Lifelong Edmonds Resident: It Would Take a Stick of Dynamite to Get me Out of Edmonds

Howard Leyda hasn't lived all of his life in Edmonds. 

There was the three months, he explains, when he lived in Seattle after he first got married.

"When I found an apartment in Edmonds I moved right back," he told Patch on Friday.

The 80-year-old Leyda was born in a house on Sunset Avenue in Edmonds. His father, who moved to Edmonds in 1902, had it built, and Leyda says he was lucky to grow up there.

Although he now lives a few miles away, he returns to walk on the street overlooking Puget Sound "all the time."

"My wife says it would probably take a stick of dynamite to get me out of Edmonds," he said. "It's a great town."