184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 10: Industrial Exhibits Postcard

A view of the Industrial Exhibits during the Fair.

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 9: An Aerial View

A postcard of an aerial view of the World's Fair.

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 8: Century 21 Exposition (Early Artist Rendition)

*Note - There is no Space Needle!*

Opening day, April 21, 1962, at Century 21 Exposition, America's Space Age World's Fair. "Man in the Space Age" is the theme of a glittering display of today and tomorrow...with international science exhibits, exotic bazaars, a gayway of the future and a wealth of displays.

Educational Films #17: The Fun of Being Thoughtful (1950)

The original uploader Shaggylocks describes this film in a fantastic way:

"Everywhere you go, people talk about thoughtfulness." With this premise in mind, we are wisked into the life of "Jane Proctor," a happy teen who is slavishly devoted to her "fine, thoughtful family." While uttering lines such as "It'd be the thoughtful thing to do," and "That's what makes thoughtfulness worthwhile!" Jane tidies her room, fixes dinner for the family, and fixes her geeky brother Eddie up with a date. In the end, Jane's thoughtfulness pays off ("A new dress!!!") and we leave the Proctor family basking in the sunshine of family togetherness. The script for this film flies in several directions at once, which makes it fun but a little hard to follow.

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 7: Gayway (Early Concept)

The Seattle World's Fair features a GAYWAY amusement zone unique in the history of the world's fairs on a three-acre tract near the Space Needle and the terminal of the Monorail. a $2 million operation of mostly European up-to-date attractions, arranged by international experts in the amusement field.

Note the early concept drawing of the Space Needle

Two Egyptian Belly Dancers at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, 1958

Two unknown belly dancers at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida sometime in 1958.

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 6: Downtown Monorail Terminal

MONORAIL TERMINAL in Seattle's Westlake mall. The first high-speed Monorail system in the U.S.A. This sleek vehicle of the future whisks visitors from downtown Seattle to the World's Fair grounds - over a mile away - in 96 seconds and is being eyed by other metropolitan cities of the country for the solution to their mass transportation problems.

Motel Monday: El Rancho

This week Motel Monday is taking a trip South of the Border down Mexico (yet still in America and Canada) way. All of the motels this week have El Rancho in their name. I guess the point was to conjure up images of Mexican and Wild West culture. A lot of the signs for El Ranchos feature a silhouette of a sleeping hombre or a cowboy to further complete the illusion.

The El Rancho Motor Hotel - Calexico, California

El Rancho Motel - Tacoma, Washington

El Rancho Motor Lodge - Rock Springs, Wyoming

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 5: Seattle From The Needle

Downtown Seattle looking south from the gift shop window of the Space Needle, 550 feet above the city. At the lower left can be seen the double tracks of the monorail which terminates in the heart of the business district.

Audrey Hepburn's Hair Test Shots for Breakfast at Tiffany's

Circa 1961

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 4: Wait Till You See What I Saw in Seattle

This is the sheet music for one of the offical songs of the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, Washington. The music and words were written by Mason Mallory. I couldn't find a recording of the actual song but I did find a lot of really great information on the music of the Fair from this website.

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 3: Map of the Fairgrounds

Today we have a four page map of the 1962 Seattle World's Fairgrounds brought to you by Standard Oil Company of California

Key:
1. U.S. Science Pavilion
2. Bank Building
3. U.S. Plywood Exhibit
4. Sermons From Science
5. Nalley's Foods Exhibit
6. Club 21
7. Public Information Booth
8. Christian Pavilion and Children's Center
9. I.B.M. Exhibit
10. Hydro Electric Exhibit
11. National Bank of Commerce Exhibit
12. Alaskan Building
13. Natural Gas Exhibit
14. Ford Exhibit
15. Fashion Pavilion
16. Christian Science Pavilion
17. Forestry Building
18. Space Needle
19. General Electric Exhibit
20. Monorail Terminal
21. Food Circus
22. Bell Telephone Exhibit
23. United States Commerce and Industry Exhibits
24. Foreign Exhibits
25. Washington State Coliseum
26. Plaza of States
27. International Fountain
28. Jewels of the World
29. Chun-King Food Exhibit
30. 12,000 Seat Outdoor Stadium
31. Gayway
32. Sky Ride
33. Islands of Hawaii Pavilion
34. Show Street, U.S.A.
35. Arena
36. Opera House
37. Fine Arts Pavilion
38. Home of Living Light
39. Little Theatre Playhouse
40. Boulevards of the World
41. Toilet Facilities
Park 2 - Public Parking
Park 3 - Public Parking
A - South Entrance (Broad Street)
B - East Entrance (5th Avenue North)
C - North Entrance (Mercer Street)
D - West Entrance (1st Avenue North)

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 2: Century 21 Calling

For day two of the one hundred eighty-four days of the World's Fair, I thought I would do one more video. This video is a film created/released by Bell Telephone as an overview of their pavilion and the sights and sounds of the fair . The video is pretty ridiculous and has even been mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3000 (and I included that video at the bottom).

184 Days of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - Day 1: The Opening

Today marks the 49th anniversary of the start of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. In honor of this occasion, I will be posting something from this world's fair every day from April 21st to October 21st. (I tried this last year and failed - this year it WILL happen)

For the first day, I am posting a video about the grand opening of the Fair. The video features President Kennedy doing the ceremonial opening.

Educational Films #16: A Date With Your Family (1950)

This week you are going to learn the joys of tolerating your family. This filmstrip is quite possibly the most clever piece of filmed. The boys name are Junior & Brother, the girl's name is Daughter and the mother's name is Mother. Father is to be feared and never looked in the eye.

The Redwood House - Los Angeles, California

This is a menu from the Redwood House in Los Angeles, California. Not sure of the date of this menu. I am guessing it's 40s or 50s.

Motel Monday: Town House

town·house/ˈtounˌhous/Noun
1. A tall, narrow, traditional row house, generally having three or more floors.
2. A modern two-or three-story house built as one of a group of similar houses

Town House Motel - Las Vegas, New Mexico

Town House Motel - Portland, Oregon

Wish You Were Hear: In The Coal Mine

Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago, Illinois

Mailed from Chicago, Illinois to Miss Lucinda Hauer of Palmyra, Wisconsin on August 1, 1962:

We've had lunch and the boys and Dad are in the coal mine. There is a class of darling little 2nd (?) grade colored children & their chaperones lining up to go through the mine. Jim is quite impressed with the size of the place - so am I as usual. - Love, Mother

Brigitte Bardot - The Gaston Paris Photoshoot, 1955

13 Strange Cereals

These are thirteen of the strangest cereals (with commercials) that I found on YouTube.

#13 Nintendo Cereal System
I can just imagine the pitch meeting, "Kids love video games. Kids love cereal. How about we find a way to combine both?!" I am sure I had this cereal when I was a kid but have no recollection of how it actually tasted or if I had to blow in to the box to get it to work (NES joke).



#12  Sir Grapefellow
A World War I style fighter pilot that, somewhere along the line, become knighted, traveled in time and delivered us the horrible taste of grape cereal.



#11 Freakies Cereal
The cereal seems like it was fine, it's just an odd idea to have disfigured, horrible freaks pitch your cereal.



#10 Croonchy Stars
"Jaaa!! FlaggPunsch ees on me! Surströmming und meety bolls forr eveeryvan!" One has to wonder why this wasn't the first meatball flavored cereal.



#9 C3PO's
Even effeminate, sass-talking robots want to pitch you cereal. Please try these Os, well they aren't so much Os as the outline to an animal's food and water dish.



#8 OKs
Not great. Not terrible. Just Ok.



#7 Nerds
One of the first cereals to mirror, packing and all, their candy counterpart. This cereal was divided in half with one half tasting like orange and the other cherry.



#6 Quangaroos
From the Quisp and Quake family, it's an orange Australian spotted kangaroo cereal spokesthing. You'd think that market had been tapped in the 1930s but the fine people at Quaker revived it.



#5 Corn Crackos
It's corn lightly-sprinkled with crack. it will keep kids "energized" for hours. But beware - the cracko dts are hell.



#4 Bill and Ted's Excellent Cereal
Time-traveling doofus/stoners + dried dog food = a winning combination.



#3 Mr. T Cereal
I pity the fool that doesn't love a large, mohawk-sporting bad ass hocking T-shaped cereal!



#2 - Circus Fun
Too bad Circus Fun didn't contain that authentic circus smell of animal feces and cotton candy.



#1  Urkel O's
This seems like a pretty obvious choice for the strangest cereal. This strawberry-banana (?!?!) breakfast treat attempted to ride the nerd success wave that was Urkel. The cereal, I can only assume, tasted like cheese, catchphrases, and was gone in 15 minutes.

Educational Films #14 & 15: Boys Beware! and Girls Beware!

This week we will learn about the DANGEROUS homosexuals that prey on our young, healthy white boys and girls. These are quite possibly my favorite educational films I have posted so far.

1959 Phillies Official Score Card - Aug 21, 1959 Game 1 of a Doubleheader

This is a scorecard from the first game of a doubleheader between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies.

Here is the box score from that game:
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI195908211.shtml

Motel Monday: Seeing Red

This week's Motel Monday theme is motels with "Red" in the title somewhere. There's a variety of things from American Indians, fruit, horses, arrows, and shingles that can only be described as red.

All postcards from my collection. You can see my other blog, In The Heart of Downtown, to see my entire posted collection of over 2,500 different motels.

Red Feather Lodge - Grand Canyon, Arizona

Red Apple Motel - Yakima, Washington

Red Carpet Inn - Stateline, California

Jack Dempsey's Restaurant - New York, New York

A souvenir photo from Jack Dempsey's Restaurant in New York City on December 31, 1963.

Bored Worker, Disneyland – 1956

Bored Worker, Disneyland – 1956, originally uploaded by ElectroSpark.

This guy didn't read the manual!