Wednesday, October 12, 2011

They wrote the book on Seattle's World's Fair

Gracie Hansen, a self-proclaimed "country girl" who'd been living in Morton, Lewis County, won the contract to operate Show Street's major nightclub after getting her boss at a Seattle bank to raise $90,000 to back her. "The apple tree in Paradise will be our symbol," she said, referring to her "Night in Paradise" Las Vegas-style showgirl revue. Here she feeds a bite of the forbidden fruit to one of her dancers who has just emerged from a paper apple.