1939 World's Fair

Remember my mom and dad talking about the fair but have only seen still photos. Nice post...thanks.

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WOW Very nice post!!! MY MY HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED. All the people were dressed up not casual at all. All the women were wearning hats....THINGS HAVE REALLY CHANGED.

Thanks for posting this video.

got it going..went down below and loaded it...everything was streamlined..love it..they was so far advanced...

thank you for posting the link.

Oooooh, in kodachrome no less! Sure, they show a little ford/mercury but no new Plymouths or CB&Q...nice anyway though!

Thank you ChooChoo Dennis,

Great movie of the '39-'40 World's Fair.

My parents told my brother and I that they had attended the 1939-40 N.Y.S. World's Fair and said the sights were amazing and beautiful and that they had a great time, there.

When, the 1964 N.Y.S. World's Fair was in full swing, I never attended it, as I was in the U.S. Navy at the time, on active duty, but by 1980-89, I worked in the area and saw the old Fair grounds many a times, with still some of the original buildings of the '39/'40/'64 World's Fair.

Of the '80's time period, the old Fair grounds was now only a large park open to the general public.

There, was only a zoo of domesticated animals, a science museum, with an exhibit of old rocket ship tail sections on its' outdoor grounds, other exhibits in some of the original buildings, a Merry Go Round and the Uni-sphere water fountain.

Ralph

I was particularly thrilled to see the S-1 on it's famous treadmill in action. I never thought that would happen.

Also cool to see the other rail exhibits particularly the Dreyfuss Hudson and I was tickled by the exuberant dancers at the stage show. 

With Kodachrome, it's the next best thing to being there!

Yeah, that lil yellow cushman{?} I saw twice was neat too.

I tried to backtrack thru that site for reels 1 and 2 but didn't easily see them...did find one of the Chicago expo where they had some late in the show CB&Q equipment...100 years of railroad...I'd put the link up but all the good stuff really comes in at the last 4-5min of the 30ish real. 

BTW- was I the only one who had no sound?

Here's a piece I have in my collection.

Bob

Too bad the cameraman didn't pan further to the right. The N&W Class A 1206 was sitting right behind the Dreyfus Hudson. There is a picture for sale on ebay showing 1206 in all of her World's Fair glory.

here's reel 1 & 2

https://archive.org/details/06...0_Reel_1_13_01_14_00

https://archive.org/details/01...0_Reel_2_04_00_47_00

This link will take you the index for HM Medic films

https://archive.org/search.php...llection%3Aprelinger

Greg

I have a video that was released in the eighties called...I can't quite think of the name, but I think it was "Streamliner to Yesteryear" (or yesterday?) that had a lot of color footage of pre-war streamliners, including excellent color footage at the fair. Not sure if it was ever released on DVD?