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.
I was there. Didn’t have much time so saw little of it. I did see Michelangelo’s Pieta, which was on a rare loan to the fair. I saw it again in Rome 14 years later.
We lived in upstate NY at that time. Dad offered my sister and I 12 inch “portable” B&W TVs for our own bedrooms or a trip to the World’s Fair in NYC. Which do you think the 14 year old and his 12 year old sister chose?
I regret getting that lousy TV with three fuzzy stations to this day. Dad sure snookered us good!
I did get to the Spokane World’s Fair only 9 years later on my own. It was a great event, but sure not on the scale of the NY World’s Fair.
Wonder whatever happened to that old TV?