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, 1962 ...

Oct. 21, 2011, marks the six-month countdown to The Next Fifty, the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Seattle Center Foundation will announce programming for the celebration, as ...

For more World’s Fair memories, tune in Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. to the Seattle Channel (cable 21 in the city) or watch the livestream via MyNorthwest of a special live broadcast from ...

Most Seattleites walk or drive past the Space Needle and the other major buildings at Seattle Center without giving much thought to who designed them. But these structures, including KeyArena and the ...

On April 21st, 2012, it will officially be 50 years since the Seattle World’s Fair opened. And to commemorate the anniversary, there’s a new book called The Future Remembered: The 1962 World ...

Sixty years after Seattle’s Century 21 Exposition, world’s fairs have largely fallen out of fashion in the U.S. Grant Wong - Historian, University of South Carolina Sixty years ago, the ...

October 21, 1962 was the last day to visit the Seattle World’s Fair. In case you missed it, here is a quick look back. This TV commercial invites us to the fair with the line, “Welcome to the ...

Call it: “It Didn’t Happen at the World’s Fair.” We take for granted that the fair was held at Seattle Center, the permanent legacy of Century 21, but the location was no slam-dunk. Both the 1955 ...