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i love how clean and new that highway is.... and NOT so packed.

Please pick up your prize at the registration desk on your way out!

A picture on one of the buses touring the fair grounds at World’s Fair Preview Day held on 4/22/61.

The answer soon if no correct guesses!

How many makes/models can you name? I am posting this one full-size to make it easier! Click it to enlarge.

Happy Easter 2025!

Anyone here go yet, or going soon?

…and a future president sent Chesterfields to his friends for Christmas….

Ah yes, the days when there were even cigarette ads on the radio that opened with the loud proclamation, "TODAY MORE DOCTORS SMOKE CAMELS THAN ANY BRAND OF CIGARETTE!"

I did know the man who originally owned the house, or owned it before my cousin. However, it’s a very old house built about 1850. The motives of whomever framed this are anyone’s guess. It may have been preserved like this because it’s a vintage cigarette ad or maybe because it’s a link to that exposition. Or maybe it was saved because the entire premise of the ad is ludicrous.

Boggles the mind today. It also makes me wonder if whoever framed it attended the fair or just dreamed of going.

Interesting bit of Fair advertising. When I come across old advertisements, I think of the expression, "If I knew then what I know now".

Many years ago my cousin purchased an old farmhouse in the hills of Central New York. He found this newspaper advertisement framed and hanging on a wall in an upstairs bedroom. When he refurbished the house he gave this to me. I hope that it can be enlarged so that the advertisement can be read. It captures memories of The Century of Progress Exposition as well as the remarkable but unfortunate faith people had in the healthful benefits of cigarette tobacco.

https://x.com/marionawfal/status/1911366252611674351?s=46

Happily some dealers put them out for people to pick through. I got some really outstanding Expo 67 slides that way. But such sightings of images are indeed rare.

Tuesday May 13 Tuesday May 20 Both at 8 PM Eastern I hope that works for you!

That would be great - Friday typically doesn't have camera club, UofA science lectures, or other conflicts. This would be unlike March, where every Thursday of mine was triple booked.

I think the next two are a Friday - will confirm ASAP.

I was just talking with a friend who operates a large antiques/flea market in an Upstate facility where vendors rent space to display their treasures for sale. There must be over 100 vendors. In any event, she told me, today, that there have been many times when vendors have purchased estate sale items and found boxes of family photos and slides. They never put them on display for sale and nobody would buy them anyway. They get tossed instead. The moral of the story: As the famous bit of graffiti found in Pompeii states: Nothing In The World Lasts Forever.

On Thursdays also, or is that variable?

Yes, which makes it so sad families don't hold onto these things.

Thanks for the kind words. Next is a 2-parter on the 1939 Fair in May. I will post the exact dates as soon as they are finalized.

I haven’t seen this before so maybe you folks haven’t either. Someone patched a recent video in front of an old, kept newsreel narration. That roof keel is a major design element. Streamlining I assume https://x.com/archeohistories/status/1908588928770113949?s=61&t=Tkeom2S9IutMHD8WLr9TXw

Cute kid in a heartwarming photo.

Newly restored 35mm slide.