SPOKANE — The symbol of the 1974 World’s Fair in Spokane is getting a major renovation. The U.S. Pavilion is a concrete-and-wire structure that towers over Riverfront Park like a giant circus ...

In Spokane, the race began to get a world’s fair opened in fewer ... That ride remained after the fair and became part of Riverfront Park, where it is still running today. There were almost ...

At sprawling and spacious Riverfront Park on a sunny day in ... of people packed into downtown Spokane on May 4, 1974, for the opening of the World's Fair. Don Hackney, now an associate professor ...

The World's Fair ... industrialized Spokane River. The result not only cleaned up an environmental disaster, but spectacularly transformed it into our present day Riverfront Park.

Asian Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Festival Riverfront Park will be home ... Japan and the United States. Spokane made the decision to host a world's fair due to the desire to clean ...

One Spokane restaurant owner took to heart the city’s iconic 50-foot-tall butterflies from the 1974 world’s fair ... Spokane’s Riverfront Park lost all but one of its historic markers ...

Spokane’s identity is so deeply entwined with the world’s fair it hosted 40 years ... The 100 acres now known as Riverfront Park were once thick with rail lines and industry.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP ... more than 5 million people visited Expo 74. The worlds fair site is now Riverfront Park.

is a legacy of the 1974 World’s Fair in Spokane. Expo 74 focused on the environment, and the area that became Riverfront Park was its shining example of reclaiming an industrial eyesore.

SPOKANE, Wash. — The city of Spokane on Wednesday announced a two-month-long celebration for the 50th anniversary of Expo '74, a world fair held in Spokane in 1974. Expo '74 attracted more than ...

Spokane is the ... Planet Earth 40 years ago. Riverfront Park, the skeleton of the U.S. Pavilion, and the garbage-eating goat statue all came from the 1974 World's Fair. Expo '74 not only turned ...

The symbol of the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane is getting a major renovation. The U.S. Pavilion is a concrete-and-wire structure that towers over Riverfront Park like a giant circus tent without a ...