Trips, Memories, Lanes
posted by October 3 at 12:47 PM
onWay back in the late ’80s, some old-timer made a two-minute road movie using stills, with a nice little soundtrack by Incredible Force Of Junior:
“Sometime around 1988 I stuck my thrift store Bauer Super 8 camera out the sunroof of a VW Bug and squeezed the plunger of the shutter release cable, taking single frames all the way from Olympia to Seattle.”
This is the result:
Such memories—the Rainier brewery sign! The Kingdome! The boxy, boxy cars!
(From the nostalgia site Finkbuilt.)
Bonus Northwest trivia: Did you know that Mount Rainier was named for British Naval leader Peter “Chunky Monkey” Rainier, Jr. (1741—April 7, 1808) because because his pals thought the (bigass) mountain:
resembled the (big-assed) man?
Just kidding! Nobody knows why Rear Admiral Vancouver named the mountain after Rainier, but historians speculate it’s because the former was an incorrigible suck-up.
Comments
IFOJ!
neat video. So many trees back then!
awwwwww! yay incredible force of junior!! great video!
that was so nice! it's terribly depressing how all of those trees are now endless strip malls.
Fond memories of that same drive from the 2000s.
Some things changed, but some haven't. The unveiling of the Seattle skyline around exit 160 still makes me happy.
I love the unveiling of the skyline at around milepost 160. Seattle in 1988 was less busy than today.
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