Century 21 Exhibit

Seattle’s World FairApril 21-October 21, 1962

Putting the Century 21 in Context

JFK opens the Fair

• Used the same Gold Key that opened the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Attendance

• Over 10 million people came to the Fair!

• In addition, it was financially successful, which doesn’t usually happen at Expos!

An overview of the Fair

• Video Produced by Bell Telephone

Architecture

• Almost everything was designed by local architects.

Celebrities at the Fair

• ELVIS!!!!! ( I swoon)• Igor Stravinsky (I swoon even more)• Ella Fitzgerald (Somebody get the

smelling salts.)• John Wayne (I didn’t swoon, he

knocked me out.)• Cosmonaut Gherman Titov• Astronaut John Glenn

(It was lack of oxygen, I swear!)

Other Interesting Things