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82-464: From 1997 to 2005 the monorail project was a highly contentious political issue in the Seattle area. In November 2005, following the fifth voter initiative on the monorail in eight years, the monorail authority agreed to dissolve itself after having spent $ 124.7 million in taxpayer funds without beginning any monorail construction. The effort to extend the monorail began in 1997 with Initiative 41, passed by

164-502: A 53%–47% vote by Seattle citizens. The initiative proposed a 54-mile (87 km) X-shaped monorail system extending the 0.96-mile (1.54 km) line constructed for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair . The system's construction and operation was to be carried out by a new agency, the Elevated Transportation Corporation (ETC), using private funding. The ETC quickly determined that private entrepreneurs could not build

246-608: A chamber music performance by Isaac Stern , Milton Katims , Leonard Rose , Eugene Istomin , the Claiborne Brothers gospel quartet, and the Juilliard String Quartet ; two appearances by newsman Edward R. Murrow ; Bunraku theater; Richard Dyer-Bennet ; Hal Holbrook 's solo show as Mark Twain ; the Count Basie and Benny Goodman jazz orchestras; Lawrence Welk ; Nat King Cole ; and Ella Fitzgerald . Also during

328-606: A further "symphony of music and color". Under the same roof, the ALA exhibited a "library of the future" (centered on a Univac computer). GM exhibited its vision for highways and vehicles of the future (the latter including the Firebird III ). Pan Am exhibited a giant globe that emphasized the notion that we had come to be able to think of distances between major world cities in hours and minutes rather than in terms of chancy voyages over great distances. RCA (which produced "The Threshold and

410-478: A monorail system without public financial support, leading to a second monorail referendum placed before voters as Initiative 53 in 2000, which would allow the ETC to spend $ 6 million for additional studies to determine an improved monorail plan with full cost estimates and a funding package to pay for construction. I-53 passed 56% to 44% in 2000. By 2002, the ETC had developed the five-line system plan that came to be called

492-564: A new church building there; the church used the proceeds to purchase land in the Montlake neighborhood. The Warren Avenue School, a public elementary school with several programs for physically handicapped students, was torn down, its programs dispersed, and provided most of the site of the Coliseum (now Climate Pledge Arena). Near the school, some of the city's oldest houses, apartments, and commercial buildings were torn down; they had been run down to

574-537: A north–south route on the west side of the city, as the first of the five to be built. The other four lines included two additional north–south routes, in the center (Blue) and east (Gold) sides of the city, and two east-west connectors, one just north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal (Purple) and the other near the southern city limits (Red). Two future extensions were proposed to the Green Line, one each on

656-406: A petition campaign, in the early 1950s to convince the city council to approve an $ 8.5 million bond issue to build the opera house and sports center needed to attract the fair. Eventually the council approved a $ 7.5 million bond issue with the state of Washington matching that amount. The fair was originally conceived at a Washington Athletic Club luncheon in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of

738-687: A public-private entity, the Lake Washington Canal Association, in 1907. Though Chittenden hoped to cap his career with the construction of the Locks, ill health forced him to retire in 1909, though he continued lobbying Congress for the project, and served as a consulting engineer and as a Seattle port commissioner until his death in October 1917. Navigation starts at Webster Point in Lake Washington and continues to Shilshole Bay. Speed limit

820-426: A second, can be used to request an opening. A reciprocal response from a bridge is acknowledgement that the information has been received and the bridge will open in time. Bridges may hold for up to ten minutes before opening, and longer at certain times of the day five short blast from a bridge means that the bridge will not be opening. Non-self-propelled vessels must be towed by a suitable self-propelled vessel past

902-529: A series of large paintings by Bill Holm introducing Northwest Native motifs. A US$ 15 million performing-arts program at the fair ranged from a boxing championship to an international twirling competition but with no shortage of nationally and internationally famous performers, especially at the new Opera House and Playhouse. After the fair, the Playhouse became the Seattle Repertory Theatre ; in

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984-444: A series of projections contrasted this "best of the future" to "the worst of the present" (over-uniform suburbs, a dreary urban housing project). The exhibit continued with a vision of future transportation (centered on a monorail and high-speed "air cars" on an electrically controlled highway). There was also an " office of the future ", a climate-controlled "farm factory", an automated offshore kelp and plankton harvesting farm,

1066-472: A speech at the first Independence Day celebration of the Seattle area's first permanent white settlement, shortly after its founding. Mercer gave the lakes the names they are presently called, over the original Lushootseed names used by the Duwamish , tenas Chuck or XáXu7cHoo ("small great-amount-of-water") for Lake Union and hyas Chuck or Xacuabš ("great-amount-of-water") for Lake Washington. Lake Union

1148-400: A vision of the schools of the future with "electronic storehouses of knowledge", and a vision of the many recreations that technology would free humans to pursue. Finally, the tour ended with a symbolic sculptural tree and the reappearance of the family in the fallout shelter and the sound of a ticking clock, a brief silence, an extract from President Kennedy's Inaugural Address , followed by

1230-712: Is 7 knots with more restrictions including 2.5 knots for entering and exiting the locks. Canal traffic signals present 1,000 feet (304.8 m) each side of the Montlake Bridge and east of the Fremont bridge and west of the Ballard Bridge . Vessels 300 tons (272.15 metric tons) and vessels with a tow may not pass a red signal. Other Vessels should use caution for on coming large commercial traffic. All bridges can be contacted on channel 13 for an opening or use horn. Horn blasts of one long, at least four seconds, and one short, of about

1312-454: Is a canal that runs through the city of Seattle and connects the fresh water body of Lake Washington to the salt water inland sea of Puget Sound . The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks accommodate the approximately 20-foot (6.1 m) difference in water level between Lake Washington and the sound. The canal runs east–west and connects Union Bay , the Montlake Cut , Portage Bay , Lake Union ,

1394-509: Is expected to cost $ 570 million to construct, with 65 percent of funding sourced from Seattle Public Utilities and the remaining 35 percent from the King County government. The project had originally been estimated to cost $ 423 million, but limited supply in the area's busy construction market caused cost overruns. Construction on the 19-foot-wide (5.8 m) tunnel began in June 2021 with

1476-678: Is now called Seattle Center ; the United States Science Pavilion is now the Pacific Science Center . Another notable Seattle Center building, the Museum of Pop Culture (earlier called EMP Museum), was built nearly 40 years later and designed to fit in with the fairground atmosphere. Seattle mayor Allan Pomeroy is credited with bringing the World's Fair to the city. He recruited community and business leaders, as well as running

1558-425: Is planned to be a 65-foot-tall (20 m) cylinder covered in a steel lattice structure that reaches 80 feet (24 m) in height; it is expected to cost $ 100 million. The tower's design evokes the local maritime industry and is inspired by crab pots ; the lattice will include light-emitting diodes that are programmed to display colors that represent local weather or the pumping station's status. The project

1640-472: The Acropolis and ending with an image of Marilyn Monroe . Next, visitors were beckoned into a cluster of cubes containing a model of a "city of the future" (which a few landmarks clearly indicated as Seattle) and its suburban and rural surroundings, seen first by day and later by night. The next cluster of cubes zoomed in on a vision of a high-tech, future home in a sylvan setting (and a commuter gyrocopter );

1722-713: The Fremont Cut , Salmon Bay , and Shilshole Bay , which is part of the sound. The ship canal project began in 1911 and was officially completed in 1934. Prior to construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, otherwise known as the Salmon Bay Waterway, water used to exit Lake Washington via the Black River which flowed from the south end of Lake Washington into the Duwamish River. As early as 1854, there

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1804-584: The 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition , but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious. With the Space Race underway and Boeing having "put Seattle on the map" as "an aerospace city", a major theme of the fair was to show that "the United States was not really 'behind' the Soviet Union in the realms of science and space". As a result, the themes of space, science, and the future completely trumped

1886-423: The 1960s. Affluence, automation, consumerism, and American power would grow; social equity would simply take care of itself on a rising tide of abundance; the human race would master nature through technology rather than view it in terms of ecology. In contrast, 12 years later—even in far more conservative Spokane, Washington — Expo '74 took environmentalism as its central theme. The theme of Spokane's Expo '74

1968-691: The Army Depot in Auburn —as was a site east of the city on the south shore of Lake Sammamish . The site finally selected for the Century 21 Exposition had originally been contemplated for a civic center. The idea of using it for the world's fair came later and brought in federal money for the United States Science Pavilion (now Pacific Science Center) and state money for the Washington State Coliseum (later Seattle Center Coliseum; renamed KeyArena in 1993 after

2050-609: The Lake Washington Canal Company, deeding his land to the company. Instead of finishing the canal, the company instead built a tramway to carry coal brought by barge across Lake Washington. In 1883, David Denny and Burke hired a crew of Chinese laborers to complete the canal at Montlake, creating a 16-foot (4.9 m) channel that included a lock, capable of floating logs down from Lake Washington to Lake Union. The Army Corps of Engineers investigated Puget Sound for military defense purposes and chose Lake Washington as

2132-590: The Masons. The building was eventually incorporated into a theater complex including the Seattle Children's Theatre . Paul Thiry was the fair's chief architect; he also designed the Coliseum building. Among the other architects of the fair, Seattle-born Minoru Yamasaki received one of his first major commissions to build the United States Science Pavilion. Yamasaki would later design New York's World Trade Center . Victor Steinbrueck and John Graham, Jr. designed

2214-517: The Seattle Monorail Project. This proposal was put before the voters as Citizens Petition #1 in November 2002 which would propose to dissolve the ETC, create a new monorail agency, construct the Green Line as the first part of the system, and enact an annual 1.4% motor-vehicle excise tax (MVET) on Seattle vehicles to fund the project. The 2002 petition drew opposition from groups who advanced

2296-575: The Seattle city government to address the issue, signing a consent decree in 2016 to plan a diversion system. The system will use a 2.7-mile (4.3 km) tunnel running along the north side of the canal with access stations at five sites in Fremont, northern Queen Anne, and Ballard before reaching a pump station, where wastewater can continue to the West Point sewage treatment plant. The pump station in Ballard

2378-469: The Space Needle. Hideki Shimizu and Kazuyuki Matsushita designed the original International Fountain . Despite the plan to build a permanent civic center, more than half the structures built for the fair were torn down more or less immediately after it ended. One attempt to conserve installations from Century 21 was the creation of a replica "welcoming pole," a number of which originally stood tall over

2460-514: The Threat") exhibited television, radio, and stereo technology, as well as its involvement in space. The French government had an exhibit with its own take on technological progress. Finally, a Washington state tourist center provided information for fair-goers wishing to tour the state. The World of Commerce and Industry was divided into domestic and foreign areas. The former was sited mainly south of American Way (the continuation of Thomas Street through

2542-412: The Threat", visitors rode a " Bubbleator " into the "world of tomorrow". Music "from another world" and a shifting pattern of lights accompanied them on a 40-second upward journey to a starry space bathed in golden light. Then they were faced briefly with an image of a desperate family in a fallout shelter , which vanished and was replaced by a series of images reflecting the sweep of history, starting with

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2624-697: The best location for a Naval base, due to the security of the waters, proximity to supplies of fresh water, coal and timber, and the less corrosive effect on wooden ship hulls of a fresh water port. A report by Lieutenant Thomas H. Hardy of October 13, 1871, forwarded to Congress by Army General Barton S. Alexander of the Board of Engineers of the Pacific Coast said the coal fields of Seattle Coal and Transportation Company , two miles east of Lake Sammamish , supplied 1,500 tons per month of steam ship grade coal, and potentially twice this amount. The route directly across

2706-489: The bridge. During heavy or prolonged rain, stormwater runoff and overflowing wastewater from neighborhoods along the Ship Canal is dumped into the waterway. The practice was found to be polluting Salmon Bay and Puget Sound with an average of 130 spills per year dumping 90 million US gallons (340 Ml) of untreated wastewater. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology ordered

2788-412: The budgets nor the tight agreements on concept to realize that vision. In the end, he got exactly enough of a budget to design and build a 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m ) building suitable to hold a variety of exhibition spaces and equally suitable for later conversion to a sports arena and convention facility. During the festival, the building hosted several exhibits. Nearly half of its surface area

2870-518: The car of the future, the Ford Seattle-ite XXI . The Electric Power Pavilion included a 40 feet (12 m)-high fountain made to look like a hydroelectric dam , with the entrance to the pavilion through a tunnel in said "dam". The Forest Products Pavilion was surrounded by a grove of trees of various species, and included an all-wood theater and a Society of American Foresters exhibit. Standard Oil of California celebrated, among other things,

2952-1036: The center of this was the DuPen Fountain featuring three sculptures by Seattle artist Everett DuPen. The Fine Arts Pavilion (later the Exhibition Hall) brought together an art exhibition unprecedented for the West Coast of the United States . Among the 50 contemporary American painters whose works shown were Josef Albers , Willem de Kooning , Helen Frankenthaler , Philip Guston , Jasper Johns , Joan Mitchell , Robert Motherwell , Georgia O'Keeffe , Jackson Pollock , Robert Rauschenberg , Ad Reinhardt , Ben Shahn , and Frank Stella , as well as Northwest painters Kenneth Callahan , Morris Graves , Paul Horiuchi, and Mark Tobey . American sculptors included Leonard Baskin , Alexander Calder , Joseph Cornell , Louise Nevelson , Isamu Noguchi , and 19 others. The 50 international contemporary artists represented included

3034-419: The city sold naming rights to KeyCorp, the company doing business as KeyBank; renamed Climate Pledge Arena in 2021 after naming rights were sold to Amazon.com, Inc). Some of the land had been donated to the city by James Osborne in 1881 and by David and Louisa Denny in 1889. Two lots at Third Avenue N. and John Street were purchased from St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church , who had been planning to build

3116-516: The construction of the Space Needle and Alweg monorail , as well as several sports venues (Washington State Coliseum, now Climate Pledge Arena ) and performing arts buildings (the Playhouse, now the Cornish Playhouse ), most of which have since been replaced or heavily remodeled. Unlike some other world's fairs of its era, Century 21 made a profit. The site, slightly expanded since the fair,

3198-557: The development of science, ranging from mathematics and astronomy to atomic science and genetics. The Spacearium held up to 750 people at a time for a simulated voyage first through the Solar System and then through the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond. Further exhibits presented the scientific method and the "horizons of science". This last looked at "Science and the individual", "Control of man's physical surroundings", "Science and

3280-400: The duration of the fair and which then returned to its previous use. It served as the site of the Century 21 Club. This membership organization, formed especially for the fair, charged $ 250 for membership and offered lounge, dining room, and other club facilities, as well as a gate pass for the duration of the fair. The city ended up leasing the property after the fair and in 1977 bought it from

3362-569: The earlier conception of a "Festival of the [American] West". In June 1960, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) certified Century 21 as a world's fair. Project manager Ewen Dingwall went to Moscow to request Soviet participation, but was turned down. Neither the People's Republic of China, Vietnam nor North Korea were invited. As it happened, the Cold War had an additional effect on

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3444-513: The expense and the need for dredging a channel, and that the canal line let out in shoal water that was exposed to heavy seas, and would be less defensible in wartime, being "exposed to the cannonade of an enemy". Alexander was less opposed to digging straight south from Salmon Bay through Interbay to Smith Cove , but would still terminate in shoals and be just as costly as his preferred route from Lake Union through Mercer's Farm into Elliott Bay, while being less defensible. The estimated cost for

3526-426: The fact that the world's first service station opened in Seattle in 1907. The fair's Bell Telephone (now AT&T Inc. ) exhibit was featured in a short film called "Century 21 Calling...", which was later shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 . There were also several religious pavilions. Near the center of all this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi 's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at

3608-612: The fair, Memorial Stadium hosted the Ringling Brothers Circus , Tommy Bartlett's Water Ski Sky and Stage Show, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ' Western Show, and an appearance by evangelist Billy Graham . The fair and the city were the setting of the Elvis Presley movie It Happened at the World's Fair (1963), with a young Kurt Russell making his first screen appearance. Location shooting began on September 4 and concluded nearly two weeks later. The film would be released

3690-500: The fair. President John F. Kennedy was supposed to attend the closing ceremony of the fair on October 21, 1962. He bowed out, pleading a "heavy cold"; it later became public that he was dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis . The fair's vision of the future displayed a technologically based optimism that did not anticipate any dramatic social change, one rooted in the 1950s rather than in the cultural tides that would emerge in

3772-403: The following arguments: Reflecting the increased opposition, Citizens Petition #1 narrowly passed in November 2002 by just 877 votes, 50.2% to 49.7%. With the passage of CP-1, construction was scheduled to begin in autumn 2005, and be completed in 2009. Just two years later in November 2004, a recall initiative, I-83, was put on the ballot seeking to halt the project by forcing the city to deny

3854-482: The following spring, long after the fair had ended. At the northeast corner of the grounds (now the KCTS-TV studios ), Show Street was the " adult entertainment " portion of the fair. Attractions included Gracie Hansen's Paradise International (a Vegas -style floor show (rivalled next door by LeRoy Prinz 's "Backstage USA")), Sid and Marty Krofft 's adults-only puppet show, Les Poupées de Paris , and (briefly, until it

3936-728: The ground. The Skyride was moved to the Puyallup Fairgrounds in 1980. The World of Science centered on the United States Science Exhibit. It also included a NASA Exhibit that included models and mockups of various satellites , as well as the Project Mercury capsule that had carried Alan Shepard into space. These exhibits were the federal government's major contribution to the fair. The United States Science Exhibit began with Charles Eames ' 10-minute short film The House of Science , followed by an exhibit on

4018-492: The grounds), an area it shared with the World of Science. It included the Space Needle and what is now the Broad Street Green and Mural Amphitheater. The Hall of Industry and some smaller buildings were immediately north of American Way. The latter included 15 governmental exhibitors and surrounded the World of Tomorrow and extended to the north edge of the fair. Among the features of Domestic Commerce and Industry,

4100-404: The launch of a tunnel boring machine , named " Mudhoney " in honor of the local grunge band following a public contest. Tunnel boring from Ballard to Wallingford was completed in June 2023 and construction is scheduled to be completed in 2026. The Canal's crossings, from east to west, are: An additional crossing for transit, bicycles, and pedestrians between the Ballard and Fremont bridges

4182-690: The likes of painters Fritz Hundertwasser , Joan Miró , Antoni Tàpies , and Francis Bacon , and sculptors Henry Moore and Jean Arp . In addition, there were exhibitions of Mark Tobey's paintings and of Asian art, drawn from the collections of the Seattle Art Museum; and an additional exhibition of 72 "masterpieces" ranging from Titian , El Greco , Caravaggio , Rembrandt , and Rubens through Toulouse-Lautrec , Monet , and Turner to Klee , Braque , and Picasso , with no shortage of other comparably famous artists represented. A separate gallery presented Northwest Coast Indian art , and featured

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4264-471: The massive Interiors, Fashion, and Commerce Building spread for 500 feet (150 m)—nearly the entire Broad Street side of the grounds—with exhibits ranging from 32 separate furniture companies to the Encyclopædia Britannica . Vogue produced four fashion shows daily alongside a perfumed pool. The Ford Motor Company , in its pavilion, presented a simulated space flight and its vision for

4346-680: The mid-1980s it became the Intiman Playhouse . When the Intiman Theatre became financially unstable, Cornish College of the Arts took over the lease from the city of Seattle, and now operates it as the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center. Scheduled groups performing at the Opera House included: Source: Events and performances at the Playhouse included Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre ;

4428-458: The monorail agency the right to use the air space above public city streets. This fourth initiative in seven years proved unpopular with Seattle voters however, and lost 64% to 36%. The tax to fund the project began effective June 2003, and was levied annually on each car registered in the city based on the MSRP of the vehicle and a fixed depreciation table. In 2005, the average monorail tax per vehicle

4510-634: The narrowest part of Seattle, that is, Semple's Canal from Leschi straight across to present-day Harbor Island , was rejected in this report because of the 200 to 300 foot height of the hills that would have to be cut through. The route via the Black and Duwamish Rivers would be crooked and several miles in length, would let out into shoals rather than deep water, and would have to be frequently dredged to remove sand brought by river flooding. As to connecting Lake Union to Shilshole Bay —the route ultimately chosen—Gen. Alexander had "serious objections", including

4592-645: The north and south ends. By 2004, more formal Second Phase plans were developed; the Blue line was cut back and did not cross the Duwamish, but the Red line was extended west to meet a new branch of the Blue line running south from Delridge. In addition, an alternative central north–south Rainbow corridor was added, running from downtown to the University District and continuing on to Northgate and Lake City, approximately following

4674-602: The north terminus at Crown Hill) to Northgate and south (from the south terminus at Morgan Junction) to the Vashon Island Ferry Terminal. These were later designated the Pink North and South Corridors, approximately 6.1 and 1.6 mi (9.8 and 2.6 km), respectively. Additional planned lines included: Century 21 Exposition The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair )

4756-580: The point of being known as the "Warren Avenue slum". The old Fire Station No. 4 was also sacrificed. As early as the 1909 Bogue plan , this part of Lower Queen Anne had been considered for a civic center. The Civic Auditorium (later the Opera House, now McCaw Hall ), the ice arena (later Mercer Arena ), and the Civic Field (rebuilt in 1946 as the High School Memorial Stadium ), all built in 1927 had been placed there based on that plan, as

4838-409: The problem of world population ", and "Man's concept of his place in an increasingly technological world". The Washington State Coliseum, financed by the state of Washington, was one of Thiry's own architectural contributions to the fairgrounds. His original conception had been staging the entire fair under a single giant air-conditioned tent-like structure, "a city of its own", but there were neither

4920-585: The project was $ 4.7 million. In the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1902, Congress directed the Secretary of War to appoint a committee of three officers to study the feasibility of a canal and lock system to connect Puget Sound to Lake Washington. Lieutenant Colonel William H. Heuer, Captain William C. Langfitt and Lieutenant Robert P. Johnson met August, 1902 in Seattle and conducted a survey of possible routes. They examined

5002-431: The project, it could withhold permission to build on or above city land, as had been proposed under I-83 a year earlier. Nickels also called on the Seattle Monorail Project to put a measure on the November 2005 ballot to determine whether or not to continue with the project, marking the fifth time Seattleites would vote on the issue. This measure shortened the initial phase of the Green Line to 10.6 miles (17.1 km) with

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5084-488: The remaining 3.4 miles (5.5 km) to be added later, and the SMP said it would dissolve itself if the measure failed. Proposition 1 was defeated, 65% to 35%, and in response the SMP reduced staff, terminated the annual motor vehicle excise tax on Seattle vehicles effective June 30, 2006 (three years after it was first implemented) and began liquidating properties already purchased for the Green Line. The Seattle Monorail Authority

5166-516: The route of I-5. The agency considered using a proof-of-payment system for fares similar to the SkyTrain in Vancouver . The proposed Green Line ran mostly north-south from Ballard through Magnolia, Queen Anne, Seattle Center, Downtown, Pioneer Square, Chinatown-International District, then turned west and terminated into West Seattle. Future extensions on the Green Line could have taken it east (from

5248-590: The route of the Lake Washington Waterway Company, via Shilshole Bay, as well as a route from Lake Union to Smith Cove , the Montlake coal tramway, and Thomas Mercer's farm. In November 1902, a public meeting was called in the Chamber of Commerce hall, but was quickly adjourned because no one came to speak. In 1906, as local debate over the location of the canals continued, and funding from Washington, D.C.

5330-489: The same route to Shilshole Bay as Moore, but found the plan too modest, and potentially unsafe. Chittenden said Moore's hope-for budget of $ 500,000 was insufficient, and the locks should be built to accommodate larger vessels, and that the wooden locks would eventually deteriorate and collapse, draining Lake Washington into Puget Sound. Instead, Chittenden proposed a double concrete lock with steel gates, allowing small craft to pass with less waste. A single set of locks on

5412-482: The southern entrance to the fair. This replica stood outside the Washington State Capital Museum until 1990, when it was taken down. The grounds of the fair were divided into: Source: Besides the monorail , which survives as of 2023 , the fair also featured a Skyride that ran 1,400 feet (430 m) across the grounds from the Gayway to the International Mall. The bucket-like three-person cars were suspended from cables that rose as high as 60 feet (18 m) off

5494-436: The tax proved highly controversial and five days later the SMP withdrew its financial plan and the director and board chairman resigned under pressure. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels gave the board an ultimatum to create a new financial plan or lose city support for the project. A new plan was not developed, and on September 16, 2005, Nickels withdrew city support for the project. While the city of Seattle could not officially stop

5576-458: The time of cold war era. Other pavilions included one featuring Brazilian tea and coffee; a European Communities Pavilion from the then six countries of the European Economic Community ; and a joint pavilion by those countries of Africa that had by then achieved independence. Sweden's exhibit included the story of the salvaging of a 17th-century man-of-war from Stockholm harbor, and San Marino's exhibit featured its postage stamps and pottery. Near

5658-432: The time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater. Foreign exhibits included a science and technology exhibit by Great Britain, while Mexico and Peru focused on handicrafts, and Japan and India attempted to show both of these sides of their national cultures. The Taiwan and South Korea pavilions showed their rapid industrialization to the world and the benefits of capitalism over communism during

5740-507: The western end of Salmon Bay would be used in place of the small wooden lock near Fremont Avenue, which would lower Lake Washington to the same level as Lake Union. Having a single lock between Puget Sound and the freshwater lakes would reduce the risk of flooding and reduce overall cost of the project. Before he could move forward, Chittenden had to sway local leaders away from supporting Moore's project. After enthusiasm for his canal eroded and funding dried up, Moore transferred his rights to

5822-462: Was "Celebrating Tomorrow's Fresh New Environment.". Once the fair idea was conceived, several sites were considered. Among the sites considered within Seattle were Duwamish Head in West Seattle ; Fort Lawton (now Discovery Park ) in the Magnolia neighborhood; and First Hill —even closer to Downtown than the site finally selected, but far more densely developed. Two sites south of the city proper were considered— Midway , near Des Moines , and

5904-414: Was $ 130 annually. The project soon fell under intense public scrutiny, as actual revenue from the motor vehicle excise tax came in 30% under projections while projected costs rose by 10%. To bridge the shortfall, the SMP initially proposed extending the tax and bond repayments over a 50-year time horizon, resulting in nearly $ 9 billion in interest paid on the $ 2 billion construction cost. The plan to extend

5986-456: Was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington , United States. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair during its six-month run. As planned, the exposition left behind a fairground and numerous public buildings and public works; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle's economic and cultural life ( see History of Seattle since 1940 ). The fair saw

6068-640: Was an armory (the Food Circus during the fair, later Center House). The fair planners also sought two other properties near the southwest corner of the grounds. They failed completely to make any inroads with the Seattle Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, who had recently built Sacred Heart Church there; they did a bit better with the Freemasons ' Nile Temple, which they were able to use for

6150-683: Was begun in 1906, and work began in earnest five years later. The delays in canal planning and construction resulted in the U.S. Navy building the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington , which is located across the Sound from Seattle. For centuries, people had been dragging boats between the lakes, giving names like "carry a canoe" sxWátSadweehL to the crossing points. In 1854 Seattle pioneer Thomas Mercer proposed canals connecting Lake Union and Lake Washington to Puget Sound in

6232-467: Was chosen to suggest the future canals merging the waters, and Lake Washington for George Washington . In 1860 local landowner Harvey L. Pike tried to dig a ditch by himself with pick and shovel at Montlake to transport logs between Portage Bay and Union Bay , in the hopes of increasing the value of his property along the route. Giving up on digging the first Portage Canal himself, in 1871 he joined Thomas Burke and Daniel Gilman in incorporating

6314-494: Was delayed, Seattle developer James A. Moore , known today for the Moore Theatre and Moore Haven, Florida , proposed a canal that could accommodate small ships, with two wooden locks connecting Salmon Bay to Shilshole Bay . Moore secured Congressional approval for his project, granting him rights to build. In April of the same year, Hiram M. Chittenden came to Seattle as the new Army District Engineer. Chittenden favored

6396-516: Was discussion of building a navigable connection between Lake Washington and Puget Sound for the purpose of transporting logs, milled lumber, and fishing vessels. Thirteen years later, the United States Navy endorsed a canal project, which included a plan for building a naval shipyard on Lake Washington. In 1891 the US Army Corps of Engineers started planning the project. Some preliminary work

6478-540: Was formally dissolved on January 17, 2008, after liquidating all of its assets, repaying its debts, and transferring its remaining $ 425,963.07 to the King County Metro system. The monorail project ultimately cost Seattle taxpayers $ 124.7 million. The plan, as proposed by CP-1 (2002) proposed five distinct corridors based on the Intermediate Capacity Transit Study and prioritized the Green Line,

6560-483: Was occupied by the state's own circular exhibit "Century 21—The Threshold and the Threat", also known as the "World of Tomorrow" exhibit, billed as a "21-minute tour of the future". The building also housed exhibits by France, Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), General Motors (GM), the American Library Association (ALA), and RCA , as well as a Washington state tourist center. In "The Threshold and

6642-666: Was proposed by Mayor Mike McGinn in 2012, but funding to study its feasibility were rejected by the Seattle City Council . A new Link light rail crossing, carrying the Ballard Link Extension near the existing Ballard Bridge, is planned to be constructed in the 2030s. The Lake Washington Ship Canal and the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The Montlake Cut , along with

6724-578: Was shut down) a show featuring naked "Girls of the Galaxy". Tamer entertainment came in forms such as the Paris Spectacular wax museum , an elaborate Japanese Village, and the Hawaiian Pavilion. 47°37′17″N 122°21′03″W  /  47.62139°N 122.35083°W  / 47.62139; -122.35083 Lake Washington Ship Canal The Lake Washington Ship Canal

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