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@Kazilikaya

3 жыл бұрын

What was the date this video filmed?

That lack of traffic could make me cry. It's almost 7 PM right now, the idea of I-5 looking THAT empty is absurd. Early 90's Seattle.....

@balsamwoods

6 жыл бұрын

It might have been a Saturday or Sunday night if I recall - if that makes any difference.

@eddymarino2964

5 жыл бұрын

Oh traffics not like that now lol

@thomasbirkland2143

5 жыл бұрын

I lived in Seattle from 1990 to 1995. Traffic was plenty bad then too.

@jooyeon1926

5 жыл бұрын

@@balsamwoods Its insane to think I was born in 94 and this was filmed in 92 but yet everything still looks the same as I go hop on I5 to Seattle often, Seattle if definitely a time stopper, minus the traffic lol.

@mournerlisa6025

3 жыл бұрын

If you didn't catch it 0:52 . He clearly says it is Sunday 7pm, but the traffic South Bound does look similar as today. On a side note, the Mercer road highway entrance/exit has been a pain in the but since the 70s so I hear. Nothing new.

GRUNGE ERA SEATTLE cant get more 1990s than that.

Grunge era too!

My first ever trip to the USA was to Seattle in July/august 1992, as a 15 year old, spending one month with an American family as way of an exchange program, who lived in Woodinville. I remember driving down that exact highway in the beginning of this video and seeing my first skyscrapers, just one month before this video was made. Amazing memories;-)

@balsamwoods

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could bring back some memories!

I miss this Seattle!

@balsamwoods

4 жыл бұрын

Me too...I wish I could go back in time.

@michealortiz3350

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks democrats for ruining it. OPEN BORDERS

@rexx9496

2 жыл бұрын

@@michealortiz3350 open borders? And who flooded in and ruined it? Canadians? Lol.

Seattle summer of 1987 living in Whittier Heights-Ballard. Skateboarding everyday, hanging out at Fallout Records & Skates, riding the bricks of Red Square..saw Nirvana at the Ballard Firehouse. Seattle, Olympia and Portland in the late eighties early 1990’s had a great music scene. Minneapolis also had a thriving music scene as well that had started earlier.

@KariEngblom-Youkey

Ай бұрын

I saw Nirvana there too, lol. But I wanted to leave and get to my fav hangout ...the L&M in pioneer Square to see the Cowboys. ( Nobody remembers them...😂)

My family moved to Seattle in 2007 and seeing this makes me think 2007 Seattle was much closer to 92 Seattle than 2021 Seattle. I know things had changed even by then but nothing compared to today.

@Easyrawlins

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, even though I’m born & raised in Houston Texas, and have never been to Seattle in my life (would love to visit someday) I can’t help but feel saddened by your comment. I’m sort of a nostalgia junkie at heart so remembering how things once were will always be bittersweet for me.

Aah, the land of grunge and coffee.

@truthseek3017

4 жыл бұрын

No more grunge...

@raihanshrk1955

3 жыл бұрын

And drugs

@kaylahchavez549

3 жыл бұрын

aka my dream

@xakune8357

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaylahchavez549eh, I’ve lived in the Seattle area my whole life. Grunge isn’t exactly popular anymore.. you’d have to do a little homework to find stuff like that now. the coffee still is though.

@OGGOAT23

3 жыл бұрын

Amazon Boeing Starbucks Microsoft

Never been there, but I miss it like I was born there. This city feels like home

@andysplants

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you get the chance to see Seattle one day, it's a beautiful city to visit, the views are spectacular!:)

@anakrime93

Жыл бұрын

I went to Seattle 2 months ago and it's starting to look like Portland.

@apoorunfortunatesoul4164

Жыл бұрын

Felt that way when I first visited. Been five years and it's definitely home

@KoolKidsJuice

3 ай бұрын

@@andysplants i have some news for you dawg

I moved here in 1978 when the city still looked very much like this. Such a beautiful city. It has since become a hell-hole.

@enermaxstephens1051

Жыл бұрын

Millions of foreigners didn't help

Me, a 20 years old Italian guy, in 1992: I'd like to see Seattle, the city of Grunge! Me, a middle-aged Italian man, in 2020: that's what Seattle was like in 1992!

@balsamwoods

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I posted a couple of other videos from '92 from other trips we took so hopefully you can check those out too.

@koba4764

4 жыл бұрын

@@balsamwoods thanks, I'll take a look at your channel.

Wow. This was exactly 15 years before I was born. Seattle has changed so much, I would kill to have been my dad who lived in Seattle in this time.

@balsamwoods

4 жыл бұрын

It would be nice to go back in time. I hope you saw the other two videos I posted recently of footage from Seattle in 1992. Thank you for watching!

@timmynator8036

2 жыл бұрын

Alice in Chains girl, alice in chains

@joedinkinsjr.677

2 жыл бұрын

I was 3 in 1992. I don't have a large amount of memories but Kingdome, Space Needle and the downtown skyline are definitely there.

So beautiful. I can almost feel that crisp, cold air!

I lived there from Dec. 1991- Dec. 1992. I remember seeing a 4wd Cadillac from Alaska on the big bridge over the harbor. I have vhs if it somewhere.

@chewyyo3383

5 жыл бұрын

YTjndallas post it up on KZread

I moved into the YMCA on 5th & Cherry(?) in 1990 after I finished college in New England having been born and raised on Long Island, New York in 1967. Moved next to 8th and Spring: The Lowell-Emerson. It was down to Chandler’s Bay in Kent, then back up to Ballard from there. I then departed the Pacific Northwest and drove back to Port Washington, LI, NY in 1995 after Kurt died. I entered the local seminary to begin study to become a Roman Catholic Priest. My experience in Washington inspired me. I was ordained in 2002 and left with no faith in 2018. I now deal in granite…tombstones and mausoleums. A young father in his 40s died leaving a family. He chose for his epitaph (you normally get 1 line) Pearl Jam’s “Oh, I’m a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love”. It took me way back. Those kids had a wonderfully appreciative father.

Back when all the street lights were the orange high pressure sodium fixtures, and when most of the cars had rear passenger door ash trays. And not a single smart phone in sight.

I lived in the Seattle area from July of 89 through January 1993. Seemed a lot more calm and safe back then.

@AmericanGypsy206

3 ай бұрын

Because they weren’t that many blacks back then

@CROWOREGON

Ай бұрын

I lived in Seattle from 85-95 and it was way safer. Now it's a homeless capitol full of a city council that doesn't know how to fix the problem that they have caused.

The tallest building west of The Mississippi used to be the Smith Tower which is also seen in this video. It was the tallest for a long time, built by the same Smith as Smith-Corona typewriters and also Smith & Wesson handguns (the Wesson of that is also Wesson Oil for cooking). A little trivia there for ya.

@MMorMM

5 жыл бұрын

Seattle really is great.

@islandbee

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, the Columbia Tower held that title for awhile too.

@rexx9496

2 жыл бұрын

In 92 I'm pretty sure the library tower in LA was the tallest west of the Mississippi.

Ай бұрын

unfortunately leftists have turned it into a shithole.

Right around the time I was attending UW;. Lots of memories! Thank you for this!

Music was from Bumbershoot festival, annual music festival at Seattle Center the first weekend in September. Monday, September 7 was the final day of the festival that year.

@balsamwoods

4 жыл бұрын

I have another video from an earlier visit on 7/25 that shows the band playing: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKdor8uAkbKzcso.html The irony was that some was also filming them on on the ground at the same time and posted the video on KZread: kzread.info/dash/bejne/opiV08pqfc_Hnag.html

@laurah6845

3 жыл бұрын

I remember when it cost only $5 to get into Bumbershoot and you could see the music acts for free (no extra charge).

Love that shot “looking west on that main highway 90 looking out to Bellevue Island”! 😉 Seriously though thank you for shooting and posting this! Love it!

Happy 30 year anniversary for making this video! September 7, 1992

To think that Kurt Cobain or Chris Cornell could've been driving by in any one of those cars.

Thanks for this. I had forgotten what a beautiful place Seattle was.

@stanburdick9708

Жыл бұрын

That right. "was......😣

This is awesome, literally a few weeks later I drove that for the first time and stayed in the downtown area til 1998..it was a good time to be there

I had to move out so long ago thx for the nostalgia trip

I definitely miss what Seattle used to be. :/

@balsamwoods

4 жыл бұрын

Glad I could bring back some memories. I have a couple of other videos I also posted that had footage of Pike Place Market and the Space Needle. Enjoy!

@loge10

3 жыл бұрын

I'm with you. I spent my twenties in Seattle, from 1976 to 1985. I'm heartbroken as to what the city has become.

@rexx9496

2 жыл бұрын

@@loge10 people in 92 were probably like, it sucks here, I miss what it used to be in 1960. People in 1960 were like what happened to this place it was really great in 1930.

@loge10

2 жыл бұрын

@@rexx9496 Yours is a typical response but for me it doesn't fly. Actually, what has happened in Seattle for me has happened all over, just more severely in Seattle because of what Seattle used to be even compared with other places. When I was there, Seattle was referred to as the most livable city in the country. Now it's extremely overcrowded, extremely overpriced, with villages of homeless all over the place. That's a bit different from what you are saying. I wanted to return to Seattle for retirement, but I couldn't now that I am in retirement. Seattle lost its soul- and even if people in different decades didn't like to certain over time, at least there was always a soul. But then, America itself has lost its soul.

@rb98769

2 жыл бұрын

@@rexx9496 lol no

Just made this drive earlier in the week. Almost all of the highway embankments, bridges and overpasses are covered in graffiti now, even the backs of the highway signs. I miss this era, it seemed like anything we set your minds to was possible.

I would love to go back to the top of the Space Needle and the Bank of America building again. I went to the Space Needle when I was an infant (40 years ago). I went to the top floor of the Bank of America building in 3rd grade or so.

♥️♥️♥️♥️ awesome thank you for this video 👍👍

and some of those cars are still on the road today!

This clip documents the last of the great period of Seattle. After 1992, Seattle begins its slow descent (with each subsequent mayor and city council) into a tragic, hellish nightmare over the next 18 years. My heart breaks for my lost, broken Emerald City. So sad. I am glad my parents are not alive anymore to witness the destruction of a once-functioning, beautiful city.

@islandbee

3 жыл бұрын

That is a weird comment about your parents. It's not like Seattle is hell on earth.

@laurah6845

3 жыл бұрын

@@islandbee My father was very involved in the Seattle business community in his day, and was good friends with former mayor Charles Royer--you know, back when Seattle actually won municipal and mayoral awards for a decent, well-run city. Nowadays, DT Seattle looks like an absolute hell, and yes it would absolutely break my parents' heart to see the train wreck that has been allowed to occur at the hands of the Durkan and the SCC, of late. If my comments are 'weird' to you, well...too fricking bad. I am a brutal realist. Seattle is trashed and barely on life support at this point as businesses keep moving out of the city. Don't blame them one bit for wanting to leave. The entire City Council and Mayor need to be kicked to the curb, IMO. They don't deserve their jobs right now.

@islandbee

3 жыл бұрын

@@laurah6845 - Yeah it is weird because I would rather have my parents alive and well. Not dead.

@laurah6845

3 жыл бұрын

@@islandbee Buddy, you are taking things way too literally for me. Of course, I would love my parents to be around, silly. Clearly you do not get the message I am trying to convey. So, let's just call it a day and leave it here. I am not going to get into a long/drawn conversation with you. Bye!

@islandbee

3 жыл бұрын

@@laurah6845 - Uhhh buddy. It was a weird comment. Maybe you didn't have a very good relationship with your parents. I just can't see myself personally or any of my siblings saying that type of comment. Like I said. It's not like Seattle is a living hell. I've been to other parts of the world where maybe that comment may have some weight. But, not really. It was a weird comment, period. Seattle is still a very livable city compared to third world wastelands that are out there. And btw, my parents are WWII survivors from Guam. They endured probably one of the most horrific times that you could ever imagine!

Best city in USA ever.

@Frank_Castle08xx

4 жыл бұрын

Not anymore.

@jamesmitchell2074

4 жыл бұрын

I know right. My home has been ruined. I don't tell people I am from Seattle anymore

@michealortiz3350

2 жыл бұрын

Vote Democrat and thats what you get, FAILED CITIES.

@rexx9496

2 жыл бұрын

@@michealortiz3350 the move to rural Mississippi, you'd love it there.

@jegr3398

Ай бұрын

It was once...

Thanks for this video🐐

I am from Seattle. I was 6 years old when this was filmed.

I’ve recently left the Pacific Northwest after living there for my whole life, I decided to see how the big cities looked liked before I was born. The first few seconds I said out loud: “Dang I-5 looks empty.”

I wish traffic was like this nowadays. It'll make driving around in the area during the weekdays much more enjoyable. With so many people moving up here and causing these traffic jams to happen, it's impossible to enjoy life having to drive around freely.

Omg, he went from exit 157 to Seattle real quick, so much traffic now smh

@michealortiz3350

2 жыл бұрын

You democrats love open borders and illegal migration. Blame yourselves for all the traffic and high crime in today's Seattle.

@johncalhoob1582

2 жыл бұрын

Im from Seattle .

@chewyyo3383

2 жыл бұрын

@@johncalhoob1582 shoreline here

@johncalhoob1582

2 жыл бұрын

@@chewyyo3383 dont claim our city if you aren’t from here

@chewyyo3383

2 жыл бұрын

@@johncalhoob1582 did I ever say Seattle? You’re hella weird

Kurt❤❤

1:56 a shot from the opening scene of McQ, 20 years later. The old express lane sign is still there!

No CHAZ. Welcome to paradise

Now Seattle became south central LA Detroit, Oakland, New York and Wakanda together

@IWantATimeMachine0000

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Dems! 🤬

Video quality here is awesome

Omg looks exactly the same minus the dome it’s been long gone since then !

Seattle was beautiful till 90s

Wow, the time and birthplace of my favorite band Alice in Chains. Greetings from Chile ❤

Funny seeing the kingdome there , great video .

This is so vaporwave!

I came here for grunge

No internet, grunge is at it's peak, simple times.

@jackattack7940

3 жыл бұрын

Well there was internet, but at it's very early stages.

@noahthenomad

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackattack7940 only on "super computer" boxes the size of a fridge

@youmakenosense7437

2 жыл бұрын

@@noahthenomad I doubt you actually lived the 90s. Internet didn't need supercomputers anymore, the world wide web was just created and it allowed anyone with a home computer to connect with just about everything.

@noahthenomad

2 жыл бұрын

@@youmakenosense7437 didn't, I was born 21 years ago in 2001

@Blurrygil

Жыл бұрын

@@noahthenomad Yeah the internet was very much accessible at this point. AOL was in its infancy, but coming up. CompuServe and Prodigy were the current two biggest web service providers at the time, though they would cost a fairly hefty subscription price on top of getting a good enough modem and PC. But man, those early times of the internet (or the World Wide Web) were great times :)

This is crazy, just a few days before I was born in Seattle

Love this city

Oh my god 😭this is what I know about Seattle… I was 18 years old

Seattle have a late NBA team called the SuperSonics. Back in the '90s the SuperSonics were an awesome team. In 2008, the SuperSonics were moved to OKC and became the Thunder as a successor.

@patsalas5170

11 ай бұрын

Lol...I saw the Supersonics play the Trailblazers in Portland in 1971 😂❤

Wow, no HOV lane coming into town by Boeing Field. Too bad you missed the brewery. Was the R gone by then? I miss that Seattle. I just turned 26 a couple of days before this was shot and had just bought a small house off Sandpoint Way.

Awesome footage!

Looks perfect for that time, Supersonics are still there, the city is doing good

Wow the traffic is beautiful. I hate the traffic nowadays

@michealortiz3350

2 жыл бұрын

You're probably a Democrat who loves illegal immigration and open borders. If so blame yourself for all the traffic.

@stanburdick9708

Жыл бұрын

Good reason to stay the hell outta thier!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3:45 Not facing west. That is Lake Union and they are facing east and northeast...and that is I-5 not I-90... Bellevue Island? haha! probably meant Mercer Island.

@balsamwoods

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I get for a 23 yo being there for my first time there. ;) Hopefully I get some kudos for knowing some landmarks. It's been a while since I've been to Seattle so I need to make a refresher tour. The following year I went back and took a tour of the Kingdome: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6Jo3KxtnMieYrQ.html

LLAG LLDO Seattle Legends🕊

Did u all know ray Charles actually lived in Seattle for a bit and was involved in the jazz scene in the late 40s? Seattle and Washington state in general has always been fascinating to me. Very beautiful mix of terrain. It also gets this mysterious vibe bc the state is kinda isolated in the corner of the country... Visited many times but haven't been since 2017... Last time I went was just depressing... It's time to clean the streets.

@patsalas5170

11 ай бұрын

❤.. my very first concert was in October 1968...Ray Charles was at the Seattle center ❤...I was from san diego ca but was in Tacoma at the university of puget sound 😊

@johnrotten3268

11 ай бұрын

@@patsalas5170 very cool 👍

Still looks the same haha I go through that freeway alot

Beautiful 🌷🌹

Downtown Seattle looks so small compared to now.

I want to go back

@michaelmapes4119

2 жыл бұрын

No you don't....Trust me....Was born and raised in the area....

@THATREALBREW

19 күн бұрын

Ya sure don’t! Everything and I mean everything is different now… That feeling you knew and that you feel in love with is long gone!

Cool a time capsule

Imagine how much cleaner it was back then!!!

back when it was actually a nice place to reside

C.Cornell still had long curly hair 🖤

Does anyone know what song is on the radio 0:14? I would be grateful

@seulgi67

Жыл бұрын

you found out? :(

@jegr3398

Ай бұрын

Finally figured this out. It's James Taylor - Shower The People. Right at the end of the song. Find the video of that song and skip to like 3:55 of the song, that's what we're hearing on the radio in the car here.

That traffic on I-5 looked doable to drive in. Today I avoid I-5 as much as possible. Traffic here is now HORRENDOUS.

@balsamwoods

3 жыл бұрын

Some day I should go back (maybe next year for a 30th anniversary?) and shoot the same footage. Not looking forward to the traffic..or the politics of modern Seattle.

@michealortiz3350

2 жыл бұрын

@@balsamwoods it's a liberal shithole, don't go back, it's depressing.

ALICE IN CHAINS

Unrecognizable

3:54 >looking at i5 >"that's the main highway 90 that heads out to uhh...Bellevue Island" almost

@balsamwoods

5 жыл бұрын

That's what you get when you're a tourist visiting for the first time. ;)

@zackhartmann

5 жыл бұрын

@@balsamwoods 😁😁

@zackhartmann

5 жыл бұрын

excellent footage btw

@jadedhula

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't help but laugh at the "Bellevue Island" comment as well. I am from Seattle originally and now live north of Seattle. It isn't my city any more. It's ruined by people who think it is the promised land. #PleaseGoHome

@zackhartmann

5 жыл бұрын

@@jadedhula I think there are still hidden gems out there, perhaps moreso in the places people tend to consider "undesirable"

Crazy

The skyline was way smaller back then

Could I please have your permission to use a few seconds of your footage (without audio) for a video I'm making about Seattle in the 80s & 90s?

Seattle 2021 not looking this good at the moment :(

@michealortiz3350

2 жыл бұрын

Blame the democrats for that.

Did you capture a ufo starting at 44 seconds going for about 10 seconds looks like metallic orb

@jegr3398

2 ай бұрын

There's also a black helicopter flying low at 0:14

I love this city

@mizzle2264

5 жыл бұрын

I hate it

@maxsilver8148

4 жыл бұрын

@@mizzle2264 why?

Hi! Are you the original owner of this video? I am looking for the copyright holder. Thanks!

Roads still look the same to this day

@jegr3398

2 ай бұрын

Lot more cars though

The Kingdome...

lol no one is looking down at there smart phones in this video folks.

Am I hearing Ann Wilson's lovely voice on the radio?

👍🏻

Nirvana!

You should have stopped by mom and dad's in Ballard, we could have playing basketball

I love this video you still can stabiluze it

Did you know anyone named Demri Parrott?

@tomwalkingstick5395

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 how would they?

@BushyHairedStranger

9 ай бұрын

Hung out with Demri up on Capitol Hill in 1993,..getting high. I had a place on 17th & Cherry & my connection was up at the end of Broadway so we hung up there most of the time…staying up for 3-4 days then pop a 2mg of Klonopin and sleep 14 hours, get up & do it again…

@EmoryLandswk

7 ай бұрын

​@BushyHairedStranger you are part of the problem fhen

@BushyHairedStranger

7 ай бұрын

@@EmoryLandswk that was 30 years ago! Few of us are even still alive! those who continued using died, went to prison or are in mental institutions. I stopped that life as it was getting way to violent…

Everett, Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia is crowded with people. Too many people for me which is why I dont live in any of these cities anymore. It didnt use to be that way. I cant imagine what it will be like in 2050. Im glad I wont be around to see it. Theres way too many people in the world today as it is.

Pearl Jam rules!!!!!!

Where’s the traffic??? Oh yeah, this was well before Amazon took over. I bet this city was really cool in 92.

@patsalas5170

11 ай бұрын

It was the best in early 70s ❤❤

@FlintYeastwood

2 ай бұрын

Depends on who you ask. Some say yes others say no. I’ve heard people say Seattle in the 90s sucked.

2023, Seattle looks pretty much the same as 1992

@jegr3398

2 ай бұрын

No. Nothing like it.

The prior yrs before the wonderful town was destroyed and turned to $hit......how terrible😡

I don’t miss the King Dome.

I moved here in 91. I'm leaving here in 2020. 3 am traffic jams, homeless camps like Calcutta, rampant crime, feces in the streets, corrupt police, a complete disregard for the Constitution, and a socialist on the city council. I'm moving back to America. Mt Rainier can bury Seattle and nothing of value would be lost. Once I leave, that is.

@paranoidplane9799

4 жыл бұрын

Rampant capitalism and consumerism is what ruined Seattle,just ask Bezos.

@balsamwoods

4 жыл бұрын

Seattle and most coastal cities have been ruined by rampant socialist policies.

@TheVideomaker2341

4 жыл бұрын

Nature Cams Channel I’m a young person but I totally agree with you. Commies are ruling these big cities.

@TheVideomaker2341

4 жыл бұрын

Dave Cooke Hah, my grandmother was raised in Calcutta. But I agree, our biggest cities, including Seattle, are a sh*tty cesspool now.

@peytonmcg414

3 жыл бұрын

No one wanted your bald ass anyway🤣

Seattle SUCKS.

@bogonzales672

5 жыл бұрын

It didn't in '92. It's crap now. Ruined!

@jimbean6579

4 жыл бұрын

Seattle sucks ass now

@richardkronberg4925

2 жыл бұрын

Now yes.

@ricardomr.reporte5819

Жыл бұрын

Suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered suckered

@ricardomr.reporte5819

Жыл бұрын

Hey dude man what mess up mad 😠 😡 😤 😣 😾 🤬 😠 😡 😤 😣 😾 🤬 😠 😡