I love it when home movies are posted from events I was lucky enough to attend. I was there, at NYWF in '64, at age 13, on vacation, with my family. We took still photos, and movies. Lots of them. Unfortunately, all are lost somewhere in time. I keep hoping that some of the 'found footage and photos that turn up on YT will be ours. I didn't see 'us' in this clip. No biggie. I enjoyed the nostalgia trip thoroughly, so thank you for sharing this little gem with me! Watching the film, with the projector noise, took me right back to the days when someone would ask Daddy to please show us some movies, and we'd help him haul out and set up the box of films, and the projector, and Mama would hang a white sheet from the mantelpiece for our 'screen'. I miss those days. I miss those people. Thank you so very much for sharing!
We visited the Fair on July 20, 1965. I still remember most of what we saw: the dancing at the Mexican Pavilion, riding on the Swiss Sky Ride and US Royal Tire Ferris wheel, Dinoland, the Santa Maria replica and the porpoise show at the Florida Pavilion. Ironically, my father didn't take a photo of the Ferris wheel even he worked for US Rubber at the time. He did photograph my sister and me with the Unisphere and NY State Pavilion towers in the background - a scene that can still be duplicated today. My parents insisted that we all hold hands so we wouldn't get separated, and it worked. My hand grew tired after holding my father's hand fo such a prolonged period of time, so he stuck out his thumb for me to hold on to. We also saw the American Express money tree and my father quipped, "See? Money really does grow on trees!"
I was 14 & my Nana took me on the Peter Pan Bus in 1964, from western Massachusetts for the day. I will never ever forget it either or my dear Nana who I so sadly miss!♥️
Seeing Shea Stadium in the background, all shiny and new, now almost 10 years demolished. How quickly the new becomes old and then becomes a mere memory.
Great video of the fair! I saw buildings I never saw in anyone else’s videos or actually, when I was there either( took a day trip with my grandmother so we did not get to see much but what we did see was fantastic!!!) I have such great memories of this fair!!
THANKS!.... for this video. I went to the 1964-WF with my parents when I was 10.... and remember all of this . It was a wonderful experience I have and will cherish forever !
Nice video. Thanks for posting and bringing back some half forgotten memories. I attended the 64 Worlds Fair with a contingent of Boy Scouts as a side trip on our way to the BSA National Jamboree in Valley Forge. I was 14 that summer. I've been back to see the Unisphere and walk the fair grounds a few times in the intervening years and I've always enjoyed those visits. The visits and the video take me back to my youth.
Nice video. This one has a more comprehensive view of the exhibits/buildings than most I have seen. Good feel for what it was like. The camera noise didn't bother me a bit, unlike many comments below. Rather contributed to the "mood" or time period. I remember 8mm cameras. I did not go to New York fair, but did go to 1984 New Orleans. Quite a disappointment, especially compared to this. This was probably the last nice, "magical" World's Fair.
This was 25 years after the 1939 fair. We're 60 years away from 1964, so a new one now is the right time. My favorite memory from '64 as a 14 yr old, was the fountains at night that shot up to synced music and colored lights with fireworks above was truly dazzling.
We were there in 1965. My parents and older siblings moved from NYC to Detroit in 1958, two years before I was born. We went there in 1965 to visit relatives and family friends and spent a day at the fair. I wasn't quite five, so my memories are very vague.
I was at this fair in 1964 at the age of 9 with my mom and sisters. It was amazing. Still remember every minute there. Mom bought me the toy of the US Royal Tire, which ran on batteries. Don't know what happened to it.
My favorite part believe it or not was near the end of the video when we see how nice the newly rebuilt and widened Grand Central Pkwy looks. Imagine the shock of going from the classic Robert Moses style parkway with the "Woody"lightpoles to a more modern expressway style outfitted with shiny steel truss arm lightpoles with 1st. generation Westinghouse OV-25 Silverliners with 400w Mercury Vapor bulbs. It must have looked futuristic!
The projector sound annoyed me at first, but after a few minutes I started thinking of all those home movie parties my grandfather would give. By the film's end the sound was downright sentimental.
You know.... you have a perfect outlook & I originally felt the same way! The clatter started off driving me crazy but then I too thought of my Uncle Harold coming over to our house( he was a photographer) & we used to beg him to bring over all the old movies. Loved seeing when I was a baby & I too thought the same thing! Remembered us all sprawled on my “Nana’s living room floor” watching the “home movies” while the adults yelled back & forth” to each other “REMEMBER THAT??” After I read your comment Robert it made me appreciate the projector sound even more. My Nana, mother & Uncle have long since passed away and all I have are the memories of those long ago fun days. Who knows where the movies disappeared to( trash undoubtedly) & his giant projector but after reading your sweet comment, it made me appreciate this long ago sound even more! The sound was “lulling” after awhile thinking of my loved ones who had passed away & how much I missed them! This sound brought them all back, you are so right! Take Care!♥️
My favorite object at the NYC fair was the huge whirlygig sculpture above the "It's A Small World" exhibit. If I'm remembering correctly I believe it was designed by the Charles Eames Design office. The guys who designed the famous Eames Chairs and many other furnishings. The inventiveness of this original "Steam Punk" style is just perfect!
I went to this Fair when I was maybe 10 years old. I got one of those "radioactive souvenirs" at the Hall of Science, which I kept in my room for years afterward. I don't know what happened to it. Maybe Mom threw it out after I went off to college. For me, the Fair was a marvelous experience. My family was too poor to travel in the U.S., so this was a close as I could get to Disneyland or some other theme park.
If I were in a room with an actual projector the sound wouldn’t annoy me but looking at my iPad the sound just isn’t doing it for me. The digital transfer of the 8mm movie is the best I’ve seen though and was enjoyable. I’m a huge worlds fair and expositions fan. Thanks for the upload.
That was great, thanks! Shea Stadium is vanished, but on May 31 1964, my little friends and I stayed till the end of the longest doubleheader and longest single game in MLB history: the 2nd game went 23 innings. Mets lost both to the Giants, natch!
@@karenstrycharz1499 Memories...."I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in the rain..."
The Mets pulled off a triple play in the top of the 14th inning of the nightcap. Orlando Cepeda hit a line shot to Met shortstop Roy McMillan, who stepped on second base to double Jesus Alou and threw to Ed Kranepool at first to triple Willie Mays.
Turned off the projector sound and played a youtube version of "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow - 8 Variations" on a loop. Brought me back to the good old days.
Part of the Ford Motor Pavilion was a recreation of the Rotunda that was located off of Michigan Ave. in Dearborn and caught fire around the Christmas holiday in 1961 or 1962...
I was at the Fair as a twelve year old with friends same age, without adults. Would parents permit this today? A great relic of the Fair...several large pavilions, India and Japan though not in this film, i remember well.
7:07 - The GM Firebird IV area looked like a combination shopping mall / early 80's EPCOT center or Penn Station. Love the graphics treatment on everything and the backlights... sexy.
I live in Seattle and we had a World's Fair in 1962 (an actual "worlds fair", NY's was not an official one, in was dreamt up by NYC's urban development promoter). Anyway, I would love to see movie footage of our World of Tomorrow Century 21 Fair if you come across a source and can share it with your subscribers. Thanks!
This is nice footage of the Worlds Fair! It has the original 1960 made Chrysler 2-seater Turbine Car! About 50 Tubines were made for public testing! Anyone out there part of that test? Chrysler seems to have started the Transformers craze with their giant car truck animal insect creatures displays! Like the timing of the jet over Giant car! Also the GM cars too! This is Very Nice footage of fair and in color!
Our band marched through the Fair Grounds as the Honor's band for Wisconsin Day in '64. During our free time I was able to ride around the test-track two different times in the Chrysler Tubine car. I was 17 and couldn't belive my luck! I still remember how it felt and sounded! TOTALLY smooth, my back pushed into the seat and it really did feel as if I was in a jet!!!
@@chrisk8187 Wow! Really Cool! That’s all impressive! And the Chrysler Turbine that you got to ride in 2 different times is really impressive as the 50 or so cars they had lent out to the public for about 3 years to get real-time feedback was also an amazing thing that has never been done since or before! Where a car manufacture actually makes basically a production concept car with new means of propulsion and lends them out to the public to use! So yes you were really fortunate & privileged to have done that & the right age to have caught that at a Really Great Worlds Fair! Nice! I actually got to see one of the few surviving ones not crushed! That was at the June 2003 “Eyes On Design” Show held at General Motors Warren Michigan headquarters where they had all Concept cars and also a Chrysler Turbine which a very fortunate guy got to drive down from the at the time Chrysler Museum and it was there sitting and when the show was over he was getting to drive it back up there and I thought when he was coming and driving by I’d like to go for the ride! As I was a member of the Museum but never got to go there as it closed a good while back! I actually filmed the rare event and took a lot of pictures the battery ran out before I could put the 2nd compact tape in but I got like 30 minutes and the pictures! I actually have that here on My You Tube Channel!
I lived in Birmingham Michigan 65-70 and I saw (and heard!) Turbine cars out on the road several times. Guess some Chrysler execs got to drive them around for a while. Never forget that sound of a jet plane coming down the road, as well as that unique copper colored paint job. Beautiful car.
Is this film "doctored" to look vintage? Virtually all the other World's Fair films don't look this way. I marched through the '64 Fair as a member of my high-school band that was the honor band for Wisconsin Day. The Fair grounds were packed shoulder to shoulder and we we resplendent in our new uniforms with a big W on the front and back. Those we passed thought we were the University of Wisconsin-Madison Band because of our size, 104 skilled marchers from a lot of parades, competitions, and a big sound. During that period we were also televised in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade several times, Washington DC Cherry Blossom Festival several times and in WDW Electric Light evening parades.
I love it when home movies are posted from events I was lucky enough to attend.
I was there, at NYWF in '64, at age 13, on vacation, with my family.
We took still photos, and movies. Lots of them. Unfortunately, all are lost somewhere in time. I keep hoping that some of the 'found footage and photos that turn up on YT will be ours. I didn't see 'us' in this clip.
No biggie. I enjoyed the nostalgia trip thoroughly, so thank you for sharing this little gem with me!
Watching the film, with the projector noise, took me right back to the days when someone would ask Daddy to please show us some movies, and we'd help him haul out and set up the box of films, and the projector, and Mama would hang a white sheet from the mantelpiece for our 'screen'.
I miss those days.
I miss those people.
Thank you so very much for sharing!
We visited the Fair on July 20, 1965. I still remember most of what we saw: the dancing at the Mexican Pavilion, riding on the Swiss Sky Ride and US Royal Tire Ferris wheel, Dinoland, the Santa Maria replica and the porpoise show at the Florida Pavilion. Ironically, my father didn't take a photo of the Ferris wheel even he worked for US Rubber at the time. He did photograph my sister and me with the Unisphere and NY State Pavilion towers in the background - a scene that can still be duplicated today. My parents insisted that we all hold hands so we wouldn't get separated, and it worked. My hand grew tired after holding my father's hand fo such a prolonged period of time, so he stuck out his thumb for me to hold on to. We also saw the American Express money tree and my father quipped, "See? Money really does grow on trees!"
I was there in 64 as a nine year old and those memories are just as fresh today.
I was 14 & my Nana took me on the Peter Pan Bus in 1964, from western Massachusetts for the day. I will never ever forget it either or my dear Nana who I so sadly miss!♥️
Seeing Shea Stadium in the background, all shiny and new, now almost 10 years demolished. How quickly the new becomes old and then becomes a mere memory.
How right you are! How sad Shea Stadium is gone!
Great video of the fair! I saw buildings I never saw in anyone else’s videos or actually, when I was there either( took a day trip with my grandmother so we did not get to see much but what we did see was fantastic!!!) I have such great memories of this fair!!
THANKS!.... for this video. I went to the 1964-WF with my parents when I was 10.... and remember all of this . It was a wonderful experience I have and will cherish forever !
Nice video. Thanks for posting and bringing back some half forgotten memories. I attended the 64 Worlds Fair with a contingent of Boy Scouts as a side trip on our way to the BSA National Jamboree in Valley Forge. I was 14 that summer. I've been back to see the Unisphere and walk the fair grounds a few times in the intervening years and I've always enjoyed those visits. The visits and the video take me back to my youth.
Thank you for posting this. There are some that do not appreciate the time and effort in doing this, but I do. Thanks!
Nice video. This one has a more comprehensive view of the exhibits/buildings than most I have seen. Good feel for what it was like. The camera noise didn't bother me a bit, unlike many comments below. Rather contributed to the "mood" or time period. I remember 8mm cameras. I did not go to New York fair, but did go to 1984 New Orleans. Quite a disappointment, especially compared to this. This was probably the last nice, "magical" World's Fair.
I was there! My dad was a Pinkerton guard. Used to go alot especially to the Ford exhibit. Happy times so young.
This was 25 years after the 1939 fair.
We're 60 years away from 1964, so a new one now is the right time.
My favorite memory from '64 as a 14 yr old, was the fountains at night that shot up to synced music and colored lights with fireworks above was truly dazzling.
By Far the best "Home Movies" I've seen from the fair. Thanks for this!
We were there in 1965. My parents and older siblings moved from NYC to Detroit in 1958, two years before I was born. We went there in 1965 to visit relatives and family friends and spent a day at the fair. I wasn't quite five, so my memories are very vague.
I was at this fair in 1964 at the age of 9 with my mom and sisters. It was amazing. Still remember every minute there. Mom bought me the toy of the US Royal Tire, which ran on batteries. Don't know what happened to it.
My favorite part believe it or not was near the end of the video when we see how nice the newly rebuilt and widened Grand Central Pkwy looks. Imagine the shock of going from the classic Robert Moses style parkway with the "Woody"lightpoles to a more modern expressway style outfitted with shiny steel truss arm lightpoles with 1st. generation Westinghouse OV-25 Silverliners with 400w Mercury Vapor bulbs. It must have looked futuristic!
The projector sound annoyed me at first, but after a few minutes I started thinking of all those home movie parties my grandfather would give. By the film's end the sound was downright sentimental.
You know.... you have a perfect outlook & I originally felt the same way! The clatter started off driving me crazy but then I too thought of my Uncle Harold coming over to our house( he was a photographer) & we used to beg him to bring over all the old movies. Loved seeing when I was a baby & I too thought the same thing! Remembered us all sprawled on my “Nana’s living room floor” watching the “home movies” while the adults yelled back & forth” to each other “REMEMBER THAT??” After I read your comment Robert it made me appreciate the projector sound even more. My Nana, mother & Uncle have long since passed away and all I have are the memories of those long ago fun days. Who knows where the movies disappeared to( trash undoubtedly) & his giant projector but after reading your sweet comment, it made me appreciate this long ago sound even more! The sound was “lulling” after awhile thinking of my loved ones who had passed away & how much I missed them! This sound brought them all back, you are so right! Take Care!♥️
My favorite object at the NYC fair was the huge whirlygig sculpture above the "It's A Small World" exhibit. If I'm remembering correctly I believe it was designed by the Charles Eames Design office. The guys who designed the famous Eames Chairs and many other furnishings. The inventiveness of this original "Steam Punk" style is just perfect!
He also did the whole IBM pavilion also.
I went to this Fair when I was maybe 10 years old. I got one of those "radioactive souvenirs" at the Hall of Science, which I kept in my room for years afterward. I don't know what happened to it. Maybe Mom threw it out after I went off to college. For me, the Fair was a marvelous experience. My family was too poor to travel in the U.S., so this was a close as I could get to Disneyland or some other theme park.
If I were in a room with an actual projector the sound wouldn’t annoy me but looking at my iPad the sound just isn’t doing it for me. The digital transfer of the 8mm movie is the best I’ve seen though and was enjoyable. I’m a huge worlds fair and expositions fan. Thanks for the upload.
Thank You ! I was there twice when I was 5 and 6 still nothing was more awesome
Thank you for this ul. Reminds me of my dad's home movies of the World's Fair.
WOW... great film footage, NY should host again in the same location.
That was great, thanks! Shea Stadium is vanished, but on May 31 1964, my little friends and I stayed till the end of the longest doubleheader and longest single game in MLB history: the 2nd game went 23 innings. Mets lost both to the Giants, natch!
What great memories you have & just imagine! You were there when it happened! How exciting!
@@karenstrycharz1499 Memories...."I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in the rain..."
The Mets pulled off a triple play in the top of the 14th inning of the nightcap. Orlando Cepeda hit a line shot to Met shortstop Roy McMillan, who stepped on second base to double Jesus Alou and threw to Ed Kranepool at first to triple Willie Mays.
Turned off the projector sound and played a youtube version of "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow - 8 Variations" on a loop. Brought me back to the good old days.
Part of the Ford Motor Pavilion was a recreation of the Rotunda that was located off of Michigan Ave. in Dearborn and caught fire around the Christmas holiday in 1961 or 1962...
awesome to see this vintage footage
I was at the Fair as a twelve year old with friends same age, without adults. Would parents permit this today? A great relic of the Fair...several large pavilions, India and Japan though not in this film, i remember well.
Great footage! Thanks for posting.
thank you
The giant car at Chrysler Pavilion was white, it was painted some pastel colors for 1965. This was the 1964 season.
Very nice. This was the 1965 season.
Oh! a Chrysler turbine was used in the movie "The Lively Set"-'64 for those intrested!
7:07 - The GM Firebird IV area looked like a combination shopping mall / early 80's EPCOT center or Penn Station. Love the graphics treatment on everything and the backlights... sexy.
New York was very Beautiful, I could say that the city, has lost it's Class & Glamour...
I live in Seattle and we had a World's Fair in 1962 (an actual "worlds fair", NY's was not an official one, in was dreamt up by NYC's urban development promoter). Anyway, I would love to see movie footage of our World of Tomorrow Century 21 Fair if you come across a source and can share it with your subscribers. Thanks!
This is nice footage of the Worlds Fair! It has the original 1960 made Chrysler 2-seater Turbine Car! About 50 Tubines were made for public testing! Anyone out there part of that test? Chrysler seems to have started the Transformers craze with their giant car truck animal insect creatures displays! Like the timing of the jet over Giant car! Also the GM cars too! This is Very Nice footage of fair and in color!
Our band marched through the Fair Grounds as the Honor's band for Wisconsin Day in '64.
During our free time I was able to ride around the test-track two different times in the Chrysler Tubine car. I was 17 and couldn't belive my luck!
I still remember how it felt and sounded! TOTALLY smooth, my back pushed into the seat and it really did feel as if I was in a jet!!!
It was featured at the Chrysler test track in front of their pavilion in '64 AND '65.
@@chrisk8187 Wow! Really Cool! That’s all impressive! And the Chrysler Turbine that you got to ride in 2 different times is really impressive as the 50 or so cars they had lent out to the public for about 3 years to get real-time feedback was also an amazing thing that has never been done since or before! Where a car manufacture actually makes basically a production concept car with new means of propulsion and lends them out to the public to use! So yes you were really fortunate & privileged to have done that & the right age to have caught that at a Really Great Worlds Fair! Nice!
I actually got to see one of the few surviving ones not crushed! That was at the June 2003 “Eyes On Design” Show held at General Motors Warren Michigan headquarters where they had all Concept cars and also a Chrysler Turbine which a very fortunate guy got to drive down from the at the time Chrysler Museum and it was there sitting and when the show was over he was getting to drive it back up there and I thought when he was coming and driving by I’d like to go for the ride! As I was a member of the Museum but never got to go there as it closed a good while back! I actually filmed the rare event and took a lot of pictures the battery ran out before I could put the 2nd compact tape in but I got like 30 minutes and the pictures! I actually have that here on My You Tube Channel!
I lived in Birmingham Michigan 65-70 and I saw (and heard!) Turbine cars out on the road several times. Guess some Chrysler execs got to drive them around for a while. Never forget that sound of a jet plane coming down the road, as well as that unique copper colored paint job. Beautiful car.
I mostly recognize the Kodak bubble buildings...
Great movie!
Where was Sinclair's Dinoland ?
Is this film "doctored" to look vintage? Virtually all the other World's Fair films don't look this way.
I marched through the '64 Fair as a member of my high-school band that was the honor band for Wisconsin Day.
The Fair grounds were packed shoulder to shoulder and we we resplendent in our new uniforms with a big W on the front and back.
Those we passed thought we were the University of Wisconsin-Madison Band because of our size, 104 skilled marchers from a lot of parades, competitions, and a big sound.
During that period we were also televised in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade several times, Washington DC Cherry Blossom Festival several times and in WDW Electric Light evening parades.
Was there as a 4 year old, some hazy memories still remain.
I'm a baby boomer, and I certainly can appreciate these World's Fair pics and videos. However, this one put me to sleep.
It's a clicker.
No Belgian waffle ?. A better quality era.
ANNOYING artificial sound of movie projector.