I was just there, trying to figure out the remnants. We did use monorail to get back and forth between the needle and westlake towards the market.

Not the same nowadays.

Sheesh, Seattle had practically no skyline back then!

I was only 4 years old when my mother and grandmother took me to the ‘62 Worlds Fair in Seattle. I remember the bubble elevator and the Space Needle of course. And the monorail.

We were there! I was 10 years old. That monorail was so futuristic! So many promises broken and still broken today. That 1/3 mile of monorail was all we got for decades and decades. All the money went into roads and lots of them. They tend to shoot at you now as you drive on those roads. Ah! The sweet promise of progress!

I was five years old, and I still remember it

What this film clip does not show...was the immediate tragedy that happened, a few minutes after that "fly-by" with the jets happened!...one of those jets flamed out, and the pilot, who was headed North, used his parachute--after trying to steer the plane towards Lake Washington, to avoid hitting folks on solid ground. Unfortunately, the plane did NOT go where the pilot tried to guide it. It crashed into Mountlake Terrace, hitting two homes, and killing an elderly couple in one of the houses. There are photos of this event on the Internet. Many years later, I was working next to a guy who had been a teenager, living just one block over from the crash site. He said locals thought there had been an earthquake! Poor Seattle--we tried so hard to have a smooth opening day, and then this horrible thing happened!...But the Year 1962 was very hard on Seattle anyway!...Remember Oct 12, 1962? That incredible (now thought to be a Category 2 Hurricane!) mega-storm, with wind gusts to 100mph, hit Seattle hard, as well as Oregon, and even into BC. Earlier in the summer, a smaller Tornado formed over the Laurelhurst area, went East across Lake Washington, and hit the childhood home of Bill Gates, in Juanita!...Not much damage really, but still a weird weather event. I was a "paper boy", age 15, delivering my newspapers (Seattle Times), when the sky on Oct 12, became very dark, and the wind went quickly from 10mph to 60-70 mph plus, in the Greenlake area where I lived!...All in all, 1962 did not treat Seattle well, but the Fair was an incredible, important Civic milestone for Seattle. I attended several times, and will never forget how exciting that Fair was--and it drew 10,000,000 people over it's six-month run, and was featured on the cover of LIFE magazine, twice!

hey! That’s Danny Kaye! I just looked up what his connection to Seattle was and interesting fact about him - he is not a local, but was one of the original owners of the Mariners!

we lived north of Bothell in the 50s & 60s. population of Bothell in 1967 was around 2K. Great place to grow up. Lots of out of town family and friends visited us the year of the fair so we went many times. It was a great time and Seattle was so nice then. Age 14 I went to the NY Fair in 1964 but the Seattle fair was way better. I liked the "Wild Mouse" ride😊

All the world's fairs have been set up to make us think that we are divided. It couldn't be more further from the truth. We all come from the same cradle;] Human programming.

My dad was at the table when EdCarlson drew the idea of the Space Needle on a cocktail napkin!🙌🏼

Notice: not one woman is wearing pants. Not one!

Strange how my generation is considered vintage-vintage cars, vintage fashion, vintage furniture. I prefer what our music is called-Classic Rock. Classic, yes, that sounds much better. 😁

I was there with my family when I was 12. I wanted to go in the Space Needle so bad, but my parents didn't want to. I can't remember why. I guess it was too expensive or something. I still would love to go up in it, lol. I can't believe how polite and patient the people were then, waiting for them to open the gate, and so orderly when they did come in. I don't *even* want to think what it would be like today. And I'd forgottten. Everybody dressed up then, even to go to the grocery store, high heels and all. When we were in the Japanese pavillion, the people in this one booth, I think it was for phones, asked my family to pose for their catalog. I don't know if they ever used the pictures or not, cuz it was a Japanese catalog, so we never got to see it. ☹️

WAs in the Stadium for the opening. Went may times. The balloon release had a contest for the longest away, I only found the closest about 5 miles away about a week later.

Love this!!!

Once a shiny beacon of the future.....then the Hippy libtards took over America and made it shit.

My Dad was at the Seattle Space Needle 8 years before I was born. I had my 1st Sky City Restaurant Dinner September 24th, 2000. I ended up having 48 Dinning experiences with those World Class Views of Puget Sound and Mt Rainier through 2016. Why on Earth 🌎 would someone take out Sky City Restaurant from the Space Needle?!? How Idiotic!! I wanted to take a Pretty Girl from Lake Granbury, Tx to experience what I have in Seattle. Taking out the Restaurant is Criminal. This Will Never Happen, but if I ever WIN A LARGE POWERBALL I'll restore Sky City Restaurant at the Seattle Space Needle Permanently So We Can All Enjoy it Again!!!!!!!

I wonder how long the writers of opening jingle had to rack their brains to come up with a word to rhyme with Seattle.

I WAS HIRED BY elis for 3 days ..when working for the SeaTac Hilton Ronald L Heflen 1962

Great fun, but wish this had included some night footage. So few today have seen the 50 foot natural gas torch alight in the dark.

Wow. I watched it built, then my parents took me to the fair. I was 8, but I remember how upbeat the whole thing was. Now I’m retired, rural, avoid Seattle like the plague, and WISH I could retire to 1962.

Seattle looks post-apocalyptic today. What a shame.

i was there but I was still in side my mom Rats

This isn’t “Vintage Video”, it’s vintage film.

Damn right SEATTLE was beautiful and awesome... RIP old Seattle. The greatest of American cities, once upon a time, and not so long ago

It's really amazing how by time flies. Most of these people in this video are 60yo and up. Even little children would be 64. Our family went to the 64-65 NY World's Fair which was , I heard 2 x as big as Seattle. Seattle's WF looked fun. Time flies?

Can you envision the music playing of the 1962 world's fair panning video shots of Seattle's homelessness, needles and feces on the streets, homeless tents, druggies sleeping on the streets, graffiti sprayed everywhere and garbage scattered across the streets?

I went to Seattle last October (2022) and looked up at the Needle from the ground (have a severe fear of heights which prevented me from going to the top). It was impressive and I can only imagine what it would have been like to see it for the first time at the Fair

Used to a great town.

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Video without Nirvana song?

If I could just get my hands on a time machine...

Look how beautiful Seattle was before they surrendered to Antifa.

Did anyone spot Elvis?🗽👍

Ahhhh, remember when Seattle was awesome and not a festering cesspool. A now distant memory.

Does anyone know that it cost to ride the elevator on the space needle when it opened? thatnks

That's back when Seattle was GREAT!

This video is the only place I've found these songs online and I've done a fair amount of research on this World's Fair. Wish i had more info about them. I know the other American World's Fairs of this era, San Antonio '68 and Spokane '74 had similar songs as well that are even harder to find. I've only heard those in museum exhibits about those fairs.

Where are Antifa and the rest of the left-wing nutjobs?

Hello. I was curious to know how I could use some of this footage for a project I am working on. Do you know who owns it? Do you? Thanks! 😊

I found a souvenir spoon from this, the handle is shaped like the space needle

My grandpa was here

When Seattle was wonderful, a once beautiful American city

My hometown of Seattle! The politicians destroyed and turned my hometown of Seattle into a shithole!!!

Gigantic cruise ships coming to Seattle now and Tourist spending dollars in Seattle! Just imagine another bigger better More extravagant worlds fair taking place in SeattleWashington in 2025! Who is in agreement with my statement?

It kills me that they went with Barbershop Quartets and 1930's era music to promote the "Futuristic" themes of the fair. Twenty three skidoo kiddo, we're goin' to the moon by jeepers! Augh...I agree with the others in this thread, view with the volume down!

Wow 60 years ago today!

I was there as a six-year-old, I heard they remodeled the space needle I guess I better go back!

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