Space Needle
Steel-legged observation tower with a rotating restaurant and sweeping city and mountain views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Space Needle in Seattle follows the ironworkers who raised its three steel legs in under eight months starting in spring 1961, working without harnesses or nets hundreds of feet above the city. You'll hear how thirty-nine welders and nightly x-ray inspections built the tower's curved taper, and how a single twelve-hour concrete pour anchored it against wind and earthquake. It follows the crew racing to finish before the World's Fair opened below the very platform they built.
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