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Seattle’s 1962 World’s Fair (Images of America)

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When the USA entered the 1960s, the nation was once swept up in the Space Race as the USA and the Soviet Union competed for supremacy in rocket and satellite technologies. Cities across the country hoped to draw new aerospace companies, but the city leaders of Seattle launched the most ambitious campaign of all. They invited the whole world to talk over with for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, and more than nine million people took them up on the offer. A colorful number of exhibits turned 74 acres of rundown buildings into a futuristic wonderland where dozens of countries and companies predicted life sooner or later. All the city was once transformed with the addition of the soaring Space Needle and the futuristic monorail. When the fair ended, the website became a complex of parks and museums that remains a vibrant a part of Seattle city life these days.

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