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I moved to Seattle in 76 spent a lot of time their its sad that' they took out most of the rides sold them off

I was there at age 11, having traveled all the way from Maine to see it. I, too, had a Viewmaster and made a point of collecting slides from every place I visited, from civil war battlefields to the world's fair. I remember feeling slightly anxious about the future they were portraying there. A weird mixture of optimism and foreboding. Of course, we couldn't have predicted what a shitshow the 21st century would actually turn out to be.

One of my favorite memories of growing up in the Seattle area during the late 70s was a group of Japanese tourists that were trying to take a group photo in front of the International Fountain in Seattle Center. My friend and I watched them get into position next to the dome in front of the spraying fountain. Just as the photographer seemed to tell everyone to say "Hai, Chiizu",("cheese", in Japanese) the water stopped. I elbowed my friend and said, "watch this". They all turned to see what happened when the spray changed direction and soaked them all. We nearly fell into the fountain ourselves while laughing.

I enjoyed the video ! My dad would take us to the fountain to play around and in it . We could walk over the rough rocks to the fountain orb and run back when the water started coming ip and out . It also played classical music. I loved running around the outer rim ! The Flag pavilion was fun too. He would pay us a coin for the first one to find the flag he would name . There was an art museum there too. Ringling Brothers and Barnamum Bailey's Circus 🎪 was a big deal too and it would be at the Colluseum. Great memories ! I also remember taking the monorail atleast 1 time with two friends who wanted to see Black Sabbath and I think it was Van Halen who accompanied them . It was back around 78-79 in the Arena . Memory lane !

I worked at the Seattle Center for 8.5 years from 1989 to 1998. I worked on the redevelopment project that reconstructed the Coliseum, the fountain, and the Flag Pavilion during my tenure. I saw under the old fountain and the roofs of many buildings including the Coliseum. I worked with the trades and project management to improve the maintenance of the systems and structures before and after their improvements. I was part of the planning to demolish the fun forest, but I left the Seattle Center before the work on the Chihuly museum started. I rode the monorail almost every day and enjoyed every festival and the monorail for free as an employee. I was present for the 30th anniversary of the center and still possess the commemorative stamps made for that event.

I remember playing in the fountain as a kid before the redesign in 95. My cousin fell and got cut on the rocks below. We had to pull her up.

I was there. My dad drove us out from Chicago.What I remember most about the fair are the large number of people and the long lines. We were too tired to wait in the Space Needle line. But, I finally got to go up there after Boeing moved me here in 1973. I also remember the gas station made of a big cowboy hat with a pair of cowboy boots for the toilets. There were no freeways back then. The main road into town was Highway 99. Another highlight of the trip was a day of fishing out at Westport. My dad caught 7 Salmon and a Halibut; I had my first experience with sea sickness.🤮

I still own a Viewmaster and have those same reels ! My Dad took me down there to see the Space Needle being built. I was born in 1955. Saw many great concerts later in the Coluseum..Our parents would let us take the bus from Ballard to "The Center" to attend awesome concerts like Creedence Clearwater...Grand Funk Railroad...Led Zeppelin..and many others. Walking in that building was magical. Always smelled of pot smoke!! We would sit around the fountain on warm Summer nights before taking the bus home. I always wondered whay that picture of the women in their dressing room was included on that reel. Now I get it !! Great video !!!

This was an awesome video!

Mildly put...the advent of our 1962 World's Fair in Seattle...was the most impactful civic event of the last half of the 20th Century!...I am now 78 years old, and was 15 when the Fair showed up. That "Century 21" themed fair instilled in me, and many thousands of future Seattle area Boomers, a sense of excitement and pride. It was astonishing at the time, that Seattle could even get permission from the World's Fair bigshots, to host a real World's Fair. Eddie Carlson was a classic Seattle business "hustler", who talked civic leaders into his prescient vision for our city of approximately 500,000 West Coast souls! I could tell you so much more about the Fair. But may I recommend a book, by a local journalist named Don Duncan, who truly nailed the advent, and ultimately, the spirit of Seattle in those naive, but optimistic times! One quick story of interest. A family friend-a German man who had been in Hitler's Army, but managed after WW2, to relocate to Seattle, had met a pretty German gal, aged 19, who was the hostess at the Germany exhibit!...Yup, even though he was 50'ish, he was a suave dude, and he proceeded to have an affair with that woman...who continued to write love letters to him, after she tearfully returned to Germany! Pretty hot stuff, for my then 15yo brain to process! Also, I cherish a six-pack set of drinking glasses, embossed with the official Seattle World's Fair logo! They were sold for quite a few years at the fairgrounds, but I believe they now are collectable-kinda!

You may want to look at several of “ Michelle Gibson” s You Tube videos. She has many and these are exceptionally well researched and presented. This overlaps your work , regarding world’s fairs. Many many worlds fairs and older towns were taken down by fires ( far too many to just be coincidence ) and the mud floods ( hidden technology that basically turns land into a more lava like state). Her videos are each fascinating and should be shown in high schools and colleges. We have been lied to about EVERYTHING and Gibson is able to uncover some of the true history with the buildings and infrastructure as evidence of an untold history. In your video here , at 9:49 , in the near field , atop a building , is a very clear SPIDER structure. I assume a statue. If you search around a bit you can find massive spider statues, usually black in color in many cities all over the world .Why? Ask any well read conspiracy truther and you will find that these are symbols of the dark / negative NWO / cabal / Satanists/ Illuminati et al . Dark energies indeed. Much more to learn about cities such as energetic ley lines and why govt buildings and churches are built upon them. Could it be for siphoning energies ? Yep. It is not a coincidence that, as you pointed out, corporations were funding concepts of the future. You may wish to watch “ Fall Cabal “ series on Bitchute. The overlords of this world are NOT human and they see us as their mind controlled slaves. NOT kidding. Research for yourself.

In 1962, I was patiently waiting to be born to the proper set of parents (who turned out to be less than, but I won't go any further than that). I did get to see the World's Fair as Elvis Presley saw it - and it was quite the adventure.....everything from a ruined dinner date to the male ego rearing its ugly head upon finding out who bought the boat to temporarily taking care of a little girl 😂

Underrated channel. Nice work!

liberals have destroyed seattle... lawlessness, crime and homelessness prevail now. what a shame/waste... this is why socialism and communism build nothing. they just destroy.

AWESOME VIDEO BRO,,?😂🎉❤

It was interesting to see the View-Master images from 1951 St. Louis. 1951 is a little before my time, but I was alive for the construction of the Arch and got to see its slow skyward march in weekly increments as we traveled past it to visit my grandparents. The Arch itself is dramatic and beautiful, and it certainly is better than the parking lots created when the area was initially demolished. I’ve heard speculation that perhaps the area could have evolved into something like the French Quarter in New Orleans, but unless someone invents a Time Machine we will never know. Thanks for the video.

I was there. Besides the science center, monorail, and Space Needle, among the vendors was a Belgian waffle one with strawberries and whipped cream. The lines were l-o-n-g. After that, everyone wanted a Belgian waffle maker for home, and now you can hardly find a traditional thin waffle maker. 😂

I graduated from Chief Sealth high school in 1962. Loved the fair and visited often.❤

Great overview! I was born after the fair, but got to ride the skyway, monorail and saw most of the original buildings. My family all went. I still have souvenirs I got from them. Spent a lot of time growing up at Seattle Center.

Pacific Science Center / United States Pavilion, had same architect as the World Trade Center.

Your production exceeded our expectations. It was professional and insightful.

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I went too world fair I'm 66 I remember the bubble elevator

Imagine being inspired by technology and progress and hopeful for the future humanity rather than being terrified and traumatized in anticipation of an unsafe unaffordable corporate controlled authoritarian societal collapse and economic and environmental apocalypse. It was a different time

Great video. Thanks for sharing it 🎉

What happened to seattle. Demo marxism

Interesting. I loved my view master. Look into the lasting damage of TCE contaminants left in Beaverton Oregon. That would be a compelling review.

The bubbleator.was.the most.borimg yet fascinating thing ever

These fairs and expositions of the 20th century were grand opportunities to learn about new ideas around the country as well as the world. People need to understand the world before the internet was a very small place, I lived in Ireland for two years in the late 80s and it took one week for my letter to reach home and one week for the reply to reach me, you may ask why I didn’t call, well it was cost prohibitive at the time. Technology was in its infancy and things began to change so quickly. My grandfather saw man first take flight and then reach the moon. My mother purchased the first microwave oven in our small farming community in southern Idaho, when the local power coop found out they asked us if we needed another transformer installed by our place, they had no idea how much power a microwave would require. So when you ask, were these fairs worth it? Most definitely. Today they may seem quaint but just imagine; walking through the front gate of world’s fair would be like being able to walk into the encyclopedia using virtual reality. These fairs were the precursors to our global interconnectivity.

You can (nt) see the missing airplane that crashed in Montlake Terrace in the opening day speech part @5:18 in the video

I had just a few Viewmaster reels, one from the 1958 Brussels Exposition. I found the the photo of the Atomium especially interesting as a kid. I was 8 in 1962, and my family went from Portland (about 180 mile away) to the fair once as I recall. I remember several of the exhibits, including Bell Telephone's touch-tone display. I have a "Key to the Fair" which activated boxes that played audio recordings about various exhibits. Just like a Zoo Key.

People in those days went to world's fairs not for "a beacon of hope" (they had their churches for that) but for entertainment and some educational fun. It's a different world now and a different culture. And it WAS a lot of entertainment and educational fun! I had a ball. Saw everything there was to see and there was a lot of it to see. And two things about the fair worth noting: it was one of the very few to actually make money (mostly because so many buildings were designed to be permanent and continually used), and that wonderful Space Needle still being, along with the Eiffel Tower, the only actually beautiful monumental towers ever built.

I wasnt alive at this time but Ive always been proud to tell people that my grandfather helped build the space needle as he was an iron worker at this time. He would tell me that he thought they were crazy wanting to build something like that but the pay was nice and as long as they were paying his bills he didnt care what they were building but years later he really appreciated the art he helped build for the world to appreciate even as of today people come to seattle just to see the space needle.

Incredibly well done - I have this weird obsession with past worlds fairs - and THIS, by far is one of the best. You have done an amazing amount of research.... Did you by chance see the " Pink Elephant" Car wash sign?

As a 40 year-old lifetime resident of Seattle I will say it is a corporate daydreaming for sure. When I grew up, it was a cute little town and now it’s exactly a corporate nightmare. I’m pretty sure it’s not just my city. This is just the way it goes.

EPCOT WAS THE EPIC FAIL.62 Was probably better than 74 spokane? Why Spokane, I was there lol

I was only 3 but still remember being scared to death at the top of the Space Needle.

I was able to attend Expo '82 in Knoxville and Expo '84 in New Orleans. Knoxville still has a World's Fair Park, and the Sunspehere is still standing but currently unoccupied. The only thing left over from the New Orleans World's Fair is the Convention Center. I did visit the former World's Fair site in Seattle and took in the spectacular view of the city from the Space Needle. My Dad told me he had fond memories of visiting the 1964 World's Fair in New York. It's a shame that these Expos went out of fashion. I appreciated being able to meet people from around the world and learning about their culture.

I was 6 years old. Our family traveled from Montana and met cousins from California. I remember John Glenn’s space capsule. We went inside a giant cake and shared a piece of it. We saw the water skiing show.

I was interested to see the exhibit devoted to Pulse Code Modulation -- the audio reproduction technology used in digital audio, from CDs to smartphones, streaming services and DACs. From Wikipedia: "It is the standard form of digital audio in computers, compact discs, digital telephony and other digital audio applications. In a PCM stream, the amplitude of the analog signal is sampled at uniform intervals, and each sample is quantized to the nearest value within a range of digital steps."

I went to the fair at age 20. There were lots of wonderful things there. but I liked the gothic space arches the best. There were multiple tall poles there, each threaded with large, brightly colored balls. At night the fair was an absolute fantasy world. Riding the cable car, day or night was just beautiful. I don't believe I much cared for the future stuff, but the place was beautiful. The food in the needle was unimpressive, but the views were stunning. You could see the snow-covered mountains in the distance, the city below, and the fairyland of lights that illuminated the site at night. I absolutely loved it!

I’m sure at some point I had a copy of that View-Master reel. I visited the park sometime in the early 1960s with my parents and we always brought View-Master reels of places we visited. I’ve wanted to go back and visit it again, but so far that hasn’t happened.

I have lived in Seattle my entire life. I remember every time we went to Grandma's house the Space Needle structure was a little taller with each visit. The same goes for my anticipation of one day visiting "The World's Fair" (whatever that meant). I was given a World's Fair Dollar with a lesson about the investment value of cultural icons such as a souvenir dollar from the fair. Every time I wanted to spend my "dollar" I was faced with the choice of enjoying it's purchase power then or saving it for the future because it would be valuable someday. In the end I spent my World's Fair Dollar on the Sky Ride. Today you can buy a world's fair dollar on ebay. They range from $5-$15. I still can remember looking out of the gondola at fair goers far below me. That memory is well worth the current value of my would-be investment.

Your video randomly showed up on my feed today. It was enjoyable to watch, and i love the concept of your channel. You gained a subscriber.

My family went to that. We had a blast.

I was a kid at the NY Worls's Fair....and I'm shocked that it was 8 times bigger than Seattle's....We walked from dawn to dusk....but what memories!....I felt I saw the World and the Future in a day.....Of course, my favorite was "It's a Small World" ride...almost too much amazement and happiness for me to handle.....Belgium Waffles were great too....and the car through prehistoric lands......Thank's DAD !!!!!

What a time that was! I was in 3rd grade and loved the World's Fair. Interestingly, my thesis adviser, in grad school, was amazed by the DNA model at the Science Center. He was a researcher at Children's Hospital at the time, and this was the first DNA model he had seen. He ended up spending his career in x-ray crystallography analysis of nucleic acids. In the courtyard of the Science Center was a big Galton machine that demonstrated the normal probability distribution. Balls would drop through a pattern of horizontal rods and fall into bins below the rods - and, each time, generated a perfect bell curve. Fascinating. We saw Elvis Presley at the fair - hew was making a movie there. And, 4 years later, I saw the Beatles live at the Coliseum - the original coliseum that was built for the fair, the top of which is shown in one of your slides. There was a big model of the megalopolis that was predicted to from from Vancouver B.C. to Portland Oregon, well interconnected with monorails. Public transportation certainly failed to develop as predicted.

Fun fact. During the fair a restaurant across the street from the Space Needle (The Five Point) installed a periscope in front of the urinal in the men's room which was pointed at the Space Needle. There were lines out to the street to gain access. Surprisingly enough the restaurant and the periscope are still there.

Went there in 62 as Everett Jr college forestry club was part of the first days (I’m 83 so might be off on dates) thanks to Andy Holland , may he RIP

Very nice job Dave! Somewhere I have a couple of personal reels with stereo images of the ground breaking ceremony for the space needle. I know I won't find them right away but I'll start looking and send you the scanned images if you like! I definitely rode in the Bubbleator dozens of times.