Seattle 1955 HD - Home movies by land and sky

Seattle (and WA) sure was beautiful back then. Now, not so much.

Thank you for sharing! This is so beautiful

Thank you for this wonderful video. I grew up right in the neighborhood right above the tunnels in Mt Baker. It was a beautiful place to live.

nice

University of Washington Seattle looks like a castle

Crazy to seattle that long ago

How wonderful to see Seattle's past in such high quality!

I really enjoyed watching this video!

"Wizard of Oz" 1955 re-release

I was born at Maynard hospital in 1955 the hospital is gone but I'm still here ....great video thanks for sharing 👍🏽

The film quality is amazing!

That's so cool!

So cool watching the takeoff from Sand Point Navy Station in a PB4Y! Neat to be in a military plane where they were allowed to fly so low over the Sound and near the mountain!

JFK, if only those people could see the city today. It’s a an absolute S show

I love USA… Irish immigrant

Wow the UW quad not filled w cherry blossom trees

Exactly the same as today's view

Absolutely...... Historical footage is awesome

pretty aweome!

Notice the solid white line dividing the traffic lanes. Plus all the cars built in the late 1940s.

AWESOME! Thank you for posting this.

Wow Lake Washington Floating bridge, Tacoma Narrows and Deception Pass all in the same video. Incredible! The best!

Thanks. My parents moved there a few years later. I have some footage somewhere.

Mom please don't take my kodachrome. , awayyy

1955. 1986. T2o 2023. Different bro Chicamonga, different, bro

Hi! Thanks for the upload and for sharing your family's recordings. Can you please tell me how the quality is so good? Is it digitally remastered?

Interesting to see Sand Point Naval Airstation still functioning as one.

Eleven years after this was shot, BOAC Flight 911 would crash near Japan's Mount Fuji, a mountain much like Mount Ranier, and 113 people died because clear-air turbulence around the mountain broke up the Boeing 707. I wonder if pilots even dare to get this close to the Mount Ranier anymore because of the hard lessons learned in that crash.

Go Navy!


A retired swabbie here. ⚓️

I like this video. Wish there were more like this, of other cities, too.

Grew up here in the 50s and seen it slowly decline after gates and bozo infested the area with their stinkin cal. Crowd causing the C.O.L. to go crazy 😡any time these scumball tyrants infest a city u can pretty much kiss it goodbye......still sickning to see a beautiful city like that turned to $--T

Hard to believe they let the town go to hell. Sad.

I mean, only a quarter of this video was Seattle, but cool video nonetheless.

Very cool. Would be interesting to compare current glacial coverage on Mount Rainier.

I was born in Seattle in 1955. So nice to see the city as it once was.

As a person, who’s from Seattle and goes to downtown Seattle weekly I could say say it looked way nicer back then

Before it was turned into one of the worst cesspools in the country. Pig-sty now.

The very first street in the video that leads down to the water. What street is that? It looks to be Spring Street or Union or University or Seneca

If there was a better year to live in Seattle, I would like to know it. Folks who lived in Seattle in the 1950s and 60s cannot find another place even remotely comparable.

That university of Washington ought to rank as one of the prettiest campuses. My opinion.

I remember the braniff 707 in 66 coming through the clouds then coming below and seeing lake Washington as one of the most exciting times of my life.

It looked this way pretty much until the late 80s when corporate neoliberalism bulldozed all the affordable small houses and cheap apartments and corner coffee shops and small businesses and bars and music venues, most all are gone. Now rent cost more than anyone makes in a month, nothing but corporate fast food, and people live on the streets who became addicted to corporate opioids

And now it's an open-air toilet

My twin sister and I were born at Seattle General Hospital in October 1955 and grew up in north Seattle I live in Oregon now but am certainly struck, in my visits to Seattle, at how much the city has changed during my 68 years of life thus far.

Pretty clear and amazing footage 👍

So nice back then, now this city is a dump, just like all of the west coast cities. They are all dirty and dangerous.

Seeing these old home movies brings back memories, Washington has every activity you could want,Thanks for sharing!

My grandfather was a career Navy man stationed in Seattle. I can't help but wonder if he was there that day the plane took off.

Clark's Nutcracker there at the end?