The Controversial History of the 1964 New York World's Fair
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- This is not the 1964 New York World’s Fair you thought you knew. This wasn’t even a World’s Fair - It just used the name. It was officially disendorsed by the Bureau of International Exhibitions, plagued with controversy, mismanagement, and financial concerns... This is the true story of the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
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For those who experienced the World's Fair, it wasn't a failure at all. I was 9 and 10, lived in city housing just a bus ride away. I went at least a dozen times over 2 years. Apart from the stand out pavilions, Belgian waffles, and the Pieta, I remember amphibious cars, early flat screen TVs and video phones! There were visitors from all over the world, many dressed in cultural attire. The World's Fair inspired us to believe in what the future could be if we all worked together. For a kid from a housing project, it was all pretty remarkable.
It Could be A Succses If Robert Moses Don't Do The Thing That Make The Fair Flop
I was also 9 at the time going to PS 69 . I would visit the grounds of the fair on bike after the fair ended in the years of 1967 and 1968. For us kids off course it was far from a failure!
HECK YEAH!
It was a financial failure. It failed to draw the huge crowds that Robert Moses planned for, and it closed millions of dollars in debt.
I went 16 times in 64/65, as a 14 year old cutting school.
The fountain with the fireworks was an incredible experience and my favorite thing there.
I'm 69 now, and can't believe how time flew by.
Did you get spanked?!
Nice
You beat me by three times!!!
The USA has gone down hill.
Yes ! I’m 62 & I went once from Buffalo with my Fam when I was four. Wish I could go back there with them !
I loved it unabashedly. I lived in New Jersey in 1964. I knew a lot of folks who went and loved it too. I still have a Korean doll my father bought me at the Korean pavilion. I felt like I had traveled the world, I saw so many countries' pavilions. We saw dinosaurs and the world's biggest cheese. It was fantastic. It's a Small World, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and the Unisphere. It was fabulous, just fabulous.
The 1964 NY World's Fair may not have been a success, but it was a hulluva success in terms of entertainment. Even by today's standards, that fair was incredible.
As a kid, I never heard anything but overwhelming excitement about the Fair.
My parents took us to the 1965 World's Fair, we had relatives in Flushing. This was and still is one of the happiest memories I have. It was magical in all ways.
I went as a 6 year old,....nothing in my memory has since made such a magical impression on me.
My dad went at age 20 and it defined the rest of his life. Not just Disney, all the American corporate exhibits
same for me!!!
Me too! I was just four and it lives in my fondest of childhood memories
I so completely agree with you. I've never seen anything in this country again that generated that kind of excitement and wonder. I'm disappointed that there was never an attempt to recreate it. It was that fantastical.
I love how Captain America/ Iron Man 2 got the Worlds Fair talked about for a while
Captain America 1 was suppose to be a reference to the 1939-1940 Worlds Fair whilst Iron Man 2 was a reference to the 1964-65 worlds fair
Fun fact the fair theme Make Way for Tomorrow Today from Captain America was written and composed by Richard Sherman, the co-writer for classic music as It’s a Small World (After All), There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow or the Carousel of Progress Theme, and most of the songs from Mary Poppins. The Captain America fair theme was reused Iron Man 2 in the opening to Howard Stark’s message for Stark Expo. It was used once again in Avengers Endgame.
This piece of history very helpful to me. I was there at age 9. Grew up with Disneyland since the '50s in L.A. And always had looked back at the New York World's Fair as a vast landscape I had no time to explore in that one day. Now I know I did experience the best parts of the event and my childhood questions are fulfilled! All 4 Disney Pavilions were a mid-'60s joy and I especially appreciate the fortune of having seen his "City of the Future" model upstairs in one of them. And Yes! The Belgian Village's Waffles were the highlight of the evening. Thank you.
I was there as a small child. And I returned 50 yrs later. Love Flushing meadows Park. Love the Unisphere and the carousel.
I almost skipped this video because of the clickbaity title, but I found it to be informative and well-balanced. Excellent production values.
This video was an odd take on New York's 1964-1965 World's Fair. My family lived about 15 minutes from the fairgrounds and we must have visited it at least five or six times, if not more, over the two seasons. I was five and six at the time. We never thought of it as a "Disney" event, although I _did_ know that Pepsico's "It's a Small World," GE's "Carousel of Progress" and the "Great Moments with Mr Lincoln" were Disney attractions (or, for the latter two, at least Disney-inspired)-the animatronics of Disney were unmistakable.
I recall, even now, over half a century later, the "It's a Small World" pavilion (I have the official LP somewhere), the New York City pavilion which featured a simulated helicopter ride over a huge scale model of New York with seemingly _every_ building (we _could_ pick out our own apartment building), the Ford Motor "Magic Skyway" (we got little glow-in-the-dark Ford logos), GE's "Carousel of Progress" (I recall the shaggy animatronic dog but I think what impressed me most as a five-year old was that _we_ moved around the stage, a fact that became apparent only when the exit escalator rotated into view), the tire ferris wheel (which we never rode), the Bell System pavilion (people remember the picture phones but I seem to recall some demonstration of how fast "dialing" with the push button phones was as compared to dialing with the rotary ones), the Coca-Cola pavilion which featured a walk through some international locales (I remember the Alps and a very fragrant Hong Kong market), the Unisphere, of course, and more. It felt, to me, as a little kid, like what it was: the optimistic, forward-looking ethos of mid-20th-century America-a heady mix of technology (developed by benevolent corporations) and understanding would lead, ineluctably, to peace and progress. (The fair theme was, in fact, "Peace through Understanding.")
I became dimly aware, later on, that the fair was not "official" and that it was, in fact, a financial failure-and this video did a great job of explaining that-but, to me, as a five- and six-year old, it was the quintessential world's fair experience. I loved every minute of it.
I lived nearby as well, 50th Avenue in Elmhurst, I was 7 and 8 and we went there often. Can’t really understand it without also pointing out that Shea Stadium was built nearby the park and of course the Mets first season there in 64. Great place to grow up, unfortunately it quickly deteriorated. Vietnam, New York Cities financial plights, of which many of Robert Moses projects contributed to took their toll and by the late 70’s it was time to go. But definitely as far as life in Queens goes 64 and 65 were the golden age.
My family had just moved to the NYC area when Dad took us all to the World's Fair. I think I was most thrilled with GM's Motorama, and the flights of Capt Keds and his Bell Rocket Belt, and the Monorail. By the end of the 60s NYC was falling on hard times thanks to mismanagement etc., and the opinion I remember as a 12 year old was that the failure to reuse much in the park was the worst. It made the whole thing a monument to nothing, since nothing was being done with it - except perhaps the restaurant (a space ship in Men in Black). In retrospect I think the only thing I'd have been ticked at them about would be if there were flying cars on show that we'd never see. It was already evident that fuel was a problem for the rocket belt, but we could still dream Commander Cody dreams.
On the day the fair opened, April 23, 1964, my family was still in Kansas City, MO, and I came home from a baseball game (on the deserted estate of the Prendergast family) to watch Fred McMurray on the TV premiere. The MONORAIL! On the way home the storm clouds were turning a dirty greenish color. I got home to find my parents and sister were out searching for a dog that'd run off - and was watching the TV in the basement when the Emergency Broadcast System interrupted, then newscaster Claude Dorsey came on to say that 19 tornadoes had just touched down all around KCMO, and so much for the World's Fair broadcast. Everyone got home in time, we had dinner in the basement. So at the time the World's Fair had been something yanked away from me... and when my family went later that year, it was like a promise kept.
@@stephengoodman2424 I _do_ recall that a few years later we _did_ go once our twice to the Hall of Science on school trips and you could still see the enormous Titan II and Atlas rockets at the "United States Space Park" (and I think you can even see renovated versions today).
But, like you, the failure to reuse or maintain the pavilions struck me as a little kid as a bit tragic. The worst was (and, in a sense, still is) the New York State pavilion. Easily visible from the Grand Central Parkway, we'd pass it year after year as it fell into ruin, a relic of the 1960s. It made the promise of the fair-the optimism, the belief in "the future"-seem false and hollow. If they couldn't bother to maintain these pavilions, what did they mean exactly? Were they just glittering distractions built to divert the rubes? (I didn't realize that most of the pavilions were built as temporary structures.) And, if they couldn't bother to maintain the New York State pavilion, couldn't they _at least_ tear it down? Even as a little kid, I knew of the (older) New York monuments to civic virtue and permanence-the museums, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty-and here was the seeming opposite: transitory, impermanent, falling into decay and disuse. It conveyed a very strange impression to me at the time.
@@FrankiesMarket Thanks, yes, it's true. I was only a little kid at the time and didn't know that these pavilions were built to be temporary. I didn't have fully formed thoughts about it at the time, just a vague disappointment.
Being 4-5yrs old, having a Mom home with me at the time and brothers that worked in the Minnesota Pavilion (next to the Belgian Waffle stand) can’t tell you how many times I went with my mom or friend's parents, but enough to be very familiar with the whole park. Was too young to understand it was meant to be temporary and was crushed when it came to an end.
Yep. we also had school/day camp trips to the Hall of Science and didn’t they open a small zoo next to it? And then 10 years after “The Fair” closed, in 1975 my first job was working for the food service concession for Flushing Meadow Park! I got to push an Italian Ice cart through the once grand avenues that now on weekends had become dozens of soccer fields. Also at a hotdog kiosk between the Unisphere and the NYC Pavilion. The NYC was an indoor ice skating rink where I also worked that winter. In exchange for a hotdog, the guard would let me impress a girl by bringing her in to see the diorama.
Next I worked on Jones Beach so Im a huge Robert Moses fan, Caro’s book only increased my respect for him as a genius and visionary.
I was 11 then, and I thought that it was wonderful. I loved most the IBM and the Bell pavilions. I knew nothing about the controversies. As a kid, I had a wonderful time, I also particularly remember "the Pieta" on display from the Vatican, and the Belgian Waffles!
I was there as a kid, I thought I was in a future dream... having a great time... then I got food poisoned from some real bad KFC (new at the time) that made me throw-up inside the GM Pavilion all over the floor... The End.. time to go home and to bed... my parents refused to take me back to my disappointment...
I attended the World's Fair in New York as a 2-year old, but have absolutely no memories of the event. As a Disneyphile from an early age. I was told by my mother that I absolutely gorged my little self on the Belgian waffle they purchased that day, and generally spent the day with wide eyes and pointing fingers. I'm sure I would have enjoyed those memories had I been a little older. Thanks for a great video, I enjoy your manner of presentation.
I was there in 1964 with my fam. I was four. Don’t remember much but DO remember It’s A Small World.
The Belgian waffles were out of this world. I can still taste them. I have never had as good a waffle since.
Carousel of Progress is the best WDW ride.
I was 7 and lived a 22 mile car ride from the NY Worlds Fair when it opened. I collected lots of info. We even ordered 2-Sided Worlds Fair Puzzles from Post Cereals! At 7, the NYWF was the most magnificent thing ever; I studied it and learned it and collected stuff about it. Walt Disney's involvement wasn't really mentioned in our home, though we experienced 3 of his attractions. To me, it was all just Spectacular!! I was lucky enough to go to the Fair 3 times, 1st time was June 1, 1964. Then August 64 and July 65.
I agree. No one but no one I knew thought of it as a Disney event. The Fair was every kid's best friend. On a side note, no one ever talks about it, did you go on the carpet ride that went over the highway. I can't believe, looking back on it now, that they had that, how safe could that have been?
@@Hgood1 I don’t remember that one. What pavilion was it part of?
@@JeffFrmJoiseyI don’t know that it was part of a pavilion. I think it was just one of the sort of side things you could do. It was definitely on the grounds though.
I was eight when my family went, and my most vivid memories were for something that you didn't mention.
None other than the souped-up Aston Martin automobile from the James Bond blockbuster GOLDFINGER!
We stood in line all day for that one.
I most remember the model who was extolling the virtues of that Aston Martin. My parents took my younger brother and me to the fair in July of '65. Thank goodness that my father took some film footage of James Bond's magnificent car and the sights from that day. I was nine at the time and had seen Goldfinger (1964) with my parents. We went by train from suburban Philadelphia and as they say, half the fun is getting there. The trip, the day at the fair, for whatever it's worth, made a big impression on my brother and me. I'm glad that you too remember seeing James Bond's Aston Martin.
I visited the 1964 World's Fair with my family as a child -- I still have many memories of the event, ranging from the joy of finally seeing "real" dinosaurs to the smell of burning rubber generated by one of the Ford demonstrations. I also clearly remember the Carousel of Progress and getting "It's A Small World After All' stuck in my head for the first time in my life. :-) I didn't know about all the behind-the-scenes drama, but with anything this big that kind of "stuff" is almost unavoidable. As for the site of the fair being available as a park for locals after the fair itself closed... well, not only did I drive a paddleboat on the lake with my father in the summer of 1967, the 1990 wedding reception of one of my cousins was held in one of the three circular aerial restaurants that the original "Men In Black" movie turned into a flying saucer!
nairbvel, I would love to have a 1964NYWF themed wedding, but NOT in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. It’d be too sad.
You mentioned the Magic Skyway ride system lending itself to the Peoplemover attraction at the parks, but one thing you left out (and I'm sorry if this is nitpicky) is the Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs being brought to Disneyland for the Primeval World diorama. Even now it's still sort of a "hidden gem" that not everybody immediately thinks of when they think of Disney's best attractions, located along the Disneyland Railroad route between the Tomorrowland and Main Street stations.
my parents took my sister and I to the 64' /65' fair. I still have memories of it today.
The Crystal Palace in London isn't just in ruins. It caught fire and burned to the ground in 1936. It was completely destroyed. The spot where it stood in the park is now a lawn.
these comments are as enjoyable as the video itself.
I love finding little videos like this on a big channel. :)
As for the 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair - I liked the National Lampoon magazine parody: “…the addition of electricity and running water to the town has been a boon for residents…”
I drove through Knoxville on vacation around 1990. They were still selling 1982 world's fair souvenirs.
@@MR_MRM_ 🤣
As a former resident of Knoxville, I actually really like what they did with what the fair left behind. The sunsphere has a nice city observation deck that’s free to go up to and the fair grounds are now a really well kept green space. Oh, and the running water was nice too.
Did you guys down there ever get telegraph or telephone service yet?
That’s the fair Bart Simpson tried to go to! WOD FIR!
Been on that chair lift ride it now sits at Six Flags in NJ.
Good video as always guys!
Never seen a video so detailed about the expo. i loved it. :)
I can't tell you how many times I went there when I was 17 and 18 years old! There was so much to do and so many amazing things to see. It doesn't matter to me what went on behind the scenes; the outcome of it all was a wonderful cultural, educational, and entertaining affair that fascinated so many people, including myself, to return again and again.
Clairol had a pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair. It was the Clairol Color Carousel, but it was the only pavilion that was for women only.
Robert Moses' thinking was sound. What I remember is the cleanliness and beauty of the Fair.
Wow! This was quite a video! Super interesting! My buddy had a huge poster of the fair and told me it was one of the most amazing experience. It’s interesting to see a critical look at this event.
Keep up the great videos!
I think that this TH-cam is amazingly informative about the behind-the-scenes. Where it is somewhat lacking is in relaying how magical everyone thought the Fair was, how fun it was, how grand it was, how it felt like we were looking into a fantastical future. The minute you stepped on the grounds, you'd get goosebumps from the magic of the place, so in that sense, it was a huge success.
I was sixteen in 1966 when we went , wow! I was from a little town in Vermont, what an experience. I will never forget the wonder, I felt.
Brilliant videos. Keep them coming. We went to the Queen museum of art and were pleasantly surprised to find out it was in the old New York pavilion in flushing meadows right next to the giant sphere. The Disney geek in me went crazy. There’s still quite a lot of memorabilia from the 64/5 worlds fair held there. I also missed out on attending World Expo ‘88. I still remember the jingle: “Together- we'll show the world”
If lynyrd skynyrd still gets to call themselves lynyrd skynyrd, 1964/65 New York gets to call itself a worlds fair, bie be darned!
Wish it was still around they should do something in flushing meadows park with attractions and more!!!
Thanks for opening a door I and so many others passed by. Kudos on another great, eye-opening video :) love the channel!
Wow. I can’t believe how many comments here agree with my memories and perceptions of the Fair.
I’m 64, lived in nearby Brooklyn, and going to the Fair lifted me intellectually, spiritually, and every other way imaginable. It was magic.
Yes, I understand the need for “historians” to analyze it all, but putting the finances aspect aside, they got it all wrong. It doesn’t matter whether it earned money or lost money. This has NOTHING to do with the quality of the Fair, which was spectacular.
And the BIE? Bureau of International Expositions? Who gives a crap, and the U.S. never signed onto the organization anyway. And more than 80 countries participated, despite the BIE “ban.”
Interesting story. This goes to show that sometimes great success doesn't happen overnight.
The New York World's Fair was amazing.
You can call it whatever you want, I was there at 10 years old in 64' with the family and we all enjoyed it immensely.
Very good video I always enjoyed learning about that event I never knew there was so much conservesy
I didn't know that about the Worlds Fair, it's always painted as this magical wonderful thing. Thank you for doing the research and sharing! Also loved the teaser for an Expo 88 video - very keen!
To go as a visitor, it was absolutely this magical, wonderful thing, despite what was going on in the background to the knowledge of few who attended.
Never knew about the Robert Moses controversy and how his methods may have inspired other well known NY real estate developers. Ahem. That aside, the fair is one of my earliest memories. The helicopter ride is what inspired me to pursue my lifelong dream of learning to fly one which I did 40 years later.
Nice video. I have not witnessed this perspective. Informative!
Went to the fair several times both years. The most negative thing I remember was the long lines in the summer heat. as an 11 - 12 year old it was as you said, "Incredible". Thanks,
Really enjoyed this interesting look at the event!
No mention of the Ford Mustang? It debuted at the fair. It was kind of a big deal. At least in the US.
Who cares if the fair was not “officially sanctioned” - just a technicality - it’ gave Moses more flexibility to design a better fair and attempt to make it grand and profitable.
Future World and the Lincoln speeches were my two favorite things at the World's Fair.
Thank you, very informative as usual , Well done
WDC/EPCOT should put a bid in for a return to the USA. It would revive the World Expo and Disney would market the heck out of it and make a boatload of money. The added expo pavilions could be used as attractions after the Expo, pavilions they don’t have to pay for. It should be really considered. Look at how Los Angeles 1984 saved the modern Olympic Games.
As a child on a cold grey winter afternoon I remember waiting in the car for my stepfather to pick up a large duffel bag of cash as he met two gangsters directly under the worlds fair globe… The World is fair
I remember the GM Motorama, waiting on line to take the driver's test, it was a contest to see who could be the most defensive driver. I won !
Yes! Finally someone doing a video about Expo88!
Four days before the NY World's Fair opened in 64,' Shea Stadium opened on 4/17. The properties are connected - it's a short walk to get there - tens of thousands did it from the Fair to the Mets game, and the Mets game to the Fair. Not the video's posters fault, but not a peep was mentioned about in any promotional shots; they excluded the edifice of the stadiums structure because it was the largest, most dominant, building in view and appeared to be connected - FACT. Yet, they fed eachother patrons. BTW, night games were rare back then and there were no night games for the playoffs or World Series - not that the Mets did that in 64' or 65' (ha ha).
Epcot, center was a worlds fair when it originally open !
Along with the Walt Disney-connected exhibits, I remember seeing the IBM pavilion, the General Motors pavilion, the Ford pavilion, and the Bell Telephone Pavilion.
Found it interesting no mention of GM's Futurama as it was one of the fairs biggest draws
My Fam & I also went to Expo ‘67 in Montreal , when I was 7!
I love the 1964 New York World’s Fair so much. My dad went to it.
Very informative.. thank you
While Disney built exhibits for sponsors, there were a lot of other fun exhibits. The missing area was the adult entertainment area that was a money maker for previous world fairs.
Sally Rand and her fan dance made a lot of money for the Chicago World's Fair of 1933/34.
I was 4 years old here - only remember the Saturn V engines and full-size Brontosaurus (surprised no footage of the Dinosaurs).
You're right, I'd never heard about this side of the fair. Fascinating.
Disney also had a circle vision film in the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair. The 64-65 fair was also the 1st one to cost 1 billion dollars!!! The same price of Epcot Center in 1982 LOL. With all of it's shortcomings, it still did not "tank" the way the 1984 World's Fair did. It declared bankruptcy while it was "still open". I loved your video. It had good clear footage and vantage points I'd never seen before. A side note is Lincoln was the most advanced of all 4 shows. Carrousel next most, with Ford & Pepsi being the least techno advanced. Other than going down for refurb, Small World transcends all of the parks and had endured the "test" of time. It is the simplest one with the simplest of messages. Thank YOU Walt!
OMG please do a video on world expo 88 that was one of my favourite childhood memories !
Walt did an amazing job, but the behind the scenes was awful
Great video with lots of footage I've never seen before! As a Disney fan have always been interested in the 1964 New York Fair, so I visited Corona Park NY in 2012 to try to imagine how it was. I also went to Brisbane Expo in 1988 so would love to see that video made.
As one who went to the Fair as a child and has been back to those grounds many times since, I fear there is no way to really get the grandeur of what it was. We've not seen antying like it in this country since. It was wall-to-wall excitement with looks into the future we'd not seen before and international foods we'd never tasted. It was glorious.
At 2.52 mark, you state that the Fair was largely remembered for Disney's involvement, this might be because of your age and also nationality. It's a false narrative. I've never heard it refereed that way. I was at the fair twice and yes Disney's work is there, but that's really not what the fair is remembered for. Disney is a footnote, nothing more. I remember the fair and many people still do think of it as the creation of Robert Moses, a political Icon in New York.
It's my understanding that the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair (Century 21) was the only one to make a profit.
There maybe another after but I don't know?
And the Space Needle still operates!
The 1967 Montreal World Fair
Ok, thanks
The 1982 Knoxville World's Fair made a slight profit.
Good to hear, what is that 3% success rate?
Check out Tartaria architecture.. This was one of them, that is why it was destroyed
WOW, Today I read about the THE RED RECORD "Triumph of Man" and Billy Graham " Crusade in Flushing Meadow".Everything about him is very real. His movie-- etc.Also President Kennedy.I have to read all of them, because a History. Also, about Science:------not in Term of technology, but as an Adventure of the Mind. I Just love it.
I remember being about 5 at the Worlds Fair, my Cousin got lost for awhile but was found. That’s my memory 👨
For great info on the issues facing the ‘64 WF - Union labor unrest, civil rights strife, financial juggling, and the vast cultural changes taking place in the mid 1960s - see a book by Joseph Tirella, “Tomorrowland”.
Walt Disney looks like Tony Starks Dad!!
7:44 "Infamous" means famous for a _bad_ reason
I think this marked a turning point in USAmerican history where the overall community was sacrificed for other people’s gain and vision.
I lived through this Fair and those times and I regret I cannot agree with you. The overall effect of that Fair was its ability to show what man is capable of doing and what our future might look like. As someone who grew up in the area, we did not feel our community was sacrificed. I would even say we felt like it brought prestige to the neighborhood. As for the international reaction, we as kids were unaware of all that. That was so in the background at the time.
Attending the fair was a wonderful experience!
In the Summer of 1964, a number of Hawaii Boy Scout troops were headed for the Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. On our way there, we visited New York City, West Point, the World's Fair, and Washington D.C. I recall that the World's Fair was sparsely populated, though the big company (IBM, Ford, etc.) exhibits, which had very long lines. We had enough time to visit the (somewhat) pedestrian Hawaii pavilion, which had more staff and entertainers than visitors. All in all, nowhere as interesting as Expo 70 in Japan, which I toured some years later.
Disney was a complete GENIUS!
For many years after the fair Flushing Meadow park was in bad shape. NYC was struggling with its finances, it would finally go bankrupt in 74. The parks all over New York were starved for funds. The neighborhood around the park then began to suffer and has never recovered. In fact as far as that part of Queens goes those couple of years, the early and mid 60’s were the golden age, been downhill ever since. I had to get out of there around 86. But my early childhood was great, it was a great place for kids then.
Love the intro!!
Most World's Fairs don't make a profit. The Seattle Fair of 1962 and the Knoxville Fair of 1982 each made a small profit. The New Orleans Fair of 1984 was a financial disaster. It went bankrupt before the fair was even over.
I don't care what the guy with the funny voice thinks ; we New Yorkers loved it and went often
One thing that should be mentioned is that the brand spanking new Shea Stadium was across the street and yeah the Mets sucked but National League baseball was back in NYC
Wow, the resemblance of Stark Expo in the MCU- The fact that Howard Stark resembles Walt Disney himself and that Disney at this point owned Marvel... just realized this all now.
“Derelict” memories of the past? Ask anyone who was actually there. My dad was there and he said it was amazing and educational! I’m seriously getting tired of this trend lately to try and tarnish American history with scandal and fabricated “controversy.”
I love Carousel of Progress. It made me want to go to a modern World's Fair but whenever I have looked at them they always seem quite dull. 🙊
The next three will be in 2020 in Dubai, 2023 in Buenos Aires, and 2025 in Osaka. Minnesota is planning to bid for a small world's fair in 2027.
That thumbnail is amazing..
Over the two seasons I went to the NY World's Fair thirteen times!!!
Nice video...I subscribed
Wow. Look at how clean and fresh everything looks. Amazing and beautiful.
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so, it was a dry run for Walt Disney World, at public expense.
wow, never knew there was any controversy. Our family must have gone 10 times over the two years. I remember the Sinclair Oil exhibit with big dinosaurs and the Goodyear (?) ferris wheel which was shaped like a big tire...also an exhibit in which you could drive a car with a tv screen as your view from the drivers seat...it would react to your steering and gas pedal..quite advanced for the time....great memories....
The controversy certainly was not mainstream conversation at the time. At the time it was considered a huge success and hugely amazing and everyone wanted to go.
Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Very interesting indeed
Sorry to be a bore - the Crystal Palace at 1:18 is not the Hyde Park Crystal Palace but the later one, using much of the material of the original but also considerably extended, rebuilt in south London. It famously burned down in 1936.
Over the two seasons it was open - '64 and '65 - I went 13 times!!!
3:42 "pershuading" 😂
While we're at it:
The Power Broker's author's last namr is pronounced KAE-roh, not kuh-ROO;
AEH-trih-Byoots.
Public opinion about Robert Moses has not softened, unlike the narrator's claim. He built a personal coffer by selling tokens on the Triboro Bridge, thereby financing his highway schemes. He nearly destroyed what is now downtown Manhattan to build a short expressway. Grrrrrr.
Many countries waited for Montreal's Expo 67.
I went to both. I don't remember much from Expo 67 except French speaking girls, which was a new experience for me. ( I was 13 at Expo 67 )...
It was the authentic beautiful counterpart to a mostly superficial 1964 "world fair".
for a Worlds Fair that really bombed, that would be the one in TN in 1982
It might not have been a financial success but the Guest that attended don't care about that and enjoyed the fair and people are still talking about over 50 years later more than the other endorsed worlds fairs.
Can you please do a video about Expo 67?
The name of the park is FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK. IT IS IN CORONA, QUEENS.