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Nalley’s Fine Food Pavillion 1961

December 4th, 2009 @ 12:24 am by Cliffe | Sorted Historic Buildingsborder
Even the food pavillions at the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle were electrifying. Nalley’s Fine Food Pavillion went up without a sharp edge to be found. Check out the 1961 sketch from architect Paul Thiry. Does anyone have any photos of the pavillion as built? Click for the high res copy.
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Nalley’s Fine Food pavillion, Century 21 Exposition — Seattle, Wash., west elevation, architect Paul Thiry, 1961. In 1957 Paul Thiry, one of Seattle’s earliest pracitioners of European Modernism, was appointed prinicpal architect of Century 21, the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. The Nalley’s Fine Food pavilion was a plastic form shell pneumatically applied on a frame of reinforcing rods and metal lathe. The exterior of the pavilion was constructed without a straight line or sharp angle. The unique oval contained a theater which showed movies of the great Pacific Northwest. In the lobby of the building were displays of the food products from Nalley’s Tacoma-based company. Image courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division.

4 Responses:

  1. JR wrote:

    A tiny photo on the contact sheet for Set 9 at http://www.worldsfairphotos.com/century21/cd-3.htm

  2. Bobby wrote:

    I have a bunch of Bill Cotter’s photo cd’s from the Century 21 Expo. I’ll go through ‘em and see if I can find it.

  3. Bobby wrote:

    I found it. Just don’t think I can post it. All the pics are copy written…

  4. Bill Cotter wrote:

    Bobby, feel free to post the picture, just not at full size, ok? Thanks for respecting the copyright! I am working on a massive scanning project of some really great stuff from the Fair and will try to remember to post any shots of the Nalley pavilion later.

    Regards

    Bill

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