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President John F.<br />
Kennedy opened<br />
the World's Fair by a<br />
remote transmission<br />
and tapped into a<br />
supernova's radiowave,<br />
10,000 light<br />
years away.<br />
President John F. Kennedy opened<br />
the World’s Fair by a remote transmission<br />
and tapped into a supernova’s radio-wave,<br />
10,000 light years away, and<br />
sent the telegraph that signaled the start<br />
of the fair and modern age as we know it.<br />
After the first day of the World’s Fair,<br />
the City of Seattle would never be the<br />
same. It was key to turning the region<br />
from provincial “country bumpkin” to a<br />
leading-edge technology-forward city.<br />
And the Space Needle was the crown<br />
jewel, with a specially designed rotating<br />
restaurant and, on the roof,<br />
a 40-foot-tall beacon of natural<br />
gas-powered light, now a more<br />
earth-friendly, lamp-powered Legacy<br />
Light.<br />
The Seattle World’s Fair was a welcome<br />
wagon for the future and the<br />
promises of technology, and the Space<br />
Needle was a place of prestige and power.<br />
Civic leaders and businessmen would<br />
meet 500 feet above Seattle in the rotating<br />
restaurant to negotiate deals. Powerful<br />
people have congregated in the Space<br />
Needle since its beginning.<br />
ontrakmag.com WINTER <strong>2018</strong> | 45
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