1962 World's Fair

1962 World Exposition was held in Seattle under the name Century 21 Exposition. It was the 28th  Universal World and became the BIE classified as general exhibition of the second category, then used a sub-category of universal fair. ==[Candidacy  edit ] == In 1955, Seattle came up with a plan for a world with the working name of Western Festival. Seattle had to compete as a provincial town against New York and Moscowand the BIE had a lot of reserves at American candidates because the United States did not sign the BIE Convention. Moscow fell off because the Soviet Union wanted to use the exhibition to commemorate 50 years of revolution and thus aimed for 1967. After the New York organizers themselves had had spoken in the press about patronizing the BIE Seattle eventually assigned the exhibition. New York held two years later, still an "illegal" by World refurbish the premises in 1939. ==[Exhibition  edit ] == At the exhibition were only 24 countries represented in Brussels were still 44 countries and in Montreal there were 60 countries. Besides the country pavilions there were many thematic pavilions.

The then very topical theme space was discussed with the capsule of John Glenn and the construction of the Space Needle, the symbol of the exhibition.