Wednesday, January 14, 2015

A Boomer's History of the 1964 World's Fair-- Part 2

**  Top grossing commercial pavilion was reportedly "Bourbon Street," with go-go dancer Candy Johnson headlining at the Gay New Orleans Nightclub.

**  Little-known exhibit was a scale model of the World Trade Center towers being planned for lower Manhattan.

**  The fair's Unisphere icon, a 12-story stainless-steel model of the Earth, was "destroyed" in the 1997 film "Men in Black."

**  Walt Disney's "audio-animatronic" Abraham Lincoln had more than 250,000 combinations of facial expressions, gestures and other actions.

Giant Bugs and "Four Score and ...."  --DaCoot

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