Gee, does this video take me back. I was a young kid in 1964-65, but I went to the Fair many times, both on school field trips and with my parents.
Looking at the video now, I get a real bittersweet feeling. It's like I'm looking at a wonderful American past, when Americans were still proud and optimistic about their future.
There couldn't be a World's Fair today. Environmentalists and the Occupy protesters would hate it and protest it to death.
I'm from Jersey, I'm 39yrs old....I drove past this place last year and didn't know what it was. Of course the guys I was driving with who where from NY, where like....you don't know the about the world fair?...I'm from Jersey..go figure...I became really interest just watching this video. Is it possible to just visit yester-year...today.
The United States of America will recover. The Civil War, the 29 crash, Vietnam, you could have said the same after any of those. But we pick ourselves up as a nation, and reinvent ourselves. It's called "The American Spirit". And it sees us through difficult times as our founding forefathers knew it would. Yes, we are living in hard times, but these are not end times. Not for any of us, both me and yourself included.
My mother is from Queens and was THERE in 64 or '65 as a little girl with her parents, aunt & uncle and other relatives. I've always thought it was so tremendous that she witnessed this piece of history!
i was 9 when i was there a total of 14 times that i remember, my sister lived a block away, i took the special bus for 25 cents, would get my hand stamped go to sis's for lunch, then go back to 9pm, was there my self walking around! no worries, weekends would go with cousins from out of town, great times! was the last great world event ever!
Yeah, after Led Zep played all night for $4.00 they found huge cracks in the structures supporting collums. I am surprised that the old landmarked New York State Pavillion is still standing upright. If left alone it will erode after time. I can see some future generations archeologists finding a poster for the event and looked at each other and said of course we know about Led Zep ( being that it had become the uniting music for every major religion, but " what is $4...???
I had turned fourteen and had a student pass during the summer. I would be joined by buddies and caught a ride to the fair every Monday of that summer as well as in 1965. It was the first place I was ever served beer. Kirin at the Japeneese Pav. A lot of firsts at that fair. Girls!! A few years later I attended a Led Zep concert , All night $4 as it was billed. Correct me if I am wrong. but it was the last event that rotunda was ever to host.. It figures, huh? Zep murdered the NYS pavillion.
I remember the World's Fair, Went there when I was 12 yrs old. with my Aunt and cousin. I remember going to the Vatican exhibit, and seeing Michaelangelo's Pieta. Yrs later when I as deployed in the Marine Corps, we had liberty in Naples, Italy and took a bus trip to Rome. I saw the Pieta once again in the Vatican, I purchased a small alabaster status of it and gave to my aunt , when I got back home.
I've lived in Queens my whole life... just minutes from Flushing Meadow Park. I was 1 year old in 1964 but I was there... in my stroller! The neighborhood has been through so many changes. We still have the Unisphere! Shea Stadium was part of my stomping grounds... back in the Seaver days. G-D bless New York! :)
Dick Gregory was running for President. He issued Dick Gregory Dollars as campaign flyers. They worked in the new dollay changers. I was a felon at 14-years old!
I am so glad this video is in COLOR and not B/W as some of the videos are! The color is what made everything wonderful. Hard to believe it was almost 50 years ago!
Never forgotten.I got goose bumps watching this video.Thanx.I was six yrs. old when I went there.I rem like it was yesterday.I rem driving a mustang in Ford motors pavilion.Making wax dinosaurs.The Pieta.and on and on.What a childhood memory haunts me in a good way though.Funny when i meet people who went to the fair we immediately start to talk 'bout the fair like old friends.
Disney had a heavy involvement at the Fair, He created about seven major exhibits at the fair, later to be shipped to Disneyland. Among his contributions were; The Carrousel of Progress, The Ford magic sky-way, and the World communication center (Bell Telephone?). When I was there, Disney was visiting to inaugurate the first picture phone call from New York to California.
MY FATHER MADE THE SIGNS FOR THE WORLDS FAIR, THE OPENING SIGN OF THIS CLIP IS THE ONE, HE HAD A CONTRACTORS PASS AND I WENT THERE A TON OF TIMES...WOW HOW FUTURISTIC THINGS LOOKED BACK THAN...ANYWAY, FOR THOSES INTERESTED THERE IS A DVD ON EBAY, ABOUT AN HOUR LONG PORTRAYING THE WHOLE WORLDS FAIR, THE THEME WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER TAKING HER KIDS THERE. I GAVE THIS VIDEO TO MY FATHER ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY,HE JUST CRIED WATCHING IT...
this video brought back many good memories of the fair I was just 14 and spent all summer going to and from the place on the #7 train that had all the states lettered on the cars then @ the worlds fair stop you could that the monorail or the greyhound to get around the park..I spent alot of time in the transportation section got a ride in the turbine car many times with my dad at the wheel and the list goes on & on
Thank you for these memories. I was a little girl when I visited the world's fair in my old Queens neighborhood. I remember only a few things, but your photos helped me remember how beautiful it was. Thank you for that.
I went to the Fair in 1965 (I was 10), and I remember flying out of NYC sometime around 1979/80 and looking down and seeing the Unisphere standing there all by itself...........it was very surreal. And we thought the world was going to look like this in the year 2000...........not even close.
This Fair Changed my Life: It was1965. I was so excited about the privilege of taking Phyllis there on our first chaperoned date. She was 15. We wanted to see everything and almost ran from place to place to see it all in one day. By day we took in the excitement of the exhibits and got to know each other, by night we danced at the Belgium Pavilion and fell in love. We were married two years later and this month we celebrate our 43rd anniversary. (4 Children, 8 Grand Children)
Unfortunately,Louie's wonderful world never materialized:Politicians and bankers made sure of that.We were told back then that the work week would be 20 hours in the 21st Century.
I remember going there with my Mom (RIP) and we went to a live radio broadcast. I forget who's show it was but I did get his autograph which has disappeared since then. Like the autograph the good days have disappeared to.
Loved the World's Fair. I remember so many things about it. Videophones, Belgian Waffles, the replica of a Mormon temple, even bought a copy of Wff N Proof there...
I can remember being at this Worlds Fair......was one of the best times in my life! I remember those waffles too! They were from the Belgian Village and so good! I went there many times and have great memories of the NY Worlds Fair.
I was conceived on Labor Day Weekend in early September 1964 at the New York World's Fair and amazingly born 9 months later in early June of 1965. Dan O'Niallain, Grafton, Ma.
we have original footage from the New York world's Fair from my grandfather. Incredible footage. I wish i could have been there to witness that...we need another one in the US
An unfounded optimism seems to be typical for all world fairs. Here in Belgium, they built the 'Atomium' for the 1958 World Fair, to celebrate nuclear power and its possibilities for the future!
Great job, brings lots of memories of the good time when I was a kid. Wish we could all be so innocent as we were then. Too bad they didn't have the fair for more than a couple of years, I am sure it would have made more money.
Brings back great memories when we all lived in Brooklyn with my family. Makes my heart skip a beat with such fond memories since I no longer have my parents. Wish I was back there in 1964 again.
@worldsfairphotos yeah but they do not look as good as these one's. there certainly is not a lot of hype about it. will the usa host a world fair again soon?
For over 130 years, world's fairs were a wonderful thing in the United States. Today, there are few Americans that know about the fair, and our gap of no American fair today is the longest since our first in 1853- now almost 30 years. Can you sign the petition to help bring the world's fair back to Los Angeles? I don't want you to say I'm spamming. I'm just as concerned and interested in world's fairs as everyone else here. Thanks.
Just google "LA Expo 2020", and you can find it from there.
I wish I couldn've experienced this. I live close to Flushing Meadows and would have loved to see how things were when this was around. Only thing I have close to experiencing it is Epcot and riding the skyride which I found out is the exact one they used at the World's Fair.
I wish I was here to see this. I live close by to Flushing Meadows Park and would have loved to seen how it use to be at the World's Fair. Closest thing I have is going to Epcot Center and riding the skyride at Six Flags Great Adventure, which I learned is the very same one they used at the World's Fair
I was at the fair in 1965. It was the summer between my junior and senior years at high school. I thought it was the most fantastic thing. When I visited the city in 1972 I visited Flushing Meadows again and it was sad to see almost everything gone and what was left in decrepit repair. Not there is nothing by the Unisphere and a couple of buildings. Thanks for sharing the memories.
Aww...such memories:) I lived in central Jersey at the time and the 1964 World's Fair was my 4th grade class trip. I don't remember much offhand, but I am going to view the pictures on the mentioned websites. I do remember a great ride for "It's a Small World".....I hope I can find pictures of that:) And you are right....Gone...but not forgotten....Thank you!
The Unisphere still looks good. I went at least 3 times that I can remember to the NYWF in 64-65. I vividly remember the GM "I Have Seen The Future" pavilion where they wisked you along on automatic chairs to show you what the future was going to be like. Ten years later my friends and I would go to the Unisphere on Thrusdays nights because it had become a drug supermarket. You could walk around two or three times and cop everything you needed for the week and leave. "I Have Seen The Future"
Thanks for posting this, it brings back a lot of memories. Someone sent it to me last year, and I revisit it from time to time when I want to recall better times. I had to do a double take to make sure the boy at 0:50 isn't me (it isn't, but the resemblance is there).
I was there. I remember the Belgian Waffles and "It's a small world after all". Does anyone else remember 007's famous car being displayed there? I think it was there to promote one of the latest movies (Goldfinger perhaps?) My parents bought me one of the tin toy replica 007 cars there. I wish I still had it. sigh. Great vid and thanks for sharing it!
I remember the Begian waffles, It's a Small World, the Flume Ride, and the molded plastic dinosaurs, but not the 007 car. I don't know which year we went, and we only have one photo of us there.
I wasnt born for ten years yet... But feel some strong connection to this fair... What it was like and must have felt like to walk through it.... and the previous '38 and '39 fairs.... To have seen the Westinghouse time capsule being there and then lowered..... You who remember it have an unaparalled memory to rejoice... I am afraid if it were done today, corporate and individual greed would spoil it.... How I wish I could have just once walked through there.... and how they are letting it rot
unfortunately he passed away when i was 6 years old. i learned more of my grandfather's life as i grew older. i can find out more info from my grandmother though. i just have seen photographs. =]
i was ten years old. the colors were much brighter than that, though. but thanks for this , its great to see those things again. i missed some of it back then. i remember the first spin art pictures you could make yourself. and you could get an oyster for about one dollar, it had a pearl in it.
I was just five years old when my parents took me to the NY World's Fair in 1965. I still remember the Carousel of Progress, the GM pavillion and the Belgian Waffles. Great memories!
I was walking around Flushing Meadows Park the other day around this part and was just imagining the history and life that went on here during the Worlds Fair, way before my time. Its still nice there but feels so empty in comparison. Why dont they do the Worlds Fair all over again?? I would love to experience it and it would bring such a new life to Queens again!
I so enjoy watching the good old days. I have walked through the park and I am so heart broken to see what not just the park but everything is in decay. I see what once was and I have no words to describe.
This is one way to capture a fair, beautiful and a great song too. I recently took a video camera to the Flushing Meadow and looked for many of the pavilions, including those that were no longer there. I had a fair guidebook in my hands that had a map to show me where they were no longer.
thanks for ur comments about the NYWF. i mentioned about that new attraction coming soon! great moments with mr lincoln that was announced at disneyland, Ca. on october 2009 theres another attraction called ! hall of presidents! in which i think mr lincoln´s is included there-
Yes the carrousel of progress is at disneyworld orlando, and is open seasonly- I also have a movie of the world fair that was filmed in super 8 mm
last weekend i had the oportunity to ride on the its smal world exhibit at disney park in Calfornia, one of the main attractions at the 1964 NYWF, i tried to find the carrousel of progress and was told it s at Orlando , fla. i also knew that another attraction from the NYWF is 'comingg soon to the disney park 'called" great moments with mr lincoln"- it was a wonderful experience since ididnt have the chance to be at the NYWF at that time - i was only 4 at that time-
Mr. Lincoln has been at Disneyland since the Fair closed, although the exhibit is closed from time to time. You can also see the Ford dinosaurs at Disneyland!
The building that once housed the Carousel Of Progress is still at Disneyland. It was America Sings in the 70s and 80s and later became an exhibit on future technologies that was pretty weak. They do still have the COP in Florida though.
I grew up near Disneyland and saw the carousel of progress, it was my favorite exhibit there and the most interesting thing about it was seeing how our parents and grandparents did things before modern technology. I was also 4 at the time of the NYWF and had the good fortune to be taken there- I vaguely remember several things in this video as well as conning my folks into renting a stroller that had the body of a bright red sports car so I wouldnt have to walk around all day.
I'm so mad...My mom told me she saw a Documentary on tv and she described how beautiful Flushing Meadows Park once was. Everything is goneeee...I really wish they maintained it. Now it's still pretty, but I didn't know it was THIS pretty and populated before.
It was amazing to see.I lived in Rego Park . I was 14 and my Uncle did all the plantings in the GM building So I got free passes. Fire works every Wednesday night . Was a great time to be a New Yorker.
I remember going there in 1965, I was only about 6 years old,but it stuck in my mind. I always remembered that ferris wheel that looked like a big tire.
This really caught me off-guard by making me cry. We got separated from my grandfather and his second wife. I had to pee SO BAD on the sky ride! My mother didn't go (as usual). Somebody somewhere has a photo of me and my sister on that ride. The Belgian Waffles! I LOVED that little European town! We went in 1965.
The big globe was called the Unisphere, not the Uniglobe or the Unisphere Globe. (Just keeping the details straight for those too young to have been there.) It was, indeed, a magical time to be a child (I was 9 in 1964) -- while the war in Vietnam was escalating. Makes the song a bit ironic. The same song was used in the movie "Good Morning, Vietnam."
I went to that worlds fair two times when was 10 and 11-- and this montage really brought back the memories. My family and I had so much fun and I still remember it fondly.
I came here because I saw some odd structures in Grand Theft Auto (An XBOX game) A little research showed me they really exist and were remnants of the Worlds Fair. It is interesting to see them here in colour when they were new. (The Uniglobe, the three tall towers and the arena at their base)
I was born in 1975, so I never gotten a chance to see the world's fair but I live in Queens, I am sure it was spectacular. The Unisphere itself is amazing
I was born in 1961 and we lived in Springfield Gardens. I have many fond memories of the 1964-65 NY World's Fair. My mom must have taken us once a week both summers.
BTW interesting choice of music - Louis Armstrong lived in Queens, not far from the fairgrounds...
Nice production on this clip with stereo audio no less. You'd park in the lot and a bus would come and deliver you to the front entrance. Belgian waffles. yum!
Disney World has somewhat of a world fair to it except it belongs to The Disney CO. Go to the Magic Kingdom you will see, "It's A Small World". The one from the fair is at Disney land here in California. Going back to Disney World you can go to EPCOT and you will see most of the things that use to be at the fair. Plus you get to see a lot of pavilions that represents most of the world's Countries.
damn i wasn't even born yet, but still screw Europe i know that the last one in the U.S bombed, but we are in the 2000s now and with a lot of news coverage and interest and cheap ticket prices, i'm sure most people like me would want the oppertunity to see it here in America
Oh those Great Memories. I was 7 Years Old, but I still remember getting Lost, and My Mother finding Me at the Belgium Pavilion just walking around. This was such a Beautiful Video. When I watch it, I almost feel My Grandmom's energy. Thank You again Kory Wildwood, NJ
I went 5 times! It was a different time, filled with great hopes for a modern future with respect to the genious of the past...after that everyone took acid LOL
I was there with my family in 64 and 65. As Paul Simon would write a few years later: "..time it was and oh what a time it was. A time of innocense, a time of confidences. Long ago it must be, I have a photograph. Perserve your memories..."
I grew up in the Bronx and attended opening day , closing day, and five visits in between with my family in 64/65. It was truly a magical place. Science and and our unlimited future was the theme. Lovely times. It was real hope for real change then.
I went to Corona Park last weekend, and amidst the ice and desolation of winter the dilapidated relics looked more like gigantic dead-end Soviet monuments or the set of a dystopian movie or Doctor Who. But hey, I now have more They Might Be Giants fan credential.
Very nice. Thank you. I was only 6 or 7 when we attended the fair. I will never forget the GM Futurama and the optimism we felt in the future. How times have changed!
Cool...I was 7 when my parents took me and my sister there for vacation. The GM pavilion I remember well. My Dad worked for GM at the time. Who knows...we may have passed each other along the way. Yes...time sure have changed.
The book is more like a packet from the Comtroller (I believe it says Samuel Jones). He has a brief introduction in the beginning and then some pictures and history, etc. Again, i hate to just throw it out, being so old and possibly valuable to someone
i just found this video after finding a book in the basement of my house up in a corner, left here by previous owners. Everything is hard to read in cursive but i can make out where it says at the bottom, New York World's Fair 1964-1965. The front says New York State's Comtrollers: 50 Guardians of the Public Purse. Should i just throw this out???
That booklet was given out at a display on state government at the New York State Pavilion. Not sure what it might be worth as I can't recall seeing one before. If it has pictures from the fair or of the display that would increase interest and the value.
the only pics are some people who were comptrollers before it looks like. A map of the comptroller office at that time. Also, a section called A Day in the Life of a Comptroller with pics and a timeline of a complete day. Things like that. Something Worthless to me lol
I was only 8 but clealy remember the little Greyhound transporters. They had the song "Go Greyhound and leave the driving to us" The GM exibit where you drove a real car and the best Belgium Waffles ever! Thanks for posting
It seems to me that none of the 1964 World's Fair films up here show the RCA mobile color TV truck that was on display there with the huge TK-41 color TV cameras. I wish I could have gone to the '64 World's Fair, just to see that.
Gee, does this video take me back. I was a young kid in 1964-65, but I went to the Fair many times, both on school field trips and with my parents.
Looking at the video now, I get a real bittersweet feeling. It's like I'm looking at a wonderful American past, when Americans were still proud and optimistic about their future.
There couldn't be a World's Fair today. Environmentalists and the Occupy protesters would hate it and protest it to death.
sinz52 3 weeks ago
I'm from Jersey, I'm 39yrs old....I drove past this place last year and didn't know what it was. Of course the guys I was driving with who where from NY, where like....you don't know the about the world fair?...I'm from Jersey..go figure...I became really interest just watching this video. Is it possible to just visit yester-year...today.
janzaclipz 4 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Wow, nice. You even have them in color. I'm currently working on a research paper also about this World's Fair.
theRecONcile 3 months ago
In the 1960's USA was at its peak -now like the roman empire it's down and soon to be out...
VegardMinde 4 months ago
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captainalbator 3 months ago
@VegardMinde
The United States of America will recover. The Civil War, the 29 crash, Vietnam, you could have said the same after any of those. But we pick ourselves up as a nation, and reinvent ourselves. It's called "The American Spirit". And it sees us through difficult times as our founding forefathers knew it would. Yes, we are living in hard times, but these are not end times. Not for any of us, both me and yourself included.
captainalbator 3 months ago
WHAT GREAT MEMORIES OF ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE LIVED THERE AS A N 8 AND 9 YEAR OLD EVERY SUNDAY FOR 2 YEARS
napoli731 4 months ago
I would LOVE to see another Worlds Fair in flushing
AWesome61696 5 months ago
I was there.......smile
BarryDead 5 months ago
I love the fact that this video displays the Giant Tire. It can still be seen to this day off of either 96 or 94 in the Detroit area.
john4knecht 6 months ago
My mother is from Queens and was THERE in 64 or '65 as a little girl with her parents, aunt & uncle and other relatives. I've always thought it was so tremendous that she witnessed this piece of history!
RETROGEMS 6 months ago
i was 9 when i was there a total of 14 times that i remember, my sister lived a block away, i took the special bus for 25 cents, would get my hand stamped go to sis's for lunch, then go back to 9pm, was there my self walking around! no worries, weekends would go with cousins from out of town, great times! was the last great world event ever!
pooldude317 6 months ago
Yeah, after Led Zep played all night for $4.00 they found huge cracks in the structures supporting collums. I am surprised that the old landmarked New York State Pavillion is still standing upright. If left alone it will erode after time. I can see some future generations archeologists finding a poster for the event and looked at each other and said of course we know about Led Zep ( being that it had become the uniting music for every major religion, but " what is $4...???
Rankinbacca 7 months ago
I had turned fourteen and had a student pass during the summer. I would be joined by buddies and caught a ride to the fair every Monday of that summer as well as in 1965. It was the first place I was ever served beer. Kirin at the Japeneese Pav. A lot of firsts at that fair. Girls!! A few years later I attended a Led Zep concert , All night $4 as it was billed. Correct me if I am wrong. but it was the last event that rotunda was ever to host.. It figures, huh? Zep murdered the NYS pavillion.
Rankinbacca 7 months ago
I'd like to go back to 1965 and stay there forever.
rascal211 7 months ago 2
I remember the World's Fair, Went there when I was 12 yrs old. with my Aunt and cousin. I remember going to the Vatican exhibit, and seeing Michaelangelo's Pieta. Yrs later when I as deployed in the Marine Corps, we had liberty in Naples, Italy and took a bus trip to Rome. I saw the Pieta once again in the Vatican, I purchased a small alabaster status of it and gave to my aunt , when I got back home.
Gpop824 7 months ago
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Orthodyke 7 months ago
I've lived in Queens my whole life... just minutes from Flushing Meadow Park. I was 1 year old in 1964 but I was there... in my stroller! The neighborhood has been through so many changes. We still have the Unisphere! Shea Stadium was part of my stomping grounds... back in the Seaver days. G-D bless New York! :)
Orthodyke 7 months ago
Dick Gregory was running for President. He issued Dick Gregory Dollars as campaign flyers. They worked in the new dollay changers. I was a felon at 14-years old!
DongusEddy 7 months ago
I am so glad this video is in COLOR and not B/W as some of the videos are! The color is what made everything wonderful. Hard to believe it was almost 50 years ago!
tarotbear 7 months ago
Never forgotten.I got goose bumps watching this video.Thanx.I was six yrs. old when I went there.I rem like it was yesterday.I rem driving a mustang in Ford motors pavilion.Making wax dinosaurs.The Pieta.and on and on.What a childhood memory haunts me in a good way though.Funny when i meet people who went to the fair we immediately start to talk 'bout the fair like old friends.
larciabella 7 months ago
It was a great fair.
Too bad we don't have them today.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 8 months ago
I was 12 then as well so it had a big influence on me. Glad you liked it!
Bill
wwodtv 8 months ago
Thanks for the memories! I was there as a 12 year old.
Kurious2no 8 months ago
what a beautiful presentation!
CameraCapers 8 months ago
It was like having Disney World in your backyard.
boxbrain3853 8 months ago
@boxbrain3853
Disney had a heavy involvement at the Fair, He created about seven major exhibits at the fair, later to be shipped to Disneyland. Among his contributions were; The Carrousel of Progress, The Ford magic sky-way, and the World communication center (Bell Telephone?). When I was there, Disney was visiting to inaugurate the first picture phone call from New York to California.
ivor1 1 month ago
my mom went thier w/ my aunts and her grandmother
ChristinaWolfle 9 months ago
@TomsLastJoint graiffe
ChristinaWolfle 9 months ago
cAN eVERYONE SHUT UP ABOUT GOOGLE!! YOUR NOT GONNA GET THUMBS UP
TheDarknessOfVoid 9 months ago
this is a great clip
mrpanu 9 months ago
i cant believe this WAS new york city
avatarlord16 9 months ago
google brought me here
zahmad007 9 months ago
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mrpanu 9 months ago
google brought me here :D
Woenwen 9 months ago
She's feeding Susie, the very friendly and popular giraffe at the Africa Pavilion.
wwodtv 9 months ago
MY FATHER MADE THE SIGNS FOR THE WORLDS FAIR, THE OPENING SIGN OF THIS CLIP IS THE ONE, HE HAD A CONTRACTORS PASS AND I WENT THERE A TON OF TIMES...WOW HOW FUTURISTIC THINGS LOOKED BACK THAN...ANYWAY, FOR THOSES INTERESTED THERE IS A DVD ON EBAY, ABOUT AN HOUR LONG PORTRAYING THE WHOLE WORLDS FAIR, THE THEME WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER TAKING HER KIDS THERE. I GAVE THIS VIDEO TO MY FATHER ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY,HE JUST CRIED WATCHING IT...
lawdog490 9 months ago 3
this video brought back many good memories of the fair I was just 14 and spent all summer going to and from the place on the #7 train that had all the states lettered on the cars then @ the worlds fair stop you could that the monorail or the greyhound to get around the park..I spent alot of time in the transportation section got a ride in the turbine car many times with my dad at the wheel and the list goes on & on
carfixer66 9 months ago
Makes me sad, how I was born in 1991, into a deteriorating world. You had happiness and peace, we have suffering, war, and the worlds end.
ScamAllDai 9 months ago
My mum worked there at the Mexican Pavillion. I wish I had seen it myself!!!
Cristinact 11 months ago
I was there in 1964 just before I went into the Army. I lived close to it too.
dao3rd123 11 months ago
Thank you for these memories. I was a little girl when I visited the world's fair in my old Queens neighborhood. I remember only a few things, but your photos helped me remember how beautiful it was. Thank you for that.
debbiekification 1 year ago
PERFECT PRESENTATION! THE FAIR WAS ONE OF THE HIGH MOMENTS OF MY LIFE!
RALPHIEREDRYDER 1 year ago
Terrific images and memories. Thank you.
jerry550 1 year ago
hey rascal I was there when i was 9 but i barely remember
se7ensnakes 1 year ago
BRING THE WORLD FAIR BACK TO THE USA, (hopefully Chicago :) )
PuddingnShortbuses 1 year ago
My dad took me 7 times ! He passed away 10 days ago...this video brought a tear to my eyes !
fredboyy 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing these memories with us.
I wish I could go back in time.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 1 year ago
I went to the Fair in 1965 (I was 10), and I remember flying out of NYC sometime around 1979/80 and looking down and seeing the Unisphere standing there all by itself...........it was very surreal. And we thought the world was going to look like this in the year 2000...........not even close.
Simon5005 1 year ago
This Fair Changed my Life: It was1965. I was so excited about the privilege of taking Phyllis there on our first chaperoned date. She was 15. We wanted to see everything and almost ran from place to place to see it all in one day. By day we took in the excitement of the exhibits and got to know each other, by night we danced at the Belgium Pavilion and fell in love. We were married two years later and this month we celebrate our 43rd anniversary. (4 Children, 8 Grand Children)
MIMissingsomething 1 year ago 27
@MIMissingsomething Holy shit. Hell, we should all be so lucky. But I'm afraid that golden age has passed us by.
Webzlinger 2 months ago
Unfortunately,Louie's wonderful world never materialized:Politicians and bankers made sure of that.We were told back then that the work week would be 20 hours in the 21st Century.
rentslave 1 year ago 2
@rentslave Many people now only work 20 hours, if they can find a job at all.
MIMissingsomething 1 year ago
What happend to all those beatiful buildings??
konstant94 1 year ago
I remember going there with my Mom (RIP) and we went to a live radio broadcast. I forget who's show it was but I did get his autograph which has disappeared since then. Like the autograph the good days have disappeared to.
jimbronxny 1 year ago
Does anyone remember the 1964 El Camino in this World's Fair?
vacuumbed1 1 year ago
the arch a 2:12 is at an abandoned amusement psrk called rocky point in rhode island, it was the entrance
Slugger2351 1 year ago
Can someone tell me a story about the history of the NY pavillion? Why is it abandoned,so lonely?
OhThatGuy9 1 year ago
Loved the World's Fair. I remember so many things about it. Videophones, Belgian Waffles, the replica of a Mormon temple, even bought a copy of Wff N Proof there...
ccdesan 1 year ago
LoL looks like a giantic promotional event for the american automobile industry! Still an amazing fair
DaBoogie049 1 year ago
I can remember being at this Worlds Fair......was one of the best times in my life! I remember those waffles too! They were from the Belgian Village and so good! I went there many times and have great memories of the NY Worlds Fair.
quickster4u2c 1 year ago
I was conceived on Labor Day Weekend in early September 1964 at the New York World's Fair and amazingly born 9 months later in early June of 1965. Dan O'Niallain, Grafton, Ma.
oniallain1965 1 year ago
I was 2 years old I wish I was there
El1zabeth1962 1 year ago
Ahhhhhh what a sweet time. Though never to be again, the memories burn brightly in my heart. How lucky I was!
wayunder55 1 year ago
im crying thats so sad and how it is now!
legomaxmania 1 year ago
i d like to attend a world fair like this-- awesome !
fayeteville 1 year ago
we have original footage from the New York world's Fair from my grandfather. Incredible footage. I wish i could have been there to witness that...we need another one in the US
lobe1028 1 year ago
i wasn't born yet , but sure would have enjoyed such a fair !
iscrapman 1 year ago
An unfounded optimism seems to be typical for all world fairs. Here in Belgium, they built the 'Atomium' for the 1958 World Fair, to celebrate nuclear power and its possibilities for the future!
hr987654 1 year ago
Great job, brings lots of memories of the good time when I was a kid. Wish we could all be so innocent as we were then. Too bad they didn't have the fair for more than a couple of years, I am sure it would have made more money.
ideserveall 1 year ago
Brings back great memories when we all lived in Brooklyn with my family. Makes my heart skip a beat with such fond memories since I no longer have my parents. Wish I was back there in 1964 again.
jcpinstripes 1 year ago
Make Way For Tomorrow Today!!!
jar0fdirt63 1 year ago
We drove from Mobile and I was 10. I remember the hemisphere, amphibious cars and international food!
radsag 1 year ago
To bad we don't have any more World's Fairs.
All the countries hate each other now.
store275 1 year ago 11
Actually, there's a world's fair underway right now in Shanghai! The biggest one ever, in fact.
worldsfairphotos 1 year ago 2
@worldsfairphotos
yes, it is big but there is absolutely nothing to look at once you get inside the pavilions after you waited in line between 5 and 9 hours.
VivienAdel 1 year ago
@worldsfairphotos yeah but they do not look as good as these one's. there certainly is not a lot of hype about it. will the usa host a world fair again soon?
modelearth 5 months ago
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. I remember going to the Worlds Fair. I was 9 or 10 at the time.
sleepgal55 1 year ago
Nice video. Really well done.
tesujigames 1 year ago
my uncle told me how there use to be an actual fair there i think
TheFalloutMasta 1 year ago
went there yesterday no water around and not allowed in anymore
TheFalloutMasta 1 year ago
The park department is refurbishing the Unisphere. The fences should be down soon.
worldsfairphotos 1 year ago
We lived in Brooklyn then. I was 4 and remember some of it very well - the Traveler's pavilion and Sinclair's dinosaurs always stayed in my mind.
It's a great vid - thanks for the memories.
1stMaineCavalry 1 year ago
My parents told me about it. I was born just as it was coming to the end.
pictureisup1 1 year ago
what was that big white thing that looked like marshmellows
wensable123 1 year ago
Those were the Brass Rail snack bars.
wwodtv 1 year ago
For over 130 years, world's fairs were a wonderful thing in the United States. Today, there are few Americans that know about the fair, and our gap of no American fair today is the longest since our first in 1853- now almost 30 years. Can you sign the petition to help bring the world's fair back to Los Angeles? I don't want you to say I'm spamming. I'm just as concerned and interested in world's fairs as everyone else here. Thanks.
Just google "LA Expo 2020", and you can find it from there.
orion7763 1 year ago
I lived in Queens in Rockaway Beach and went several times I was very young but still have some memories of this fair. Thanks for posting.
kevinamcgarry 1 year ago
My god, So beautiful!
limynet 1 year ago
I wish I couldn've experienced this. I live close to Flushing Meadows and would have loved to see how things were when this was around. Only thing I have close to experiencing it is Epcot and riding the skyride which I found out is the exact one they used at the World's Fair.
svtxchinoy 1 year ago
I wish I was here to see this. I live close by to Flushing Meadows Park and would have loved to seen how it use to be at the World's Fair. Closest thing I have is going to Epcot Center and riding the skyride at Six Flags Great Adventure, which I learned is the very same one they used at the World's Fair
svtxchinoy 1 year ago
I was at the fair in 1965. It was the summer between my junior and senior years at high school. I thought it was the most fantastic thing. When I visited the city in 1972 I visited Flushing Meadows again and it was sad to see almost everything gone and what was left in decrepit repair. Not there is nothing by the Unisphere and a couple of buildings. Thanks for sharing the memories.
oldtimeseller 1 year ago 4
Aww...such memories:) I lived in central Jersey at the time and the 1964 World's Fair was my 4th grade class trip. I don't remember much offhand, but I am going to view the pictures on the mentioned websites. I do remember a great ride for "It's a Small World".....I hope I can find pictures of that:) And you are right....Gone...but not forgotten....Thank you!
Elainelps0421 1 year ago
I was only a child (6 years old), at the time, but I still have nice memories of the fair.
ftsjr 1 year ago
The Unisphere still looks good. I went at least 3 times that I can remember to the NYWF in 64-65. I vividly remember the GM "I Have Seen The Future" pavilion where they wisked you along on automatic chairs to show you what the future was going to be like. Ten years later my friends and I would go to the Unisphere on Thrusdays nights because it had become a drug supermarket. You could walk around two or three times and cop everything you needed for the week and leave. "I Have Seen The Future"
DrBorko 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this, it brings back a lot of memories. Someone sent it to me last year, and I revisit it from time to time when I want to recall better times. I had to do a double take to make sure the boy at 0:50 isn't me (it isn't, but the resemblance is there).
frkaz911 2 years ago
I was there. I remember the Belgian Waffles and "It's a small world after all". Does anyone else remember 007's famous car being displayed there? I think it was there to promote one of the latest movies (Goldfinger perhaps?) My parents bought me one of the tin toy replica 007 cars there. I wish I still had it. sigh. Great vid and thanks for sharing it!
Vinniebearinpa 2 years ago
I remember the Begian waffles, It's a Small World, the Flume Ride, and the molded plastic dinosaurs, but not the 007 car. I don't know which year we went, and we only have one photo of us there.
junbug1029 1 year ago
I wasnt born for ten years yet... But feel some strong connection to this fair... What it was like and must have felt like to walk through it.... and the previous '38 and '39 fairs.... To have seen the Westinghouse time capsule being there and then lowered..... You who remember it have an unaparalled memory to rejoice... I am afraid if it were done today, corporate and individual greed would spoil it.... How I wish I could have just once walked through there.... and how they are letting it rot
vettesex 2 years ago
unfortunately he passed away when i was 6 years old. i learned more of my grandfather's life as i grew older. i can find out more info from my grandmother though. i just have seen photographs. =]
def0rm0 2 years ago
my grandfather helped with the construction of the world's fair... =]
def0rm0 2 years ago
Where did he work? I bet he had some interesting stories!
worldsfairphotos 2 years ago
i was ten years old. the colors were much brighter than that, though. but thanks for this , its great to see those things again. i missed some of it back then. i remember the first spin art pictures you could make yourself. and you could get an oyster for about one dollar, it had a pearl in it.
bettygoodbody 2 years ago
I was just five years old when my parents took me to the NY World's Fair in 1965. I still remember the Carousel of Progress, the GM pavillion and the Belgian Waffles. Great memories!
enigmalady777 2 years ago
I was walking around Flushing Meadows Park the other day around this part and was just imagining the history and life that went on here during the Worlds Fair, way before my time. Its still nice there but feels so empty in comparison. Why dont they do the Worlds Fair all over again?? I would love to experience it and it would bring such a new life to Queens again!
merman0 2 years ago 3
I so enjoy watching the good old days. I have walked through the park and I am so heart broken to see what not just the park but everything is in decay. I see what once was and I have no words to describe.
jarl44 2 years ago
This is one way to capture a fair, beautiful and a great song too. I recently took a video camera to the Flushing Meadow and looked for many of the pavilions, including those that were no longer there. I had a fair guidebook in my hands that had a map to show me where they were no longer.
awaseniu 2 years ago
thanks for ur comments about the NYWF. i mentioned about that new attraction coming soon! great moments with mr lincoln that was announced at disneyland, Ca. on october 2009 theres another attraction called ! hall of presidents! in which i think mr lincoln´s is included there-
Yes the carrousel of progress is at disneyworld orlando, and is open seasonly- I also have a movie of the world fair that was filmed in super 8 mm
fayeteville 2 years ago
last weekend i had the oportunity to ride on the its smal world exhibit at disney park in Calfornia, one of the main attractions at the 1964 NYWF, i tried to find the carrousel of progress and was told it s at Orlando , fla. i also knew that another attraction from the NYWF is 'comingg soon to the disney park 'called" great moments with mr lincoln"- it was a wonderful experience since ididnt have the chance to be at the NYWF at that time - i was only 4 at that time-
fayeteville 2 years ago
Mr. Lincoln has been at Disneyland since the Fair closed, although the exhibit is closed from time to time. You can also see the Ford dinosaurs at Disneyland!
worldsfairphotos 2 years ago
The building that once housed the Carousel Of Progress is still at Disneyland. It was America Sings in the 70s and 80s and later became an exhibit on future technologies that was pretty weak. They do still have the COP in Florida though.
Synthetrix 2 years ago
I grew up near Disneyland and saw the carousel of progress, it was my favorite exhibit there and the most interesting thing about it was seeing how our parents and grandparents did things before modern technology. I was also 4 at the time of the NYWF and had the good fortune to be taken there- I vaguely remember several things in this video as well as conning my folks into renting a stroller that had the body of a bright red sports car so I wouldnt have to walk around all day.
rossman1rb 2 years ago
uhmm why no black people?..just an observation
JOVEN1GONZALEZ1 2 years ago
Try again - 0:33 in front of Ford, 1:20 in front of Bell, 1:48 feeding the giraffe.
worldsfairphotos 2 years ago
Our Senior Class trip was to the New York World's Fair. I just loved it!
Fond, beautiful memories. :)
JudeWest4868 2 years ago
That was very enjoyable, thanks for posting!
carolyn1e1s 2 years ago
i love tese things in video but happy times have passed now the world is a lot less raceist
disneyrules886 2 years ago
Is all this stuff still there or did they take it down? I want to go see all this!
Twinkies4lyfe 2 years ago
Almost everything is gone except the Unisphere and the ruins of the New York State Pavilion. It was a wonderful experience unlikely to be repeated.
worldsfairphotos 2 years ago
I'm so mad...My mom told me she saw a Documentary on tv and she described how beautiful Flushing Meadows Park once was. Everything is goneeee...I really wish they maintained it. Now it's still pretty, but I didn't know it was THIS pretty and populated before.
KatrinaCabrera 2 years ago
Only the huge iron globe and the two observation towers as made famous by Men In Black.
XxSTICH666xX 2 years ago
All of this stuff was only there a year?!
jravage77 2 years ago
It was amazing to see.I lived in Rego Park . I was 14 and my Uncle did all the plantings in the GM building So I got free passes. Fire works every Wednesday night . Was a great time to be a New Yorker.
funguy1010 2 years ago
two years, April to October of 64 and 65.
mase4t4 2 years ago
I went when I was about 4. The last days of "normalcy" for the US.
andie531 2 years ago
Thanks so much for the post . It really brings back memories of a very diffrent time.
ctinsmyth 2 years ago
i went to the new york fair yesterday it was awsome shinedown played and the fray it was awsome
ssgosen4 2 years ago
My grandma told me about this... I didn't know how beautiful it really was I wish I was there.
thefaithfulfairy55 2 years ago
Being a kid in the 60"s was awesome !!
wapaho 2 years ago
I remember going there in 1965, I was only about 6 years old,but it stuck in my mind. I always remembered that ferris wheel that looked like a big tire.
wapaho 2 years ago
Great Terific I loved that fair. Went about a half dozen times. Had to come up from Philadelphia area on the PRR & LIRR
theredarrow78 2 years ago
This really caught me off-guard by making me cry. We got separated from my grandfather and his second wife. I had to pee SO BAD on the sky ride! My mother didn't go (as usual). Somebody somewhere has a photo of me and my sister on that ride. The Belgian Waffles! I LOVED that little European town! We went in 1965.
binkle1 2 years ago
The big globe was called the Unisphere, not the Uniglobe or the Unisphere Globe. (Just keeping the details straight for those too young to have been there.) It was, indeed, a magical time to be a child (I was 9 in 1964) -- while the war in Vietnam was escalating. Makes the song a bit ironic. The same song was used in the movie "Good Morning, Vietnam."
Bette704 2 years ago
I went to that worlds fair two times when was 10 and 11-- and this montage really brought back the memories. My family and I had so much fun and I still remember it fondly.
salutetheflag 2 years ago
I came here because I saw some odd structures in Grand Theft Auto (An XBOX game) A little research showed me they really exist and were remnants of the Worlds Fair. It is interesting to see them here in colour when they were new. (The Uniglobe, the three tall towers and the arena at their base)
marcel911 2 years ago
Actually, whenever we go to the airport we pass by that area, so we see the globe and that one tall structure that used to be a resturant.
Kittylover9393 2 years ago
My mom told me she went there when she was really little.
Kittylover9393 2 years ago
I went here when I was 8.
It was great being a kid in the 1960s.
rascal211 2 years ago 10
@rascal211 it sure was!!
carolina4733 1 year ago
FLUSHANG!!!!!!!!
HardBodyNyC 2 years ago
Log Flume killed-I'll buy that Globe jhnpizz
SteveSparx 2 years ago
I can see the Unisphere Globe from my job in Queens. This whole thing must have been awesome.
susanzee1 2 years ago
I was born in 1975, so I never gotten a chance to see the world's fair but I live in Queens, I am sure it was spectacular. The Unisphere itself is amazing
StoneColdBeer316 2 years ago
I was born in 1961 and we lived in Springfield Gardens. I have many fond memories of the 1964-65 NY World's Fair. My mom must have taken us once a week both summers.
BTW interesting choice of music - Louis Armstrong lived in Queens, not far from the fairgrounds...
ChristopherPlatt 2 years ago
Nice production on this clip with stereo audio no less. You'd park in the lot and a bus would come and deliver you to the front entrance. Belgian waffles. yum!
Fretkillr 2 years ago
I actually still have an original toy replica of the Uniroyal Ferris Wheel and a Worlds Fair Snow Globe!
jhnpizz 2 years ago
Disney World has somewhat of a world fair to it except it belongs to The Disney CO. Go to the Magic Kingdom you will see, "It's A Small World". The one from the fair is at Disney land here in California. Going back to Disney World you can go to EPCOT and you will see most of the things that use to be at the fair. Plus you get to see a lot of pavilions that represents most of the world's Countries.
1324TN 2 years ago
thanks boy i remember it tom trees
tomtrees58 2 years ago
damn i wasn't even born yet, but still screw Europe i know that the last one in the U.S bombed, but we are in the 2000s now and with a lot of news coverage and interest and cheap ticket prices, i'm sure most people like me would want the oppertunity to see it here in America
residentevil4life 2 years ago
Oh those Great Memories. I was 7 Years Old, but I still remember getting Lost, and My Mother finding Me at the Belgium Pavilion just walking around. This was such a Beautiful Video. When I watch it, I almost feel My Grandmom's energy. Thank You again Kory Wildwood, NJ
wildwoodcrest1957 2 years ago
45 years ago today was the first full day of operations for the fair. I miss it.
JET997u 2 years ago
i was at that fair i was aboyt 10years old
marcelchelo 2 years ago
I went 5 times! It was a different time, filled with great hopes for a modern future with respect to the genious of the past...after that everyone took acid LOL
KALAKAMATIJAS 2 years ago
great video and music
hope theres another fair like this again
fayeteville 2 years ago
impressive even by today's standards.
Marchant2 2 years ago
I was there with my family in 64 and 65. As Paul Simon would write a few years later: "..time it was and oh what a time it was. A time of innocense, a time of confidences. Long ago it must be, I have a photograph. Perserve your memories..."
Thanks for much for the posting and the memories!
rod1148 2 years ago
Wow. Thanks for the memories. Great post.
Rollin558 2 years ago
I was only 3 years old, but remember it a little bit. They should bring it back! Those pictures are amazing.
orangysky 2 years ago
I grew up in the Bronx and attended opening day , closing day, and five visits in between with my family in 64/65. It was truly a magical place. Science and and our unlimited future was the theme. Lovely times. It was real hope for real change then.
Deadkurtrulz 3 years ago
I went to Corona Park last weekend, and amidst the ice and desolation of winter the dilapidated relics looked more like gigantic dead-end Soviet monuments or the set of a dystopian movie or Doctor Who. But hey, I now have more They Might Be Giants fan credential.
flosstweed 3 years ago
My mom graduated from high school in 1964 and her senior class trip was to NYC for the World's Fair.
Photograph1974 3 years ago
I wish they'd make another one,I wanna go!!!
rackas321 3 years ago
How things have changed...
I doubt ANYONE thought that the 2000's were going to be like this
BTedge116 3 years ago 5
Very nice. Thank you. I was only 6 or 7 when we attended the fair. I will never forget the GM Futurama and the optimism we felt in the future. How times have changed!
cricketkeely 3 years ago 3
Cool...I was 7 when my parents took me and my sister there for vacation. The GM pavilion I remember well. My Dad worked for GM at the time. Who knows...we may have passed each other along the way. Yes...time sure have changed.
jlbutler50 2 years ago
i tried to sign up for that site but it wont let me post any topics, reply to any, etc.
fbrunner6 3 years ago
The book is more like a packet from the Comtroller (I believe it says Samuel Jones). He has a brief introduction in the beginning and then some pictures and history, etc. Again, i hate to just throw it out, being so old and possibly valuable to someone
fbrunner6 3 years ago
i just found this video after finding a book in the basement of my house up in a corner, left here by previous owners. Everything is hard to read in cursive but i can make out where it says at the bottom, New York World's Fair 1964-1965. The front says New York State's Comtrollers: 50 Guardians of the Public Purse. Should i just throw this out???
fbrunner6 3 years ago
That booklet was given out at a display on state government at the New York State Pavilion. Not sure what it might be worth as I can't recall seeing one before. If it has pictures from the fair or of the display that would increase interest and the value.
worldsfairphotos 3 years ago
the only pics are some people who were comptrollers before it looks like. A map of the comptroller office at that time. Also, a section called A Day in the Life of a Comptroller with pics and a timeline of a complete day. Things like that. Something Worthless to me lol
fbrunner6 3 years ago
Born in March of 64 things were definatly livable and definatly more nicer to remember then today 2008
kikileeMIL 3 years ago
Such an optimistic view... what happened???
nyworldsfair 3 years ago
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bookumdannofive0 3 years ago
wish shea stadium was in it because it was built for this event as well as to host the mets for the next 45 years!
nolanryan1999 3 years ago
I was only 8 but clealy remember the little Greyhound transporters. They had the song "Go Greyhound and leave the driving to us" The GM exibit where you drove a real car and the best Belgium Waffles ever! Thanks for posting
fiddlerpin 3 years ago
It seems to me that none of the 1964 World's Fair films up here show the RCA mobile color TV truck that was on display there with the huge TK-41 color TV cameras. I wish I could have gone to the '64 World's Fair, just to see that.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 3 years ago
I do have some shots of the RCA truck, and will try to put one into the new video I'm working on.
worldsfairphotos 3 years ago
wonderful memories..thanks
pcsbeat 3 years ago
I was just 13, but I was there too. Thank you for the memory.
uncle559 3 years ago