[Leica] 1964 World's fair pics

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

I was there the summer after my first year in college. My buddy Bill  
Brandon and I drove there in his very cool 1955 Buick convertible.  
What style we drove around the city in! A road trip to NYC was an  
Excellent Adventure for two young guys from small-town Ohio.  
Fortunately, my aunt and uncle lived there in an apartment overlooking  
the East River, and showed us around. He was a mover and shaker in the  
young world of TV advertising and got us tickets for The Tonight Show  
with Johnny Carson; we saw Theodore Bikel, whose singing I adored, and  
the TV puppeteer Shari Lewis. [There was a beautiful girl who was  
introduced before the taping as the "focus girl" for the cameras, and  
Bill used this to rudely recall a pun about three brothers who named  
their cattle ranch "FOCUS"?because it's where the "sons raise meat".]  
I remember first encountering touch-tone telephones at the fair. The  
Uniroyal tire is something I see every time I drive up I-75 from  
Toledo to Detroit; now I know where it comes from.

I took pictures with my high school graduation gift, an M2X (I think  
that's correct--without the self-timer?), probably on K25. I don't  
know where they are, but I'm in the process of revisiting all my  
slides and scanning those that I want to hand to my sons in the form  
of a DVD so they can see some of the adventures their old dad had.  
When I find them, I'll be glad to post a few.

?howard


On May 3, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Javier Perez wrote:

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> THIS IS NOT SPAM
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> Hi Everyone. Was wondering if any of you were at the 1964 World's  
> fair.
> Did any of you take pictures? I've alwauys been fascinated by this  
> particular fair.
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> I missed it by 2 months but I played in the park and around its  
> ruins for years.
> Please note this is not for a business scheme or anything like that
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> I'm just curious about that fair
> Javier