1964-65 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR - Ford Magic Skyway 

I went in 1964 and 65 at 5 years old still remember my sky ride and the first time I had an egg roll...Love you MOM, Thanks for the great birthday so long ago.

I drove from RI to the fair in my new 1964 Chevelle with my girlfriend (wife now), my younger brother, my mom and her mom. I forget what kind of car we rode in during the tour. I almost opted for a new Mustang that year. Those were certainly good days. I was 18.

Some of my earliest memories are riding in a car at the Magic Skyway looking at all those strange and somewhat frightening dinosaurs :) I must have been two or three when I was there with my family. The other thing I remember was the Skydome Spectacular.

I was there with my family. My father was a musician at The Greek Pavillon and we visited many times. It was a great World’s Fair. I was 11 and I remember AT&T showcasing a phone with the ability to see each other during the call!! Now it is common place.

I so loved the World’s Fair! Such a magical place!

I was 10 at the time of the Fair and lived about a mile away from it in Flushing. I remember this ride well, great fun for a 10 year old. GM, Bell Telephone and IBM (the "people wall") were also great fun rides.

7:00, the Stegosaurus fighting the Tyrannosaurus Rex is an allusion to a famous scene in The Rite of Spring from Fantasia.

I was 11 when the Fair opened in 1964. We lived about ten minutes from the fair. I went there with the family about 20 times over the two years. Rode the Magic Skyway a few times as well as the GM Futurama. I loved the cars at Ford but I liked the GM ride better as it was a bit more mature.. Ford’s Disney ride catered to younger kids. Some of my happiest memories.

I believe my grandparents went to the fair and saw this thing! As you probably know, the dinosaur segment is the only part of the ride that survived the move to Disneyland. They are now part of the Primeval World diorama along the Disneyland Railroad!

I was at this fair in 1964 at the age of 9 with my mom and sisters. It was amazing. Still remember every minute there. Mom bought me the toy of the US Royal Tire, which ran on batteries. Don't know what happened to it.

I was lucky enough to go both years. Ford and GM exhibits were the best. I remember some of this video with the cars but not a lot as a young teen. RCA exhibit was a big deal with people going in to see themselves on Video or Tv as they called it then. Great time to be young.

so cool! I so want a time machine so that I can visit this Fair!!

They were neat. I was a kid when my family attended the 1964/65 NY World's Fair and it was a very happy experience. I suspect that we don't have these fairs anymore because corporations and countries no longer want to spend the money to build them. I also think that the threat of terrorism would be a big security concern in this dangerous world that we have today. It was a more innocent and safer time in America in the 1960s when I was growing up. Never even heard of terrorism in those days.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I went to the 1964 World's Fair a bunch of times and remember everything about this ride!

I was there and it was a lot of fun.

Absolutely fantastic retrospective of what is IMHO the quintessence of Worlds Fairs. Thanks for this.

The first time I ever drove a Mustang was on the Magic Skyway! I was all of 12 in 1964. Those were really fun times!

Those big cars were so cool

R.I.P. MA & GRANDMA WE MISS YOU DEARLY!

yes you are correct! A lot of the Disney robots from the 1964 world fair were put in the Disney parks after the fair closed.

"Showplace of the '60s!" At the age of 10, I got to sit at the wheel of a new Mustang convertible to go through this ride, and that was probably the most exciting part - certainly it's what I remember the best. I do vaguely recall the brontosaurus chewing on some weeds, and the finale (shown here only as an illustration) stirs a bit of memory too. This was when the future was going to be marvelous through the constant innovations of technology.

This is really where the fifties ended and the sixties began.

I went to this Exhibit at the World's Fair of 64 -65 and remenber it well. I lived a bike ride away from Parson and Northern Blvd. in Flushing, Queens, NY, USA.. I must laugh as my brother rode me to World's Fair on his bike's handle bars. I was seven years old .. times have changed. lol. .

went there when i was a kid never forgot it wonderfull memory thx for the upload jo

Mauricio Ledesma: The cavemen in Magic Skyway are not the same ones in Spaceship Earth at Epcot. Once the Fair closed, those cavemen were not reused anywhere. However, the dinosaur scenes were moved to Disneyland in California and added to the railroad attraction. There's a long tunnel you go through behind Tomorrowland that includes the dinosaurs (Primeval World) and a diorama of the Grand Canyon.

Beautiful. Thanks for remembering the past ;). Peace.

I remember going on this ride. I was 9 years old! Yikes....time flies

Those wheels scared the heck out of me at the time!

I still have souveniers from then when I was a kid.

My family was in line for this exhibit, as a 9 year old, I was so excited to see a Mustang coming down the line, but, being there was 5 of us, we had to wait, a single man, behind us, went ahead, got in the back seat of the Mustang, pushed the front passenger seat down, and put his legs up. I thought he was the coolest man who ever lived! We had to wait for the Galaxie, I have wondered about him ever since....

Really cool. doing so research on how the haunted mansion came to be and found that the ford magic skyway had a big part in inspiring the imagineers to create what is now the doombuggie.

...in June 1964 my entire high school (DePaul Diocesan High, Wayne, NJ) went to the fair - the Ford Pavilion was one of my highlights ( the reason for going - allegedly - was to see Michelangelo's sculpture 'The Pieta', on loan from the Vatican Museum to the Vatican Pavilion...

Great video. So many memories.

Sounds really neat. Reminds me of Horizons, World of Motion and Spaceship Earth at Epcot combined.

I've been looking for this for years! Thank you!!!

How come we don't have World's Fairs anymore? They seem pretty neat!

The invention of audio-animatronics was the greatest invention known to man up to that moment in the 1960's.

OMG I was only 4 years old but I can remember doing this with my parents Ford car ride with them. Thanks the flash back

all this can be seen in on the train man I wish I was able to go back in time n ride this.

We used to dream so big back then... what the hell happened?

Judging from the promotions, the 1964 WF reminds one an awful lot of Disney World.

Making of this is kool on the disneyland tv show

At 9:17, "Have a nice day at work dear. Don't forget to stop by the store and get some Brontoburgers and dinomilk." OK dear, Yabba Dabba Do

Kind thanks to Musicom for the upload. :-)

thanks for this i wish i could back n time r wish this was at disneyland

it's a shame the "coo-gar" never made it beyond the prototype - lol

My Dad graduated PS 129 in 1939.then went to Flushing High.. also worked 18 years for Edo and then Bellock..

At the end of the ride, you were in a future world, Walt Disney gave us this message for the future of cars! We've come a long way on our journey with man Here we are on the threshold of tomorrow Man's achievements in Science and Industry have carried us here. And like the blast off of a space vehicle for the moon and beyond, Man's achievements, have challenged our hope and rocketed our dreams beyond the horizons. Perhaps some day we'll be riding rocket ships

like those flashing overhead, to anywhere in space. Perhaps some day we will drive jet powered vehicles over weather controlled highways in the sky, like the spiraling tubes around you. But all such dreams begin in the minds of man. Men of vision faith and imagination, men of science and industry, education and the arts. As we have seen along the magic skyway, man is always on the move. Searching and dreaming beyond the horizons

I was there as a 7 and 8 year old.

we still have World's Fair. however, no one seems to care much about them. the next one is in Italy in 2015, then Kazakhstan in 2017. the 2020 one is supposed to be big one like the 64/65 New York World's Fair (but sactioned. the 2 New York one were not sactioned and the reason they lasted longer then 6 months) the last one was in 2012 in South Korea, but it was minor World's fair. the Last major World's Fair was in Seville, Spain in 92.

those cavemen faces seem familiar since i rode at an epcot´s attraction last year and i pretty much remember their faces, i suppose some of those still are at disneys parks as well as the dinosaurs!

It looks like they spared no expense on that pavilion.

I was on this ride.

I was there!!!!

This is pretty cool. No thanks for "forcing" me to download this video just so I can watch properly in 4:3, though.

wonder how much of this actual hardware or technology besides AudioAniMatronics ended up more refined in Florida at Disney World

Do you have the original print? The guys over at RetroWDW would love to have the footage to restore

Ditto!

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@TheAngryPepe actually the dinosaurs are at Disneyland, California not Tokyo... look it up :)

1:56 does that speel Austria? If yes what did they do there-

I still have the T-Shirt I wore at that time on wich figures the Unisphere, I was 11 yo and my mother was working at the Guinea pavillion, I was there every day. Wowww...

i wish instead of them making starwarland they would make this instead n add other old times favs n they can could yesterdayland

space ship earth (epcot)

Subjects that were probably left out of the exhibit: 1.The hard working people who built those wonderfull cars and the impact the job had on them. 2.The impact the Autoworkers Union had on the company and their subsequent plants. 3.The impact the company and their subsequent plants had on the ecology. ...And other related subjects too numerous to mention here...ahh the swingin' sixties. I hardly knew ye.

I do not think we need World Fairs because of the Internet and worldwide communication.

Walt Disney had Imagineers work on the exhibits for this World's Fair while he bought property in Florida for his Florida Project that died with him. I believe if that had been successful, the US wouldn't have overdeveloped sprawl and would have more alternative forms of transportation. Now we only have behemoth trucks, SUVs. We sit in traffic as our Earth dies along with the old hopes for the future. Now FoMoCo will no longer manufacture cars except the Mustang. The company is now run by a former furniture CEO. US doesn't even manufacture furniture like it did before China joined WTO. Junk.

In would want to go back time time for the fashioned and the rides but not for the racial things.

Lots of footage of people walking around. Blah...