TK-41 and earlier performance illustrated

[julianburke]

In 1960 my father was transferred to Seattle Wa. We were there in 1962 for the worlds fair and I was 11 at the time. I watched them build it and also tear it down. After school I would go down there every day as it was walking distance for me. At the Seattle Pavillion, KING Television (Ch 5) had an exibit there and would also use it for coverage of the fair itself. I distinctly remember they had a "see yourself on color TV" with the TK41 camera and a 1962 model RCA roundie. This was a big deal then and would impress everyone who sat in the chair.

Funny, you never hear of World's Fairs anymore and if you do, how much money they lost. Strangely, it was exactly 20 years after Seattle that we had one here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Our theme was "Energy Turns the World." It was fun but also left a bad taste here as Jake Butcher & his brother were the officials who were later disgraced and lost all of their banks along with almost half a billion dollars of the depositors' money. They were not FDIC insured and were classified as a "thrift". Always political.
It also says we had a special TV station for this fair of which I don't remember. Also says the "touch screen" debuted too. There are other items in this article that are not accurate facts such as why they tore down the US Pavillion. Structure had nothing to do with it-it was so large and was mostly windows with solar panels that never worked right and was plagued with leaks from all the glass. It was too costly to fix and was never built right or a very poor design in the first place. For years it was in a tug of war between the city and the Federal Gov't for ownership. City finally got it donated to them and almost immediately demolished it because of the valuable property. (That's all they wanted in the first place-stuff they don't tell or really want you to know!) Today a new convention center sits there and is always in the red at our (taxpayers) expense. Again, always political and the people had no say in it-just the politicians to try and make us look like Atlanta!

Here is a link to it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_World's_Fair