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If only there was a readable sign. But the more I think about the roof, the more I think it was hospitality, because I picture a concessionaire doing something flashy like that along with corporate signage to put their name in front of the press. It also makes sense to me that the Fair corporation may have realized late in the game that they needed free food to keep the press happier to be there for extended periods. When I and some colleagues once got a behind the scenes tour of the ball parks in Chicago (because a fellow Zenith employee moonlighted as coordinator for internal team videos), we enjoyed the free lunch in the press box.

The operations manual shows TV connection pad #27 (of 30 throughout the fairgrounds) at that location. Could this have been constructed as a place for filming/televising/interviewing arriving dignitaries? Another thought: could it be a food concession for the press? Edit: that is, hospitality, as Irishcooper said in the second post.

I sent an email to Bill Young to ask if the CD could be revived. Haven't heard back yet.

Busy bold patterns were in - at least it's not the boomerang/amoeba pattern that was so popular mid-century.

I was 21, but likewise do not remember the waits, even though I must have been in them. I wonder if GE was using the now common trick of posting wait times longer than actual along the queue, so that everyone felt they were making better than usual time?

Caught the color TV - turned off. I suspect most pavilions that were coerced into having one kept it off as an undesirable distraction.

Great wide angle perspective shot.

Pratt & Lambert, and REO Pratt Lambert ad June 65.pdf REO truck ad Feb 65.pdf

I agree. Most shots get the stars in dark silhouette.

I thought it might be natural gas too, but the bag says "Stop at any of the convenient Bay State or Interstate Stations and Register!"

Bay State Gas litter bag advertising their sweepstakes - 3-day weekend trips to the World's Fair for 180 families of 4. I guess it's OK that it's expired, because my car doesn't have door/window knobs to hang this on anyway. Bay State Gas sweepstakes litter bag.pdf

Thanks, Randy

That was great! Thanks

The last photo on the Festival of Gas page looks like it might be Kodak also? https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/nywf64/gas.htm I just checked the CD, and the CD definitely is a different shot, of the Gas exterior.

Apparently there were two other model kitchens, Whitehall Cabinets and Yorketowne Kitchens, and both companies contributed to the Appliance Garden as well. Now the quest becomes finding pictures of the other kitchens.

Do you know what a geocache is? If not, go to geocaching.com to find out. There are multiple geocaches to be found on Ile Ste. Helene, and hundreds in Montreal.

Last page of the brochure, List of Functioning Equipment, RayGold Industries, Lindenhurst N.Y., Contact Alan Lasser; Raygold - Modern Bride Kitchen, Appliance Garden. Its an image of the brochure rather than searchable text, so I had to find it by reading the whole thing.

Looking at the Better Homes and Gardens issue photos, it's not either the contemporary or modern home of the House of Good Taste. It was at the Festival of Gas: http://nywf64.com/fesgas11.shtml

From Wikipedia: "In 1951 Alvin A. Goldhush, a Long Island dentist, made dental cabinets and created the company Formed Laminates, Inc. in Lindenhurst, N.Y. Goldhush eventually gave up dentistry and devoted his time to the company, now named Raygold Corp.[4] Raygold Corp acquired a wood processing plant in Moorefield, W.V. in 1957." "Boise Cascade acquired Raygold and moved the company head office from Long Island to Winchester, Virginia" (in 1971) Can't find a listing under Formed Laminates, either.

It cries BLC or Interiors, but neither has American Bride or Raygold on the exhibitors lists on NYWF64.com.

Just for fun, here;s a video of the Cascades rag, played well on a good piano:

In the second pic, the far side looks like they are projecting above the roof. I think the reason the near side isn't so obvious is because they are also spaced away from the roof.

I think you are seeing the same tapered side columns in both shots. http://nywf64.com/democr04.shtml

Maybe a combo dog roller and bun warmer?