Bill Cotter

Seattle's 1962 World's Fair (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the late 1950s, Seattle's civic and business leaders were worried about the city losing its dominant position as a trading partner with the lucrative Pacific Rim nations. Interested in showing off all that the city and state had to offer in the hope of gaining new business, their unlikely solution was a world's fair, the first to be held in the United States since 1940. Other cities across the nation also competed for the honor, but Seattle surprised them all with a thoughtful and well-financed plan that would forever increase the world's awareness of the "e;Emerald City."e; More than nine million visitors came to enjoy the soaring Space Needle, the futuristic monorail, and the dozens of colorful pavilions at the fair.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439654262
• Artikelnr.: 44784649

Autorenporträt

Bill Cotter has been an avid scholar and fan of world's fairs since his first visit to the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. His collection of vintage photographs has been featured in numerous books, including five previous titles for Arcadia, as well as in magazine articles, documentaries, and on Web sites that document the histories of the fairs.