It seems like a cool way to show off all the latest techonology, but I'm guessing that the idea died with the end of the Cold War. Anyone else wish that the World's Fair was still a yearly thing?
interesting... it looks like the only potential US fairs are Phoenix (2008), NYC (2012), and San Francisco (2015)
I went to the one in Vancouver in 86 when I was a kid, and remember it being the coolest thing ever.
I attended the World's Fair in '82 - Knoxville, TN. Really cool. The Sunsphere, which symbolized the event, is still there.
I attended the world fair in Monteal in 1967. It was one of the coolest things I remember as a child.
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I went to that one
Really about the only thing I remember about NO. I remember the space shuttle they had parked along the edge of river and all the funky floats that they had there on display from Mardi Gras. Oh...and they had a talking robot that looked like the one from the original Lost in Space.
Awesome! Really, all I remember is the Wonderwall, the Kid Wash and the scary, scary gondola ride over the Mississippi.Originally posted by: vi_edit
I went to that one
Really about the only thing I remember about NO. I remember the space shuttle they had parked along the edge of river and all the funky floats that they had there on display from Mardi Gras. Oh...and they had a talking robot that looked like the one from the original Lost in Space.
Be glad you didn't. I still have nightmares about it. Those cars were tiny and they bobbed up and down and swayed with the wind all the way across the river. That wasn't so bad until I turned around to talk to my mother on the other side (two people faced forward and two faced back) and saw that the area between the seats was entirely open. You couldn't have squeezed past the seat to fall through the hole, but it was still a big gaping hole underneath me 100ft up in the air over the Mississippi. I wouldn't ride it back across the river, but luckily since so many people were scared to ride it back, they actually had set up a shuttle service back to the East bank so my family took that back.Originally posted by: vi_edit
Heh. I remember the gondola's. My Dad wouldn't go because he wasn't exactly thrilled to go on them with me
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