New York World’s Fair 1964
If you grew up in the sixties, you will remember ‘The Jetsons.’ The Hanna-Barbera cartoon premiered on prime-time television in September, 1962, and brought the fantasies of the Space Age into our living rooms. Flying cars, computers, robot maids, pills for lunch and office buildings on poles were the stuff of the Jetsons. While a cartoon was running on television, a real life Jetson-esque world, a Space Age extravaganza called the New York World’s Fair could be found on 646 acres of Flushing Meadows Park in the Borough of Queens, New York in 1964 and 1965.
Those years were dubbed “The Space Age.” It was a time when the United States was in competition with the Russians to see who could put the first man on the moon while fighting a Cold War against Communism. While technological advances were on the rise, so was uncertainty with an increasingly unpopular war in Southeast Asia, political assassinations and civil unrest at home. Over it all hung the threat that we’d be blown to smithereens in a nuclear holocaust. Is it any wonder that we imagined a future of limitless promise?
That world of 1964 is long gone, but it’s spirit lives on in nywf64.com. Celebrating it’s seventh year online nywf64.com takes you back in time with a remarkable recreation of this time in history.
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