Construction of the Space Needle (17 avr. 1961 – 8 déc. 1961)

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In 1959, Seattle hotel executive Edward E. Carlson, who was a chief organizer of the 1962 World’s Fair, traveled to Stuttgart Germany where he was inspired by a broadcast tower featuring a restaurant. He doodled an idea of a dominant central structure for the fair on a napkin in a hotel café convinced that such a tower could make a permanent center-piece for the fair and an enduring symbol for Seattle. He called it a “Space Needle.” Construction finally ended in the 8th of December, 1961, becoming the cities new tallest building at 605 feet, taller than the Smith Tower. 3 Workers died during the construction of it.

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