1964-1965 New York World's Fair, The (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00IPLY7S2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 514 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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I wish I could have gone! Dwayne M. Parkinson This book does an excellent job of describing the glitz, excitement and joyous excess that was known as the 1964 World's Fair. With great pictures and great writing this book elegantly handles the challenge of taking you on a whirlwind tour of the fair. May favorite part of the book is how it manages to weave facts about the fair, facts about the time period and unique insider information into the tapestry of the book.In other words, I really enjoyed the book. It doesn't matter whether you were alive in 1964 or no. William Edward Arndt said Wonderful photographs. There aren't a lot of books about. Wonderful photographs. There aren't a lot of books about this fair and this fills a gap.. Gary S. Arkell said NY Worlds Fair. I was only about 6 when I went to the NY Worlds Fair. I remember only certain parts like it was a dream. This book helped me put those memories in proper format. Now I understand what really went on behind the scenes and pavillions. This is an excellent book
Some of the things viewed and heard at that particular fair were speaker phones, predictions of the computer era and picture phones, just to name a few.“A lot of the things that were shown at the World’s Fair became a part of American life,” said Whitestone resident Anita Mantione.Another part of the fair that many people who went there remarked on is the diversity of people they were able to meet.“You never got to talk to as many different people as you did at the fair,” said Cotter, who also co-authored the book The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair with Young.The wonderment that
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's po
After graduating from art school, he moved to New York City, and worked as a Pre-K art and music teacher in Manhattan. BILL COTTER grew up in Rocky River, Ohio. Visit billcotter for more. . Bill currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he spends days doodling and hanging out with his basset hound named Goober