Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 170: "How Robert Moses and Walt Disney Ended World's Fairs in the United States"
This is the bonus show for Episode 170! (World's Fairs)
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and J. Keith van Straaten explore the secretly bizarre 1964-1965 "World's Fair" in New York City, and how that ended Americans' interest in hosting or attending world's fairs in general.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
The End Of The Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair by Lawrence R. Samuel -- and special thanks to Jenna Pateman for the tip on this source.
“A Gun to the Heart of the City”: Fifty years ago today, rogue civil rights activists tried to shut down the New York World’s Fair. (Slate.com)
blog photo of the "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" exhibit, from the State of Illinois pavilion at the 1964-1965 Fair
New York's 1964 World's Fair Was Actually Something of a Failure (Bloomberg CityLab)
Defunctland: The History of the 1964 New York World's Fair (YouTube)
Bureau International des Expositions page for Expo 1982 Knoxville
IMDb page for Tomorrowland (2015)
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