Carl and Nadine Lind have been named the 2015 Fall City Day Grand Marshalls. The couple have made their home in Fall City for the past 45 years, raising a family, working at local businesses and helping visitors to the area sometimes with information, sometimes with a photo and occasionally, with a tire change.

The early part of their lives together was where they put on the miles.

Carl grew up in Seattle and Nadine was born in Waldron, Ark., and moved to Yakima when she was 8 or 9 years old. At 17, she visited Seattle in 1955, where she met Carl, then 20, at a stoplight.

“I looked to the left and there sat a really cute young man,” said Nadine, “but I continued to look around being it was my first time to see Seattle.”

She saw him again later that day, at Dick’s Drive-In, and again at Green Lake Park, where Carl was still trying to catch up with her.

Nadine said she’d decided to go for a walk by herself in the park, and soon heard footsteps behind her. She heard a voice say “Could you wait up?” and turned around to see that cute young man from Dick’s Drive-in. She waited.

Later, at a party they were both attending Carl asked, “Could I drive over and visit you?” Nadine said he could.

Carl drove his white 1953 Lincoln Capri with extended fenders and continental kit from Seattle to Yakima every other weekend for almost a year.

Then he said, “Honey, we are either going to have to get married or break up, because I’m wearing out my car.”

They still have that car. They’ve been married 59 years.

The couple began their married life in Ballard, where Carl worked at the Plywood Plant. They had five sons Brian, Cal, Dana, Alan, Dale and a daughter, Diane, when they moved to Fall City in 1970.

All of their children continue to live in the Northwest, and as a family they see each other often. Alan owns the Last Frontier Saloon. The couple has 11 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

Carl was a paper boy around age 7, delivering the Seattle Times around his neighborhood by riding his horse, Snow Ball. As an adult, he mainly worked construction in downtown Seattle, for Nelms Mortenson, Hoffman and Sellen. He took great pride in always being to work on time, never taking leave and working all the hours he could get.

“In fact, at one time I had the most earned time off hours on the union books,” he said.

Nadine worked for many years as a cook at the Colonial Inn and the Fall City Grill when her daughter Diane was part owner. She also worked at a Montessori school for son Dana’s business, Sunstrand and a fish processing plant.

The couple play tour guide at Snoqualmie Falls. Nadine takes pictures and mails them to the tourists. They love to help stranded people.

Carl remembers, “One time I helped a man with a flat tire. I went and got my jack, took him to get some money and then to get a tire. I just like helping people.”