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ah, the magical fantasy sci fi devices for good. Well it made us wonder 🙂

Part of a description of the layout: "Mr. Bertram Otto has incorporated into it many new ideas of his own. These include revolving silver spheres, with antennae projecting from them, which are intended to absorb radiation, fallout, germs and dust, and thus make the City of the Future almost aseptically clean." So maybe this thing showed some swirling light pattern or such meant to represent one of these future city sanitizers?

I suspect this provides a hint as to why so many Boomers view themselves as recovering Catholics. I’m one of them.

That makes me feel rather sad.

She will become a reef off the coast of Florida. https://apnews.com/article/historic-ship-artificial-reef-philadelphia-florida-gulf-818c44d7f3078c4ffa3b8aa39f3329ed

of course, an hour later it works. Must have been the vpn i'm routed through that denied it for a bit. Sorry.

Not sure why. It's a link to the image on my Flickr account, and it has public access.

the image is broken for me.

I don't understand. Why a beer? (; The architecture between what Hofbrau house there, and what they have for permanent structures in the US are really different. Were these arches the thing for buildings at the time?

If no one can relate to the photos because the photographers/people in them passed on (rest their souls), the relatives only see holding on them is extra storage space they don't have. it's best they go to Bill. @Bill Cotter can you zoom into the cans? I wanna see if they're beers 🙂

Ouch!

if that pavilion was actually built, @waynebretl it'd be a great sight!

What’s all the stuff in the upper left of that photograph? Was this display some sort of highlight of the Better Living Center? If so, why did anyone go in there? The whole thing looks so amateurish. And whatever that blue thing is, it’s just creepy in that setting.

Newly restored large format slide.

Newly restored large format slide.

Same here, Jim.

Prototype for Pink Floyd's Mr. Screen?

I remember when school began in the fall of 1964 the rather stern and often frightening Dominican nun who ran my classroom asked if any one of us had made it to the Fair. A few kids raised their hands. My family didn’t go till 1965 but when the nun asked what those summer 1964 visitors most liked about the Fair, one girl volunteered that she liked the sheep and cows and the 4H exhibits. That nun just bombed that poor girl saying she was referring to the NYWF and not the stupid county fair (her words). It’s curious how some moments are frozen in time in our memory.

The laundry on the line in the background is a nice touch.

That is one of those wonderful photographs that make me wonder how anyone could part with such a gentle family memory.

I’ve so often marveled at how closely the design of Democracity mirrored the design layout of the Fair itself. Imagine viewing this incredible diorama and hearing the inspirational narration and then exiting the Perisphere via the Helicline and standing high above the crowd below, viewing the incredible planned city of the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

Feel free!

I think this might be from the lower balcony?

But not a waffle in sight! Newly restored 35mm slide from 1965.