Worlds fair

in 1964, new york hosted the world’s fair – an event that served as a showcase for mid-century american culture and technology.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair) was the event of the century.

Postcard with a lithograph of a Ferris Wheel from Chicago's World Columbian Exposition of 1893. I bought this card when our family visited Chicago in 2018. Sent to a Postcrossing member in the United States.

The New York State Pavilion, once the site of the historic 1964 World's Fair, has fallen victim to decades of neglect.

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A century ago, touring the Paris world's fair, Henry Adams was extraordinarily prescient in predicting our current debate about ethics and technology.

Let’s climb aboard the Alweg Monorail in Downtown Seattle and take a trip back to the 1962 World’s Fair: Man in the Space Age. The Century 21 Exposition brought the first World’s Fair in North America since 1940 and the...

THE CITY OF WONDERS A SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD'S FAIR by Mary Catherine Crowley (1894)

The Greatest Crowd This is Part 13 of our series “Opening Day of the World’s Fair,” which explores the events of May 1, 1893, at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The full series can be found here. They saw

Photo By John Joseph Dallinger Albury NSW Australia

Paul Goldberger visits Flushing Meadow Park, and goes inside the 1964 World’s Fair New York State Pavilion, which has been closed to the public for years.

The 1964 New York World's Fair was a World's Fair consisting of 650 acres of pavilions, public spaces, and international exhibits from around the world. Although not owned by Walt Disney Productions, Walt Disney himself and his team of WED Enterprises Imagineers contributed to the fair featuring new technology in the new form of animation for Audio-Animatronics. During the Fair, Walt and his team of Imagineers contributed four attractions to the fair. The fair is remembered for Walt and his…

Fifty years ago, in a Seattle Times article entitled Talking Books Will Entertain, Inform 'Readers' in Century 21, writers, teachers and booksellers gathered to examine the future of the book. Many of their predictions from this report in the five-part World's Fair souvenir edition on Space Age Frontiers are quite visionary—while others, such as having a fully-automated future with an abundance of idle time—are just outright laughable. Read on... Click on this article above for easy reading…

In the winter of 1962, my Cub Scout den had taken a field trip to the top of the Smith Tower, then one of the tallest buildings west of the Mississippi. We went to the observation deck, where we had an unobstructed view across downtown to a strange spire that was rising near Queen Anne…

Today on the show, the future as seen from the 1964 World's Fair. And how the future actually turned out.

Step right up ladies and germs, and feast your eyes on the world of tomorrow!

1893 World's Fair album

Why does Seattle still care about the 1962 World's Fair?