Worlds' Fair

I think that song did come from there. I seem to remember buying it's a Small World doll and the record at the Disney Pavillion. I always loved that song and had the opportunity to sing it years ago in different launguages with a choir.

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Disney played a big part @ the fair.

In addition to Its A Small World, they also did the GE Carousel of Progress ( an attraction @ Disney World) . They also did a movie " To The Moon & Beyond". They did the audio-anamatronic figures in the Ford Pavilion, Illinois ( Land of Lincoln ) & the Hall of Presidents. Most of the buidings could still be standing as they were that solid.

To me it epitomizes waste to build buidings only to knock them down. A late friend gave me an audio cassette of the voice over narration by Alexander Scourby for the GM Futurama ride. Listing to it brings back many memories

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Updated On: 10/17/04 at 06:26 PM

Oh, I remember the NY World's Fair!

My favorite attraction was the Ford exhibition, where you drove through prehistoric tableaux in a Ford car. There was an AquaTheater that featured a Broadway-style show that starred Chita Rivera and Gretchen Wilder (who alternated the starring role).

There was one exhibition that showcased microwave ovens (in 1965!!!!) and we were all fascinated with heating a hotdog in less than two minutes.

However, I had a special place in my heart for the Belgian pavillion, which introduced me to my first Belgian waffle! It was sinfully delicious! BTW: when I finally got to visit Brussels last summer, I realized that the building at the World's Fair was an accurate recreation of the typical Belgian street scene.

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Updated On: 10/17/04 at 08:08 PM

This thread is bringing back some wonderful memories! I can also remember the Clairol Pavillion where you looked in special mirrors and saw your hair in a different color. I also think it was the IBM pavillion where I saw a computer that was the size of a room. My family always got to the Fair early in the morning so we could have those Belgian Waffles for breakfast. Something else I remember is my parents telling me about the 1939 World's Fair. My father told me he saw something called a television there and no one really thought it was going anywhere!

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Updated On: 10/17/04 at 08:33 PM

The 64-65 World's Fair featured "Picture Vision" where everyone piled into a large booth and called relatives around the country who were also at similar booths and we confused the heck out of everyone.

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Og COURSE you liked the Carousel of Progress, Addie--all those brand new gleaming appliances! "It's a great big beautiful tomorrow / Shining at the end of every day / It's a great big beautiful tomorrow / And tomorrow's just a dream away!"

And I remember those Belgian waffles and making Picturephone calls from the Bell Telephone Pavillion. I also remember Palisades Amusement Park: "Swings all day and after dark! / Ride the coaster , get cool / In the waves in the pool. / You'll have fun! / So come on over!"

We lived over the Throggs Neck Bridge in the Bronx and went about half a dozen times. The second time we went I saw a handsome policeman giving a kid an ice cream cone at the Lost Children Station.

So the third time we went--I was 8 years old--I announced to my parents that I was going to get lost. May father said, "You better not."

Somewhere in Sinclair Dino-Land, I slipped away and told the Sinclair people I was lost. They brought me to the Lost Children Station and the handsome policeman gave me my ice cream cone. When my father found me, he very angry, and told me I had spoiled the day for my mother and sister. My mother was laughing and my sister was annoyed, but the day wasn't spoiled.

I still don't know whether it was the ice cream cone or the handsome policeman I was after. Or both!

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Updated On: 10/17/04 at 08:49 PM

I think I just found out what the best thing about the World's Fair ......sharing the memoroes many years later with people.

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I loved those dinosaurs. That's why I chose Dino-Land to get lost in.

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Yes!! The Sinclair Exhibit. My brother and I put money in this machine and out came a wax cast of a dinosaur. I also remember the NAtional Cash REgister Exhibit. Wasnt that the one where they gave they world's population every few minutes?

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great memories, Jose!

I think of the Fair every time I drive by those grounds - and see the Unisphere and the remaining buildings...

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I was four years old and remember only "It's A Small World" , a Chemical Bank exhibit on color where you got a card with your favorite color on it (Don't know the specifics, but I do know my color card was purple) and the Michelangelo Pieta, which you passed in an escalator. The settling for the sculpture was in retrospect, very cheesy though I of course thought it very exciting - a large white cross with drapery hanging from it and a background curtain lit with blue flood lights.

I remember my mother complaining and it being very hot.

I remember being told that Disney characters would greet you there and I got very excited, thinking I would see CARTOON characters, but was very dissapointed when I saw people in Mickey and Minnie Mouse costumes - not what I was expecting at all.

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