SEATTLE WORLD'S FAIR BUTTONS

Button

Description

Comments

Value

Size: 1 ¼”

Predominate color: Blue

Feature: Space Needle & the Monorail

“SEATTLE WORLD’S FAIR”

Fairly Common

$10.00 - $15.00

 

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: Blue & Grey

Feature: Space Needle

“SOUVENIR OF WORLD’S FAIR, 1962, SPACE NEEDLE, SEATTLE, U.S.A.”

Very Common

$8.00 - $12.00

 

Size: 1”

Predominate color: Blue & Grey

Feature: Space Needle

“I Have Been on Top, SPACE NEEDLE, SEATTLE, U.S.A.”

Common

$8.00 - $12.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: White

Feature: Space Needle

“I WAS THERE, SPACE NEEDLE, SEATTLE, 1962”

Very Common

$8.00 - $12.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: Gold

Feature: Space Needle

“I WAS THERE, SPACE NEEDLE, SEATTLE, 1962”

Very Scarce $30.00 - $40.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: Yellow

Feature: Space Needle

“I WAS THERE, SPACE NEEDLE, SEATTLE, 1962”

Scarce $15.00 - $20.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: Pink

Feature: Space Needle

“I WAS THERE, SPACE NEEDLE, SEATTLE, 1962”

Very Scarce

$30.00 - $40.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: Blue

Feature: Monorail

“WORLD’S FAIR 1962, I RODE THE ALWEG MONORAIL”

Fairly Common

$10.00 - $15.00

Size: 2 ¼”

Predominate color: Light Blue

Feature: Hydroplane

“SEATTLE WORLD’S FAIR 1962”

Scarce

$15.00 - $20.00

Size: 2 ¼”

Predominate color: Blue

Feature: Hydroplane

“CENTURY 21, SEE YOU AT THE WORLD’S FAIR, SEATTLE 1962”

Scarce

$15.00 - $20.00

Size:

Predominate color: White

Feature: Space Needle

“WORLD’S FAIR, Seattle, 1962, SQUARE DANCER”

Scarce

$20.00 - $25.00

Size: .900”

Predominate color: White

Feature: World’s Fair Logo

“CENTURY 21 EXPOSITION”

Scarce

$15.00 - $20.00

Size: .900”

Predominate color: White

Feature: World’s Fair Logo

“WORLD'S FAIR SEATTLE 1962

READING CLUB”

Very Scarce

$30.00 - $40.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: Black

Feature: “Remember the Blisters?”

Scarce

$15.00 - $20.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: White

Feature: “Seattle Greets You in 1962”

Scarce

$15.00 - $20.00

Size: 2.25”

Predominate color: Yellow

Worn by construction workers during the construction of the fair

Scarce $15.00 - $20.00

Size: 1.75"

In 1962 some Seattleites were upset when businesses began raising prices on food, cabs, etc. to welcome guests to the fairs.

In retaliation, the idea of this button was born. Very few of these pins actually sold.

Very Scarce $15.00 - $20.00

Size: 1 ¼”

Predominate color: Gold

Feature: Logo

“WATERLAND, ’62, AUGUST

9 – 10 – 11”

Very Scarce

$30.00 - $40.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: Yellow

Feature: Space Needle & Monorail

“DIST. 19 LIONS, SEATTLE WORLD’S FAIR 1962”

Very Scarce

$30.00 - $40.00

Size: 1 ¾”

Predominate color: White & Blue

Feature: Dominion Monarch

The Dominion Monarch was leased from June to November 1962 as a hotel ship for the Seattle World Fair and was moored at Pier 51, Elliot Bay.

After the fair, the Dominion Monarch departed Seattle with her dignity intact and sailed for Osaka where she arrived on November 25, 1962 and was decommissioned and destroyed.

Very Scarce

$30.00 - $40.00

Size: 1 ¼”

Predominate color: Yellow

Feature: None

“I HELPED SEND THE Berkeley High School BAND TO THE SEATTLE WORLD’S FAIR 1962”

Very Scarce

$35.00 - $45.00