Photograph Album

Commercial Photographs
Architectural model of the Ford Pavilion
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Photo Lab, Inc.
Ford Motor Company Pavilion Model
SOURCE: NY World's Fair Publicity Photograph
Ford Motor Pavilion - Night
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Photo Lab, Inc.
Ford Pavilion Rotunda
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Photo Lab, Inc.
Ford Motor Company Pavilion
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Blackhawk Films/United Air Lines
Ford Motor Company Pavilion
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Blackhawk Films/United Air Lines
The Ford Rotunda
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © ROLOC Color Films presented courtesy Bradd Schiffman Collection
Night view of the Ford Pavilion
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films
Boarding the Magic Skyway Ride
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films
Magic Skyway Ride - Bouncing baby Triceratops
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Photo Lab, Inc.
Magic Skyway Ride - Caveman family warms their bottoms
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films
Magic Skyway Ride - Capturing the Woolly Mammoth
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films
Magic Skyway Ride - The inventor of the round wheel
SOURCE: Commercial Transparency by © Copyright Wolfe Worldwide Films

Fairgoer Photographs
Ford Motor Company Pavilion
SOURCE: © Copyright nywf64.com Collection
Ford Motor Company Pavilion
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Ford Motor Company Pavilion
SOURCE: Online auction
Ford Motor Company Pavilion
SOURCE: Online auction
Ford "Auto Parts Harmonic"
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Ford "Auto Parts Harmonic"
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Ford "Auto Parts Harmonic"
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Ford "Auto Parts Harmonic"
SOURCE: Online auction
International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
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International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
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International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
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International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
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International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
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International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
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International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
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International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
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International Gardens in the Ford Pavilion
SOURCE: Online auction
Ford products on display in the Ford Rotunda
SOURCE: Online auction
Ford products on display in the Ford Rotunda
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Ford's Quadricycle
SOURCE: Online auction
Ford display at night
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Ford displays
SOURCE: Online auction
Ford displays
SOURCE: Online auction
Ford Tractor display
SOURCE: Online auction
Ramp to boarding area of The Magic Skyway
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Entering the "Time Tunnel" to The Magic Skyway Ride
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Boarding cars to begin The Magic Skyway Ride
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Riding a new Ford Mustang on The Magic Skyway
SOURCE: © Copyright Vesnat Guilllaume Collection
Riding a new Ford Mustang on The Magic Skyway
SOURCE: © Copyright Vesnat Guillaume Collection
Close-up of the Skyway Tube to the Ford Pavilion
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The New York World's Fair will always be remembered as the place where Ford first introduced the Mustang!

Mustangs were featured on The Magic Skyway, where everyone wanted to ride one ...

... and rotating displays of Mustangs outside the Wonder Rotunda gave the public something to dream about -- here a shiny red Fastback for '65!

(Fastback photos © Copyright Larry Hubble Collection)



Publication Photographs


Several elaborate models of The Magic Skyway were constructed by WED Enterprises to perfect the show elements and provide a guide to construction of the actual sets.

Comparing this model setting of the primeval world at the left with the actual setting below it shows just how detailed the models were that Disney used to create the ride.

Note the convertible passing by the dioramas. Some of the dinosaurs were over two stories high!

SOURCE: &COP Science Digest, Vol. 54 No. 6, December 1963

SOURC Fairgoers ride past dinosaurs in their Ford Convertible Cars on the Magic Skyway
&COP National Geographic, Vol. 12 No. 4, April 1965