The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest and a symbol of Seattle. Located at the Seattle
Center, it was built as the centerpiece of the 1962 space-themed World’s Fair. It is 
s 605 feet high at its highest point and 138 feet wide at its widest point and weighs
9,550. When it was completed on December 8, 1961 it was the tallest structure
west of the Mississippi River. The Space Needle was designated a historic
landmark on April 19, 1999 by the City’s Landmarks Preservation Board.

The “hovering disk” of the Space Needle has been the home of two restaurants
for decades, but were they were closed in 2000 and replaced with  a larger one
called SkyCity.

The SkyCity restaurant rotates 360 degrees within forty-seven minutes.
 

The Space-Needle Observation Deck

 
Historical marker on the South lawn, Indiana State House at Indianapolis.

Lincoln’s body (above) departed Washington in a nine-car funeral train. The 1,700-
mile trip back to Illinois was essentially over the same tracks that carried the then 
President- elect east in 1861. Cities along the route that hold funeral processions 
included Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago. 

The locomotive Nashville of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad pulled the Lincoln funeral train.

In 2008, Billboard ranked “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak
Tree", as the 37th biggest song of all time in its issue celebrating the
50th anniversary of the Hot 100.

Tony Orlando turned 68 on April 3

 
           
               John Herbert Frid (December 2, 1924 – April 13, 2012)

Jonathan Frid, best remembered for portraying vampire Barnabas Collins in the ABC
television series Dark Shadows (1966-1971), died Friday, April 13 of natural causes
at a hospital in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

 
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