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Subject: [Leica] 1964 World's fair pics
From: summarex at hotmail.com (Javier Perez)
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 06:13:27 -0400
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Hi Everyone

Thanks for the insights. I kinda had a feeling a lot of you guys knew a lot 
about the 64 fair, Special thanks to Jim Shulmanm and Richard Taylor for 
your pics. I forwarded trhe links to other camera groups and it seems a lot 
of people managed to be there or have some connection to the place. The pics 
really do have a time capsule quality to them. I guess that fair was really 
the last hoorah of a bygone era. It would be impossible to have that sort of 
thing today. Nobody would show up just to hear about new gadgets and the way 
things might be in the future. I think people back then were not just more 
optimistic about the future but also more curious about technology.

 

Anyway I was looking through some pics I shot last year of the "ruins" of 
the fair that are still standing. These aren't the pro grade photos you guys 
are used to shooting so don't expect that sort of thing. They are just 
weekend pics. I posted them to photobucket in case anybody's interested in 
seeing them.

 

http://s633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/summarex/1964%20World%20Fair/

 

Also have a look at the Shea Stadium pics taken a few months before they 
demolished it.


http://s633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/summarex/Shea/

 

 

BTW: I think the the heliport building is still open and they have a 
restaurant. If you guys want to have a lug type get-together there I'd be 
glad to attend. 

 

Later

 

Javier

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