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Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
The history, landmarks, and stories along US 2 westbound from Gold Bar to Everett, timed to the drive interchange by interchange. Spoken by Sal and Peggy.
Episodes
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
Homeacres Road — The Long Trestle
Sal: Between Interstate Five and Homeacres Road. Sal: Between Everett and Ebey Island, the highway rides the Hewitt Avenue Trestle across the Snohomish River…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
State Route Two-Oh-Four — The Sunken Island
Sal: Between Homeacres Road and State Route Two-Oh-Four. Sal: Out on the trestle, the road crosses Ebey Island, a large island in the middle of the Snohomish…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
Bickford Avenue — A Vowel Drifts
Sal: Between State Route Two-Oh-Four and Bickford Avenue. Sal: At the east end of the trestle, State Route Two-Oh-Four connects this highway to Lake Stevens…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
State Route Nine — The Fourteen-Year Bypass
Sal: Between Bickford Avenue and State Route Nine. Sal: Near Bickford Avenue, this highway is the Snohomish bypass, a two-lane expressway that loops north and…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
Eighty-Eighth Street Southeast — Cadyville on the Pilchuck
Sal: Between State Route Nine and Eighty-Eighth Street Southeast. Sal: State Route Nine crosses here on its route between Woodinville and Lake Stevens. Just…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
State Route Five-Twenty-Two — Fairgrounds and the Farm
Sal: Between Eighty-Eighth Street Southeast and State Route Five-Twenty-Two. Sal: This stretch runs through farm country on the Snohomish River valley floor…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
State Route Two-Oh-Three — Tye City and Wales
Sal: Between State Route Five-Twenty-Two and State Route Two-Oh-Three. Sal: State Route Five-Twenty-Two ends here, the expressway that links Monroe with…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
Sultan — Condensery and Reformatory
Sal: Between State Route Two-Oh-Three and Sultan. Sal: State Route Two-Oh-Three follows the Snoqualmie River toward Fall City and North Bend, meeting US 2 at…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
Startup — Seventeen Saloons
Sal: Between Sultan and Startup. Sal: At Sultan, the Sultan River joins the Skykomish at the foot of the town's First Street. Before American settlement, the…
- Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
Gold Bar — Mail and Mountains
Sal: Between Startup and Gold Bar. Sal: This is the upper Skykomish Valley. Pioneer F. M. Sparling homesteaded the area in the 1880s, and after he married in…