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(1) Disney Pavilion (remember the song "It's a small world after all . . ." performed/sung by animated android-like figures?)
(2) The New York State Pavilion with the two capsule elevators that went high up above the World's Fair for a great view (and which still stands intact today)
You covered much of what I can remember off the top-of-my-head (I'd have to research the rest on the web to refresh my memory).
Kodak building. Phones where you could SEE the person you talked to. All of the country exhibits. "It's a small world".... so many memories. I was about 12/13
I went to the fair in 1964. My mother has an aunt who lived a block away from the site and we were able to park there and walk to the fair. Her aunt made a good amount of money that summer, renting their driveway.
I thought it was fantastic and we had much fun. I can remember many of the exhibits. Years latter, I went in the Army and was sent to California. Of course, I wanted to see Disneyland and I was surprised to see many of these exhibits were from the Worlds Fair. That dancing doll exhibit with that song and the World of Tomorrow were there among others which have faded in my memory.
Kodak building. Phones where you could SEE the person you talked to. All of the country exhibits. "It's a small world".... so many memories. I was about 12/13
Oh yeah! I forgot about the Eastman Kodak Pavilion (that was the first place I ever saw a PicturePhone in action . . . decades before the Internet and then Internet-based communications came into existence). And, after the 1964-65 World's Fair ended, Eastman Kodak opened a major "exhibit hall/demonstration center" within Grand Central Station which seemed to operate for years there.
I forgot the Singer Pavilion (built by Singer, manufacturer of sewing machines).
What was the former Singer Pavilion still exists and was transformed into the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (site of the U.S. National Tennis Opens).
I forgot the Singer Pavilion (built by Singer, manufacturer of sewing machines).
What was the former Singer Pavilion still exists and was transformed into the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (site of the U.S. National Tennis Opens).
Biggest bust:
Remember the General Electric pavilion where you waited an hour or two too see "the first controlled fusion." You went into a dome with seats surrounding a contraption that whirred and clunked and then went POP.
We were told: "You have now witnessed the future: controlled fusion."
Everyone left scratching their heads wondering why they had wasted their time.
Biggest bust:
Remember the General Electric pavilion where you waited an hour or two too see "the first controlled fusion." You went into a dome with seats surrounding a contraption that whirred and clunked and then went POP.
We were told: "You have now witnessed the future: controlled fusion."
Everyone left scratching their heads wondering why they had wasted their time.
Was NY the fair with the Illinois Pavilion and the mechanical Lincoln standing up and reciting the Emancipation Proclamation? Or was that EXPO?
I remember that attraction being perhaps the most popular at the fair...whichever one it was.
(Sounds more likely the New York Fair.)
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