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Title	View N.E. to Opera House; fair fountain upper right; Hofbrau House has curved ceiling
Identifier	spl_wl_exp_00281
Description	Construction, Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). On the Opera House, designed by Schack, Young & Myers, and remodeled by Priteca & Chiarelli: “The brand-new Opera House (225 Mercer Street) had been constructed within the shell of Seattle's old Civic Auditorium -- which New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg described as a "6,000 seat, flat-floored, unpleasant" space that had ‘held just about everything but bullfights." Now the hall was the 3,100 seat pride of the town's arts establishment.’ (Peter Blecha, “Century 21 Exposition (1962): Performing Arts at the Fair.” HistoryLink.org, http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9371. On the International Fountain: “The fountain, a fitting symbol of the fair, graces the center of Boulevards of the World. Designed by Japanese architects Kazuyuki Matsushita and Hideki Shimizu, the fountain is centered in a huge bowl-shaped granite plaza. Its surface is composed of irregular white rock chips suggesting a rocky plain on some unexplored asteroid far beyond the reaches of this galaxy.” (Official souvenir program, Seattle World's Fair, 1962. Seattle: Acme, p. 55.). On the Hofbrau Haus restaurant, designed by John Graham and Co.: "Eight plywood bays are assembled in 20-ft. diameter vaults, one of largest thin shell spans in this configuration." (An Architect’s Guidebook to the Seattle World’s Fair. Seattle, Pacific Builder and Engineer, April 1962, p. 40)
Subjects (LCSH)	Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) Seattle Center Opera House International Fountain (Seattle, Wash.) Hofbrau Haus (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle Lenggenhager, Werner Building--Washington (State)--Seattle Queen Anne (Seattle, Wash.) Ethnic restaurants--Washington (State)--Seattle Cooking, German--Bavarian style Music-halls--Washington (State)--Seattle Centers for the performing arts--Washington (State)--Seattle Construction workers--Washington (State)--Seattle Schack, Young & Myers Priteca & Chiarelli Matsushita, Kazuyuki Shimizu, Hideki John Graham and Company
Subject	Restaurants Opera House International Fountain
Photographer	Lenggenhager, Werner
Architect	Schack, Young & Myers Priteca & Chiarelli Matsushita, Kazuyuki Shimizu, Hideki John Graham and Company
Date	1962-02-13
Period	Before the Fair
Notes	Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso.
Folder	Construction
Measurements	24.9 x 20.2 cm
Digitization Specifications	Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file. Photoshop used to reduce access image to 600 pixels on long edge; master image file size: 84,020,844 bytes.
File Format	image/jp2
Collection	Century 21 Digital Collection
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Rights Management	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Type (DCMI)	image
Item Type	Photographs
Source	Original: 8 x10 b/w photographic print
Date created	2011-05-09