The Seattle Center Monorail, constructed for the 1962 World’s Fair, opened a full month before the fair got started, taking its first passengers on March 24, 1962.

The Century 21 exposition was all about what the future was supposed to look like. And while the rest of 21st century Seattle doesn’t look like the future the 1960s toyed with, it was right in a self-ful... read more...