I've never seen a better representation of Seattle (or any city) from this era, well done. Born and raised in Seattle this film was very interesting to see what it was like 100 years ago. The most striking thing to me was that it looked like Seattle had a traffic conjestion issue 100 years ago which has never been solved. This video is priceless!
Oh please. Every city or rural town has their issues of traffic congestion after the automobile became affordable to the middle class & people started abandoning their Light Rail vehicles to experience freedom to control where, how, & when they commuted to work or shopped in public. Going back to Light Rail is not a decision easy for anyone to make, but this film proves when people abandoned their Light Rail, congestion obviously grew. 50 people on a trolley takes up far less space than50 people inside 50 automobiles …each car driving differently than the other,slower or faster, braking or accelerating & Seattle streets had no markings or laws forcing pedestrians into crosswalks because there were no marked crosswalks, just imaginary lines that everyone knew existed, but blamed for the reason they killed that man crossing the street. Yes congestion congestion congestion… as long as we have people and as long as we allow people to drive motorized wagons (which is all a car or Light truck is) rather than smaller motorized horses (like an Ebike or motorcycle) we will always have congestion. Also… notice the many wooden ramps & bridges (called trestles in their day) these were built for a network of extensive rail traffic simply to move commerce & people to certain destinations. A horse & wagon would then move goods to their final destination or a cab or biggie with horse & driver would provide for people to get to their final destination because obviously rail could not be provided to every street address. Those who lived on a street with rail access were either lucky or unlucky depending upon the quality of traffic routed through your neighborhood.
@@cme98 ..."Oh please" really? I just commented on te traffic which was surprising to me and you go off on some tangent, this video was /is a wonderful glimps into the past ...calm down keyboard warrior.🙂
Love this! As a native to Seattle, and having spent many years there, this was an extra special fun watch to see all the different looking, yet somewhat familiar areas from long ago. Beautifully done! Thank you.
I'm a third generation Seattleite,. My Grandfather had a Ford dealership in the Georgetown neighborhood in the 1930's. The building still stands today. My other Grandfather flew the mail out of Boeing Field to Medford OR. Cam route 8.
@@goobernoodles The old Kelly Moore paint store next to the police precinct. I have photos of the 1930’ s building. It’s been somewhat modified today but the architectural bones remain.
My grandfather ran the downtown streetcar system until the early 40s. His office was in the northern life tower. CAG Hedlund. He also brought the streetcar line to the AYP in 1909. Thanks for the great film!
Nice video! My mother was born in Seattle and was about 11 when this was filmed. Her father was a Teamsters Union organizer and one of her uncles was a cop. Some of this appears to be showing Northwest Seattle, Fremont and Queen Anne Hill. I've lived in both areas, and most recently in Ballard near 85th st, which back then would have been the northern boundary of Seattle. Thr area shown with trees and a horse is covered with homes and shopping centers now. There are still some wild ravines there, but its part of the city now
My grandfather was 4 years old when these images and scenes were originally captured. To watch this is both exciting and unsettling. It's like I'm watching a vivid dream that somehow tugs on my nerves because I know how long ago it was in human years. I don't really know how to explain it. Great colorization and added audio track. I subscribed.
@@NASS_0 Oh, yes, I like it. I watched 3x in full. It's easy to miss little things here and there while in motion. Next weekend when I have more time I plan to look into your archives. Keep up the super work! 👍
Thank you so much NASS, for showing what a lot of us Seattleites have only seen in pictures!….love to see what West Seattle, would’ve looked like a long time ago …….keep up the great work!!
Will make some uncertain guesses (but please consider that these are only guesses and each entry should be followed by a (?) So here goes nothing: 0:08 to 0:52 King Street Station area (?) 0:52 Second Avenue, downtown Seattle (Bartell’s Owl Drug Store was an early part of the Bartell’s Pharmacy Chain, was opened in 1898 and was located at 506 - 2nd Ave.) 1:34 Fremont Bridge 3:01 to 3:16 Fremont, looking south and west towards Lake Union and Queen Anne Hill (no Space Needle, lol) 3:16 Fremont (?) 4:16 Street cleaning in a neighborhood that still has horses. 5:30 to 7:30 This is probably all the south of downtown (SODO) area, with all the visible tide-flats later covered with millions of tons of fill dirt from the Denny Regrade project. All this area is subject to liquefaction during earthquakes. 6:04 Spokane Street viaduct (?) 6:26 In the background haze may be West Seattle. 7:34 “Old” West Seattle bridge (?) 7:37 Could be West Seattle near Spokane Street (?) 8:34 University Bridge 9:04 Duwamish River (?) (could be in Ballard?) (:28 Green Lake (?) 9:40 Golden Gardens (?)
The restoration of this (as well as adding color and sound) and all of you other videos is stunning! This has almost a videotape look to it instead of a film look to me.
Hello, I would really like to see more videos of Cuba from the past decades of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s. I am Cuban and I am very excited to see more. I congratulate you on your editing work. God bless you.
Nass, Great job as always. By the 1920's the majority of Americans lived in Cities due to the industrial boom, which led to significant urban development. The 1920's saw the widespread use of assembly lines led by Henry Ford mass producing his model T fords and other people mas producing automobiles as well like Chevrolet- which was Fords heavy competition in the 1920's. These mass production in the 1920's lowered the cost of goods like the automobiles. Thanks for the upload.
Great shots of the Seattle streetcars. Did you know hilly Seattle had cable cars too. I have a huge collection of original 8 x 10 photos of Seattle streetcars, buses, cable cars and trackless trolleys. Too bad we can't post photos here in the comments.
Starting at 5:29 the sound design only needs wind and seaguls. Traffic should cease here. Maybe distant trains when you see the train yard. No trains a re moving. Needs customization.
@@tesladiesel2420 It's the Fremont side of the Fremont bridge (Fremont avenue turning into 4th on the other side), and that's Queen Anne in the background. The Ballard bridge is farther down the ship canal as you're heading to the Sound. This is closer to the Lake Union end.
Awesome, as usual, NASS! What struck is at 7:41...i am not sure if that is a train or a trolley, but it looks old for then! It is astounding to look back at what essentially a representation of nearly two centuries!
0:40 Interesting to see the quick spark captured on film as the wire connecting the tram switches from one lane past the central connector. I’ve only ever seen these automotive electrical wiring in old footage, everything looks so different.
My grandma was born in 1926 she is West Indian and was from Pots town Pennsylvania I miss her she was absolutely beautiful and so funny and quiet will reserved. Rest in peace ❤🙏🏽
No one ever talks about the electric powered transportation back then. My dad said they had 5 private companies providing service in our county alone. One he said was called the galloping Goose! Sad our politicians never delivered on high speed rail in the 60's onwards as promised after the Seattle World's' Fair. The theme was transportation.
Was that Coulon Park at the end? I remember swimming there in the 70's/80's and having to take a swim test to be able to go out to that dock with the tall lifeguard tower.
Awesome!... I actually lived in Seattle 30 years ago and I still live near there now. Would you believe that the distant view of those houses on the hills pretty much look the same today?
@@NASS_0 I like the aesthetic of the city, but i don't miss the dense traffic and one-way streets. I attended the University of Washington in Seattle from the mid to late 1990's.
My father lived in Seattle. He would have been 6 to 16 years old in the 20's. I wonder what, exactly, what he was doing at the exact time each one of these film clips were filmed.
It seems like water. But it's also on a slight slope as it seems (maybe just cam angle and i'm dumdum) So they are either cleaning the steet with it, or cooling the asphalt down. As hot asphalt reduces traction significantly. Especally when you have bicycle tires on your car. Those are my leading theories. Hope i helped & have a good rest of your day!❤
Street washing was considered necessary for proper sanitation, a holdover of the horse and buggy days (my grandfather delivered milk by horse cart until his enlistment in WW2)
No horses... I wonder when the last one was allowed... Undoubtedly some city ordinance, or there would still be some. But it's amazing to see the infrastructure already in place... Elevated roadways are no simple thing to build.
Before any chain restaurants. It was all Mom + Pop eateries in the 20's. The quality was uneven though, you never knew if it was going to be good food/drinks or bad. That's why in the 50's when chain restaurants came along, people were happy to have standardized food/drinks. Society gave up originality for convenience.
Yes, gave up originally, uniqueness, independence of thought, and put franchises in the hands of a few monied investors, and many absentee owners.@@athos1974
In many parts of the country, right up until the early 60s people burned their refuse in their backyard. Sometimes in piles, sometimes in old 40 gallon drums, others in brick enclosures. Ashes were raked into the garden as fertilizer, and a local junk man came by to rummage through what was left for metal, or glass for salvage. A haze hung over the neighborhood on Thursdays from about 8 in the morning 'till around 2 . Vacant lots were favorite for scrapping out old cars, resulting in a smoldering heap after a day or two.
Oh? I saw otherwise quite a few times and by the late 20s the section shown in south SoDo was Hooverville. Hooverville, Seattle: ruclips.net/video/8DtmHcAxR2s/видео.html
It's like you don't realize you are watching a very low resolution video that has been highly altered, of a film that had already been carefully intentioned by the original director to show only what they intended.
Every time I see cable cars and trolleys I think, why didn't we just keep them? They we the light rail of the future, and I bet already they went to Lynwood and maybe even Monroe.
Cool video. Seattle seemed so nice back then. I lived there for decades. The scenery is great, but unfortunately the people in the seattle area are insufferable, crime goes unpunished and the leadership has mismanaged everything, the city is almost unlivable. I had to move away a few months ago and it was the best decision i ever made.
I’m 61, lived here all my life. It’s different now than it was 30 years ago, just like it’s different than when the World’s Fair was here. Cities change. You leaving was part of that. I love it here, not to say I wouldn’t move either, but not because of what it’s become or what the future might hold. Like a marriage or being a diehard fan of a sports team, taking the good with the bad goes with the territory if you love something or someone.
![A Glimpse of London 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design Added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VDt-4CKaOP4/mqdefault.jpg)
You want to live in the 1920s?
Hell no. I would assume non-whites (blacks, asians) were segregated and limited from going to places such as the swimming pool area here 9:28.
Not a chance.
I'm good with the fun loving jazz age of the 1920's before the eventual stock market crash and Great Depression afterwards.
I've never seen a better representation of Seattle (or any city) from this era, well done. Born and raised in Seattle this film was very interesting to see what it was like 100 years ago. The most striking thing to me was that it looked like Seattle had a traffic conjestion issue 100 years ago which has never been solved. This video is priceless!
Thank you!
Oh please. Every city or rural town has their issues of traffic congestion after the automobile became affordable to the middle class & people started abandoning their Light Rail vehicles to experience freedom to control where, how, & when they commuted to work or shopped in public. Going back to Light Rail is not a decision easy for anyone to make, but this film proves when people abandoned their Light Rail, congestion obviously grew. 50 people on a trolley takes up far less space than50 people inside 50 automobiles …each car driving differently than the other,slower or faster, braking or accelerating & Seattle streets had no markings or laws forcing pedestrians into crosswalks because there were no marked crosswalks, just imaginary lines that everyone knew existed, but blamed for the reason they killed that man crossing the street. Yes congestion congestion congestion… as long as we have people and as long as we allow people to drive motorized wagons (which is all a car or Light truck is) rather than smaller motorized horses (like an Ebike or motorcycle) we will always have congestion. Also… notice the many wooden ramps & bridges (called trestles in their day) these were built for a network of extensive rail traffic simply to move commerce & people to certain destinations. A horse & wagon would then move goods to their final destination or a cab or biggie with horse & driver would provide for people to get to their final destination because obviously rail could not be provided to every street address. Those who lived on a street with rail access were either lucky or unlucky depending upon the quality of traffic routed through your neighborhood.
@@cme98 ..."Oh please" really? I just commented on te traffic which was surprising to me and you go off on some tangent, this video was /is a wonderful glimps into the past ...calm down keyboard warrior.🙂
@@NASS_0 Weird question, but why does the image 'hop' or stretch up and down...?
Love this! As a native to Seattle, and having spent many years there, this was an extra special fun watch to see all the different looking, yet somewhat familiar areas from long ago. Beautifully done! Thank you.
Thank you very much, did you like it?
I'm a third generation Seattleite,. My Grandfather had a Ford dealership in the Georgetown neighborhood in the 1930's. The building still stands today. My other Grandfather flew the mail out of Boeing Field to Medford OR. Cam route 8.
Which building?
@@goobernoodles The old Kelly Moore paint store next to the police precinct.
I have photos of the 1930’ s building. It’s been somewhat modified today but the architectural bones remain.
@@skinnerhound2660 Oh okay, cool. I work a few blocks away.
My grandfather ran the downtown streetcar system until the early 40s. His office was in the northern life tower. CAG Hedlund. He also brought the streetcar line to the AYP in 1909. Thanks for the great film!
Nice video! My mother was born in Seattle and was about 11 when this was filmed. Her father was a Teamsters Union organizer and one of her uncles was a cop. Some of this appears to be showing Northwest Seattle, Fremont and Queen Anne Hill. I've lived in both areas, and most recently in Ballard near 85th st, which back then would have been the northern boundary of Seattle. Thr area shown with trees and a horse is covered with homes and shopping centers now. There are still some wild ravines there, but its part of the city now
Holy s*** man, unreal. If these people only knew that there's other people, right now, staring at them through this very lens, 100 years into future.
My grandfather was 4 years old when these images and scenes were originally captured. To watch this is both exciting and unsettling. It's like I'm watching a vivid dream that somehow tugs on my nerves because I know how long ago it was in human years. I don't really know how to explain it.
Great colorization and added audio track. I subscribed.
Thanks!! , you liked it?!
@@NASS_0 Oh, yes, I like it. I watched 3x in full. It's easy to miss little things here and there while in motion. Next weekend when I have more time I plan to look into your archives. Keep up the super work! 👍
Thank you so much NASS, for showing what a lot of us Seattleites have only seen in pictures!….love to see what West Seattle, would’ve looked like a long time ago …….keep up the great work!!
Thx!!!
Love seeing this! Your videos always give me a feeling that I'm time traveling. Thanks for the new trip!
Thanks a lot, did you like it?
I stayed at the hotel in the first scene, when I visited a few years back. It is now a Fairmont hotel, on University street.
Will make some uncertain guesses (but please consider that these are only guesses and each entry should be followed by a (?)
So here goes nothing:
0:08 to 0:52 King Street Station area (?)
0:52 Second Avenue, downtown Seattle (Bartell’s Owl Drug Store was an early part of the Bartell’s Pharmacy Chain, was opened in 1898 and was located at 506 - 2nd Ave.)
1:34 Fremont Bridge
3:01 to 3:16 Fremont, looking south and west towards Lake Union and Queen Anne Hill (no Space Needle, lol)
3:16 Fremont (?)
4:16 Street cleaning in a neighborhood that still has horses.
5:30 to 7:30 This is probably all the south of downtown (SODO) area, with all the visible tide-flats later covered with millions of tons of fill dirt from the Denny Regrade project. All this area is subject to liquefaction during earthquakes.
6:04 Spokane Street viaduct (?)
6:26 In the background haze may be West Seattle.
7:34 “Old” West Seattle bridge (?)
7:37 Could be West Seattle near Spokane Street (?)
8:34 University Bridge
9:04 Duwamish River (?) (could be in Ballard?)
(:28 Green Lake (?)
9:40 Golden Gardens (?)
Thank you!!+
Thank you!!
Isn't 8:35 the Ballard Bridge?
Ending beach scene might also be Magnuson Park? The swimming platform has been there since it was a military base
First video I think is Union Station.
Born and raised here. 100 years later the Magnolia Bridge is still definable
I knew that looked like the bridge going to Magnolia! Very cool footage.
The restoration of this (as well as adding color and sound) and all of you other videos is stunning! This has almost a videotape look to it instead of a film look to me.
Thx❤!
Nice! I always look forward to seeing your videos. Thanks!!!!
Thank you very much, did you like it?
Stunning restoration work as always. Well done, NASS! 👍
Thanks! Did you like it?
This is the same year my mom was born ,may she ,R.I.P ! 🥹🥀🙏🕊
Hello, I would really like to see more videos of Cuba from the past decades of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s. I am Cuban and I am very excited to see more. I congratulate you on your editing work. God bless you.
Incredible this was over a century ago! You do an amazing job & it’s very much appreciated. 😊
Thanks, you liked it?
@@NASS_0 yes 👍 😊
@@yamil.343 Thx ;)
Incredible video, thanks for sharing.
This is super cool, great video find! Great work on the restore as well.
Thanks! you liked it??
Almost a century later and traffic still moves at the same speed. Amazing!
Love the streetcar passing Union Station, when it was active.
Human nature never changes, 6 or 7 standing watching the road repair on the bridge and only 1 doing the work, its the same today.
Lol
Nass, Great job as always. By the 1920's the majority of Americans lived in Cities due to the industrial boom, which led to significant urban development. The 1920's saw the widespread use of assembly lines led by Henry Ford mass producing his model T fords and other people mas producing automobiles as well like Chevrolet- which was Fords heavy competition in the 1920's. These mass production in the 1920's lowered the cost of goods like the automobiles. Thanks for the upload.
Hi!! Thx!! ^^
Amazing job, dude!... you are the best❤
Oh Thx!!! welcome!! ^^
Great shots of the Seattle streetcars. Did you know hilly Seattle had cable cars too. I have a huge collection of original 8 x 10 photos of Seattle streetcars, buses, cable cars and trackless trolleys. Too bad we can't post photos here in the comments.
you like this video?
@@NASS_0 NASS, indeed I do !! I like everything you do.
Hear hear for pix and vids on YT comments! But maybe maximum 1 per comment to prevent photobombing and vid vexation.
Driving was so chaotic before the invention of the traffic light.
I saw one traffic light in the video. Don't know if anyone actually observed it ... pretty much like today.
I've always liked old cars so it's great to see them on the move. Thank You!
Nice to see early street vids of Seattle! Most street scene vids on YT are of New York or Los Angelos.
Starting at 5:29 the sound design only needs wind and seaguls. Traffic should cease here. Maybe distant trains when you see the train yard. No trains a re moving. Needs customization.
Starting at 1:34, that's the draw bridge over the ship canal (which was still being worked on in 1926) from Fremont going over to Queen Anne.
@@tesladiesel2420 It's the Fremont side of the Fremont bridge (Fremont avenue turning into 4th on the other side), and that's Queen Anne in the background. The Ballard bridge is farther down the ship canal as you're heading to the Sound. This is closer to the Lake Union end.
@@tesladiesel2420 yes, exactly!
Awesome, as usual, NASS! What struck is at 7:41...i am not sure if that is a train or a trolley, but it looks old for then! It is astounding to look back at what essentially a representation of nearly two centuries!
Thx!!!!!
NASS! Thanks for posting this video.
Thx bro!!
Fantastic beautiful old video
0:40 Interesting to see the quick spark captured on film as the wire connecting the tram switches from one lane past the central connector. I’ve only ever seen these automotive electrical wiring in old footage, everything looks so different.
There were NO buses there .
Incredible infrastructure. We had all that manufacturing capability even back then.
Another amazing slice of time. How did people survive that traffic in those autos? Thanks NASS!
Thanks! Did you like it?
I like the old footage of Seattle.
Saludos desde México 🇲🇽 😊❤
Excellent sound design, as always! Sound (the unsung hero)
Thank you very much, did you like it?
@@NASS_0 I love your channel. 💫
@@janehollander3843your sound and colors are more realistic. Thanks.
Wow, made it until 31 seconds before the first Ooga Horn. I can't even...
it looks so unrecognizable
Seattle was a much larger city back then than I imagined.
Qu’est ce que j’aime replonger dans le passé …merci Nass🙏
Merci à vous
My mother passed last year at 98 years old. She told me she never wanted a black car because when she was little ALL cars were black. LOL
Loved the video?
@@NASS_0 Yes, I think Seattle may have been similar as she grew up in Spokane, the house she grew up in is still there.
One car was speeding.
Customers can have any color they want as long as it's black - Henry Ford.
@@pettermillar4158 Radar hadn't been invented yet, and he knew it.
Phenomenal. Now I'm trying to imagine what it will look like in another century....
We'll all be living in Space Needles.
No white people remaining.
I love Seattle…mow and then! ❤
you like this video? ;)
Looks and sounds really cool.
Hallo,simply great video,i realy like it!
My grandma was born in 1926 she is West Indian and was from
Pots town Pennsylvania I miss her she was absolutely beautiful and so funny and quiet will reserved. Rest in peace ❤🙏🏽
In just ten years the horse was gone from our streets, amazing! All those thousands of years working together! And just like that....
No one ever talks about the electric powered transportation back then. My dad said they had 5 private companies providing service in our county alone. One he said was called the galloping Goose! Sad our politicians never delivered on high speed rail in the 60's onwards as promised after the Seattle World's' Fair. The theme was transportation.
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@@TopHotDog thx
Was that Coulon Park at the end? I remember swimming there in the 70's/80's and having to take a swim test to be able to go out to that dock with the tall lifeguard tower.
Awesome!... I actually lived in Seattle 30 years ago and I still live near there now. Would you believe that the distant view of those houses on the hills pretty much look the same today?
Did you like it?
@@NASS_0 I like the aesthetic of the city, but i don't miss the dense traffic and one-way streets. I attended the University of Washington in Seattle from the mid to late 1990's.
Nice to know traffic was already a nightmare 100 years ago
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@@NASS_0 Bien sûr que oui
We've come a long way, haven't we? 😏
My father lived in Seattle. He would have been 6 to 16 years old in the 20's. I wonder what, exactly, what he was doing at the exact time each one of these film clips were filmed.
At 4:13 what is that truck spraying on the street? And why?
Water, to keep the dust down.
It seems like water. But it's also on a slight slope as it seems (maybe just cam angle and i'm dumdum) So they are either cleaning the steet with it, or cooling the asphalt down. As hot asphalt reduces traction significantly. Especally when you have bicycle tires on your car. Those are my leading theories.
Hope i helped & have a good rest of your day!❤
Was that a standard cleaning practice in those days? I remember something similar was done during the polio epidemic.
Street washing was considered necessary for proper sanitation, a holdover of the horse and buggy days (my grandfather delivered milk by horse cart until his enlistment in WW2)
Also remember, the cars leaked oil, and had open crankcase venting onto the ground.
Seattle was essentially a distant far-away frontier out-post in 1926, and it still is today !
Imagine forgetting where you parked. All the cars look the same!
Kind of like a Walmart parking lot today.
This is what owning a Tesla in Seattle is like.
Amazing there was so much traffic back then. The cars certainly are crowding out the trolleys.
No horses... I wonder when the last one was allowed... Undoubtedly some city ordinance, or there would still be some.
But it's amazing to see the infrastructure already in place... Elevated roadways are no simple thing to build.
I wouldn’t want to be that cop standing in the middle of that street!
9:42 Cooling down on a hot summer 🌞 day for the working class at the industrial run off beach.
^^
Mom, what's that sore on my arm?
It's nothing Timmy, just put a little Mercurochrome on it. That'll fix you right up.
👏👏👏
Did those cars and busses make it up the really steep hills in seattle?
every single person I saw in this video is long gone.
Not a single Starbucks to be seen!
Before any chain restaurants. It was all Mom + Pop eateries in the 20's.
The quality was uneven though, you never knew if it was going to be good food/drinks or bad.
That's why in the 50's when chain restaurants came along, people were happy to have standardized food/drinks.
Society gave up originality for convenience.
Yes, gave up originally, uniqueness, independence of thought, and put franchises in the hands of a few monied investors, and many absentee owners.@@athos1974
This looks better than Seattle today.
and after 100 years, the traffic is still a mess.
WA drivers are inept.
some of this has to be Fremont and the Fremont Bridge..and later on, the Magnolia Bridge
yes!
The vehicles back then look pretty similar to another, curious which vehicle had the most bells and whistles 🤔
Seattle... Black ice .... Tin Lizzy's, bad combination 😮
Would like to see a then and now split.
Well dressed
Better public transportation than today lol. A street car on every street.
Surprised not much changed in 100 years
qual seria a velocidade desses carros 🚗?
I just wish they showed the name of the streets.
see the comments
Well, it looks like traffic was bad back then too
Nice to see light rail actually working that they didn't spend billions of dollars on
I wonder how Aurora Ave. was like back in the day 😁
So traffic was always an issue in Seattle.
At least we can see how things were like 100 years ago. They Couldn't.
@ 4:15 the startled horse kicked over somebody's backyard weekly trash 🗑️ burn and ignited the guy's 5 gallon container of kerosene.
x))
In many parts of the country, right up until the early 60s people burned their refuse in their backyard. Sometimes in piles, sometimes in old 40 gallon drums, others in brick enclosures. Ashes were raked into the garden as fertilizer, and a local junk man came by to rummage through what was left for metal, or glass for salvage. A haze hung over the neighborhood on Thursdays from about 8 in the morning 'till around 2 . Vacant lots were favorite for scrapping out old cars, resulting in a smoldering heap after a day or two.
As usual, everyone is impecably dressed and well manared.
That's your perception. Most people didn't bath daily, wash clothes regularly and were prejudicial by race, nationality, and economic standing.
@@TopHotDogWhy does there always have to be a Debbie downer in the comments?😂
Its so tired that in any old footage someone always has this to say. Life changes man, get over it.
Oh? I saw otherwise quite a few times and by the late 20s the section shown in south SoDo was Hooverville.
Hooverville, Seattle:
ruclips.net/video/8DtmHcAxR2s/видео.html
It's like you don't realize you are watching a very low resolution video that has been highly altered, of a film that had already been carefully intentioned by the original director to show only what they intended.
Obviously far too much traffic on the roads back then, much better now (hah). And so many trestle bridges and T bone Fords, much like Vancouver, B.C.
That’s NOT Seattle. It can’t be.
Proof: It’s a sunny day.
I'm just as shocked!
It's also a time before it became a leftist shit hole utopia.
How far have we sunk in 100 years? Cops wore bow ties.
And a time the police actually were allowed to do their jobs.
@@dave0051 That too.
@@dave0051 Meaning what, exactly?
@@TheDanEdwards leftism is a mental illness.
This was during prohibition in Seattle. I guarantee there were many cops paid off to not do their jobs.
Bad old days.
It was the roaring 20's. People were thriving.
Every time I see cable cars and trolleys I think, why didn't we just keep them? They we the light rail of the future, and I bet already they went to Lynwood and maybe even Monroe.
Indigenous land already ruined at that time that's wild
The 19th century to the 1940s is my favorite period. From the 1950s onwards, the world began to change for the worse until it became what it is today.
I always wonder where are The Native Americans Native to the Area, when video n pictures like this are taken 🤔
Cool video. Seattle seemed so nice back then. I lived there for decades. The scenery is great, but unfortunately the people in the seattle area are insufferable, crime goes unpunished and the leadership has mismanaged everything, the city is almost unlivable. I had to move away a few months ago and it was the best decision i ever made.
I’m 61, lived here all my life. It’s different now than it was 30 years ago, just like it’s different than when the World’s Fair was here. Cities change. You leaving was part of that. I love it here, not to say I wouldn’t move either, but not because of what it’s become or what the future might hold. Like a marriage or being a diehard fan of a sports team, taking the good with the bad goes with the territory if you love something or someone.
the people are horrible. everything that was nice about the place in the 80's and 90's is gone.
Before Led Zeppelin and ranch dressing.
When America was a model for the world
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@@NASS_0 Yes !
😅
They drive like current WA drivers.
Hey Seattle without the drugs, crime and homeless camps.
& fewer politicians.
Although 10 years later there was the homeless camp called "Hooverville."
@@washingtonforensicsservice5495 good point
@@TopHotDog And next to no illegal aliens squatting there.
Lot's of poor and homeless back then too