A Trip to the Fair, October 1964

I have a small bunch of slides from the New York World's Fair that included a few pictures from the train ride to and from Flushing Meadows; I decided to add them into this post because they're kind of fun!

Presumably this photo shows the train that would take our adventurers to the Fair; notice the lady with the nice hat and the coat with the mink stole. She shouldn'ta stole it. The seats look just like the school bus seats that have not changed for 50 years. I see a "no smoking" sign, which surprises me; it must have been there for safety reasons, since so many folks smoked everywhere in those days.


Here's the view of the Fair that you'd see as you exited the train station. It must be chillier than it looks, judging from all of the coats and hats (not much wind, fortunately). Way in the distance you can see such iconic Fair attractions as the IBM pavilion (the giant egg), the dome of General Electric's "Progressland", and the just-visible, spiky Coca Cola pavilion. Nearer to us is the dome of the World's Fair pavilion ("the Fair's major indoor assembly hall"), and the RCA pavilion just to our right.


Here's a rare photo from inside the RCA pavilion. Check out that monstrous color television camera! Throughout the Fair you could watch live broadcasts of various acts as they performed in RCA's "working TV station". That Ricky Nelson clone is serenading his girl with the beautiful love song, "Surfin' Bird".


AAAAA! Sorry if this dinosaur scared you. You would have found him over at the Sinclair Oil exhibit. Because when you fill up your car with gas, you are actually filling it up with squished dinosaurs! It's true, I looked it up on the internets.


I'm sure our visitors spent many hours at the fair, but I wanted to include this neat photo of the ride home. It's dark outside, and the train is full of weary New Yorkers, a few New Jersey-ites, and at least one Delaweenian.


I gots lots more Fair photos to share!