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I've got my tickets!

Next Tuesday I will be giving the first of a two-part webinar on the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair. I've started laying the two parts out and am having fun going through my photo collection. Some had to be left out of my book on the fair due to space, and others arrived in the collection after it was printed. You can find information on the series at https://nyadventureclub.com/event/the-1933-1934-chicago-worlds-fair-part-1-birth-of-a-spectacle-webinar-registration-1410779672979/ One of the things I will be highlighting are the connections between the 1933-1934 fair and the 1964-1965 one. They had a lot in common - and not just Sinclair dinosaurs!

At first they tried to let people pick the car. Each car had a state license plate. Many people wanted to ride in the car from their state, but it really screwed up the boarding process. The plates were removed and you ha dto just get in the car that came up as you boarded.

Doug didn't say you got to pick the car you rode in, just that from the outside, you could see all the cars and decide which you HOPED to ride in. Lots of people hoped to ride in a Mustang, but the attendants had to enforce getting in the next available car to keep the line moving.

I don't remember anyone getting to select their car; you were ushered into the next car that came up on the line. As an unaccompanied young teenager I usually got put in the back seat as well.

I’m often interested in how similar The Rocket Thrower is to The Spirit of American Youth, both created by Donald Delue. That second sculpture stands at Coeville Sur Mer in France as a tribute to the fallen overlooking the American Cemetery.

This week will be a variety of home movies that are in my restoration pipeline. We’ll have some from the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair, a bunch from Southern California attractions (Universal, Knotts, Marineland, etc.), with some the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, the San Francisco 1939-1940 World’s Fair, and others for good measure. The talk begins at 10 AM PACIFIC on Saturday 6/28. The link will be posted at 9:30 that morning at https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/zoom/index.htm. If you miss the chat live a link to the video will be posted there a few days later.

Here it is the "right" way. Well, the Unisphere at least.

Very nice

Thanks Doug! Yes, Ray's CD was a treasure trove of great live recordings. But not many from the original archival source tracks have ever surfaced beyond the Disney rides on the "Disney Goes To The World's Fair" CD set. I think the Lowell Thomas narration for the helicopter ride for the NYC Diorama is the only non-Disney attraction where the pristine quality archival source track surfaced. I think Ralph Quinn was the only one other than Ray who ever shared some live attraction audio recordings, and he had some places that even Ray hadn't done (America-Israel exhibits sticks out in my memory)

I didn't pay attention when this was first posted - the whole thing - even the Unisphere - is mirrored.

If I remember correctly, the LTD label originally was for a high-trim version of the Galaxie. By the time I bought a '71, the logo was just LTD, as you said. Feel free to correct me if I've muddled the details.

Good question. Could it be an antique GM bus of some kind?

My Avatar... flopped!

It had plenty of taillight, ans no bumper protecting them. Looks like chrome rings and separate hubcaps. That's what I had on my 1970 Firebird. This looks kind of Jaguar XK-E inspired.

Galaxie 500 LTD? I didn't remember that they transitioned from the 500 to the LTD. I thought they dropped the Galaxie name completely and went strictly to LTD around 1968 or '70.

Dad, dad, dad, dad... can't WE get a Barracuda? Oh..... man..... why not? That is one snazzy ride.

It's been a long time since i visited the fairgrounds with you folks, but wasn't that building, or part of it still there? Maybe we got a soda in there or something during one of the organized Saturday's in the Park? (SiP)

What is the olive drab thing at left center? It looks like an old railroad coach or double-decker bus.

Plus you could get to pick out the car that you'd hope to ride in. I'll bet a lot of kids were disappointed when they got stuck in a Falcon or Galaxie instead of a T-Bird or Mustang.

Eastern flew shuttles, every half hour, from Boston to NYC.

Strange that they would have that tank and vacuum hose, or whatever it is, exposed in view like that. Not a Kodak Picture Spot.

Note the art deco design of the turnstiles. Like the "Fair is Fair" song and all of the Moses-centric music, they were firmly stuck between the past and the present future.

That was great, Eric! We appreciate the amount of time you put into that. Doesn't Ray Dashner's VAULT and VAULT II have his recordings on it? He went to the Fair over a hundred times and recorded almost every attraction's audio on his Uher reel-to-reel recorder.

Moses was doing some serious fabricating in that film. He was really grasping at straws when asked what was new at the Fair. I thought he was going to tell Cronkite the dog ate his list of changes.