Opening and Closing of New York Worlds Fair 1964/65

[bluenorm]

and it was for me too

[bluenorm]

the promise land of mr. moses

[KEVIN1957able]

Amazing the stupidity out there. Note this clown can't even spell the word piece properly.

[zetatauri]

Wow. That was great to watch. Thanks for posting.

[jcpinstripes]

I remember the Wolrds Fair like it was yesterday. We would spend the entire day there and eat those belgium waffles, man I miss being a young kid again.

We use to think we were really driving the Ford cars throught the dinosuar expedtion.

A BILLION dollars?

[Rollman1]

@jcpinstripes Yes that was so cool

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

BILLION dollar show?!? Holy crap!

[TomAlton]

I still have vivid memories of my visit to the NY World's Fair. My family went there both years (I was only 6 and 7 years old). I remember the optimistic theme of the Fair, along with a few of my favorite pavilions, such as Bell Telephone, the Tower of Light, the Unisphere, General Motors, General Electric, Pepsi-Cola, and more. We always had lunch at the Schaefer pavilion and our catnaps at the Simmons beautyrest building. What times we had there!

[kevinamcgarry]

I lived in Queens in Rockaway Beach and this sadly goes to show the shortsightedness of the City of New York. If the would have kept this sight up and improved on it they would have something great that would have brought people in from all over , but no they let it decay like everything else such a shame

[IlikepurpleXP]

They should have kept the structures! Not leave the remaining ones a rotting mess.

[Vinniebearinpa]

I was there. (I was 4 years old) I remember my parents telling me that on the last day the people were looting everything they could get their hands on to take as souvenirs. Ripping of pieces of the buildings, tearing up the flowers, etc. I remember seeing some building pieces no long ago on eBay. What a shame that the NY state didn't keep up on the preservation of the buildings. I hope that some day they will bring another fair such as this back to this site.

[LeonimuZ]

And New York destroyed almost ALL this structures!

[Smadge2020]

It was an unusable dump full of industrial waste before it was filled in to create the fairgrounds for the 1939-40 World's Fair. It sat empty and unused between fairs. At least it is not just a bigger, older wasteland.

[rruthless]

Time capsules for both fairs (1939-40 & 1964-65) are still buried under their stone marker near the site of the old New York State Pavilion, not far from the eastbound Long Island Expressway.

[rruthless]

Correction...I should have said "near the westbound LIE."

[Roxanne1007]

What happened to that time capsule?

[trainboyrob]

@Roxanne1007 both the 1938 and 1964 time capsule are buried together next to the New York State Pavilion

[JET997u]

45 years ago tomorrow, this fair opened. Remember it clear as a bell.