Esther Youngblood (center) and two friends and two ponies are ready for participation in Bothell’s July 4th Parade, according to the note on the back of this photo. No date is given, but the girls’ apparel, together with the fairly new sidewalks (which were a WPA project in the late 1930s) probably date the photo in the early 1940s. The picture looks northeast on Main Street. The First Methodist Church is in the upper right, at the corner of Main and 2nd (today called 102nd Avenue NE).
