Postcard - Everett, Washington

"Boeing Company, World's Largest Building, Everett, Washington. Nestled in the shadows of magnificent Mt. Baker and the Cascade Mountains is this 205,000,000 cu. ft. (volume) assembly building for the BOEING 747 -- World's Largest Commercial Jet Liner. It is 115 ft. high (ten stories), covers 42.8 acres under one roof and measures more than 1/4 mile in either direction. Each door shown in front wall is 87 ft. x 300 ft. -- nearly half the surface of a city block."

From 1979.

Everett native and presidential candidate Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, who served as a powerful U.S. Senator had a reputation as a Vietnam War hawk but was liberal on social issues. Locally we called him "The Senator from Boeing."