Vintage Edmonds

02/15/2024

“Happy Valentine’s Day!” ❤️

12/14/2023

Bridget Hanley, a 1959 Edmonds High graduate who was best known for her role on the ABC television series Here Come the Brides, passes away in Dec. 2021. Her family donated the log cabin that now serves as the downtown Edmonds Visitors Center. The Hanleys had purchased some property from Gaston Ganahl in 1945 in Seaview Heights area. Ganahl built another home for himself on the remaining property, now the site of Seaview Elementary School. Along with the main house, the property came with a small log cabin that Ganahl had built in 1931.

Bridget Hanley, a 1959 Edmonds High graduate who was best known for her role on the ABC television series Here Come the Brides, and whose family donated the log cabin...

09/24/2023

I stumbled upon this video made of early Edmonds. My Grandmother, Adrienne “Dot” Swanson wrote about childhood in early Edmonds in the last 8 minutes of the video. What a treat to hear her name and writings! I knew her best friend was “Eleanor Milholland” I never knew she was the Edmonds Founder, George Brackett’s Granddaughter. The name of Edmonds was misspelled by a town clerk? North end of town referred to as New Sweden? The Edmonds Library now our Museum on 5th was built as a gift from Andrew Carnegie?! Enjoy…. ⛴️ 🚂 ☕️ 🎭 🌅❣️

Produced by Nathan Proudfoot (Natfoot) and the Edmonds Historical Museum in 2001. This video was used as a Graduation and Eagle Scout Project. The intended ...

07/18/2023

Imagine starting your formal education by sitting on a bench alongside another student in a room filled with bags of oats, hay and the fresh smell of harnesses. There were only five other students in the class, and two of them were your siblings. That is how the Edmonds School District started. Edmo...

12/01/2022

Main Street Fountain ~ Edmonds, WA. circa 1970-1980's.

07/14/2022

Found this picture in a box of old family photos.... my Great Grandfather, Irving "Tink" Anderson, Edmonds 1902. His nickname was Tink because he was always tinkering on something. He and my Great Grandmother married in Edmonds in 1901. In this picture he’s holding his first child Dorothea, followed by my Grandmother Adrienne and his only son Guy Anderson who became an artist that Life Magazine would later refer to as a NW Mystic.
One of my Great Grandfather Tink’s earliest jobs was working in a Shingle Mill down on the beach (same era as this picture) just below Sunset Avenue. He loved music and could play any instrument by ear and was instrumental in starting Edmond’s first Marching Band. He did many different trades in his life, worked at a Shingle Mill, Yost Auto, a Boat builder, Construction and later becoming an Edmonds City Councilman.

08/11/2021

Did you know you can step inside an original jail cell on the lower floor of the Edmonds Museum?! The cell is complete with two bunks, a sink, toilet and original graffiti on the walls—was constructed in 1922 when the Edmonds Police Department was located in the Carnegie Library and City Hall building now the Edmonds Museum. My Dad said they use to call it the drunk tank! Don't ask me how he knows that... 😏

08/11/2021

"Happy Birthday Edmonds!" 131 years.
Incorporated August 11, 1890
1st City in Snohomish County
Thanks for the reminder, Denise Cooper!

08/11/2021

Yost workers from the Yost Mill, circa 1905. Mayor James Brady in the background wearing fedora hat. Irving "Tink" Anderson (my great grandfather) front and center. Helped start the first Edmonds City Band in 1910 and later sat on the Edmonds City Council in the 1930's.

05/06/2021

Believe it or not, the Edmonds waterfront beach used to be made up of almost all sawmills. The first one was built by George Brackett himself in 1889. The last mill standing was the Quality Shingle Mill which closed in 1951. (info/photo credit: Edmonds Museum)
Photo 1: Early Edmonds waterfront shingle mills, c. 1908-1912
Photo 2: First sawmill built in Edmonds, 1889
Photo 3: Quality Shingle Mill; Edmonds’ last shingle mill, March 1953

05/06/2021

The 1922 Championship Trophy for the Snohomish County Basketball League. Both the Edmonds High School Boys and Girls teams were the Champions for that year. (info/photo credit: Edmonds Museum)
Photo 1: E.H.S. Championship Girls Basketball Team, 1922 (Yes, that's my Grandmother! Adrienne "Dot" Swanson, front row 2nd from the right)

05/06/2021

The original Edmonds railroad depot opened in November 1910 after much controversy. The railroad came to Edmonds in 1891 and a station was built on the west side of the tracks away from downtown. After a formal investigation by the Washington State Railroad Commission of stations across Snohomish County, the courts ordered the Great Northern Railroad to improve their depots. Originally, the new building was meant to be at James Street but the Chamber of Commerce intervened believing the station should be closer to town. In November 1910 the Great Northern moved into its new depot, bringing to fruition a long campaign by the Chamber of Commerce to locate a station near Main Street. This building remained until 1956, when a new building was built next to it and it was demolished on December 27, 1956. (info/photo credit: Edmonds Museum)

Photo 1: Edmonds Great Northern Railroad Station.
Photo 2: Edmonds Railroad Depot demolition, December 27, 1956
Photo 3: Edmonds Railroad Depot built in 1956, between 1971 and 1999