My family moved from Seattle to Bothell in 1958 where I started 7th grade at Anderson Junior High School that fall, and I have lived in the Bothell area ever since; except for 4 years in the Marine Corps from 1964 to 1968.
As expected the Bothell area has changed tremendously over the years. It’s fun to look back sometimes and remember how the changes came about. For some reason I remember the Avon Theater very clearly, I think because the first movie I saw there was Thunder Road with Robert Mitchum. It had plenty of action for that time period and it was just when guys my age were getting seriously interested in cars.
I remember when the theater moved across the street and the Safeway came in. There was also a lot of controversy when the Safeway opened, because they wanted a bakery in the store but the Bothell City Councel wouldn’t let them, because they wanted to protect the Hilcreast Bakery, the one and only bakery in Bothell.
That Safeway store was wear I got one of my very first jobs, after having a Seattle Times paper route first. It’s too bad that the city of Bothell wasn’t interested in saving the Avon building, but I guess that’s progress.
My family moved from Seattle to Bothell in 1958 where I started 7th grade at Anderson Junior High School that fall, and I have lived in the Bothell area ever since; except for 4 years in the Marine Corps from 1964 to 1968.
As expected the Bothell area has changed tremendously over the years. It’s fun to look back sometimes and remember how the changes came about. For some reason I remember the Avon Theater very clearly, I think because the first movie I saw there was Thunder Road with Robert Mitchum. It had plenty of action for that time period and it was just when guys my age were getting seriously interested in cars.
I remember when the theater moved across the street and the Safeway came in. There was also a lot of controversy when the Safeway opened, because they wanted a bakery in the store but the Bothell City Councel wouldn’t let them, because they wanted to protect the Hilcreast Bakery, the one and only bakery in Bothell.
That Safeway store was wear I got one of my very first jobs, after having a Seattle Times paper route first. It’s too bad that the city of Bothell wasn’t interested in saving the Avon building, but I guess that’s progress.