Driving On WA I-5 South In 1982 (Fife, Tacoma, Lakewood, Olympia)
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2023
- Back in 1982, The Washington State Department of Transportation drove South on I-5 and recorded video to document the highway. This was part of a project that photographed/videotaped the states highways every couple of years. This video now resides at The Washington State Archives who were kind enough to share it.
This must have been right before they started the construction project on I-5, that they finally finished last year.
naw that started in 1971
😂
Wow, the Tacoma dome was still under construction, cool, it opened 1 year later 1983.
i remember it being built i lived off 31st street & portland ave from 1971 to 1980.
Ooo, I saw the Tacoma Mall Twin where I saw Empire Strikes Back. :-)
The good ole days when it was sunny and warm in June!
I wish my commute home was this wide open lol
They have installed new GE M-400A cut off version and uses High Pressure Sodium Lamps along I-5 in Washington. New street light fixtures no only reduced the light pollution, but also more energy efficient then the old Mercury Vapor Lamps.
These videos are awesome. Thank you for uploading them.
7:27 No Emerald Queen Casino lol beautiful. 9:14 Tacoma dome was only a year or so old. Wow!!! Thank you for memories.
That Dennys & McDonald’s are OG lol
I watch most of these videos because I love car spotting old datsuns and toyotas.
@9:09- The then-under construction Tacoma Dome, whose opening was less than a year away from when this vid was recorded.
Did you know some of the wood used to build it was from fallen trees from the Mt. St. Helens eruption, and that upon opening, the Tacoma Dome was the largest wooden dome in the world by volume (which has since been surpassed)?
I like comparing recent memory of driving to thunderdome to this video. Helps me put into perspective how old everything I think as normal really is
3:27 Ah, good ole exit 137. That exit is always backed up in today's traffic.
They are adding new interchange on I-5 in Fife Washington as of connection of WA-167 between Puyallup and I-5, and the WA-509 between I-5 and Port of Tacoma, and it will be new designated exit 138. The new interchange will be complete sometimes in 2028.
About four or five years behind schedule isn't it
Thank you for the memories ❤
Just look at those car
year/make/models !
Fife doesn’t actually look that much different today
If I remember the speed limit was 55 mph back then and i always drove over the speed limit because it was so hard to cruise at that speed
I remember going there several times back to Portland from Seattle.
Tacoma Dome under construction, nice!
I had just graduated that month 😊 and it’s odd to see a best western where Emerald queen is today
The cruising wonderful 55 mph speed limit
i can see my old elementary school at 7:30 it is upper left hand corner, Rogers elementary it is not open anymore.
Wow I-705 didn’t exist then
No Emerald Queen casino yet
Now if they would remaster these 😃
My aunt thinks she knew the guy on the bike. She says he had a dui back then and was forced to ride to work in that area around this time!
Looks like the Tacome Dome wasn't finish. I remember going to Tacoma Dome watching a Tacoma Stars match.
Remember about that time, there was a controversy about the planned neon art that was going to be installed on the outside of the Tacoma Dome? Eventually they settled on the panels that are installed inside, by the same artist.
Lots of cars that would be nice to own in that condition today.
Is this before i705?
38:00 There was a weigh station SB I-5? Interesting.
I went to the Tacoma Dome's grand opening in 1983. I got to enjoy hearing one of the singers from the group America, who was from Tacoma.
I miss the old Washington before the population migrations from the 90s and today.
I hope there is a South Tacoma Way from the 80s.
Tacoma dome being built
Boy, I can't remember the I-5 was two lanes when you past exit 109. Now, its four lanes heading to the State Capital.
I-5 was widened through Olympia during the late 1980s. I remember reading in the newspaper, the construction was a real headache for both the drivers and construction workers. They finally had it finished by around 1990.
Hard to watch this now, looks like a much better place 40 years ago..
You can tell it was a much better place? How can you tell?
No DuPont?
#celica @ 1:53
This was when you could put five dollars worth of gas and drive all week.
I'd feel safer on the road if the cars were more like this instead of plastic blobs of unimaginable speed.
Lot of ugly signs back then.
they should have done a side window shot. so we can see everyone giving this slow DOT driver the finger! semi's are third lane passing to get around this guy.