Space Needle

A flying saucer rose for a six-month fair

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Built for the 1962 World's Fair, this tower rises 605 feet above Seattle. Its saucer-shaped top was designed to suggest a spacecraft, with an observation deck and restaurant held high on a narrow concrete-and-steel shaft.

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