Totally Unispherical
It's time for yet another Special Feature here on the Eye of the Goof: tonight, I present this set of 14 official postcards from the 1964 New York World's Fair, that I picked up at an antique store a few months back. As far as I'm concerned, the incredible architecture and design on display in these gorgeous hand-colored photographs and illustrations represents the absolute pinnacle of retro-Futurism. [link]
If you want to know more about America's space-age world's fair, pay a visit to this excellent site: [link]
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I was lucky enough to visit the 1964 New York Worlds fair. The
quantity and intensity of the images of that experience are foreever etched into my brain. A few include...walking up to James Bond's DB-5, injection molded dinosaur machines, talking Abe Lincoln robot, experiencing air conditioning for the first time, seeing the amphicars driving around the nearby lake. The list goes on it was incredible.
Posted by: Fritz | February 15, 2006 11:00 AM
That's very cool. I have similarly vivid memories of visiting the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, Japan.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 15, 2006 11:11 AM
I didn't get to go to the '64 NY Fair, but I certainly remember it. It was all over the media of the day. Very exciting even at a distance (well, I was only a kid, after all).
And... a relative who did attend brought me one of those injection molded dinosaurs, which Fritz' comment just brought burbling up from my lost memories. I think it was purple.
Posted by: M.Ace | February 15, 2006 1:24 PM
jeez. All I remember from Expo '86 in Vancouver is riffs from "Amadeus" at ear-splitting volume and the stunt driving team from the Lada factory.
Posted by: xf | February 15, 2006 1:24 PM
Wow. The aerial shot of the fair grounds from that second link is pretty amazing:
Posted by: czeltic girl | February 15, 2006 5:53 PM
These isometric maps are cool beans too.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 15, 2006 11:07 PM
Sinclair Oil took their dinosaur exhibit around the Midwest for a couple of years after the World's Fair. I got my plastic dinosaur from the back of a lo-boy at a shopping mall in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Posted by: xf | February 15, 2006 11:32 PM
I have lots of fond memories of getting plastic dinosaurs from Mold-a-Rama machines, but none from the World's Fair. [sob!]
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 15, 2006 11:50 PM
Thanks! I like that!
Posted by: P-E Fronning | February 17, 2006 9:41 PM