Seattle 1955 HD - Home movies by land and sky

I am russian fishermen , i was in Seattle 3 autem month 1995 , when worked in american crab bo JUNO .we fixed self boat on a Foss Ship Yard .on BULLARD ....it was a very good time ! i was 25 old !!!!!! Passed many years , but i remember warm and goodness of this Grand best country !!! Salute from Vladivostok !!!!! ( russia ) /

I was born in Seattle in 1955. Grew up there and I feel lucky!

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

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

I've just come across this and... I've never really been the kind of person to repeatedly watch anything but I just did. I think I watched it over and over again, transfixed, maybe 8 or 9 times. I can't describe how utterly engrossing it is. I don't know why. But after a bad day, this has made everything go away and I feel like I'm there, in 1955.

My great grandparents founded the small city of Silverdale WA., in the 1800s and right now I'm sitting in Saint James Cathedral on Seattle's First Hill. This is some absolutely great footage. Thank you so much.

The shot of Mount Rainier where you can see the pre-eruption Mount Saint Helens in the distance is breathtaking! Thanks for sharing this!

hard to believe this was my hometown at one point, no skyscrapers!

I can't believe my eyes!!! Less traffic and available parking spots!

So nice to take a step back in time, when Seattle was more quiet and uncrowded - heck, you could even find a place to park back then! This was before I-5 through Seattle even existed. And, this was about 7 years before the '62 Worlds Fair put Seattle on the map, so to speak. I have fond memories of NAS Sand Point... my dad took us kids there to see the Blue Angels perform, in 1966. I still have all of dad's color slides of that performance. Most impressive thing I'd ever seen (and still rates up there to this day). It's weird visiting there today, w/o the Navy activity. A beehive without the bees?Loved the views of the UW campus... I wonder why there was nary a soul in sight? Must've been a Sunday or holiday. Also strange to see it without the famous cherry trees.I wish there were more aerial videos like this, of the Puget Sound area from back in the day. Maybe I could even spot my house and yard, up north of Seattle. In any case, thanks for posting this, and thanks to your grandfather for being a great guy with a home movie camera! I've enjoyed the other clips you've posted, too.

16mm film was EXPENSIVE to buy, shoot, and process, but it gave results so much better than 8mm.

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

It will always confuse me how videos like this get downvotes. Seriously, how can you hate historical footage? Thank you for sharing. =]

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

Wow, unbelievably beautiful. This film is a f**** treasure, seriously.

This is a national treasure

My grandparents moved to Seattle in 1962 and still live in the same house today... it's crazy that this is what they saw when they rolled in. Dang they've lived there forever

3:24 Everything looks peachy, peachy clean

You should watermark these to prevent Getty images or other scumbags stealing your work bro

Thanks so much for sharing. Seattle looked like an amazing place to live in the 50s.