Sharing the past since 2008
Apologies again for the lack of posts lately. I work for a university and it’s the end of the semester here. I haven’t had much time to get to anything done. I am going to try to make it for up today with one of my favorites things in my collection. Peep Backstage, U.S.A. was a…
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Today’s 1962 Seattle World’s Fair item is sponsored by Western Airlines and Samsonite Luggage. This is the sheet music for “Wait ‘Til You See What I Saw in Seattle” – A Salute to the Space Needle at the Seattle World’s Fair, written by Mason Mallory and performed by The Gillespie Sister. It was packaged on a…
Read MoreThe 182 Items of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair with this stand-up display created by C&H Sugar and give away during the Fair.
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Apologies for the lack of posts lately. Life has been interfering with my free time way more than I would like. Today’s 1962 Seattle World’s Fair item is a Natural Gas Zodiac Wheel for 1962. The wheel also doubles as a guide to the exhibits in the Natural Gas Pavilion. According to the wheel “These…
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This beautiful postcard was produced in conjunction with the Fair. Topping America’s Space Age World’s Fair, Century 21 Exposition, is the 55-foot Space Needle, where visitors to Seattle from April 21 through October 21, 1962, can dine in a 220-seat revolving restaurant affording a panoramic view of the world’s fair, city and mountain around this…
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It’s Day 4 of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair spectacular.I just now realized that I never hit published for Day 2 and 3, so you can go back and see them here and here. This small pamphlet, showing a map of the World’s Fair produced by your local Flying A dealer. There is a stamp…
Read MoreWelcome to Day 3 of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair image bonanza. Today’s item is a postcard produced during the Fair that shows the Fairgrounds with the Space Needle front and center.
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This Hamm’s beer ad, featuring the Hamm’s bear, was inside the official guide of the World’s Fair.
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Today marks the 55th anniversary of the opening of the Seattle World’s Fair. The Fair has been written, studied and broken apart by people much smarter than me, so I feel I can’t add much in the way of long form essays or deep research. Instead, I will share newspaper clippings, postcards, photos, ephemera videos off and…
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