The year was 1939. Batman first appeared in the comics. The Grapes of Wrath was published. World War II began in the fall. It was also the year of:
(1)The World's Fair!
(2)or
"The World of Tomorrow"
(3)
(4)
General Motors also included the Futurama exhibit, located in the Highways and Horizons Pavilion. Also included in this was the Westinghouse Time Capsule. More than just exhibits, there were things to do such as rides. One of the more famous ones was the Life Saver's Parachute Jump:
(5)
The links below are some of the best I have found for this resource. Take a few minutes and look them over. If you visit the archive.org site, please note the warning below for one of the films.
Have a great day, see you tomorrow!!!
Have a great day, see you tomorrow!!!
Links:
World of Tomorrow
1939 World's Fair (Wikipedia)
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
Futurama (Wikipedia)
Futurama (Archive.org) movie
Archive.org (home movies* of World's Fair)
*Note, some parts of this movie I previewed had some NSFW or family scenes. Please watch your kids. It was all in context though of the fair...seemed to be anyway. As this is a family friendly blog, I wasn't sure about posting this, but the rest of the film has some good crowd scenes, etc. thanks...Tony
Sources:
(1) American Memory Project
(2)American Memory Project-LOC Photographs Division
(3)Archive.org
(4)Archive.org
(5)American Memory Project-LOC Photographs Division
2 comments:
I've never done any research into any of the World's Fairs. It's good to see the amount of content available from the LOC and Internet Archive.
Thanks for the note! There's a book out by David Gelernter that talks about this specific fair...I actually have yet to read, but am thinking about checking it out just to see if it's any good.
Some of the stuff at LOC, particularly the architecture is really cool.
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