- EXHIBIT
- Demonstration Center
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- AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES
- Dr. Leonard P. Stavinsky
- Demonstration Center
- World's Fair, New York 11380
- AR 1-4110
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- Dr. Nathan Dechter
- FAIR CONTACT
- Miss Phyllis Adams
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- CONTRACT SIGNED
- December 8, 1961
- ADMISSION
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- Free
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- LOCATION
- Block 9; Lot 2
- Promenade of Industry
- Industrial Area
- AREA
- 50,001 sq. ft.
- ARCHITECT
- Frederick P. Wiedersum Assocs.
- 10 Columbus Circle
- New York, New York 10019
- JU 2-1540
- CONTRACTOR
- Hegeman-Harris Company
- Cauldwell-Wingate
- Vermilya-Brown Company, Inc.
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SOURCE: 1965 World's Fair Information Manual
- FEATURES
- The Demonstration Center is a multiple exhibitor pavilion. The industiral and educational theme of the exhibit is the "School of Tomorrow."
- The two-story, wedge-shaped pavilion is supported by free standing exterior columns, sculpturally articulated to form colonnades along both sides of the building. The exterior walls are of stone-texture. There are two observation terraces on the second floor.
- Industrial exhibits tell the story of major American corporations. Education programs are conducted in the Audio-Visual Demonstration Center and in other sections of the pavilion. "Dialogues in Depth" -- a series of live televised interviews with the great minds and personalities of our time -- originate from the Demonstration Center. In major exhibit areas Fair visitors are able to operate the dramatic new teaching machines, participate in programmed instruction or observe high school students in a supervised vocational training.
- Major Exhibit Areas: Included in the maor exhibit area are the "School of Tomorrow" model and display cases; Audio-Visual Demonstration Center; Playground of Tomorrow; New York Daily News public opinion poll and voter education exhibit; civic education; education advisory programs for parents and students; children's publications; games of mathematics and logic; the studisphere; writing over the ages; historic documents exhibit; environmental control for learning, working, and living; academic processional; observation terrace and lounge; vocationland; professional education, as well as other educational, scientific and industrial exhibits.
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