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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ConfederateHalf, post: 1364585, member: 27946&quot;][ATTACH]159939.vB[/ATTACH]<b><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I found the above picture in the archives of the Seattle Public Libary. According to the photo notes , attendees would get their picture taken next to the display at the time that they purchased their silver dollar. (Cool!) </font></font></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></font></span></b></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="color: #c00000">The full photo description reads as follows:</span></b></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="color: #c00000"><br /></span></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Sign on Million Silver Dollar Display building, Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World&#039;s Fair). &quot;Arrangements for the unusual display were made by Northwest Historical Medals, Ltd., Walla Walla. The firm is the official numismatic department of the fair.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">There will be no charge for the exhibit. The $1,000,000 will weigh about 33 tons. The display will be in a building near the entrance to the National Guard Armory. The $1,000,000 will be poured into a mesh cylinder seven feet in diameter and about 35 feet high. Plate glass will be erected between the dollars and the public.</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color: #0000cc">Fairgoers will be offered the opportunity of having photographs taken with the heap of dollars. They would purchase the photograph and after the fair a dollar from the display would be mailed to each customer as a souvenir to slip inside the frame</span><span style="color: #1f497d">.&quot; </span><span style="color: #4f81bd">(Seattle Times, February 27, 1962, p. 1.)&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></font></font></i></b></p><p><b><i><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color: #4f81bd"><br /></span></font></font></i></b></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Sign reads &quot;$1,000,000 Silver Dollar Display. Building by... Behlen Manufacturing Co. Columbus, Nebraska Erected by... Olympic Prefabricators No. 107th and Stone EM. 4-3420&quot;</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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