History and industry and elbow-rubbing

[scarlettina]

Tonight, as recorded only a couple of hours ago, I attended a reception at MOHAI for the opening of a new exhibit there, Essential Seattle, which follows the history of the city from its Native American heritage through the WTO riots and more. Some of the city's great and good were in attendance; the crowd seemed well-informed and enthuastic. The

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[holyoutlaw]

A brush with greatness! Wow!

[gaelfarce]

Jan Drago? Janissary Dragoman? THAT must be why Transpo sucks! arrrghhh

*huzzah for not all that close homophones!*

MOHAI

[ladyjestocost]

My grandfather went to the AYP, and some of my earliest memories are of the World's Fair - the Bubbleator operator and the pylons outside the building that's now the Science Center (I did not like those for some reason). We lived in Marysville then, and my grandparents had given my parents season tickets to the fair.

I think the Bubbleator started out in the Coliseum (Key Arena) and after the fair, went to the Food Circus (Armory before the Fair, now Center House) and after the Food Circus's remodel in the early 80s, wound up as someone's greenhouse in West Seattle.

The Sky ride at the Puyallup also started out at the World's Fair, and was on the center grounds for many years. I think it moved when they built the Bagley Wright Theater.

[bedii]

If you enjoyed Sons of the Profits you must read Totem Tales of Old Seattle. (I'd lend you my copy but you'd have to help me shelve books to find it.) I gave Kaja a copy some years ago: there was a mass-market paperback from a publisher that went broke a month after they printed it, but there are enough hardbacks around that you may luck into one.

What would be even better is if we could find you some of the Seattle magazines from the 60's. Basically, the top reporters at KING did a magazine with all the stuff they couldn't put on the air. Until the Bullett family had to pull the plug because of the financial drain on the rest of the company it was the muckraking magazine in Seattle. The Weekly and The Stranger only dream of raising that much hell.