Summary: | Opening day crowds, Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair).“President Kennedy opened the long-awaited space-age Seattle World’s Fair by tapping a golden telegraph key in Palm Beach. The same key was used by President Taft on June 1, 1909, to begin the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle…Thousands of first-day visitors began filling the 74-acre fairgrounds as the time neared for the grand-opening ceremony in the Memorial Stadium.” (Stanton H. Patty, Seattle Times, April 21, 1962, p. 1.) Union 76 Skyride; Million Silver Dollar Display; Gayway; Memorial Stadium Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso. 25 x 20 cm Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file. Photoshop used to reduce access image to 600 pixels on long edge; master image file size: 84,349,752 bytes.
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