{"id":284,"date":"2012-04-19T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2012-04-19T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:44:57","slug":"gearing-up-for-a-big-50th-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/gearing-up-for-a-big-50th-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearing up for a BIG 50th celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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how'd you like to be painting this?!<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey gang,<\/p>\n

Sorry it’s been a while – I’ve been busy chasing geese!<\/p>\n

Anyway,\u00c2\u00a0we’re well into spring\u00c2\u00a0here on the lake, and we’re ramping up for a great season.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s really exciting, though, is we have a ringside seat for one of the biggest parties in Seattle this year: the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World’s Fair!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s when they built the\u00c2\u00a0Seattle Center, and its crown jewel, the Space Needle.\u00c2\u00a0 And I can see it right from our dock!!<\/p>\n

Known as the Century 21 Exposition<\/a>, the Seattle World’s Fair introduced the world to the Pacific Northwest in a big way, putting Seattle “on the map” as it were.\u00c2\u00a0 It featured a glimpse into the future (mid-20th-century style, that is), and even gave inspiration to a movie starring Elvis!!\u00c2\u00a0 “It Happened At the World’s Fair<\/a>“\u00c2\u00a0 (they shoulda had Elvis star as a seaplane pilot, though)\u00c2\u00a0 Wow!<\/p>\n

The 50th birthday celebration is ramping up now, and the first touch is painting the Space Needle a retro golden color. Here I am checking it out from our dock:<\/p>\n

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Look – the Space Needle is turning gold!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

The fun’s going to go on throughout the spring and summer, so why not take a flight with us<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 You can get the best pictures in the world of a world’s fair celebration!<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n

Toby James<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hey gang, Sorry it’s been a while – I’ve been busy chasing geese! Anyway,\u00c2\u00a0we’re well into spring\u00c2\u00a0here on the lake, and we’re ramping up for a great season.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s really exciting, though, is we have a ringside seat for one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,3],"tags":[19,33,31,32,34],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-lake-union","category-toby","tag-doberman","tag-elvis","tag-seattle-worlds-fair","tag-space-needle","tag-toby-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleseaplanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}