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Images of America 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair by Bill Cotter & Bill Young SC
Images of America 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair by Bill Cotter & Bill Young
Soft Cover
Copyright 2004
128 pages
CONTENTS
Introduction7
1.The Master Builder9
112. The Near Tomorrow13
3.Shrinking Globe, Expanding Universe23
4.Exploring the Space Age29
5.The Fair's Showman
37
6.Populuxe and Pop Art 51
7.Cold Warfair67
8.A World's Fair?73
9.Something for Everybody85
10.The Beat Goes On 107
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
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. 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.
Bill Cotter and Bill Young are longtime members of the World's Fair Collectors Society. Cotter's many visits to the fair as an adolescent inspired him to become a submarine designer for the United States Navy and later an entertainment executive. Young hosts a prominent website that explores the history of the fair and its space-age attractions. Both are avid collectors of world fair memorabilia.
The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.
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