Who Else Remembers the 1964 New York World's Fair???

[iankh]

Oh, darn, that link failed for me; I tried it a couple of time but to no effect.

I just checked in again and it is working. Do you have some sort of pop-up blocker that may be preventing it?

It is a windoze media file that you'd be opening, so you would need the media player.

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Wow! That's one heck of a video! 15 cents for a "train ride" and $2 admission! Sheesh.

 

[iankh]

Wow! That's one heck of a video! 15 cents for a "train ride" and $2 admission! Sheesh.

As I recall, I think the adminssion price to the Fair was considered quite expensive at the time.

You have to remember that rent on a 2 bedroom apartment was about $45 or $50 a month at the time. I do remember being able to get a lunch of a slice of pizza and a coke for about 20 cents. So, $2 was a bit high comparatively.

 

[Viki]

I couldn't run the commercial, but I watched the slides. Wow, that memories they bring back!

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

I do remember buying a slice of pineapple (spear) in the Staten Island Ferry terminal for 5 cents. That was in... ummmm...1970! I was totally awed.

So, yeah. It would be relatively costly in retrospect. Heck, you could purchase a house for $30,000. Maybe not in the actual city, but upstate for sure. New car? $2,000 easy.

Times they sure did change.

 

[FergieTCat]

I was only 3 or 4 when I went, but I do have vague memories. I remember being in that Goodyear Tire ferris wheel with my brother (he would have been 11). I can't imagine why my mother would do that, but she did.

When I first visited WDW in 1981, I was happy to see IASW and COP. It sent me right back to childhood.