Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. The Space Needle’s construction during the early 1960s was an epic feat of architecture and design. George Gulacsik chronicled the project with over 2000 photos. Browse through our timeline to see the Needle’s construction milestones.
Worker guiding steel plate into place on Space Needle, ca. November 8, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70070020
Date: 1961-11-08
View this itemWorkers on Space Needle Restaurant level, ca. December 28, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_76210019
Date: 1961-12-28
View this itemWorkers on Space Needle construction float, ca. late September 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69690004
Date: 1961-09
View this itemWorkers atop Space Needle, ca. early December 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_73670002
Date: 1961-12
View this itemThe Town Crier, v.7, no.43, Oct. 26, 1912
Page 3 article "A Business Proposition" discusses Virgil Bogue's "Plan of Seattle."
Identifier: spl_tc_915126_1912_07_43
Date: 1912-10-26
View this itemView north from 1st Ave. S. and S. Washington St., 1865
Transcribed from photograph: "Streets. Commercial Street [1st Ave. S.]. 1865. Looking North, just below Washington Street intersection. Center Right side: Occidental Hotel (with flagstaff). Above that--Dr. H. A. Smith house. Above that--C.C. Terry house (white fence and gables). Below right of Terry house--J. Collins house. Left of hotel. Left side: Hillory Butler house.(small white). Center Right side: first Masonic Hall (dark building). Above that -- Methodist Episcopal Church (White Church)."
Identifier: spl_shp_5158
Date: 1865
View this itemWorkers installing cross-tie between Space Needle legs, ca. September 12, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69670021
Date: 1961-09-12
View this itemWorkers pour concrete at 100' Space Needle observation deck, ca. November 27, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_73550018
Date: 1961-11-27
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