Sorry to hear that your sister Annie and parents are gone. That was one of the most entertaining videos I've seen. Frankly, time has been very good to you as you don't look as old in the introduction as you would have to be if you were a sophomore in 1964. Your video proves that slides will always be the optimum photographic medium due to their visual quality. Thank you for this retrospective.
My grandmother lost me and found my hat floating in one of the exhibit"s water during this fair. She thought the worst had happened. I was only 3.We lived in Astoria Queens. As a young teenager, I and a bunch of friends,girlfriends use to take the subway from Astoria to Flushing Meadows park and play tag in the remaining abandoned buildings. Flushing meadows park was a ghost town in the 70's. So many memories. Thanks for sharing this video. It's well done.
I loved this! What great commentary! I grew up in Brooklyn and I remember the World's Fair very well. The world of the future! IBM featured the ball cartridge typewriter- space age stuff! Pepsi's It's a Small World Pavillion was amazing for a 5 year old. I loved it.
My wife and I visited NYC in August from Australia . We knew of the park but had no knowledge of the World's Fair. A friendly shuttle bus driver suggested we visit Corona Park as we had some down time while waiting for check in at our next hotel. The moment we stepped from the cab we knew 'something' had happened here. We spent a few hours walking around but it wasn't until a few days and research that I realised where we had been standing. I am now completely obsessed! Already planning our next trip!
Great narration!! Amazing tidbits of facts I never knew. Brings back lots of memories. As a Queens boy, some of the remnants of the fair still exist at what is now Flushing Meadow Park. Thanks for your work!
One year later, and I’m watching this again. Brilliant, BRILLIANT writing and incredible narration style. Can’t believe you never worked on 60 Minutes.
I was 8 when I visited the World's Fair with my grandmother in 1964. Your slideshow and narration are wonderful in this video! Thank you for sharing your memories with us.
Very entertaining. I always marvel that families went on trips to things such as this together. My family just packed me off to camp a few summers. We never did any travelling or spent time together. That was nice but an experience like this would have been superb. Great. Thanks for sharing it.
It is very good , my father worked night and day , it was the boom times of the 60's and when he was off , he was usually too tired to do much of anything .I felt like I did not have a father at times.I did not even go off to camp , so I know about my family not doing much .
Thanks for a great trip, expertly narrated to reflect the feeling of all of us kids who took those family trips in the 60s. Sadly, all my summers in the 1960s took me to Texas, so it was Six Flags Over Texas (Arlington, TX) and later on, AstroWorld in Houston. I shouldn't have, but I missed the HemisFair, too!
This was so nice. I turned thirteen four days before Zapruder shot his 8mm so I was just a tad older than your brother that summer when my dad took us. You brought back some memories.
Wonderful vid, with the humorous comments! Two points of connection here. Re: missing The Fugitive. My favourite tv show was Red Skelton and upset in 1965 (living in Colorado) I had to take six evening drivers ed classes when he was on. Re: Uncle John. I live in Huntington and remember the plane crash. I was in the Navy in the mess desk writing letters home when the news came over the radio.
By this time at age 7 I had my first camera. It was a clunky, crappy, white plastic thing that took roll film (120? 220?) Being so young I was only supplied with B&W film. I still have an existing photo I took there in Queens in 1964 in one of my old albums
Wonderful slideshow with very humorous narration, I was there too but I was only 9 and I don't remember much. I only remember the carrousel of progress, it's a small world, and great moments with mr Lincoln. And those came to Disneyland and we moved to California shortly afterward so I grew up seeing those rides.
You're a funny guy. Really enjoyed this, because I don't think we took any slides. We popped down from Poughkeepsie in our '65 cobalt blue Impala. Bucket seats! We were Chevy people. We did however get stuck for over an hour in one of those Ford convertibles watching a caveman scratch his butt. The slide screen and projector are still in the family. Thanks for the memories.
Loved this! My family flew from California to visit the N.Y. World’s Fair during the summer of ‘65 when I was 10. Hard to believe how fast the decades have flown by😐
What a wonderful surprise to come across this. I was 17 and took my girl to the Fair. So glad to see the photos and so nice of you to memorialize your wonderful family in such a touching and humorous way. Bravo!
Thanks for posting. My family was also there in '64 for my cousins wedding. Along with the fair we saw Barnum and Baily's Circus, a show at Rockafeller Plaza, "The Price is Right" with Bill Culla, and places my dad knew as a kid growing up.
Well written script....I am not sure where you are at now...but thank you for the story. My favorite part was the section about dining at the International Food Courts...where at the Moroccan cafe "you could get a hamburger" and at the Jordanian pavilion "you could get a hamburger".
My memory of the 1964 World's Fair was being left in the Danish pavilion to play with paper boats while the rest of the family enjoyed what you did. I was 4 but really liked the monorail.
Thanks for posting, I never made it to the worlds fair when I was 8, but I really enjoyed your slides, well done photos, can’t wait to see your 8mm footage, I actually have the same B&H camera, a very expensive 8mm camera for its time. Keep up the good work 👍
Great memories for me, thank you for sharing your experience with your family , one question are you a teacher like your mother and father.👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👍✌️👵🏼
Very funny! Even better than "The Middletons Go To The [1939] World's Fair." I also got a pen pal at the Parker Pen Pavilion: a girl from Denmark! Sounds like a scam to me! Somewhere I also have a picture of that sleek GM car of the future. We were a GM family and sadly did not see the Ford pavilion!
The voice is so broadcast ready! I wasn't even born yet. Seems like another world! .. Edit... wait, I got roped into watching someone's slide show of their vacation!
Having lived only 35 miles from Queens in 64/65, my father took the family to the fair 6 or 7 times. Though only 10 years old at the time, I was already a died in the wool car nut. And I was taken in by all the hype around the soon to be released Mustang. Until recently, I remembered the Ford pavilion sky ride as being all Mustangs. Actually, there were very few Mustangs in the ride and only the very lucky kids got to ride in one. Memory is a funny thing. I can't recall if I ever was one of the lucky kids to have the Mustang come up as it was our turn to get on the ride. Many of the exhibits wound up at Disney world in Orlando and I believe are still there. Great video. It brought back a lot of memory's.
Your pictures are priceless! Having become well read on the fair, and having gone to Flushing Meadows, it's rare to find photos of some of the exhibits you mentioned, especially in such crystal clear quality. Your deadpan humor and delivery are just as entertaining! -Another Native Buckeye
I was only four years old, they wouldn’t take me along, I never forgave them. This just reminds me what I missed. Great slideshow, and great narration.
I was 7! Did not go either. Sis and I went to our Aunties while Mom and Dad went. They did bring back a set of those tall stained glass looking drinking glasses. Grew up with those in the kitchen for the next dozen or so years
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. I was 11 in 1965 and living in Flushing where I was born and raised. I could wander to the Fair and go in for 25 cents special child prices on Fridays. Then I would wander across the street when the Mets were in town and walk into Shea around the fifth inning free of charge as the ticket takers had abandoned their posts by then with all left wide open. I had a good childhood in New York wandering the subways too ... even as a kid!
Dave this was a fantastic video. Love seeing the fair from a family perspective. Cant wait for you to do something with that 8mm recording. It will be great.
Very enjoyable presentation, thank you for posting. I was not yet 2 years old when I went to the 1964 World's Fair with my family. We didn't have to go far, as I grew up in Queens :)
Nice one, I never thought I would sit through a stranger’s family slide show and love it. - It’s amazing how well 35mm slides hold out over 50 years. Your commentary was top notch and you have ensured your family memories will survive way beyond your compost years ;)
Love your presentation! A friend and I went there alone (from Ohio) when we were 17. We went by Greyhound bus and stayed at the YMCA in Manhattan for two dollars a night. I still remember how amazed I was at the fair and really love all these old pictures. Very, very fond memories.
This is great! It brings back so many memories! I was there with my dad, mom, and younger sister. I was 12, the same age as your brother Dick. We were from Centralia, Illinois. Thank you so much for sharing!
Loved your humor! Great job 👍 I’m a Buckeye too. Never been proud to say I’m from Ohio- (“nothing to see since 1803” ) but you made me proud to be from the same place you were from. Sorry for loss of your family. 😕. Thanks for a great video!!!
This is hilarious. I love your commentary! I've been somewhat obsessed with the World's Fair since I attended as a kid many times. My dad was with New York's Local 3 Electricians Union and did the wiring for the fair. On several occasions he took me there to see the work he was doing while it was under construction. I may be the only 6-year-old kid who got to trudge through the mud of this former ash dump as they poured the concrete! We had free passes so we went often. We only lived about a half hour away by car. I've watched a number of docs about the fair and yours is by the far the most entertaining. Thanks for the memories!
I was 10 in 1964 and I remember everything so clearly. What a wonderful sardonic presentation. Epcot cut its teeth at the Worlds Fair - Robert Moses last hurrah.
Very entertaining and even professional. You could have told us a bit more about yourself, such as your profession, age, etc. I went 16 times to the fair, mostly by cutting school. (i live in N.Y.) I shook Hubert Humphrey's hand on reopening day 1965, and even found film from it on youtube. I can see myself from the back. One of my disappointments from the fair, was "Picturephone", which didn't happen until the last decade. And where are the flying cars? Congrats on a lovely story.
These are *great*. Love the mentions of Walt and EPCOT, having been a Walt Disney World Cast member for ten years. We just visited Flushing Meadows this past week and walked the grounds to locate the sites of the four Disney pavilions.
12:27 I was 10 and went in '65. This was the first thing we rode on. I swear I thought it was Firestone instead. Anyways, a bunch of kids were singing "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" throughout the whole ride.
I was seven years old, yet remember many of the pavilions well to this day. The GE Pavillion Ride was the best. I loved the little model of moon buggies in their" colony on the moon" exhibit. Remember, at the time, we would not even go to the moon for another five years.
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 loved Disney's contributions to the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. After the fair, many attractions -- the GE Carousel of Progress, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, the PeopleMover, the animatronic dinosaurs, the 360-degree 12-minute movie Circle-Vision 9 screens and projectors, the Swiss Gondolas ride, the Monsanto Adventure Through Inner Space (where passengers shrink to the size of a molecule), and the Pepsico It's a Small World ride -- ALL eventually gained a new home at Disneyland. I finally got to experience them again in March 1971, when I was 19 years old, traveling solo from Connecticut on my first plane flights ever. Quite an adventure! But back at the World's Fair, I also liked the Dupont "Better Living Through Chemistry" stage show -- with singing (or lip-syncing) and dancing models who interacted with projected images on moveable screens on stage. Wonderful lighting, fascinating animation and dazzling costumes.
Thanks for making this SUCH FUN! The photos still have great color and are mostly sharp, far better than anything my family did! I was too young to remember much of the fair, just that I cried 'till dad bought me the Batman souvenirs, which I still cherish.
Thanks for sharing, as a Gen X who owns a car from 1964 I have tickets and the map in the glove box for the worlds fair. I am also from Ohio so if you see a Red 1964 Chevy Impala with a younger guy driving ask to see the map in the glove box 😎. I was at the park last week and it’s sad to see what’s it’s become. Thanks for sharing.
I was Sixteen and living in Queens at the time. Loved having the Fair, in my own backyard. Sixty four was a good year. that, " Big. Bright Beautiful Tomorrow" Was a message of hope. The Fair was a Wonderland. Belgian Waffles were introduced to the world.
Lived right across the street from the fair, parents parked fair visitor's cars in our yard, even had one of the lovely hostesses from the Greyhound bldg parking in our driveway. Unfortunately, no home video, limited b&w photos. Thanks very much for this priceless video.
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What a nice time remembering the Worlds Fair through your wonderful slide show :-).......I was 14 at the time and visited with friends of the family ! And 10 years later I would marry the love of my life in a church that came off of the top of the Vatican Pavillion !!
I was five, when my grandparents took my six-year-old sister and I, wondering if I have a false memory of a pavilion, that made a giant smoke ring. Remember having lunch and watching the amphibious car cross the lake, and come up the ramp right next to us. Does anyone remember this giant smoke ring?, please reply , or was it in my head, remember I was only 5.
Hello Veteran, Sorry to learn your parents and sister aren't with us anymore. With a little luck, you'll see them again at the end of the road. Perhaps the place you'll find them will be as magnificent as The Worlds Fair was meant to be. Thankyou so much for this video
Ohio here, too, but from Jersey originally, so got to go to the fair twice. As a young teenager, I thought it was great. Thanks for the great slides (and the entertaining commentary).
1st few mins in i say. similar. like style, hope to see mom in Lakota buckskin dress on sum home movie as not yet found on advertisements. wish id digitize all my pics since artis/phographer in nyc richard erdoes. lent us cabin in the hills so mom worked. he also took us kids furm our rapidcity home to hunt fosils and gold.
