1939 New York World's Fair - Railroad Exhibit

Description: 1939 New York World's Fair - Railroad Exhibit: The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. It was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow". The card's reverse informs: "The entrance to the railroad exhibit at the New York World's Fair 1939 appears very much like a glorified and modernistic roundhouse for locomotives. The Rotunda above contains 25,500 square feet of floor space leading to a circular there hall 180 feet in diameter surmounted by a dome approximately eight stories in height. Sponsored by the Eastern Presidents' Conference of the railroads., the exhibit includes a building nearly a quarter of a mile long, an outdoor exposition including nearly a mile of track, a colorful pageant telling the history of American railroad's and the largest working miniature railroad ever constructed. The building contains 110,000 square feet of floor space and is the largest at the Fair." This Linen Era postcard is in good condition. Manhattan Post Card Co. W. F. No. 8.

Price: 8.5 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2024-12-02T03:40:14.000Z

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