# World's fairs you've been to. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-fairs-youve-been-to/755081 "2016-05-18T13:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-fairs-youve-been-to/755081/61 "2016-05-29T11:40:14Z")
> [@Meurglys](#): > > I’ve not been to any, but here’s a [fascinating article](http://www.universetoday.com/100799/the-curious-and-confounding-story-of-how-arcturus-electrified-chicago/) about the opening of the 1933 one in Chicago! I remember this from an episode of _ **The Untouchables** _ (with Robert Stack as Eliot Ness). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-fairs-youve-been-to/755081/62 "2016-05-29T21:20:03Z")
I was born in 1961 in New York City. I have no memory of the 1964 Worlds Fair in Flushing (Queens), but I have family photos proving I was there. I remember going to Expo '67 in Montreal. That’s it for me. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-fairs-youve-been-to/755081/63 "2016-05-30T13:06:36Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > There was a pavilion showing an underground house. And I went up to the top of the New York state tower and looked for my house in the New York City pavilion. I think I remember both of these. The former was featured in an episode of _ **CSI: New York** _, and it took me right back to 1964. If the second was the \*model \*of NYC that showed each little building, I was there but don’t recall it being at the Fair, oddly enough. I’ve always thought it was somewhere in Manhattan. Some of the other stuff you mention I saw three years later at Disneyland, _ **Meet Mr Lincoln** _ in particular. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-fairs-youve-been-to/755081/64 "2016-05-30T13:10:32Z")
Lincoln, BTW, was not a baritone in real life. He had a high-pitched, reedy voice that carried well when he was addressing a crowd. ---
**Author:** ![UncleMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e0b2c6/32.png) [@UncleMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleMoose)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-fairs-youve-been-to/755081/65 "2016-05-31T14:24:36Z")
NY '64 and Expo '67 Oddly enough, my clearest memory of '64 (I was 8) was getting an irradiated dime. In the Hall of Science you would hand someone a dime. It went under a Geiger counter to show that it was not radioactive, went into a machine, got irradiated, came out and went under another Geiger counter that would click to show it was now irradiated. They put it into a little blue plastic holder, and you would stick it in your pocket and walk away.:eek: See the bottom of the article for how it was done. [http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/medalsmementoes/dimes.htm](http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/medalsmementoes/dimes.htm) And my Dad being introduced to Belgian waffles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-fairs-youve-been-to/755081.md?page=3)