Fifty years ago on a rainy April 22nd morning, the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair began with a 45-minute parade featuring a Chinese drum and bugle corps, Montana cowboys, and Japanese geishas ...

Until recently, the only known '64 1/2 World's Fair convertible has been 100006, owned by Alan Shepley in Georgia. It's little more than a rusty hulk in need of a total restoration. But while ...

Then World War II happened. By the early 1960s, Antos and Tirella said, Moses was still looking for one last way to cement his legacy — and came up with the idea for the ’64 fair. When the BIE ...

“Man’s Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe” was the theme of the 1964 World’s Fair and the New York State Pavilion embodied that theme in the modern design of its ...

Sixty years have passed since the opening of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair, the last of the grand-tradition expositions in the U.S. There were other world fairs that followed — the last ...

The largest remaining mosaic is an homage to Andy Warhol’s portrait of Robert Moses, the then-Parks Department commissioner who masterminded the ’64 World’s Fair as an opportunity to ...

Once portals to the highest point of the 1964 World’s Fair, two futuristic elevators are being stripped from cables on the New York State Pavilion this week – for fear parts might fly off in ...