The Great Danbury State Fair
The Great Danbury State Fair

Author: Andrea Zimmermann

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-11-02

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 162585501X

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The first Danbury Fair was held under a borrowed tent in 1869. Over the next 112 years, the fair expanded to a ten-day event, earning a national reputation for its themed villages, giant figures, grandstand shows and wildly popular stock car races. The twelve formal venues for music and entertainment on the fairground included the World of Mirth Theater and the Orange Bowl Stadium. Under the management of oil magnate John W. Leahy, the fair retained its great hometown appeal as city dwellers flocked to the fair by the thousands. Venture back to the autumn days of zany ostrich races and Zembruski's polka music with Andrea Zimmermann as she explores the beloved bygone tradition of the Great Danbury State Fair.

Connecticut at the World's Fair
Connecticut at the World's Fair

Author: Connecticut Commission

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780266205593

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Excerpt from Connecticut at the World's Fair: Report of the Commissioners From Connecticut to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Held at St. Louis, 1904 To His Excellency, henry roberts, Governor of the State of Connecticut. Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith report of the Commission appointed by your predecessor, hon. Abiram chamberlain, to represent Connecticut at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis during the year 1904. It seems proper to remark that the publication of this report has been delayed several months by reason of a print etrs' strike, Which still prevails at this date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tomorrow-Land
Tomorrow-Land

Author: Joseph Tirella

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-12-23

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 149300333X

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Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World' s Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's La Pieta from Europe; and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA—from undersea and outerspace colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed); and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the Fair—and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians—sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock-and-roll right there in Queens. And as Southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the Fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964-65 Fair was truly exceptional.

CONNECTICUT AT THE WORLDS FAIR
CONNECTICUT AT THE WORLDS FAIR

Author: Louisiana Purch Connecticut Commission

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781361255285

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The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair

Author: Bill Cotter

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738536064

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The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.