rucker & Calif., 47th & Evergreen. 52nd & Evergreen likely to follow
01-05-1957 demolition of GN Delta roundhouse had begun
01-10-1957 announcement that Woolworth would take entire corner replacing Brewsters
01-25-1957 opening of Bing's drive-in 2515 Bdwy
01-30-1957 So. Jr. new music bldg opened this week, No. Jr.'s came later
02-04-1957 opening of Farm Service Store (Co-op), Hewitt and State
02-10-1957 groundbreaking for General Parish Hall, Trinity Episcopal
02-19-1957 groundbreaking for new north end EJC campus
02-26-1957 construction of new Safeway supermarket at Madison and Highway 99 apparently going ahead
03-01-1957 open house for new Alpine Cafeteria and Westerner Room at B&M Shopping Center
03-06-1957 Olivia Park School opened recently
03-09-1957 grand opening Alpine Cafeteria in B&M Shopping Center opened to public 3-4?
03-14-1957 Penneys remodel with escalators ready, grand reopening
04-12-1957 Chuck Lee Swim School opened in old Granada Theater
04-19-1957 Welk Music moved from 2607 to 2609 Colby
04-23-1957 grand opening of Bud's Cafi, new building same location on Broadway
05-03-1957 gala reopening of Sky Vu drive-in theater, but it couldn't have been for long as new warehouse was on site by year's end
05-10-1957 grand opening of Tuerks Stadium Drive-In, sw cor 38th and Broadway
06-08-1957 Norma and Dusty opened Carousel Music Center at 2510 Colby
06-28-1957 Riverside Lumber, 2914 Walnut, burned
07-16-1957 Binyon Optometrists opened new store at 2625 Colby, had been a block south
07-19-1957 Tyee Bowl grand opening
07-20-1957 NP began retirement of 3 remaining 1906 steam locomotives based at Everett NP yard, additional diesel powered units to be delivered to NP yard here soon (Herald)
07-21-1957 KQTY radio stn went on the air
08-01-1957 Pay 'n Save Drugs, 2709-11 Colby to expand into 2713 where Binyon Optical was; Binyon moved a block north
08-03-1957 new clinic under construction on northeast corner of 32nd and Colby
08-07-1957 concrete lamp post taken down at Wall and Hoyt in front of Monte Cristo as city changed to new mercury-vapor system
08-08-1957 grand opening for expanded Woolworth's store at nw cor Hewitt and Colby, started three days of celebration Herald 8-7-1957
08-08-1957 grand opening of Thom McAn shoe store at 2808 Colby
08-08-1957 open house for new Simpson Paper office bldg on 2nd
08-30-1957 first of new street light poles erected at Wall and Wetmore by City Hall
08-30-1957 grand opening of Everett Sportsmen's Club 1905 Hewitt
09-04-1957 new 1958 Edsel in Hutchings Motors showroom
09-15-1957 first direct distance dialing from Everett to Seattle and a number of places from Issaquah to Edison
09-20-1957 grand reopening of Friedlanders in newly remodeled Realty Bldg, Hewitt & Colby northeast corner
09-22-1957 new Trinity Episcopal Parish Hall dedicated, story in Herald actually dedicated on 9-24
10-11-1957 'Lights On' celebration with new overhead streetlights downtown
10-11-1957 new dining room and Derby Room opened at Turf, 1712 Hewitt
10-17-1957 new music building at North Junior now in use
10-19-1957 fire 1720 Hewutt upstairs bowling alley, didn't destroy bldg, (later fire did)
10-21-1957 open house for new and remodeled Pay 'n Save
11-20-1957 Longfellow school multi-purpose room dedicated, Sen. Jackson spoke
11-26-1957 Gov. Roselini here to cut ribbon at new Public Assistance Bldg, 2821 Grand
12-02-1957 formal opening of Arthur Murray studio above Woolworth's
12-11-1957 new Safeway opened on Evergreen Way west sude just south of Madison
12-13-1957 grand opening of Evergreen Drug on old Safeway building at sw cor 41st & Rucker
12-30-1957 open house at Coast Truck Line new terminal, 34th & Pine, where Sky-Vu drive-in theater was
12-18-1957 School District No. 101 dissolved, portions to District No. 2 (Everett) and District No. 417 (Bothell/Northshore)
01-01-1958 annexation of Darlington and Queen Anne Additions on Mukilteo Blvd.
01-29-1958 Tradewell at 4920 Evergreen Way opened
02-01-1958 annexation of area out to Berkshire Dr.
02-13-1958 Elgin Baylor of Seattle U played here, had last year too
02-21-1958 first basketball game in new Everett Junior College gym
03-14-1958 launched this week 2nd street light project, Hewitt from Grand to Hoyt and from Wetmore to Virginia, Rucker from Everett to Pacific
03-14-1958 Robinson Marina grand opening
04-10-1958 Norton Alverson viaduct opened
04-19-1958 Emerson School dedicated
05-04-1958 fire Chapman Apts. 3114 Oakes, didn't destroy (later fire did)
05-18-1958 Everett phone numbers went from 6 to 7 digits, i.e. BAview 6797 became ALpine 2-6797
06-02-1958 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
06-03-1958 USS Nautilus left for North Pole via Seattle and Hawaii, reached it Aug. 3, 1958
06-21-1958 deal recently signed for new Everett sewage lagoon
07-25-1958 grand opening of Down Towner in old Imperial Cafe
07-27-1958 dedication on new Congregational Church, nw cor Everett & Rockefeller, began in old church and ended in new church
08-09-1958 Elliot Bay Lumber Co. fire Fire Boys
09-03-1958 first day for Evergreen Jr. High, dedication next April
09-10-1958 class started in new EJC north end campus
09-24-1958 from ad: Ross Winde leaving 3002 Hoyt for 2501 Broadwy
10-10-1958 lights approved for Calif. and Rock, Pacific and Rock., Pacific and Hoyt
10-14-1958 Herald issue with new EJC dediccation
10-20-1958 warehouse blaze, Hogland Transfer, 32nd & McDougall
10-31-1958 Vice President Richard Nixon at Paine Field
11-03-1958 PUD moved from Pacific & Colby to California & Virginia
11-07-1958 new stop light at 23rd & Walnut, lights on Walnut at 19th and Everett to follow soon
11-10-1958 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
11-28-1958 open house in new PUD building
12-01-1958 free right turn reinstated in Everett, had been last year, but state had ruled as unlawful
12-04-1958 GallenKamp's Shoes opened, 2804 Colby
12-10-1958 Benson's Camera opened today at 1611A Hewitt
12-11-1958 first 2 Carter gas stns in Everett, 23rd & Bdwy (sw corner), Madison & Evergreen (sw corner)
12-14-1958 Colby Manor Nursing Home opened, 4230 Colby
01-13-1959 23rd east of Broadway had been named an arterial
01-21-1959 decesion made recently to close Jefferson School
02-20-1959 had just removed interurban rails on 3000 Colby
02-26-1959 flowering trees to be planted on Grand, Rucker, Hoyt, Colby from 10th to Alverson, and on Alverson
02-27-1959 PUD neon sign being put into place near Hewitt on PUD property
03-07-1959 new Herald building open
03-09-1959 Claremont post office opened, dedication on the 28th, it was at 5033 Claremont
03-16-1959 Peoples Bank opened in new building se corner Hewitt & Rockefeller
04-05-1959 Evergreen Jr. High dedicated, opened last September
05-01-1959 closing date for Hulbert Mill. Herald
05-05-1959 Pier 3 given to Port of Everett by Great Northern Railway
05-13-1959 spectacular morning fire at Olympic Motel, 5230 Evergreen Way
08-20-1959 new stop light at Bothell Hwy and Bdwy Cutoff
08-28-1959 Simpson Lumber Co. merged its paper operations in Everett with Lee Paper Co. to become Simpson Lee Paper Co.
09-15-1959 open house at new Herald plant
09-18-1959 Security State Bank of Everett merged with Nation Bank of Washington. Herald 9-17-1959
10-03-1959 Glacier Bowl opened tonight at 9630 Hwy 99 S.
11-14-1959 Econo-Mart opened at sw cor Evergreen Wy and Pecks Dr
11-15-1959 Olivia Park Elementary dedicated
11-21-1959 new Greyhound bus depot at ne cor Pacific and Hoyt dedicated
12-02-1959 new Safeway at nw cor. of Everett and Colby dedicated
12-03-1959 Madison Square, on west side of Evergreen Way just south of Madison St. dedicated
12-17-1959 new Scott Paper Co. three-story warehouse recently put into service.
12-19-1959 first street trees at Everett and Colby avenues, new Everett Savings and Loan Assn bldg.
12-19-1959 Everett Aerie No. 13 presented Ten Commandments monolith for conspicuous display at City Hall, first in state
12-23-1959 Chapman Apts. (old Summit Hotel) 3114 Oakes, burned
12-23-1959 new traffic light Calif. and Bdwy. It didn't last
12-31-1959 Madison area joined city, first major annexation
01-04-1960 First Federal Savings and Loan Assn. moved into their new building southwest corner of Colby and Everett avenues.
01-14-1960 grand opening of First Federal Savings in new building on southwest corner of Colby and Everett avenues.
02-09-1960 Albertson's at ne corner Madison and Evergreen opened this west facing building was later replaced
02-10-1960 Tradewell celebrating grand opening of Evergreen Way store
03-01-1960 321st Fighter Interceptor Squadron discontinued at Paine Air Base, had come in 1955, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 79
03-18-1960 winning bidders buy 72 A (shipyard property) on waterfront Pacific Towboat, Scott, Western Gear who announced move to Everett Bob Mayer
04-03-1960 last services in old Baptist Church 2925 Lombard
04-10-1960 First Baptist moved into new church at sw cor Pacific and Wetmore, first service
04-21-1960 Hodges Bldg fire (see Herald 4-22-1960 p1)
04-29-1960 Prescription Optical opened in Pacific & Colby bldg
04-29-1960 Walt's Milk House opened at 44th and Rucker
04-29-1960 signs going up this week in Madison area for street name changes like Beech, Sycamore, Tamarack and Allen
04-30-1960 groundbreaking for new buildings at Parkland Lutheran Children's home 4500 Federal
05-01-1960 Ford dealership Hutchings Motors became Klein Motors
05-05-1960 Super Shingle dry kiln fire
05-21-1960 Bowen-Ingram (5320 Evergreen Way) and Econo-Mart (6220 Evergreen Way) merged under the Bowen-Ingram name at the Econo-Mart location
06-07-1960 first sewage into new Smith Is. lagoon
06-08-1960 oepening of H.O. Seiffert Home & Handyman's Center on 2400 Hewitt
06-29-1960 Tradewell, 2015 Broadway opened
07-10-1960 dedication of the Music Bowl (not gazebo) in Clark Park
07-15-1960 grand opening of Fuller Paint & Glass Store, 3025 Rucker Ave.
08-17-1960 View Ridge Thriftway opened Herald 8-16-1960
09-07-1960 first day of school ever at St. Mary Magdalen School, grades 1-4 only, to add a grade a year
09-27-1960 Elks fire
10-10-1960 Mildred Simpson elected in special election to become first woman as Everett City Commissioner (Finance)
10-15-1960 new First Natl. Bank branch in Claremont opened
10-16-1960 new Immaculate Conception convent and parish hall blessed
10-17-1960 new traffic light at 52nd and Evergreen
10-23-1960 St. Mary Magdalen building dedicated
10-24-1960 new steeple put into place atop First Presbyterian Church 2936 Rockefeller Ave.
11-09-1960 Sheriff Bob Twitchell found guilty of duty neglect
11-11-1960 Elks moved into old Windmill bldg, 7418 Evergreen Way
11-16-1960 Glengarry Inn (restaurant) between Everett and Marysville open by this date
11-20-1960 new Parkland Children's Home dedicated
11-22-1960 Thorpe Furniture, 3015 Colby, quitting business
12-24-1960 last day for Montgomery Ward store at 2819 Colby
01-06-1961 open house new addition to YMCA
04-06-1961 Butts Store building on Ebey Is. by trestle burned to the ground
04-09-1961 dedication of new Central Christian Church at 26th and Hoyt.
05-02-1961 Laruel Hieghts area voted for annexation
05-13-1961 to be a traffic light by end of summer at Casino and Hwy 99
05-20-1961 North Pacific Fair structures on Stock Show Rd. being razed.
05-30-1961 new pool at Everett Golf and Country inaugurated
06-07-1961 first Edgewater Casino annexation attempt failed
06-14-1961 new traffic light installed at Beverly Dr. (75th) and Highway 99 (Evergreen Way)
06-28-1961 Northwestern Lumber and Mfg Co damaged by fire, crews from Lowell and Paine helped, Herald
06-30-1961 new Hwy 1-A (now 9) bridge over Snohomish River opened
07-01-1961 Jazwieck's miniature golf opened joining "Trainland"
07-07-1961 decision to name Silver Lake park for Thornton Sullivan, present and longtime Parks Board president
07-15-1961 Slim's drive-in open on Hwy 99 near Paine Field cutoff
07-18-1961 this week city's first neon sign taken down, at London Cafe, 2013 Hewitt, since 1926
07-21-1961 grand opening of 5 Star Furniture, 3015 Colby
08-03-1961 Montgomery Ward catalogue store opened at 2524 Colby
08-05-1961 Arctic Circle Drive In opened at 6600 Evergreen
08-08-1961 Herald ad selling off all of Bowen-Ingram Econo Mart, now insolvent
08-10-1961 merger announced First Natl. Bank of Everett and Seattle-First Natl. Bank
08-15-1961 county jail riot
08-25-1961 Land Title Co. opened in new building at 5021 Claremont Ave.
09-05-1961 Cascade H.S. opened I believe
09-07-1961 roof being constructed at Memorial Stadium
09-16-1961 voters approved annexation to Mukilteo Edgewater to Casino
09-18-1961 former Gov. Mon Wallgren of Everett died
09-18-1961 big warehouse fire Weyerhaeuser Mill A
09-26-1961 new Madison Branch of Everett Public Library opened at East Dr. and Roseway
09-28-1961 median installed this week along Bdwy from 12th to 26th, so no left turns except at 13th and 14th
10-18-1961 traffic signal at California and Broadway changed to an amber blinking light
10-31-1961 Western Gear announced gradual move to Everett, 100 already here Bob Mayer
11-07-1961 Western Gear tests, ready to ship 94' diameter turntable for Space Needle Bob Mayer
12-01-1961 USS Everett stricken from Navy list (launched 9-29-1943)
12-07-1961 former Sheriff Bob Twitchell and three co-defendents found guilty today of conspiring to run a prostitution in the county
12-21-1961 Imperial 400 Motel opened (building torn down fall 2011)
02-04-1962 small bomb blast at courthouse
02-26-1962 Lowell fire station now part of EFD
02-27-1962 Mukilteo rejected annexation to Everett, service extended to Lowell and Pinehurst, next entry might be wrong.
02-28-1962 Lowell and Pinehurst officially became part of Everett after earlier annexation vote
03-11-1962 dedication of new steeple Trinity Lutheran Church Herald article 3-10-1962
03-15-1962 last of Hulbert Mill burned by EFD
03-29-1962 ground broken for new Everett Clinic, 39th and Colby-Hoyt
03-30-1962 dedication of new West Coast Telephone Co. building at 1800 41st
03-31-1962 ongoing grand opening of House of Values (formerly Econo Mart) at 6220 Hwy 99 s.
04-01-1962 ground broken for new Methodist Church at 36th and Colby
04-14-1962 grand opening of Ray's Drive-In, 1401 Broadway
04-15-1962 formal rededication of remodeled after fire Elks Club bldg; they were already in it
05-02-1962 Treasure House opened in new location, 2714 Colby; had been at 2926 Colby
05-07-1962 Eclipse Mill fire
05-08-1962 Ernst-Malmo official opening 4920 Evergreen Way
05-16-1962 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.
05-18-1962 Western Gear move to Evertt completed with official address 2100 Norton Ave. Bob Mayer
06-05-1962 voters approved large annexation as far as 100th St., added 4600 residents
06-27-1962 Bank of Everett chartered
07-09-1962 grand opening of Bank of Everett in temporary quarters on 2724 Wetmore.
07-27-1962 Chester Beard remodel and enlargement grand reopening
08-05-1962 fire at Hoglunad Transfer Company's storage warehouse on 3200 block Paine, some of building was built from wood fron Nail Works on Bayside Herald 8-6-1962
08-15-1962 Shakeys Pizza opened at 6305 Evgn Way, Herald article on this date
08-19-1962 dedication of new entrance Trinity Lutheran Church Herald article 4-18-1962
08-31-1962 Lowell post office discontinued
09-01-1962 Lowell post office replaced by Lowell Branch
09-11-1962 Sumner Iron Works sold to Black Clawson
09-15-1962 East Crest Hills Community Club dedicated
10-12-1962 Columbus Day Storm
10-20-1962 Tyee Bowl grand opening and open house
11-14-1962 B&M Everett Ave. and Broadway opened today
11-16-1962 Maier Electric had grand opening in new location, 2607 Wetmore, had been at 2008 Hewitt
11-16-1962 advertising in Herald for two new areas: Glenhaven and Impreial Hills off 7th Ave.
11-23-1962 grand opening of Novak (formerly Dolloff) Oldsmobile
01-27-1963 fire Lowell School Fire Boys
02-14-1963 Super Shingle, last mill on 14th St. Dock was torched to make room for small boat moorage
02-14-1963 Grand opening of Haggens Thriftway, formerly View Ridge Thriftway, at shopping center, Mukilteo and Olympic boulevards.
02-28-1963 Eastmont Plaza Shopping Center under construction and expected to open in April Herald
03-03-1963 dedication of remodeled Floral Hall
03-25-1963 K&H Printers reopened at 17th and Bdwy after being in the Commerce Block for years
04-06-1963 Putt-A-Way miniature golf course at 7th and Hwy 99 across from Hilltop Drive-in opened
04-10-1963 beginning of arboretum, Arbor Day planting of pin oak, Herald articles on 4-7 and 4-10
04-21-1963 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)
04-22-1963 cabin cruiser Blue Water sank in Pt. Gardner Bay
04-28-1963 new First Methodist Church, nw cor 36th and Colby, offically consecrated
05-01-1963 Hasler's or Hausler's Restaurant at 2913 Norton opened, by 6-11-1963 it was closed
05-01-1963 Eastmont Beauty Salon to open Herald
05-04-1963 Perpetual Help convent dedicated
05-04-1963 Martin Seling, Eastmont developer announced new clinic with construction to begin about May 15 Herald
05-13-1963 Everett Clinic opened today in new location at 39th & Colby Herald 5-11-1963
06-01-1963 Everett Public Library remodel dedication
06-05-1963 graduation at Cascade gym of first graduating class
06-06-1963 Everett Trust was in new quarters, remodeled Montgomery Ward store, open house two days later
06-12-1963 Meadowcroft and Carras had purchased Novak Olds GMC (formerly Dolloff) and renamed Holiday
06-13-1963 open house at remodeled train station
07-04-1963 remodeled armory dedicated
07-28-1963 dedication of new middle building at Bethany home
07-31-1963 Marion Joseph Bradburn of Everett arrested for threatening to kill JFK (see Herald 8-1-1963 p 1)
08-05-1963 construction expected to start middle of Auguust for Linda Lanes, 24 alleys in Eastmont Herald
08-09-1963 dedication of new Bank of Everett bldg on Calif. at Wetmore nw cor (moved in on 7-29-1963)
08-17-1963 open house at Everett Ambulance and Doctors Service at 3702 Colby Ave.
09-03-1963 ground broken for Linda Lanes in Eastmont Herald
09-14-1963 by this time there were automatic scorers at Evergreen and Glacier Lanes
09-15-1963 oepning of new parish Education Bldg of Central Lutheran Church
09-19-1963 O.P. Nelson jeweler, 2934 colby, qutting business after 28 years here
09-29-1963 open house for library remodel
11-06-1963 new cobra lights on Broadway lit
11-27-1963 last day for Gulls Nest above 1707 Hewitt Dave Williams article on Seagulls Herald 11-29-1963 opened about 1949
01-02-1964 new manual traffic signal into operatubg at Bev Blvd and Madison St., Bev had right of way, similar to one at 35th and Rucker
01-14-1964 destruction began today on Jefferson School; it took 11 days
02-28-1964 Simpson Lee and Everett Improvement Co. donated Candy Cane Park (Lowell Park) to city.
03-15-1964 3 day grand opening of Taco Time 3805 Rucker on site where Veltex station was, replaced by new building in 1995
04-03-1964 Burch's Penguin Cafe, 2814 Wetmore, closed
04-17-1964 grand opening of new Owl Rexall Store, 2823 Colby
04-25-1964 St. Mary Magdalen convent dedicated
04-23-1964 grand opening of remodeled Kress store, 2822 Colby
05-03-1964 new Glacier Vista Apts, 3319 Colby premier showing Herald 5-2-1964
05-26-1964 Eastmont Shopping Center annexed to city Herald
06-01-1964 Allen Buick became part of Holdiay Olds, Buick, GMC Inc.
06-12-1964 grand opening of Mr. Kwid Kar Wash ne cor 36th and Broadway
06-12-1964 Parks gained Harborview Park
06-28-1964 new post office dedicated
07-22-1964 opening of IGA Foodliner in Eastmont, first IGA store in Everett Herald
07-23-1964 90mm cannon moved into place at south end of Legion Park, gift from American Legion Herald 7-24-1964
08-01-1964 demolition in progress on old First Methodist Church, Broadway at Wall.
10-26-1964 Richard Nixon visited Everett, spoke to audience in Everett Theater
10-11-1964 McCollum Park dedicated
11-07-1964 Brothers Four played at Cascade High gym
10-07-1964 Everett Park Dept crews planting evergreen trees in new aggregate cup-shaped planters, Herald
11-13-1964 Herfy's at 5034 Claremont opened (2nd in chain)
11-18-1964 grand opening of A&P at 6308 Evergreen Way
11-30-1964 SeaMor Marina, 3878 Railway Ave., gutted by fire
12-12-1964 Farm Products closed its doors after 60 years, believed to be the oldest grocery store in town had opened 1910 (nw corn Calif. and Lombard)
12-13-1964 new Jefferson School at Eastmont officially dedicated, had opened in fall
12-19-1964 Kash 'n Kart's grand opening in its new building 2201 36th St.
12-30-1964 Dennys Restaurant, 2016 Hewitt opened
01-26-1965 Skiff 99 Tavern between Everett and Marysville burned, had been built as Glengarry Inn in 1959 I believe
01-29-1965 Old 55 at 7308 Evergreen Way was closing and being moved, had opened in 1939
02-03-1965 19.7 miles of Everett-Seattle freeway opened (Eastmont to University District)
03-24-1965 Penneys Auto Center on 3000 Colby opened
04-29-1965 earthquake
06-30-1965 Head Start program for children started in Everett
08-10-1965 addition to Penneys in old Sheraton Trading Post bldg. ne cor Calif. & Hoyt
10-03-1965 Double K Food at nw cor 41st & Hoyt opened
04-10-1965 courthouse Annex building razed, built 1908
04-15-1965 interchanges on I 5 at 128th, 220th, 236th opened
04-25-1965 this week a crane pulled down the old sawmill, part of the Delta GN yards
05-18-1965 relay station towers on 132nd being dismantled
08-09-1965 former Sheraton Trading Post had been added to a remodeled Penneys and was ready to open
08-10-1965 signage was completed for 23rd St. being an arterial from Wetmore to Broadway (was already east of Broadway but hadn't always been)
08-14-1965 new Bel-Air apartments, 2501 Rucker, ready for occupancy
09-29-1965 Klein Motors at 52nd and Evergreen celebrating grand opening, first garage to move to south end
10-06-1965 ground broken for Tyee Aircraft's $103,000 plant at Paine Field
11-10-1965 grand opening of Town & Country (T&C) Foods in Eastmont
10-11-1965 new Boys Club ready for dedication at 12th and Rainier
12-10-1965 Jiff's drive-in now open at 4819 Evergreen Way.
12-25-1965 Bon Marche parking garage across Wetmore under construction
12-29-1965 announcement that a K Mart was coming to town
01-10-1966 fire Maddocks Frozen Food Lockers 2120 Hewitt
01-24-1966 Robert Kennedy at Everett Community College
03-04-1966 Penney's Auto Center ne corner Pac. and Colby opened
03-30-1966 Charles R. Denney Youth Center opened
04-13-1966 Boeing unveiled 747 program
05-02-1966 Boeing publicly said it was considering Paine Field for factory
05-17-1966 Austin co. began soil sampling and limited clearing on Boeing site
06-10-1966 plans for Valu-Mart at 8830 Evergreen Way city public works records
06-16-1966 preliminatry construction began at Everett Boeing site
06-17-1966 Herald Boeing and City announced major factory at Paine Field
09-21-1966 K Mart ready to open
09-26-1966 Vice Pres. Hubert Humphrey in Everett; flew over proposed Boeing site
10-04-1966 Bobby Kennedy rode north on Colby at 23rd, and on to Everett Junior College
10-12-1966 demolition of old jail, 3017 Rockefeller, taking place; health dept. bldg next door at 3011 already down,
10-26-1966 on or about flagpole on courthouse grounds being moved from between two chestnut trees to new plaza north of new building, Herald
10-28-1966 last fire had flickered at city dump by this date, a landfill was replacing
11-10-1966 spur connecting Boeing plant to railroad complete - steepest grade rail line in country
11-14-1966 by this date it was announced Weyerhaeuser had ceased all open burning of refuse, instead landfill near Kraft Mill,
11-19-1966 Valu-Mart (owned by Weisfields) opening ad in Herald 9028 Evegreen, closed late 1974 or early 1975 became Fluke bulding
12-14-1966 Driver's Office opened today in Eastmont, six times larger than former space at WSP headquarters at 21st and Chestnut Herald this date
12-17-1966 By this date demolition had begun on the old Snohomish Co. Detention Home on north end of court house block.
12-21-1966 sky bridge betwen Bon Marche and new parking garage going up over Wetmore, Herald on or about this date
12-24-1966 new architectural firm David Dykeman Jr. and Charles B. Ogden in Minor-Jones Bldg. 1712 Pacific
01-03-1967 first work started on Boeing 747, work started inside unfinished 747 plant
01-21-1967 detention home being torn down, Granada Hotel being torn down, First Natl. Bank to be torn down.
03-28-1967 construction had started on Puget Park Drive-In 128th and fwy
04-08-1967 diagonal parking downtown being phased out Herald 4-8-1967
04-27-1967 7-story addition going up at Gen'l Hosp.
04-27-1967 Behars Furniture & Carpet to have grand opening starting tomorrow, 2100 Bdwy
05-01-1967 Boeing 747 plant officially opened, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p87
05-04-1967 old Garske Packing Plant 7214 Evgn Way burned while being razed
05-21-1967 Bon Marche fire 2802 Wetmore possibly following day? Fire Boys
06-26-1967 Equator freed from Jetty this week. Had been there since 8-56
07-21-1967 new courthouse wing dedicated five-story attached to Mission Bldg
07-26-1967 final graduating class for General Hospital School of Nursing
08-05-1967 about Northwestern Lumber Co. ceasing operation on 15 acre site, purchased by E.A. Nord next door north, Herald article
08-14-1967 Harborview Park leased annually from railroad
08-31-1967 Jamison Mill destroyed by fire
09-02-1967 old C-B mill destroyed by arson fire
10-07-1967 Everett Assistant Guild became Everett Assistance League
11-26-1967 new Immaculate Conception church consecrated
12-16-1967 grand opening of Sea-First in new bldg., Hewitt & Colby
01-18-1968 opening of freeway from 41st to the river
02-01-1968 Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield played a concert at EvCC
02-13-1968 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
02-28-1968 Wiggums Hollow Park acquired
03-16-1968 Everett Plywood fire
04-24-1968 Eagles (Wisconsin Block) at Hewitt and Hoyt gutted by fire
07-20-1968 Yacht Club by Pier 1 closed Bertrand Modern Everett
09-16-1968 Valley View neighborhood opened this week
09-20-1968 grand opening for new Everett Yacht Club at end of 14th St. Herald 9-19-1968, being dismantled April-May 2025
09-30-1968 first Boeing 747 jumbo jet - the City of Everett - rolled out of Everett plant, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 92
10-04-1968 Seattle First National Bank, 2919 Hoyt (drive-in) last day Allan White
10-07-1968 Seattle First National Bank opened in a temporary trailer at 9701 Everett Mall or thereabout, road called Diagonal Way for a time, Allan White
12-12-1968 demolition began on Granada Theater building 2900 block Wetmore
02-09-1969 inaugural flight of first 747
02-19-1969 Boeing became the county's biggest taxpayer
02-12-1969 Sears moved to what would be Everett Mall
03-27-1969 alumina dome on waterfront nearly completed Seattle Times
03-31-1969 Bank of Everett branch at 4601 Elm began operations Herald 6-29-1976
04-08-1969 new west bound trestle opened
04-09-1969 grand opening of Fidelity Savings at northeast corner of Hewitt and Wetmore
02-24-1969 grand opening of Sambo's restaurant 10020 Evergreen Way
04-26-1969 quitting sale started for Van Winkle Furniture, 2731 Wetmore
04-29-1969 Normanna Hall burned
05-02-1969 Paul Alley camera shop, 2820 Colby, burned
05-07-1969 Providence Hospital Nursing School builidng on 3100 Nassau being razed
05-14-1969 new Safeway store opened on 4100 Rucker Herald article on 5-12-1969
05-14-1969 Everett Marysville freeway opened from river across flats (Snohomish River to Ebey Slough - 4 miles)
05-27-1969 last wigwam burner in Everett, Scott's on Norton, went down last week.
07-04-1969 Der Wienerschnitzel, 5905 Evergreen Way to open in August
07-09-1969 first 747 test flight, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 93
07-09-1969 MacPherson's Realty had opened at 5917 Evergreen Way
07-10-1969 Alumina Dome ready for first loading
07-11-1969 beginning grand opening fiesta at Taco Bell, 5821 Evergreen Way
07-11-1969 construction of Everett's first Mcdonald's had begun at 7416 Evergreen Way
07-30-1969 fire in Monte Cristo lounge
09-20-1969 Baker View Apts, 15th & Baker dedicated
10-13-1969 Alumina Dome on waterfront dedicated
12-12-1969 Boeing delivered first 747 (a 747-100) to Pan Am
01-05-1970 five day open house started for First Federal Savings and Loan Assn. in their new building sw cor. Everett and Colby
01-14-1970 Kentucky Fried Chicken now open at 4131 Rucker, KFC at 2702 Broadway had opened a few months ago
01-21-1970 747 entered commercial service with Pan Am
03-01-1970 old Garfield School being demolished
03-02-1970 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
03-10-1970 grand opening of Safety Tire Service Co. 3002 Hoyt
03-24-1970 fire South Junior auditorium
03-26-1970 grand opening of Warehouse Food Store, 5231 Evergreen
03-27-1970 grand opening of Shoreline Savings, 5029 Evergreen
03-28-1970 last day for Pete Backlezos' shoe repair shop at 2827 Colby, had opened 4-4-1936
04-24-1970 Wallace Pontiac Cadillac grand opening at 7300 Evergreen Way
04-29-1970 bronze figure sculpture put in place on courthouse campus
05-30-1970 public opening of Highland Memorial Park
07-15-1970 fire station at 16th and McDougall dedicated
09-19-1970 Joe Pignataro grand opening at 3014 Rucker, had been Sevenichs
10-27-1970 demo had stared for Everpark garage 2800 Hoyt
12-06-1970 big fire Howarth Bldg
12-21-1970 Everett Marine Ways near Pier 2 being dismantled
01-16-1971 last Milwaukee R.R. freight train. the Everett local, pulled out of Everett
01-29-1971 with name of Scott Paper Company recently changed to Scott, only Scott was now lit on the neon sign atop the digester building
01-29-1971 Herald articles in April ground would be broken for new court house adminstrative building
01-31-1971 open house at Purdy & Walters after a remodel
03-20-1971 what could become Maggies Park at then west end of Everett Ave. would be completed in a week or so
03-26-1971 one-way traffic on California and Wall reversed, California switched to eastbound and Wall to westbound
03-29-1971 temporary mall going up on 2800 Colby, called April Park
04-23-1971 Peoples Park (Jordan Park) dedicated (Herald 4-22-1971), see 5-11-1971, wonder which is right
05-11-1971 Jordan Park between 13th and 14th on waterfront was completed, dedication came later during Salty Sea Days, see 4-23-1971
05-13-1971 White Front opened, building would later become Bon Marche at Everett Mall (article about building it 1-28-1970)
05-14-1971 water tower at Eclipse Mill taken down, office building to go on space
06-12-1971 Friedlander fire that destroyed the second story of the Realty Bldg
06-12-1971 Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 4132 Federal, dedication
06-12-1971 dedication services for Forest Park Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 4132 Federal
06-21-1971 decision made to close Longfellow School for coming school year
06-24-1971 Fidelity Mutual Savings Bank had purchased Colby and Hewitt buildings on Sw corn Hewitt and Colby
06-30-1971 J.K. Gill purchased Black & King, 2944 Colby and completed inventory
07-01-1971 Zip 98201, changed to this as well as 98203, 98204 and 98205 Herald story 2-24-1971
07-03-1971 Newberrys to close and had to vacate by this date (ad Herald 6-28-1971)
07-22-1971 traffic discontinued permanently on 3000 Rockefeller for new courthouse construction and mall
07-23-1971 Behars furniture, 2105 Broadway, had undergone another major remodel since 1967
08-13-1971 Realty Bldg being rebuilt as single story bldg after fire
08-13-1971 Quigley Clinic bldg Hewitt & Grand being demolished
08-23-1971 Everpark garage w side of 2800 hoyr would be open next week
08-27-1971 had been decided that Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Ste. Mary Magdalen would drop 9th grade, Immaculate Conception did last year when public schools went to 4 year high schools
09-10-1971 last day for Spudnut Shop, 3016 Colby, opened 1948
09-30-1971 tearing down Northern Pacific freight office building to enlarge B&M at Everett Ave. and Broadway
10-20-1971 dedication of improved Howarth Park
11-03-1971 Holiday Olds went out of business
11-04-1971 Laycock Motors in place of Holiday Olds
11-17-1971 new Safeway on 1700 Broadway open, old building next to Broadway being demolished
11-18-1971 The Daisy opened this week in Colby Bldg, Millers had moved out months ago
11-23-1971 Fashion Fabrics now open where Newberrys had been at 2814 Colby
11-25-1971 announcement from fire department that all rooms above first floor in Monte Cristo Hotel would have to be vacated due to code violations etc.
02-17-1972 announcement of 5 million expansion project at Nord Herald this date
01-03-1972 fire 2018 73rd St. famous picture Fire Boys
03-07-1972 Edward Hartley, Bayside Shingle, Hartley Shingle and genl manager of Clough-Hartley Co. died in Everett Hospital (Herald)
04-14-1972 Equator placed on the Natl. Register (first Everett property so listed)
04-18-1972 announcement of new 7-story bldg on w. side of 2900 Wetmore, never happened
04-20-1972 demolition began on American Hotel building, n.w. corner Hewitt and Oakes
05-05-1972 Goodyear in new bldg nw corner Hewitt & Hoyt, grand opening was 5-18
05-12-1972 Wallace Pontiac-Cadillac 7300 Evergreen Way quitting business
05-22-1972 B&M grand reopening of enlarged store to Broadway, 2615 Broadway
05-27-1972 dedication of Walter E. Hall Park
05-29-1972 rest area in south Everett on freeway nearly ready for use
06-23-1972 A&W had reopened in new building at same location 4532 Evergreen
07-20-1972 Pier 2 being demolished
08-01-1972 rest area in south Everett on freeway opened today
10-04-1972 Simpson Lee mill now closed see Herald on this date
11-09-1972 about 25 Indians who occupied BIA offices in Fed Bldg yesterday ousted today
12-15-1972 Herald article about Everett Mall going up
03-19-1973 new six-story courthouse bldg now open to public
04-12-1973 911 replaced 252-1111 emergency number Fire Boys
05-27-1973 etermal flame on granite monument dedicated at county courthouse mall
07-19-1973 houses on e-w streets in Lowell rec'd letters that addresses were changing to conform to Everett, not longer address from east to west. City records
09-18-1973 acquisition of Lions Park
01-15-1974 Sheriff Don Jennings, wife and mother-in-law murdered near Mazatlan, Mexico
02-09-1974 smokestack at Simpson Lee (Everett Pulp and Paper) in Lowell came down
02-15-1974 Cinema I, II, III opened 1512 S Bdwy (in Everett Mall) opened David Dilgard Footlights
04-08-1974 Everett Trust and Savings officially opened in new large brick bldg 4200 Rucker
06-01-1974 firefighter's museum on 13th St. waterfront to open, Herald 5-18-1974
02-17-1975 demolition of Colby Bldg began this week
03-20-1975 Everett Herald reported that Western Gear built the machinery used by Hughes Glomar Explorer to raise sunket Soviet submarine
03-31-1975 Fred Meyer on Evgn and Casino geared to open in fall of year Herald on this date
06-11-1975 Lions Park dedicated
06-14-1975 Country Kitchen opened in new bldg on southwest corner of 41st and Colby
07-31-1975 fire Tuerks 3802 bdwy (opened 1957) Herald
10-15-1975 Everett Fred Meyer opened (last day 10-17-1925)
12-01-1975 major flood Bertrand Modern Everett
02-16-1976 former Woolworth building at Hewitt and Colby being demolished
03-25-1976 foundation work being done on Cascade Bank bldg NW Hewitt & Colby
03-31-1976 first girder in 'Erector Set' at Hewitt & Colby put into place
04-02-1976 new Pizza Pete at SE cor 41st & Hoyt
04-29-1976 celebration downtown, Hewitt & Colby trees etc., sculpture, Erector Set, opening of Place Two (in old Kress) and Jay Jacobs (in old Newberry- Fashion Fabric)
05-01-1976 downtown revitalization grand opening
05-19-1976 Tightrope walker walked from Cascade Savings Bldg. over Colby to Olympic Bank
06-01-1976 Holdiay Inn was remodeling into the Polynesian pool area
06-10-1976 city council voted to send the three bears at Forest Park to Sequim, went on 6-17-1976
07-13-1976 demolition of Everett Plywood (Robinson), had been closed last fall
07-28-1976 Greg's Apts on Pringle Studio building 2512 Colby burned (later razed)
08-21-1976 Tiz Door fire 2118 38th
11-17-1976 2 killed, 3 injured at Scott Paper by sulfur dioxide
12-09-1976 Cascade Savings bldg at Hewitt and Colby completed
12-26-1976 Mark Nesse named new Everett Public Library today, Pat McClain also came to town about this time with the Chamber of Commerce
01-01-1977 Everett Trust and Savings Bank became Olympic Bank
01-21-1977 Weyerhaeuser Mill C closed today
03-22-1977 David Dilgard and Margaret Riddle started the Northwest Room at the Everett Public Library
05-07-1977 upper floor added to Topper Motel
05-07-1977 ads about new area Kamiak
06-23-1977 traffic signal being added at Norton & California
07-31-1977 grand opening of Windsong, neighborhood east of Silver Lake
02-14-1978 Washington Post acquisition of Herald announced today
04-22-1978 Lloyd Hardware auction
01-27-1979 rededication of Civic Auditorium after remodel
02-02-1979 four-way traffic signals and stop signs to go at Murphy's Cor.
02-04-1979 Chinese vice premier Ten Hsiao-ping at 747 plant
02-18-1979 Everett Theater closed to be converted into triplex
02-20-1979 last EHS basketball game in the original pit gym back of auditorium, Everett over Meadowdale 48-31
03-02-1979 final closure of Weyerhaeuser Mill B
03-31-1979 stoplight at 52nd and Broadway
06-22-1979 Northeast Everett Neighborhood Association formed
06-30-1979 paint supply bldg nw corner Wall and Grand burned see 9-29-1979 which?
07-02-1979 rededication of City Hall after remodel
07-09-1979 traffic signal at Holly Dr. and Evergreen Way
07-10-1979 Pier 3 destroyed by fire
07-24-1979 first organizational meeting of Port Gardner Association
09-25-1979 overturned BN tank car with liquid propane, area bordered by Colby, Pacific, Walnut Everett, evacuated.
09-29-1979 paint thinner fire auto body supply nw cor Grand and Wall see 6-30-1979 which if either
10-29-1979 Frontier Bank grand opening of building on Evergreen Way
11-25-1979 noted Arnie's a new restaurant in Mukilteo
12-10-1979 new Fidelity Bank opened in new building on sw corner of Hewitt and Colby
01-01-1980 18 million marina on Everett waterfront completed
01-24-1980 dental office bldg started at northwest corner 35th and Colby
04-15-1980 Erickson Bros Furniture bldg at 2810 Bdwy burned to ground
06-30-1980 Deaconess Children's Home closed after 82 years
07-04-1980 Delta Apts, 1427 Chestnut destroyed by fire
08-01-1980 Frederick & Nelson opened at the Everett Mall
09-12-1980 James J. Hill Park, Hewitt & Broadway, dedicated
10-02-1980 Jafco store in Everett on north Broadway opened
12-04-1980 Brandywine Jewelers opened at 2806 Colby
12-10-1980 500th 747 rolled off the line
12-12-1980 Weyerhaeuser Mill A shut down
01-16-1981 Bill Dobler sold Chaffee's
01-16-1981 first basketball game in new gym across Wetmore for E.H.S.
01-24-1981 fire destroyed Everett Community Church, 2532 Colby, I may be off a day or two on this
03-14-1981 Saturday Herald moved to morning edition
04-01-1981 ordinance that would change S. Bdwy and Diagonal Way being renamed Everett Mall Way and S.W. Everett Mall Way Only second happened? Herald this date
04-05-1981 first Sunday paper for Herald
04-15-1981 Kidney center on Pacific Ave. at Federal opened
05-14-1981 city, school district proposed property swap in Clark Park
05-20-1981 Everett Tribune started
06-19-1981 Joe Dutcher's Tavern closed 11923 Bothell Hwy (Silver Lake} Herald 6-21-1981 (bldg went on to be something else for a time maybe seem to remember a guy scrubbing in a bathtub neon sign)
06-01-1981 Newland Construction absorbed Sanford Wright Construction
06-05-1981 Everett and Edmonds Community Colleges formally split today
06-17-1981 name of Bomarc Park changed to William Kasch Park
07-29-1981 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.
08-04-1981 first Boeing 767 rolled out
08-20-1981 hobo boy Little Dickie died after being hit by a train 10 days earlier
08-23-1981 bus terminal switched to area by Everpark garage
10-20-1981 Everett Pacific Hotel, Pacific and Pine, opened
10-31-1981 W.T. Preston retired
01-10-1982 Jim Casey last column in Herald, moved to editor
01-27-1982 Nedra Bloom's last column in Herald
02-25-1982 City Council moved toward new street name Marine View Dr. out of parts of Norton, Alverson, Walnut, E. Grand
02-26-1982 Chaffee's closing store at Everett Mall, had operated 18 months
02-26-1982 Foremost Dairy 52nd & Evergreen closed, 36 yrs. old
03-17-1982 decision made to change parts of E. Grand, Walnut, Alverson and Norton to Marine View Dr. (E & W)
03-17-1982 city council elected to change name of Highway 99 N to N Broadway from intersection with Broadway to north city limits, found in city records for 1031 Broadway
03-25-1982 Jayna Celeste Alflen last baby born at Providence before obstetrics moved to General (changed after merger)
04-02-1982 Big Top at View Ridge recently put into place
04-06-1982 voters okayed paramedics in Everett
05-02-1982 Port Gardner Neighborhood to plant Douglas fir trees
05-16-1982 vandals torched stump house at Legion Park
05-21-1982 blaze destroyed much of Mill B which was being dismantled (dated to 1915) Fire Boys
06-29-1982 judge ordered 215 buried at bankrupt Highland Memorial Park Cemetery moved to Evergreen Cemetery
07-21-1982 new Medic I van started responding to life and death emergencies
07-14-1982 Snohomish Co. passed Spokane Co. to become third in pop. with 356400
09-21-1982 first 747-300 rolled out today
09-23-1982 new wing now opened at View Ridge School
09-30-1982 dedication of View Ridge School Special Services Wing (ground broken 6-10-1981)
10-20-1982 Al-Ind-Esk-A-Sea caught fire, sank 44 hours later
10-22-1982 Colby had been changed from 4 lanes to 2 between 23rd and 34th, more parking
11-07-1982 USA Today hit newsstands
11-15-1982 Washington State Lottery started
11-23-1982 Fire Station 6 9520 Evergreen Way started being used Fire Boys
11-29-1982 3 Fed. judges ruled taking Everett out of 2nd District unconstitutional
12-20-1982 fire at General Hospital
01-29-1983 General Hospital 4-story Critical Care Tower opened
03-23-1983 first 747-300 delivered - to Swissair Bob Mayer
03-29-1983 Everett reinstated into the 2nd Congressional District
04-04-1983 tire fire landfill east of freeway - (not the big one Sept. 1984) Fire Boys
05-13-1983 The two smokestacks at Weyerhaeuser Mill B knocked down by explosives
06-07-1983 counterbalance was being blown up on the old Ebey Is. Jack Knife Bridge, new adjacent bridge built in 1976
07-05-1983 blaze destroyed four bldgs on ne cor of Hewitt and Norton
07-16-1983 Aqua Muse waterslides opened on Everett Mall Way Herald 7-9-1983, closed about 1989?
09-01-1983 Sen. Henry M. Jackson died
09-07-1983 Sen Jackson's funeral at Presbyterian Church, majority of Senate, House and Supreme Court here, H. Kissinger, G.H.W. Bush, Ted Kennedy present
09-01-1983 Weyerhaeuser office moved from Mill B to 18th and W. Marine View, had been moved 5-1-1938 from Mill A, would move again to fourth location to the north and west (sometime in Sept)
10-13-1983 Weyerhaeuser Mill A smokestack came down
10-15-1983 Navy launched new sub, Henry Jackson, christened by Anna Marie Jackson, in Groton, Conn.
11-03-1983 Olsons bought B&M at Everett Ave. & Bdwy
11-23-1983 off shore drilling rig docked this week near foot of Pacific Ave., would stay until 1987
03-07-1984 announcement Olympic Bank to become part of First Interstate
03-16-1984 recent groundbreaking for Everett Marina Village
04-17-1984 Everett selected ,among 13 ports, as ideal location for new naval base Naval Station Everett 1999-2000
06-19-1984 first Everett Giants game in Everett
06-11-1984 Haggen foods had opened what it believe to be the largest supermarket in the state, TOP Foods near Everett Mall
09-01-1984 dedication of Broadway Plaza Apts. (sometime in Sept)
09-08-1984 canvas top removed from Forest Park pool, permanent roof would replace
09-24-1984 tire fire began lasted 7 mos
10-24-1984 Anthony's Homeport officially opened in Everett Marina Village
10-31-1984 Pelican Pete's Restaurant opened in Everett Marina Village
11-14-1984 Video West opened 25th & Bdwy
12-31-1984 Lowell Community Church fire
01-06-1985 old Alvin Apts, 2614 Wetmore burned, one fatality, torn down soon after
01-28-1985 Olympic Bank taken over by First Interstate Bank of Washington
02-08-1985 fire fatalities men, 3826 Colby, Everett, 21029 67th Lynnwood
04-22-1985 Weyerhaeuser announced permanent closure of Mill E (built in 1971) last Weyerhaeuser sawmill in Everett
05-02-1985 storm that destroyed elm tree 2130 rucker Herald 5-2-1985
05-09-1985 Hurd's men's store sw cor Calif and Colby closed
05-11-1985 Kasch Park dedicated
05-16-1985 beginning of closing sale at Hurd's Store for Men, 2802 Colby
06-07-1985 Everett at 54 degrees at noon, coldest spot in the lower 48 states
06-18-1985 announcement that J.C. Penney would close downtown Everett store
06-26-1985 Trident sub USS Henry M. Jackson visited Everett
07-05-1985 two fires on Jetty Is.
07-27-1985 new Pay 'n Save opened today at Everett Mall Plaza, sixth in county
10-13-1985 Everett tour as part of Natl. Trust for Historic Preservation conference in Seattle
11-08-1985 dedication of Bagshaw Field, Riverside Remembers photos identified
01-25-1986 last day for J.C. Penneys store
04-09-1986 building at 1720 Hewitt s.w. corn. Hewitt and Rockefeller burned
06-10-1986 Montes at Colby and California announced it would close soon, Scattergoods had moved from 2609 to 2802 Colby
06-29-1986 grand opening of BEST, formerly Jafco
09-27-1986 Eli Creekmore Everett boy nationally known because he was abused died
10-26-1986 police shakedown starting at shantytown along Snohomish River from about 38th south
12-31-1986 Western Gear closed for good for Navy Bob Mayer
01-13-1987 old Murphy Corner Grocery bulldozed.
01-20-1987 old Getchell house in Lowell being dismantled
02-16-1987 student union bldg at ECC burned - arson, firefighter Gary Parks died, solved 2021
06-06-1987 groundbreaking for Kasch Park
06-14-1987 closing ceremony for Perpetual Help School(open in 1925), in fall it would merge at Immaculate
06-17-1987 Ken Griffey Jr.'s first professional hit, a homerun that landed at 38th and Lombard
07-17-1987 grand opening of Cascade Plaza, 76th and Evergreen, stores: Mervyn's, Lipman's, That's My Baby
07-28-1987 Sno Co Airport officially dedicated new runway 16L-34R, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 116
08-05-1987 work had started on Everett Mall expansion that included food court
09-25-1987 last day for Hall's Pharmacy, 2724 Colby
09-30-1987 creation of what would become Housing Hope Building Hope Buerge p 27
10-26-1987 fire at abandoned bark storage building at Weyerhaeuser river property
11-09-1987 groundbreaking for Navy
11-15-1987 Ocean Odyssey oil drilling platform left Everett after spending 4 years on waterfront
04-09-1988 Grand opening for Pioneer Tails development in se Everett
05-01-1988 Bakers sold the ambulance business to Shannon
05-30-1988 Veterans' memorial in front of old city hall dedicated
09-07-1988 Holy Cross (now Archbishop Murphy) High School opened in old Our Lady of Perpetual Help school building
09-07-1988 Langus Riverside Park dedicated
10-16-1988 Gary Parks Bldg at ECC dedicated
10-31-1988 VOA new human service center on sw Calif and Bdwy open to public
11-19-1988 grand opening of Washington Oakes retirement home (two days)
01-26-1989 first 747-400 delivered - to Northwest Airlines Bob Mayer
03-13-1989 high school and middle school students in Everett School Dist. no longer required to take showers.
03-22-1989 3201 Hoyt Norman House burned, one fatality
09-09-1988 Navy award funding for carrier pier construction for Navy Naval Station Everett 1999-2000
09-28-1989 Everett Theater, now triplexed, closed David Dilgard Footlights
11-17-1989 Upper Ridge Rd closed north of 73rd St.
12-22-1989 last day for the Tourist Cafe, 3401 Bdwy, Herald 12-27-1989
08-15-1990 Everett's first Starbucks, 2615 Bdwy (maybe on 4-15?)
08-23-1990 modified 747 delivered for use as Air Force One
09-05-1990 Everett Theater Society officially founded
12-08-1990 old ice arena 2812 Norton Bargreen using for storage (b. 1940) burned destroyed
05-14-1991 2214 Bdwy fire
06-07-1991 first graduating class -8 at Holy Cross (now Archbishop Murphy) High School
08-10-1991 addition to Everett Public Library completed
09-05-1991 ribbon cutting for Navy
10-10-1991 Everett Public Library addition dedication
05-06-1992 JK Gill store on Colby at Wall to close JCO log
07-26-1992 last official air fair at Paine Field sponsored by Lynnwood Rotary, fairs did take place the following two summers
03-29-1992 Weyerhaeuser Kraft mill closed; opened in 1953
10-17-1992 grand opening of Everett city museum (not to be confused with county museum)
02-23-1993 President Bill Clinton at Everett Boeing plant
08-06-1993 inaugural opening of Everett Community Theater, gala grand opening a week later
09-10-1993 Everett Theater reopened by Everett Theatre Society David Dilgard Footlights
10-30-1993 second groundbreaking for Navy Naval Station Everett 1999-2000
11-19-1993 1,000th 747 delivered
03-01-1994 Providence and General hospitals merged
04-08-1994 official opening of Naval Station Everett Wikipedia (pier opened 6-4-1992)
06-11-1994 grand reopening of Monte Cristo Hotel, open house on 6-12
06-23-1994 Eagle Hardware opened on at 2505 Pacific Ave. near Fulton St. Later it became Lowes.
07-08-1994 Everett Mutual Tower, 2707 Colby toppped off at 203 feet to be tallest in city Wikipedia
09-03-1994 USS Ingraham and USS Ford arrived at Naval base Naval Station Everett 1999-2000
12-03-1994 dedication of Henry M. Jackson H.S. in Mill Creek
02-09-1995 Morrie Olson sold Olson's Food Stores to Max Food stores
04-18-1995 film Assassins being filmed at Evergreen Cemetery released in October
06-21-1995 demo began on administration bldg (an abomination) in front of main bldg at EHS; it was hated by all, or was it 6-2-1995
07-18-1995 announcement that Kimberly Clark would buy Scott Paper
09-30-1995 Everett High School rededicated
11-22-1995 USS Paul E. Foster arrived at navy base Naval Station Everett 1999-2000
07-29-1996 USS David R. Ray arrived at navy base Naval Station Everett 1999-2000
09-27-1996 USS Callaghan and USS Chandler arrived at Navy base Naval Station Everett 1999-2000
01-08-1997 USS Abraham Lincoln first arrived (had been in Bremerton) left in 2010
04-08-1997 Coastal Community Bank opened on Colby about now
09-30-1997 Removal of Mukilteo Tank Farm Bertrand Arcadia book p69
10-28-1997 groundbreaking for Westview Bldg, Lombardi's Cucina
05-26-1998 Carter Drug, 2227 Bdwy closed, had been at this location since 1955, opened in 1947 farther north on block but check
04-08-1999 last day for Broadway Hardware 1921 Bdwy account by Steve and Rhonda Griffin
11-01-1999 Half Price Books opened on Everett Mall Way Bertrand Modern Everett
12-31-1999 last Herfy's (on Evergreen Way) closed Herald 12-30-1999
02-28-2001 Nisqually Earthquake, centered farther south but shook Everett Fulton and Cedar complete (addition on east side in 1907)
04-30-2001 workers safety monument dedicated on courthouse west lawn
05-21-2001 Victor David convicted of second degree assault for keeping his wife in a boat near Priest Point
05-26-2001 4007 Wetmore burned
09-11-2001 two Everett-built 767s destroyed in terrorist attack
11-14-2001 Pacific Ave. overpass opened
01-17-2002 Lowell Snohomish River Road opened after being closed for six years
01-30-2002 new Safeway at 41st & Rucker opened, other store on site closed yesterday, Larry O'Donnell was the last customer in the old store and the first in the new
01-31-2002 first meeting of what would become Historic Everett, at home of Loretta Balduan 2202 Rucker
02-04-2002 dedication of new Everett Station on Smith
02-27-2002 incorporation of Historic Everett
04-02-2002 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
05-01-2002 new maternity wing opened at Providence Everett Medical Center on Mothers Day Pacific campus (sometime in May)
08-27-2002 Hoyt between 19th & 26th returned to two-way street
09-07-2002 new fire station under construction at Madison and Bev. Blvd replacing old already destroyed
01-31-2003 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.
01-31-2003 last day for Window Restaurant on 1800 Broadway west side, Town House on east side of 2200 Broadway closed earlier this month
03-20-2003 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.
03-25-2003 California returned to two way between Rockefeller and Rucker
04-09-2003 Iraqi Americans celebrated in the street - 2900 Colby - with the fall of of Saddam Hussein's regime
04-16-2003 Everett Ave. overpass over r.r. at west end opened (also referred to as Calif. St. overpass!)
05-06-2003 Lincoln arrived back in Everett after Iraq war, parade the following Sat.
05-09-2003 132nd St. Extension to Hwy 9 opened today
09-08-2003 Assistance League in new building about 5100 Evergreen Wy
09-16-2003 2 gantries offloaded on port today
09-27-2003 new Everett (ice) Arena opened to public
10-16-2003 Paine air-traffic control tower opened (No. 3) official dedication on 10-31 Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 121
01-26-2004 coffee shop opened in public library
08-27-2004 John Kerry at Everett Events Center
10-27-2004 Children's Museum Imagine opened southeast corner of Hoyt and Wall
12-05-2004 Grand Opening of Lamoureux Bldg, sw corner 19th & Wetmore
01-23-2005 Plasma center building at sw cor Calif. and Hoyt 2801 Hoyt burned
06-03-2005 new office bldg and new jail bldg on county campus dedicated
08-20-2005 tearing down Safeway-Eagles bldg on 3700 Bdwy, built 1950-51
09-04-2005 trial liquor sales on Sunday
11-12-2005 3030 Grand/1221 Pacific destroyed today
11-30-2005 hotel at 3105 Pine reopened as Holiday Inn, formerly Everett Pacific, Ramada, Howard Johnsons
12-17-2005 Future of Flight opened at Paine Field, or was it 12-16?
04-19-2006 China President Hu in Everett and vicinity
05-17-2006 Everett's first Wal-Mart opened at 11400 Evergreen Way, 3rd in county, to be 6
06-27-2006 right hand exit opened northbound at Exit 192 Broadway
06-30-2006 Everett at 101100 pop.
06-30-2006 Bank of Everett opened at 2722 Colby
08-08-2006 Collins Casket building placed on Natl. Register
09-01-2006 Cogswell College closed
10-16-2006 clear cutting of I-5 median north of 112th began today
10-17-2006 dedication of clock at ECC modeled after one once at Citizens Bank, 2927 Colby, taken down by Peoples Natl Bank 11-29-2047
12-01-2006 Silver Lake QFC last day
01-01-2007 Whitehorse Hall ECC opened
01-10-2007 last day for Crown Image 3231 Bdwy, but it stayed open and then moved next door before closing for good in 2010
01-21-2007 grand opening of new community center bldg, First Baptist, 3100 Wetmore
02-19-2007 new 41st St. bridge over I-5 opened
03-15-2007 former Rep. Jack Metcalf died at 79
05-04-2007 Puget Sound Christian to close next week, 57-year-old college from downtown from MLTerrace three years ago
05-08-2007 traffic signal began operation at 20th (E. Hewitt) and 79th (Fairview)
06-18-2007 Providence Regional Cancer Partnership at 1717 13th opened ?
06-18-2007 new liquor store at 2027 Bdwy opened
07-08-2007 first Boeing 787 Dreamliner rolled off the line
07-26-2007 new northbound lane on I-5 on rt. side from 41st to Hwy 2
08-07-2007 Pilchuck Hall at ECC torn down, built 1958, half of Glacier Hall to go next
09-07-2007 Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson American Legion Post 6 grand opening, 1212 CA
09-19-2007 Topper Motel being razed
09-22-2007 re-dedication of Kiwanis Park, 36th & Rockefeller, 4th incarnation in my memory JCO'D
10-04-2007 boat Heron being dismantled near old Kraft Mill site, osprey nest on mast moved
11-15-2007 announcement that Everett Stn was top choice for UW north branch campus
01-21-2008 demolition begun on Elks Building
03-31-2008 demolition to begin this week on the waterfront net sheds
05-21-2008 first 777 Freighter unveiled
06-25-2008 2721 Wetmore destroyed by fire
09-13-2008 Jimmy Z, 1712 Hewitt, closed after 25 years
10-11-2008 Trinity Lutheran College dedicated (in old Rumbaugh Bon Marche building) closed 2006
02-23-2009 last game in EJC gym recently - get exact date, building razed later in year
11-02-2009 State Rte. 529 between Everett and Marysville named Yellow Ribbon Highway, also have seen 11-5 as the date
11-30-2009 Community Transit Swift Buses started between Everett Station and Aurora Village
12-15-2009 787 Dreamliner made first flight from Paine Field, Bertram Arcadia Paine book p95
01-29-2010 last performance of Everett Symphony, it came back with different organizaiton
02-08-2010 747-8 first flight, Everett
06-15-2010 Port commissioners voted unanimously to destroy the Collins Bldg., destruction began two days later
06-28-2010 demolition of Redmen Hall (1958), 1611 California St., began this week
09-01-2010 Theodore Ohms shot at officers and fled scene on I-5, caught behind 7103 Olympic Dr.
09-07-2010 aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln left Everett came in 1997
09-07-2010 area around Everpark garage denuded by cutting down 9 trees on hoyt and 2 on california
10-16-2010 Paine Field's west entrance named Bernie Webber Dr., Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 127
12-23-2010 announcement Everett Police Chief Jim Scharf retiring, successor Kathy (Solie) Atwood first woman
02-18-2011 Claremont post office apparently closed
04-30-2011 grand opening of Schack Art Center, 2921 Hoyt
05-12-2011 Gov. Gregoire signed bill bringing WSU to ECC campus
06-14-2011 grand opening of new Providence Regional Center, 1700 13th St.
06-23-2011 unveiling of Fisherman's Tribute on waterfront
07-08-2011 Covingtons opened Port Gardner Bay Winery 2802 Rockefeller Bertrand Modern Evertt
08-12-2011 first 747-8 delivered
12-07-2011 last departure of USS Lincoln
02-17-2012 President Obama spoke in Everett at Boeing plant see 2-17-2013 which is it
03-09-2012 USS Nimitz arrived at new home Everett
04-15-2012 last day for Kimberly Clark mill,
05-30-2012 dedication and unveiling of statue of Sen. Henry M. Scoop Jackson at Grand Ave. Park across from his home (tomorrow centennial of his birth)
08-12-2012 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.
11-08-2012 one fatality fire destroyed McCrossen Bldg
12-19-2012 city council voted to rename old city hall for former mayor Bill Moore
01-12-2013 old digester bldg at K-Clark-Scott-Soundview destroyed today during demolition of entire mill
02-17-2013 Pres Obama spoke at Boeing plant see 2-17-2012 which is it
04-23-2013 dedication of new View Ridge Elementary School building
04-29-2013 first Everett Herald printed at Paine Field see 9-29-2013 which is it?
08-29-2013 Runway 16L-34R clebrated reopening
09-10-2013 Port of Everett accepted transfer of Tank Farm from USAF Bertrand Arcadia book p 69
09-29-2013 first Heralds printed at Paine Field Bertrand Modern Everett see 4-29-2013 which is it?
10-01-2013 Air Guard at Paine Field officially decommissioned, Bertrand Arcadia Paine book p 83
10-18-2013 U.S. Air Force tank farm on Mukilteo waterfront was officially taken over by Port of Everett.
10-31-2013 Everett-based frigate USS Ford decommissioned
11-19-2013 Everett School district in their new headquarters building at 3900 Bdwy
12-15-2013 one fatality fire in Hodges Bldg
01-12-2014 first service of Mars Hill church in old Armory building
01-28-2014 Air Force announced it would use Everett-built 747-8 for Air Force One
03-30-2014 last day Herald in building at 2700 Grand, moved to 1800 41st
06-19-2014 dedication of new school district ad center on Bdwy near 41st
07-01-2014 WSU took control of Univesity Center at ECC today
07-30-2014 Hampton Inn opened at 2931 W Marine View Dr.
09-12-2014 first license marijuana retailer in Everett ready to open soon at 1824 Broadway. Tribune 9-10-2014 p1
09-13-2014 City Hall rededicated as William E. Moore Historic City Hall
12-16-2014 1,500th 747 delivered
01-23-2015 scheduled decommisioning of USS Rodney M. Davis at Naval Station
01-23-2015 USS Rodney M Davis dcommissioned in formal ceremony here (27 years old), last frigate in fleet
03-04-2015 Haggen's opened in old Super Safeway Store at 75th and Evergreen (old Everett Motor Movie site), this was brief and it became Safeway again
03-25-2015 Rodney Davis towed to Bremerton to be sold to a foreign navy
12-08-2015 2800 Broadway reopened today with completion of new bridge over the railroad tracks
12-14-2015 Everett Motel, 1115 Broadway had been torn down, cleaning debris now
12-31-2015 fatality fire 2 W. Casino Rd.
01-21-2016 Boeing announced another 747 production rate cut, starting Sept. 6 planes a year CHECK THIs-
01-26-2016 Fosket bldg NE cor. 12th and Bdwy now demolished, tavern two doors north went a litte before, but after Everett Motel
03-02-2016 first 727 ever built made final trip from Everett to Seattle
07-13-2016 Boeing celebrated centennial
07-14-2016 Fortive, a Fortune 500 co., opened at 6920 Seaway Blvd.
07-15-2016 Weyerhaeuser Bldg. moved to its fourth location
10-05-2016 Smith St. Mill or Buse mill off 36th east of Smith being dismantled
10-28-2016 Courtyard by Marriot hotel at Colby and Wall opened
12-13-2016 Dutch Bros. Coffee opened at 2202 Broadway
12-14-2016 Popeye's restaurant opened 6502 Evergreen Way (site of old Grove Tavern) building gone now
02-28-2017 last day for China Doll restaurant 3001 Broadway It reopened under a new name
08-15-2017 open house neW building WSU N Puget Sound at Everett, University Center, 915 Broadway, classes to start later in month
08-19-2017 open house at new Funko headquarters 2802 Wetmore
09-25-2017 2931 Broadway destroyed by fire
02-06-2018 soft official first day at Grand Marketplace? 2900 Grand, closed Sept. 14 same year
03-01-2018 ribbon cutting grand opening of Grand Marketplace, closed not long after
04-30-2018 demolition began on old Everett School District office building, 4700 Colby, portables first
06-09-2018 groundbreaking for new YMCA, 4730 Colby where school district office was
09-22-2018 Judd and Black in old Bast and Russell buildings, northeast corner Hewitt and Maple, destroyed by fire.
01-20-2019 fire Harvey's Pub, 3615 Broadway later razed, site of first Buzz-Inn
01-29-2019 Everett an answer on Jeopardy aired tonight
02-11-2019 first modern era scheduled flight from Paine Field, Everett to Las Vegas on Alaska, didn't happen
02-28-2019 H&L Sports sold to BSN Sports Bertrand Modern Everett
03-04-2019 first flight from Paine Field, 0.416666666666667 a.m. Alaska Airlines 2878 to Portland or was it 3-6?
04-18-2019 open house at new Cocoon House 3530 Colby, first tenants moved in next day
07-13-2019 Judd&Black bldgs (Bast and one east) all but finished being torn down after fire Herald 7-13-2019
09-04-2019 students in new building at North Middle, only part of 1981 bldg saved gym, Herald 9-6-2019
09-05-2019 Sears at Everett Mall to close by end of year, opened 1969, Herald article on this date
09-13-2019 Index Hall at ECC gone down to foundation, debris there
09-21-2019 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
09-25-2019 Grand Park bridge at 16th swung into place today, to open in 2020
09-30-2019 single-use plastic ban went into effect here today
10-02-2019 formal opening of Indigo Hotel 1028 13th St., soft opening earlier
11-16-2019 last day for YMCA at California and Rockefeller
11-23-2019 ribbon cutting for new Colby YMCA
12-01-2019 new YMCA on south Colby to open what?
12-06-2019 south Everett library reopned today after closing 12-24-2018 Herald 12-11-2019
01-20-2020 first person in U.S. diagonosed with coronavirus admitted to Everett's Regional Medical Center Herald 2-7-2020
01-25-2020 first flight of Boeing 777X, Herald 1-26-2020
03-03-2020 100th St SW had been renamed Hank Robinett Way since he supported Paine Field airport, Herald 3-3-2020
06-16-2020 Mike Papadimitriou's last day at his People's Shoe Repair, 2827 Wetmore Herald 6-16-2020
07-16-2020 spectacular fire some of Waterfront Place Apts under construction burned to ground, burned 1601 Rucker
08-26-2020 Grand Park pedestrian overpass to waterfront opened today
10-01-2020 Boeing made official today rumors about closing 787 line in Everett in 2021
03-23-2021 Historic Fire station 2 2801 Oakes became EFD headquarters My Everett News on this date
03-25-2021 story broke about solving the 1987 Everett Community College fire in 1987
04-07-2021 Westwood Columbia first cargo ship unloaded at new Port South Terminal
04-26-2021 work started on new Emma Yule Park 4800 block Rucker, city site
05-15-2021 135-unit north bldg Waterplace to open Herald 5-5-2021
07-15-2021 groundbreaking ceremony for $36M Norton Terminal
01-01-2022 letter from Archbishop authorizing Our Lady of Hope for combined parishes of IC and OLPH
02-27-2022 last meal at Emory's restaurant on Silver Lake (opened 1994) Herald 2-25-2022
03-03-2022 Anthony's opened where Emory's on Silver Lake was Herald 2-25-2022
03-19-2022 last day for Judy Matheson's store 2615 Colby, opened 1991 Herald
04-03-2022 last day for Skate Deck on Bothell-Everett Hwy 19th Ave. opened 1996 Herald
09-29-2022 official ribbon cutting of new Emma Yule Park
11-28-2022 Bothne house on Silver Lake destroyed recently
12-01-2022 Port christened new cargo South Terminal 2600 Federal, pulp mill site
12-06-2022 last 747 rolled out
12-25-2022 last Sunday Herald
12-26-2022 last Monday Herald
12-31-2022 last delivered Herald
12-31-2022 last day for Ken's Camera (opened in Lynnwood in 1971)
01-03-2023 first mailed Herald
03-14-2023 Pisces Pies grand opening 1502 Rucker
07-12-2023 grand opening of The Muse in the restored Weyerhaeuser Bldg
08-19-2023 fire 1011 Hewitt
08-30-2023 ribbon cutting for Fisherman Jack's on waterfront Herald 9-1-2023
09-18-2023 cake cutting opening ceremony South Fork Baking Co. on Everett waterfront
05-08-2024 The Everett Clinic (founded 1924) now Optum Care Washington, email
05-10-2024 Northern Lights visible in Everett
05-23-2024 ribbon cutting for Maritime Inst. 1130 W. Marine Dr. Herald 5-27-248?
08-01-2024 Andrea Brown's last What's Up With That? column in Herald
08-14-2024 new carpool lanes (fourth lane) on I-5 between Everett and Marysville from Marine View to Hwy 529 bridge
08-23-2024 Butch the Cougar sculpture on college campus dedicated
01-16-2025 Everett once again had a Chamber of Commerce, first instituted in 1892, disbanded in 2011 Herald on this date.
06-03-2025 new Kaiser Permanente addition along Pacific opened Herald this date
07-07-2025 Bartell Drug 3909 Hoyt closed Herald 7-9-2025
07-07-2025 Bartell Drug 11020 19th Ave. closed Herald 7-9-2025
07-18-2025 Everett fire truck stolen for first time, driver ran into at least 14 vehicles
07-20-2025 Rite Aide 4920 A Evergreen closed
07-29-2025 dog area grand opening in Clark Park Herald 7-31-2025
09-17-2025 Herald moved offices to 2500 Hewitt
10-17-2025 last day for Fred Meyer store 8530 Evergreen, opened Oct. 15, 1975
03-02-2026 Tapped Public House on waterfront had ribbon cutting opening
04-14-2026 Bank of America office at 1602 Hewitt to close











Snohomish County

01-22-1855 Tulalip reservation established Sheriff Legacy Book
07-05-1861 first post office in county established at Mukilteo
01-16-1883 steamer Josephine explosion in Mukilteo killed 8 or 9 Sheriff Legacy Book
07-04-1889 Monte Cristo named by Joseph Pearsall
11-11-1889 Pearsall struck gold in Monte Cristo on same day WA became state Sheriff Legacy Book
01-26-1890 Snohomish incorporated as third class city Sheriff Legacy Book
03-19-1890 Monroe post office established
03-22-1890 Wallace platted - name changed to Startup in 1901
08-14-1890 Edmonds incorporated Sheriff Legacy Book.
06-23-1891 Hartford townsite filed
08-26-1891 Silverton christened as a town
12-08-1891 Index post office established
06-02-1892 Stanwood big fire
11-18-1892 first destructive flood washed out M.C. R.R., Woodhouse, Monte Cristo
02-27-1893 Monte Cristo town plat filed, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
03-02-1893 Monte Cristo townsite filed for record
07-22-1893 Index big fire
06-28-1894 new Monte Cristo jail destroyed and thrown into river
11-19-1897 Monte Cristo R.R. wiped out by massive floods in Robe Canyon and elsewhere, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
12-11-1897 Frederick Gates announced Monte Cristo R.R. would not be rebuilt (It was), Woodhouse Monte Cristo
08-22-1902 Silvana big fire
09-16-1902 Monte Cristo R.R. sold to Northern Pacific, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
05-25-1903 Arlington incorporated
12-03-1903 Monte Cristo mines closed by ASARCO, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
04-01-1904 Meadowdale named by Robert Maltby
08-06-1904 Meadowdale post office established, discontinued 4-30-1939
06-28-1905 Sultan incorporated officially, voting was on 6-10, filing at county level on 6-19, registered on this date
08-11-1905 Wilmans Bros returned to Monte after absence and purchased Guggenheim mines, Woodhouse, Monte Cristo
03-01-1906 light started operating in new Mukilteo lighthouse
02-08-1908 Lake Stevens platted
10-31-1908 last schedule train for several years left for Monte, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
04-09-1909 Lakewood (English) post office established
05-30-1910 great fire of Snohomish
07-30-1910 Seattle Heights post office established
05-07-1911 Fred Wiseman made first powered flight in county in Snohomish Sheriff Legacy book
09-11-1911 Monroe High School opened
07-21-1913 first scheduled train since 1908 reached Monte, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
01-22-1914 Tulalip dedicated new longhouse Sheriff Legacy Book
04-09-1914 work on Edgecomb cut-off of NP to put Everett on coast line to start soon
05-11-1915 Rucker Bros obtained lease for operation of railroad and established the Harton Eastern R.R. Co., Woodhouse Monte Cristo
03-21-1916 Lake Stevens post office established
06-17-1916 Ruckers reinstated pleasure car excursions on Hartford Eastern R.R., Woodhouse Monte Cristo
10-19-1916 Boston American Co. announced locating of O&B ledge at depth of 1500 below surface outcrop, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
07-25-1919 Machias fire destroyed business district
10-01-1919 newly paved road from Everett to Cavalero's Corner to open, Herald 9-29-1919
07-02-1921 Big Four Inn opened by Ruckers, Woodhouse Monte Cristo burned 1949
10-19-1921 the house atop Mt. Pilchcuk now completed Herald this date
03-08-1922 body of Herbert U. Thomas caretaker at Big Four Inn hauled 25 miles on sled, believed slid to death from roof five days earlier, Everett News
09-21-1922 US Forest Service last week completed erection of lookout atop Mt. Pilchuck Herald article on this date
04-24-1923 Pilchuck Julia died, about 83 years old Herald article on this date
04-26-1923 ? Cascade Hotel in Granite Falls burned Herald article 12-21-1919
05-01-1923 Edmonds Kingston ferry to begin
11-18-1923 Birmingham name changed to Warm Beach
12-22-1923 new power lines in Silver Lake area and from Marysville to Edgecomb H 12-24-1923 p5
12-29-1924 new Snohomish H.S. gym completed Herald 1-1-1924 P. 12
01-26-1925 proposed work on ndw county farm structure to replace frame structure, Monroe
10-01-1925 Ruckers bought Hartford Eastern right-of-way from Northern Pacific, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
05-30-1926 Memorial Day Al Faussett rode spruce log over Sunset Falls
07-07-1926 perhaps grand opening of Camp Matthews at Lake Kelcema Herald this date
09-06-1926 Labor Day Al Faussett rode a log over Eagle Falls
10-30-1926 McKenzie's Bungalow Inn (No. 2) opened somewhere in Edmonds on the New Everett Highway (burned 1933) Lost Roadhouses of Seattle
03-02-1927 Sultan Town Marshal Percy Brewster fatally shot by man planning to rob bank Sheriff Legacy Book
10-25-1927 Hwy 99 completed near 164th
12-02-1927 Bicycle Tree near Snohomish toppled
03-17-1928 Mukilteo School burned, built 1893 Frederick Sexton design
09-14-1928 new Rosehill School in Mukilteo dedicated, closed 1976, destroyed 2011
06-01-1929 opening day for Hillcrest Course, later Cedarcrest
06-15-1929 opening day for Edgewater golf course between Everett and Marysville where Buse Mill is in 2018
09-12-1931 paved road from Alderwood Manor to Highway 99 recently completed
12-09-1931 wave destroyed homes on Mission Beach
04-12-1933 scheduled service on Hartford Eastern discontinued, Woodhouse Monte Cristo
06-15-1934 Alderwood Water District groundbreaking at s.w. corner of 13th (Meadow Rd.) & 164th (Martha Lake Rd.)
07-17-1934 bridge opened over S. Fork Stilly east of Granite Falls
05-20-1935 Oasis Roadhouse at SE corner 212th and Hwy 99 destroyed by fire. Had opened 1929 Lost Roadhouses of Seattle
03-12-1936 Rex's Place grand opening (northeast corner at Smokey Point)
03-27-1936 work started this week removing more than 40 mi. of rail between Hartford and Monte Cristo
06-04-1936 fire destroyed old Clough Lumber Mill in Stanwood
08-19-1936 new Verlot bridge dedicated, program following at Canyon Cr. Lodge
07-30-1937 Barker-Knapp Tie Mill in Hartford destroyed by fire
08-11-1937 Island School Cutoff Rd opened from School to Conway, (could it be a little south of school where stump tavern was?) Herald this date
12-30-1937 train derailed by mudslide near Monroe
02-10-1938 first Canyon Creek Lodge burned to ground,open since 1920 Herald this date, rebuilt
04-30-1939 Meadowdale post office discontinued, established 8-6-1904
05-27-1939 Norwegian crown prince and princess rode through cedar stump in its new (third) location alongside then-new Hwy 99
08-11-1939 Monroe Jr. High finished
08-31-1940 Arlington's municipal airport became a Navy airport
07-25-1941 small plane had made a forced landing at Tulalip
10-21-1941 Marysville Bank had moved from 2nd and State to new building at 4th and State
11-21-1941 Monroe Poor Farm became hospital about this time Herald on this date
12-01-1941 Barlow Darrington part of Mt. Loop Hwy about finished
06-26-1943 US Naval Aux air Stn Arlington dedicated
07-22-1943 Stanwood Shipyard launched first ocean-going barge
01-27-1944 East Stanwood Lincoln High strike
03-23-1944 Monroe flax mill destroyed by fire, the Carnation condensory
09-26-1945 Darrington became an incorporated town
01-24-1946 Marysville Theater to be remodeled
01-28-1946 Lynnwood selected as name of community Herald article 1-30-1946
04-18-1946 Russian tanker leaking oil of Kayak Point
04-05-1946 Snohomish airfield nearing completion
11-02-1946 Smokey Point opened in building formerly housing Rex's Place (see 10 years earlier)
03-14-1947 fire destroyed Russell Haggard's gas stn on ne cor Alderwood-Edmonds Rd and Hwy 99, reportedly first bldg in Lynnwood
04-26-1947 Hank Gaul's Shop for Men opened at First and Cedar, Snohomish
04-27-1947 Arlington Airfield rededicated to peace time
05-08-1947 Mukilteo incorporated
02-18-1948 Great Northern train over seawall south of Mukilteo pushed into Puget Sound Herald front page
06-01-1948 Sno-King Drive In movie opened.
06-16-1948 Lynnwood post office established
04-01-1949 county farm, county hosp became count's first Grade A NursingHome in addition to hosp, Monroe
09-07-1949 Big Four Inn burned, opened 1921
05-01-1951 Union Oil Refinery in Edmonds about to open
05-02-1951 highway between Monroe and Sultan about finished
06-01-1951 last original mill in Edmonds closed
09-01-1951 Cedar Valley Grange bldg moved to another location over summer
08-08-1952 first open house at Horizon Heights
09-12-1952 Highway 1-A opened between Snohomish and Vernon Road 5.3 miles
05-23-1953 gr opening of Horizon Hts. so of Mukilteo
08-20-1953 riot at Monroe Reformatory, set buildings ablaze, one killed
09-04-1953 Martha Lake and Mountlake Terrace schools to open this fall
10-01-1953 by now route out of Marysville to Tulalip was changed from 8th to 4th
10-31-1953 Warm Beach Post Office, located in Morrison General Store, closed
11-23-1954 incorporation vote okayed for MLTerrace
07-23-1954 Marysville B&M under construction
10-28-1954 new Red Bridge up, new bridge at Verlot still under construction
10-30-1954 east lanes of Marysville bypass opened
11-23-1954 vote for MLTerrace incorporation
12-06-1954 other 2 lanes of Marysville bypass opened.
12-05-1954 W.A. Irwin, who named Alderwood Manor, died at 90
01-19-1955 nearing completion the Snohomish turn off that bypassed Cavaleros Corner at east end of trestle
08-27-1955 Granite Falls fishway dedicated
01-05-1956 serious road slide at Woodway
03-02-1956 2 F-89 fighters crashed near Darrington killing 4, discovered 6-21-1956
08-09-1956 new bridge over Pilchuck River on Robe Menzel Road, or Menzel Lake Rd?
08-24-1956 turnoff to Snohomish at east end of trestle eliminating Cavaleros Corner opened this week.
01-07-1957 Edmonds new Great Northern passenger station opened
01-27-1957 open house for new St. Pius School in MLTerrace
02-20-1957 Edmonds' Brookside Inn destroyed by fire
05-15-1957 grand opening of The Sea Horse restaurant in Mukilteo
05-30-1957 shaft to Pilchuck Julia, GAR cem., Snohomish, dedicated
06-11-1957 new pool nearing completion at Camp Sevenich
07-10-1957 Mukilteo boat launch officially opened after being now for about a month
09-25-1957 Lee Crary, 8, of Edmonds escaped from his kidnapper George Edward Collins, north of Lake Stevens.
01-26-1958 Arlington hospital dedicated
02-18-1958 Woodway incorporated
02-25-1958 dedication of new Edmonds High School (at Holmes Corner)
04-16-1958 E. Sunnyside School torched by fire departments
08-19-1958 9 escapees from Monroe Reformatory Sheriff Legacy Book
10-20-1958 2 lanes of Hwy 99 from Stimsons Crossing to Stillaguamish R. opened today
10-22-1958 Lakewood Elem. School had been completed
11-01-1958 dedication of new Marysville post office
11-03-1958 Hwy 1-A (now 9) opened from Lake Stevens to Getchell Road.
11-08-1958 new Purdy and Dawson funeral home in Snohomish
12-23-1958 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
01-17-1959 new Thomle Bridge over Stillaguamish recently completed
04-14-1959 Lynnwood incorporated
05-13-1959 night fire at Reinell Boatworks in Marysville
05-24-1959 El Rancho (formerly Ranch and Doc Hamiltons) road house at 220th and Hwy 99 destroyed by fire,
07-07-1959 30 hostages held at knifepoint at Monroe Reformatory, rescued
10-19-1959 Boeing 707 crashed near Oso 4 perish Braniff
10-29-1959 Hwy 1-A between Lake Stevens and Arlington officially opened today
10-31-1959 Snoline YMCA on 212th dedicated
11-12-1959 Beverly Elementary dedicated
12-31-1959 announcement of new shopping center in Lake Stevens (Frontier Village)
06-15-1960 Frontier Village B&M opened, post office there established
06-17-1960 Warm Beach Camp and Conference Cetner officially opened.
07-12-1960 fire downtown Monroe
07-14-1960 Viking Planing Mill on Mukilteo Speedway destroyed by fire.
07-23-1960 announcement of new stop light to be installed at 220th and Hwy 99
09-20-1960 new weigh station opened on west side of Hwy 99 north of Marysville
10-28-1960 fire dept. burned old 3-story Leland Hotel in Darrington
12-14-1960 Hazel Oelrich, Sultan, daughter of banker escaped from kidnapper
12-21-1960 new part of Hwy 1-A opened this week between Bicycle Tree corner and new Snohomish River bridge
01-21-1961 Garland Hot Sprs. Lodge burned
07-15-1961 Slim's Burgers opened on Hwy 99 south of Paine Field Road Herald 7-14-1961
08-26-1961 Green Valley Airfield on Burn Rd. dedicated
09-05-1961 Spruce, Maplewood and Meadowdale Jr. in Edmonds School District opened
09-29-1961 Hwy 1-A from Hunter Rd. to Division St. Arlington dedicated, might double check
12-19-1961 Herald noted that 134 foot smoke stack at Monroe Reformatory dynamited
12-20-1961 Meadowdale Jr. High dedicated
04-21-1962 two in MLTerrace on U.S. Air Force crash for opening of Century 21 World's Fair in Seattle
05-22-1962 grand opening of restaurant section of Taylor's Ferry Lunch, Mukilteo
06-04-1962 first concert of Cascade Symphony founded by Robt. Anderson in April 1962, passed on 5-11-1912 at 94
06-08-1962 Jennings family gave land to Marysville for park
08-09-1962 completed on Arlington-Darrington Hwy: Hazel by-pass, Fortson to White Horse
11-05-1962 dedication of Lake Stevens Jr. High
10-12-1962 planned dedication for Wayside Chapel between Monroe and Sultan
11-08-1962 dedication of Seaview Hts. Elem., Edmonds
11-08-1962 ribbon cutting of new seciton 1-Y east from Stanwood
11-15-1962 grand opening of Lynn Village Furniture, 19215 Hwy 99
11-16-1962 Willard Wyatt Bridge over Sky at Sultan dedicated
11-17-1962 Edmonds Civic Center dedicated
11-29-1962 downtown Alderwood Manor became part of Lynnwood
02-28-1963 grand opening of new Safeway, 4th and State, Marysville
03-01-1963 Great Northern Railway company greenhouse in Monroe was closed today after 37 years
03-06-1963 county park and recreation dept. had been created.
03-11-1963 Cedarcrest clubhouse destroyed by fire
04-16-1963 North Lynnwood branch post office, Hwy 99 and 176th
05-22-1963 grand opening of Lynn Theatre, Lynnwood
07-05-1963 Marysville Shake Co. burned
09-15-1963 Cheetah Plastic Co. plant on Marshall Rod. three miles north of Marysville fire
09-23-1963 opening date for new Moose Lodge, Marysville
09-30-1963 Lynnwood Elementary opened
10-19-1963 dedication of new Peterson Bridge over Stillaguamish and Larson Bridge on Happy Hollow Road
11-21-1963 Madrona Jr. High dedicated
12-09-1963 Lynnwood Elementary formally dedicated
01-31-1964 Alderwood Manor Post Office closed as an independent and opened next day as a Lynnwood branch.
06-03-1964 direct nation-wide dialing now available to West Coast Telephone Co. Halls Lake exchange
08-22-1964 grand opening of King Charley's drive-in, Hwy 1-A and John Jump Rd.
08-29-1964 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)
08-29-1964 grand opening of Wayne's Village Inn, Snohomish
#VALUE! Scott Forestry Trail off Getchell Road dedicated
09-16-1964 work going on six miles of Arlington Darrington highway
09-20-1964 dedication of Holy Rosary School, Edmonds
11-21-1964 grand opening of Town and Country Dodge 20600 Highway 99
11-22-1964 Lake Stickney School dedicated.
02-02-1965 Brier incorporated
02-10-1965 Monroe-Bothell cutoff opened near this time
02-11-1965 Monroe-Woodinville cutoff opened, same as above?
03-21-1965 dedication of new First Assembly of God bldg, Marysville
04-15-1965 traffic signal at Hwy 99 and 176th (this might've been 1966)
05-04-1965 Marsyville School Board had decided to demolish 1931 Lincoln School building damaged in earthquake
09-25-1965 dedication of Island Crossing overpass and diamond approaches to freeway
11-18-1965 French Creek Flood Control project complete Herald this date
01-08-1966 new Lynnwood Elks dedicated
06-20-1966 3-alarm fire had detoryed Bell Sign co., 20629 Hwy 99, Lynnwood
06-24-1966 new Chappell Bridge now open on Jordan Rd. just north of Granite Falls.
10-23-1966 deer hunter discovered wreckage of Paine Field P-39 Aircobra on Green Mt. near Granite Falls, plane crashed 1942/43
11-04-1967 Oak Hts. Elem opened this week, after double shifting with Martha Lake Elem. Herald article
03-18-1968 Canyon Creek Lodge burned
05-09-1968 Oak Heights Elem. dedicated, had opened for students previous fall after double shifting with Martha Lake
08-26-1968 groundbreaking for Martha Lake Community Clubhouse
08-31-1968 3 day Sky River Rock Festival near Sultan
12-04-1968 Lynnwood Fred Meyer opened
02-02-1969 Darrington's Pioneer Hotel burned
06-06-1969 Great Northern crash in Marysville killed two and destroyed depot
08-05-1969 I 405 opened from Swamp Cr to Woodinville to two-way traffic on the northbound lanes, under construction since Apirl 1967
09-09-1969 announcement that cedar stump would move to rest area
10-17-1969 dedication of new highway to Stanwood
10-18-1969 Mays Pond development opened
12-11-1969 grand opening of Lakeside Gardens, 13515 Manor Way on Lake Stickney
01-07-1970 Losvar's Mukilteo Boathouse to close.
01-14-1970 Taylor's Landing in Mukilteo had undergone a major remodel
01-31-1970 21 Oaks development to open this weekend
07-27-1970 Totem Beach resort, in business since 1941, was closing down.
01-26-1971 Sunnycrest School dedicated about this time
03-30-1971 Mission Beach fire claimed four summer homes
04-21-1971 old Losvar boathouse had been destroyed. New Apts to be built on site this summer.
06-05-1971 Bicycle tree (across from original Bicycle tree) pretty much destroyed by arson
08-21-1971 final flag ceremonies held at Camp Sevenich
11-13-1971 first Losvar apartments ready for inspection
12-03-1971 new Marysville post office opened
12-30-1971 Clinkerdagger, Bickerstaff and Pett's Publick House was now open on 244th
01-06-1972 Bickford Motors grand openings at new location
01-23-1972 new Stanwood High School dedicated
02-11-1972 fire John Patric's Snohomish home, ne cor 3rd and D Lisa Labovich HistoryLink
03-13-1972 fire in East Everett Community Church, formerly East Everett School
05-26-1972 exit 202 sign added to freeway at 116th st. apparently first on sign for this new numbering system
05-29-1972 rest areas north of Smokey Point now in use
06-05-1972 new bridge over Deer Creek at Oso opened, next day they began dismantling old
06-24-1972 grand opening of new Granite Falls library
07-01-1972 Lake Connor Park to open where Camp Sevenich was, Herald 6-17-1972
10-01-1972 Cascade Valley Medical Center attached Cascade Valley Hosp., 326 S. Stillaguamish, Arlington, opened doors today
10-11-1972 Lynnwood post office moved to new one at 6817 208th from 19725 Scriber Lake Road
03-18-1976 old Jacob Erickson house on 9th in Edmonds about to be destroyed
05-30-1976 Floral Hills had new bldg ready, old had burned
04-07-1977 about this time Goldbar became Gold Bar
12-15-1978 liquor sales began at Tulalip Smoke Shop
01-07-1979 Jack O'Donnell and Mike Bolton skated across frozen Lake Goodwin Jack's log
06-07-1979 announcement of new Lake 22 trailhead
06-08-1979 Thrasher's Corner about get a stoplight
06-12-1979 old Darigold building just south of Snohomish burned
08-25-1979 Lynn O'Beirn died, husband Karl M. named Lynnwood after her, born 11-17-1993
09-17-1979 announcement that Mt. Pilchuck ski area had ceased operations.
10-04-1979 Alderwood Mall opened
03-23-1980 old truss bridge closed between Silvana and Stanwood, being replace by new bridge
09-03-1980 riot at Monroe Reformatory
12-25-1980 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
03-18-1981 recent filming of Busting Loose in Snohomish
10-06-1981 24 BN cars derailed north of Marysville
11-16-1981 Dawson City mall opened on Hwy 99, Edmonds
04-14-1982 Campbell Clearview murders
06-05-1982 dedication of Picnic Pt. pedestrian overpass
06-07-1982 fire destroyed Country Gentleman restaurant on Lake Stickney
#VALUE! dedication of first museum in Monroe
11-01-1992 last night at the Thunderbird Drive-In in Marysville
11-04-1982 Hwy 525 between Alderwood Mall and Hwy 99 soon to open
11-26-1982 Chas Rodman Campbell convicted of murder
11-26-1982 grand opening Mitchell's Granite Falls Phcy
01-03-1983 Lakewood High School opened
05-25-1983 Halls Lake name dropped on south county phone book after 20 years
06-13-1983 first letters and numbers called at new Tulalip Bingo parlor
08-21-1983 Lockheed L-18 Learstar carrying 26 people crashed near Silvana
09-18-1983 Avenue D Bridge, Snohomish, demolition expected to begin in a few days.
10-23-1983 Snohomish Hwy 2 bypass opened today or yesterday
11-13-1983 23 buildings being built as Sauk-Suiattles returned to their native home on the Sauk Prairie
11-23-1983 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
09-13-1984 new Avenue D bridge opened in Snohomish
09-14-1984 big fire at the cedar stump at the rest area north of Smokey Pt.
11-20-1985 fire gutted Bayliner boat plant in Arlington
05-24-1986 Hat Slough bridge removed (this may have been other green truss bridge on Everett waterfront; old Jacknife was there too)
06-27-1986 Honeywell Harbour Pointe facility opened
08-17-1986 last night for the Sno-King Drive-In
01-05-1987 212th extension from MLTerrace to Poplar and Larch opened
01-17-1987 Herald article that Pilchuck Mountain's name had formally been changed to Mount Pilchuck
07-28-1987 other downtown Marysville water tower toppled to make way for mall
10-01-1987 Bryant landfill (since 1960s) closed and transfer station nearly Arlington airport opened
11-04-1987 fire at Drive-in Swap Shop, Lynnwood, 17325 Hwy 99
12-05-1987 Edmonds High School grandstand demolished (about 30 yrs old) (another replaced)
06-16-1988 new bridge opened over Quilceda Cr. on Marine Dr.
06-23-1988 Pay 'n Save store opened in Marysville Towne Center Mall, joined one in Marysville Plaza that opened about 14 yrs ago
01-29-1989 cold storage plant fire in Monroe
08-29-1989 2 small planes collided near Snohomish, killing 4
12-07-1991 plane collision near Snohomish killed 7
07-20-1992 first Tulalip casino opened Margaret Riddle HistoryLink article
11-01-1992 last night for the Thunderbird Drive-in Theater in Marsville
02-16-1993 Martha Lake students had moved from old school to new school Edmonds School District Staff News on this date
06-03-1995 Chicken Drive-In near Frontier Village flew the coop!
11-29-1995 big flooding at Sultan
04-28-1996 Twin City food plant destroyed
04-27-1998 fire Arlington Manor 8 died
05-26-2001 old part of -1953 of old Martha Lake Elementary burned today, rest was torn down at a later time
09-08-2003 old bridge to Bryant in Arlington being dismantled, closed 4 yrs. ago when new bridge built, built reportedly in 1924
03-14-2004 Heritage Park in Lynnwood (Alderwood) dedicated
05-16-2004 Superintendent's Cottage in Heritage Park dedicated by Marie Little
12-31-2004 last day for Royal Fork restaurant in Marysville
08-21-2007 work began on Skotdal's KRKO towers southeast of Snohomish
10-26-2007 Mt. Loop Hwy north of Barlow opened today after being closed since 2003
01-18-2008 Dairy Queen on 91st near Lake Stevens burned
01-19-2008 Granite Falls High School dedicated
06-20-2008 Tulalip Hotel opened
07-01-2008 new straightened section of Hwy 9 north of Arlington between Scholman Rd and 252nd recently opened
10-15-2008 Glacier Peak H.S. dedicated
11-21-2009 Amtrak service to Stanwood
12-30-2009 annexation taking Marysville to 56000 actually more
12-31-2009 annexation taking Lake Stevens to 24000
06-17-2010 new Boundary Bridge near Darrington dedicated
07-23-2010 fire at former Welco Lumber mill in Marysville
10-07-2010 demolition of Lynnwood High School going on
10-15-2010 Mormon church in Harbour Pointe destroyed by fire
11-19-2010 Granite Falls truck bypass opened.
02-05-2011 new Rosehill Center in Mukilteo dedicated
08-09-2011 inauguration of Hibulb Center Tulalip
09-24-2011 Brightwater Waste Treatment grand opening
12-25-2011 Startup old Baptist Church fire, later torn down
04-01-2012 Marysville Armed Forces Reserve Center opened
04-13-2012 8:00 pm closure of old Ebey Slough bridge, opened in 1927.
04-16-2012 first day for new Ebey Is. bridge,
04-19-2012 Tulalip Cabela's opened
11-03-2012 Centennial Trail from Bryant to north county line dedicated
11-24-2012 156th bridge near Smokey Point opened a week ago Herald
04-25-2013 last day fro Robin Hood Lanes, 9801 Edmonds Way, opened in 1960 - Herald
09-16-2013 Bickford Ave. flyover bridge opened to traffic today
09-29-2013 Flowing Lake Golf Course -1995 closed, Wellington Hills and Ballinger Lake also closed this year
02-22-2014 Doleshel Park to open in Marysville
03-22-2014 Oso mudslide
04-22-2014 President Obama in Oso
05-07-2014 fire Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, MLTerrace
10-24-2014 shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck H.S.
10-25-2014 reopening dedication of Suiattle River Road, had been closed since 2003 floods
03-02-2015 Valley General Hospital became Evergreen-Health Monroe
04-08-2015 Manor Hardware bldg Lynnwood destroyed
04-21-2015 sailboat abandoned on Mukilteo beach
06-02-2016 Cascade Hospital of Arlington joined Skagit Hospital of Mount Vernon
01-03-2017 new Lynndale Elementary opened, replaced former bldg, new Alderwood Middle opened on 172nd
02-18-2017 Marysville Village Cafe burned
03-30-2017 tornado in Monroe
04-22-2017 ribbon cutting for Qwuloolt trail in Marysville
06-10-2017 open house for new Food Commons at MPHS
10-19-2017 after 54 yrs A House of Clocks on Hwy 99 N. Lynnwood having a closing sale
12-31-2018 Arlington, Edmonds and Lynnwood killing off dead end signs Herald article on this date
09-03-2019 ground broken for Lynnwood link of mass transit Herald article this same week
10-11-2019 grand opening of Hopeworks Station 2, east side 3300 block Broadway
12-29-2020 new ferry terminal in Mukilteo opened
02-03-2021 New Quilceda Casino in Marysville opened
03-06-2021 ground broken for Islamic Center of Mukilteo
05-16-2021 last day for Kenwanda Golf Course, Larry O'Donnell visit that day, opened 1964, named for Ken and Wanda Harris owners
03-25-2022 Everett Police Officer Dan Rocha died in the line of duty
12-02-2022 Lake Stevens Costco opened
07-21-2023 last day for sole pharmacy in Darrington
08-12-2023 Arnie's in Mukilteo selling out to Lombardi's Herald article this date
08-15-2023 Amazon warehouse opened in Arlington this week Herald article this date
08-15-2023 ribbon cutting on 196th in Lynnwood after 50 million dollar project widening it to seven lanes from five
09-02-2023 roundabout maze in Lake Stevens recently completed Herald 9-2-2023
06-14-2024 Pilchuck Rd reopened at Heather Lake Trailhead Herald 6-8-2024
08-30-2024 Rail Link opened to Lynnwood with stops in Shoreline and MLTerrace
09-22-2025 Monroe opened new city hall building to public













Beyond Snohomish County

09-15-1888 first train crossed the bridge in Snohomish on Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad Snohomish Eye article on 9 22 88 Dilgard Riddle article
01-06-1893 last spikes of GN RR driven 13 mi. w. of Stevens Pass summit
03-01-1910 Wellington Disaster, GN relief train carrying doctors and nurses from Everett, plus other rescue workers arrived in Scenic late in day
06-09-1907 world's first drive in service station opened this week in Seattle Rescue party began trek to Wellington (Northwest Disaster book)
07-11-1925 highway over Stevens Pass officially opened
01-13-1929 Cascade Tunnel dedicated Herald this date
05-21-1936 new bridge from Hwy 2 across to Skykomish dedicated Herald 5-18-1936
01-16-1940 Snoqualimie ski lodge fire
08-04-1950 Pine Canyon Road between Orondo and Waterville officially opened
12-12-1946 part of bluff recently fell off Possession Point, Whidbey Is.
08-18-1947 last day publication of Seattle Star newspaper
07-09-1949 Sea-Tac Airport dedicated
04-21-1950 Northgate Mall opened
10-19-1950 new Tacoma Narrows bridge opened
10-30-1950 Seattle Veterans Hospital nearing completion
02-20-1953 KTNT about to start broadcasting TV to join KING
04-04-1953 Alaska Way Viaduct opened in Seattle - Battery Street Subway (Tunnel) opened following year, closed 2019
08-10-1953 first day of KOMO Channel 5? to join KING Ch 4 (then) and KTNT Tacoma Ch11
08-15-1953 now a new road onto Whidbey Is. from Columbia Beach
08-18-1953 fire at Playland
08-26-1953 Skagit bridge connecting downtown Mt. Vernon and Westside torn down to be replaced
09-10-1953 experimental air mail service between Chi & NYC and Chi & Wash.D.C.
10-28-1953 6 miles of 4 lane highway opened over Snoqualmie Pass today
07-22-1954 bridge between Pasco Kennewick (upstream from both downtowns) to be ready for traffic later this month
12-22-1955 new highway opened bypassing Centralia and Chehalis
07-31-1956 last electric car over Stevens Pass for GN, diesel afterward
02-22-1957 Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Brown erected a sign announcing new town, George, WA
09-04-1957 new road between Ohanepecosh and Paradise at Mt. Rainier
09-01-1959 WSC to become WSU
12-05-1960 5.2 miles of Bellingham freeway dedicated, perhaps from Samish Way north
08-12-1961 Hood Canal Bridge opened would last until 2-13-1979
10-10-1962 13.5 miles of 6 lane highway opened between Midway and Fife
07-01-1963 ZIP Codes went into effect nationally
07-22-1963 Frederick and Nelson opened at Aurora Village
08-28-1963 Evergreen Point floating bridge to be opened to traffic today
09-21-1963 Seven Cedars dance hall in Mt. Vernon destroyed by fire.
02-09-1970 Stevens Pass Inn and adjoining ski shop chalet destroyed by fire
12-08-1970 big fire Skykomish
02-13-1979 Hood Canal Bridge -1961 western section broke off in a storm and sank
09-29-1980 Aurora village was now an enclosed mall
07-30-1981 5 mi. of I 90 westbound opened just west of Snoqualmie summit
10-23-1982 Hood Canal floating bridge reopened
06-18-1984 announcement that Shoreline H.S. would close next school year
05-13-2005 Mountaineers Lodge at Snoqualmie Summit burned (1948)
08-17-2006 overpass at Hwy 532 and Fales-Echo Lk. Rd. opened
03-17-2009 last issue of Seattle Post Intellingencer
06-01-2012 liquor sales went private in state
05-23-2013 I-5 Skagit River bridge collapsed
09-15-2013 I-5 Skagit River bridge reopened today with permanent fix, temporary fix in meantime, trusses would be raised
08-16-2017 new sign renaming part of Hwy 99 for Wm. P. Stewart last year, Civil War vet who later moved here Herald this date
01-11-2019 last day for Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, viaduct opened 1953
06-30-2020 closure of Cascade Mall in Burlington opened 1989
08-24-2023 soon to close the Tacoma Aroma Westrcok Mill, paper mill since 1929 Herald article on this date
10-11-2024 closed since 2-26-2024 the Cama Beach cabins will be closed for good, Herald article on this date
11-30-2025 Molbak's garden store in Woodinville being demolished, closed earlier this year, Herald article on this date
12-15-2024 Tukwila Southcenter Sears to close, last Sears in WA Herald article Dec. 4, 2024
03-28-2026 link across Lake Washington to open