This totem pole carved by Duane Pasco, Victor Mowatt and Earl Muldoon was installed at Seattle Center in 1970. The animals represented on the pole include a hawk, a bear with a salmon, a raven and a killer whale. The totem pole can be seen in Alan Pakula's opening sequence of the 1970 film "The Parallax View" staring Warren Beatty. The film was the second in director Pakula's political paranoia trilogy; "Klute" (1971) and "All the President's Men" (1976) being the other two. The opening scene takes place at a Fourth of July parade for a prominent Senator who in short order is assassinated at the top of the Space Needle. However, the foilage clearly visible in the trees indicates the film was made on an early spring day, such as this one. The movie is a classic and if you have ever been to the Space Needle you should see the film for no other reason than to see what Seattle and the observation deck looked like forty years ago.
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