# 1964/65 World's Fair : Where you there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1964-65-worlds-fair-where-you-there/118965 "2002-07-14T23:42:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fibonacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibonacci)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1964-65-worlds-fair-where-you-there/118965/21 "2002-07-15T21:09:08Z")
I was there with my family as a 14 year old. It was an east coast Disneyland for us. (Being so many of the exhibits put together by Disney.) I mostly remember the Ford Exhibit, where you rode around it in Ford convertibles, the Lincoln audioanimatronic exhibit, The GM Pavilion, GE’s Progressland, and eating in the Wisconsin Pavilion with the world’s largest (17 ton) cheese and a cafeteria cheap enough for our family of 6 to all get steak dinners. It was also a hoot seeing Shea Stadium on the way out. [Here’s](http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/ny64fair/) a pretty good site where you can click on the map and see each exhibit that was there. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1964-65-worlds-fair-where-you-there/118965/22 "2002-07-15T21:52:33Z")
Am I the only person who saw this thread title and immediately thought of the song “Ana Ng,” by They Might Be Giants? _All alone at the '64 World’s Fair 80 dolls yelling “small girl after all” Sitting at the DuPont Pavilion, Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?_ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1964-65-worlds-fair-where-you-there/118965/23 "2002-07-15T23:34:55Z")
I went too. But since I was less than 1 year old at the time, I don’t really remember it. My Dad tells me I really, really enjoyed the colored lights. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1964-65-worlds-fair-where-you-there/118965/24 "2002-07-16T02:58:42Z")
I know that my father went in early 1965 when he was seven. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1964-65-worlds-fair-where-you-there/118965/25 "2002-07-16T03:37:31Z")
> [@](#): > > I know that my father went in early 1965 when he was seven. Sheesh! Would someone check my pulse to see if I’m still alive? **RTF** At least I didn’t see Teddy hit a homerun at that event. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1964-65-worlds-fair-where-you-there/118965/26 "2002-07-16T05:27:26Z")
I went three times but, being the same age as **Biggirl** , was also at the “Lookee at the colored lights!” stage. The pictures are cute–folks seemed to dress up a little to go there, and apparently there were only two haircuts available to the male population of the US that year. As a Bronxite, I of course detest Robert Moses, but back then in my innocence I enjoyed the Fair without brooding about the chairman. In the 70’s, before things were cleaned up, we used to go into the NYS Pavilion and run around the state map, with the detaching spines of the Pavilion’s roof hanging treacherously above us. It’s a lot nicer around there now. This guy has a site with pictures of the ruins of the Fairs in Flushing: [http://www.modern-ruins.com/fair/fairphotos.html](http://www.modern-ruins.com/fair/fairphotos.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1964-65-worlds-fair-where-you-there/118965.md?page=1)