February 3rd, 2008 @ 1:09 am by Cliffe | Sorted Past Post
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 shares 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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February 3rd, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
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?)
February 4th, 2008 @ 10:11 am
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.
February 4th, 2008 @ 10:24 am
Egregious fashion error, wearing gloves that don’t match your shoes. Egregious!
February 4th, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
Shipley, that’s a fashion faux pas you just described.
February 5th, 2008 @ 1:13 am
Schlock: Ya, he used the arch motif in a number of his buildings.
Cliffe