The World’s Fair
This month’s display is all memorabilia from the World’s Fairs held in New York and Chicago, in 1939, and 1964-65. Many of us remember the “Unisphere”, or globe at the New York Fair, which still stands in Queens. It was featured in the movie Men in Black.
The history of World’s Fairs is quite interesting. Although we have not had a large World’s Fair or Exposition in the United States in some time, they are still held around the world.
I asked our collector if he had gone to the World’s Fair in 1964. He hadn’t, but his father had gone to the Fair in 1939, shortly after emigrating to the United States from Germany. The theme of the fair was “the future”.












