(4/6) RARE 1964 NBC COLOR TV SPECIAL - "A World's Fair Diary" with Edwin Newman

[hormelinc]

Wow, Picasso paintings in the open! With no bullet proof glass. And no 10 foot barriers! And no SWAT team standing next to them! This was the way to appreciate art. No wonder I don't go to museums anymore. I feel like I'm walking through San Quentin Prison, with each painting inside a locked cell, and the prison guards watching over me on the "catwalk". Might as well put the damn paintings in Fort Leavenworth and close the museums.

[bc9021010001]

@hormelinc Where is this happening? In NYC the museums are same as they ever were, if a little expensive, except for the Met which is still pay what you wish. But the paintings and sculptures generally are not encased in anything nor behind glass. Guards are present because of course some people cannot understand that you don't smear your grimy fingers across a Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

[swampwatch]

I'm taken back ... by the lack of obese/over-weight people ... Boy the difference 47 years makes ... Also the lack of rude and obnoxious tourist ... It's hard to travel anywhere in the States these days ... and find courteous and polite people with manners.

[modelearth]

@swampwatch exactly the same in the UK!!

[MerleOberon]

@swampwatch yes, I noticed, but look at the size of the portions served, no super big gulps in those days, and Doctors then handed out diet pills like candy,

[Gmancrap]

Then the learned that handing out medicine like "candy" is a HORRIBLE and stupid thing to do.

[Gmancrap]

Right, well where are you going? To the worlds fare or local carnival? Don't be absurd...

[Bogframe]

A whole, deep fried soft shell crab on a bun. Delicious, but those waffles were unbelievably good. There's a truck called Waffles and Dinges in NYC that sells waffles made with the same recipe as the ones sold in the Belgian Village at the fair. They're every bit as good as I remember!

[kresblain]

I didn't know they made crab burgers, heh. ^__^

[wiedep]

so honest! without the trumped up p.r.!