The exuberant London Olympics made me want to revisit the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, the city where I grew up.
The Space Needle, Monorail and Bubblelator of “Century 21” not only pointed to an exciting technology-driven future. The fair did what great urban spectacles like the Olympics are supposed to do: It put the city on the map, jump-starting a half-century of transformation.
