Fair Game

Our State Fair Is...Which State Fair?

It's time to ride the coaster and hang with the 4-H kids—but there's more than one place to gorge on elephant ears.

09/04/2025 By Allison Williams

Birthdays

Sixty Years Later, PacSci Is Still One Curious Place

The Seattle Center landmark has escaped financial ruin and honed a new model for expanding access by leaning on its principles.

10/20/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy

Made in WA

Washington’s 60 Most Timeless Inventions

The World’s Fair put Seattle's ingenuity on the map six decades ago. But before and since, our quirky and vital innovations have endured.

08/23/2022 Edited by Benjamin Cassidy By Seattle Met Staff

Explainer

The Space Needle Unveils Its New Look

It was born as a napkin sketch, but 56 years later our city's most iconic landmark got a major, year-long facelift.

10/16/2018 By Jaime Archer

Lit Life

7 Iconic Seattle Books to Read Right Now

Essays, fiction, and graphic novels: Beloved Seattle-based authors have books across the board.

09/21/2018 By Stefan Milne

Books & Talks

TONIGHT: Author Jim Lynch at Third Place Books

The Olympia scribe reads from his latest novel, Truth Like the Sun.

04/25/2012 By Seattle Met Staff

Golden Anniversary

Tom Skerritt, Mayor McGinn Kick Off the Next 50 Celebration

Relive the 1962 World’s Fair with free performances and a ton of food trucks.

04/19/2012 By Seattle Met Staff

City

From 1962, a Message to the City Council of the Future

04/17/2012 By Erica C. Barnett

Article

La Tienda’s World’s Fair Beginnings

How the Mexican Pavilion inspired one of Seattle's favorite world-sourced artisan boutiques.

01/26/2012 By Janet Pelz

Article

Brave New Fashions

View a slideshow of space-age fashions from Town and Country magazine, August 1962.

01/20/2012

Article

Vintage Video from Seattle’s 1962 World’s Fair

01/20/2012

Article

Fiction: Jim Lynch’s World’s Fair Tale, Truth Like the Sun

An exclusive excerpt.

01/20/2012 By Jim Lynch

Article

Seattle Center House Recycled

In time for the 50th anniversary of the World’s Fair, Graham Baba Architects turns the old armory into a house of light.

01/20/2012 By David Laskin

Article

Visionaries Imagine Seattle in 2062

01/20/2012 By James Ross Gardner and Brian Colella

Article

The Seattle World’s Fair in 2012

In 1962, Seattle introduced the world to the Space Needle and Belgian waffles. We asked Seattle experts to imagine a 2012 version.

01/20/2012

Feature

The 1962 World's Fair: A Timeline

An overview.

01/20/2012

Seattle Bookshelf

Seattle World’s Fair, a Look Back

New book The Future Remembered rewinds the clock to 1962.

10/24/2011 By Seattle Met Staff