I have several pictures of the Sunsphere on the ol' hard drive. I was a wee lad when my family took in the Knoxville World Fair and its architectural centerpiece has been a personal object of fascination ever since. Some day I will run a superhero game where the team is based out of the Sunsphere or a post-apoc campaign where the PCs quest to find the mythical Tower of the Sun or something like that.
So will you're post-apocalypitc adventures find the tower of the sun full of wigs?
ReplyDeleteWe went to that fair, too. I spent way too much time in the video arcades or in line to play with the fighting robots.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago my wife and I were passing through Knoxville on the way to vacation near Smokey Mountains National Park so we diverted to go check out the state of the Sunsphere and the old park. It looks like they remade the old fairgrounds into a convention center and city recreation area of sorts, but it looked a little sleepy and unused. It was sad, actually.
That's my neck of the woods. I went to the World's Fair about 3 or 4 times. The Sunsphere itself is one of the buildings that seemed curse to never be the home of anything successful and permanent.
ReplyDeleteThe park is used regularly for Ethnic festivals, summer concerts, Brewer's Jam, and there's a cool fountain that is a great place to take the kids in the summer.
Considering it was a largely unused rail yard before the World's Fair, I'd say it's quite an improvement.
If you go to AdventureCon in the summer, it takes place at the convention center located at the base of the Sunsphere. It's a small con. But I'll be there every year because I live in the area.
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