The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair Remembered
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Uploaded by worldsfairphotos on May 4, 2006
A look back at some of the sights of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair held in Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY. Remember the Unisphere? Belgian Waffles? The debut of the Ford Mustang?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@MIMissingsomething Holy shit. Hell, we should all be so lucky. But I'm afraid that golden age has passed us by.
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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.
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Wow, nice. You even have them in color. I'm currently working on a research paper also about this World's Fair.
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In the 1960's USA was at its peak -now like the roman empire it's down and soon to be out...
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WHAT GREAT MEMORIES OF ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE LIVED THERE AS A N 8 AND 9 YEAR OLD EVERY SUNDAY FOR 2 YEARS
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I would LOVE to see another Worlds Fair in flushing
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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
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