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Carlson</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #69cfff">Participant(s)</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Countries</th><td class="infobox-data">24</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #69cfff">Location</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">City</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venue</th><td class="infobox-data">Broad Street</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Century_21_Exposition&params=47_37_17_N_122_21_03_W_type:landmark_region:US-WA"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">47°37′17″N</span> <span class="longitude">122°21′03″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">47.62139°N 122.35083°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">47.62139; -122.35083</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #69cfff">Timeline</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Bidding</th><td class="infobox-data">1955</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opening</th><td class="infobox-data">April 21, 1962</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Closure</th><td class="infobox-data">October 21, 1962</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #69cfff">Universal expositions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Previous</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Expo_58" title="Expo 58">Expo 58</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Next</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Expo_67" title="Expo 67">Expo 67</a> in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Century 21 Exposition</b> (also known as the <b>Seattle World's Fair</b>) was a <a href="/wiki/World%27s_fair" title="World's fair">world's fair</a> held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, Washington, United States.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UW-lib-1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UW-lib-1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nearly 10 million people attended the fair during its six-month run.<sup id="cite_ref-Connelly_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connelly-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As planned, the exposition left behind a fairground and numerous public buildings and public works; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle's economic and cultural life (<i>see <a href="/wiki/History_of_Seattle_(1940%E2%80%93present)" title="History of Seattle (1940–present)">History of Seattle (1940–present)</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fair saw the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Space_Needle" title="Space Needle">Space Needle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Center_Monorail" title="Seattle Center Monorail">Alweg monorail</a>, as well as several sports venues (Washington State Coliseum, now <a href="/wiki/Climate_Pledge_Arena" title="Climate Pledge Arena">Climate Pledge Arena</a>) and performing arts buildings (the Playhouse, now the <a href="/wiki/Cornish_College_of_the_Arts" title="Cornish College of the Arts">Cornish Playhouse</a>), most of which have since been replaced or heavily remodeled. Unlike some other world's fairs of its era, Century 21 made a profit.<sup id="cite_ref-Connelly_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connelly-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:US_Navy_030529-N-9500T-003_The_top_of_Seattle%27s_Space_Needle,_which_has_been_painted_in_Red,_White_and_Blue_for_Memorial_Day.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/US_Navy_030529-N-9500T-003_The_top_of_Seattle%27s_Space_Needle%2C_which_has_been_painted_in_Red%2C_White_and_Blue_for_Memorial_Day.jpg/170px-US_Navy_030529-N-9500T-003_The_top_of_Seattle%27s_Space_Needle%2C_which_has_been_painted_in_Red%2C_White_and_Blue_for_Memorial_Day.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/US_Navy_030529-N-9500T-003_The_top_of_Seattle%27s_Space_Needle%2C_which_has_been_painted_in_Red%2C_White_and_Blue_for_Memorial_Day.jpg/255px-US_Navy_030529-N-9500T-003_The_top_of_Seattle%27s_Space_Needle%2C_which_has_been_painted_in_Red%2C_White_and_Blue_for_Memorial_Day.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/US_Navy_030529-N-9500T-003_The_top_of_Seattle%27s_Space_Needle%2C_which_has_been_painted_in_Red%2C_White_and_Blue_for_Memorial_Day.jpg/340px-US_Navy_030529-N-9500T-003_The_top_of_Seattle%27s_Space_Needle%2C_which_has_been_painted_in_Red%2C_White_and_Blue_for_Memorial_Day.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="2100" /></a><figcaption>Aerial photograph of the <a href="/wiki/Space_Needle" title="Space Needle">Space Needle</a> in 2003 decorated for Memorial Day</figcaption></figure> <p>The site, slightly expanded since the fair, is now called the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Center" title="Seattle Center">Seattle Center</a>; the United States Science Pavilion is now <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Science_Center" title="Pacific Science Center">Pacific Science Center</a>. Another notable Seattle Center building, the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Pop_Culture" title="Museum of Pop Culture">Museum of Pop Culture</a> (earlier called EMP Museum), was built nearly 40 years later and designed to fit in with the fairground atmosphere. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Planning_and_funding">Planning and funding</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Planning and funding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Seattle mayor <a href="/wiki/Allan_Pomeroy" title="Allan Pomeroy">Allan Pomeroy</a> is credited with bringing the World's Fair to the city. He recruited community and business leaders, as well as running a petition campaign, in the early 1950s to convince the city council to approve an $8.5 million bond issue to build the opera house and sports center needed to attract the fair. Eventually the council approved a $7.5 million bond issue with the state of <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a> matching that amount.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cold_War_and_Space_Race_context">Cold War and Space Race context</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cold War and Space Race context"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The fair was originally conceived at a <a href="/wiki/Washington_Athletic_Club" title="Washington Athletic Club">Washington Athletic Club</a> luncheon in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 <a href="/wiki/Alaska%E2%80%93Yukon%E2%80%93Pacific_Exposition" title="Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition">Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition</a>, but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious. With the <a href="/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a> underway and <a href="/wiki/Boeing" title="Boeing">Boeing</a> having "put Seattle on the map"<sup id="cite_ref-lesson25_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lesson25-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as "an aerospace city",<sup id="cite_ref-Berger_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berger-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a major theme of the fair was to show that "the United States was not really 'behind' the Soviet Union in the realms of science and space". As a result, the themes of space, science, and the future completely trumped the earlier conception of a "Festival of the [American] West".<sup id="cite_ref-lesson25_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lesson25-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1960, the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_International_des_Expositions" title="Bureau International des Expositions">Bureau International des Expositions</a> (BIE) certified Century 21 as a world's fair.<sup id="cite_ref-Boswell_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boswell-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Project manager Ewen Dingwall went to Moscow to request Soviet participation, but was turned down. Neither the People's Republic of China, Vietnam nor North Korea were invited.<sup id="cite_ref-Boswell_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boswell-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As it happened, the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> had an additional effect on the fair. President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> was supposed to attend the closing ceremony of the fair on October 21, 1962. He bowed out, pleading a "heavy cold"; it later became public that he was dealing with the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The fair's vision of the future displayed a technologically based optimism that did not anticipate any dramatic social change, one rooted in the 1950s rather than in the cultural tides that would emerge in the 1960s. Affluence, automation, consumerism, and American power would grow; social equity would simply take care of itself on a rising tide of abundance; the human race would master nature through technology rather than view it in terms of ecology.<sup id="cite_ref-lesson25_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lesson25-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast, 12 years later—even in far more conservative <a href="/wiki/Spokane,_Washington" title="Spokane, Washington">Spokane, Washington</a>—<a href="/wiki/Expo_%2774" title="Expo '74">Expo '74</a> took environmentalism as its central theme. The theme of Spokane's Expo '74 was "Celebrating Tomorrow's Fresh New Environment.".<sup id="cite_ref-lesson26_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lesson26-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Buildings_and_grounds">Buildings and grounds</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Buildings and grounds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aerial_of_Seattle_World%27s_Fair,_1962_(49357305316).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Aerial_of_Seattle_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962_%2849357305316%29.jpg/220px-Aerial_of_Seattle_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962_%2849357305316%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Aerial_of_Seattle_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962_%2849357305316%29.jpg/330px-Aerial_of_Seattle_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962_%2849357305316%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Aerial_of_Seattle_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962_%2849357305316%29.jpg/440px-Aerial_of_Seattle_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962_%2849357305316%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2412" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of the fairgrounds in 1962</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Century_21_Exposition_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Century_21_Exposition_map.png/220px-Century_21_Exposition_map.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Century_21_Exposition_map.png/330px-Century_21_Exposition_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Century_21_Exposition_map.png/440px-Century_21_Exposition_map.png 2x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="486" /></a><figcaption>Map showing major features of the grounds</figcaption></figure> <p>Once the fair idea was conceived, several sites were considered. Among the sites considered within Seattle were <a href="/wiki/Duwamish_Head" title="Duwamish Head">Duwamish Head</a> in <a href="/wiki/West_Seattle" title="West Seattle">West Seattle</a>; <a href="/wiki/Fort_Lawton" title="Fort Lawton">Fort Lawton</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Discovery_Park_(Seattle)" title="Discovery Park (Seattle)">Discovery Park</a>) in the <a href="/wiki/Magnolia,_Seattle" title="Magnolia, Seattle">Magnolia</a> neighborhood; and <a href="/wiki/First_Hill,_Seattle" title="First Hill, Seattle">First Hill</a>—even closer to <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Seattle" title="Downtown Seattle">Downtown</a> than the site finally selected, but far more densely developed. Two sites south of the city proper were considered—<a href="/wiki/Midway,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Midway, Washington">Midway</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Des_Moines,_Washington" title="Des Moines, Washington">Des Moines</a>, and the Army Depot in <a href="/wiki/Auburn,_Washington" title="Auburn, Washington">Auburn</a>—as was a site east of the city on the south shore of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Sammamish" title="Lake Sammamish">Lake Sammamish</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Boswell_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boswell-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg/220px-1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg/330px-1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg/440px-1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2556" data-file-height="3228" /></a><figcaption>1960 map of what became the grounds of the Century 21 Exposition</figcaption></figure> <p>The site finally selected for the Century 21 Exposition had originally been contemplated for a civic center. The idea of using it for the world's fair came later and brought in federal money for the United States Science Pavilion (now Pacific Science Center) and state money for the Washington State Coliseum (later Seattle Center Coliseum; renamed KeyArena in 1993 after the city sold naming rights to KeyCorp, the company doing business as KeyBank; renamed <a href="/wiki/Climate_Pledge_Arena" title="Climate Pledge Arena">Climate Pledge Arena</a> in 2021 after naming rights were sold to Amazon.com, Inc).<sup id="cite_ref-UW-lib-1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UW-lib-1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HL-cyber-coliseum_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HL-cyber-coliseum-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiry-oral_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiry-oral-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the land had been donated to the city by James Osborne in 1881 and by <a href="/wiki/David_Denny" title="David Denny">David and Louisa Denny</a> in 1889.<sup id="cite_ref-walking_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walking-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two lots at Third Avenue N. and John Street were purchased from <a href="/wiki/St._Demetrios_Greek_Orthodox_Church_(Seattle)" title="St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (Seattle)">St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church</a>, who had been planning to build a new church building there; the church used the proceeds to purchase land in the <a href="/wiki/Montlake,_Seattle" title="Montlake, Seattle">Montlake</a> neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Warren Avenue School, a public elementary school with several programs for physically handicapped students, was torn down, its programs dispersed, and provided most of the site of the Coliseum (now Climate Pledge Arena).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Near the school, some of the city's oldest houses, apartments, and commercial buildings were torn down; they had been run down to the point of being known as the "Warren Avenue slum".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The old Fire Station No. 4 was also sacrificed.<sup id="cite_ref-Lentz_and_Sheridan,_2005,_p._23_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lentz_and_Sheridan,_2005,_p._23-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As early as the 1909 <a href="/wiki/Virgil_Bogue" title="Virgil Bogue">Bogue plan</a>, this part of Lower <a href="/wiki/Queen_Anne,_Seattle" title="Queen Anne, Seattle">Queen Anne</a> had been considered for a civic center. The Civic Auditorium (later the Opera House, now <a href="/wiki/McCaw_Hall" title="McCaw Hall">McCaw Hall</a>), the ice arena (later <a href="/wiki/Mercer_Arena" title="Mercer Arena">Mercer Arena</a>), and the Civic Field (rebuilt in 1946 as the <a href="/wiki/High_School_Memorial_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="High School Memorial Stadium">High School Memorial Stadium</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> all built in 1927 had been placed there based on that plan, as was an <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Center_Armory" title="Seattle Center Armory">armory</a> (the Food Circus during the fair, later Center House).<sup id="cite_ref-Thiry-oral_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiry-oral-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Us_science_exhibit_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Us_science_exhibit_01.jpg/220px-Us_science_exhibit_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Us_science_exhibit_01.jpg/330px-Us_science_exhibit_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Us_science_exhibit_01.jpg/440px-Us_science_exhibit_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1212" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Cover of the United States Science Exhibit Guide for the Seattle World's Fair, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Commerce" title="United States Department of Commerce">United States Department of Commerce</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The fair planners also sought two other properties near the southwest corner of the grounds. They failed completely to make any inroads with the Seattle Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, who had recently built Sacred Heart Church there; they did a bit better with the <a href="/wiki/Freemasons" class="mw-redirect" title="Freemasons">Freemasons</a>' Nile Temple, which they were able to use for the duration of the fair and which then returned to its previous use.<sup id="cite_ref-jones_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jones-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It served as the site of the Century 21 Club. This membership organization, formed especially for the fair, charged $250 for membership and offered lounge, dining room, and other club facilities, as well as a gate pass for the duration of the fair. The city ended up leasing the property after the fair and in 1977 bought it from the Masons. The building was eventually incorporated into a theater complex including the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Children%27s_Theatre" title="Seattle Children's Theatre">Seattle Children's Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Paul_Thiry_(architect)" title="Paul Thiry (architect)">Paul Thiry</a> was the fair's chief architect; he also designed the Coliseum building. Among the other architects of the fair, Seattle-born <a href="/wiki/Minoru_Yamasaki" title="Minoru Yamasaki">Minoru Yamasaki</a> received one of his first major commissions to build the United States Science Pavilion. Yamasaki would later design New York's <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973-2001)" class="mw-redirect" title="World Trade Center (1973-2001)">World Trade Center</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Yamasaki_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yamasaki-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Victor_Steinbrueck" title="Victor Steinbrueck">Victor Steinbrueck</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Graham_%26_Company" title="John Graham & Company">John Graham, Jr.</a> designed the Space Needle. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hideki_Shimizu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hideki Shimizu (page does not exist)">Hideki Shimizu</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuyuki_Matsushita&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kazuyuki Matsushita (page does not exist)">Kazuyuki Matsushita</a> designed the original <a href="/wiki/International_Fountain" title="International Fountain">International Fountain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lentz_and_Sheridan,_2005,_p._23_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lentz_and_Sheridan,_2005,_p._23-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite the plan to build a permanent civic center, more than half the structures built for the fair were torn down more or less immediately after it ended.<sup id="cite_ref-UW-lib-1_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UW-lib-1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One attempt to conserve installations from Century 21 was the creation of a replica "welcoming pole," a number of which originally stood tall over the southern entrance to the fair. This replica stood outside the Washington State Capital Museum until 1990, when it was taken down.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <p>The grounds of the fair were divided into: </p> <ul><li>World of Science</li> <li>World of Century 21 (also known as World of Tomorrow<sup id="cite_ref-HL-cyber-coliseum_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HL-cyber-coliseum-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li>World of Commerce and Industry</li> <li>World of Art</li> <li>World of Entertainment</li> <li>Show Street</li> <li>Gayway</li> <li>Boulevards of the World</li> <li>Exhibit Fair</li> <li>Food and Favors</li> <li>Food Circus</li></ul> <p><small>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></small> </p><p>Besides the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Center_Monorail" title="Seattle Center Monorail">monorail</a>, which survives as of 2023<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the fair also featured a Skyride that ran 1,400 feet (430 m) across the grounds from the Gayway to the International Mall. The bucket-like three-person cars were suspended from cables that rose as high as 60 feet (18 m) off the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Skyride was moved to the <a href="/wiki/Puyallup_Fair" class="mw-redirect" title="Puyallup Fair">Puyallup Fairgrounds</a> in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_of_Science">World of Science</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: World of Science"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Science_pavilion_at_Century_21_Exposition,_1962.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Science_pavilion_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/220px-Science_pavilion_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Science_pavilion_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/330px-Science_pavilion_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Science_pavilion_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/440px-Science_pavilion_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1005" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The Federal Science Pavilion, "a virtual cathedral of science".<sup id="cite_ref-Yamasaki_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yamasaki-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The World of Science centered on the United States Science Exhibit. It also included a <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> Exhibit that included models and mockups of various <a href="/wiki/Satellite" title="Satellite">satellites</a>, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Project_Mercury" title="Project Mercury">Project Mercury</a> capsule that had carried <a href="/wiki/Alan_Shepard" title="Alan Shepard">Alan Shepard</a> into space.<sup id="cite_ref-science_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-science-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These exhibits were the federal government's major contribution to the fair.<sup id="cite_ref-Berger_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berger-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiry-oral_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiry-oral-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The United States Science Exhibit began with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Eames" title="Charles Eames">Charles Eames</a>' 10-minute short film <i>The House of Science</i>, followed by an exhibit on the development of science, ranging from mathematics and astronomy to atomic science and genetics. The Spacearium held up to 750 people at a time for a simulated voyage first through the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a> and then through the <a href="/wiki/Milky_Way_Galaxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Milky Way Galaxy">Milky Way Galaxy</a> and beyond. Further exhibits presented the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">scientific method</a> and the "horizons of science". This last looked at "Science and the individual", "Control of man's physical surroundings", "Science and the problem of <a href="/wiki/World_population" title="World population">world population</a>", and "Man's concept of his place in an increasingly technological world".<sup id="cite_ref-science_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-science-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_of_Century_21">World of Century 21</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: World of Century 21"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Washington State Coliseum, financed by the state of Washington, was one of Thiry's own architectural contributions to the fairgrounds. His original conception had been staging the entire fair under a single giant air-conditioned tent-like structure, "a city of its own", but there were neither the budgets nor the tight agreements on concept to realize that vision. In the end, he got exactly enough of a budget to design and build a 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m<sup>2</sup>) building suitable to hold a variety of exhibition spaces and equally suitable for later conversion to a sports arena and convention facility.<sup id="cite_ref-Thiry-oral_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiry-oral-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pavilion_of_Electric_Power_at_Century_21_Exposition,_1962.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Pavilion_of_Electric_Power_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/220px-Pavilion_of_Electric_Power_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Pavilion_of_Electric_Power_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/330px-Pavilion_of_Electric_Power_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Pavilion_of_Electric_Power_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/440px-Pavilion_of_Electric_Power_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1844" /></a><figcaption>Pavilion of Electric Power</figcaption></figure> <p>During the festival, the building hosted several exhibits. Nearly half of its surface area was occupied by the state's own circular exhibit "Century 21—The Threshold and the Threat", also known as the "World of Tomorrow" exhibit, billed as a "21-minute tour of the future". The building also housed exhibits by France, <a href="/wiki/Pan_American_World_Airways" class="mw-redirect" title="Pan American World Airways">Pan American World Airways</a> (Pan Am), <a href="/wiki/General_Motors" title="General Motors">General Motors</a> (GM), the <a href="/wiki/American_Library_Association" title="American Library Association">American Library Association</a> (ALA), and <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA</a>, as well as a Washington state tourist center.<sup id="cite_ref-Threshold_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Threshold-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In "The Threshold and the Threat", visitors rode a "<a href="/wiki/Bubbleator" title="Bubbleator">Bubbleator</a>" into the "world of tomorrow". Music "from another world" and a shifting pattern of lights accompanied them on a 40-second upward journey to a starry space bathed in golden light. Then they were faced briefly with an image of a desperate family in a <a href="/wiki/Fallout_shelter" title="Fallout shelter">fallout shelter</a>, which vanished and was replaced by a series of images reflecting the sweep of history, starting with the <a href="/wiki/Acropolis" title="Acropolis">Acropolis</a> and ending with an image of <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Threshold_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Threshold-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Next, visitors were beckoned into a cluster of cubes containing a model of a "city of the future" (which a few landmarks clearly indicated as Seattle) and its suburban and rural surroundings, seen first by day and later by night. The next cluster of cubes zoomed in on a vision of a high-tech, future home in a sylvan setting (and a commuter <a href="/wiki/Gyrocopter" class="mw-redirect" title="Gyrocopter">gyrocopter</a>); a series of projections contrasted this "best of the future" to "the worst of the present" (over-uniform suburbs, a dreary urban housing project).<sup id="cite_ref-Threshold_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Threshold-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:General_Motors_exhibit_at_Century_21_Exposition,_1962.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/General_Motors_exhibit_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/220px-General_Motors_exhibit_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/General_Motors_exhibit_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/330px-General_Motors_exhibit_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/General_Motors_exhibit_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg/440px-General_Motors_exhibit_at_Century_21_Exposition%2C_1962.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>GM's Firebird III</figcaption></figure> <p>The exhibit continued with a vision of future transportation (centered on a <a href="/wiki/Monorail" title="Monorail">monorail</a> and high-speed "air cars" on an electrically controlled highway). There was also an "<a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_future" title="Office of the future">office of the future</a>", a climate-controlled "farm factory", an automated offshore <a href="/wiki/Kelp" title="Kelp">kelp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Plankton" title="Plankton">plankton</a> harvesting farm, a vision of the schools of the future with "electronic storehouses of knowledge", and a vision of the many recreations that technology would free humans to pursue.<sup id="cite_ref-Threshold_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Threshold-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Finally, the tour ended with a symbolic sculptural tree and the reappearance of the family in the fallout shelter and the sound of a ticking clock, a brief silence, an extract from <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy%27s_Inaugural_Address" class="extiw" title="s:John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address">President Kennedy's Inaugural Address</a>, followed by a further "symphony of music and color".<sup id="cite_ref-Threshold_30-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Threshold-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the same roof, the ALA exhibited a "library of the future" (centered on a <a href="/wiki/Univac" class="mw-redirect" title="Univac">Univac</a> computer). GM exhibited its vision for highways and vehicles of the future (the latter including the <a href="/wiki/General_Motors_Firebird#Firebird_III" title="General Motors Firebird">Firebird III</a>). Pan Am exhibited a giant globe that emphasized the notion that we had come to be able to think of distances between major world cities in hours and minutes rather than in terms of chancy voyages over great distances. RCA (which produced "The Threshold and the Threat") exhibited television, radio, and stereo technology, as well as its involvement in space. The French government had an exhibit with its own take on technological progress. Finally, a Washington state tourist center provided information for fair-goers wishing to tour the state.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_of_Commerce_and_Industry">World of Commerce and Industry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: World of Commerce and Industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The World of Commerce and Industry was divided into domestic and foreign areas. The former was sited mainly south of American Way (the continuation of Thomas Street through the grounds), an area it shared with the World of Science.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It included the Space Needle and what is now the Broad Street Green and Mural Amphitheater.<sup id="cite_ref-walking_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walking-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Hall of Industry and some smaller buildings were immediately north of American Way.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The latter included 15 governmental exhibitors and surrounded the World of Tomorrow and extended to the north edge of the fair.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the features of Domestic Commerce and Industry, the massive Interiors, Fashion, and Commerce Building spread for 500 feet (150 m)—nearly the entire Broad Street side of the grounds—with exhibits ranging from 32 separate furniture companies to the <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-domestic_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-domestic-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a></i> produced four fashion shows daily alongside a perfumed pool.<sup id="cite_ref-Boswell_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boswell-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a>, in its pavilion, presented a simulated space flight and its vision for the car of the future, the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Seattle-ite_XXI" title="Ford Seattle-ite XXI">Ford Seattle-ite XXI</a>. The Electric Power Pavilion included a 40 feet (12 m)-high fountain made to look like a <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectric_dam" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydroelectric dam">hydroelectric dam</a>, with the entrance to the pavilion through a tunnel in said "dam". The Forest Products Pavilion was surrounded by a grove of trees of various species, and included an all-wood theater and a <a href="/wiki/Society_of_American_Foresters" title="Society of American Foresters">Society of American Foresters</a> exhibit.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chevron_Corporation" title="Chevron Corporation">Standard Oil of California</a> celebrated, among other things, the fact that the world's first service station opened in Seattle in 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-domestic_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-domestic-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fair's <a href="/wiki/Bell_Telephone_Company" title="Bell Telephone Company">Bell Telephone</a> (now <a href="/wiki/AT%26T_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="AT&T Inc.">AT&T Inc.</a>) exhibit was featured in a short film called "Century 21 Calling...",<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was later shown on <i><a href="/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000" title="Mystery Science Theater 3000">Mystery Science Theater 3000</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were also several religious pavilions.<sup id="cite_ref-domestic_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-domestic-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Near the center of all this was Seattle artist <a href="/wiki/Paul_Horiuchi" title="Paul Horiuchi">Paul Horiuchi</a>'s massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at the time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater.<sup id="cite_ref-domestic_35-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-domestic-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Canada_Building_at_World%27s_Fair,_1962.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Canada_Building_at_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962.jpg/220px-Canada_Building_at_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Canada_Building_at_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962.jpg/330px-Canada_Building_at_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Canada_Building_at_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962.jpg/440px-Canada_Building_at_World%27s_Fair%2C_1962.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2382" data-file-height="1846" /></a><figcaption>DuPen Fountain and the Canada Building</figcaption></figure> <p>Foreign exhibits included a science and technology exhibit by Great Britain, while Mexico and Peru focused on handicrafts, and Japan and India attempted to show both of these sides of their national cultures. The <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> and South Korea pavilions showed their rapid industrialization to the world and the benefits of capitalism over communism during the time of cold war era. Other pavilions included one featuring Brazilian tea and coffee; a European Communities Pavilion from the then six countries of the <a href="/wiki/European_Community" class="mw-redirect" title="European Community">European Economic Community</a>; and a joint pavilion by those countries of Africa that had by then achieved independence. Sweden's exhibit included the story of the salvaging of a 17th-century <a href="/wiki/Man-of-war" title="Man-of-war">man-of-war</a> from <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a> harbor, and San Marino's exhibit featured its postage stamps and pottery. Near the center of this was the DuPen Fountain featuring three sculptures by Seattle artist Everett DuPen.<sup id="cite_ref-foreign_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foreign-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_of_Art">World of Art</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: World of Art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg/170px-IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg/255px-IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg/340px-IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1518" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres" title="Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres">Ingres</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Oedipus_and_the_Sphinx_(Ingres)" title="Oedipus and the Sphinx (Ingres)">Oedipus and the Sphinx</a></i> was among the works displayed in the Fine Arts Pavilion.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Fine Arts Pavilion (later the Exhibition Hall) brought together an art exhibition unprecedented for the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast of the United States</a>. Among the 50 contemporary American painters whose works shown were <a href="/wiki/Josef_Albers" title="Josef Albers">Josef Albers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning" title="Willem de Kooning">Willem de Kooning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Helen_Frankenthaler" title="Helen Frankenthaler">Helen Frankenthaler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Guston" title="Philip Guston">Philip Guston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jasper_Johns" title="Jasper Johns">Jasper Johns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Mitchell" title="Joan Mitchell">Joan Mitchell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Motherwell" title="Robert Motherwell">Robert Motherwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe" title="Georgia O'Keeffe">Georgia O'Keeffe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Pollock" title="Jackson Pollock">Jackson Pollock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg" title="Robert Rauschenberg">Robert Rauschenberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ad_Reinhardt" title="Ad Reinhardt">Ad Reinhardt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ben_Shahn" title="Ben Shahn">Ben Shahn</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Stella" title="Frank Stella">Frank Stella</a>, as well as Northwest painters <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Callahan" title="Kenneth Callahan">Kenneth Callahan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Morris_Graves" title="Morris Graves">Morris Graves</a>, Paul Horiuchi, and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Tobey" title="Mark Tobey">Mark Tobey</a>. American sculptors included <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Baskin" title="Leonard Baskin">Leonard Baskin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Calder" title="Alexander Calder">Alexander Calder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Cornell" title="Joseph Cornell">Joseph Cornell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louise_Nevelson" title="Louise Nevelson">Louise Nevelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isamu_Noguchi" title="Isamu Noguchi">Isamu Noguchi</a>, and 19 others. The 50 international contemporary artists represented included the likes of painters <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Hundertwasser" class="mw-redirect" title="Fritz Hundertwasser">Fritz Hundertwasser</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3" title="Joan Miró">Joan Miró</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antoni_T%C3%A0pies" title="Antoni Tàpies">Antoni Tàpies</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)" title="Francis Bacon (artist)">Francis Bacon</a>, and sculptors <a href="/wiki/Henry_Moore" title="Henry Moore">Henry Moore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Arp" title="Jean Arp">Jean Arp</a>. In addition, there were exhibitions of Mark Tobey's paintings and of Asian art, drawn from the collections of the Seattle Art Museum; and an additional exhibition of 72 "masterpieces" ranging from <a href="/wiki/Titian" title="Titian">Titian</a>, <a href="/wiki/El_Greco" title="El Greco">El Greco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michelangelo_Caravaggio" class="mw-redirect" title="Michelangelo Caravaggio">Caravaggio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rembrandt" title="Rembrandt">Rembrandt</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens" title="Peter Paul Rubens">Rubens</a> through <a href="/wiki/Henri_Toulouse-Lautrec" class="mw-redirect" title="Henri Toulouse-Lautrec">Toulouse-Lautrec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Claude_Monet" title="Claude Monet">Monet</a>, and <a href="/wiki/J._M._W._Turner" title="J. M. W. Turner">Turner</a> to <a href="/wiki/Paul_Klee" title="Paul Klee">Klee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque">Braque</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Picasso</a>, with no shortage of other comparably famous artists represented.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Igor_Stravinsky_LOC_32392u.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Igor_Stravinsky_LOC_32392u.jpg/170px-Igor_Stravinsky_LOC_32392u.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Igor_Stravinsky_LOC_32392u.jpg/255px-Igor_Stravinsky_LOC_32392u.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Igor_Stravinsky_LOC_32392u.jpg/340px-Igor_Stravinsky_LOC_32392u.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4477" data-file-height="5410" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a></figcaption></figure> <p>A separate gallery presented <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Coast_art" title="Northwest Coast art">Northwest Coast Indian art</a>, and featured a series of large paintings by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Holm_(art_historian)" title="Bill Holm (art historian)">Bill Holm</a> introducing Northwest Native motifs.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_of_Entertainment">World of Entertainment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: World of Entertainment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A US$15 million performing-arts program at the fair ranged from a <a href="/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">boxing</a> championship to an international <a href="/wiki/Twirling" title="Twirling">twirling</a> competition but with no shortage of nationally and internationally famous performers, especially at the new Opera House and Playhouse.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the fair, the Playhouse became the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Repertory_Theatre" title="Seattle Repertory Theatre">Seattle Repertory Theatre</a>; in the mid-1980s it became the <a href="/wiki/Intiman_Playhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Intiman Playhouse">Intiman Playhouse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the Intiman Theatre became financially unstable, <a href="/wiki/Cornish_College_of_the_Arts" title="Cornish College of the Arts">Cornish College of the Arts</a> took over the lease from the city of Seattle, and now operates it as the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Opera_House_performances">Opera House performances</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Opera House performances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scheduled groups performing at the Opera House included: <small>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></small> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Date (all dates are 1962) </th> <th>Act </th></tr> <tr> <td>April 21</td> <td>Opening Night: <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Symphony_Orchestra" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle Symphony Orchestra">Seattle Symphony Orchestra</a> conducted by guest conductor <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Igor Stravinsky</a> with <a href="/wiki/Van_Cliburn" title="Van Cliburn">Van Cliburn</a> as a guest soloist </td></tr> <tr> <td>April 22–25</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" title="The Ed Sullivan Show">The Ed Sullivan Show</a></i>, live telecasts </td></tr> <tr> <td>April 20 – May 5</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Dunninger" title="Joseph Dunninger">Dunninger the Mentalist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 6</td> <td>The Littlest Circus </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 8–12</td> <td>The <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Ballet" title="San Francisco Ballet">San Francisco Ballet</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 13</td> <td>Science Fiction Panel including <a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rod_Serling" title="Rod Serling">Rod Serling</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 15–16</td> <td>Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by <a href="/wiki/Milton_Katims" title="Milton Katims">Milton Katims</a>, with guest soloists <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Stern" title="Isaac Stern">Isaac Stern</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adele_Addison" title="Adele Addison">Adele Addison</a>, and Albert DaCosta </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 17–19</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Victor_Borge" title="Victor Borge">Victor Borge</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 22</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Bikel" title="Theodore Bikel">Theodore Bikel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 24–25</td> <td>The <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Orchestra" title="Philadelphia Orchestra">Philadelphia Orchestra</a> conducted by <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Ormandy" title="Eugene Ormandy">Eugene Ormandy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 29 – June 3</td> <td>The <a href="/wiki/Old_Vic" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Vic">Old Vic</a> Company (<a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> performances) </td></tr> <tr> <td>June 7, June 9,<br /> June 11</td> <td>Seattle Symphony production of <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Verdi's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Aida" title="Aida">Aida</a></i>, featuring <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Davy" title="Gloria Davy">Gloria Davy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandor_Konya" class="mw-redirect" title="Sandor Konya">Sandor Konya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irene_Dalis" title="Irene Dalis">Irene Dalis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Merrill" title="Robert Merrill">Robert Merrill</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jan_Rube%C5%A1" title="Jan Rubeš">Jan Rubeš</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>June 10</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Josh_White" title="Josh White">Josh White</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>June 17</td> <td>Norwegian Chorus and Dancers </td></tr> <tr> <td>June 18–19</td> <td>Ukrainian State Dance Company (U.S. premiere) </td></tr> <tr> <td>June 22–23</td> <td>International Gospel Quartets </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 8</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barbershop_Harmony_Society" title="Barbershop Harmony Society">SPEBSQSA</a> Barbershop Quartet Song Fest </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 9–14</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bayanihan_Philippine_National_Folk_Dance_Company" title="Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company">Bayanihan Dancers of the Philippines</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 24 – August 4</td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Ballet" title="New York City Ballet">New York City Ballet</a> Company </td></tr> <tr> <td>August 27 – September 2</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Folklorico_de_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet Folklorico de Mexico">Ballet Folklorico de Mexico</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>September 10</td> <td><a href="/wiki/CBC_Radio_Orchestra" title="CBC Radio Orchestra">CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>September 18–23</td> <td><a href="/wiki/D%27Oyly_Carte_Opera_Company" title="D'Oyly Carte Opera Company">D'Oyly Carte Opera Company</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> <a href="/wiki/Operetta" title="Operetta">operettas</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td>September 25–30</td> <td>Rapsodia Romîna: Romanian National Folk Ensemble and Barbu Lăutaru Orchestra of Bucharest (U.S. premiere) </td></tr> <tr> <td>October 2–7</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Uday_Shankar" title="Uday Shankar">Uday Shankar</a> Dancers </td></tr> <tr> <td>October 8–13</td> <td>Foo-Hsing Theater (Republic of China), youth <a href="/wiki/Chinese_opera" title="Chinese opera">Chinese opera</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>October 14</td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Band" title="United States Marine Band">U.S. Marine Corps Band</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>October 16–17</td> <td>Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Milton Katims, world premiere of new work by Gerald Kechley </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_performances">Other performances</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Other performances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris_Marty_Krofft_1962.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris_Marty_Krofft_1962.jpg/190px-Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris_Marty_Krofft_1962.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris_Marty_Krofft_1962.jpg/285px-Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris_Marty_Krofft_1962.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris_Marty_Krofft_1962.jpg/380px-Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris_Marty_Krofft_1962.jpg 2x" data-file-width="780" data-file-height="975" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Marty_Krofft" class="mw-redirect" title="Marty Krofft">Marty Krofft</a> displays the puppets of <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris" title="Les Poupées de Paris">Les Poupées de Paris</a></i> backstage</figcaption></figure> <p>Events and performances at the Playhouse included Sweden's <a href="/wiki/Royal_Dramatic_Theatre" title="Royal Dramatic Theatre">Royal Dramatic Theatre</a>; a chamber music performance by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Stern" title="Isaac Stern">Isaac Stern</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milton_Katims" title="Milton Katims">Milton Katims</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Rose" title="Leonard Rose">Leonard Rose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Istomin" title="Eugene Istomin">Eugene Istomin</a>, the Claiborne Brothers gospel quartet, and the <a href="/wiki/Juilliard_String_Quartet" title="Juilliard String Quartet">Juilliard String Quartet</a>; two appearances by newsman <a href="/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow" title="Edward R. Murrow">Edward R. Murrow</a>; <a href="/wiki/Bunraku" title="Bunraku">Bunraku</a> theater; <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dyer-Bennet" title="Richard Dyer-Bennet">Richard Dyer-Bennet</a>; <a href="/wiki/Hal_Holbrook" title="Hal Holbrook">Hal Holbrook</a>'s solo show as <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Count_Basie" title="Count Basie">Count Basie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Benny_Goodman" title="Benny Goodman">Benny Goodman</a> jazz orchestras; <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Welk" title="Lawrence Welk">Lawrence Welk</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" title="Nat King Cole">Nat King Cole</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a>. Also during the fair, Memorial Stadium hosted the <a href="/wiki/Ringling_Brothers_Circus" title="Ringling Brothers Circus">Ringling Brothers Circus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Bartlett" title="Tommy Bartlett">Tommy Bartlett's</a> Water Ski Sky and Stage Show, <a href="/wiki/Roy_Rogers" title="Roy Rogers">Roy Rogers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dale_Evans" title="Dale Evans">Dale Evans</a>' Western Show, and an appearance by evangelist <a href="/wiki/Billy_Graham" title="Billy Graham">Billy Graham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The fair and the city were the setting of the <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a> movie <i><a href="/wiki/It_Happened_at_the_World%27s_Fair" title="It Happened at the World's Fair">It Happened at the World's Fair</a></i> (1963), with a young <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Russell" title="Kurt Russell">Kurt Russell</a> making his first screen appearance. Location shooting began on September 4 and concluded nearly two weeks later. The film would be released the following spring, long after the fair had ended. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Show_Street">Show Street</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Show Street"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the northeast corner of the grounds (now the <a href="/wiki/KCTS-TV" title="KCTS-TV">KCTS-TV</a> studios<sup id="cite_ref-walking_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walking-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), Show Street was the "<a href="/wiki/Adult_entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult entertainment">adult entertainment</a>" portion of the fair. Attractions included Gracie Hansen's Paradise International (a <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Valley" title="Las Vegas Valley">Vegas</a>-style floor show (rivalled next door by <a href="/wiki/LeRoy_Prinz" title="LeRoy Prinz">LeRoy Prinz</a>'s "Backstage USA")), <a href="/wiki/Sid_and_Marty_Krofft" title="Sid and Marty Krofft">Sid and Marty Krofft</a>'s adults-only puppet show, <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Poup%C3%A9es_de_Paris" title="Les Poupées de Paris">Les Poupées de Paris</a></i>, and (briefly, until it was shut down) a show featuring naked "Girls of the Galaxy".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Show-Street_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Show-Street-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tamer entertainment came in forms such as the Paris Spectacular <a href="/wiki/Wax_museum" title="Wax museum">wax museum</a>, an elaborate Japanese Village, and the Hawaiian Pavilion.<sup id="cite_ref-Show-Street_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Show-Street-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_sections_of_the_fair">Other sections of the fair</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Other sections of the fair"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seattle_world_fair_stamp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Seattle_world_fair_stamp.jpg" decoding="async" width="191" height="300" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="191" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>A commemorative postage stamp</figcaption></figure> <dl><dt>Gayway</dt> <dd>The Gayway was a small amusement park; after the fair it became the Fun Forest.<sup id="cite_ref-walking_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walking-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It included such rides as the Flight to Mars, a <a href="/wiki/Dark_ride" title="Dark ride">dark amusement ride</a> themed around space pirates on Mars, decorated with <a href="/wiki/Black_light" class="mw-redirect" title="Black light">black lights</a> and glow paint.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, the Fun Forest was shut down and the <a href="/wiki/Chihuly_Garden_and_Glass" title="Chihuly Garden and Glass">Chihuly Garden and Glass</a> opened in its place.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dt>Boulevards of the World</dt> <dd>Boulevards of the World was "the shopping center of the fair". It also included the Plaza of the States and the original version of the International Fountain.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dt>Exhibit Fair</dt> <dd>The Exhibit Fair provided another shopping district under the north stands of Memorial Stadium.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dt>Food and Favors</dt> <dd>"Food and Favors", officially one of the "areas" of the fair, simply encompassed the various restaurants, food stands, etc., scattered throughout the grounds. These ranged from vending machines and food stands to the Eye of the Needle (atop the Space Needle) and the private Century 21 Club.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dt>Food Circus</dt> <dd>The Food Circus was a <a href="/wiki/Food_court" title="Food court">food court</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Center_Armory" title="Seattle Center Armory">former armory</a>, later named the Center House, and renamed the Armory in 2012 as a remodel of the building continues. Unlike the current arrangement with a stage and a large open space for dancing, events, and temporary booths, many food booths were in the middle of the room as well as at the edges. There were 52 concessionaires in all, nine of them with exhibits in addition to their food for sale.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beginning in 1963, the Food Circus also housed a variety of museums, including <a href="/wiki/Jones%27_Fantastic_Show" class="mw-redirect" title="Jones' Fantastic Show">Jones' Fantastic Show</a>, the Jules Charbneau World of Miniatures, and the Pullen Klondike Museum.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Promotional_video">Promotional video</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Promotional video"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv/490px--1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="490" height="360" data-durationhint="64" data-mwtitle="1962_Seattle_World's_Fair_commercial.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b9/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="490" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"" data-width="490" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b9/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="490" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b9/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="196" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b9/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv/1962_Seattle_World%27s_Fair_commercial.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="326" data-height="240" /></video></span></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_world_expositions" class="mw-redirect" title="List of world expositions">List of world expositions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_world%27s_fairs" title="List of world's fairs">List of world's fairs</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Century_21_Exposition&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Official Guide Book</i>, cover and <i>passim</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-UW-lib-1-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-UW-lib-1_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UW-lib-1_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-UW-lib-1_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/findaids/docs/photosgraphics/SeattleCenterGroundsPHColl403.xml">Guide to the Seattle Center Grounds Photograph Collection: April, 1963</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080327010923/http://lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/findaids/docs/photosgraphics/SeattleCenterGroundsPHColl403.xml">Archived</a> March 27, 2008, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. Accessed online October 18, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Connelly-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Connelly_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Connelly_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joel Connelly, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/66691_joel16.shtml">Century 21 introduced Seattle to its future</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20120914154149/http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/66691_joel16.shtml">Archived</a> September 14, 2012, at <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Post-Intelligencer" title="Seattle Post-Intelligencer">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</a></i>, April 16, 2002. Accessed online October 18, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Regina Hackett, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seattlepi.com/visualart/68136_wfairart.shtml">City's arts history began a new chapter in '62</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20120527084500/http://www.seattlepi.com/visualart/68136_wfairart.shtml">Archived</a> May 27, 2012, at <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a>, <i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i>, April 29, 2002. Accessed online October 18, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://godden.seattle.gov/2012/02/27/the-fair-that-launched-the-future/">"The Fair That Launched the Future"</a>. Seattle.gov. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180613172119/http://godden.seattle.gov/2012/02/27/the-fair-that-launched-the-future/">Archived</a> from the original on June 13, 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 4,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Fair+That+Launched+the+Future&rft.pub=Seattle.gov&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgodden.seattle.gov%2F2012%2F02%2F27%2Fthe-fair-that-launched-the-future%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACentury+21+Exposition" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lesson25-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-lesson25_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lesson25_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-lesson25_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Pacific%20Northwest%20History/Lessons/Lesson%2025/25.html">Lesson Twenty-five: The Impact of the Cold War on Washington: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110101081352/http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Pacific%20Northwest%20History/Lessons/Lesson%2025/25.html">Archived</a> January 1, 2011, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, HSTAA 432: History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. Accessed online October 18, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Berger-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Berger_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Berger_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBerger2007" class="citation web cs1">Berger, Knute (October 3, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080516124140/http://crosscut.com/mossback/7876/How+Sputnik+%27beeped%27+Seattle+into+the+21st+century/">"How Sputnik 'Beeped' Seattle into the 21st Century"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Crosscut.com" title="Crosscut.com">Crosscut</a></i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.crosscut.com/mossback/7876/How+Sputnik+'beeped'+Seattle+into+the+21st+century/">the original</a> on May 16, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 20,</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Crosscut&rft.atitle=How+Sputnik+%27Beeped%27+Seattle+into+the+21st+Century&rft.date=2007-10-03&rft.aulast=Berger&rft.aufirst=Knute&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crosscut.com%2Fmossback%2F7876%2FHow%2BSputnik%2B%27beeped%27%2BSeattle%2Binto%2Bthe%2B21st%2Bcentury%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACentury+21+Exposition" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Boswell-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Boswell_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Boswell_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Boswell_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Boswell_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sharon Boswell and Lorraine McConaghy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/centennial/september/future.html">A model for the future</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071017010718/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/centennial/september/future.html">Archived</a> October 17, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Seattle_Times" title="The Seattle Times">The Seattle Times</a></i>, September 22, 1996. Accessed online October 20, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Greg Lange, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historylink.org/_output.CFM?file_ID=967">President Kennedy's Cold War cold supersedes Seattle World's Fair closing ceremonies on October 21, 1962</a>, <a href="/wiki/HistoryLink.org" class="mw-redirect" title="HistoryLink.org">HistoryLink.org</a> Essay 967, March 15, 1999. Accessed online October 18, 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051122162319/http://www.historylink.org/_output.CFM?file_ID=967">Archived</a> November 22, 2005, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lesson26-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-lesson26_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Pacific%20Northwest%20History/Lessons/Lesson%2026/26.html">Lesson Twenty-six: Spokane's Expo '74: A World's Fair for the Environment</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101222030759/http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Pacific%20Northwest%20History/Lessons/Lesson%2026/26.html">Archived</a> December 22, 2010, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, HSTAA 432: History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest], Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. Accessed online April 9, 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HL-cyber-coliseum-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HL-cyber-coliseum_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HL-cyber-coliseum_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historylink.org/cybertour/index.cfm?file_id=7042">Point 22: World of Tomorrow</a>, "Century 21: Forward into the Past", "cybertour" of the exposition, <a href="/wiki/HistoryLink.org" class="mw-redirect" title="HistoryLink.org">HistoryLink.org</a>. Accessed online October 18, 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071016233618/http://www.historylink.org/cybertour/index.cfm?file_id=7042">Archived</a> October 16, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Thiry-oral-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Thiry-oral_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Thiry-oral_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Thiry-oral_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Thiry-oral_12-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/tranSCRIPTs/thiry83.htm">Interview with Paul Thiry Conducted by Meredith Clausen at the Artist's home September 15 & 16, 1983</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070706092954/http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/thiry83.htm">Archived</a> July 6, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian</a>, Archives of American Art. Accessed online October 18, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web1.seattle.gov/DPD/historicalsite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=-536238491">Summary for 305 Harrison ST / Parcel ID 1985200003 / Inv # CTR004</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110520174144/http://web1.seattle.gov/DPD/historicalsite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=-536238491">Archived</a> May 20, 2011, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Accessed online October 18, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-walking-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-walking_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-walking_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-walking_14-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-walking_14-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seattlecenter.com/images/media/pdf/SC%20CampusWalkingTour.pdf">Campus Walking Tour / Narrative for Seattle Center</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080227000311/http://www.seattlecenter.com/images/media/pdf/SC%20CampusWalkingTour.pdf">Archived</a> February 27, 2008, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Seattle Center. Accessed online October 19, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dorothea Mootafes, Theodora Dracopoulos Argue, Paul Plumis, Perry Scarlatos, Peggy Falangus Tramountanas, eds., <i>A History of Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church and Her People</i>, Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 2007 (1996). p. 112.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFThompsonMarr2002" class="citation book cs1">Thompson, Nile; Marr, Carolyn J. (2002). "Warren Avenue School". <i>Building for Learning: Seattle Public School Histories, 1862-2000</i>. Seattle Public Schools. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/54019052">54019052</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Warren+Avenue+School&rft.btitle=Building+for+Learning%3A+Seattle+Public+School+Histories%2C+1862-2000&rft.pub=Seattle+Public+Schools&rft.date=2002&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F54019052&rft.aulast=Thompson&rft.aufirst=Nile&rft.au=Marr%2C+Carolyn+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACentury+21+Exposition" class="Z3988"></span> Republished online by HistoryLink by permission of the Seattle Public School District: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10604">"Seattle Public Schools, 1862-2000: Warren Avenue School"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/HistoryLink" title="HistoryLink">HistoryLink</a></i>, Seattle: History Ink, September 12, 2013</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=HistoryLink&rft.atitle=Seattle+Public+Schools%2C+1862-2000%3A+Warren+Avenue+School&rft.date=2013-09-12&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historylink.org%2Findex.cfm%3FDisplayPage%3Doutput.cfm%26file_id%3D10604&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACentury+21+Exposition" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Florence K. Lentz and Mimi Sheridan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/ContextQueenAnneStatement2005.pdf">Queen Anne Historic Context Statement</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100607192530/http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/ContextQueenAnneStatement2005.pdf">Archived</a> June 7, 2010, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, prepared for the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, Historic Preservation Program and the Queen Anne Historical Society, October 2005, p. 22. Accessed online July 24, 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lentz_and_Sheridan,_2005,_p._23-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lentz_and_Sheridan,_2005,_p._23_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lentz_and_Sheridan,_2005,_p._23_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lentz and Sheridan, 2005, p. 23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=ZD-6035.ot.&Sect5=THES1&Sect6=HITOFF&d=THES&l=20&p=1&u=%2F~public%2Fthes1.htm&r=1&f=G">High-School-Memorial-Stadium</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110517185954/http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=ZD-6035.ot.&Sect5=THES1&Sect6=HITOFF&d=THES&l=20&p=1&u=%2F~public%2Fthes1.htm&r=1&f=G">Archived</a> May 17, 2011, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Seattle City Clerk's Thesaurus. Accessed online October 18, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Florence K. Lentz and Mimi Sheridan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/ContextQueenAnneStatement2005.pdf">Queen Anne Historic Context Statement</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100607192530/http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/ContextQueenAnneStatement2005.pdf">Archived</a> June 7, 2010, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, prepared for the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, Historic Preservation Program and the Queen Anne Historical Society, October 2005, p. 18. Accessed online July 24, 2008. Source for the 1927 date.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-jones-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-jones_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJones1972" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Nard_Jones" title="Nard Jones">Jones, Nard</a> (1972). <i>Seattle</i>. 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Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110520174722/http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/historicalsite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=169122387">Archived</a> from the original on May 20, 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 20,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Summary+for+201+Thomas+St&rft.pub=Seattle+Department+of+Neighborhoods&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fweb1.seattle.gov%2Fdpd%2Fhistoricalsite%2FQueryResult.aspx%3FID%3D169122387&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACentury+21+Exposition" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alan J. 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Accessed online October 18, 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Yamasaki-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Yamasaki_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Yamasaki_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Walt Crowley, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5352">Yamasaki, Minoru (1912–1986), Seattle-born architect of New York's World Trade Center</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071023082033/http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5352">Archived</a> October 23, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, HistoryLink.org Essay 5352, March 3, 2003. 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Science, Arts and Industries</a></li> <li>California Liberty Fair</li> <li>American Historical Review and Motion Picture Exposition</li> <li>French Exposition</li> <li>California's Diamond Jubilee</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sesquicentennial_Exposition" title="Sesquicentennial Exposition">Sesquicentennial Exposition</a></li> <li>Pacific Southwest Exposition</li> <li>Yorktown Sesquicentennial</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Century_of_Progress" title="Century of Progress">Century of Progress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Pacific_International_Exposition" title="California Pacific International Exposition">California Pacific International Exposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Centennial_Exposition" title="Texas Centennial Exposition">Texas Centennial Central Exposition (1936)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes_Exposition" title="Great Lakes Exposition">Great Lakes Exposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Texas_%26_Pan-American_Exposition" title="Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition">Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition</a></li> <li>Pan American Fair</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_New_York_World%27s_Fair" title="1939 New York World's Fair">1939 New York World's Fair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_International_Exposition" title="Golden Gate International Exposition">Golden Gate International Exposition</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Century 21 Exposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_New_York_World%27s_Fair" title="1964 New York World's Fair">1964 New York World's Fair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HemisFair_%2768" title="HemisFair '68">HemisFair '68</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_%2774" title="Expo '74">Expo '74</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_World%27s_Fair" title="1982 World's Fair">1982 World's Fair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Louisiana_World_Exposition" title="1984 Louisiana World Exposition">1984 Louisiana World Exposition</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Retroactively<br />recognized<br />expositions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Exhibition" title="Great Exhibition">London 1851</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1855)" title="Exposition Universelle (1855)">Paris 1855</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1862_International_Exhibition" title="1862 International Exhibition">London 1862</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1867)" title="Exposition Universelle (1867)">Paris 1867</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Vienna_World%27s_Fair" title="1873 Vienna World's Fair">Vienna 1873</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centennial_Exposition" title="Centennial Exposition">Philadelphia 1876</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1878)" title="Exposition Universelle (1878)">Paris 1878</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_International_Exhibition" title="Melbourne International Exhibition">Melbourne 1880</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1888_Barcelona_Universal_Exposition" title="1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition">Barcelona 1888</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1889)" title="Exposition Universelle (1889)">Paris 1889</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition" title="World's Columbian Exposition">Chicago 1893</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brussels_International_Exposition_(1897)" title="Brussels International Exposition (1897)">Brussels 1897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)" title="Exposition Universelle (1900)">Paris 1900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition" title="Louisiana Purchase Exposition">St. Louis 1904</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge_International_Exposition_(1905)" title="Liège International Exposition (1905)">Liège 1905</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milan_International" title="Milan International">Milan 1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brussels_International_Exposition_(1910)" title="Brussels International Exposition (1910)">Brussels 1910</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turin_International" title="Turin International">Turin 1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghent_International_Exposition_(1913)" title="Ghent International Exposition (1913)">Ghent 1913</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93Pacific_International_Exposition" title="Panama–Pacific International Exposition">San Francisco 1915</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_Barcelona_International_Exposition" title="1929 Barcelona International Exposition">Barcelona 1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibero-American_Exposition_of_1929" title="Ibero-American Exposition of 1929">Seville 1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Century_of_Progress" title="Century of Progress">Chicago 1933</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">BIE-recognized<br />Universal<br />expositions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brussels_International_Exposition_(1935)" title="Brussels International Exposition (1935)">Brussels 1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_Internationale_des_Arts_et_Techniques_dans_la_Vie_Moderne" title="Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne">Paris 1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_New_York_World%27s_Fair" title="1939 New York World's Fair">New York 1939–1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_internationale_du_bicentenaire_de_Port-au-Prince" title="Exposition internationale du bicentenaire de Port-au-Prince">Port-au-Prince 1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_58" title="Expo 58">Brussels 1958</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Seattle 1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_67" title="Expo 67">Montreal 1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_%2770" title="Expo '70">Osaka 1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_1992_World%27s_Fair" title="Chicago 1992 World's Fair">Chicago 1992</a><sup>‡</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seville_Expo_%2792" title="Seville Expo '92">Seville 1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2000" title="Expo 2000">Hannover 2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2005" title="Expo 2005">Aichi 2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2010" title="Expo 2010">Shanghai 2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2015" title="Expo 2015">Milan 2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2020" title="Expo 2020">Dubai 2020</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Expo_2025" title="Expo 2025">Osaka 2025</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Expo_2030" title="Expo 2030">Riyadh 2030</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">BIE-recognized<br />specialized<br />expositions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ILIS_1936" title="ILIS 1936">Stockholm 1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_International_Aeronautic_Exhibition" title="Second International Aeronautic Exhibition">Helsinki 1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_internationale_de_l%27eau" title="Exposition internationale de l'eau">Liège 1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Exhibition_on_Urbanism_and_Housing" title="International Exhibition on Urbanism and Housing">Paris 1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_Sport_Exhibition_(1949)" title="Universal Sport Exhibition (1949)">Stockholm 1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_International_Exhibition_of_Rural_Habitat" title="The International Exhibition of Rural Habitat">Lyon 1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_International_Textile_Exhibition" title="The International Textile Exhibition">Lille 1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Desert_(exhibition)" title="Conquest of the Desert (exhibition)">Jerusalem 1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EA_53" title="EA 53">Rome 1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_International_Exhibition_of_Navigation" title="The International Exhibition of Navigation">Naples 1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_International_Expo_of_Sport_(1955)" title="The International Expo of Sport (1955)">Turin 1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helsingborg_Exhibition_1955" title="Helsingborg Exhibition 1955">Helsingborg 1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exhibition_of_citriculture" class="mw-redirect" title="Exhibition of citriculture">Beit Dagan 1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interbau" title="Interbau">Berlin 1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_61" title="Expo 61">Turin 1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IVA_65" title="IVA 65">Munich 1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HemisFair_%2768" title="HemisFair '68">San Antonio 1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_71" title="Expo 71">Budapest 1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_%2774" title="Expo '74">Spokane 1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_%2775" title="Expo '75">Okinawa 1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_81" title="Expo 81">Plovdiv 1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_World%27s_Fair" title="1982 World's Fair">Knoxville 1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Louisiana_World_Exposition" title="1984 Louisiana World Exposition">New Orleans 1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_85_(Plovdiv,_Bulgaria)" title="Expo 85 (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)">Plovdiv 1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_85_(Tsukuba,_Japan)" title="Expo 85 (Tsukuba, Japan)">Tsukuba 1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_86" title="Expo 86">Vancouver 1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Expo_88" title="World Expo 88">Brisbane 1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_91" title="Expo 91">Plovdiv 1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genoa_Expo_%2792" title="Genoa Expo '92">Genoa 1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_%2793" title="Expo '93">Taejŏn 1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_%2798" title="Expo '98">Lisbon 1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2008" title="Expo 2008">Zaragoza 2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2012" title="Expo 2012">Yeosu 2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2017" title="Expo 2017">Astana 2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2023" title="Expo 2023">Buenos Aires 2023</a><sup>‡</sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Expo_2027" title="Expo 2027">Belgrade 2027</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">BIE-recognized<br />horticultural<br />exhibitions (AIPH)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Floriade_1960" title="Floriade 1960">Rotterdam 1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parc_floral_de_Paris" title="Parc floral de Paris">Paris 1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floriade_1972" title="Floriade 1972">Amsterdam 1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internationale_Gartenbauausstellung_73" title="Internationale Gartenbauausstellung 73">Hamburg 1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiener_Internationale_Gartenschau_74" title="Wiener Internationale Gartenschau 74">Vienna 1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floralies_Internationales_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Floralies Internationales de Montréal">Montreal 1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floriade_1982" title="Floriade 1982">Amsterdam 1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Garden_Expo_83" title="International Garden Expo 83">Munich 1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Garden_Festival" title="International Garden Festival">Liverpool 1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_%2790" title="Expo '90">Osaka 1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floriade_1992" title="Floriade 1992">Zoetermeer 1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_World_Horticultural_Exposition" title="1993 World Horticultural Exposition">Stuttgart 1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_World_Horticultural_Exposition" title="1999 World Horticultural Exposition">Kunming 1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floriade_2002" title="Floriade 2002">Haarlemmermeer 2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_World_Horticultural_Exposition" title="2003 World Horticultural Exposition">Rostock 2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Flora_Ratchaphruek_2006" title="Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006">Chiang Mai 2006–2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floriade_2012" title="Floriade 2012">Venlo 2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2016" title="Expo 2016">Antalya 2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_2019" title="Expo 2019">Beijing 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floriade_2022" title="Floriade 2022">Almere 2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Horticultural_Expo_2023_Doha_Qatar" title="International Horticultural Expo 2023 Doha Qatar">Doha 2023</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=World_Horticultural_Exhibition_2027&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="World Horticultural Exhibition 2027 (page does not exist)">Yokohama 2027</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Not BIE-<br />recognized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Exhibition" title="Sierra Leone Exhibition">Freetown 1865</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_International_Exhibition" title="South African International Exhibition">Cape Town 1877</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_and_International_Exhibition" title="South African and International Exhibition">Kimberley 1892–1893</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empire_Exhibition,_South_Africa" title="Empire Exhibition, South Africa">Johannesburg 1936–1937</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calcutta_International_Exhibition" title="Calcutta International Exhibition">Calcutta 1883–1884</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanoi_Exhibition" title="Hanoi Exhibition">Hanoi 1902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanyang_industrial_exposition" title="Nanyang industrial exposition">Nanking 1910</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_Exhibition_of_Semarang" title="Colonial Exhibition of Semarang">Semarang 1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westlake_exposition" title="Westlake exposition">Hangzhou 1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Taiwan_Exposition:_In_Commemoration_of_the_First_Forty_Years_of_Colonial_Rule" title="The Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule">Taihoku (Taipei) 1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagoya_Pan-Pacific_Peace_Exposition" title="Nagoya Pan-Pacific Peace Exposition">Nagoya 1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expo_Pilipino" title="Expo Pilipino">Clark 1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenyang_China_International_Horticultural_Exposition" title="Shenyang China International Horticultural Exposition">Shenyang 2006</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Flora_Ratchaphruek_2011&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2011 (page does not exist)">Chiang Mai 2011–2012</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Udon_Thani_International_Horticultural_Expo_2026&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Udon Thani International Horticultural Expo 2026 (page does not exist)">Udon Thani 2026</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Exhibition_(1760)" title="First Exhibition (1760)">London 1760</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Industrial_Exhibition_(1853)" title="Great Industrial Exhibition (1853)">Dublin 1853</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Art_Treasures_Exhibition,_Manchester_1857" title="Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857">Manchester 1857</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_International_Exhibition" title="1865 International Exhibition">Porto 1865</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Industrial_Exposition_of_Stockholm_(1866)" title="General Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1866)">Stockholm 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annual_International_Exhibitions_(London_1871%E2%80%9374)" class="mw-redirect" title="Annual International Exhibitions (London 1871–74)">London 1871–1874</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Exposition_universelle_de_1872&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Exposition universelle de 1872 (page does not exist)">Lyon 1872</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1873_Vienna_World%27s_Fair" title="1873 Vienna World's Fair">Vienna 1873</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Colonial_and_Export_Exhibition" title="International Colonial and Export Exhibition">Amsterdam 1883</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Exhibition_of_Navigation,_Commerce_and_Industry" title="International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry">Liverpool 1886</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_and_Indian_Exhibition" title="Colonial and Indian Exhibition">London 1886</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_Exhibition_of_1888" title="Nordic Exhibition of 1888">Copenhagen 1888</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Exhibition_of_Science,_Art_and_Industry" title="International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry">Glasgow 1888</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Exhibition" title="International Electrotechnical Exhibition">Frankfurt 1891</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Land_Centennial_Exhibition_(1891)" class="mw-redirect" title="General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891)">Prague 1891</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_internationale_et_coloniale_(1894)" title="Exposition internationale et coloniale (1894)">Lyon 1894</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Exposi%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Insular_e_Colonial_Portuguesa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Exposição Insular e Colonial Portuguesa (page does not exist)">Oporto 1894</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Industrial_Exposition_of_Berlin" title="Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin">Berlin 1896</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Art_and_Industrial_Exposition_of_Stockholm" title="General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm">Stockholm 1897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_International_Exhibition_(1901)" title="Glasgow International Exhibition (1901)">Glasgow 1901</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cork_International_Exhibition" title="Cork International Exhibition">Cork 1902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval,_Shipping_and_Fisheries_Exhibition" title="Naval, Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition">London 1905</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Austrian_Exhibition" title="Imperial Austrian Exhibition">London 1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_exhibition" title="Colonial exhibition">Marseille 1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_International_Exhibition" title="Irish International Exhibition">Dublin 1907</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franco-British_Exhibition" title="Franco-British Exhibition">London 1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispano-French_Exposition_of_1908" title="Hispano-French Exposition of 1908">Zaragoza 1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93British_Exhibition" title="Japan–British Exhibition">London 1910</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Hygiene_Exhibition" title="International Hygiene Exhibition">Dresden 1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festival_of_Empire" title="Festival of Empire">London 1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin-British_Exhibition" title="Latin-British Exhibition">London 1912</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_internationale_urbaine_de_Lyon" title="Exposition internationale urbaine de Lyon">Lyon 1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werkbund_Exhibition_(1914)" title="Werkbund Exhibition (1914)">Cologne 1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-American_Exhibition" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-American Exhibition">London 1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1914_Jubilee_Exhibition" title="1914 Jubilee Exhibition">Kristiania 1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_Exhibition" title="Baltic Exhibition">Malmö 1914</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Exhibition_of_Rubber_and_Other_Tropical_Products&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Exhibition of Rubber and Other Tropical Products (page does not exist)">London 1921</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Exposition_nationale_coloniale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Exposition nationale coloniale (page does not exist)">Marseille 1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothenburg_Exhibition_(1923)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gothenburg Exhibition (1923)">Gothenburg 1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Empire_Exhibition" title="British Empire Exhibition">British Empire Exhibition 1924–1925</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposition_internationale_coloniale,_maritime_et_d%27art_flamand" title="Exposition internationale coloniale, maritime et d'art flamand">Antwerp 1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stockholm_Exhibition_(1930)" title="Stockholm Exhibition (1930)">Stockholm 1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Colonial_Exposition" title="Paris Colonial Exposition">Paris 1931</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Exposi%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Colonial_Portuguesa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Exposição Colonial Portuguesa (page does not exist)">Porto 1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empire_Exhibition,_Scotland" title="Empire Exhibition, Scotland">Glasgow 1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Exhibition" title="Norwegian Exhibition">Stockholm 1943</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Institute_Fair" title="American Institute Fair">New York City 1826–1897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exhibition_of_the_Industry_of_All_Nations" title="Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations">Bryant Park, New York City 1853</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Cotton_Exposition" title="International Cotton Exposition">Atlanta 1881</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Exposition" title="Southern Exposition">Louisville 1883–1887</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Cotton_Centennial" title="World Cotton Centennial">New Orleans 1884</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piedmont_Exposition" title="Piedmont Exposition">Atlanta 1887</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Midwinter_International_Exposition_of_1894" title="California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894">San Francisco 1894</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cotton_States_and_International_Exposition" title="Cotton States and International Exposition">Atlanta 1895</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Centennial_and_International_Exposition" title="Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition">Nashville 1897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Mississippi_Exposition" title="Trans-Mississippi Exposition">Omaha 1898</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan-American_Exposition" title="Pan-American Exposition">Buffalo 1901</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Inter-State_and_West_Indian_Exposition" title="South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition">Charleston 1901–1902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Centennial_Exposition" title="Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition">Portland, Oregon 1905</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamestown_Exposition" title="Jamestown Exposition">Jamestown 1907</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alaska%E2%80%93Yukon%E2%80%93Pacific_Exposition" title="Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition">Seattle 1909</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Conservation_Exposition" title="National Conservation Exposition">Knoxville 1913</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93California_Exposition" title="Panama–California Exposition">San Diego 1915–1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bronx_International_Exposition_of_Science,_Arts_and_Industries" title="Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries">Bronx 1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sesquicentennial_Exposition" title="Sesquicentennial Exposition">Philadelphia 1926</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Pacific_International_Exposition" title="California Pacific International Exposition">San Diego 1935–1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Centennial_Exposition" title="Texas Centennial Exposition">Dallas 1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes_Exposition" title="Great Lakes Exposition">Cleveland 1936–1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Texas_%26_Pan-American_Exposition" title="Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition">Dallas 1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_International_Exposition" title="Golden Gate International Exposition">San Francisco 1939–1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Negro_Exposition" title="American Negro Exposition">Chicago 1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_New_York_World%27s_Fair" title="1964 New York World's Fair">New York City 1964–1965</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Intercolonial_Exhibition_of_Australasia_(1866)" class="mw-redirect" title="Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia (1866)">Melbourne 1866</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Intercolonial_Exhibition" title="Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition">Sydney 1870</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Intercolonial_Exhibition" title="Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition">Melbourne 1875</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intercolonial_Exhibition_(1876)" class="mw-redirect" title="Intercolonial Exhibition (1876)">Brisbane 1876</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_International_Exhibition" title="Sydney International Exhibition">Sydney 1879</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Jubilee_International_Exhibition" title="Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition">Adelaide 1887</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Centennial_Exhibition" title="Melbourne Centennial Exhibition">Melbourne 1888</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_and_South_Seas_Exhibition_(1889)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1889)">Dunedin 1889</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Exhibition_(1906)" title="International Exhibition (1906)">Christchurch 1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auckland_Exhibition" title="Auckland Exhibition">Auckland 1913–1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_and_South_Seas_International_Exhibition" title="New Zealand and South Seas 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