I was a 4yr old little boy at the time of the 1962 World's Fair, and yes I WAS THERE. I love the 8mm camera in COLOR. That was the Seattle I and my siblings KNEW and grew up in, those were GOOD TIMES.....Now that City NO LONGER EXIST.....WHAT A DAMN SHAME!!
Great film clip! Was a good area to grow up in. we lived 3 mi North of (what was then) little 'ol Bothell but just over the Snohomish line. I was 11 that summer. We had many out of town friends & family visit us to go to the fair. from the top of a huge fir tree i liked to climb i could see the top half of the space needle with binos- just sticking out over the hills 20 miles to the Southwest.
Was a great time to live & work in Seattle! Friendly people and never a thought about safety. More civility back then, definitely. The lack of hi-rise buildings downtown is breath-taking, compared to today!
Ahhhh...the memories!! Catching the monorail downtown long before there was a Westlake Center. Riding the Wild Mouse...loved it!! Looking out over downtown from the Space Needle. Downtown has changed so much that if it wasn't for the Smith Tower, you wouldn't know it was the same place. Anyone remember a restaurant located downtown near the old monorail entrance called the "Green Onion" (aka the "Grunion)?" A friend and I used to eat there all the time. Thanks for the memories!
Yes! I had a liverwurst and cream cheese sandwich at the Green Onion one time, why that memory sticks I'm not sure. I'd see it, part of the fabric of downtown :)
😂 I looked through the crowds there...I was 12 and my parents and three sisters lived in san diego but drove every summer to spend 2 weeks with my grandparents in Tacoma. 1962 we got to go to Seattle for the fair...like the rambler wagon...my dad always had a Studebaker wagon 😂..Ty so much for this film..❤
I remember taking my first ride to the top of the space needle as a kid. Those huge columns zipped by on the way up, then the door opened at the top, and the gap between the door, and the entrance seemed like the Grand Canyon to me! Yikes! Seattle Centers hay day was an incredible time in history. So very grateful to be a part of it!
Love this! My dad (passed away in 2013) worked at this fair. I love seeing it and imagining what it was like to be there. Though several buildings remain very similar at the fairgrounds location (the Space Needle, Science Center, Key Arena), it's hard to picture how it was then with all the grand excitement. Thanks for sharing!
I remember seeing them film a scene with Elvis and a young Kurt Russell from the movie (It Happened the Worlds Fair). I was amazed on how long it took complete such a small scene, movies take forever to make.
Great movie. looks like a wonderful family & great vacation. Loved seeing memories of the Worlds Fair. In later years, the monorail was part of my work commute. Cheers!
Times were PERCIEVED to be simpler as we were children and didn't have to worry about major, very concerning issues like the Cuban missile crisis. That was for the adults to worry about. I'm fairly certain that parents didn't explain to their children that we were about to be blown up. Fair enough?
@@tonyf.8858yeah my father grew up in Puget Sound and has some stories about skid row back then that would rival any bad neighborhood today. People view the past through rose colored glasses.
@@Chaz31358 That is so very true, Chaz. By the way, in Seattle the correct term for that bad area was skid road, not row, as that was the road they used to skid the logs down which ended up at the mill at the bottom of the hill. My dad told me that as he lived in that area as a child. I wonder if our dads knew each other???
Only tourists actually EAT at the Space Needle. The locals know better. And few of us have actually been to the top of the Needle anyway. All jokes aside, it is good footage.
meanwhile, I am glad that there's no sound, because if the pressed oxford (while camping) family had all busted out with "doe - a - deer.." it would've been too much. cheers : )
Glad someone was smart enuff to do this looking back to when Seattle was a care free and wonderful place to be compared to the toilet it is today...I grew up in this town in the 50s and seen it turn to $hit 😣.what a terrible disatser its turned out to be, absolutley discusting and proves how far the world and civilization has declned
Absolutely...Just about the same for Vancouver and all of our cities in Canada. I was a kid in those days and remember how care-free and simple it was compared to now. We had a common culture with morals and manners. Families were strong and disciplined. Life was full of hope and promise. We are living a dystopian nightmare now. All I can see is the broken dream --the wreckage of "The Great Betrayal".
I was a 4yr old little boy at the time of the 1962 World's Fair, and yes I WAS THERE. I love the 8mm camera in COLOR. That was the Seattle I and my siblings KNEW and grew up in, those were GOOD TIMES.....Now that City NO LONGER EXIST.....WHAT A DAMN SHAME!!
Time is so weird. This video makes me sad. I hope all these people got to stay this happy.
I feel the same way
Thank you for the memories I am fast losing
Scanning the crowd for my grandparents, father and uncles. They grew up on Whidbey Island and came to town for this.
Great film clip! Was a good area to grow up in. we lived 3 mi North of (what was then) little 'ol Bothell but just over the Snohomish line. I was 11 that summer. We had many out of town friends & family visit us to go to the fair. from the top of a huge fir tree i liked to climb i could see the top half of the space needle with binos- just sticking out over the hills 20 miles to the Southwest.
Beach camping footage appears to be near La Push, WA. You can recognize the big island at the mouth of the river. It's James Island.
Was a great time to live & work in Seattle! Friendly people and never a thought about safety. More civility back then, definitely. The lack of hi-rise buildings downtown is breath-taking, compared to today!
La Push, WA is the town they're in on the coast. A truly beautiful place. I almost died there.
Love these. Wish the times were simple like this again...
What stands out to me, the '62 World's Fair was less than 17 years after the end of WWII. How impressive the country seemed.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful family memories.
Pretty cool to see color videos. When I was little watching old TV shows I actually thought the world was Black & White not just the TV.
Rare to see the happy family together like this, now. Cool film.
Thanks for having me along with you Barstow family. I had a good time.
Ahhhh...the memories!! Catching the monorail downtown long before there was a Westlake Center. Riding the Wild Mouse...loved it!! Looking out over downtown from the Space Needle. Downtown has changed so much that if it wasn't for the Smith Tower, you wouldn't know it was the same place. Anyone remember a restaurant located downtown near the old monorail entrance called the "Green Onion" (aka the "Grunion)?" A friend and I used to eat there all the time. Thanks for the memories!
Yes! I had a liverwurst and cream cheese sandwich at the Green Onion one time, why that memory sticks I'm not sure. I'd see it, part of the fabric of downtown :)
😂 I looked through the crowds there...I was 12 and my parents and three sisters lived in san diego but drove every summer to spend 2 weeks with my grandparents in Tacoma. 1962 we got to go to Seattle for the fair...like the rambler wagon...my dad always had a Studebaker wagon 😂..Ty so much for this film..❤
I remember taking my first ride to the top of the space needle as a kid. Those huge columns zipped by on the way up, then the door opened at the top, and the gap between the door, and the entrance seemed like the Grand Canyon to me! Yikes! Seattle Centers hay day was an incredible time in history. So very grateful to be a part of it!
Fantastic footage. I wish my family's home movies looked this good.
Love this! My dad (passed away in 2013) worked at this fair. I love seeing it and imagining what it was like to be there. Though several buildings remain very similar at the fairgrounds location (the Space Needle, Science Center, Key Arena), it's hard to picture how it was then with all the grand excitement. Thanks for sharing!
I really enjoyed this film, the gentleman falling over in the lawn chair gave me a very honest laugh. Also the quality is astounding :)
I remember seeing them film a scene with Elvis and a young Kurt Russell from the movie (It Happened the Worlds Fair). I was amazed on how long it took complete such a small scene, movies take forever to make.
Thanks. Actually one of very few videos where you can see they are still building I-5
Even had some added old school effects 👌
great video, amazing quality.
Second Beach near La Push? Awesome footage... thanks for sharing!
I remembered so well what I said each time I
operated the bubblelator.
Neat seeing films like this. Thanks for sharing!
Great movie. looks like a wonderful family & great vacation. Loved seeing memories of the Worlds Fair. In later years, the monorail was part of my work commute. Cheers!
you can just tell times were simpler, everyone is in the moment
Times were PERCIEVED to be simpler as we were children and didn't have to worry about major, very concerning issues like the Cuban missile crisis. That was for the adults to worry about. I'm fairly certain that parents didn't explain to their children that we were about to be blown up. Fair enough?
@@tonyf.8858yeah my father grew up in Puget Sound and has some stories about skid row back then that would rival any bad neighborhood today. People view the past through rose colored glasses.
@@Chaz31358 That is so very true, Chaz. By the way, in Seattle the correct term for that bad area was skid road, not row, as that was the road they used to skid the logs down which ended up at the mill at the bottom of the hill. My dad told me that as he lived in that area as a child. I wonder if our dads knew each other???
This will always remind me of Elvis, then Warren Beattie in The Parallax View.
GREAT!! the film looks so good too! GREAT.
Thanks so much for sharing this. I wish I was there.
I didn't know bumper stickers were a thing in 62!
Only tourists actually EAT at the Space Needle. The locals know better. And few of us have actually been to the top of the Needle anyway. All jokes aside, it is good footage.
Why did only tourists EAT at the fair? Locals knew better...I don't get it.
The food up there actually used to be affordable and good. It’s inconceivable now.
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Two years before Beatlemania. Nice 😂❤😊
meanwhile, I am glad that there's no sound, because if the pressed oxford (while camping) family had all busted out with "doe - a - deer.." it would've been too much. cheers : )
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I wore a space suite and escorted tourists about on the bubblelator's weird passageways. I
Was that fun?
Peter Sherman cool!
I dunno, we are a funny people on the west coast. I went to that fair too, at the age of 2, but my family's movies aren't nearly so well organized....
real america.
Would love to get back to CIVILIZATION but there is no train to hop on. We are going to have to fight it out here.
these must be city people.... camping on stones, fishing where fish don't swim and the lawn chair incident... oh well as long as they had fun....
So refreshing to not seeing people with blue or purple hair. Seattle is horrible today.
Colored hair oh no the horror
Glad someone was smart enuff to do this looking back to when Seattle was a care free and wonderful place to be compared to the toilet it is today...I grew up in this town in the 50s and seen it turn to $hit 😣.what a terrible disatser its turned out to be, absolutley discusting and proves how far the world and civilization has declned
Absolutely...Just about the same for Vancouver and all of our cities in Canada. I was a kid in those days and remember how care-free and simple it was compared to now. We had a common culture with morals and manners. Families were strong and disciplined. Life was full of hope and promise. We are living a dystopian nightmare now. All I can see is the broken dream --the wreckage of "The Great Betrayal".
The good old days when the Space Needle was a prime location for suicides.