D Vautier
4/2016
In 1947 our family moved to Everett, Wa. by 1950 this became the city of my youth and my mind started to function. I began to follow major league base ball, i began to build things like telescopes and microscopes, I began to read about atoms and physics. But most of all I listened to music and went to movies.
We had a local radio station KRKO which i listened to every night on my crystel radio set until it signed off at 12 pm every night. It used a recording: "KRKO operates on an assigned carrier frequency of 1480 kilohurts with a power of 1000 watts. On behalf of the staff and management of KRKO have a good night." Then they would play the national anthem. There were three stations in Seattle that required a stronger radio to pick up. They were KOMO, KVI and KJR. Everyone listened to KJR which had 24/7 DJs that played the latest popular music. The other Seattle stations were only good for news.
Everett had one daily paper, the Everett Daily Harold down on Hewitt Avenue.
For a kid movies cost 20 cents. Today movies cost 100 times that. ioe50 Everett had four movie theaters: The Roxy, Everett, Granada and the Balboa. Each was easily within walking distance from our house at 2317 Grand. The Roxy and Everett movies faced each other on Colby just beyond Hewitt Ave. My favorite was the Roxy.
The Balboa closed in 1953 for a worthless Bon Marche's men's shop.
June, 1951: Rosemary the elephant arrives at Forest Park.