Looking towards the vanishing Trylon and Perisphere across the ruins of the Fairgrounds, the murals of Hall of Pharmacy still visible. Photograph by William A. Dobak, February, 1941.
#NYWorldsFair1939 #Trylon #Perisphere #Helicline #FlushingMeadows #WilliamADobak
‘...the scaffolding is coming down to reveal the gigantic pure white sphere and obelisk’ as work on the Helicline and on landscaping proceeds. Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. Jan. 11, 1939.
#blackandwhitephotography #NYWorldsFair1939 #ThemeCenter #Persphere #Trylon #Helicline
#OTD in 1941
Demolition of the Theme Center (#Perisphere, #Trylon, #Helicline) of the New York World’s Fair of 1939 & 1940. January 3, 1941. Photo from the Associated Press
#NYWorldsFair1939
Photo from Getty Images. https://www.drivingfordeco.com/vanished-new-york-city-art-deco-the-trylon-and-perishpere-part-two-1939-1941/
#OTD in 1940
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‘The Helicline is being dismantled. The gypsum covering on the Perisphere is just starting to be removed.’
After the closing on October 27 of the 1940 season of the #NYWorldsFair, demolition of the Theme Center (the #Perisphere, #Trylon and #Helicline) begins ➡️
Image from www.melmcgowan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/19392.jpg
‘In 1939 - the New York World’s Fair’
Poster with illustration by Nembhard Culin (1908-1990). 1939.
#NembhardCulin #graphicdesign #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYW #Perisphere #Trylon #Helicline
Celotex Acoustical Material
July 1939
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DaleNichols #NewYorksWorldFair1939 #1939NewYorksWorldFair #Perisphere #Trylon #Helicline #Celotex #acousticalmaterials #Democracity
‘In 1939 - the New York World’s Fair’
Poster by Nembhard Culin (1908-1990) 1939
Here too Culin evokes the Fair at night: fireworks illuminate the #Perisphere, #Trylon and #Helicline seen from the air.
#NembhardCulin #NYWorldsFair1939 #Graphicdesign #vintageposters #precisionism
image from https://atomicscout 23.11.19
Rendering of the Perisphere under construction for 1939 New York World’s Fair.
Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962). Crayon sketch. Ca. 1938.
#HughFerriss #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair #Perisphere #Trylon #Helicline
image from http://andrewjohnmilne.com/drawing-and-printing-beginnings/ 23.11.19
Rendering of the Perisphere, Trylon and Helicline under construction for 1939 New York World’s Fair.
Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962). Crayon sketch. Ca. 1938.
#HughFerriss #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair #Perisphere #Trylon #Helicline
image from https://www.hippostcard.com/listing/perisphere-for-1939-new-york-worlds-fair-by-hugh-ferriss-art-modern-postcard/16189706 23.11.19
Rendering of the Perisphere under construction for 1939 New York World’s Fair.
Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962). Crayon sketch. Ca. 1938.
#HughFerriss #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair #Perisphere #Trylon #Helicline
Photo NYPL Digital Collections image from https://www.drivingfordeco.com/vanished-new-york-city-art-deco-the-trylon-and-perisphere/ 30.12.19
#OTD in 1938
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Construction of the steel frameworks of the Perisphere, the Trylon, and the bridge connecting them, which, together with the Helicline, constituted the Theme Center of the #1939NewYorkWorldsFair.
June 13, 1938
#NYWorldsFair1939 #Perisphere #Trylon #Helicline
On August 10, the firm filed for a patent, which was granted December 14, 1937. Its three rigorously modernist components the 200-foot #Perisphere, the 700-foot #Trylon and the 950-foot #Helicline.
image from The Mythic City. Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940. Museum of the City of New York PDF from https://www.mcny.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/MythicCityProspectusSpreads.pdf 17.5.23
#OTD in 1939
Photographer #SamuelGottscho (1875-1971) at the #1939NYWorldsFair, the #Trylon, #Perisphere and #Helicline, the Theme Center. In the foreground, Production and Distribution Zone, with the ‘Four Victories of Peace’ by #sculptor #JohnGregory (1879-1958).
May 18, 1939
Soon after Binder settled in New York City in 1934, he won a competition sponsored by the nascent Museum of Modern Art, & continued his winning streak...'
#Trylon, #Perisphere & #Helicline in 1st-prize winner (1938) in a competition for the 1939 World's Fair
Official 1939 New York World's Fair flag. image from http://fotw.fivestarflags.com/us-nyc.html
‘The official New York World's Fair flag of 1939 flaps in the breeze.’ Photograph from the New York Public Library. image from http://exhibitions.nypl.org/biblion/worldsfair/essay/essay-mcdonough
‘Flanked by Boy Scouts, President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened New York’s $160,000,000 World’s Fair with an address in which he said America has “hitched her wagon to a star of good will”, on April 30, 1939. He emphasized the United States’ desire for placid living among the countries of the world and expressed hope that the future would see a breakdown of “many barriers of intercourse” among European nations.’ AP Photo/John Lindsay https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/11/the-1939-new-york-worlds-fair/
The flag of the World’s Fair: blue & orange, the colors of New York City
the logo of the World’s Fair: the Theme Center (#Perisphere, #Trylon & #Helicline)
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#OTD in 1939
(The Fair - the World of Tomorrow - opens tomorrow!)
Cover of The New Yorker, April 29, 1939
James Thurber
#TheNewYorkerCover #JamesThurber #1939NYWorldsFair #NYWorldsFair1939 #ThemeCenter #Trylon #Perisphere #Helicline
Looking towards the vanishing Trylon and Perisphere across the ruins of the Fairgrounds, the murals of Hall of Pharmacy still visible. Photograph by William A. Dobak, February, 1941.
#NYWorldsFair1939 #Trylon #Perisphere #Helicline #FlushingMeadows #WilliamADobak
In the distance, to the left, the New York City Pavilion
#SamuelGottscho #blackandwhitephotography #NYWorldsFair1939 #ThemeCenter #Helicline
Images and words quoted from collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/1939 World's Fair/
‘...the scaffolding is coming down to reveal the gigantic pure white sphere and obelisk’ as work on the Helicline and on landscaping proceeds. Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. Jan. 11, 1939.
#blackandwhitephotography #NYWorldsFair1939 #ThemeCenter #Persphere #Trylon #Helicline
#OTD in 1941
Demolition of the Theme Center - #Perisphere, #Trylon & #Helicline - of the New York World’s Fair of 1939 & 1940. January 3, 1941. Photo from the Associated Press
#NYWorldsFair1939
