num_pages: 128
description: 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 Peace through Understanding. 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 popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. 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.
language: English
title: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
titlecomplete: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair (Images of America: New York)
genres: New York, Nonfiction, History, Photography
ratings_count: 129
places: Queens, New York, Flushing Meadows, New York City, New York
series: Images of America: New York, Images of Modern America
publisher: Arcadia Publishing