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- The
- Ford
- Pavilion
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entrance to the ultra-modern Pavilion is a glass-enclosed, rotunda-like
structure 235 feet in diameter and 58 feet high, surrounded by
64 glittering pylons, 100 feet tall. Adjoining the rotunda, is
a flared rectangular show and exhibit building more than 500
feet long and as high as a seven-story building. At night, the
rotunda portion of the Pavilion becomes a waterfall of light.
Each of its eight-foot-deep pylons is illuminated with incandescent
lights.
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principal attraction of the Ford Pavilion is an exciting automobile
trip through a fantasyland of the past, present and future created
by Walt Disney and his associates.
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- The Festival
- of
- Gas Pavilion
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- Visitors
get their first view of the pavilion while riding on the world's
largest Carousel, complete with giant prancing horses. Moving
ramps carry people to the Carousel high above the main floor
of the pavilion. Following the four-minute ride, visitors see
the special attractions of the pavilion, at their own leisure.
These include: the Fun House of the Future, a demonstration of
life tomorrow; the Festival Puppet Show; a Magic Show, featuring
the "everyday" magic of industry; a Garden of the Giants,
where gas fired turbines and tiny fuel cells create most of the
power, electricity, heating and cooling for the pavilion; a Theatre
of Food, with performances by famous chefs from all over the
world; and one of the famous restaurants at the Worlds' Fair
. . . the "Festival '64."
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- The
- General
Motors
- Futurama
Building
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- The
nearly 230,000-square-foot General Motors Futurama building is
a landmark for Fair visitors. Entrance to the huge white building
is a ten-story-high canopy, constructed of 39 spars rising 110
feet along its face.
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- Behind
the canopy, the main portion of the 680-foot-long building houses
the exciting 1,700-foot Futurama ride. The building terminates
in a dramatic domed pavilion, in which current General Motors
cars and other products will be displayed.
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top of the pavilion, rising the equivalent of eight stories above
the ground, is a 40-foot-wide sculptured indicator which revolves,
flashing the time and temperature in large illuminated numerals.
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- The
- Hall of
- Education
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- A
three-story structure, the Hall of Education with 90,000 square
feet of floor area, appears light and airy through a futuristic
design featuring a sculptured, multi-colored, three dimensional
screen, 100 feet in width and 25 feet high, which will suggest
the wide range of subjects in the field of education. With a
new symbol of education as a main floor attraction, the building
will house a convention hall equipped for television broadcasting,
and a number of other halls with moving walls for flexibility
in showing instructional materials. A "School of Tomorrow"
is located on the second floor.
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- Port of New
- York Authority
- Heliport
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- Centrally
located in the Transportation Section of the New York 1964-1965
World's Fair, the Port of New York Authority Building provides
landing space for express shuttle air (bus) serviced from Manhattan
and other Authority airports to the building's Heliport, 120
feet above the ground. A restaurant immediately below the Heliport
commands a spectacular view of the Fair grounds with space for
1,000 guests at a time. Restaurant and landing space are supported
by four tapered columns which also will house the elevators.
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- The House
- of
- Good Taste
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- The
gracious way of American life is portrayed at the New York 1964-1965
World's Fair through a two-acre exhibit, the "House of Good
Taste," with three beautiful homes and gardens and featuring
outstanding interiors, modern appliances and the finest in architecture.
Sponsored by the American Instituted of Approval, a national,
non-profit organization of women with Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
as its director, the exhibit emphasizes outdoor living with specially
designed swimming pools and landscaping. Each home, priced at
from $25,000 to $40,000 also has a two-car garage.
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- The
- IBM
- Pavilion
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- The
atmosphere of the IBM Pavilion at the New York World's Fair 1964-65
is that of a garden. Tall steel trees form a green translucent
cover for a series of colorful exhibits that offer simple and
entertaining explanations of computers and other modern information-handling
devices. The main attraction is the "Information Machine",
an ovoid theatre raised 90 feet above the ground. To reach the
ovoid theater, a series of elevated walkways lead visitors to
12 tiers of moving seats, a "People Wall." Audiences
of some 400 at a time are lifted on the Wall by hydraulic mechanism
into the theater where they are shown how the methods used by
computer systems are similar to those used to solve human problems
in everyday life.
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- The Johnson's
- Wax Disk
- Theater
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- Soaring
80-foot columns that arch over and suspend a giant disk 90 feet
in diameter are the most dramatic features of the Johnson's Wax
pavilion for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. The huge disk,
sheathed in gold anodized aluminum, contains a 600-seat theater
featuring color films and children's entertainment. Access to
the theater is via elevated walkways. A companion building contains
educational exhibits. There is also a free shoe-shine center
and home information center available to World's Fair visitors.
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