Tag: World’s Fair
As Curbed points out, the news archive British Pathé just put 85,000 historical newsreels onto its YouTube channel, one of which is this delightfully old-timey segment on the 1964 World’s Fair. It’s timely, and not just because the fair’s 50th anniversary is this week. The New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, built for the Fair […]
What will become of the New York State Pavilion? The hulking structure in Flushing Meadows Corona Park was first built for the 1964 World’s Fair but has sat unused for decades. Recently, the New York City parks department has been trying to figure out what exactly to do with it. The cheapest option is to […]
The New York State Pavilion, a vestige of the 1964 World’s Fair, looks like a dying spaceship sitting in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, or maybe an airport left behind by some forgotten civilization. Once a a vibrant attraction that hosted tourists from all over, the pavilion has been mostly forgotten, unused since the 1970s. One New Yorker, a […]
