1964 World's Fair | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:03:11 1 Site history
00:04:38 2 Beginnings
00:08:55 3 Architecture
00:11:08 4 International participation
00:16:20 5 Federal and state exhibits
00:16:30 5.1 US Pavilion
00:17:20 5.2 United States Space Park
00:18:30 5.3 New York State Pavilion
00:20:04 5.4 Other state pavilions
00:20:40 5.5 New York City Pavilion
00:21:12 5.6 Bourbon Street Pavilion
00:23:00 6 American industry
00:23:20 6.1 General Motors
00:24:15 6.2 IBM
00:25:07 6.3 Bell System
00:25:35 6.4 Westinghouse
00:26:11 6.5 Sinclair Oil
00:26:39 6.6 Ford
00:27:13 6.7 DuPont
00:27:31 6.8 Parker Pen
00:27:47 6.9 Chunky Candy
00:28:18 7 Films
00:29:48 8 Disney influence
00:32:59 9 Failure of amusements
00:34:55 10 Controversial ending
00:36:29 11 On-site legacy
00:40:09 12 Reuse of pavilions and major exhibits elsewhere
00:48:33 13 Cultural references
00:49:47 14 Gallery
00:49:56 15 See also



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The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY. The immense fair covered 646 acres (261 ha) on half the park, with numerous pools or fountains, and an amusement park with rides near the lake. However, the fair did not receive official sanctioning from the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE). Hailing itself as a "universal and international" exposition, the fair's theme was "Peace Through Understanding", dedicated to "Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe".  American companies dominated the exposition as exhibitors.  The theme was symbolized by a 12-story-high, stainless-steel model of the earth called the Unisphere, built on the foundation of the Perisphere from the 1939 NYC fair. The fair ran for two six-month seasons, April 22 – October 18, 1964, and April 21 – October 17, 1965. Admission price for adults (13 and older) was $2 in 1964 (equivalent to $16.16 in 2018) but $2.50 (equivalent to $19.88 in 2018) in 1965, and $1 for children (2–12) both years (equivalent to $8.08 in 2018).The fair is noted as a showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology. The nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well represented. More than 51 million people attended the fair, though fewer than the hoped-for 70 million. It remains a touchstone for many American Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War and many cultural changes.
In many ways the fair symbolized a grand consumer show covering many products produced in America at the time for transportation, living, and consumer electronic needs in a way that would never be repeated at future world's fairs in North America. Many major American manufacturing companies from pen manufacturers, to chemical companies, to computers, to automobiles had a major presence. This fair gave many attendees their first interaction with computer equipment. Corporations demonstrated the use of mainframe computers, computer terminals with keyboards and CRT displays, teletype machines, punch cards, and telephone modems in an era when computer equipment was kept in back offices away from the public, decades before the Internet and home computers were at everyone's disposal.