Expo ’74

Expo ’74, officially designated the “International Exposition on the Environment, Spokane 1974”, started on May 4 and ended on Nov. 3. The first environmentally themed World’s Fair left a popular urban park where a 100-acre railway once dominated.

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50 years ago in Expo history: Montana was excited for its own tourism boost thanks to the nearby fair in Spokane

Tue., Feb. 20, 2024

Washington wasn’t the only state counting on an Expo ’74 tourist boom.

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50 years ago in Expo history: Tours proved too distracting as crews rushed to finish the fair grounds in time

Sun., Feb. 18, 2024

The Expo ’74 grounds would soon be closed to site tours as workers rushed to finish construction and landscaping.

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50 years ago in Expo history: Hope was ‘dimming’ for another fair major exhibitor as the three-month countdown began

Sat., Feb. 17, 2024

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50 years ago in Expo history: Buzz around the fair was so strong that officials were asking for help getting enough gas for people to drive here amid a shortage

Fri., Feb. 16, 2024

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50 years ago in Expo history: A Spokane world fair better than Seattle’s? A national Expo official made a then-bold prediction

Thu., Feb. 15, 2024

The man in charge of the U.S. role in Expo ’74 said Spokane’s fair would outshine Seattle’s Century 21 world’s fair in 1962.

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50 years ago in Expo history: The Pavilion was getting a new construction management firm after the original became ‘unreliable’

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 20, 2024

The General Services Administration appointed a new construction management firm for Expo ’74’s U.S. Pavilion, because the former company “was not performing the construction management function as we view it.”

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50 years ago in Expo history: Sheep-shearing, gold-panning and other old-time fun was coming to the fair as part of a ‘prototype’ for the 1976 Bicentennial

Tue., Feb. 13, 2024

A Folklife Festival was slated to occupy a 5-acre site at Expo ’74, and it would feature a wide array of old-time activities, including riverboat-building, gold-panning, sheep-shearing and quilting.

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50 years ago in Expo history: A reporter hailed what is today the First Interstate Center for the Arts

Sun., Feb. 11, 2024

Spokane Chronicle reporter Frank Bartel visited Expo ’74’s nearly completed Washington State Pavilion and pronounced it “awesome.”

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One image was selected to represent the vast holdings of the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan: It’s from Spokane

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 11, 2024

DEARBORN, Mich. –The logo for the Henry Ford Museum, the massive collection of cars, trains, planes and technology showcasing American ingenuity, isn’t the Model T that gave the museum’s founder much of his vast riches. Nor is it the dominating locomotive that towers over guests. Nor any of the presidential limos, including the one in which JFK was shot.

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Kitschy fair souvenirs, a carousel and a super fast tiny car: Spokane’s presence at the Henry Ford Museum

Sun., Feb. 11, 2024

DEARBORN, Mich. –There’s a lot of what you might expect to find of Spokane in the extensive collections of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

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Letter explaining Expo'74 logo design