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

A Boomer's History of the 1964 World's Fair-- Part 1

From the April 1964 AARP Bulletin.

The 1964 New York World's Fair opened in April and was a sprawling showcase of midcentury American culture and technology.  Some 52 million attended, but it was a financial flop, returning just 19 cents on the dollar invested.

Some trivia about it:

**  The star attraction of the Vatican Pavilion was Michelangelo's Pieta statue.

**  Most popular exhibit was GM's Futurama, which mesmerized nearly 26 million visitors with 3-D scenes of the "World of Tomorrow."

**  In their fifth season on TV in 1965, the Flintstones visited the fair using a time machine.  (Foor-powered?)

Putting the Cat Out for the Night.  --Cooter