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Title	Northwest mounted police riding into stadium; View N.W.
Identifier	spl_wl_exp_00932
Description	Mounted police for Canadian Tattoo, Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). Easily the most popular show was the Canadian Tattoo, staged in the Stadium. For two hours, Washington’s neighbors to the north dazzled--there is no other word--spectators with a show that traced the history of Canada, from fur trade to modern days, through its military forces. There were brief dramatic cameos; uniformed soldiers and sailors marched in cadence; kilted bagpipers and a seemingly endless supply of fresh horses galloping in the closest thing to precision that man and beast are likely to attain. At one point, a blank cartridge was fired and a hundred or so uniformed soldiers, standing side by side, toppled one at a time, like dominoes laid on end. Afterward, spectators could only say, ‘You had to be there! You just had to be there!’” (Don Duncan, Meet Me at the Center. Seattle: Seattle Center Foundation, 1992, p. 64.) Mounted police are riding past the Spanish Village, which “includes a flamenco restaurant; a miniature house that is a replica of the birthplace of Father Junipero Serra, the first Spanish priest to come to the West Coast, and a patio courtyard.” (Seattle Times, June 10, 1962, p. 140.)
Subjects (LCSH)	Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.)--Aerial views Spanish Village (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Union 76 Skyride (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Hofbrau Haus (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Plywood Home of Living Light (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Playhouse (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle--Aerial views Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle--Aerial views Lenggenhager, Werner Spain--Relations--Washington (State)--Seattle Seattle (Wash.)--Relations--Spain Signs and signboards--Washington (State)--Seattle Amusement rides--Washington (State)--Seattle Aerial tramways--Washington (State)--Seattle Ethnic restaurants--Washington (State)--Seattle Cooking, German--Bavarian style Architecture, Domestic--Washington (State)--Seattle Experimental houses--Washington (State)--Seattle Dwellings--Technological innovations--Washington (State)--Seattle Plywood construction Theaters--Washington (State)--Seattle Queen Anne (Seattle, Wash.) Special weeks--Washington (State)--Seattle Canada--Relations--Washington (State)--Seattle Seattle (Wash.)--Relations--Canada Canada--Armed Forces--Centennial celebrations, etc. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Mounted police--Washington (State)--Seattle Cavestany, Julio Fernando Union 76 (Firm)
Subject	Union 76 Skyride Restaurants Plywood Home of Living Light Playhouse Special weeks Spanish Village Aerial views
Photographer	Lenggenhager, Werner
Architect	Cavestany, Julio Fernando
Date	1962-09-16
Period	During the Fair
Notes	Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso.
Folder	Spanish Village
Measurements	25.97 x 21.06 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: 91,550,190 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	2011-07-11