Newspaper and Magazine Articles

There have been hundreds of articles written about the 1952 Seattle World's Fair. I'm in the process of compiling a list of as many of them as possible. Those listed with clickable links are available here online. If you have articles to share online please send me an e-mail.

Post-Intelligencer

• 10/12/61 - Souvenirs Could Bury Space Needle
• 12/9/61 - World's Fair Monorail Inching To Completion
• 12/7/61 - World's Fair Fountain Underway NEW
• 12/28/61 - Home Base For Monorail Taking Shape
• 1/10/62 - Heigh Ho! Come To The Fair - Via Monorail, Of Course!
• 1/23/62 - U.S. Science Exhibit Greatest NEW
• 2/1/62 - Don't Stand Too Close To Edge (Space Needle) NEW
• 3/5/62 - Jarvis' Fascinating Facts (Monorail)

Seattle Times, The

• 1961 - Ring Girder for Eye of Needle NEW
• 10/9/61 - Rides of All Sorts Set for Seattle World's Fair Gayway
• 10/22/61 - Building Atop Space Needle
• 11/5/61 - Project Boss Notes Progress in Week (Space Needle construction) NEW
• 11/6/61 - 'World of Tomorrow' Progress Shown
• 12/5/61 - Dome for Fountain Installed NEW
• 12/21/61 - Needle's Derrick Taken Down NEW
• 12/29/61 - To the Fair (Monorail)
• 4/19/87 - The Fair That Made Seattle NEW

Unknown publications

• 9/61 - Novel Architecture for Fair (Coliseum)
• 11/61 - Space Needle Turntable Section Lifted
• 12/61 - The Needle's Tree NEW
• 12/3/61 - First Meal Atop Needle
• 12/5/61 - 'Needle of Flame' Passes Tests (Space Needle)
• 12/7/61 - The Needle Gets a Halo
• 12/9/61 - Beacon Of Flame Atop Space Needle NEW
• 12/29/61 - Winding Maze - Interior of Coliseum
• 12/31/61 - The World's Fair: Another Progress Report (construction update)
• 4/19/82 - Fair leftovers found even in Wisconsin NEW
• 4/26/62 - Seattle Fair Girls Parade Bare Bosoms NEW
• 1987 - Pools, arches and flying rats: some science-center trivia NEW
• 1987 - The Future of Seattle Center NEW
• 15 Restaurants Of All Types Planned For World's Fair
• Budget-minded Can Spend Day at Century 21 for $5.19
• How to Pull Off a Fair NEW
• Major Step in Monorail Construction
• Monorail Ready to Roll
• Paul Bunyan's 25,000 lb. Birthday Cake
• Plenty To Do, But We'll Do It
• Spectacular View Atop Needle
• (miscellaneous Space Needle stories)
• (trees at downtown Monorail Station)

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