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Yes, Seattle was one swaggering city of Space Age superlatives when it put on the 1962 World’s Fair. The excitement and hype had been building for years when The Seattle Times on April 8 ...
This is the last of a five-part series on the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. The series revisits The Seattle Times’ souvenir edition that was published before the fair ...
Through the years the fair shed the Century 21 name and was remembered simply as the Seattle World's Fair. It was also remembered for the introduction of the monorail to generations of Seattleites ...
AlamedaInfo.com has some very cool postcards from the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, also known as the Century 21 Exposition. Many of the postcards feature the main attractions of the Space Needle ...
Did it really make a difference? Was the future all it was cracked up to be? That a modern world’s fair would be held in Seattle in 1962 was, in many ways, absurd. It could have been very different.
The Seattle World’s Fair officially began 60 years ago tomorrow ... As early as January 1962, in a local column/advertisement that appeared in The Seattle Times and that was sponsored by ...
The 1962 Seattle World's Fair introduced technological innovations that seemed out of reach at the time, but would eventually become a part of every day life. Some of the ground breaking gadgets ...
Today Seattle Center launches a newly published book, The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy, as it announces some major program elements of The Next Fifty celebrating ...
KCTS 9. Premiering February, 2012; visit kcts.org for show times This documentary compiles vintage video recordings and historical photographs to tell the story of the 1962 World’s Fair and how it ...
The Seattle World’s Fair of 1962 brought us Seattle’s most iconic structure, the Space Needle. Also known as the Century 21 Exposition there is much to examine for those interested in the ...
The pens are exactly the same as those sold in 1962, the only difference ... for sale for $10 at all 58 Bartell Drugs locations. A Seattle man was charged late last week as the ringleader for ...