The Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, USA The hexagonal platform just below the top of the legs is a maintenance platform, not a permanent part of the Needle. ...

The Seattles Space Needle. ...Space Needle, built for the Century 21 Exposition.

The Century 21 Exposition was a Worlds Fair is the generic name for various large expositions held since the mid 19th century. ...World's Fair held in City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   _ Total   _ Land   _ Water   _ % water 369. ...Seattle, Washington in 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...1962.

The fair was planned to leave behind a Ferris wheel Amusement park is the more generic term for a collection of amusement rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. ...fairground and numerous public buildings and public works; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle's economic and cultural life (see WWII and the Boeing Era: 1945 _ 1970 From World War II until 1970, Seattle underwent what amounted to a long, sustained economic boom, although not without occasional reverses. ...History of Seattle since 1940).

The fair saw the construction of the Seattles Space Needle. ...Space Needle and The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated monorail line in Seattle, Washington, that runs one mile along Fifth Avenue from Westlake Center in Downtown to Seattle Center in Lower Queen Anne. ...Alweg monorail, as well as several sports venues and performing arts buildings (most of which have since either been replaced or heavily remodeled since that time). The site (slightly expanded since the fair) is now called called Center House, Seattle Center Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ...Seattle Center; the United States Pavilion is now the The Pacific Science Center is a science museum in Seattle, Washington. ...Pacific Science Center. Another notable building in Seattle Center, the Sign advertising the opening of EMP A view of EMPs southeast corner The Experience Music Project (EMP) is a museum of music history founded by Paul Allen, located on the campus of Seattle, Washingtons Seattle Center, which places it near the Space Needle and one of the two...Experience Music Project, made a deliberate attempt to fit in with the fairground atmosphere, but actually dates from nearly 40 years later.

Nearly ten million people attended the fair. President Order: 35th President Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson Term of office: January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 Preceded by: Dwight D. Eisenhower Succeeded by: Lyndon B. Johnson Date of birth: May 29, 1917 Place of birth: Brookline, Massachusetts Date of death: November 22, 1963 Place of death: Dallas, Texas First...John F. Kennedy was supposed to attend the closing ceremony of the fair on October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ...October 21, 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...1962. He bowed out, pleading a "heavy cold"; it later became public that he was dealing with the The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. ...Cuban Missile Crisis.[1]  (http://www.historylink.org/-output.CFM?file-ID=967)

The fair and the city were the setting of the Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as The King of Rock and Roll, or as just simply The King, was an American singer who had an immeasurable effect on world culture. ...Elvis Presley movie It Happened at the Worlds Fair is a 1963 musical film starring Elvis Presley as a cropdusting pilot. ...It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) with a young Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American actor. ...Kurt Russell making his first screen appearance.

The fair's Bell Telephone exhibit was featured in a short film called "Century 21 Calling", which was later shown on From left to right, Crow T. Robot, Joel Robinson, and Tom Servo. ...Mystery Science Theater 3000.

External links

• A "cybertour" of the exposition (http://www.historylink.org/cybertour/index.cfm?file-id=7042)
• "Seattle History: A Fair to Remember (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/worldsfair/)", a 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...40th anniversary report from the The daily Seattle Post_Intelligencer is the second leading newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. ...Seattle Post_Intelligencer