The entrance and ticket booth of Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus Pavilion Site at the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens New York.
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A scene from Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus Pavilion Site at the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens New York.
Dali's pavilion was a surrealist dream world, and perhaps the first example of installation art.
#SalvadorDali #NYWorldsFair #Surrealism
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Scenes from Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus Pavilion
Site at the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows,
Queens New York. Dali's pavilion was a surrealist dream
world, and perhaps the first example of installation art.
#SalvadorDali #NYWorldsFair #Surrealism
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Scenes from Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus Pavilion
Site at the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows,
Queens New York. Dali's pavilion was a surrealist dream
world, and perhaps the first example of installation art.
#SalvadorDali #NYWorldsFair #Surrealism
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A scene from Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus Pavilion
Site at the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows,
Queens New York. Dali's pavilion was a surrealist dream
world, and perhaps the first example of installation art.
#SalvadorDali #NYWorldsFair #Surrealism
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Betty Broadbent, A Well-Known Tattooed Lady, At The New York World’s Fair, 1930s...
#tattoo #tattooing #bettybroadbent #tattooedlady #nyworldsfair #1930s
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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 ➡️
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‘FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF OUR READERS THE NEW YORKER’S MAP OF THE WORLD OF TOMORROW TOGETHER WITH AN INDEX TO ITS PRINCIPLE FEATURES. Map by Carl Rose for The New Yorker. 1939. DETAIL SHOWING THE GOVERNMENT ZONE https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/nywf39/images/new_yorker_map_1939.jpg
#OTD in 1938 dedication of the Court of Peace at the #NYWorldsFair of 1939
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‘At a meeting of the Advisory Committee of the War Veterans of the World's Fair, held on April 2, 1937, participants asserted that "the Fair would be the finest sample of a cooperative effort that ➡️
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Library of Congress https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/11/the-1939-new-york-worlds-fair/100620/
#OTD in 1940
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Lines to enter the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940 at Flushing Gate, on October 27, 1940, the last day of its second season.
#NYWorldsFair1939 #NYWorldsFair #WorldsFair #colorphotography
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image and words quoted from https://oldnewyorkpictures.tumblr.com/post/657374723408281600/in-early-july-of-1940-worlds-fair-officials
#OTD in 1940: ColdCase from the #NYWorldsFair
‘Bomb at Fair Kills Two’ New York Daily News, Friday, July 5, 1940
‘In early July of 1940, World’s Fair officials reported to the #NYPD that a man with a German accent had made telephone threats regarding the fair. ➡️
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#OTD #April22 #peace #love #art #activism #InGodWeTrust on coins 1864 #Oklahoma Land Rush #Sooners 1889, #NYWorldsFair 1964 #LSD #ErnstRothlin 1943, #WashingtonDC sit-in #ThompsonsRestaurant 1944 #YuccaFlat 1952, #RichardNixon died 1994, 1st #EarthDay 1970 woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/04/22/a...
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OTD in 1964 the #NYWorldsFair opened in Flushing, Queens.It lasted for 2 years and for this 10yo NYC kid it was a jaw dropping spectacle. Incredible exhibits & rides & food from all over the world..2 subway trains & about $5 with some besties& I could have a great day there.A different time😎🙏❤️
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OUR LADY OF THE WORLD’S FAIR: Bringing Michelangelo’s Pieta to Queens in 1965 by Ruth D. Nelson / Cornell University Press
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Design: #HenrySeneYee;
AD: Scott Levine
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#1964WorldsFair #MichelangelosPieta #VaticanArt #NYCHistory #worldsFair #pieta #bookcover #nyworldsfair #newyorkworldsfair #unisphere
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