"world's fair"

I really wish the old man had gotten a photo of the World’s Fair 1964-1965 monorail with some actual cars in the picture, but I’m working with what I have…

This rather plain, prosaic 8-sided park lamppost is somewhat ubiquitous in some parks. It was introduced as a complement, or substitute, to the shorter Type B Henry Bacon lamp, introduced…

It’s not often that I repeat a tour just a few months after giving it originally, but there was a good chance repeating the World’s Fair Remnants tour from July…

What did I take away from the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens? Well, I was eight years old. I don’t remember much from back then. What I do…

There are a number of lamps that were produced especially for the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows at the Orange County fairgrounds in Middletown, NY. The lamps looked like Rubik’s…

A pair of unusually-shaped structures along the pedestrian walkway on Flushing Bay north of Citifield, now used mainly as relief from the hot sun in sumer, were originally designed for…

What a beautiful world it will be What a glorious time to be free When Donald Fagen of Steely Dan had a hit with “I.G.Y.” (referencing the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year) in 1982,…

I have a history with model trains. In my youth our family set up at least two toy train layouts, on a foldout card table in my bedroom. A small…

Directional sign in use during the Flushing Meadows Corona Park World’s Fair from 1964-1965. Why were blue and orange the Fair’s colors? They are the NY Mets colors, and Shea…

Walking down West 21st Street in Chelsearecently I spotted a classic car parked by the sidewalk, and a not-so-quick online search revealed that it was a Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk, one…

2020 marked the first year I hadn’t attended any Mets games at Citifield or Shea Stadium in many years, to my knowledge, but there were just 30 games all year,…

Over on my Facebook page (you should try it — if you’re a Facebook subscriber, “friend me” — it’s 100% fun with no nastiness, politics and personal attacks) I occasionally…