World's Fair Subway Special - TV commercial for NYCTA

Full version of the ad for NYCTA's service to the 1964-65 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Not only were the new picture window married pair baby blue and cream enameled St. Louis Car Company built R-36 Bluebirds running in new 11 car consists as a a solid and exclusive fleet on the IRT Flushing Line, but the stations were painted to match and the steinway tubes walls were painted white. A special outbound express service was run after the morning rush. After the PM rush, inbound expresses were run. What a thrill that was, the motors were not field shunted so they ran full out with a discreet high pitched whine, the tracks had no elastomeric pads under them, and the motormen and conductors knew what they were doing carrying a well behaved public including 50 million visitors to the fair. The bluebirds were the last to be grafittied and the first to be made 100% grafitti free and ran almost exclusively on the Flushing Line until November 2003 (40 years). Video courtesy of DH.

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[MiracleBaba]

HOW COOL IS THIS! Thank you for posting this video!

[SportsFreakfrom94598]

Ahhh, back then when white people still lived in NYC neighborhoods.

[sora1718]

@SportsFreakfrom94598 now its flooded with chinese people

[BlastedNetPhiend]

You know they still run an 11 car train........

[metroII]

holy crap what a nice video!!!

[indyfan22k]

@slicingwater  Is Life Really 15 Times more expensive in NYC than it was 47 years ago ? That Seems to outpace US Inflation by more than 220% percent.

[larchmontmark]

Thanks for posting this!

And BTW.....I wonder if whoever WROTE the song was the same person who wrote the YOGI BEAR theme: youtube.com/watch?v=1pqyax6gwz­Q

You gotta admit, the 'style' is just about the same.....you can morph between them without really noticing. :-)

[alansafe5]

Boy, those two sure laugh a lot!

[wiedep]

@slicingwater labor unions, aging infrastructure, mta board cronyism, graft, sweetheart contracts - the list goes on and on and on...

[JohnnyT002]

Thanks I remember this and it was only 15 cents to ride.

[towringer]

@slicingwater Not the original station. The original Penn station lasted from 1910 to 1963, when the MSG developers tore it down to make room for the present Madison Square Garden.