'62 City Council predicted Seattle to be thriving metropolis or ruined by 'nuclear warfare'

SEATTLE — As the Seattle City Council prepared for the 1962 World's Fair, it drafted a letter to the 2012 city council and imagined what the future might be like.

"In the year 2,012 Seattle will either be a mighty metropolis of more than 1,000,000 residents--or it will have become a charred, deserted relic of a fearful age of nuclear warfare," the '62 council predicted.

Lucky for current residents, Seattle in 2012 is more the former (though the 2010 Census had the population at about 600,000).

Click the link to check out the PDF of the full letter:

www.seattle.gov/council/attachments/20120417.pdf

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