I was a 4yr old little boy at the time of the 1962 World's Fair, and yes I WAS THERE. I love the 8mm camera in COLOR. That was the Seattle I and my siblings KNEW and grew up in, those were GOOD TIMES.....Now that City NO LONGER EXIST.....WHAT A DAMN SHAME!!

Thank you for sharing your wonderful family memories.

Great film clip! Was a good area to grow up in. we lived 3 mi North of (what was then) little 'ol Bothell but just over the Snohomish line. I was 11 that summer. We had many out of town friends & family visit us to go to the fair. from the top of a huge fir tree i liked to climb i could see the top half of the space needle with binos- just sticking out over the hills 20 miles to the Southwest.

😂 I looked through the crowds there...I was 12 and my parents and three sisters lived in san diego but drove every summer to spend 2 weeks with my grandparents in Tacoma. 1962 we got to go to Seattle for the fair...like the rambler wagon...my dad always had a Studebaker wagon 😂..Ty so much for this film..❤

Time is so weird. This video makes me sad. I hope all these people got to stay this happy.

Thank you for the memories I am fast losing

Love these. Wish the times were simple like this again...

Thanks. Actually one of very few videos where you can see they are still building I-5

Was a great time to live & work in Seattle! Friendly people and never a thought about safety. More civility back then, definitely. The lack of hi-rise buildings downtown is breath-taking, compared to today!

Thanks for having me along with you Barstow family. I had a good time.

I remember seeing them film a scene with Elvis and a young Kurt Russell from the movie (It Happened the Worlds Fair). I was amazed on how long it took complete such a small scene, movies take forever to make.

What stands out to me, the '62 World's Fair was less than 17 years after the end of WWII. How impressive the country seemed.

La Push, WA is the town they're in on the coast. A truly beautiful place. I almost died there.

Pretty cool to see color videos. When I was little watching old TV shows I actually thought the world was Black & White not just the TV.

Second Beach near La Push? Awesome footage... thanks for sharing!

Ahhhh...the memories!! Catching the monorail downtown long before there was a Westlake Center. Riding the Wild Mouse...loved it!! Looking out over downtown from the Space Needle. Downtown has changed so much that if it wasn't for the Smith Tower, you wouldn't know it was the same place. Anyone remember a restaurant located downtown near the old monorail entrance called the "Green Onion" (aka the "Grunion)?" A friend and I used to eat there all the time. Thanks for the memories!

Beach camping footage appears to be near La Push, WA. You can recognize the big island at the mouth of the river. It's James Island.

Rare to see the happy family together like this, now. Cool film.

you can just tell times were simpler, everyone is in the moment

I remember taking my first ride to the top of the space needle as a kid. Those huge columns zipped by on the way up, then the door opened at the top, and the gap between the door, and the entrance seemed like the Grand Canyon to me! Yikes! Seattle Centers hay day was an incredible time in history. So very grateful to be a part of it!

Fantastic footage. I wish my family's home movies looked this good.

I really enjoyed this film, the gentleman falling over in the lawn chair gave me a very honest laugh. Also the quality is astounding :)

Even had some added old school effects 👌

Love this! My dad (passed away in 2013) worked at this fair. I love seeing it and imagining what it was like to be there. Though several buildings remain very similar at the fairgrounds location (the Space Needle, Science Center, Key Arena), it's hard to picture how it was then with all the grand excitement. Thanks for sharing!

Neat seeing films like this. Thanks for sharing!

I remembered so well what I said each time I operated the bubblelator.

Great movie. looks like a wonderful family & great vacation. Loved seeing memories of the Worlds Fair. In later years, the monorail was part of my work commute. Cheers!

GREAT!! the film looks so good too! GREAT.

This will always remind me of Elvis, then Warren Beattie in The Parallax View.

Thanks so much for sharing this. I wish I was there.

I didn't know bumper stickers were a thing in 62!

Two years before Beatlemania. Nice 😂❤😊

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Sheridan Peterson one minute ago. I wore a space suite and escorted tourists about on the bubblelator's weird passageways. I

meanwhile, I am glad that there's no sound, because if the pressed oxford (while camping) family had all busted out with "doe - a - deer.." it would've been too much. cheers : )

Only tourists actually EAT at the Space Needle. The locals know better. And few of us have actually been to the top of the Needle anyway. All jokes aside, it is good footage.

real america.

I dunno, we are a funny people on the west coast. I went to that fair too, at the age of 2, but my family's movies aren't nearly so well organized....

these must be city people.... camping on stones, fishing where fish don't swim and the lawn chair incident... oh well as long as they had fun....

So refreshing to not seeing people with blue or purple hair. Seattle is horrible today.

Glad someone was smart enuff to do this looking back to when Seattle was a care free and wonderful place to be compared to the toilet it is today...I grew up in this town in the 50s and seen it turn to $hit 😣.what a terrible disatser its turned out to be, absolutley discusting and proves how far the world and civilization has declned

The good old days when the Space Needle was a prime location for suicides.