The year was 1933 – 87 years ago. It was a time when the song “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” had become the anthem for our entire country as…
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Looking Back: Robert Earl Bonney — A local hero, veteran and Medal of Honor winner
What did former Edmonds and Alderwood Manor resident Robert Earl Bonney, and famed aviator Charles Lindbergh have in common? The answer: They were both awarded this country’s Medal of Honor…
Looking forward to new life for historic Lynnwood building
In my Looking Back column last September, I wrote of my own concern for the future of one of the last historic buildings still remaining in Lynnwood. Thus, for me, it…
Looking Back: The birth and evolution of Highway 99 in south Snohomish County, part 2
Part 2 of 2. You can read Part 1 here. Prohibition and a new highway make strange bedfellows The stretch of highway between Seattle Heights and the King/Snohomish line became…
Looking Back: The birth and evolution of Highway 99 in south Snohomish County
Part 1 of 2. Most new highways open with a ceremony, including a ribbon cutting and some speeches by dignitaries — maybe even a brass band. However, the opening of…
Looking Back: Remembering the old Edmonds/Pre-Lynnwood Road and Reed Lake
Another bit of Lynnwood’s history is fading away forever—almost covered over by a whole lot of dirt. Change is happening on the south side of the 7300 block of SR524/196th…
Looking back: A new beginning for a historic veterans memorial monument
Looking Forward to a new and final home. Just in time to celebrate its 70th anniversary, the South Snohomish County veterans memorial monument has found a new home. This memorial…
Looking back: The story of Riley Hall, pioneer of Lynnwood
In the early days before the pioneers arrived, the land which is now the bustling city of Lynnwood was a forest of evergreen trees dominated by the stately giants—the Douglas…
Looking Back: Growing up as a child of the Great Depression
Having been born in January of 1927, over 90 years ago, I am definitely a child of the Great Depression. What follows are some of my own memories of that…
Looking back: Remembering the Sears of my childhood
A few days ago, I walked down to Alderwood Mall and took a picture of the last vestige of Lynnwood’s former Sears store. Yes, it is closed now, and a…
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Looking back: Full circle
The two words “full circle” very appropriately describe my life. In the year 2003, I went back to my roots and moved into Lynnwood’s new Alderwood Court apartments—westward and up…
Looking Back: Remembering longtime MIA Carl Bernard Trager
With the approach of this year’s Veterans’ Day it is time to remember another one of our South Snohomish County young people who died in defense of this country. Carl…
Looking back: Lynnwood’s Heritage Park and its beginning
A few years ago as volunteers for Sno-Isle Genealogical Society at Heritage Park’s Humble House, Bob Welling and I walked the grounds of the park as we interviewed Mary (Humble)…
Alderwood Manor Heritage Association presents history of Paine Field program with author Steve Bertrand
When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in March of 1933, unemployment had reached a high of 25 percent and he had promised to put the people back to work. One…
Looking Back: Reuben Hunter and an early-day mystery
Over 70 years before there was a City of Lynnwood, and even before Alderwood Manor, a few pioneer families were living on land that is now part of Lynnwood. They…
Looking Back: 50 years ago — February 1965
Fifty years ago this month on Feb. 3, one of the major events taking place was the opening of Interstate 5 from Seattle to Everett. Two o’clock ceremonies at the Northeast…
Looking back: A joining of the past and the electronic age
For many people microfilm and microfiche may appear too antiquated to even bother with anymore. Especially, since it may seem as if everything that is important from the past in…
Looking Back: The 1870 federal census and yet another genealogy pitfall
A very puzzling roadblock came to light with the 1870 decennial federal census when I was gathering information while writing the book Chirouse, I could find no listing for Tulalip…
Looking Back: Genealogy and booby traps
In 1790 the first decennial United States federal census had its beginnings with a simple purpose — to count people. The main objective was to determine the number of representatives…
Looking Back: My father Walter Deebach and WWI
While attending the very impressive Veterans Day ceremony held by Lynnwood Post 1040, Veterans of Foreign Wars, on Nov. 11, I could not help but remember my father and how…
Looking back: Rollin and Robert Border – Together forever
As another Veterans Day approaches, it is that special time to remember and honor the men and woman who have served our country in the armed forces during war and…
Looking back: Tugboats on Puget Sound
If you have ever been enthralled by the many tugboats that ply the waters of our Puget Sound, and wondered about their history, join the members of Lynnwood’s Alderwood Manor…
Looking back: Gertie Perrin’s Perrinville
When Carl Perrin returned to their comfortable home in downtown Edmonds and told his wife Gertie they had just become owners of a few acres of land a few miles…
Looking back: Old Settlers Picnic
It was a beautiful sunshine and blue-sky day on Sunday, Aug. 10, when a group of diehard old settlers of south Snohomish County gathered at Edmonds City Park to celebrate a…
Looking back: Make-believe and castles
This summer on a trip to Denver with my daughter, I had the chance to recall a magical make-believe time from my childhood. Most of the children of the 1930s…