World's Fair In NY'S Future?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 12:32pm

According to a World's fair website, NYC wants to host one in 2020.

It would have to go in Flushing Meadows one would assume.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 12:34pm

I still have the best memories of the last one!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 12:35pm

So do I. I could not fully appreciate it than

I went to Vancouver's in 1986 & had a great time.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 12:43pm

I went to Expo '67, in Montreal, and loved that too. Didn't do Vancouver, though.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 12:48pm

Went to Montreal in 1968 & 1970 . Man & His World were there. A few years ago almost everything was gone.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 1:02pm

If it's like the 1939 World's Fair then I say great! We could use some hope for the future of the world right now. I think everyone would agree.

But if it's just a glorified expensive midway with infomercial booths, Best Buy, Mac stores and mega-corporations selling their wares, I'll stick to the L.A. County Fair. We have that already.

So... here's hoping they bring out the best that science, technology and art have to offer around the world.

Yeah, that would be cool.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 1:06pm

I doubt the US companies like GM & Ford could afford it so it would probably be a lot of countries

I can already hear the opposition to putting it in Flushing Meadows from every community group you can imagine. This would be a bigger hurdle than putting the whole thing together

I pass by the derelict Tent Of Tomorrow every day. NY loves its history so much it lets it rot away or tears it down like Yankee Stadium.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 1:07pm

I lived in Flushing as a child. We walked to the fair on opening day in 1964. I got to meet Walt Disney. I was one of the fist hundred or so kids to ride "It's a Small World" - which was at the NY World's Fair before it opened at Disneyland.

1964 Worlds Fair memories Updated On: 9/20/08 at 01:07 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 2:38pm

Watching those You Tube videos of the fair brought back many memories.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 8:49pm

That's very cool, Jon!

I went to the '64 World's Fair when I was just about 3 years old (at the very end of its run in '65). I barely remember it at all, as you might guess, but riding It's a Small World is one of the oldest vague memories I do have. That and Mr. Lincoln.

I have a great DVD of it narrated by Judd Hirsch. You should check it out if you haven't already.
Amazon link

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/20/08 at 11:22pm

I seriously don't know if the city could handle a World's Fair! The streets are already over crowed as are the subways. 1964 New York was a bit different from todays New York. There would have to be a lot of work done to the city's transportation venues before it could happen.
I felt the same way when NYC was bidding for the Olympics.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 1:03am

They should have it in Wyoming. There's plenty of room.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 1:06am

"I can already hear the opposition to putting it in Flushing Meadows from every community group you can imagine."

Given what a financial failure the '60s World's Fair was, what EXACTLY would be the incentive for any community group, let alone the city, to agree to this?

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 1:50am

Is anyone seriously concerned with financial failure anymore? Please. They would merely put it on Uncle Sam's tab, like everybody else.

Updated On: 9/21/08 at 01:50 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 1:58am

It would definitely take money to mount a world's fair. And there isn't any. And they always lose money. So, it does sound like something the Republicans might do to add to their deficit.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 9:21am

Not unless a war's involved.

Maybe it should be a World War Fair.

Something more accessible and diverting... you know, for the kids.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 12:17pm

That's it, then we really wouldn't have to get approval to use the land. All we would have to do is preemptively invade, shock and awe. then set it up. Of course we would have to hang around until the various neighborhood groups could run it themselves.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 1:36pm

And in the end, we wouldn't really have to pay for it at all!

[Mythus]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 3:28pm

I've always wanted to go to a World's Fair. I would like this very much.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 3:44pm

"So do I. I could not fully appreciate it than
I went to Vancouver's in 1986 & had a great time."

Obviously you skipped the Grad Grammar and Usage exhibit.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 8:45pm

Sorry we cannot all be perfect Suleen.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 10:18pm

I went to the one in Knoxville in 1982. I was 6, so I don't remember much. I would love to see it happen.

[winston89]

Posted: 9/21/08 at 11:39pm

I still think that one of my favorite random tid bits of NYC history that I know is that Robert Moses tried to work with Disney to get a Disney theme park in Flushing. The same spot as the worlds fair was after it was open. This was going to be the first Disney park on the East Cost ( Disneyworld hadn't been built yet). I think that this was one of many of Robert Moses's bad moves for the city.