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Went up the newly remodeled Space Needle yesterday. The Observation Deck now sports a very tall glass wall that leans out (with glass benches). It's a definite improvement as it cuts down all th wind. However, the old restaurant deck (just below it) has become another indoor viewing area that now sports a GLASS FLOOR (550' up)... and it moves like the old restaurant rotated. It was very unnerving at first, but you get used to it. Here are just two shots: one taken by a free photographic service they offer (of us) in that indoor rotating area, and the other of me shooting downward (on the same deck). I'll bet that acrophobics are really going to hate this change.
I'm going to upload some videos soon that really give you a sense of the motion. There are 12 motors that move the entire decking... which feels disorienting at first. You can see one in the second shot. [the original purpose was to allow seated restaurant-goers a chance to see the entire 360 view in an hour]
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Two more shots. There are from the upper (old) observation deck... where you can stay inside or go outside to the new 11' tall glass walls.
Note the glass benches; you can lean back while sitting on the - and that was very unnerving too.​

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Basil said:
Yikes! I'd be straddeling those glass floor support beams!
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That's clearly the natural reaction when you first venture out on it (and then your feet move off of them!). BTW, there is a guy that continuously runs a floor-cleaning thing over all that glass. Has to. :wink-new:
 
I think we missed the most important part of this stoey
Somebody let Mark go into Seattle
 
The crowd on the street are thankful that he wasn’t wearing his kilt.
 
DNK said:
I think we missed the most important part of this stoey
Somebody let Mark go into Seattle
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<snort> AND I was sort of free-ranging. Didn't even break anything in the Chihuly Glass Museum. :excitement:
 
mikephillips said:
Glass floor observation areas seem to be the in thing now. There's one in Seoul SK that's over 1,600 feet up. I think I'd stay inside there... And if you really want a thrill, walk the 1,600 feet across this bridge in China.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/hongyagu-glass-bridge-hebei-china/index.html
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The thing is that when you're up THAT high, it's almost like being in an airplane... and I don't think the effect would be as good (because everything would be so small).
 
Boink said:
The thing is that when you're up THAT high, it's almost like being in an airplane... and I don't think the effect would be as good (because everything would be so small).
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Including anything in the view Elliot referenced... :devilgrin:
 
John Turney said:
Glad we didn't pay the $35 cost for the elevator a couple of months ago. The Missus would have really freaked. :scared:
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We went on-line and bought a combo ticket (Space Needle and Chihuly at the base) at a senior price. Still, if the glass floor freaks you out... I'd not go. That written, you don't have to even go near that area. :eek:
 
Had dinner there in 81 when I said goodby to my then girlfriend heading back to the East Coast
 
OK, here is the quasi-promised video (I just put together). These always look better in full-screen mode (in HD).
 
We went to the World's fair there,in 1962,and my Wife and I
went up in the Space Needle in 1978,while on our honeymoon.
I remember missing out on buying a plastic model kit of it.Never
seen another,but I do have the guidebook from the World's Fair.
 
AngliaGT said:
We went to the World's fair there,in 1962,and my Wife and I
went up in the Space Needle in 1978,while on our honeymoon.
I remember missing out on buying a plastic model kit of it.Never
seen another,but I do have the guidebook from the World's Fair.
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I still have an original guide-book and assorted other goodies. I loved the fair.
In the gift-shop at the base off the Needle, they have one of those old injection-molding machines that makes a model.
This one makes a mini-Needle but I remember the ones that made the "Century21" logo.
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