World's fairs
Aug. 18th, 2015 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953When I was at the history museum in Seattle on Sunday, I overheard one of the guides tell some visitors that the Seattle World's Fair of 1962 (for which the Space Needle was built) was the first World's Fair after WWII.
One of my father's cousins married a a Belgian woman and I remember getting a postcard when I was young showing the Atomium outside Brussels. It's still there - I see it every time I take a train north out of Brussels. I had at the back of my mind the idea that it was built for a World's Fair and quick check on Wikipedia confirmed that there was a World's Fair in Brussels in 1958. There is a complete list of officially recognised World's Fairs there, starting with the Great Exhibition of1851 in London. Curiously, the Festival of Britain in 1951 isn't on the list and Brussels was the first after WWII.
One of my father's cousins married a a Belgian woman and I remember getting a postcard when I was young showing the Atomium outside Brussels. It's still there - I see it every time I take a train north out of Brussels. I had at the back of my mind the idea that it was built for a World's Fair and quick check on Wikipedia confirmed that there was a World's Fair in Brussels in 1958. There is a complete list of officially recognised World's Fairs there, starting with the Great Exhibition of1851 in London. Curiously, the Festival of Britain in 1951 isn't on the list and Brussels was the first after WWII.
