Entering the Fair at 12:17 PM on an unknown day in July 1964

[Bill Cotter]

I always enjoy pictures of this area, as they make me think about what the first time visitors must have been thinking as they walked down the ramp.

 

[waynebretl]

You can feel by the number of snaps of this view that people had a sense of "wow, we are really here"  and wanted to remember that first impression. This despite the fact that the area was not at all designed for a unified initial effect the way that Disney parks are, for example.

This prompts me to wonder if other fairs produced a similar number of first impression shots (or could have, in the case of earlier ones where photography was not ubiquitous).