But the Space Needle, though designed for a specific purpose — icon of the “Century 21” World’s Fair — wound up with a strangely enduring look. Carlson, the fair committee chairman ...

More on the world’s first rotating glass floor When the Space Needle opened at the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962, it featured a rotating restaurant on the 500-foot level, just below the ...

The Space Needle is getting doubly cool. Visitors to the iconic Seattle tower can now ride to the top in a double-decker, floor-to-ceiling glass elevator — the first of its kind in North America — in ...

Soaring above everything at the World’s Fair and on the cover of the “Space Age Frontiers” section was the Space Needle with elevators that moved with “rocketlike speed” and a 40-foot ...

The Space Needle is located in Seattle Washington. It was built in 1962 just in time for the World's Fair. The top looks like a Flying Saucer and is meant to inspire people to look towards the future.

Carlson, who was a chief organizer of the 1962 World’s Fair, traveled to Stuttgart, Germany, where he was inspired by a broadcast tower featuring a restaurant, according to the Space Needle's ...

But in Seattle, the mood was anticipatory—and awaiting the Century 21 World’s Fair and the unveiling of the new Space Needle. The 1962 World’s Fair—an exposition of modern technology and ...

In March 1956 the World Fair Commission surveyed possible sites for the proposed fair. Eddie Carlson, the man who made the first sketch of the Space Needle, was chairman of the commission.

The Seattle Space Needle unveiled a new attraction on Friday as part of a $100 million privately funded improvement project.

Read more about that here. - The Space Needle was built for $3.5 million with carbon steel called A36, according to the World's Fair media guide. More facts about the Space Needle can be found on ...

It gave us an international civic symbol, the Space Needle, second only to the Eiffel Tower as a world’s fair souvenir and a tourist attraction known around the world. The 1947 High School Memorial ...