Charles Phoenix: Destination 1962 Seattle World’s Fair!
Charles presents a deep-fried and delicious laugh-out-loud performance featuring road trips, tourist traps, theme parks, car culture, space age style, festive fashions, fun foods, theme parties and the Great 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. Charles also reveals his “Best of Seattle” guide to must-see local landmarks, legends and lore.
I know the restaurant at the top of the Space Needle is $$$, but does the dessert served there named the “Lunar Orbiter” figure into Charles’s show at all ?
I took my baton twirling corp and my drummers via bus to perform for the 1962 Wolds Fair in Seattle. We arrived a week early and competed in several early competitions. I named the group “The Burdick Buccaneers ” and we dressed in beautiful green velvet costumes trimmed with gold braid, green hats with large gold ostrich plumes. We did a lot of fund raisers, and worked hard to get to Seattle and we were housed in a large dorm connected with a school. I loved going up to the round sky restaurant — what a view. Bernie stayed home, and I took my parents and older sister to help chaperone. A busy year for sure.