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WEBVTT kvos webster w03 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.491 align:middle line:90% [NO SOUND] 00:00:04.491 --> 00:00:40.490 align:middle line:90% 00:00:40.490 --> 00:00:42.740 align:middle line:84% It's a Canadian, Patty Conklin, who's 00:00:42.740 --> 00:00:46.540 align:middle line:84% been running the C&E Gayway since 1937, 00:00:46.540 --> 00:00:50.650 align:middle line:84% who's running the Gayway down here at the World's Fair. 00:00:50.650 --> 00:00:53.450 align:middle line:84% Patty, maybe a kind of a blunt question, 00:00:53.450 --> 00:00:55.047 align:middle line:84% but what will the prices be like? 00:00:55.047 --> 00:00:56.630 align:middle line:84% Are they going to be high, or are they 00:00:56.630 --> 00:00:59.150 align:middle line:84% going to be low or decent for the average family 00:00:59.150 --> 00:01:01.900 align:middle line:84% when they come to the World Fair Gayway? 00:01:01.900 --> 00:01:05.230 align:middle line:84% The prices are going to be extremely low. 00:01:05.230 --> 00:01:08.480 align:middle line:84% It may interest our viewers to know that there will be nothing 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.540 align:middle line:84% more than $0.50, and only one attraction at $0.50, 00:01:11.540 --> 00:01:14.942 align:middle line:90% seven at $0.35, and 11 at $0.25. 00:01:14.942 --> 00:01:17.150 align:middle line:84% We're trying to make it within the reach of everyone, 00:01:17.150 --> 00:01:19.687 align:middle line:84% rich or poor, to have a little fun here at the Gayway 00:01:19.687 --> 00:01:20.520 align:middle line:90% at the World's Fair. 00:01:20.520 --> 00:01:22.910 align:middle line:84% There will be no especially high prices any days, 00:01:22.910 --> 00:01:24.410 align:middle line:90% or any special time at all? 00:01:24.410 --> 00:01:26.420 align:middle line:84% No, the price will be the same on the closing 00:01:26.420 --> 00:01:28.460 align:middle line:84% day as we're going to have on the opening day. 00:01:28.460 --> 00:01:30.140 align:middle line:84% Saturdays and Sundays, of course, we 00:01:30.140 --> 00:01:32.120 align:middle line:84% expect to have fabulous crowds of people, 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.760 align:middle line:84% but the prices will be exactly the same. 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:36.960 align:middle line:84% What can you have new for the Gayway, though? 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:39.840 align:middle line:84% Gayways are Gayways the world over, aren't they, Patty? 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.800 align:middle line:84% Is there anything really new in the Gayway behind us here? 00:01:42.800 --> 00:01:45.140 align:middle line:84% Frankly, we have 11 things that are 00:01:45.140 --> 00:01:47.030 align:middle line:84% going to be entirely new that have never 00:01:47.030 --> 00:01:50.840 align:middle line:84% been seen in the dominion of Canada or in the United States. 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:54.440 align:middle line:84% All of these new riding devices and fun shows and fun houses 00:01:54.440 --> 00:01:56.090 align:middle line:90% are coming from Europe. 00:01:56.090 --> 00:01:58.610 align:middle line:84% And there's three of them being made right here, right 00:01:58.610 --> 00:02:01.130 align:middle line:84% in close proximity of Seattle, that have never been 00:02:01.130 --> 00:02:03.140 align:middle line:90% shown in the United States. 00:02:03.140 --> 00:02:05.090 align:middle line:84% And I'm happy to tell our viewers 00:02:05.090 --> 00:02:08.479 align:middle line:84% that 17 of the things that will be in the Gayway at the World's 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.725 align:middle line:84% Fair that have never been seen anywhere 00:02:11.725 --> 00:02:12.850 align:middle line:90% in the state of Washington. 00:02:12.850 --> 00:02:15.140 align:middle line:84% Does this Gayway here make the one at C&E 00:02:15.140 --> 00:02:17.960 align:middle line:84% look small and just a trifling thing? 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.850 align:middle line:84% Well, the C&E's been in business for 83 years, 00:02:20.850 --> 00:02:23.090 align:middle line:90% and I've been there since 1937. 00:02:23.090 --> 00:02:26.470 align:middle line:84% I'm occupying four acres of the 74 acres 00:02:26.470 --> 00:02:28.580 align:middle line:84% at the World's Fair grounds, and at the C&E 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:30.290 align:middle line:90% I only occupy seven acres. 00:02:30.290 --> 00:02:33.000 align:middle line:84% So I would say it's very comparable in size. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.510 align:middle line:84% You're looking forward to making a lot of money? 00:02:35.510 --> 00:02:37.718 align:middle line:84% Well, no, I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun, 00:02:37.718 --> 00:02:39.260 align:middle line:84% the same as the people that are going 00:02:39.260 --> 00:02:41.000 align:middle line:84% to come out here and patronize and visit 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.140 align:middle line:90% this great World's Fair. 00:02:42.140 --> 00:02:46.020 align:middle line:90% [NO SOUND] 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:57.690 align:middle line:90% 00:02:57.690 --> 00:02:59.380 align:middle line:84% Well, here we are standing at the exit 00:02:59.380 --> 00:03:02.830 align:middle line:84% to the monorail in the shadow of the Space Needle. 00:03:02.830 --> 00:03:06.060 align:middle line:84% And with me is Hoge Sullivan, the Space Needle manager. 00:03:06.060 --> 00:03:09.000 align:middle line:84% Now Hoge, how close are you to being ready for opening day 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:10.530 align:middle line:90% on April 21? 00:03:10.530 --> 00:03:12.660 align:middle line:84% Jack, we're running awfully close. 00:03:12.660 --> 00:03:15.840 align:middle line:84% Actually we get our final elevator April 20, 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:17.990 align:middle line:90% which is the day before opening. 00:03:17.990 --> 00:03:21.268 align:middle line:84% We're working overtime, we're working seven days a week. 00:03:21.268 --> 00:03:23.310 align:middle line:84% As you've seen from the activity around here now, 00:03:23.310 --> 00:03:24.390 align:middle line:90% it's a pretty busy place. 00:03:24.390 --> 00:03:26.932 align:middle line:84% If you want to figure something unusual, if you look right up 00:03:26.932 --> 00:03:30.438 align:middle line:84% there there's 146 men working there right now. 00:03:30.438 --> 00:03:32.730 align:middle line:84% Actually, Jack, when you think of that number of people 00:03:32.730 --> 00:03:34.960 align:middle line:84% up there, you're looking at the base area. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.550 align:middle line:84% And on predictions that we have now, 00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:40.050 align:middle line:84% if you figure we're going to put an average of 10,000 people 00:03:40.050 --> 00:03:42.182 align:middle line:90% a day through the Needle-- 00:03:42.182 --> 00:03:44.265 align:middle line:84% I say through the Needle, we have three elevators, 00:03:44.265 --> 00:03:46.440 align:middle line:84% as you know, that take the people to the restaurant 00:03:46.440 --> 00:03:48.300 align:middle line:90% or observation platform. 00:03:48.300 --> 00:03:51.090 align:middle line:84% But when you think of the small base area we have, 00:03:51.090 --> 00:03:53.130 align:middle line:84% we have waiting mazes and so forth. 00:03:53.130 --> 00:03:57.000 align:middle line:84% But getting the people to buy their tickets, to get in line, 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.550 align:middle line:84% to get up and to average 10,000 a day-- 00:03:59.550 --> 00:04:02.400 align:middle line:84% we'll be hitting 20,000 some days in August 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:03.600 align:middle line:90% when the big crowds arrive. 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:06.083 align:middle line:84% So there's a lot of work being done 00:04:06.083 --> 00:04:07.500 align:middle line:84% on paper that doesn't particularly 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:08.592 align:middle line:90% involve the construction. 00:04:08.592 --> 00:04:11.050 align:middle line:84% Of course, the construction is a very important phase, too. 00:04:11.050 --> 00:04:14.460 align:middle line:84% How long will it take to go up in the bottom on the elevator 00:04:14.460 --> 00:04:17.310 align:middle line:84% right up to the circulating restaurant? 00:04:17.310 --> 00:04:19.920 align:middle line:84% Jack, the actual time on the two high speed elevators 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.210 align:middle line:84% is 43 seconds from the base to the observation tower. 00:04:23.210 --> 00:04:25.710 align:middle line:84% We have a third elevator, which is a service elevator, which 00:04:25.710 --> 00:04:26.710 align:middle line:90% will be a little slower. 00:04:26.710 --> 00:04:29.310 align:middle line:84% This will be used for passengers probably 95% of the time, 00:04:29.310 --> 00:04:31.500 align:middle line:84% but this is also to supply the restaurant 00:04:31.500 --> 00:04:32.500 align:middle line:90% and get the restaurant-- 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:34.650 align:middle line:84% From the base to the tower is 500 feet? 00:04:34.650 --> 00:04:35.310 align:middle line:90% That's right. 00:04:35.310 --> 00:04:37.740 align:middle line:84% From the tower to the observation platform is what? 00:04:37.740 --> 00:04:40.080 align:middle line:84% Oh, from the restaurant to the observation tower 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:41.887 align:middle line:90% is another 25, 30 feet. 00:04:41.887 --> 00:04:43.470 align:middle line:84% Is there any feeling of motion as just 00:04:43.470 --> 00:04:46.480 align:middle line:84% sitting there dining in the sky and the floor is going round? 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:46.980 align:middle line:90% Oh, no. 00:04:46.980 --> 00:04:49.540 align:middle line:84% No, the floor there's no motion whatsoever. 00:04:49.540 --> 00:04:50.970 align:middle line:84% We've tested it with a half dollar 00:04:50.970 --> 00:04:53.650 align:middle line:84% on the edge and a cigarette on the edge, and they both stayed. 00:04:53.650 --> 00:04:55.680 align:middle line:84% And this is a privately owned project? 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:56.470 align:middle line:90% That's right. 00:04:56.470 --> 00:04:57.690 align:middle line:90% Cost how much? 00:04:57.690 --> 00:04:59.830 align:middle line:84% It'll be about $4 million before we get through. 00:04:59.830 --> 00:05:01.540 align:middle line:84% Be a long while before you make your money back, even 00:05:01.540 --> 00:05:02.490 align:middle line:90% at the World's Fair. 00:05:02.490 --> 00:05:04.115 align:middle line:84% Yes, it's going to take a little while. 00:05:04.115 --> 00:05:06.576 align:middle line:90% [NO SOUND] 00:05:06.576 --> 00:06:08.120 align:middle line:90% 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.410 align:middle line:84% The performing arts events at the Seattle World's Fair 00:06:11.410 --> 00:06:14.330 align:middle line:84% will be the biggest in the history of the world ever put 00:06:14.330 --> 00:06:16.340 align:middle line:90% on by one group. 00:06:16.340 --> 00:06:17.660 align:middle line:90% Again? 00:06:17.660 --> 00:06:19.670 align:middle line:84% That's right, it's going to cost $20 million 00:06:19.670 --> 00:06:21.620 align:middle line:90% in a six month period. 00:06:21.620 --> 00:06:23.330 align:middle line:84% To put on your cultural entertainment? 00:06:23.330 --> 00:06:24.248 align:middle line:90% That's right. 00:06:24.248 --> 00:06:25.790 align:middle line:84% From the plans I see it's going to be 00:06:25.790 --> 00:06:28.860 align:middle line:84% a kind of four ring circus in different cultural grades, 00:06:28.860 --> 00:06:29.360 align:middle line:90% right? 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:29.902 align:middle line:90% That's right. 00:06:29.902 --> 00:06:32.690 align:middle line:84% We'll have an arena, and in there we'll 00:06:32.690 --> 00:06:33.710 align:middle line:90% have big name bands-- 00:06:33.710 --> 00:06:37.840 align:middle line:84% Count Basie, Benny Goodman, things like this. 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:40.220 align:middle line:84% We'll have a 12,000 seat stadium where we'll have 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:41.970 align:middle line:90% free attractions all day long. 00:06:41.970 --> 00:06:45.298 align:middle line:84% There will be circus acts, horse shows, everything like that. 00:06:45.298 --> 00:06:47.090 align:middle line:84% Then we'll have the opera house, which will 00:06:47.090 --> 00:06:49.390 align:middle line:90% be kind of our long hair thing. 00:06:49.390 --> 00:06:51.500 align:middle line:84% And in the opera house we'll have-- 00:06:51.500 --> 00:06:53.000 align:middle line:84% for instance, we're going to open it 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.470 align:middle line:84% with Van Cliburn and Igor Stravinsky. 00:06:56.470 --> 00:06:58.850 align:middle line:84% And then we have a nice little intimate playhouse 00:06:58.850 --> 00:07:00.770 align:middle line:90% with 800 seat houses-- 00:07:00.770 --> 00:07:02.180 align:middle line:90% or 800 seats rather. 00:07:02.180 --> 00:07:04.700 align:middle line:84% And in there we'll have for instance 00:07:04.700 --> 00:07:07.790 align:middle line:84% Hal Holbrook will do his famous one man show, Mark Twain 00:07:07.790 --> 00:07:08.390 align:middle line:90% Tonight. 00:07:08.390 --> 00:07:12.080 align:middle line:84% What is the hottest attraction on your menu at the moment, 00:07:12.080 --> 00:07:13.940 align:middle line:90% culturally speaking? 00:07:13.940 --> 00:07:16.880 align:middle line:84% Culturally speaking it's probably the Van Cliburn 00:07:16.880 --> 00:07:18.610 align:middle line:90% opening concert. 00:07:18.610 --> 00:07:21.680 align:middle line:84% And right after that comes the Old Vic Company from London. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:23.630 align:middle line:84% Now when you say $20 million project, 00:07:23.630 --> 00:07:25.183 align:middle line:90% this frightens me about prices. 00:07:25.183 --> 00:07:26.600 align:middle line:84% What about prices-- are they going 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.090 align:middle line:84% to be sky high and frighten us away? 00:07:29.090 --> 00:07:31.725 align:middle line:84% They'll be the cheapest you can find in the country. 00:07:31.725 --> 00:07:34.393 align:middle line:84% They'll be much lower than you would pay at a normal theater. 00:07:34.393 --> 00:07:35.810 align:middle line:84% For instance, the Old Vic Company, 00:07:35.810 --> 00:07:39.140 align:middle line:84% you'll be able to get to see it for around $2.75. 00:07:39.140 --> 00:07:40.750 align:middle line:90% Your top price will be what? 00:07:40.750 --> 00:07:42.680 align:middle line:90% Oh, the Old Vic will be $5.00. 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:47.120 align:middle line:84% Now, why are the tickets for these events not 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:51.710 align:middle line:84% on sale yet up in Vancouver and out of the way points? 00:07:51.710 --> 00:07:54.680 align:middle line:84% The only place you'll be able to get the tickets for people 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.290 align:middle line:84% in Vancouver will be here at the Fair. 00:07:57.290 --> 00:08:01.370 align:middle line:84% And you can get those by writing into BOX 9000 QA. 00:08:01.370 --> 00:08:04.010 align:middle line:84% What's your deficit going to be on your entertainment budget 00:08:04.010 --> 00:08:07.190 align:middle line:84% when you wrap up at the end of the six months? 00:08:07.190 --> 00:08:09.950 align:middle line:84% That's a hard question to answer. 00:08:09.950 --> 00:08:11.210 align:middle line:90% We're hoping to break even. 00:08:11.210 --> 00:08:13.522 align:middle line:90% We know we won't make money. 00:08:13.522 --> 00:08:14.730 align:middle line:90% But you're going to have fun. 00:08:14.730 --> 00:08:17.580 align:middle line:90% We're going to have fun, right. 00:08:17.580 --> 00:08:18.080 align:middle line:90% I can-- 00:08:18.080 --> 00:08:22.427 align:middle line:90% [NO SOUND] 00:08:22.427 --> 00:08:29.190 align:middle line:90% 00:08:29.190 --> 00:08:31.050 align:middle line:84% Interesting to note that for every request 00:08:31.050 --> 00:08:33.870 align:middle line:84% we get from 48 states, we must get at least 25 00:08:33.870 --> 00:08:34.630 align:middle line:90% from California. 00:08:34.630 --> 00:08:36.549 align:middle line:90% Well, they're the traveling-- 00:08:36.549 --> 00:08:39.130 align:middle line:84% the people with most eye on the World's Fair at the moment. 00:08:39.130 --> 00:08:39.630 align:middle line:90% I think-- 00:08:39.630 --> 00:08:43.977 align:middle line:90% [NO SOUND] 00:08:43.977 --> 00:08:51.230 align:middle line:90% 00:08:51.230 --> 00:08:54.280 align:middle line:84% Mr. Lee, there's one facet which I know is worrying you-- 00:08:54.280 --> 00:08:57.290 align:middle line:84% a national news magazine said bluntly in black and white 00:08:57.290 --> 00:09:00.380 align:middle line:84% that Seattle's nearly totally sold out for lodgings. 00:09:00.380 --> 00:09:02.600 align:middle line:84% What is the truth of the lodging accommodation 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:06.320 align:middle line:84% for visitors from BC or anywhere else for the six month 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:08.020 align:middle line:90% period of the World's Fair? 00:09:08.020 --> 00:09:10.280 align:middle line:84% Oh, Mr. Webster, we have accommodations 00:09:10.280 --> 00:09:11.900 align:middle line:90% for all periods of the Fair. 00:09:11.900 --> 00:09:15.170 align:middle line:84% We have yet to refuse accommodations 00:09:15.170 --> 00:09:16.440 align:middle line:90% to any single inquiry. 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:18.290 align:middle line:84% Now, we're aware of the magazine article, 00:09:18.290 --> 00:09:22.880 align:middle line:84% and we did take some action to get a correction on that, 00:09:22.880 --> 00:09:25.240 align:middle line:84% but unfortunately they were unable to publish it 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:26.630 align:middle line:90% in the letters to the editors. 00:09:26.630 --> 00:09:28.250 align:middle line:84% It'll be reverse good publicity-- 00:09:28.250 --> 00:09:30.800 align:middle line:84% you're now able to stress that there is ample accommodation. 00:09:30.800 --> 00:09:32.510 align:middle line:84% There are ample accommodations, and we're 00:09:32.510 --> 00:09:35.480 align:middle line:84% very confident that we will have accommodations 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.330 align:middle line:84% all through the Fair at anytime that people wish to come. 00:09:38.330 --> 00:09:39.410 align:middle line:90% At what prices, though? 00:09:39.410 --> 00:09:43.130 align:middle line:84% This kind of worries the people from BC, perhaps, you know? 00:09:43.130 --> 00:09:47.630 align:middle line:84% Well, for two people we go from $7.00 low to $17.00 high, 00:09:47.630 --> 00:09:54.870 align:middle line:84% which we think is a price area that would be-- 00:09:54.870 --> 00:09:56.900 align:middle line:84% would compare to any area at any time. 00:09:56.900 --> 00:09:58.462 align:middle line:90% No real increase from last year. 00:09:58.462 --> 00:09:59.420 align:middle line:90% Up a little bit, maybe. 00:09:59.420 --> 00:10:00.650 align:middle line:90% Well, there's no increase. 00:10:00.650 --> 00:10:03.260 align:middle line:84% We have the same rates right now that 00:10:03.260 --> 00:10:06.410 align:middle line:84% were established for the 1961 tourist season carried through. 00:10:06.410 --> 00:10:08.090 align:middle line:84% What kind of bookings do you have now? 00:10:08.090 --> 00:10:10.730 align:middle line:84% Your expo lodging actually conducts bookings 00:10:10.730 --> 00:10:12.350 align:middle line:90% for individuals, does it? 00:10:12.350 --> 00:10:15.500 align:middle line:84% That's absolutely correct, for individuals and groups, 00:10:15.500 --> 00:10:17.450 align:middle line:90% and convention groups also. 00:10:17.450 --> 00:10:20.990 align:middle line:84% Then, of course, we are finding that this Fair, apparently, 00:10:20.990 --> 00:10:24.110 align:middle line:84% is going to be the greatest attraction for youth 00:10:24.110 --> 00:10:26.840 align:middle line:84% groups of any Fair that we've ever had in the past. 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:28.102 align:middle line:90% We have many, many of those. 00:10:28.102 --> 00:10:30.560 align:middle line:84% Let me give you just a small example of what we go through. 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:32.810 align:middle line:84% In a five day period of last week, 00:10:32.810 --> 00:10:37.310 align:middle line:84% we had 5,100 requests by mail for accommodations. 00:10:37.310 --> 00:10:41.300 align:middle line:84% And these involve 30,600 nights that people 00:10:41.300 --> 00:10:43.160 align:middle line:84% would be staying in Seattle, which 00:10:43.160 --> 00:10:46.190 align:middle line:84% gives us an average stay of six days per request. 00:10:46.190 --> 00:10:49.400 align:middle line:84% Is there any comfort for British Columbia accommodation owners? 00:10:49.400 --> 00:10:52.010 align:middle line:84% Are any Americans going to stay up there and come down 00:10:52.010 --> 00:10:52.560 align:middle line:90% to the Fair? 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:55.070 align:middle line:84% Oh, we have these requests all the time. 00:10:55.070 --> 00:10:57.680 align:middle line:84% Anytime that people indicate to us that they're 00:10:57.680 --> 00:10:59.713 align:middle line:84% going to spend five to six days in this area, 00:10:59.713 --> 00:11:01.880 align:middle line:84% it certainly indicates the balance of their vacation 00:11:01.880 --> 00:11:03.547 align:middle line:84% is going to be in the Pacific Northwest. 00:11:03.547 --> 00:11:05.540 align:middle line:84% How many inquiries from British Columbia? 00:11:05.540 --> 00:11:09.560 align:middle line:84% British Columbia is the second largest area 00:11:09.560 --> 00:11:11.060 align:middle line:90% that we have inquiries from. 00:11:11.060 --> 00:11:14.230 align:middle line:84% The first, of course, is California. 00:11:14.230 --> 00:11:29.840 align:middle line:90%