Department of silly promotions
In the 45 years that it’s been around, the Space Needle has received nearly 45 million visitors. What a coincidence! Let’s have a promotion!
The Space Needle folks are way ahead of me on this. They say that sometime in the next three months the 45 millionth visitor will wander unsuspectingly up to the viewing deck, only to “immediately be introduced to the community and the world at a Space Needle news conference and then planning will begin for that person and a guest to travel to Paris, France. While there, they will spend 5 days and 4 nights enjoying a host of adventures including a VIP dinner, specially prepared by the chef at the top of the Space Needle’s sister landmark, the Eiffel Tower, in its Jules Verne Restaurant.”
Plan granny’s visit accordingly, kids. Or if you don’t want to head up the scary elevators, you can enter to guess the day and time of the big event, in an attempt to win some currently unspecified prizes.
Do you think they’ll put a big 45 flag on top of the Needle when it happens?
we can only hope that the whole needle will rain balloons and confetti over the whole city when the unsuspecting visitor is crowned the 45 millionth.
It’s about time people started raising our collective awareness of what a world-class city Paris is.
That’s my favorite picture.