From the Jan. 5, 2014, Parade Magazine "Picks: "Remember the 1964 World's Fair?"
How about that, along with the Beatles fifty years ago, we got the New York World's Fair. It introduced technology we take for granted today. According to Joseph Tirella, author of the new book "Tomorrow-Land" these are some of the Fair's best innovations:
1. COLOR TELEVISION We could now see what our favorite TV statrs and shows looked like in color and 25-years after the black-and-white TVs came out at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
2. DISNEY'S "AUDIO-ANIMATRONICS" Walt Disney hired engineers he called "Imagineers" to create singing robots, including ones from that "It's a Small World." (Doggone it, I have that song in my head now!!! Thanks, Walt!!)
3. PICTUREPHONE Four decades before Skype the Bell telephone company unveiled its phone gadget that allowed us to see who we were talking to. (That won't be so cool with all the folks talking on phones in their bathroom stalls.)
And, the article closed with the question "Which classic American car was introduced at the fair? You can find out at parade.com/world.
Not Ready For Picture Phones in Bathroom Stalls. --Cooter
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