- CONCESSION
- Monorail
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- AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
- Mr. H. Glenn Holland
- Onew Fawcett Place
- Greenwich, Connecticut
- 203 Normandy 1-7400
- PUBLIC RELATIONS AGENCY
- Bill Doll and Company
- 1700 Broadway
- New York 19, New York
- JU 6-8894
- FAIR CONTACT
- Mr. William Kane
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- CONTRACT SIGNED
- May 17, 1963
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- CHARGES
- Adults and Children 80c
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- LOCATION
- The periphery of
- Block 56, 57 and 58
- Lake Amusement Area
- ARCHITECT
- Sverdrup and Parcel
- 111 Eighth Avenue
- New York 11, New York
- CH 3-7308
- CAR DESIGNER
- Walter Dorwin Teague Assoc.
- 415 Madison Avenue
- New York, New York
- MU 8-0100
- CONTRACTOR
- Crow Construction Company
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- FEATURES
- The AMF Monorail system, consisting of two parallel 4,000 foot closed loops around the perimeter of the World's Fair Lake Amusement Area, is designed to incorporate the best features of a scenic ride.
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SOURCE: 1964 World's Fair Information Manual
- It will have 7 air-conditioned, two car trains, 90 feet long, three on one track and four on the other, and will travel in opposite directions. Above each car there is a pair of rubber-tired four wheeled "bogies" running along the lower flange of an "I" beam track. Each of the automatically controlled trains has a capacity for 80 passengers.
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- The station has three platforms, including a center platform for passengers boarding on both tracks, with outside platforms for departing passengers. With these facilities two trains can unload and load safely and simultaneously. Visitors will get to and from the platforms via escalators.
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AMF Monorail
Source: NY World's Fair Publication For Those Who Produced the New York World's Fair 1964-1965
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