Seattle World’s Fair. South Gate and Ford Building. Porte du Sud — Pavillon de la compagnie Ford. La Puerta del Sur y el Edificio Ford. Color photo by Max R. Jensen.
Jensen’s South Gate & Ford Building
February 8th, 2011 @ 12:50 am by Cliffe | Sorted Past Post |
Even just a cursory glance of our Max R. Jensen photo archives will show the depth of Max’s coverage of the 1962 World’ s Fair in Seattle. No angle was ingored, including the South Gate and Ford Building pictured below from a promotional postcard. Click for the high res.
Seattle World’s Fair. South Gate and Ford Building. Porte du Sud — Pavillon de la compagnie Ford. La Puerta del Sur y el Edificio Ford. Color photo by Max R. Jensen.
Seattle World’s Fair. South Gate and Ford Building. Porte du Sud — Pavillon de la compagnie Ford. La Puerta del Sur y el Edificio Ford. Color photo by Max R. Jensen.
Memories indeed! Entered the fair through that gate on my first visit in 1962. What were the poles made of and what happened to them, I wonder?
Looks as if that woman (?) in the blue coat is in the middle of tripping and falling. Or else she’s running full tilt to get inside–oh, the excitement!
The entrance poles, designed by
During the fair, one of the space age totem poles (made from telephone poles) was given to State of Washington and installed on the grounds of the Lord Mansion Museum in Olympia. Small 12″ samples were given away as souvenirs. As of 2002, the pole had been cut into small sections and was laying in a pile on the ground. I’m unclear as to what happened to the pieces.
Some of the “space age telephone poles” ended up at the UW driving range, and also alongside the pictured geodesic dome in Edmonds, where it was moved to just south of the ferry dock.
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