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AUGUST 2020, Volume 33 No. 12 Florida’s Best News Source for Vintage-ANTIQUE-Collectibles
An
Antique Shoppetique Shoppe
Antique Shoppe
THE
A WORLD OF FUN
55th Anniversary of the New York World’s Fair
By Donald-Brian Johnson
be Lincoln was there. So were the its significance 55 years after the fact. hats, and, over our regular khaki uniforms, “must-
AFlintstones”. Michelangelo’s “Pieta” Mid-century modern was the overriding wear-at-all-times” red nylon jackets. (Since this
paid an exclusive visit. And, the enormous architectural style. Space-age futurism, in was summertime, many a sweltering Fair day was
inhabitants of Sinclair’s “Dinoland” bid folks a the form of spheres, spires, and swooping, in store.)
toothy welcome. sweeping, building facades, resulted in We were each assigned specific Pavilion
During the summers of 1964 and ’65, a a design environment just right for the duties. Mine: demonstrating mouth-to-mouth
gee-whillikers wonderland welcomed one and atomic generation. New and more adaptable resuscitation on “Resusci-Annie”. Remember
all to Flushing Meadows Park, a former New construction materials, such as Fiberglass and her? This lifelike plastic dummy had a full-
York garbage dump. This was the place to be. . stainless steel, meant that anything that could sized head crowned with wispy blonde hair,
.a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience be imagined could be built. Here was a place and a realistic torso. When resuscitation was
“the world of tomorrow—today!” where the “Jetsons” would be right at home. performed correctly, “Annie’s” chest would
This was the New York World’s Fair. And I (In fact, in some Fair advertising materials, miraculously rise and fall. But, since “Annie”
was there, too. they were.) had to fold up in a suitcase when not in use, the
In the official “Fair Guidebook”, event Now, about my own World’s Fair connection: rest of her was much less realistic. Her legs,
president Robert Moses noted, “the Fair in 1965, I was chosen for the “Boy Scout Service just ski pants stuffed with cotton batting, had a
aims to be universal, to have something for Corps”. Our job: staffing the Fair’s Boy Scout habit of flopping about the display table.
everyone.” That it did, which is why it retains Pavilion. Our attire: old-fashioned “campaign” Continued on Page 2>
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