Today’s Past Postcard is a 60′s era piece showing the Pacific Science Center.
The building was designed by Minoru Yamasaki (known for his work on the World Trade Center buildings) for the 1962 World’s Fair, then known as the United States Science Pavilion.
You could also see the building in Elvis Presley’s It Happened at the World’s Fair film. Wikipedia has
this shot, which sh ares
a similar frame with the postcard. Also, for those who didn’t know, Minoru Yamasaki was born in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington.
Give the thumbnails a click for a closer look at those 1960′s women’ s clothing
styles.
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Front: Pacific Science Center.
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Back: Pacific Science Center is a special attraction in the civic center of Seattle, Washington. It is one of the architectural wonders of the nation.
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I will be seriously annoyed if they ever try knocking the PSC down, or if the Big One hits and down it tumbles. (Do we know how seismically sound it is?)
I think Lileks pointed this out once but if you look up from the woman on the right to the building, it looks very similar to the bottom of the WTC towers.
Egregious fashion error, wearing gloves that don’t match your shoes. Egregious!
Shipley, that’s a fashion faux pas you just described.
Schlock: Ya, he used the arch motif in a number of his buildings.
Cliffe
Oh why can’t we see women dressed like these anymore?