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Michael Lodge Bartlett, 75, of Orlando, FL, passed on Friday, July 20, 2018. From 1982 to 1986, Michael was President of Expo ’86, The 1986 World’s Fair in Vancouver, BC. Private family services will be held in Orlando, FL.
Pattison had chaired the Expo board since 1981. But in 1985, when the board decided CEO Michael Bartlett was not the person to lead the team into the final stretch, “I decided that rather than start over – I’d been with the company since 1981 – I’d take the position myself,” Pattison recalls today.
The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from May 2 until October 13, 1986.
May 7, 2011 · American theme park expert Michael Bartlett was brought in from California to put together the fair. Bartlett would be fired in 1985 and replaced by Jimmy Pattison, who famously ran it for $1...
May 2, 2016 · Pattison was furious when he learned CEO Michael Bartlett charged his $48,850 Mercedes Benz to Expo in August 1983.
Apr 14, 1985 · Michael Bartlett, president and chief executive officer of the Expo 86 Corp., is a U.S. citizen who formerly was an operator and developer of theme parks in this country and Canada.
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Mar 2, 1986 · By JOY BRADBURY Special to The Press Democrat VANCOUVER The man who built Vancouver's Expo 86 had a simple formula for a great fair. "You get 'em on the site, you feed 'em, you make 'em dizzy and you scare 'em witless," said American showman Michael Bartlett, Expo's first president.
