The 1964-1965 World’s Fair in New York was not the first World’s Fair to take to place, it was not even the first World’s Fair New York had held in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The event was not even officially recognized as a World’s Fair. Despite these elements of the exposition the Fair made a name …
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World’s Fair of 1939/1940
The 1939/1940 World’s Fair The 1930’s proved to be a difficult time in American history. The stock market crash of 1929 signified the end of the carefree “Roaring Twenties” and propelled the nation into the Great Depression and a decade of nationwide despair. With daunting levels of unemployment and homelessness, American progress seemed …