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Please excuse the rather odd collection of photos, but with the New York State Fair in the midst of its 12 day Syracuse run for 2025, I thought this selection of internet images would provide an absolute direct link to the 1964-65 NYWF.

That is very evocative.

August 24, 2025 - changes for 1964-1965 New York: Added The Way, The Truth, and Life booklet and The Lutheran Hour brochure to the Protestant and Orthodox Center page. Added 1965 Map to the Socony Mobil page. Added 7-5-64 story Fountainy Fantasy to the Newspapers and Magazines page. Added Souvenir booklet to the Berlin page. Added The Prior Claim booklet to the Sermons From Science page. Added the Time-Life Souvenir Map (1964 edition) to the Even More Information page. This is a very large and very detailed map of the Fair. Added 1964 and 1965 Walking Map guides to the Even More Information page. Added six issues of the Queens Museum World's Fair Association Newsletter to the Even More Information page.

Pic was lifted from an auction. I have to find mine to see what year it is.

Interesting - mine was in a newspaper with some amazingly low-priced food ads on the other side. I see yours is 1965!

I have a complete copy of this map. It was published by Shell Oil.

Use this handy-dandy map from an unknown newspaper. Just don't count on it being very accurate - it shows you can spend an hour on the Mississippi Showboat, which never actually appeared at the Fair!

July 5, 1964 - "Fountain Fantasy"

She should have used one of those vibrator gizmos that you stood on to rejuvenate your feet. Not that they worked at all.

Pretty neat!

August 17, 2025 - changes for 1964-1965 New York: Added additional computer cards to the Johnson Wax page. Added 1965 Souvenir Brochure to the Continental Insurance page. Added The Dome Theatre Show brochure to the Eastman Kodak page. Added Highlights of the Fair brochure to the Fair Corporation Documents page. Added Montana Herefords at the World's Fair brochure to the Montana page. Added Man in the 5th Dimension brochure and Donation envelope to the Billy Graham page. Added All-Lutheran Exhibit brochure to the Protestant & Orthodox Pavilion page. Added Souvenir brochure to the India page. Added Wonderful World of Chemistry booklet to the Du Pont page. Added Manuela Vargas - Flamenco Dancer brochure to the Spain page. Added Futurama brochure to the General Motors page.

Newly restored 35mm slide.

An early selfie.

Her feet hurt. She's got a case of World's Fair Feet. Millions did.

This Expo era photograph appeared today in the Montreal Gazette. The feature article describes beautiful bicycle routes throughout the Montreal metro area. In the description of a bike ride onto and across Île Sté-Hélène , this photo appears. Its caption tells its story.

The New Yorker ran about a dozen wonderful NYWF covers during 1939 and 1940. Each captures a spirit, a mood as only that magazine can do. In 1940 all sorts of gimmicks were used to attract visitors and the high minded 1939 World of Tomorrow symbolized by the Trylon and Perisphere gave way to a more down-to-earth “Hello Folks” projected onto the Perisphere at night in 1940. This cover says it all. The party has ended; the great Fair is over; the crowds are long gone and even the silence of that once vibrant theme center is painfully evident in this image. One can even imagine the wreckers waiting just outside the gates so they can begin their sad work. Having noted this, this is still my favorite New Yorker NYWF cover.

The New Yorker cartoons are endlessly enjoyable.

Howard Johnson was a customer of mine in the 1980s. I would print their hotel directories twice a year. Still have one as a memento.

I’ve never seen the Trylon and Perisphere depicted in this light. The date explains why. September 6, 1938 marked the start of what would be the final massive Nuremberg Nazi Party rally and the day the crisis over the Sudetenland was nearing a boiling point. Hitler had taken Austria during the Anschluss in the spring of 1938 and by September had made it clear to Neville Chamberlain ( who may rank as the biggest sap of the 20th Century for trusting Hitler) that he would take the Sudetenland by force if the UK and France didn’t betray Czechoslovakia and allow him to take it. Of course, by the end of the month when Chamberlain and Daladier of France appeased Hitler and met his demands, Hitler then raised the stakes and demanded all of Czechoslovakia in return for peace in our time as Chamberlain proclaimed. That didn’t work out too well and this political cartoon certainly suggests the fear that The World of Tomorrow proclaimed at Flushing Meadow might be a very dangerous place.

LOL!

Trouble is , if they’re in the NYC area, of course, the car would have to stay in the garage. Didn’t Moses build everything?

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Perfect!

Me too! I remember seeing the pavilion silhouette on a blue envelope in the mailbox window and having to wait until parents got home to open it! I had complained to the GM corporation that the ride went too fast so they sent me the script and an 8X10 black and white of an undersea hotel and the moon rover. Like the gal in Saving Private Ryan, some person opened a 7 year old’s letter and instead of tossing it in the trash, took the time to respond or send it to someone who would. I had a lifelong good feeling about GM from that one act of corporate humanity!