Seattle 1962

At the Monorail Station September 1962.

Fifty years ago, in a Seattle Times article entitled Talking Books Will Entertain, Inform 'Readers' in Century 21, writers, teachers and booksellers gathered to examine the future of the book. Many of their predictions from this report in the five-part World's Fair souvenir edition on Space Age Frontiers are quite visionary—while others, such as having a fully-automated future with an abundance of idle time—are just outright laughable. Read on... Click on this article above for easy reading…

The cover to a small pamphlet produced by your local Flying A dealer. There is a stamp on the back: Dale & Jim's 641 Queen Anne Ave. Seattle 9, Wash AT. 4-1825

Here’s a postcard showing the old Monorail terminal and some shops on 4th and Pine. And below is the Google Street View of the same(ish) view.

June 1–October 16, 1909: Seattle’s first world’s fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, takes place (see photo above). 1954: City Council member Al Rochester proposes the idea that Seattle host a world’s fair to mark the 50th anniversary of the A-Y-P. February 19, 1957: The World’s Fair Commission receives authorization from Washington Governor Albert Rosellini to hold…

The Seattle World's Fair of 1962 celebrated Century 21, offering a vision of the future to 10 million visitors and defining Seattle as a city of innovation. Structural engineers contributed to this v

Item 165654, City Light Photographic Negatives (Record Series 1204-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.

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Eye of the Needle Menu Space Needle Seattle 1962

Elvis signing autographs during the shooting at Seattle.

Let’s climb aboard the Alweg Monorail in Downtown Seattle and take a trip back to the 1962 World’s Fair: Man in the Space Age. The Century 21 Exposition brought the first World’s Fair in North America since 1940 and the...

Seattle telephone directory cover, 1962.

Monorail at Westlake Station, Seattle World's Fair, 1962

Old Seattle

Date: December 1956 Location: State Route 99, Seattle, Washington Source: Seattle Municipal Archives, via Vintage Seattle What do you see here? Related VehiclesView All

World's Fair signage in downtown Seattle, 1962

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