[2ndDivisionVet]

That sure looks like former President Harry Truman, not LBJ in that photograph.

Original title: From the Ford Mustang to colonies on the moon: Predictions that the 1964 World's Fair got right... and what it got very wrong

[Inyo-Mono]

I had to take a look, you’re right, it does look like Truman.

[yarddog]

Our senior class trip was to Washington DC and the New York World’s Fair in 1965. I can’t remember too much but we loved it. Quite a difference from rural Florida.

I do remember the Ford pavilion let you ride in Ford Convertibles tho they were on some type of conveyer belt. Dupont had a really good show. One of the prettiest girls I have ever seen was at the Greek pavilion.

The food was reasonable and everything was clean, just the opposite of the city. I remember an elderly woman who looked Jewish at one of the engraving booths. She put my name on some medals I had recently won at the Florida State Track Meet in Gainesville. She refused to accept any money. Such a nice lady but a lot of other New Yorkers were not so nice.

[nascarnation]

I remember traveling there from Ohio with my parents. Cruising along in our 58 Chevy Delray. Back then a gathering like this was considered a really “big deal”.

[Billthedrill]

I was 12. This sort of thing makes me feel really old right about now.

I've changed my mind about a number of things. For one, I don't think $2300 is a lot of money for a '64 Mustang anymore. For another, I think there might be a future for computers after all. But using them to communicate with one another over a world-wide network? Impossible!

[Slump Tester]

I was in 2nd grade in 1964, but remember seeing a lot of this stuff in my "Weekly Reader" and being wowed by it.

I wonder if kids still get the weekly reader, or when it died if they don't. Guess I'll have to check WIKI.

[Tennessee Nana]

It Happened at the World’s Fair, Elvis Presley...