Again ““ I’m spending too much time here rather than doing what I need to do!!
I’ve been enjoying all your vintage Space Needle photos and I just came across this scanned photo of my mom’s cousins visiting Seattle.
I’d love to come across photos of the Bubbleator and the Snoopy I recall being painted on a Boeing building in the late 60′s.
Happy New Year!
Jana
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I’d love to come across photos of the Bubbleator and the Snoopy I recall being painted on a Boeing building in the late 60′s.
Happy New Year!
Jana
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| Spying on the Space Needle. Photo courtesy Jana Robertson. |
If you use a photo editor like Picnik, you can change that into a non-red photo in seconds.
Anyone know if this vantage point still exists?
Pretty sure this is Kerry Park on Queen Anne.
And I loved the Bubbleator – “Please move to the rear of the sphere”
Yes, it’s upper Kerry Park.
Took the Wee Niece to look out the telescope and run around the sculpture just last week. They have just installed a really nice playground in the lower part of the park, below the viewpoint, where once there was just blackberry vines on the hill.
I know the guy who owns the Bubbleator today. He has it as a greenhouse/sunroom with a view of the Sound in his back yard in “a South King County” suburb. I could get some “now” shots to foward to Cliffe, if anyone has some good pics of it in action at the Center House.
At least a few years ago, the MOHAI was asking if anyone had photos of the inside/control panels of the Bubbleator back in the Fair days, because as far as they know, none exist! There are photos of it and of people in it, but none taken while on the inside.
I have never heard of the Bubbletor so i looked it up on google images and there are a few photos. I am not sure if we are allowed to post links here to articles but here is an article from 2002: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/66575_fairwhere16.shtml
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I loved the Bubbleator and was so happy to see it at the Food Circus after the Fair closed. I was doing a search on it a while back and did see where it ended up a Julie Ann mentioned above. I was born in Des Moines Iowa so I thought it was pretty funny it ended up there as the top half of a greenhouse. It would be great to get a picture to post here someday–there is one out on the web so maybe they would be okay with re-using it here. I also remember riding in it when the Fair was on but I was 10 at th time so I don’t remember what the exhibit was….anyone?
Oh yeah, and I remember one of our favorite jokes when we were little. “Do you know what happened to the lady down the street?” “No!” “The Bubble-ate-her!” Ha, ha.
Just saying “hi” to the other Jana above!