Why Is There a Space Needle in Macon, Georgia?

A railroad job brought Jesse Evans to Seattle more than 50 years ago. In some ways, he never left.

Jesse Evans, a semiretired 73-year-old contractor, can see the Space Needle from his front porch in Macon, Georgia. 

Though he grew up in Macon, Evans’s heart lies in Seattle. He built a 16-foot replica of the Space Needle in his yard as an ode to his late wife, but also as an ode to the city he still loves. 

In 1970, a summer railroad job brought him through Seattle. Enchanted, on his next trip through he stopped in at the University of Washington and applied to transfer from

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