The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738536067 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Young hosts a prominent website that explores the history of the fair and its space-age attractions. Bill Cotter and Bill Young are longtime members of the World's Fair Collectors Society. Both are avid collectors of world fair memorabilia. Cotter's many visits to the fair as an adolescent inspired him to become a submarine designer for the United States Navy and later an entertainment executive
As busy as it is now, that is nothing compared to hustle and bustle there in 1964.Between April of 1964 and October of 1965, more than 50 million people came to Queens to take part in the World’s Fair. Some of the things viewed and heard at that particular fair were speaker phones, predictions of the computer era and picture phones, just to name a few.“A lot of the things that were shown at the World’s Fair became a part of American life,” said Whitestone resident Anita Mantione.Another part of the fair that many people who went there remarked on is the
Five Stars Seymour Chebutkin Valuable resource.. Bring me back to the Fair marie Being born and raised in Brooklyn and having went to the fair myself, I was looking for pictorial documentation to share with my children. This is an excellent book on the fair,s history. I am obsessed with the fair and this is a great addition to my library.. "I wish I could have gone!" according to Dwayne M. Parkinson. This book does an excellent job of describing the glitz, excitement and joyous excess that was known as the 196I wish I could have gone! Dwayne M. Parkinson This book does an excellent job of describing the glitz, excitement and joyous excess that was known as the 1964 World's Fair. With great pictures and great writing this book elegantly handles the challenge of taking you on a whirlwind tour of the fair. May favorite part of the . World's Fair. With great pictures and great writing this book elegantly handles the challenge of taking you on a whirlwind tour of the fair. May favorite part of the
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace