Century 21 Calling, 1962 - AT&T Archives - World's Fair tour

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A tour of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, focusing on Bell System innovations.
This film offers a tour of the newly opened 1962 Seattle World's Fair, starting with the famous monorail, which still runs from the city center to the site of the fairgrounds. A one-way ticket today costs $2.25, versus the $0.50 charge in 1962.
The Fair was all about the future, and while this film shows the variety of exhibits visitors could enjoy, it ultimately zeroes in on the Bell System Pavilion where it introduces the latest innovative products and services available to customers. The film also highlights some of the conveniences customers could anticipate in the next century, thanks to the research and development efforts of AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories. It's interesting to note that predicted conveniences-like networked appliances that can be turned on and off from afar-did show up in the 21st Century, though the mode of transmission is somewhat different than the film suggests, which is not surprising, since the Internet wasn't even a twinkle in a researcher's eye at the time.
One new Bell System service that actually made its commercial debut at the Fair was the 150-megacycle Bellboy signaling system. Though "Personal Signaling" (essentially paging) services had been available in smaller cities since the late '50s, these operated at 35 megacycles, a frequency range with fewer channels that could not accommodate traffic in heavily-populated areas. The Bellboy system made big-city service possible, and was faster and more reliable than the paging systems that came before it.
Footage Courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ

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  • @joannemcniff4210
    @joannemcniff42104 жыл бұрын

    I used to work in the Murray Hill central office right next to Bell Labs. We had one of the first prototypes of the videophone. You would not believe it now but, it originally started out the size of a refrigerator. Now we hold a computer and a video phone all in one hand. Our motto back in the day was: One system, it works. I'm proud to say I helped build that system.

  • @goldenager59

    @goldenager59

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, I'M glad you got to participate, and that you're proud of it. Here in Century XXI (in '21, oddly enough) we may not yet have reached the Jetson Stage of things, but your part in helping us along is most definitely appreciated. 😊 👄 ☎️📲 👂

  • @Code3forever
    @Code3forever3 жыл бұрын

    I remember as a 12 year old going to the fair in 1962. We had relatives in Bellevue and it was so exciting. Even flew in the small helicopter that looked ultra modern. The elevators going up the Space Needle were so fast, it was scary. They even filmed a local TV show there live. This brought back some fun memories. Even the monorail was fun to ride in. I remember some of the exhibits now that this video reminded me of them. Great video!

  • @burkelong4376

    @burkelong4376

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was there, too. Twice in the summer of '62. It was great fun. Too bad that they didn't show the Bubbleator

  • @Lurker1979
    @Lurker19796 жыл бұрын

    Walking Seattle Center now days. It is amazing to think it held this amazing event. Wish North America still had worlds fairs and expos.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    And no rain? That's Unpossible!

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    Can't anymore, they spend all the money on killing people and spying on you.

  • @RN-hx1rs

    @RN-hx1rs

    5 жыл бұрын

    They do, they're just called "cons" now.

  • @PhyrexianSurgeon

    @PhyrexianSurgeon

    4 жыл бұрын

    @49jubilee yes all the time

  • @goldenager59

    @goldenager59

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh, but we do, we do...and a permanent one, too. And it's called E.P.C.O.T. (surprise)! 😃 😁

  • @digitalparadisestudios7741
    @digitalparadisestudios77417 жыл бұрын

    I don't think I've ever seen anyone so happy to learn about DNA.

  • @curtchase3730

    @curtchase3730

    5 жыл бұрын

    @NibiruLives Really! I bet they have Great Grandchildren now, and if they were blood related, their offspring joined the circus! LOL.

  • @kellycoleman715

    @kellycoleman715

    4 жыл бұрын

    Digital Paradise Studios And a double helix made of playing cards too. I still haven’t figured that one out. 🤔

  • @Schooney60606

    @Schooney60606

    3 жыл бұрын

    There was a novelty to it still, since the structure of DNA was discovered less than 10 years prior to this.

  • @Lightblue2222

    @Lightblue2222

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not sure if they learned anything. Lol.. hey look at these spinny things. Wow sure is a trip

  • @RadioChief52
    @RadioChief527 жыл бұрын

    I remember all of these features when they were introduced. Boy do I feel old.

  • @kellycoleman715

    @kellycoleman715

    4 жыл бұрын

    RadioChief I hear ya Chief. Alexander Graham Bell and I were in the same kindergarten class in Scotland. 📞

  • @emmarose4234

    @emmarose4234

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kelly Coleman, I think RadioChief is talking about having been to the Century 21 Exposition (the World’s Fair shown here).

  • @edwarddurbin3586

    @edwarddurbin3586

    3 жыл бұрын

    I join you being the 1957 model I am... LoL

  • @DiscoMatty79
    @DiscoMatty792 жыл бұрын

    Imagining what the future will be like is way better than actually living in it. When I was a kid, I couldn't wait for the 21st century. Now that I'm here, um...yeah.

  • @jamesthomas7405

    @jamesthomas7405

    Ай бұрын

    Kind of disappointing.

  • @Moonshine54321
    @Moonshine54321 Жыл бұрын

    That girl is just SO EXCITED about every little darned thing!!! LOL

  • @ClaytonCoffman
    @ClaytonCoffman6 жыл бұрын

    I remember when I was a kid and we went to a push button phone from a rotary dial phone. I thought it was so cool and futuristic! :)

  • @kellycoleman715

    @kellycoleman715

    4 жыл бұрын

    Clayton Coffman I remember when smoke signals were invented.

  • @jgrysiak6566

    @jgrysiak6566

    2 жыл бұрын

    Touch tone dialing wasn't available in my town until 1980

  • @jdrayton7224

    @jdrayton7224

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow they have push button phones now

  • @altfactor

    @altfactor

    Жыл бұрын

    I thought that touch tone phones didn't get introduced until the 1964 New York World's Fair.

  • @johnscanlan9335
    @johnscanlan93353 жыл бұрын

    My family drove across the country in 1962 to see the Seattle World's Fair. It was there that we saw push button telephones for the first time!!!

  • @tc-tm1my

    @tc-tm1my

    Жыл бұрын

    and now land lines are nearly extinct

  • @dannytheman1313
    @dannytheman13132 жыл бұрын

    In a way some of these predictions did happen, push buttons did end up replacing old rotary phones. The bellboy became the pager, cell phones have been able to hold numbers in the memory since the early 2000's, apps allow for some electronics to be turned on remotely and for people to check the weather. Wasn't a perfect prediction but it was fairly close.

  • @dannytheman1313

    @dannytheman1313

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NerdyNEET Yeah no one could have predicted Web MD but thats hardly the fault of the makers of this short

  • @tc-tm1my

    @tc-tm1my

    Жыл бұрын

    the internet was still top secret military research back then.

  • @jensotube
    @jensotube10 жыл бұрын

    I never knew that you could do so many things with a rotary telephone. I need to get one of those! Thank you AT&T.

  • @chazdesimone7306

    @chazdesimone7306

    5 жыл бұрын

    auto28521 Can’t do this with an iPhone: weapon, paperweight, doorstop, emergency rope.

  • @kellycoleman715

    @kellycoleman715

    4 жыл бұрын

    auto28521 Many homes had kitchen wall phones with fifty foot long cords too.

  • @user2C47

    @user2C47

    4 жыл бұрын

    In fact, ESS works better with DTMF, and needed a separate processor to efficiently handle dial pulsing.

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines2 жыл бұрын

    Everyone has to visit the Space Needle at least once in their life. It's such an iconic structure and the views is gorgeous. I can't get enough of the awesome production music!

  • @Tubes12AX7k
    @Tubes12AX7k6 жыл бұрын

    If I had a time machine, this is where I'd get off. Maybe just a year or two earlier. Plenty of optimism, enduring mid-century architecture, Henry Mancini's music, doo wop music, jazz, Alfred Hitchcock movies, and cars with chrome and fins.

  • @roachtoasties

    @roachtoasties

    5 жыл бұрын

    @fbw71u Both are true. But if I could stop by the World's Fair in 1962, I think it would be just before U.S. urban decay, so it should be fun. At least where I'm from (California), things have been turning around, but we have a lot of catching up.

  • @roachtoasties

    @roachtoasties

    5 жыл бұрын

    @fbw71u It's slow, but there's downtown urban renewal in L.A., and more rail service. The same in San Francisco (if you can deal with the homeless issue). It's nothing like Europe, but compared to the 70's and 80's when there was nothing but a few belching city buses, things are improving.

  • @misterhot9163

    @misterhot9163

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget the racism 😐

  • @fourthgirl

    @fourthgirl

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@roachtoasties I was born a year after this World's Fair. Growing up in Oakland, Saturdays were the best. Finish household chores and the sisters and I would go Downtown to shop, window or real purchases. We could go from 11th & Broadway all the way to the Sears store at 25th &Telegraph. Fabric store for Secondgirl to load up, music store to listen to new releases, dress boutiques to try on dresses to beg mom first later. Not just scrolling online for crap we didn't need, overspend and forget why we bought it when arrives later in the week...if it wasn't stolen by a porch pirate.

  • @JohnMichaelson

    @JohnMichaelson

    5 жыл бұрын

    @MisterHot Do you know how tired and played out that stupid remark is?

  • @albear972
    @albear9726 жыл бұрын

    0:41 wearing her finest prom dress to ride the monorail! Monorail! Monorail! It will improve your future, it will be stupendous!

  • @PhyrexianSurgeon

    @PhyrexianSurgeon

    4 жыл бұрын

    just drove by the monorail this morning and thought about how little it's actually used

  • @kellycoleman715

    @kellycoleman715

    4 жыл бұрын

    albear972 With petticoats!

  • @plateshutoverlock

    @plateshutoverlock

    Жыл бұрын

    Monorails are futuristic because _____________?

  • @ai4px
    @ai4px5 жыл бұрын

    The populace of Seattle has sure changed since 1962..... I didn't see any tents on the streets under the monorail.

  • @kellycoleman715

    @kellycoleman715

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wes Johnston 🔥 🔥 🔥

  • @MajorGeneralPanic

    @MajorGeneralPanic

    4 жыл бұрын

    Back in those days, you could just jail the homeless and nobody would notice.

  • @brianarbenz7206

    @brianarbenz7206

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just to be a fussy creep, "populace" is the word you meant. Populous is an adjective about having a certain amount of people. "Populace" is the noun. Careful, grammatical errors can lead to living in a tent city!

  • @brianarbenz7206

    @brianarbenz7206

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MajorGeneralPanic Yeah, let's let murderers go to make room to put all the homeless in our jails.

  • @ai4px

    @ai4px

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@brianarbenz7206 your write! lol.... You're correct and I edited the word in my post. I detest grammar errors and even I made one!

  • @Mouserjan0222
    @Mouserjan02223 жыл бұрын

    I love how they RUN to every exhibit and CUT in line and push their way inside. I guess they didn't have manners back then

  • @kinetsievarvenfloot1237

    @kinetsievarvenfloot1237

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah. Arrogant little bastards.

  • @mw9771

    @mw9771

    Жыл бұрын

    Sounds like 2022.

  • @paulflinn3521

    @paulflinn3521

    Жыл бұрын

    That's a big problem TODAY, with middle age women in China!!!

  • @westwasbest
    @westwasbest3 жыл бұрын

    The talent and dedication of all those workers in the Bell Laboratories are exactly what made this world what it is today, those dedicated men and women were some of the most talented people in the world! It's amazing in new way back when what features were forthcoming with the phone network and Central offices and yet they did, some of the best people in the world made what we now know to be the Bell System!

  • @tennissir1986

    @tennissir1986

    Жыл бұрын

    Don’t forget about the viscous business practices of Bell Telephone that caused the government to break up their monopoly. A lot more innovation came after the breakup due to the competition among companies.

  • @westwasbest

    @westwasbest

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tennissir1986 and they made more money than before they broke up by all of the baby bells that were still one subsidiary but with different names, so Judge Green screwed up on that one

  • @tennissir1986

    @tennissir1986

    Жыл бұрын

    @@westwasbest Wrong. The job of a court presiding over a monopoly is not to hurt or help the monopolistic company - but to allow other companies to compete on a level playing ground. The other companies got much bigger and one of bell systems spin-off companies - Lucent was unable to compete at all.

  • @westwasbest

    @westwasbest

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tennissir1986 Lucent was at&t, AT&T long lines were responsible for all of these Bell system companies, so as I said the breakup was nothing but unnecessary and unwarranted, because all that happened was AT&T broke up into many different companies IE: Southern Bell, Mountain Bell, and all the others, with the exception of ITT which basically manufactured equipment nobody else really provided local phone service in any of these locales, so as I said, it backfired!

  • @tennissir1986

    @tennissir1986

    Жыл бұрын

    @@westwasbest Basic common sense says that when a company grow’s by how AT & T did by gobbling up smaller competitor companies - the consumer loses out. That after the breakup the remaining competitors made stupid business decisions is not a factor to the original decision.

  • @ATTTechChannel
    @ATTTechChannel11 жыл бұрын

    You're very welcome.

  • @zuhlsdork

    @zuhlsdork

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for uploading this.

  • @brodyh79

    @brodyh79

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can i break free from all of this now and go home.

  • @famousbowl9926

    @famousbowl9926

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey ur still uploading. Are you actually ATT?

  • @ramade9040

    @ramade9040

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now send me back to those days

  • @jayhollowayii2

    @jayhollowayii2

    3 ай бұрын

    Love this channel so much retro technology

  • @lukehauser1182
    @lukehauser11827 жыл бұрын

    You can tell it's Seattle cuz she's jacked on caffeine

  • @cornjobb

    @cornjobb

    5 жыл бұрын

    really, mr. historically accurate? think about your comment and then look at when starbucks was 1st opened in the public market. you'll quickly realize your comment was really stupid.

  • @mlr4524

    @mlr4524

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@cornjobb I think it was just a joke. The acting is a tad over the top in this film.

  • @PhyrexianSurgeon

    @PhyrexianSurgeon

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cornjobb to be fair most of us are very caffenated

  • @kellycoleman715

    @kellycoleman715

    4 жыл бұрын

    Luke Hauser 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

  • @josephmcclary9667

    @josephmcclary9667

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alatina Thucklemuggin good grief. It was a joke. You must be a blast at parties.

  • @kd1s
    @kd1s11 жыл бұрын

    Kind of funny when you think of all the features we love on cellphones, or take for granted used to be features that Bell charged you extra to provide them. And they completely missed on the Picture Phone too.

  • @albear972

    @albear972

    6 жыл бұрын

    Man, back in the 80's we paid $3.50 to have the newfangled touch-tone service. It was a miniature computer in your house Pacific Bell said.

  • @brettknoss486

    @brettknoss486

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bell tried to develop picture phone to promote bradband, but it was too expendive for home use and lacked the resolution for businesd uses like document sharing.

  • @InterLinked1

    @InterLinked1

    5 жыл бұрын

    As recently as a decade ago, some phone companies were still charging $0.50 per month for touchtone service. If my phone company did, I just wouldn't pay the fee. I use rotary phones more than touchtone phones anyways.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@brettknoss486 I much prefer Janetband on my phone. #Grrrooowwrrrr :-)

  • @lowercherty

    @lowercherty

    5 жыл бұрын

    Did they? My cell phone does. Skype.

  • @memelvin1
    @memelvin17 жыл бұрын

    That monorail ride looks like a ride on the DC metro rail.

  • @robertcuminale1212
    @robertcuminale12125 жыл бұрын

    By 1979 the Bellboy was only an inch wide and 4 inches tall and it could broadcast a voice message.

  • @kellycoleman715
    @kellycoleman7154 жыл бұрын

    Ah, the days of Brylcreem and Aqua Net. “Hey! Let’s dash through the fair, knock down some old couples and crash the lines at every exhibit!” I remember seeing these same Bell displays when we visited their exhibit at Disneyland when I was a very young kid in ‘62. They either moved them from the Seattle World’s Fair or had an identical one at Disneyland.

  • @Chowringhee
    @Chowringhee3 жыл бұрын

    Very cool, well-produced, and highly enjoyable!

  • @misterhot9163
    @misterhot91635 жыл бұрын

    That ending was just too precious for words.

  • @billp4

    @billp4

    Жыл бұрын

    Yet you found some.

  • @johneddy908
    @johneddy9085 жыл бұрын

    The Seattle World's Fair's focal point was the iconic Space Needle, still standing today. The grounds would evolve into Seattle Center.

  • @tc-tm1my

    @tc-tm1my

    Жыл бұрын

    san antonio had a needle too at their world's fair

  • @thefeverdreamer
    @thefeverdreamer11 жыл бұрын

    I am in love with this channel. Thanks ATTTech!!

  • @DavidLPike
    @DavidLPike6 жыл бұрын

    Best color quality I've seen so far. I Have 2 copies of this film.

  • @michaelpineiro533
    @michaelpineiro533 Жыл бұрын

    That century 21 auto dialer is a modern miracle, because we've been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle's extended warranty...

  • @pedroruiz3943
    @pedroruiz3943 Жыл бұрын

    I've been binging on these vintage reels for I don't know how long. Someone please help...

  • @DanaTheInsane
    @DanaTheInsane5 жыл бұрын

    Look for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of this. Its great.

  • @nocusr
    @nocusr5 жыл бұрын

    Grew up in Queens (NY), near the 1964-65 Fair. Must have visited at least 20 times over the two years that it was open. Occasionally we would cut classes and spend a few hours during the week when it wasn't crowded. Remember the hours long wait for the GM exhibit? There was even an opening cut in a fence on Rodman St. (now College Pt. Blvd.) where someone could gain access for free, not me of course. Loved the chairs with the built-in speakers on the ride at the Bell System exhibit. Made a "Picturephone" call to a girl in California. Great memories. Ironically, went on to work for AT&T 6 years later - for 40 years.

  • @emmarose4234

    @emmarose4234

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you go to the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle in 1962?

  • @nocusr

    @nocusr

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@emmarose4234 No, unfortunately. Lived in NYC, 3000 miles away, and a teenager - not a chance. The 1964 NY Fair looked almost identical to the Seattle Fair.

  • @gravelman5789
    @gravelman57896 жыл бұрын

    I Rode the Heck otta the Monorail!!!! My first ride up the elevator to the Space Needle, the Doors opened 2/3rds up!!!! My Mom Grabbed My Suit Jacket just as i leaned out to check out how high we were!!!!

  • @cesaranthonyviralta5495

    @cesaranthonyviralta5495

    5 жыл бұрын

    gravelman5789 jeepers creepers! Did the doors malfunction?!?

  • @user2C47

    @user2C47

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cesaranthonyviralta5495 If the elevator kept moving, I would assume it was a mechanical failure in the door causing it become detached from the motor. The alternative is a major problem with the controller which resulted in the door opening and the safety circuit having no effect.

  • @cliffanycrutcher8203
    @cliffanycrutcher82035 жыл бұрын

    The boy in blue is my history teacher now. Mr Ralston

  • @emmarose4234

    @emmarose4234

    4 жыл бұрын

    Did he tell you what happened to the girl with the bows?

  • @donettawashington2031

    @donettawashington2031

    3 жыл бұрын

    He did get some poonani?

  • @johnscanlan9335

    @johnscanlan9335

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you serious?

  • @emmarose4234

    @emmarose4234

    3 жыл бұрын

    @therazorsedge28 Returns, nice to see you! I didn’t know you were into the Century 21 Exposition! 🥰

  • @emmarose4234

    @emmarose4234

    3 жыл бұрын

    @therazorsedge28 Returns, hehehehe. By the way, while we’re on the topic of world’s fairs, are you a fan of the 1964 New York World’s Fair as well? I sure am. (My late dad went there, because his dad worked on electrical stuff there.)

  • @jorgeh1680
    @jorgeh16804 жыл бұрын

    All that innovative stuff that some ppl are saying Bell System didn't materialize, actually they did... By patenting. A portion of your Nest Thermostat purchase, FaceTime, the call waiting or text on your smartphone is going to AT&T.

  • @DAVIDSDIEGO
    @DAVIDSDIEGO10 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing your amazing video! I like how the cinematography is timeless. 10:59 reminds me of the AT&T "You Will" ads from the '90s.

  • @jonasferraz

    @jonasferraz

    4 жыл бұрын

    10:59

  • @CarCinCal
    @CarCinCal10 ай бұрын

    This channel never disappoints 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

  • @jedimindtrix2142
    @jedimindtrix21422 жыл бұрын

    rofl. The Bell Boy, an early pager. Little did people know that was the beginning of the end of being able to say "I didn't get your message" or not be able to get away lol.

  • @lohphat
    @lohphat Жыл бұрын

    Some of these displays made it down to Disneyland after the fair to the pre- and post- show areas of Circle-Vision 360 when The Bell System/AT&T was the sponsor. I remember using them as a kid. They lasted until the late1970s until PSA (airline) took over sponsorship.

  • @misterhot9163
    @misterhot91635 жыл бұрын

    That opening shot with the monorail looks like Disneyland 😁👍

  • @altfactor
    @altfactor Жыл бұрын

    I thought that John Glenn's Friendship 7 Mercury space capsule was on display at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair before it was moved to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, where it's remains to this day.

  • @hormelinc
    @hormelinc4 жыл бұрын

    The touch tone version of that card dialer (WE 2660) helped me get lots of concert tickets from local radio stations in the San Francisco area when I was a kid. The best concerts I went to was Yes, Johnny Winter (both at Winterland) and Grateful Dead Wall of Sound special (Cow Palace) all in 1974!

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz13293 жыл бұрын

    "And along with being able to turn on your air conditioner by phone, hackers and criminal syndicates will be able to record you secretly by turning on your cell phone cam! What a great century it's gonna be!"

  • @biggirlbathingsuits8210
    @biggirlbathingsuits82104 жыл бұрын

    I got my rotary phone in1963. One neighbor got a touch tone about 10 years later. The touch tone service was extra cost. Around 1990 touch tone service was included in the local service at no additional cost, but those that subscribed to it earlier, continued to be charged extra for the service. That was pretty funny that I could get free touch tone service and the neighbor had to pay for it. The phone company wanted to start charging for weather and time, but the courts said that customers expected that service included and the phone company was only able to charge extra on each service after they were used more than 5 times a month. I can still dial my rotary phone faster than a touch tone phone, because my hand and finger are used to rotary dialing and I haven't used a touch tone phone much. I know where the numbers are on a rotary phone, but I have to really look to dial a touch tone phone.

  • @lindac6919

    @lindac6919

    2 жыл бұрын

    I remember all those weird little charges on the phone bill. Then they broke up the Ma Bell monopoly, and phone things got even weirder for a while! It was a jungle out there.

  • @dennisjacob1081
    @dennisjacob10814 жыл бұрын

    I really admire their admire their optimism for the future. Theyve been through hell and they really want a better future

  • @Janotes
    @Janotes4 жыл бұрын

    I would have lived at the Bell System exhibition.

  • @seikibrian8641
    @seikibrian86415 жыл бұрын

    I remember the '62 World's Fair fondly. The Space Needle is still here, of course, as is the United States Science Exhibit -- now the Pacific Science Center -- but a lot has changed. Not just on the fairgrounds themselves (now called the Seattle Center) but even riding the monorail you're now in a canyon of high-rise office, retail, and residential buildings on the south end of the line, and the north end goes through the MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture) -- formerly the EXP (Experience Music Project) -- which wasn't even imagined by a young Paul Allen back then. In many ways it's sad, but then again the Century 21 Exhibition WAS about progress and change.

  • @nocusr

    @nocusr

    5 жыл бұрын

    Actually it was '64-'65, when I was a Junior, Senior in High School.

  • @seikibrian8641

    @seikibrian8641

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@nocusr No, it wasn't. The Seattle "Century 21" World's Fair was 1962. The 1964 World's Fair was in New York City.

  • @bradwooldidge6979
    @bradwooldidge6979 Жыл бұрын

    “Golly gee wiz Sally, this is keen!”

  • @bobcole612
    @bobcole6123 жыл бұрын

    First time I saw this short was on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

  • @makeadifference4all
    @makeadifference4all3 жыл бұрын

    Nothing says "you're cruising into the future" like a monorail 🤣

  • @lilmsgs
    @lilmsgs Жыл бұрын

    Such a clean cut boy with a haircut the opposite of the beatles

  • @paulflinn3521
    @paulflinn3521 Жыл бұрын

    One of my early memories was at age of six,going to the fair. What that stood out was getting on that elevator in the needle,being at the back and someone said "let the little guy get up front. Having never been higher than a second floor ,I freaked,and fainted! Still have a fear of heights!! Mmm, something new for the therapist!!!

  • @friendofdorothy9376

    @friendofdorothy9376

    9 ай бұрын

    We went in the late 60’s, so I was around 6 and I totally remember being scared in those elevators. As I recall they had glass on the front doors and I didn’t want to be anywhere near those and I remember pushing my way to the back.

  • @melvynn11
    @melvynn115 жыл бұрын

    Oh, that red headed Gidget needs to calm the heck down.

  • @justinandmaxgames5472
    @justinandmaxgames5472 Жыл бұрын

    At 0:51 we can see the Flight to Mars haunted house which was also at Adventurers Inn just a few years later!

  • @darylkearney7169
    @darylkearney71698 жыл бұрын

    The Bell Lab invented quite a few feature in the late 50's that we use today. Think about it the Bell Labs invented the ESS Touch Tone and with out it we would not have computers and iPhones that we use today.

  • @antovador

    @antovador

    7 жыл бұрын

    Computers existed before.

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    Also, a li'l thang called a transistor...

  • @RN-hx1rs

    @RN-hx1rs

    5 жыл бұрын

    Daryl kearney they also invented unix.

  • @cornjobb

    @cornjobb

    5 жыл бұрын

    no one asked. you're a hoot at parties, though, i imagine.

  • @BillDerBerg

    @BillDerBerg

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cornjobb popularity is dead... go tell Fred.

  • @taylortimeless
    @taylortimeless3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao I remember when my family and I were at a museum back in Chicago (we were kids) and my brother dialed 911 on one of those phones and was shook. “Taylor, I dialed 911, I’m scared. What if the police come? 😭”

  • @jgrysiak6566

    @jgrysiak6566

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or when we dialed "0" when we were at grandma's house! She yelled & said "hang up" the Operator gonna call back & give her hell! Lol

  • @ih8tusernam3s
    @ih8tusernam3s3 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching an MST3K short about this when I was a kid, I miss those days.

  • @jamesthomas7405
    @jamesthomas7405Ай бұрын

    People back then took pride in their appearance when out in public.

  • @videoluvr4204
    @videoluvr42045 жыл бұрын

    "oh gee golly Sally, whiz bang what a fine day!"

  • @HenryBloggit

    @HenryBloggit

    3 жыл бұрын

    “This telecommunications industry trade show was a keen idea for a first date, Johnny!”

  • @calbob750
    @calbob7503 жыл бұрын

    In 1962 the Bell System was still serving major cities with 1920s switching technology that wouldn’t be replaced until the early 70s. Rotary dial for for that 1920s technology. Touch tone phones were for the first wave of digital technology...ESS.

  • @acoustic61
    @acoustic613 жыл бұрын

    DTMF dialing, Call waiting & Call forwarding in 1962? It was early 80's before we had those features in New England.

  • @richardjoubert7452
    @richardjoubert74524 жыл бұрын

    Every where you go now,you see every one looking at there sell phone,even when walking!!!!!when I was little in the 1960s,we used to go out for country rides every Sunday,,and enjoy mother nature,and go hiking,and fishing,and so many family things,cell phones have ruined all that

  • @tehsma
    @tehsma5 жыл бұрын

    The future looks exciting.

  • @edwardvogel9094
    @edwardvogel90943 жыл бұрын

    They're still charging me $9/ month on my landline for call waiting since 1989! Robbers!

  • @iamcoreilly
    @iamcoreilly8 ай бұрын

    I don't remember call waiting and forwarding in 1962! My big sister hogged the phone all the time. She probably knew and didn't tell me when I got a call!

  • @TIMBOWERMAN
    @TIMBOWERMAN Жыл бұрын

    I remember all of that (call waiting and call diversion) but not with rotary dial phones

  • @NoMoneyG
    @NoMoneyG9 ай бұрын

    How the world would change if these things were to happen! Amazing

  • @jeanc819
    @jeanc819 Жыл бұрын

    With everything that's going on in the world these days, I yearn to go back to a time this corny.

  • @roachtoasties
    @roachtoasties3 жыл бұрын

    Questions: We all know about custom calling features, so no need to ask about that. I do need to know what code the bird needed to poke at 3:55 to get fed. Now that's important. There's also the issue of the dogs at 11:23. If the family is "many miles away on vacation" why are they just concerned about watering the lawn? Their dogs are left wandering around the house. Who's taking care of them? Important stuff!

  • @jgrothou

    @jgrothou

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe they are the neighbors dogs

  • @makeadifference4all
    @makeadifference4all3 жыл бұрын

    That guy got his ass whipped when his rotary dial was up against the pushbutton phone. Bell System taught him a lesson! 😂

  • @alexkuhn5078
    @alexkuhn50786 жыл бұрын

    the Telephony of Things! Yeah, they got it almost right

  • @the80hdgaming
    @the80hdgaming3 жыл бұрын

    It's strange to watch this without the MST3K commentary... lol

  • @pauldalgarn2116
    @pauldalgarn21165 жыл бұрын

    That's pine hell of an intro!

  • @TheParot161
    @TheParot161 Жыл бұрын

    Monorail! Monorail!

  • @Zoomer30_
    @Zoomer30_3 жыл бұрын

    Dad: Who the hell called for the weather in Auckland 600 times?!

  • @russwentz3957
    @russwentz39574 жыл бұрын

    Goldie Hawn is so young!

  • @sexobscura
    @sexobscura3 жыл бұрын

    even the *fashions* are *futuristic*

  • @RogerBarraud
    @RogerBarraud5 жыл бұрын

    12:03 Best. Animatronics. Ever.

  • @chazdesimone7306

    @chazdesimone7306

    5 жыл бұрын

    That’s funny! But I did notice she moved her eyes to the extreme right and left and hardly move her head. Maybe her wires were crossed.

  • @patriciaschuster1371
    @patriciaschuster1371 Жыл бұрын

    Great history

  • @glennjones6574
    @glennjones6574 Жыл бұрын

    wow.. the smart home concept is older than I had assumed.

  • @sodality3970
    @sodality39702 жыл бұрын

    How I wish we had all those standards of dress nowadays :(

  • @riceboy1701e
    @riceboy1701e8 жыл бұрын

    WHAAAAT? You can turn your home air conditioning on and off by calling it? What a fun *app*lication! That should be interesting! ;-)

  • @MrIvy972

    @MrIvy972

    3 жыл бұрын

    Home automation before smart phone's is amazing

  • @jgrysiak6566

    @jgrysiak6566

    2 жыл бұрын

    That was b4 global warming, now u just leave it on when u leave! Lol

  • @johndaugherty7465
    @johndaugherty74653 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the days when a simple Captain Crunch whistle would work magic on phone lines. Fun Fact: During the Century 21 opening day festivities on April 21st 1962, an Air Force F-102 suffered engine failure at ~1500 ft and crashed into a Mountlake Terrace neighborhood. digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/5381/

  • @nomadcowatbk
    @nomadcowatbk11 жыл бұрын

    Are the other Bell System shorts public domain?

  • @braselton94
    @braselton943 жыл бұрын

    Very accurate!

  • @BBC600
    @BBC60011 жыл бұрын

    @RetroVintageItems27 How much extra was that?

  • @steveb1164
    @steveb116411 ай бұрын

    Now the midway, food circus, and gift shops are all gone. Luckily the space needle, art museum, science center, playhouse & opera house still remain.

  • @OldsVistaCruiser
    @OldsVistaCruiser Жыл бұрын

    Call Waiting, Call Forwarding, Speed Calling and 3-Way Calling didn't become available until 20 years later in the early 1980s.

  • @lunarmodule6419
    @lunarmodule64194 жыл бұрын

    If i remember the "second line" feature did not come so soon - during the 80' 😃

  • @cllewis1
    @cllewis19 жыл бұрын

    Century 21 Calling, they want their gold blazer back.

  • @cornjobb

    @cornjobb

    5 жыл бұрын

    good god

  • @brodyh79

    @brodyh79

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's mine.

  • @goldenager59

    @goldenager59

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey, if this were The Jetsons, couldn't it be, oh... Centauri 21? 🌕🛸✨😊👽

  • @marcopolo1984
    @marcopolo19844 жыл бұрын

    I can only imagine their faces if someone from the future walked in with an iPhone.

  • @curtchase3730
    @curtchase37305 жыл бұрын

    That was a great production! wow! To dial a phone # and water the dogs! When are they going to come out with smart phones with rotary dialing?

  • @chazdesimone7306

    @chazdesimone7306

    5 жыл бұрын

    Curt Chase Actually they had a pretty funny accessory for cell phones a while back - a wired black handset just like a desk phone. But sorry, no rotary dial.

  • @curtchase3730

    @curtchase3730

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@chazdesimone7306 LOL. Yes, I've seen that handset in those gag catalogs a few years ago! You plug it into the earphone jack of your cellphone and looks like you're talking on an old corded phone! I took the gag one step further and purchased an X-Link bluetooth cellular gateway unit. By using the bluetooth function of your smartphone, the device bridges the cellphone to old standard "pots" corded house phones! Makes old phone fully operational with dial tone and ringer! I actually modified my X-Link to work in my car! I set an old pushbutton desk phone on the dash! Fullyfunctions. I hid my cellphone and stuff under the passenger seat. I totally amazed my friends and even a few strangers with the setup! It was funny.

  • @user2C47

    @user2C47

    4 жыл бұрын

    This probably worked using a small rotary switch attached to the phone line, rather than running 10 phone lines to each subscriber.

  • @dragonheadthing
    @dragonheadthing11 жыл бұрын

    It just seems so odd now without the MST3K narration. Would love to find the name of who wrote the music in the beginning.

  • @zelphx
    @zelphx6 жыл бұрын

    LOL! That "pager"! It should have come with wheels.

  • @robertcuminale1212

    @robertcuminale1212

    5 жыл бұрын

    By 1975 the Bellboy was one inch wide and 4 inches long. It could broadcast a voice message instead of a beep.

  • @vladimirrodionov5391

    @vladimirrodionov5391

    4 жыл бұрын

    It came with two convenient handles.

  • @Heeeeeeeeeeey
    @Heeeeeeeeeeey Жыл бұрын

    Hello! I am a Seattle based filmmaker and would like to inquire about using some of this footage for a project. How would I go about getting permission? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you, Shay

  • @Heeeeeeeeeeey
    @Heeeeeeeeeeey Жыл бұрын

    Hello again, I’m sure that there’s a better way to make a request like this but I’m not 100% sure who or where to reach out to. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I’m a filmmaker and musician in Seattle, Washington and would really love to use some of the footage in this video for a project I’m currently working on. Whoever is monitoring this channel, would you be kind enough to reply and let me know if it is even remotely possible for me to gain access to some of this footage for this phone project? Thank you so much!

  • @garymckee8857
    @garymckee88573 жыл бұрын

    The year I arrived in this world damn the future looked bright back then what happened.

  • @HenryBloggit
    @HenryBloggit3 жыл бұрын

    When do these phones come out?

  • @kevin1049
    @kevin10492 жыл бұрын

    why am i watching this its almost 2am

  • @robotcapital4774
    @robotcapital47746 жыл бұрын

    I want to know when this was filmed. :( exact day

  • @RogerBarraud

    @RogerBarraud

    5 жыл бұрын

    No clouds. Totally Fake. ;-)

  • @cornjobb

    @cornjobb

    5 жыл бұрын

    and i want to eat a can of frosting

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