Looking at photos...There were big metal? gators, designy pelicans on top of open construnction towers, a set of flattened pillars on top of each other, thin white arches.

And the tall gondola ride!

I wish we could do these nice things again.
Some asshole would bomb it or something now in this country..

The giant tire that was a ride at the fair is now next to the I-94 Freeway just west of Detroit!

Even the space age lantern lamps show up for sale now and then.

Maybe in the '00s or '10's I first saw the on line mention, and photos of the sale of those lamps.

They were so iconic to that WF, that I practically squealed on seeing them! 😄
Luckily, I was at home at the time!
😅

Went once with my parents and once with my Girl Scout troop.

I went past the Pieta 4 times. Never forget the absolutely astounding perfection of that sculpture.

an INFORMATION person!

and then I spent my Jr. college year in Europe!

THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!!

Living in NJ. My brother and I were both teenagers. Went as a family with our parents.

Yeah, that part is sort of coming back to me. There was a big, wide wooden boardwalk type bridge from the parking lot over a roadway to the WF.

TY for evoking another memory! 👍

*🤔 Or were those the Belgium Waffle stands?! 😄

And very nice having a college year in Europe!

the 1984 NewOrleans, and 1986 Vancouver World's Fairs. They were all interesting as well as providing an introduction to the city hosting them.

Our WF was also turned into a permanent park. 👍

I loved it.

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I got sick the day before the very last day, so my my dad took my sister on the last day. I was soooo envious! 😑 😄

I know my folks enjoyed it various ways, too. Plus enjoying watching us having fun.

My dad did lightening. Pretty sure he liked looking at the various night time lighting of the pavillions.

Some fairs are better than others, Seattle Worlds Fair was one of the best. Several of the buildings (Space Needle!) and the monorail are still being used.


My brother and me outside of the Hall of Industry, Worlds Fair 1962

looking at photos... Alaska's dome. Looks like another semi geodesic 1/3 dome notation dark away from that.
A squarish low tent structure further away

And those very cool thin, white four column arches in front f the US Science pavilion. LVery pretty design! Never saw a photo of those!

Nice they kept the monorail, too. My dad went up the Space Needle on a business trip a few years later. 👍

Also the first IBM computer and Touch Tone phone.

As a kid I was taken with the Firebird III

In the World of Century 21 (We sure thought the 21st was going to be wonderful, little did we know!)

I saw Charles De Gaulle. Woo hoo! And it was the first time I had Chinese food. I've been a fan ever since.

I loved that geodesic dome both outside, and being inside.

How interesting that I had my first Indian (the sub continent) food at the NY WF, and you had your first Chinese food at Expo '67.

All he told me about was the food.

My BIL was one of three Mexican artists featured in their pavilion at Expo '67.

I've not been to any.

😄😑

How cool for your BIL! 🎉
I double checked, but yes I remembered the spiky white Mexico pavillion before confirming my memory. 👍

I had a blast in Seattle, but curiously remember nothing from New York.

🙂👍

…Century 21 (Seattle 1962) and Expo 86 (Vancouver 1986).

I’ve also been to the site of Expo 67 in Montreal, but only in 1971, where parts of it still existed as “Man and His World.”

Interestingly, the ‘62 fair was the first time I visited Seattle. Moved there twenty years later, and have been here ever since.

Off I go to google !

Eta.
I did look it up!

Our family was living in Trumbull, Ct., about 60 miles from New York City from the fair. My mother took me and my sister on the train to see the World's Fair when I was 14. I still remember some of the exhibits and rides. One thing I remember seeing is NBC newscaster David Brinkley being driven in a gold cart.

It's fun to still have the memories.

And David Brinkley in a golf cart?! 😄
I love that!

when I was stationed on Okinawa, and they had the International Ocean Exposition.

Before that, 1962 in Seattle. That's about it.