The 50th anniversary of Expo '74 will be celebrated in Spokane with a series of events throughout the spring and summer.
This year marks a half-century since Spokane hosted its very own world’s fair – the event known as Expo ’74.did so much to alter the course of Seattle’s history, it can be easy for those west of the Cascades to discount how much theFor the fair in Seattle, the city adopted the theme of “Century 21,” which exemplified the Space Age and looked to a future enhanced and improved by technology.
And, said Youngs, King Cole’s skillful guidance and the community stepping up are “a study in civic leadership and the capacity of just the right persons at the right time to make something happen. Because if you were to look at it 100 years ago, or 80 years ago and say, ‘Will Spokane ever have a World Fair?’ I’m sure they’d say, ‘I don’t even want to think about that.
“Not to take anything away from the location of Century 21,” Youngs said, referring to Seattle Center, “it’s a lovely park, but it’s basically a piece of ground. Whereas, there’s a piece of ground in the case of Expo ’74 but there’s also a magnificent waterfall and rapids that had been almost totally forgotten in the years before. And now it’s arguably the most dramatic urban riverfront anywhere in the country.
Many Seattle area residents can likely remember a similar phenomenon well into the 1970s and 1980s when it seemed that nearly every garage sale was required to have at least one partial set of commemorative 1962 Seattle World’s Fair drinking glasses on hand and available for purchase. It was fun watching children, then and now, with their candy wrapper or whatever kind of squeal with delight, as the goat took the candy wrapper but didn’t take their hand,” he continued.As many people still remember, the spring of 1974 was in the thick of the Watergate scandal, so it was a bit controversial for some that President Richard Nixon was scheduled to speak at the opening ceremonies.
“And President Nixon got up on the podium and I introduced him with, you know, the simple statement, ‘The President of the United States,’ Evans said. “And he turned to me in a very clear voice and said, ‘Thank you, Governor Evidence.’ Then he said, ‘I mean Evans.'”
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