Seattle worlds fair

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...

Century 21 Exposition in 1962

Details of a first day of issue envelope for a stamp released on April 25, 1962 during the Fair.

World's Fair, Seattle, 1962. Space Needle looking awesome.

Seattle telephone directory cover, 1962.

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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…

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In the winter of 1962, my Cub Scout den had taken a field trip to the top of the Smith Tower, then one of the tallest buildings west of the Mississippi. We went to the observation deck, where we had an unobstructed view across downtown to a strange spire that was rising near Queen Anne…

It's not just a county fair, it's not just a Europe fair, but a World's Fair!!!

Add pulled from 1962 issue of Sunset Magazine.

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

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A map of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair grounds. Taken from an Enco Gasoline map/pamphlet called "Guide to the Northwest". The Key: Blue = International Commerce and Industry Green = Domestic Commerce and Industry Pink = Amusements, Concessions Brown = Boulevards of the World

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Ah, spring. You are here. Which means I should be planning our summer travel now. Despite the uber-organized facade I present (ha ha), I am not much of an advanced planner. And every summer, it gets us stuck. Once, it was three hours of scouring campgrounds from Leavenworth to North Bend for an empty campsite […]

A snapshot from May of 1962 of the Science Pavilion arches during the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, Washington.