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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The celebrations of the nation’s 250th birthday next year will provide Trump a powerful platform from which to project his ...

Earlier this month Jay Rockey, the last of the top organizers and managers of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, died at age 90. Rockey was the fair’s head of PR and largely responsible for making the ...

Ten million people attended the Seattle World’s Fair over the course of its six month run. Jean Roth was one of them and she was there on opening day: April 21, 1962.

Ask any 21st-century collector of memorabilia from Century 21 -- the 1962 Seattle World's Fair that envisioned a sleek new tomorrowland inspired by science and human ingenuity.