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White House Memorandum, July 6, 1964. By year's end, there are 16,300. Westmoreland is a West Point graduate and a highly decorated veteran of World War II and Korea. 1964 - At the White House. New York World's Fair. Motto. Peace through understanding. Building. Unisphere. Area. 65. 0 acres (2. Visitors. 51,6. 07,3. Organized by. Robert Moses. Participant(s)Countries. Organizations. 15. Business. General Electric, Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, IBM, Bell Telephone, US Steel, Pepsi Cola, Dupont, RCA, Westinghouse. Location. Country. United States. City. New York. Venue. Flushing Meadows, New York. Timeline. Bidding. Awardednever. Opening. April 2. 2, 1. 96. April 2. 1, 1. 96. Closure. October 1. October 1. 7, 1. 96. Universal. Previous. Century 2. 1 Exposition in Seattle. Next. Expo 6. 7 in Montreal. Internet. Websitewww. The 1. 96. 4/1. 96. New York World's Fair was the third major world's fair to be held in New York City. American companies dominated the exposition as exhibitors. The theme was symbolized by a 1. Unisphere. Admission price for adults (1. The nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well represented. More than 5. 1 million people attended the fair, though fewer than the hoped- for 7. It remains a touchstone for New York. Most major American manufacturing companies from pen manufacturers to auto companies had a major presence. This fair gave many attendees their first interaction with computer equipment. Many corporations demonstrated the use of mainframe computers, computer terminals with keyboards and CRT displays, teletype machines, punch cards, and telephone modems in an era when computer equipment was kept in back offices away from the public, decades before the Internet and home computers were at everyone's disposal. Site history. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the Valley of Ashes. Prior to that, the site had been a natural wetland . Flushing Meadows had been a Dutch settlement, named after the village of Vlissingen (which translates from Dutch to English as . The 1. 93. 9 fair also occupied space that was filled in for the 1. Preceding these fairs was the 1. Thoughts of an economic boom to the city as the result of increased tourism was a major reason for holding another fair 2. Wagner, Jr., commissioned Frederick Pittera, a producer of international fairs and exhibitions, and author of the history of International Fairs & Exhibitions for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Compton's Encyclopedia, to prepare the first feasibility studies for the 1. New York World's Fair. He was joined by Austrian architect Victor Gruen (creator of the shopping mall) in studies that eventually led the Eisenhower Commission to award the world's fair to New York City in competition with a number of American cities. Organizers turned to private financing and the sale of bonds to pay the huge costs to stage them. The organizers hired New York's . Moses had been a formidable figure in the city since coming to power in the 1. He was responsible for the construction of much of the city's highway infrastructure and, as parks commissioner for decades, the creation of much of the city's park system. In the mid- 1. 93. Moses oversaw the conversion of a vast Queens tidal marsh/garbage dump into the fairgrounds that hosted the 1. World's Fair. He envisioned this vast park, comprising some 1,3. Manhattan, as a major recreational playground for New Yorkers. When the 1. 93. 9/1. World's Fair ended in financial failure, Moses did not have the available funds to complete work on his project. He saw the 1. 96. Fair as a means to finish what the earlier fair had begun. An attendance of 7. The World's Fair Corporation also decided to charge site rental fees to all exhibitors who wished to construct pavilions on the grounds. This decision caused the fair to come into conflict with the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE), the international body headquartered in Paris that sanctions world's fairs: BIE rules stated that an international exposition could run for one six- month period only, and no rent could be charged to exhibitors. In addition, the rules allowed only one exposition in any given country within a 1. Seattle World's Fair had already been sanctioned for 1. Moses, undaunted by the rules, journeyed to Paris to seek official approval for the New York fair. When the BIE balked at New York's bid, Moses, used to having his way in New York, angered the BIE delegates by taking his case to the press, publicly stating his disdain for the BIE and its rules. This was a futurist architectural style influenced by car culture, jet aircraft, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age, which were all on display at the fair. Some pavilions were explicitly shaped like the product they were promoting, such as the US Royaltire- shaped Ferris wheel, or even the corporate logo, such as the Johnson Wax pavilion. Other pavilions were more abstract representations, such as the oblate spheroid shaped IBM pavilion, or the General Electric circular dome shaped . The facade or the entire structure of a pavilion served as a giant billboard advertising the country or organization housed inside, flamboyantly competing for the attention of busy and distracted fairgoers. By contrast, some of the smaller international, US state, and organizational pavilions were built in more traditional styles, such as a Swiss chalet or a Chinese temple. After the fair's final closing in 1. Other pavilions were . This allowed designers to simulate a traditional style while bypassing expensive and time- consuming methods of traditional construction. The expedient was considered acceptable for temporary buildings planned to be used for only two years, and then to be demolished. International participation. The absence of Canada, Australia, most of the major European nations and the Soviet Union, all members of the BIE, tarnished the image of the fair. The fair turned to trade and tourism organizations within many countries to sponsor national exhibits in lieu of official government sponsorship of pavilions. New York City, in the middle of the 2. Unconcerned by BIE rules, nations with smaller economies (as well as private groups in (or relevant to) some BIE members. Indonesia sponsored a pavilion, but relations deteriorated rapidly between that nation and the USA during 1. Western and anti- American rhetoric and policies by Indonesian president Sukarno, which angered U. S. President Lyndon Johnson. Indonesia withdrew from the United Nations in January 1. Fair in March. The Fair Corporation then seized and shut down the Indonesian pavilion, and it remained closed and barricaded for the 1. A modern copy, replica had been transported beforehand to ensure that the statue could be conveyed without being damaged. This copy is now on view at St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, in Yonkers. It is currently in the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Douglaston, NY. The exedra monument is now utilized with permits since 1. Vigils by Our Lady of the Roses relocated from Bayside, NY. A recreation of a medieval Belgian village proved very popular. Fairgoers were treated to the . Controversy broke out when the Jordanian pavilion displayed a mural emphasizing the plight of the Palestinian people. The Jordanians also donated an ancient column which remains at their former site. The city of West Berlin, a Cold War hot- spot, hosted a popular display. Federal and state exhibits. The main show in the multimillion- dollar pavilion was a 1. American history. Visitors seated in moving grandstands rode past movie screens that slid in, out and over the path of the traveling audience. Elsewhere, there were tributes to President. John F. Kennedy, who had broken ground for the pavilion in December 1. November 1. 96. 3 before the fair opened. United States Space Park. Exhibits included a full- scale model of the aft skirt and five F- 1 engines of the first stage of a Saturn V, a Titan II booster with a Gemini capsule, an Atlas with a Mercury capsule and a Thor- Delta rocket. On display at ground level were Aurora 7, the Mercury capsule flown on the second US manned orbital flight; full- scale models of an X- 1. Agena upper stage; a Gemini spacecraft; an Apollo command/service module, and a Lunar Excursion Module. Replicas of unmanned spacecraft included lunar probe Ranger VII; Mariner II and Mariner IV; Syncom, Telstar I, and Echo II communications satellites; Explorer I and Explorer XVI; and Tiros and Nimbus weather satellites. Complementing the pavilion were the fair's three high- spot observation towers, two of which had cafeterias in their in- the- round observation- deck crowns. The pavilion's main floor, used for local art and industry displays including a 2. New York State Power Authority's St. Lawrence hydroelectric plant, comprised a 9,0. Texaco highway map of New York State, displaying the map's cities, towns, routes and Texaco gas stations in 5. The Fair was held in New York in honor of the 3. Anniversary of the naming of New York when King Charles II sent an English fleet to reclaim it from the Dutch in 1. Prince James, the Duke of York named it New York from New Amsterdam. Other state pavilions. Oklahoma gave weary fairgoers a restful park to relax in. Missouri displayed the state's space- related industries. Visitors could dine at Hawaii's . And prior to 1. 94. Bourbon Street Pavilion. It started off with financial trouble, not being able to complete its construction and subsequently filing for bankruptcy. A private company, called Pavilion Property, bought up the assets and assumed its debts. This prompted Louisiana Governor. John Mc. Keithen to sever all ties and withdraw state's sanction, leaving the pavilion completely to private enterprise. Special media attention was given to a racially integrated minstrel show, that was intended to be satirical anti- bigotry, called . During the opening of the fair, several civil rights protests were staged by members of the NAACP, who believed that the . Due to the presence of the various bars, the pavilion was especially popular at night. Notable go- go dancer. Candy Johnson headlined a show at a venue called .
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