The 1939-40 New York World's Fair marks a significant moment in American history. As the nation looked backward over the scarred landscape of the Depression and outward to ominous clouds gathering in Europe, the Fair offered a vision of tomorrow that was clean, safe, and brimming with consumer goods. Under the shadow of the gleaming Perisphere and Trylon, the New York World's Fair depicted futuristic technologies such as television and the interstate highway system while displaying the crafts and products of its day.

         LIRR Billboard

 
Trylon

 Worlds Fair Perisphere Radio

  
Futurama

   
Marine Transportation Building             Loewy's Train, The 6100           AT&T's Demonstration Call Room

    
RCA Building            RCA's 1st TV's And Worlds Fair Radio

Time Capsule         The City of Light diorama

     
          Westinghouse Building                 Westinghouse's Middleton Family

   
Continental Baking Company                          American Tobacco Company

   
Borden's Rotolactor                                  The "Frozen Alive Girl" show

 
 "Little Miracle Town"                   Aerial view of the Court of Peace

 
Statue of Roma/Italian Pavilion           Czechoslovakian Building
 

   
                                                        Truck that ran thru the Fair

Parachute Jump

Ford Motor Co Building                     Ford Exhibit

    Turkish Pavilion
 
The Voice               Winter Wonderland

 
Rheingold Beer                Kraft Foods

 
Lucky Strikes                 LuxuryLand

 
Missouri Bldg.                 Netherlands

  
Pan American      

 
Washington Statue     Grand Central Pkwy

Greyhound                   Heineken
 
Heinzs                 Dept of Highways

 
Firestone                Ford  
 

  
General Motors                 Chrysler

  
Florida Spanish Rest.                 DuPont

 
America At Home             Bowling Green

 
Astronomer Statue                        Aviation

 
B&O Railroad                  Beechnut

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