NY World's Fair 1964-1965

    My Uncle Tony loved the World's Fair. Between my other uncles and him I easily went at least a dozen times over 1964 and 1965. The Unisphere was at the center of the Fair. He must have taken this from the observation towers of the New York State pavilion. In the background left is Shea Stadium with the El running in front of it. Pretty sure this was taken with his Leica.

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      Tamas Kalman, Raven Cat, keatonbaker, ! Polyhedra !, and 34 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. j4e0f0f (56 months ago | reply)

      Nice!

    3. JennRation Design (56 months ago | reply)

      What a sight to see!

    4. shaolinmonk (56 months ago | reply)

      I wish I went back then.

    5. alpineinc (51 months ago | reply)

      Better than most postcards of the Fair...

    6. bobster855 [deleted] (51 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flushing, Queens New York, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

    7. optimuminline (50 months ago | reply)

      Awesome picture! I love it.
      Joe

    8. Lynne's Lens (36 months ago | reply)

      Fantastic!

    9. Brucenyc26 (33 months ago | reply)

      Damn! Nice shot! This is why they should have a time machine.

    10. Antonio Álvarez [deleted] (29 months ago | reply)

      Amazing...

    11. kthkrk (28 months ago | reply)

      thanks for posting theses photos,i was 12 in 64 and visited the fair about half a dozen times. good memories :)

    12. skyr2008 (22 months ago | reply)

      Wow, what a shot! I went to the fair when I was almost 4 years old. I remember asking my mom about the colored panels that adorned the outside of Shea Stadium. If they ever restore the NYS pavilion, it'd be interesting to take the same shot now! And not to be nitpicky about it, but we didn't call it the "El", but either the "subway", the "Flushing Line", the "7 Train", or just plain "train". People stopped calling the els "els" when the last ones in Manhattan were demolished in the 1950's...

    13. PLCjr (22 months ago | reply)

      There are still El's in the Bronx where I grew up and we called it "the El."

    14. Chris Balton photos (19 months ago | reply)

      Thanks for posting your uncles photos I hope you find & post more
      they are all fantastic especially the NY Worlds Fair (just like Iron Man 2)!

    15. d6be80bbdfe04e58ce3d2c2ee14a2208 (3 weeks ago | reply)

      Very nice photo, but why You scanned it in so "low resolution"? The theoretical of good 35mm film(like probably Your, especially because of Leica equipment) is about 18 Mpix. - 4896 x 3672 (17.98) - aspect 4:3 (1.33 - photo) or if You want other aspect 5200 x 3464 (18.01) - aspect 3:2 (1.50 - photo) . Please made it in better resolution/quality.

    16. PLCjr (26 hours ago | reply)

      Didn't realize that. This was the best that was available to me at the time but I now see I can get a higer scan. Gonna try it out. Thanks!

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