File talk:Early photo of seattle space needle.jpg

Note the restaurant is still under construction, and to the right are two monorail supports without rails mounted yet, so this would be pre-Fair, mid to late 1961, as rails were in place by January 1962; see http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/photos/photo.asp?PhotoID=10338

View is from the "five point" intersection of Fifth, Denny and Cedar (now Tillikum Place), looking northeast: Queen Anne hill in background, statue of Chief Seattle in foreground. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2002/0721/nowthen.html http://www.seattle.gov/PARKS/parkspaces/tilikumplace.htm Jeffreykopp 08:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)