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Title	Art at S.E. corner of Civic Garage; View S.E. to Opera House & Space Needle
Identifier	spl_wl_sec_00029
Description	Seattle Center Parking Facility, Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). “Self-parking for 1,500 automobiles is available in the reinforced concrete structure, two blocks long and one block wide. The layout calls for one-way traffic throughout the garage, with angle parking on 60-ft. ramps and level areas by the use of four interlocked helices, two spirals up and two down…Total construction cost including fees, taxes, pedestrian bridge, etc., will amount to $1,070 per car as compared with the national average in excess of $1,500.” (An Architect’s Guidebook to the Seattle World’s Fair. Seattle, Pacific Builder and Engineer, April 1962, p. 29.)
Subjects (LCSH)	Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) Seattle Center Opera House Space Needle (Seattle, Wash.) Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle Lenggenhager, Werner Music-halls--Washington (State)--Seattle Centers for the performing arts--Washington (State)--Seattle Automobile parking--Washington (State)--Seattle Parking garages--Washington (State)--Seattle Concrete art--Washington (State)--Seattle Mercer Street (Seattle, Wash.) Kirk, Wallace, McKinley & Associates
Photographer	Lenggenhager, Werner
Architect	Kirk, Wallace, McKinley & Associates
Date	1962-10
Period	During the Fair
Notes	Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso.
Folder	Seattle Center (General)
Digitization Specifications	Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file.
File Format	image/jp2
Collection	Century 21 Digital Collection
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Rights Management	To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, 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	2011-12-26