Where Were You in '62? World's Fair, Perhaps??

[Ramfins59]

I was 15 and building models. I remember going to the New York World's Fair in 1965.

[ChrisBcritter]

Age two, playing with my Matchbox Karrier Bantam Coca-Cola truck and Ford Anglia, which somehow I still have.

Edited November 2, 2013 by ChrisBcritter

[chevyfever2009]

Wasn't even born yet

[Muncie]

Casey,

thank you for bringing back some good memories.

About 4th grade - remember the folks took us four kids to the '62 World's Fair - can't magine herding four kids like my parents did...

Typical drizzly Seattle day - rode the monorail, toured some pavilions, saw the space needle, and watched the logging show in the rain. Saw the AMT display with the Silhouette but wouldn't have recognized who was there. In 1962, it looked like we'd all be driving bubble tops by now. Mom and Dad would always buy us souvenirs when we went on trips and I brought home an AMT kit of the Space Needle. Brush painted it Testors orange per the instructions and gluebombed it in about an hour... maybe it was 30 minutes.

[High octane]

I was in high school reading (little) car magazines that I had put inside my text books in class. I was also a model car builder and went to my first outdoor custom car show in '61.

[Erik Smith]

I am actually in Seattle tonight! I wasn't alive in '62 though...

[Art Anderson]

Split the year between Sr in HS, Freshman in college.

[Joe Handley]

I'll have to ask, but I think Mom went to that with her high school class for their Senior Trip. A bus "full" of teenagers road tripping from a rural Iowa town of 400..........and her graduating class was a bus packing 13 kids!

[Dragline]

3 years away from my production date. But I love these old flyers as well.

Bob

LOL, didnt realize i'd already posted.

Edited November 2, 2013 by Dragline

[pharoah]

62? Wow. I was 10,and already starting to build glue bombs- er,I mean models..

I remeber hearing a lot about the worlds fair,but we didn't go. Too far away.

[Tom Geiger]

I was four and giving cheesy smiles from inside our brand new 1962 Studebaker Lark! That year we lived in an apartment across the street from my grandparents in Jersey City, NJ and my father, the US army officer, spent that year in Viet Nam.

I did go to the New York Worlds Fair in 1965. I remember seeing Mustangs there, and my sister sang that "Small World" song for years.

[oldnslow]

6th grade, learning to drivein my uncle's Olds 88 from Augusta Ga. to my aunt's farm outside of Blackshear Ga., where I usually spent the summer.

[Joker]

Walking around with what looked like a potato in my cloth diapers with sharp "safety" pins at each hip.

Dragging a glass baby bottle with one hand and my stuffed monkey with the other hand.

[Eshaver]

I wazzzzzzz around , well, I was building models My folks told me World's Fairs were a total waste of money and time ...........

[Edsel-Dan]

I was ONE!!

Not sure if I was still in Cary/Raleigh, N.C. or we had already moved to Wallop's, Va

and the new NASA base there.

[Skip]

Six years old, Dad took my brother and I to Century Twenty-One in big ol' Seattle. We rode over on the then "futuristic" Art Deco ferry Kalakala from Bremerton. Mom and little brother were in the hospital, he was just hatched, must have been why we went. Still have a sterling silver "Century Twenty-One" silver dollar sized coin. Didn't get to see Elvis, they were still there filming when we went. Don't remember seeing the AMT exhibit, just lots and lots of people!

[Casey]

We rode over on the then "futuristic" Art Deco ferry Kalakala from Bremerton.

It's still around, but it hasn't faired too well: http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/09/kalakala-make-or-break-time-for-worlds.html

[martinfan5]

In 1962 I was still 18 years away from even being thought of

[Ace-Garageguy]

Didn't get there myself, but my dad brought me back a souvenir model kit of the Space Needle. Still have it, assembled by me, not too terribly badly done.

[Casey]

Didn't get there myself, but my dad brought me back a souvenir model kit of the Space Needle. Still have it, assembled by me, not too terribly badly done.

This one?:

[Shardik]

I tried to get there, but it's a long haul from Berkley, Ca to Seatle when you're only one year old

[mk11]

Jes' a twinkle in my daddy's eye at that time .

Was in Seattle the next summer but not breathing air - yet

mike

[FordRodnKustom]

I was 7 years old growing up in the sticks of Long Island, watching this fair being built from the LIE on the way to my grandparents house in Queens.

[deja-view]

Wow....long time ago. I was a freshman in high school in Northern California, playing football....but still building models. That was a pretty big deal then, and the "Needle" was quite a conversation piece. It was still an impressive structure until I watched Bob Stupak build the 1150' Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas. Bob was a wacky guy but had great vision....although many thought his gorilla climbing the side of the Vegas World Hotel was just weird. It seemed to be a bigger version of the Seattle Space Needle, with more glitz and scary rides on the top. I swear I thought the first big wind would bring it down, but I'd bet lots of people said that about the Needle.

Edited November 3, 2013 by deja-view

[deja-view]

I was four and giving cheesy smiles from inside our brand new 1962 Studebaker Lark! That year we lived in an apartment across the street from my grandparents in Jersey City, NJ and my father, the US army officer, spent that year in Viet Nam.

I did go to the New York Worlds Fair in 1965. I remember seeing Mustangs there, and my sister sang that "Small World" song for years.

In 1962 I'd guess your dad was an "advisor".