Comments on: Food Circus 1962

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:00:42 +0000

Do any pictures exist of the children’s museum in the basement back in the early 70′s? I remember Olaf the Giant, And a long counter that looked like a bar that had many many buttons that you would push to make different things move on the wall. Please help!

By: Yadira Bleiweiss

Yadira Bleiweiss — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:56:20 +0000

see you next time

By: Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:18:09 +0000

I worked at the Jones’ Fantastic Museum, as their vampire &c, for thirteen years, and I’m still good friends with Joyce Ring, one of the Bubbleator operators from the late 1960′s. So many wonderful memories! There is now a Facebook group dedicated to Jones’ Fantastic Museum!

By: bob

bob — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:51:32 +0000

This is where my father learned artillery. He joined the National Guard in 1936 while a junior at Queen Anne High. The 146th was mobilized for Federal service in 1940. The guns were French 75 mm howitzers, no tanks as the Seattle Center history seems to think. There was also a room that taught artillery theory in miniature. It used something like a model railroad landscape and ball bearings shot from miniature canon. It was to illustrate the calculations about the trajectory a missile would actually take. The floor of the place was endgrain lumber blocks set close together. When the surface was worn it could be sanded smooth again, but since the blocks were a foot or so thick it wold just about never wear out. I wish I could find out more about the armory, if you know where please publish!

By: Ralph Heino

Ralph Heino — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:40:34 +0000

The “Bubblelator” was so cool in 1962 and this is one of just a few I have seen of it over the years. Today it does bring back memories, but it also looks a lttle rediculous … guess it was not hard to impress an 18 year old kid!

By: Carla

Carla — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:24:29 +0000

I just discovered this site. I can’t begin to describe how big the grin on my face is right now. Some of my fondest memories revolve around the times I spent at the Seattle Center when I was a kid. Sure the Space Needle was great and who didn’t love the Fun Forest but for me the trip wasn’t complete till I rode the Bubbleator up and down a few times and snooped through Jones’ Fantastic Museum. Sigh! What I wouldn’t give for just one more ride. Thanks for reminding me.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:34:45 +0000

What a fabulous trip down memory lane! I always thought the lamps looked like a big bunch of balloons. Jones’ Fantastic Museum was the coolest place to me when I was a kid! It made you feel like you were at an old time carny. Corn dogs? ?Who could forget the huge Belgian waffles? I really miss those days.

By: Louis

Louis — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:19:14 +0000

@ Jana – Hi Jana! I’m a little late with this reply. Those lamp globes really were fabulous. And I remember the souvenir stands in the Food Circus were just loaded with…with…STUFF. I think C-21 souvenirs were sold at the Seattle Center for a good 20 years after the fair…I remember meeting the cast of “Here Come the Brides” at the Food Circus. Does anybody remember Jones’ Fantastic Museum?

By: Jonathan S

Jonathan S — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:55:52 +0000

Blasphemous! There shouldn’t be any place where you wouldn’t want to “cram a corn dog.”

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:28:02 +0000

I’m puzzled by the apparent all-things-apple concession down the center of the scene. Aplets…without Cotlets? That’s just wrong!